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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: Ravi and George
Description: Following the Beatles' final concert tour, George Harrison travelled to India in 1967 to learn sitar under the renowned musician Ravi Shankar.
Fleeing Beatlemania he travelled in disguise to Mumbai and then to Srinagar in Kashmir.
Listening to BBC archive and using excerpts from a Martin Scorsese documentary, we hear one of the world's most famous guitarists challenge himself to learn a new instrument.
The moment influenced George’s spirituality and his burgeoning solo musical career, as well as the Beatles'. It also propelled Ravi Shankar further into the limelight.
The musicians remained lifelong friends. Ravi says they last saw ea...