Marian Foster spoke to Shankar in Ravi Shankar: Maestro and Guru, originally broadcast 10 June, 1985. Explore more and follow BBC Archive.

A sitar owned and played by George Harrison is going to be auctioned in the United States. The instrument, purchased from a shop on London's Oxford Street in 1965, was used by Harrison during the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sitarmakers of Miraj, India, have been crafting musical instruments out of pumpkins for almost 200 years. They are known for making the tanpura, a string ...

So, let's pack our bags as we travel around the globe to learn about musical instruments of the world. A sitar is a string instrument that comes from Northern India. It's quite a large instrument ...

In his Symphony Ravi Shankar explores this passion using the traditional instruments of a large Western orchestra. The sitar and orchestra play melodies based on a raga (a pattern or selection of ...