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Originally Posted by Glice
I don't know who Charlie Gillett is. I think that's part of the problem with world music - there's a lot of it. I've been listening to too much Haifa Wehbe lately, but I can't imagine many people here would be interested.
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Gillett was a music journalist; had his first radio show in 1972; in 1983 started his radio show A Foreign Affair - the first (?) show in this country devoted to 'world music'; had been the leading force in promoting world music ever since.
And I agree that Radio 3 doesn't do jazz very well. They are to jazz what Classic FM is to classical music. But there is the odd gem like the Takayanagi programme.