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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.] An audio postcard from the artist Bob and Roberta Smith’s studio by the seaside in Ramsgate. This week’s show is a sound collage inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The art task is to make a composition. Visit @bobandrobertasmith on Instagram for more information.
4:00am - 5:00am
Sonoro
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] A series showcasing Mexican contemporary sound and radio artists, curated by Ana Martínez de Buen. This week: Ópera Æsopus, Acto 1 (Æsopus Opera, Act 1) by Otto Cázares. A radio opera whose libretto consists of a collection of fables, counter-fables, tales and wise reflections recounted by fictional sages and scholars, recorded in books, poems and prayers that do not exist. The method of composing the libretto was detemined by a machine made of cardboard (the Arca OperÆsópica) to generate thematic groupings and configurations. The performance is carried out by friends and collaborators, none of whom are professional performers. Act 1 consists of ten scenes: The Call, The Apprenticeship, Exercises to Stay Incandescent, Blindness, Exhaustion, Confirmation, The Shipwreck, The Hero, The Adversaries, The Battlefield. Libretto: Otto Cázares. Sound design, editing and production: Óscar Peralta. Music: Erika Mues Döring, Enrique Arriaga Celis, Otto Cázares. Guest voices: Blanca Guerra, Edison Quintana, Renzo D’Alessandro, Daniel Toca, Angélica Fernández, Gustavo Cázares, Eusebio Bañuelos, Sara Gómez, María Fernanda Rivadeneyra, Antonio Arámburu, Ilán Lieberman, Jessica Wozny, Luciana Corres, Marcela Aguilera, Armando Deverdún, Galo Cázares, Lisi Escobar, Ricardo García-Arteaga, Avelina Correa, Marcelo Schuster, José Manuel Springer, Estela P. Molatore.
5:00am - 6:00am
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] Progressive sounds and music using unusual time signatures, song structures and dynamics, breaking out of Western music's obsession with 4/4.
6:00am - 7:00am
Farside Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 12pm.] 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, Clint is joined by composer Tim Parkinson. Visit jamesoldham.net for press, questions and complaints.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
[Repeated from Saturday 1.30pm.] Mundele Mafuta presents 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's show arrives at a very belated appreciation of the genius of Brigitte Fontaine with a little help from the poet Dorothy Spencer and Belgian/Egyptian power trio The Handover. 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: the first episode in a new Deconstructed miniseries, for which we’ve been given special access to London’s most ambitious cultural project: the transformation of the western part of Smithfield Market into a new home for London Museum, opening to the public on Saturday 28th November. We're joined by Director of London Museum, Sharon Ament; Director of Regeneration and Development for the City of London Corporation, Chris Bonner; Partner at Julian Harrap Architects, Lyall Thow; and Alec Shaw, Director of New Museum Project & Estate at London Museum. We discuss the Museum's former home on London Wall, the origins of its move to Smithfield over a decade ago, the thousand-year history of Smithfield Market and the Victorian buildings designed by Sir Horace Jones in the 1880s which are the new home of London Museum. This episode is supported by London Museum. [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. [Repeats Wednesday 2.30am.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Fieldnotes
[Repeated from Tuesday 4pm.] Broadcasts by the artist-run publishing project based in Newham, London. In this episode, Luke Dunne speaks with writer Giada Scodellaro about her novel. "Ruins, Child". They discuss the importance of sound, rhythm and poetry in the book, and Giada’s use of collage to fold in the voices of Black artists, musicians and writers. The conversation is scored by music from the world of the novel, including: Rectifiya by keiyaA, Astro by Walt Dickerson and Sun Ra, Things to Like and Not Like in America by Nick Hakim and Roy Nathanson, I'll Stay by The RH Factor and D'Angelo, Stopover Bombay by Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, Roala by Linda Sharrock. Visit fieldnotes.site.
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 - 5:00pm
Micro Clear Spot
The Heat. Geoff Ryman talks to Iquo DianaAbasi about African futures, the Niger Delta and Omenana speculative fiction magazine. [Repeats Monday 7.00am.]
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Previously on Resonance FM
Archival gems and curiosities. [Repeats Monday 7.30am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull The Plug
Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. This week: The scaffolding remains, but the workers are nowhere to be seen. A weekend without alcohol. A rare chocolate eclair. More rain, more UAP sightings. The possibility that Non-human Intelligences have come to inspect the building works is considered, but ultimately dismissed. 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. This week, Debbie talks to activist/artist Zita Holbourne FRSA about her newly published autobiography, Zita: A life of Activism on Aurora Media Books. Zita has won many awards for her unwavering and skilled activism and creative practice, staying focused and fully engaged despite many challenges, making a difference at every turn. Music from Zara McFarlane and Marla Kether features. For more details follow @outerglobe on Instagram. [Repeats Sunday 4pm.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Rogue Planets
Presented by Frank Malachi, Rogue Planets explores ideas, culture and conversations through interviews and field recordings. This week: The Winsor & Newton Colour Archive – Art, Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Colour. Frank welcomes Stephanie Nebbia, resident artist at Winsor & Newton, and Colart chemical engineer Johny Meghames to explore the history of artists’ colour, pigment science and the future of sustainable colour-making. Stephanie introduces the Winsor & Newton Colour Archive, a rare collection dating back to 1832 that traces the evolution of artists’ materials and pigment innovation. Johny offers a scientific perspective on pigment research and colour formulation, including the challenges of developing safer, more sustainable artists’ materials. Together, we consider whether artificial intelligence could help unlock historical pigment knowledge and inspire naturally derived colours for the future. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4. [Repeats Monday 3am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Miniaturising the Vectrex. In the sixth of an annual series of shows looking at the continuing fortunes of an obscure 1980s video game machine - the Vectrex - Alex Fitch talks to a trio of programmers/hardware manufacturers about continuing to support the device. David Oghia discusses launching the Vectrex Mini - a "mini console" version of the original, and his plans for new games for the platform; Laurence Bennion chats about making UV overlays that add an additional 3D aspect to games for both the Mini and original machine; and to James Watts about creating his games for the Vectrex and Electro-Mechanical style arcade devices such as Pollinator and One's Televisor. Recorded at Play Expo, Blackpool. For more information visit panelborders.wordpress.com/tag/vectrex. [Repeats Friday 10am.]
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9:00pm - 10:30pm
Adventures in Sound and Music
New music with The Wire magazine. This week: Joseph Stannard presents a generous earful of scintillating sound including tracks by Earthslayer, The Golden Corpse Of Midas, Allen Ravenstine and Ak'chamel. 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: new releases from Solsa & Masro; dubs from Mesotron, Filthy Gears and Pakz; Grime classics by Charmzy, Danny Weed & Mega Montana, JT the Goon, Dizzle Kid, and Dullah Beatz. 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 indie, blues, classical, country, hip-hop, musical soundtrack, rap, rock and jazz from musicians of the Ojibway, Tohono O’odham, Apsáalooké, Metis, Wolastoqiyik, Cree, Shawnee, Hupa, Yaqui, Inuit, Oji-Cree, Cherokee, Mohawk, Zapotec and Lakota Nations. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 5am.]