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1:00am - 2:30am
Artrocker Radio
[Repeated from Tuesday 10pm.] Paul from the influential Artrocker magazine previews all the latest releases from London and the UK's thriving indie rock scene and beyond. To listen to past shows visit Paul's Mixcloud page.
2:30am - 3:00am
From the Archives
[Repeated from Tuesday 11.30pm.] Unusual broadcasts and gems from our archives.
3:00am - 4:00am
Make Your Own Damn Music
[Repeated from Sunday 10pm.] A weekly audio postcard from the artist Bob and Roberta Smith’s studio by the seaside in Ramsgate. This week, the art task is to create a painted still life object and then make a painting of it. Bob continues learning two pieces by Erik Satie and improves his Italian language skills. Visit @bobandrobertasmith on Instagram for more information.
4:00am - 5:00am
Global Instruments
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] Global instruments with Sofia Gaetani Morris is a show that looks at instruments from around the world - each month we choose one instrument to unpack with guest-musicians, academics and enthusiasts, to understand its historical, geographical and cultural importance and its role in different musical traditions around the world. This month, we look at the Đàn đáy a traditional Vietnamese three-stringed plucked lute. It is exclusively used to accompany Ca trù chamber singing, an ancient, highly complex form of sung poetry that originated in Northern Vietnam. Joining Sofia in the studio is ethnomusicologist and filmmaker Barley Norton, whose research has focused on the music and culture of Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Follow us on Instagram @globalinstrumentsfm_ and listen again on Mixcloud. [Repeats Thursday 4am.]
5:00am - 6:00am
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] Marina Organ presents an hour of music that uses unconventional structures and ‘other' time signatures – gathered from the worldwide undergrounds of math rock, avant prog, weird electronica and strange pop. Find the playlist, archives and links to all the bands at otherrockshow.wordpress.com.
6:00am - 7:00am
Farside Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 12 noon.] Music from the catalogues of Far Side Music, the world's primary source for East Asian sounds, presented by Paul Fisher. Visit farsidemusic.com for more information.
7:00am - 9:00am
Day For Night
A selection of recent highlights, archival surprises, programmes that deserve a repeat and those that slipped through the net, taking you through from the wee hours to breakfast. With occasional forays into the Resonance Extra programme of new music and sound art - and further afield.
9:00am - 10:00am
The Naked Short Club
[Repeated from Monday 9pm.] Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around alternative investments, markets, the economy and wider world.
10:00am - 11:00am
The Clint Show
[Repeated from Wednesday 8pm]. A series hosted by former synth-pop attempter Clint, commuting weekly from Reno, Nevada. This week, Howard Skempton joins Clint in the studio. Visit jamesoldham.net for press, questions and complaints.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
[Repeated from Saturday 1.30pm.] Mundele Mafuta presents a new season of shows devoted to classic dance music of the two Congos.
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The London Ear
Moonlighting ghostwriter Ben Thompson shakes up a snowdome of real and imaginary sessions with guests from the far-flung frontiers of musical and literary endeavour. This week: five selections from Cairo’s Nashazphone label to celebrate their 20th birthday, interspersed with readings from Shady Lewis’ On the Greenwich Line. For further information visit @btfoshizzle on X and find playlists at Ben Thompson's Facebook page. [Repeats Wednesday 3pm.]
1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
Kevin Sheils presents an informed and judicious selection of recordings of traditional musics from Britain, Ireland and occasionally further afield. [Repeats Monday 12pm.]
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Open City Audio
Weekly programmes by Open City. Making architecture and cities more open, accessible and equitable. Today: Deconstructed. Crossness Pumping Station – The Birth of Modern Sanitation. Matthew Lloyd Roberts is joined by Petra Cox – heritage educator, Open City tour guide and Golden Key Academy graduate. They discuss Crossness Pumping Station, constructed from 1859–65 by William Webster to designs by Charles Henry Driver to serve the entire southern half of Joseph Bazalgette's London sewer system. Commissioned by the Metropolitan Board of Works, it transformed London's public health and sanitation, and large parts of the sewer system are still in use today. [Repeats Tuesday 2.30am.]
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Everyone Is Invited
Goldsmiths’ MFA Alessandro Paiano presents a weekly arts talk show with live guest interviews. This week: Alessandro is at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in New York, speaking to his guest, Mitchell Algus. [Repeats Wednesday 2.30am.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Restart Radio
[Repeated from Tuesday 4pm.] A different kind of gadget show, discussing the work and philosophy of the Restart Project, a London-based social enterprise that encourages people to use their electronics longer, to prevent waste, save money, and make people happier. This month: we share the findings from our groundbreaking repair voucher trial in London and speak to Karin Huber-Heim from Circular Economy Forum Austria about the schemes that paved the way. For more information visit therestartproject.org.
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Electric Dish
Sophie Darling plays a plethora of new music from all corners of the world. With discussion, food for thought, live guests and interviews. Visit Instagram @djsophiedarling. [Repeats Sunday 8am.]
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Hard Drive
Hard Drive is an extension of the label (same name), operating as a public archive of current works and influences. Spearheaded by Tom, Jo and Haydn of the band BC (Borough Council). Visit Instagram @hard___drive. [Repeats Monday 7am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull The Plug
Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. This week: A survey of domestic disorder. The paralysis occasioned by excessive choice. Temporary remedies preferred to permanent ones. The consolations of alcohol. A cool breeze restores hope. The absence of flying ants now seems like a deliberate ploy to annoy me. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. Visit Pull The Plug on Facebook. [Repeats Saturday 11am.]
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Outerglobe
Debbie Golt FRSA takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point. For more details follow @outerglobe on Instagram. [Repeats Sunday 4pm.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Rogue Planets
The quiet force of unbound rebellion. A telescope platform for cultural slowness, deep listening, anti-profiling and reflective transmissions. Frank Malachi celebrates the work of artists, collectives, producers and academics who forge their orbits through uncharted territories. This week: Frank's guest is Dr John Kannenberg. As Director of the Museum of Portable Sound, Kannenberg’s work reframes sound as something to be collected, curated and critically listened to, an archive of culture carried in the act of hearing itself. He discusses his new book, A Brief History of Sound Recording: Fully Incomplete & Highly Biased, a richly illustrated, deeply researched and deliberately unconventional guide to the history of recorded sound. Emerging from a decade of work at MOPS, the book moves through recordings, artefacts and listening essays to offer a personal, provocative map of how sound has been captured, shaped and understood. Frank telescopes into the resonances between archive, recording and the poetics of listening. First broadcast 30 April 2026. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4. [Repeats Monday 3am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Luscombe's Choice: John Cale. In this episode, Will Luscombe presents an extensive interview with John Cale, co-founder of The Velvet Underground. They range across Cale's years with the Velvets, the revival of his 1973 classic Paris 1919, and his career as a producer, taking in his work with Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, and the Happy Mondays. The conversation is interwoven with Cale-produced music by those artists. [Repeats Friday 10am.]
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9:00pm - 10:30pm
Adventures in Sound and Music
New music with The Wire magazine. Tonight: Misha Faulty plays tracks by BBBBBBB, Fatboi Sharif and Ratsmagick, Jay Mitta and more. Plus an exclusive mix from 'nonsense sorcerer' Excel DJ. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information. [Repeats Sunday 1am.]
Listen live11:00pm - 12:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
Hosted and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, new releases and unreleased dubs. This week: DJ BPM showcases the productions of Filthy Gears, legendary Grime producer from Rugby. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Visit X @feraldubs. [Repeats Sunday 12am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Tunes From Turtle Island
New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. This week's show has reggae, indie, hip-hop, rock, Americana, country, alt rock, blues, punk-spoken-word, alt folk and dance from musicians of the Métis, Nakota, Ojibwe, Mohawk, Three Affiliated Tribes, Lakota, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Comanche and Otoe Nations. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 5am.]