Watch: Haseeb Iqbal's Pakistani music road trip

Haseeb Iqbal traces a three-week journey from Karachi to the Himalayas.

DJ, broadcaster and writer Haseeb Iqbal returns to Devon Turnbull's Listening Room at 180 Studios for the latest instalment of his residency, this time built around his road trip across Pakistan, from the southern coast and the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro, up through Lahore and Azad Kashmir to Naltar Valley in the country's far north.

Drawing on the cinema vinyl he has spent years collecting and, more recently, digging for in Karachi, Iqbal plays the soundtracks of Pakistan's golden age of film, including the works of Noor Jehan, Nahid Akhtar, M. Ashraf, Sohail Rana and the Tafo Brothers. By 1970, Pakistan was the fourth largest producer of feature films in the world, and lots of that music survives only on vinyl.

Between records, Iqbal sets the music against the history that nearly erased it, discussing the collapse of the film industry under General Zia-ul-Haq's military rule, the 1979 Motion Picture Ordinance, and the backdrop of the Cold War interspersed with his own story of growing up in London and finding his way back to his roots through sound.

Watch A Pakistani Music Road Trip with Haseeb Iqbal now above.