CHARLIE GILLETT'S WORLD OF MUSIC

About the Show

Each week, the BBC’s Charlie Gillett – one of the world’s most influential promoters of world music – delivers the best contemporary and classic music from around the globe. He weaves the tracks together with a narrative thread that provides context and a little something extra.

About the Host

Charlie Gillett began in journalism in 1968 with a weekly column in the Record Mirror. His 1970 book, The Sound of the City, was a history of popular music, originally written as his Masters thesis for Columbia University. It received excellent reviews in both Time magazine and The New York Times and enabled Gillett to further his music journalism career and write a second book, Making Tracks. He wrote for a variety of music magazines including Rolling Stone and New Musical Express and currently contributes to The Observer. He began a weekly radio program, Honky Tonk on Radio London from 1972-1978, and brought Ian Dury to public attention. He was the first DJ to play demos by Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, and Dire Straits. Gillett has been on the BBC since 1999, and in 2006, he was The John Peel Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio by the Radio Academy.

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