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A joyful, beautiful, pain filled sound journey through South Africa - from a politically charged soundscape of the murder of striking miners, to the music of a living legend, Madosini, a Xhosa musician.

Singer and musician Nathaniel Mann, recent recipient of a Paul Hamlyn award for composition, travels to the Cape to find an irresistible blend of artists working with sound and music - reflecting both the joys and the pain of this conflicted and deeply unequal society.

Haroon Gunn-Sallie was born in prison - his parents under arrest for their part in the armed struggle against apartheid. Believing he was destined to be ‘an activist', he has channeled his activism into art, finding a surprising home in the mainstream fine art world - including London Frieze. Marikana is one of his most powerful works - an installation marking the anniversary of a massacre of striking miners in 2012. The audience enter a sealed black box, and experience a collage of sounds which take you from the mine shaft through a vivid soundscape of newsreel, loudhailers, demonstrations and bullets to the massacre. Moments later the sound gives way to a beautiful rendition of ‘Senzenina’ - a song asking ‘What have We Done?', reflecting the struggles South Africa has yet to overcome as a fledgling democracy.

Madonsini, a traditional Xhosa musician, is the first person to be recorded for the WOMAD Festival's Musical Elders Archive project, yet her fame remains limited within the world-music sphere, and the instruments she plays are in danger of being lost. "There is no-one playing this instrument now except for me and my friend. I want the instrument to live, not to die with me." Revered for her skills on two unique instruments, the uhadi (bow with calabash) and the umrumbhe (mouth bow), Madosini is also instrument maker, using specific wood she finds lying in the bush near her home. Nathaniel gets a lesson in playing the umrumbhe with mixed results...

Jenna Burchell was driving across the great Karoo - the desert also known as The Cradle of Mankind - when she noticed a white line running along the hillside next to the dusty road. It was a strata left behind after an ‘extinction event’, millennia ago, and so she began exploring the line - walking and gathering beautiful shattered rocks from the site. Using the Japanese technique of Kintsukuroi, repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer, she turned these ancient rocks into ‘Songsmiths’ working with recorded sound, to make the rocks sing of the land where they have existed for millennia triggered in each sculpture by the touch of a human hand. These ‘Songsmiths’ are both a visual and an aural treat - magically singing, as hands clutch stroke or just hover above the surface of each rock.

We also get the chance to listen in on a work in progress created by the artist Sikhumbuzo Makandula, who is fascinated by the sonic web bells cast over the South African landscape. His work explores the way that slave bells became church bells became school bells - in a sonically overwhelming show, asking the audience to join in with ringing a whole host of bells….

A sideways looks at an extraordinary sonic landscape.

Producer: Sara Jane Hall

When Mr Hammond asks Andy to open the new brilliant bugs exhibit at the park, Andy couldn’t be more delighted. But when Mr Hammond asks Andy a question about how the darkling beetle of the Namib desert drinks water, Andy is flummoxed. If the grand opening is to be a success, Andy needs to know the answer! Jetting off in his safari mobile, Andy heads to the Namib desert in Africa, in search of a darkling beetle that will hopefully show him how it drinks. Along the way, he shrinks down and meets a Namaqua chameleon, but gets quite a shock when he realises it’s trying to eat not only the darkling beetles, but Andy himself! Making his escape, Andy follows the beetles up a giant sand dune where he’s surprised to find it’s particularly foggy. Here, he witnesses first hand just how the beetles drink. But will Andy make it back to the park in time with the answer and before the exhibition opens?

When Andy accidentally records himself instead of the courtship dance of the male Jackson’s widowbird, he takes to the skies and jets off to Africa in his safari-mobile in search of another widowbird he can film instead. Along the way, he shrinks down and goes flying on the back of a bee-eater before landing on the back of a grumpy ostrich who soon shows Andy who’s boss! Will Andy find another male widowbird, and will he manage to have the camera the right way round this time?

When Andy accidentally breaks a plaster cast of a ring-tailed lemur’s footprint that Mr Hammond made, it’s up to Andy to put things right. Jetting off in his Safari-mobile, Andy heads to Madagascar in search of a family of ring-tailed lemurs that just might be able to help him. On his epic adventure, Andy sunbathes with the lemurs before escaping from a hungry Madagascan buzzard. Will he succeed in his mission before Mr Hammond notices anything is wrong?

When the photos Mr Hammond took of a family of Ethiopian wolves are mysteriously found to be blank, it’s up to Andy to save the day. Jetting off in his safari-mobile, Andy heads to Ethiopia in Africa in search of the wolf pack in order to take some new photos. Along the way, he meets some bearded vultures squabbling over some old bones and comes face to face with a family of hamadryas baboons. But will Andy succeed in his mission and get back to Safari World before Mr Hammond realises his pictures are all blank?

When the temperature of the African penguin enclosure accidentally gets lowered, Jen must correct it immediately, but she can't remember what the correct temperature was. To the rescue comes Andy, who jets off in his safari-mobile, heading to Africa to discover the correct temperature that makes African penguin chicks hatch from their eggs.

Jen is preparing a holographic display on hard-to-spot animals and desperately needs a scan of a naked mole rat, but can't track down the one living at Safari World. To the rescue comes Andy, who jets off in his safari-mobile, heading to the Sahara desert, in search of this strange-looking creature. His mission takes him into its underground burrow.

When Mr Hammond's precious photo of a catfish is destroyed, Andy heads to Dragon's Breath Cave in Africa to track down a catfish and take a new picture. He meets a cheetah family and a leopard before taking the safari-mobile underwater to continue his quest. Will Andy succeed? And will he get back to Safari World before Mr Hammond notices?

Mr Hammond has asked Andy to give a talk all about elephant shrews. Jetting off in his safari-mobile, Andy heads to the African savannah in search of the tiny creature and discovers amazing facts about it. Along the way, he meets a dung beetle, comes face to face with a hungry monitor lizard and narrowly escapes a herd of stampeding animals.

When Jen accidentally grinds up some giraffe thorn tree seeds that Mr Hammond wanted Andy to plant, Andy must head to the Namibian desert in southern Africa to track some down. And what better way to do that than from the top of a giraffe itself! But when another male giraffe arrives on the scene, a fight ensues, and Andy is caught in the middle.

When Andy leaves his sandwich in the lion enclosure, it attracts an infestation of flies, just as Mr Hammond is hoping to take pictures of the lions for the park's website. Andy jets off to Africa in his safari-mobile to see how lions in the wild deal with flies. Along the way, he meets an agama lizard who just might have the solution to Andy's predicament.