{"id":5488,"date":"2013-01-31T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2013-01-31T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:17:06","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-all-india-radio-ravi-shankar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-all-india-radio-ravi-shankar\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: All India Radio &#8211; Ravi Shankar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravi Shankar passed away December 11, 2012. Like many people, Shankar was a complicated fellow, but no one can deny his talent on the Sitar. His music will live with us forever, not to mention through the musical talents of his children, Anoushka Shankar\u00a0and Norah Jones.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded this clip of him on All India Radio some weeks ago. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/All-India-Radio-Ravi-Shankar.mp3\">Click here to download<\/a>\u00a0or enjoy below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F77137179\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravi Shankar passed away December 11, 2012. Like many people, Shankar was a complicated fellow, but no one can deny his talent on the Sitar. His music will live with us forever, not to mention through the musical talents of his children, Anoushka Shankar\u00a0and Norah Jones. I recorded this clip of him on All India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,442,1557,746],"tags":[53,1641,1642,1640,4106,611,737],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-podcast","category-recordings","tag-all-india-radio","tag-anoushka-shankar","tag-norah-jones","tag-ravi-shankar","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1qw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24180,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/guest-post-international-radio-fair-and-world-radio-day-in-bhubaneswar-india\/","url_meta":{"origin":5488,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: International Radio Fair and World Radio Day in Bhubaneswar, India","author":"Thomas","date":"February 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ashok Shankar Das, who shares the following guest post originally published on his blog SWLDAS: International Radio Fair and World Radio Day by Ashok Shankar Das For last few years Outreach International used to organize a radio fair. 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