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Monday 11th May
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12:00am - 1:00am
Sleeping Dogs Lie
[Repeated from Sunday 3.30am.] Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax. For more information visit Sleeping Dogs Lie on Facebook and Mixcloud.
1:00am - 2:30am
Bad Punk
[Repeated from Friday 10pm.] Hosted by Johny Brown and Band Of Holy Joy. For more information visit johny.co.uk, contact badpunkradio@gmail.com.
3:00am - 4:00am
Rogue Planets
[Repeated from Thursday 7pm.] 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, creating a space that honours song-making, poetry, performance and mixed-media through conversations and live performance. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4.
4:00am - 5:00am
Waste Land Receiver
[Repeated from Saturday 5.30pm.] 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.
5:00am - 6:00am
MSCTY Radio Tokyo
[Repeated from Saturday 9.30pm.] Travel to Japan with Nick Luscombe and James Greer as they explore the sound of Tokyo. The month of May marks International Dawn Chorus Day, and in honour of it, this month's show finds Nick and James on an early morning sonic journey through Japan - from a Hokkaido forest in the far north, to a subtropical beach in Okinawa, and much in between. For more information visit www.mscty.space.
6:00am - 7:00am
Come Digest With Me
[Repeated from Friday 7pm.] A live investigation of digestive systems presented by artist Joanna Penso, who invites an eclectic mixture of guests to talk about their relationship to the body and food. Stethoscope microphones reveal the internal acoustics from mastication to enzymatic hydrolysis as they make their way through Friday night dinner. Visit joannapenso.com for more information, contact pensostudio@gmail.com.
7:00am - 8:00am
Novelty Actress
[Repeated from Thursday 4.30pm.] New series! Part audio-diary, part sound collage, part archival practice; through the guise of auditioning, writer and artist Dora Maludi investigates what it means to become in a society obsessed with reinvention. This month: Dora introduces the concept of the Novelty Actress through a chaotic blend of experimental sounds and performed text. Themes centred around the post-girl, transformation and body comedy are explored. Visit Instagram @doramaludi for more information.
8:00am - 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 News Agents
[Repeated from Saturday 3pm.] Experiments in international news and arts with Jude Montague. This week: Haitian music and Haitian history in relation to the colonial powers in the Caribbean. In 1804 Haiti declared independence and abolished slavery. In 1811 Henri Christophe became king and after his suicide the Haitian Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid came to Britain in exile, living in Hastings from 1822-1824. Local arts practitioners from St Leonards-on-Sea and Hastings are preparing a celebration of her time and celebrating the abolition of slavery, taking inspiration from the rebel RaRa bands. Visit http://thenewsagents.blogspot.com.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from 8pm the previous weeknight.] Our open access slot for one-off, special and sometimes surprise broadcasts.
11:00am - 11:30am
Little Atoms
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: Claire Fuller on her latest novel, Hunger and Thirst. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Visit X @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeats Saturday 9am.]
11:30am - 12:00pm
Six Volumes: Sounds Of The Folk Archive
Live sound pieces by Royal College of Art MA Writing students, made in response to the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s archival collection. Each episode features two works made by a small collective of writers. Episode 1: Celtic Witches/Witches Dramaturgy. In Celtic Witches, two witches offer us insight into their origins, beliefs and culture in a conversation offering a rare glimpse into Celtic witchcraft, and unites witches from across two ancestral powers. Research and direction: Daisy Lynch, Nik Macey, Lenox Lin and Hugo Teubal. Sound design: Lenox Lin. Script: Hugo Teubal. The Celtic witches Montserrat Miragaya and Freyja Baker have been revoiced by Ana Curiel García and Eleanor Westbrook. Witches Dramaturgy is an experimental audio drama that follows a witch plagued with grief and unravelling in the wake of her lover’s disappearance. Writing, editing and composition: Emilia Cadden, Lydia Francis-Askew, Charles Hughes, Almog Paz and Rita Zuniga Sisternas, with Rosie Oliver. Performers: Anat Ben-David, Sharon Gal. Music composed by Francesca Rotundo. Production consultant: Neil Luck. [Repeats Saturday 2.30pm.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
[Repeated from Thursday 1pm.] Kevin Sheils presents an informed and judicious selection of recordings of traditional musics from Britain, Ireland and occasionally further afield.
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Calling All Pensioners
Magazine programme with Tim Hamilton, addressing issues which affect pensioners across London. This week: an update from England-based pensioners’ charity, Independent Age on its campaigning work with decision makers across Parliament to ensure older people in financial hardship remain on the parliamentary agenda. Age UK shares the response to its health and care survey, where your experiences are so important in shaping campaigning work with decision makers, plus the story of pensioner, Jim, aged 95 who has returned to creative writing and penned one specifically about Age UK. Our further musical tribute is to English singer-songwriter, Tony Rivers, a prominent musician known for leading groups such as Tony Rivers and the Castaways, and provided backing vocals and arrangements for artists including Cliff Richard, Elton John, Pink Floyd and The Who. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly. [Repeats Sunday 2pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Radio Ecoshock
[Repeated from Friday 9am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: Climate – Hunger World, food riots home and abroad. The forecast is record-breaking heat, wildfires in the West and extreme rainfall mayhem across the world. Maybe the strongest El Niño in 150 years. We explore a return to mass famine - including real hunger in the UK and America. Food riots in the next few years are possible. Aled Jones, Director, Global Sustainability Institute, Cambridge on UK food riots past and future. American scientist Joshua Elliot warns risk of American "food shock". Will the monsoons that feed a billion people fail? Gayatri Kathayat reports from India. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Flamencohead
Javier Surroca hosts a show on the Art of Flamenco: fusion, pop, experimental, rock, ethnic and all the variations in the Flamenco universe. This month: music from Lole y Manuel, DBKM, Ines Bacan, Mixtolobo y Terremoto de Jerez among others. [Repeats Friday 6am.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
What Iiif? Nowhere & Everywhere
What Iiif? Nowhere & Everywhere, generously entangled and resolutely contemporary, emits the sounds concocted during an ongoing 6 year running 40 minute Zoom based improvisation every Wednesday at 2pm Amsterdam time. What Iiif? Nowhere & Everywhere thrives in latency of space, time and subjectivity that negotiates and celebrates forms of distance between an act and its reception. Hosted and made by Catharine Cary and Chris Parfitt. Visit Instagram @whatiiif and Youtube. [Repeats Friday 4am.]
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Nunhead American Radio
A programme for the American community in Nunhead, south east London, presented by New York comic Lewis Schaffer. For more information visit @NunheadRadio on X and Nunhead American Radio on Facebook. [Repeats Saturday 9.30am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Gate Kicks
[Repeated from Wednesday 1.30pm.] Introduced by DJ Ritchie Rich, multi-instrumentalist Duane aka Mr Amazing, and singer Labake Anisere, and produced by people with learning disabilities at The Gate arts centre, Gate Kicks covers art, music, dance, film, theatre and offers a hub where this truly underground art scene is exposed to a larger audience.
6:00pm - 7:00pm
One Life Left
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. [Repeats Saturday 10am.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
For The Lost
A weekly exploration of the curious, dark and surreal. Through a curated blend of radio plays, poetry, experimental soundscapes, live performances and discussions, Dee Sada journeys into the intriguing corners of culture and the imagination. Visit Instagram @forthelostradio. [Repeats Wednesday 7am.]
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8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Our open access slot for one-off, special and sometimes surprise broadcasts. [Repeats Tuesday 10am.]
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The Naked Short Club
Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around alternative investments, markets, the economy and wider world. [Repeats Thursday 9am.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Art Monthly Talk Show
An audio supplement to Art Monthly magazine, broadcast on the second Monday of each month. Today: Why is the onus of taking a political stand falling on individual artists rather than on cultural institutions that were once thought to protect and support aesthetic and intellectual freedom? Sarah E. James, Professor of Visual Culture at Manchester School of Art, MMU and Matthew Bowman art critic lecturing at the University of Suffolk discuss this and Matthew’s review of Lucía Pizzani: Faunal Succession exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea. Hosted by Matt Hale. [Repeats Saturday 12.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Devil’s Dancers
An episodic history of synthesised sounds with Nina Kehagia. Email hello@ninakeh.com. Instagram @ninakeh. [Repeats Saturday 1.30am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Saturday 7pm.] The :zoviet * france: radio show. Inside the Reflection. This week's edition features a track from Francis Heery's new album on the Flaming Pines label, and audio sorcery through the looking glass by Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, How the Night Came, Fordell Research Unit, Thomas Peter, David Vélez, Ray Cobley and Michael Prime.