BBC Radio Podcasts from Commonwealth Connections
Heritage Track: Belize
The Hon. Dolores Balderamos Garcia is a politician, lawyer and broadcaster.
Trinidad and Tobago
Within these small Islands, steelpan orchestras are an integral part of daily life.
Heritage Track: Nauru
Measuring eight square miles with a total coastline of eighteen and a half miles and a...
India
Kala Ramnath is one of the leading Hindustani musicians of her generation.
Heritage Track: Cameroon
Saxophonist Manu Dibango brought the sound of Cameroon to the world but also brought a...
Zambia
Seven kilometres from the world heritage site of Victoria Falls, in the Southern lies...
Heritage Track: Kiribati
Kiribati is an archipelago of 33 islands in the central Pacific, with a population of...
Bangladesh
On a rooftop beside Gulshan lake, above the bells of tuk tuks and sounds of the call a...
Heritage Track: St Vincent and the Grenadines
Writer and poet Philip Nanton chooses Credentials by Shake Keane, the well-known jazz...
Seychelles
In the midst of the Seychelles Carnival, Latroupe Nasyonal Sesel, a ceilidh-style band...
Heritage Track: Tuvalu
Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, Tuvalu is a Pacific island nation situated and...
Singapore
Singapore is home to a very senior group of 'waijiang' musicians originating from in...
Malaysia
In the capital of Malaysia's southernmost state of Johor, traditional Malay Ghazal and...
Heritage Track: Mozambique
Mozambique is something of an anomaly in terms of Commonwealth membership.
Heritgae Track: St. Kitts & Nevis
Athlete Jason Rogers (100m), living and training in Canada, chooses an example of the...
Uganda
Across the source of the Nile at Jinja and eastwards towards the Kenyan border lies...
Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, Vesak celebrations are underway for the birth and of...
Heritage Track: Papua New Guinea
Jeffry Feeger, Papua New Guinea's leading visual artist, chooses the song West Papua...
New Zealand
Whiri Tu Aka are a 5-piece all-female Maori a capella group founded by Mina Ripa...
Heritage track: Guyana
Writer and academic David Dabydeen is currently Guyana's ambassador to China.
Heritage Track: Nigeria
Nigeria has long been a powerhouse in terms of world music, with artists like Fela the...
Kenya
Recorded at the African Heritage House outside Nairobi. Two generations of the Luo the...
Heritage Track: Vanuatu
Vanuatu - which literally means freestanding - has only existed as an independent 1980...
Dominica
Music is a family affair in La Petite Souffriere, a tiny and remote village high in of...
Heritage Track: Gambia
Gambian athlete, Suwaibou Sanneh, carries his country's music with him as he prepares...
Malta
Extinct for over 200 years, the Maltese Lira can be heard along with a clutch or other...
Heritage Track: Samoa
Sia Figiel is a novelist, painter and poet who won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' for...
Solomon Islands
Bamboo grows all over the Solomon Islands and provides a perfect natural material for...
Heritage Track: Grenada
Writer Jacob Ross was short-listed for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and in was...
Malawi
In a music centre at the heart of Malawi's capital Lilongwe, 3 groups converge to some...
Heritage Track: Ghana
Ghana has made quite an impact on the world music scene over the years, not least with...
Cyprus
The story of Cyprus's tumultuous past is told through its archaeological treasures,...
Mueena Mohamed
Mueena Mohamed is the Number One table tennis player in Maldives. She chooses a song a...
Tonga
A rare performance of music by the Lomipeau Collection, recorded in a church hall in...
Kiran Khan
Kiran Khan is one of Pakistan's first international female swimmers. She talks about a...
Rwanda
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, triggered by the of the...
Maziah Mahusin
Sprinter Maziah Mahusin was the only female athlete representing her country at the at...
St Lucia
St Lucia's leading traditional folk band Man May La Kay keep alive the traditional...
Sierra Leone: Hafsatu Kamara
Hafsatu Kamara is an up-and-coming sprinter who represented Sierra Leone at the 2013...
Botswana
In Botswana, each tribe has their own identifiable style of music. The Balete Ditlhaka...
Antigua and Barbuda: Kasheem Colbourne
Up and coming 200m and 400m sprinter Kasheem Colbourne expresses through his music his...
Australia
Mark Atkins is regarded as one of Australia's finest virtuoso didgeridoo players and...
Suleman Nyambui Mujaya
Suleman Nyambui Mujaya struck silver for Tanzania in the 3000 metres steeplechase at...
Namibia
In the Namibian bush, close to the Botswana border, two San families share their...
Mauritius- Christianne Legentil
Christianne Legentil did Mauritius proud by reaching the quarter finals of the 52kg at...
Barbados
The music of Barbados is a curious hybrid of British culture and African rhythms back...
The Bahamas- Chris Brown
Bahamian 400m sprinter and triple Olympic medallist, Chris Brown, talks about the of...
South Africa
Every Sunday morning, townships across South Africa vibrate to the sound and colour of...
Lesotho- Mosito Lehata
Mosito Lehata, 100 and 200 metre sprinter, is the fastest man in Lesotho and is the of...
Canada: Postcard from Newfoundland
Generations of musicians have found inspiration from their landscape, their fishing in...
Jamaica: The Route to Reggae
In Port Antonio on the north side of the island, the Jolly Boys, a mento band formed a...
Swaziland- Gideon Mthembu
Gideon Mthembu made his name as a marathon runner for Swaziland, representing his at...