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12:30am - 1:30am
Gwaith Sŵn's Sonic Darts
[Repeated from Monday 10pm.] Sound-art and transmission-art delivered by London sound art collective Gwaith Sŵn. This month: Sonic Darts returns to our Sound Art Kids theme, playing unusual and brilliant sound and music made with children and young people, including family field recording outings, harmonising with hoovers and chill out music for pigs. We also speak to Dan Mayfield from sound and science educators, School of Noise, and sound artist, musician and composer Duncan Chapman about his workshops for children focussing on sound, place and the environment. Featuring work from Andy Kelleher Stuhl, Aurélien Laville, The Wonder Club, Cozy Cozy, Oliver Payne, Robin Payne, Sol Payne, Esben Payne and Erin Allerton-Payne, Emmett and Benedict Glynn, Dan Mayfield and School of Noise, Duncan Chapman, Tasos Stamou and Dylan Freeman. Further information can be found at sonicdartsshow.medium.com.
1:30am - 2:30am
Unusual Music Exchange
[Repeated from Monday 11pm.] Glasgow-based Canadian composer, artist, and writer, Josh Thorpe likes to listen to unusual music, and to talk with interesting people about it. This month: Doug Tielli discusses what improvisation is, how we make things we like, what music's for and more. We listen to music by Carla and Paul Bley, Gilius van Bergeijk and Maarten Altena. For more listening visit www.unusualmusicexchange.com.
2:30am - 3:30am
The Circled A
[Repeated from Wednesday 8pm.] The Circled A show with Yodet Gherez. This week, Yodet's guest is Dr. Andy Kaufman, a self-proclaimed "recovering physician" who boldly transitioned from a prestigious career in mainstream medicine to become a prominent voice challenging conventional medical paradigms.
3:30am - 5:00am
Loud Women
[Repeated from Tuesday 6pm.] Loud Women turns up the volume on fast rising women and non-binary musicians in the grassroots scene with live performances, fresh new music and chat, hosted by Cassie Fox and the Loud Women team. For more info visit loudwomen.org.
5:00am - 6:00am
Tunes From Turtle Island
[Repeated from Thursday 12am.] New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. This week's show has rap, rock, R&B, country, hip-hop, reggae, lo-fi, traditional flute, rock, electronic, techno and cumbia from musicians of the Secwépemc, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Anishinaabe, Jemez Pueblo, Navajo, Ojibwe, Métis, kānaka, Lakota, Luiseño, Wet'suwet'en, Cree, Haudenosaunee, Mexica, Nisenan, Cherokee, Inuit and Siksika nations. For more information visit facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu.
6:00am - 7:00am
Hit It and Split
[Repeated from Tuesday 3pm.] DJ Deb Smith shares a lexicon of global sounds from the past to the future - new releases, forgotten greats and little heard gems. Visit Hit It and Split on Facebook for the playlist and Mixcloud link to the show.
7:00am - 8:00am
Radio Active - on Water
[Repeated from Friday 2.30pm.] A six-part series by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist or group who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio. Episode 3: Watered by RE-PEAT. In this episode, RE-PEAT collective approaches water justice through imagining the perspective of water itself, by drawing stories and definitions of bodies of water in relation with other bodies, bogs, bugs, sundew, moss, reeds, drops, rivers, will-o’-the-wisp and us. Through collectivity, music and sounds, we follow a feminist subjectivity, watered, inspired by Astrida Neimanis’s call to "chart our politics of location in a way that recognises our diverse aqueous implications and responsibilities". With contributions from Moss Pit, the River Besòs in Barcelona and the Salween River in Thailand by Helen Ganya Brown. Visit www.radioactiveonwater.com.
8:00am - 8:10am
There's No Place Like Home
[Repeated from Wednesday 4pm.] A weekly comedy/drama serial set in the fictional Australian town of Coochie Creek. Enjoy a glimpse into the daily lives, struggles and malicious gossip of a typical community in the Aussie bush. Episode 6: Lindy and Duncan, who have recently moved to Coochie Creek, enjoy a coffee in the park and talk about their hopes, their dreams, their toilet and the possible uses of ChatGPT. They meet three residents from the nearby Chutney Farm Wellness Retreat which is run by the mysterious Guru Gordon. Everybody is excited about musical duo Curly and Wurly, who will be performing at the town’s agricultural show.
8:10am - 9:00am
Davide Tidoni: Collected Works
[Repeated from Wednesday 4.10pm.] Davide Tidoni is an artist and researcher interested in the relational dimension of listening, and in the physical experience of sound. He works with live performance, intervention, audio recording, video and guided listening, and published a sound ethnography on the ultras group BRESCIA 1911. 'Collected Recordings' is a series of works selected by Tidoni from his extensive back catalogue. Produced by Milo Thesiger-Meacham. In Episode 6, Davide presents three works: Hatebreaders (2014); I Can't Give You Anything But Myself (2014); You Are Here With Me (Part 1). 'Hatebreaders' is Davide's own version of the Misfits song. 'I Can't Give You Anything But Myself' is Davide's own version of the Cat Power song, 'The Greatest'. It comes with a dedication: "To the ones I love. To the ones I hate. I can't give you anything but myself. Always be human. Always be you.” 'You Are Here With Me (Part 1)’ is the first part of a collection of recordings made by Davide between 2005 and 2018. The recordings include interactions with acoustic spaces, actions performed with microphone(s), musical rehearsals, and reinterpretations of punk songs. The shared aspects of the recordings are human presence, non-professional voices and musicking.
9:00am - 9:30am
Little Atoms
[Repeated from Monday 11am.] A talk show about ideas and culture, produced and presented by Neil Denny. Each show features guests from the worlds of science or the arts in conversation. This week: Lauren Groff on her novel, Matrix. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Visit X @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com.
9:30am - 10:00am
Nunhead American Radio
[Repeated from Monday 5pm.] A programme for the American community in Nunhead, south east London, presented by New York comic Lewis Schaffer. This week, Lewis is joined by good friend Paul Yoward of Banbury to talk about the 250th anniversary of the British freeing themselves (mostly) of the Americans! For more information visit @NunheadRadio on X and Nunhead American Radio on Facebook.
10:00am - 11:00am
One Life Left
[Repeated from Monday 6pm.] An hour-long celebration of everything that's great about videogames. Hosted by Ste Curran and Simon Byron, the show features the latest news, reviews and gossip from the world of gaming, usually with a studio guest. You don't need to be a gaming expert to appreciate the show - One Life Left offers something for everyone, whether you are a hardcore League of Legends player or someone who's occasionally loaded up Candy Crush. Visit onelifeleft.com for more information.
11:00am - 11:30am
Pull The Plug
[Repeated from Thursday 5.30pm.] Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. The heat persists... Flying ants neglect their annual obligations; speculations upon their motives. An unexpected cure involving ice cream. A culinary experiment with egg fried rice - its disappointing conclusion. At last, a successful FaceTime conversation. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. Visit Pull The Plug on Facebook.
11:30am - 11:45am
Drift Shift
[Repeated from Friday 5pm.] Found sound and found text collected to form drifts that shift, produced and presented by Franziska Lantz. Visit driftshift.blogspot.com for more information.
11:45am - 12:00pm
Into The Moss
[Repeated from Friday 5.15pm.] A 14 minute drift through original music, soundscapes and liminal yarns. Show archive at intothemoss.com. Contact intothemossradio@gmail.com.
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Hello Goodbye Show
Upbeat, eclectic new music show hosted by deXter Bentley. Today: art-folk duo SILKess Demon performing live in session. SILKess Demon’s new EP, Life Is Art, Art Is Life, (Pearl Home Records) marks the first chapter in an ongoing exploration by Dom and Nik – a return to the roots of the imaginative spirit at the heart of folk tradition. Plus, Robin The Fog pops in to flag his forthcoming extravaganza, FOGFEST which takes place at Iklectik on Saturday 1st August with an explosive lineup of tunes, tape loops, turntablism, techno and trash. Visit hellogoodbyeshow.com for more information. [Repeats Tuesday 1am.]
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
Mundele Mafuta presents a new season of shows devoted to classic dance music of the two Congos. [Repeats Thursday 11am.]
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Micro Clear Spot
[Repeated from Monday 11.30am.] Shorter specials and one-off programmes. Today, three works for radio by composer and sound artist Harvey Young. First, Schisma Gulf: “In September 2024, I traced ethnographer Maurice Born’s journey to the island of Spinalonga, a former leper colony in the Gulf of Elounda, Crete. Buoyed by foggy iterations of Saint Panteleimon and mid-50s atrium film nights, I set about sonifying his initial investigations, from his arrival in a blow-up dinghy to the final survey of the admission and disinfection buildings." Secondly, Isolgoss, a composition for five loudspeakers: "I'd been reading linguist James Burridge's work on dialectal formation and spread. He applies surface tension dynamics to the interaction between language groupings. I thought it would be tasteful to interpret these mechanics using extended vocal techniques (trills, ululation, phonetically varied vowel shapes) and granular synthesis to capture the kineticism that underpins linguistic evolution. Mixed into spatial audio at Piel View House, Cumbria." Thirdly, Lament for the Old Clock which tells the story of an 18th-century agricultural worker plunged into the vicious new frontier of industrial capitalism who must leave his simple agrarian existence behind and submit to the callous and dehumanising demands of the factory floor. The piece documents the change in temporality from the feudal notion of cyclical, reverential time to the concept of future-oriented progress that defined the beginning of the industrial revolution. Through extended vocal techniques, found instruments and granulation, Lament for the Old Clock explores this transient yet profound period of temporal and spiritual upheaval. Harvey composer-in-eesidence at the Abeceda Institute, Ljubljana (2025), and has presented electroacoustic installations in Europe and North America. His experimental opera and poetry works have been commissioned by Resonance Extra and Whitechapel Gallery, and he writes at presents Pitch-Complex on Radio Worm. He has contributed research to Oscar-nominated producer Jaimie D’Cruz’s Acme Films, and assisted John Akomfrah on the video installation In the Hour of the Dog for the Baltimore Museum of Art.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The News Agents
Experiments in international news and arts with Jude Montague. This week: songs of the Vietnamese composer Pham Duy. Plus, sounds from the k'ni fiddle mouth resonator instrument used by the Jarai people in Vietnam. 'Riddle' from 'Daughters of Donbas' recorded live in Lviv in Western Ukraine – the fiddle and singing family from Estonia Õtekse known for their experimental take on traditional Estonian folk music. Plus tracks from Brazilian pop artists Caetano Veloso and Cida Lobo. For more information see http://thenewsagents.blogspot.com. [Repeats Monday 9am.]
ON NOW
4:00pm - 5:30pm
The Sound Projector Radio Show
A showcase for records of contemporary experimental and underground music, hosted by Ed Pinsent. This afternoon: old and new favourites by kobi, Liberez, Forkeyes, yol, Billiam Wutler Yea, Panelak, Yasunao Tone + Talibam! + Sam Kulik, Erra Fagus, Al Margolis & Dan Burke, and dsic. Noisy in patches. Visit www.thesoundprojector.com/radio-show for more information. [Repeats Wednesday 1am.]
Listen live5:30pm - 6:30pm
Waste Land Receiver
An hour of alternative, folk and indie music plus discussion hosted by Robert Quinn. Borrowing its title from T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem, Waste Land Receiver sends a message to and from the void through music with consideration of the poem’s themes of despair, lack of humanity, and fragmentation with a will for its alternative. [Repeats Monday 4am.]
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Literary London
Nick Hennegan explores the literary life of London and celebrates the popular cultural life and literary history of the city. Tweet to @NickHennegan. For more information visit LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com. [Repeats Tuesday 11.30am.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
A Duck in a Tree
The :zoviet * france: radio show. Airs and Disgraces. This week's edition features tracks from new releases by Marla Hlady and Christof Migone, Sue Lynch and Regan Bowering, Dtyb, and Gintas K in and amongst recordings by Merle Bardenoir and Tertön, Adrià Bofarull and Joan Saura, Johannes Malfatti, Jean-Claude Risset, John Sivinski, Lee Patterson, Lord Havoc, Tyler Bajsa, Silvum, and Mimetic X. [Repeats Tuesday 12am.]
8:30pm - 9:30pm
A World in London
[Repeated from Wednesday 6pm.] DJ Ritu MBE presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London.
9:30pm - 10:30pm
MSCTY Radio Tokyo
Travel to Japan with Nick Luscombe and James Greer as they explore the sound of Tokyo. This month's edition features a special Japanese ambient music mix to celebrate a week of live shows, playbacks and talks in London and Brighton from 13th-18th July with composer Yumiko Morioka and MSCTY Studio. For more information visit www.mscty.space. [Repeats Monday 5am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Kitchen Magic Time
[Repeated from Tuesday 1pm.] Recipes in sound from Mama Dolores, Mistress of the Deep Soul Kitchen.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Is Black Music
[Repeated from Wednesday 1am.] The world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. For more information visit www.artterry.co.uk.
12:00am - 1:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
[Repeated from Thursday 11pm.] Hosted and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, new releases and unreleased dubs. This week: fresh dubs by Dubz, Dubs, Skeevious, Lemontek, SDLR, Ecilant, Deezee; Grime classics by Big H and IMP Batch, Splurt Diablo, Footsie; modern classics by Dijon Coleman. Kicking off the show with Ooochie Wally (Bang Bang) by Ash Bash. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Visit X @feraldubs.