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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's task on Bob’s art school of the air is to draw the universe expanding. Plus, learn Italian in a festival of home made songs and spoken word records. Visit @bobandrobertasmith on Instagram for more information.
4:00am - 5:00am
English Stitch
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] What is English Culture? Over ten weeks Professor Stuart Hall, the godfather of Cultural Studies, takes us on a trip through the national imagination. Hosted by critic and writer K Biswas, the series features never-before-heard archival recordings from seminars delivered in Naples during the 1980s at the height of Thatcherism. In the studio, the thinker's friends and voices inspired by his work examine his theories, unravelling the social and cultural fabric of the nation. In Episode Six, we hear Stuart discuss the crises of the British State taking place in the years before and during the Great War. Biz is joined by Angela McRobbie, Emeritus Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths and Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation; and Bill Schwarz, Professor at Queen Marys and co-writer of Stuart’s autobiography Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands. English Stitch has been made in collaboration with the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham. To learn about the project and access more of Stuart Hall’s archive, join the mailing list: https://stuarthallarchive.bham.ac.uk/mailing-list/.
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. 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’s show welcomes Tullis Rennie and Cath Roberts into the studio with a full musical tasting menu for Saturday’s Two Ship Festival in Hastings. 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. This week: The Home That Made Me – When home becomes a prison. In this episode, Fiona Chilton is joined by Clare who after years of renting managed to buy her dream flat in London. But, within a matter of months, everything changed and her sanctuary became a place of despair. This experience has profoundly changed how she sees the balance of power in the built environment, and has forever changed what she would look for in any future home. [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. Today, Alessandro's guest is Danilo Napoli. [Repeats Wednesday 2.30am.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Urban Dwellers
[Repeated from Tuesday 4pm.] Sound artist Beth Robertson explores the entwined histories and urban entanglements of London's local wildlife. This episode visits Seaford to escape from the heatwave to the cool sea air. On top of the white chalk cliffs the nesting gulls call to one another as land crumbles into sea. At a site of strength and vulnerability in the midst of our warming springs, the changing climate and our entangled relationships with one another plays on the mind. Think of the missing stag beetles in London and the strange affairs between ants and blue butterflies on the chalk grasslands as the ocean waves rattle the pebbles and pull the sand from beneath our feet. For more information visit wohnensound.com.
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
Novelty Actress
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 auditions the role of an instruction manual, reconfiguring the poetic function of directions to create her own instruction manual for how to build a shelf. Visit Instagram @doramaludi for more information. [Repeats Monday 7am.]
ON NOW
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull The Plug
Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. This week: Preparations for an evening's entertainment. Electronic music considered as a civilising influence. A succession of minor catastrophes. A thunderstorm at the least convenient moment. Headaches and their disadvantages. The persistence of modern broadcasting. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. Visit Pull The Plug on Facebook. [Repeats Saturday 11am.]
Listen live6:00pm - 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, creating a space that honours song-making, poetry, performance and mixed-media through conversations and live performance. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4. [Repeats Monday 3am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Our open access slot for one-off, special and sometimes surprise broadcasts. [Repeats Friday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:30pm
Adventures in Sound and Music
New music with The Wire magazine. Adventures in Sound and Music is hosted by members of the magazine staff: Emily Bick, Chris Bohn, Phil England, James Gormley, Joseph Stannard, Lucy Thraves, Derek Walmsley and Shane Woolman. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information. [Repeats Sunday 1am.]
11:00pm - 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 Darx, IMP Batch, Zedz, Darker; grime classics by Wiley, Ghetts, Jammer, Dread D, JT the Goon; fresh dubs from Grindhouse, Filthy Gears, Mesotron, Skeevious, Blizzard, Deezee, Morgue, IllWill, Eddy G, Dubz. Kicking off the show with Glidy Ghost by Lemontek. 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. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 5am.]