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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. There will be time to murder and create: this week’s show is devoted to the spirit of T. S. Eliot. The art task is to create something exploiting materials. 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: Earthling Blues by Santi Marín. A selection of unreleased works from by Santi Marin from the last ten years. "The radio – both as a concept and a tool – is very important in my life and work since I wish to accommodate many different types of sounds, forms and textures into one continuous stream. Earthling Blues is a melancholic celebration of the urban and natural environments of our planet and the impressions they leave on my heart and mind."
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. Visit jamesoldham.net for press, questions and complaints.
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11:00am - 12:00pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
[Repeated from Saturday 1.30pm.] Mundele Mafuta presents classic dance music of the two Congos.
Listen live12:00pm - 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. 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: London Museum Deconstructed, Part Two - Turning a Market into a Museum. The second episode in our new 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. Today, we're joined by Paul Williams, Principal Director and Co-Founder at Stanton Williams Architects, Alec Shaw, Director of New Museum Project & Estate at London Museum and Chris Bonner, Director of Regeneration and Redevelopment at the City of London Corporation. We discuss the practicalities of transforming a Victorian market building into a museum, the incredible opportunities and challenges that come with structural engineering and the required environmental control needed for a 21st century museum. We talk about how the visitor experience will be shaped by the dramatic spaces of the market, and the role the building can play to tell London’s historical narratives. This episode was 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. This week: Alessandro's guest is Ida Applebroog. [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 Halloween, 'Ghost Stations, Bats and Tube Mice' explores the shrieks and howls of the London Underground and its subterranean wildlife. Investigate the microclimates of the tube and how mice and mosquitos have adapted to survive there. Then visit the abandoned railway in Highgate, walk along the overgrown platforms and wait outside the bricked up tunnels as bats emerge at dusk to begin their commute. Featuring sounds from 'District’ an underground train duet with guitar. 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: Observations from an addled TikTok addict has resulted in a new way to look at said addiction, with a belief that social media democratises cinema and gives everyone the ability to curate, direct and tell stories. Everything is Cinema is a sound collage capturing the internal and external world, using audio from Dora’s sound archive to paint an image of one’s daily life. Visit Instagram @doramaludi for more information. [Repeats Monday 7am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull The Plug
Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. This week: A captain sets course for the final frontier. The stars look on in silence. The weather on Earth remains thoroughly miserable. The universe is considered. Its apparent indifference is noted. A more cheerful outlook is briefly achieved. Curry is mentioned. All is not lost. 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
Presented by Frank Malachi, Rogue Planets explores ideas, culture and conversations through interviews and field recordings. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4. [Repeats Monday 3am.]
8:00pm - 8:10pm
Micro Clear Spot
For Bonfire Night, author Debbie Spain reads an original short story, Hidden in Plain Sight. Debbie is the author of Caught Red-Handed and Other Stories, a new book of short stories written for and read to residents and their families in London care homes. The book is available on Amazon in large print. [Repeats Friday 10am.]
8:10pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Children of the Sun by Anna Friz. A Martian returns to damaged planet Earth, encountering industrialised and wild lands in a process of metamorphosis. Children of the Sun combines acoustic field recordings and electro-magnetic signals from various part of the spectrum recorded on the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile, from 2017-2024, together with two-way radio communications of mining workers and recontextualised NASA Apollo mission communications, specialised electronic instruments and voice in order to bring documentary sounds into the realm of science fiction, and to listen with the industrial desert and follow some of the many fields of influence at work. Children of the Sun is part of a larger suite of audio and audiovisual works entitled 'We Build Ruins' based on intensive fieldwork in the Atacama Desert undertaken by Anna Friz with collaborator Rodrigo Ríos Zunino since 2017.
The Salar de Atacama, once at the bottom of a sea, is now one of the driest places on Earth. Located in the high-altitude desert in the Andes, the salt flats contain rare geologic and organic systems, but vast exploitative mining operations (currently lithium and nearby copper mining) continue to radically reshape the land for eons to come. Intense UV solar radiation due to the high altitude and the specific geological formations serve as ready analogues for off-planet conditions; thus this area has been a training ground for off-planet robotic probes and for developing mining techniques that may be applied on Mars or elsewhere. Meanwhile Earth’s ecology is becoming a little more like Mars every day. [Repeats Friday 10:10am.]
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, Misha Faulty, James Gormley, Joseph Stannard, Lucy Thraves 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. 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 pop, throat singing, rock, Americana, nu metal, indie and hip-hop from the indigenous musicians of the Inuit, Osoyoos, Ojibwe, Kainai, Mexica, Métis, Keli Akimel Oʼotham, Piipaash, Lakota and Cree Nations. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 5am.]