Lucy Duran

Dr. Lucy Duran BMus MMus(London) PhD(London) is a record producer and radio presenter. In the 1980s Duran worked as a curator at the National Sound Archive. She is now a lecturer in African music, an undergraduate tutor and an undergraduate admissions tutor in the Department of Music School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

She is a regular presenter of BBC Radio 3's world music programme "World Routes" and a producer of record albums by African musicians including Kora player Toumani Diabate, singer Kasse Mady Diabate, ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate and Sephardic singer Yasmin Levy. In Lucy's record producing projects she often co-produces with fellow American expatriate Joe Boyd.

In 2007 she has been sitting in as presenter of Andy Kershaw's Radio Three programme in Kershaw's extended absence.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/lucy_duran.shtml Lucy Duran's biography on the BBC Radio 3 website] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/womad2003/presenterduran.shtml]
* [http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30891.php Lucy Duran's staff details at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London]