The radio station HR2 (Hessischer Rundfunk == Hessian Radio, 2nd program) has a weekly "world music" (for lack of a better term) program called "Musik der Welt" ("Music of the World"):
HR2 Musik der Welt

It's broadcast on Thursdays and lasts an hour and a half. Usually, the first half hour is a mixture of different performers, often new CDs or people who will be performing in Germany. The last hour is usually about one specific country or region. It's an excellent program and might be of interest to some people here. I've been meaning to mention it, but have only just now got around to it. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a podcast.

There give a lot of background information, which is interesting, but which won't be very much fun to listen to if one doesn't speak German. However, I think there's enough music to make it interesting for someone who doesn't.

Yesterday, the hour-long segment was about music in Burundi and last week's was about Konkani music of the Indian state of Goa. Both were _very_ interesting. Goa was a Portugese colony and the music was kind of a mixture of Fado, Indian music and other musical styles. I would definitely like to here more.