An Adventure on the Old Silk Road
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Recording in Turfan, China
In 1987 the opening of the border
between Pakistan and China made it possible – for the first
time in nearly half a century – to retrace the original line
of the Silk Road across Asia. John was one of the first modern
travellers to do so, and this is the story of his 8,000-mile journey.
The presentation includes local and Western music together with
excerpts from radio recordings he made along the way. After a
ride with a Kyrgyz camel caravan and a visit to a lost city in
the Taklamakan Desert, he takes you through the ‘Jade Gate’
to a silk mill and a newly opened stretch of the Great Wall, before
finishing on the shores of the Yellow Sea.
“This
was the second time in three months that John gave his talk, and
again extra seats had to be found to accommodate the eager-eyed,
absorbed audience.”
(Hampshire Chronicle)
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Recording in Turfan, China