Tuesday 16th May
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12:00am - 1:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. For a full set list and links to all the artists, including many legal free downloads visit Grime for the Unconverted on Facebook. [Repeated Sunday 2.30am.]
1:00am - 2:00am
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. This week: Ben presents another episode featuring the AMM All-Stars: Paul Shearsmith on trumpet, Baliphone, squeakers and bells; Peter Baxter on table-top percussion and Stylophone; Dave Black on electric guitar; and Out To Lunch on mouthnoise, piano and soundfiles. Len Massey and his Theremin will be heard, though whether live-in-person or on CD-R is yet to be resolved...
2:00am - 3:00am
Black 2 Comm
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] A music radio show about connections, produced and presented by Paul Jackson. Visit black2comm.com for more information.
3:00am - 4:00am
Drones Of Hell
[Repeated from Sunday 10pm.] Ray Kirby presents an hour of Extreme Metal, featuring tracks old and new from the last three decades. For more information visit dronesofhell.blogspot.com.
4:00am - 5:00am
Radiophrenia Redux
[Repeated from Sunday 6.30pm.] Works commissioned by and broadcast at Radiophrenia, the arts radio station broadcasting from Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts in August/September 2016. This week’s featured works: Jenn Mattinson and Mark Vernon – Circular Thinking: Interviews and field recordings from Cumbria pertaining to all manner of cyclical processes; circuits, loops, spinning things and rotating machines; Amble Skuse – Balancing Act: In response to deep pedagogical mysogyny, the piece serves as a ritual, a mantra, a magical spell, presenting 1464 female names, invisible to the concert hall.
5:00am - 6:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Saturday 7pm.] The :zoviet * france: radio show. This week's edition, A Fork in the Song, features a track by Lingua Lustra from the new label compilation ‘Where Ambient Lives Vol 1’, and by Core, from their new album, ‘Falling Up the Stairs’, plus recordings by Matmos, Guy Harries, Noto, Christopher DeLaurenti, Wyrm, Periskop, Alalu, and France Jobin.
6:00am - 7:00am
The Relatively Good Radio Show
[Repeated from Sunday 3pm.] Cousins Richard Guard and Anna Crockatt celebrate the capital's past, present and future in the show where everything is live. This week the Relatives' special guest band is Call Me Malcolm - hard punk, crunchy ska sound with a dash of reggae. With regulars Buffalo Bill, Alex The Greek and Mickey Science.
7:00am - 8:00am
Talking Africa
[Repeated from Thursday 1pm.] A magazine show covering African development issues hosted by Sonny Decker. This week: The IMF reports Namibia's economic growth is at healthy levels. Are the majority ordinary Namibians enjoying this?
8:00am - 9:00am
Killjoy FM
[Repeated from Sunday noon.] A new series of Ray Filar's left feminist radio series.
9:00am - 10:00am
Polifony
[Repeated from Monday 8pm.] Polifony, with Kristopher Winter, is a monthly programme dedicated to the exploration of Eastern European culture, showcasing a selection of recordings from Slavic roots, old time music, folk, electro-acoustic, sound designed literature readings, soundscapes, experimental, electronic, yass, film soundtracks, classical, contemporary to avant-garde music from Poland and all points East. This month: the latest avant garde works from Poland - by Jonasz Karpinski, Lutto Lento, Rusalka, Wszystko, Enchanted Hunters, Das Complex, Jaro Tochowicz and more.
10:00am - 10:30am
The Atomic Drop
[Repeated from Friday 5pm.] A series about the world of professional wrestling with news, features and music, hosted by Tariq Haque. Contact theatomicdrop@hotmail.com or tweet to @theatomicdrop.
10:30am - 11:00am
Kitchen Magic Time
[Repeated from Wednesday 4pm.] Recipes in sound from Mama Dolores, Mistress of the Deep Soul Kitchen.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Little Atoms
A talk show about ideas and culture, produced and presented by Neil Denny. Natalie Haynes is the author of 'The Amber Fury,' which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award. She discusses her latest novel, 'The Children of Jocasta.' Plus a repeat of Neil's recent interview with David France on his book, 'How to Survive a Plague.' Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeated Saturday 9am.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Nest Collective Hour
An hour of contemporary, international folk and acoustic music from London’s go to folk club The Nest Collective, covering the spectrum of 'new folk, old folk and no folk’ sounds. Live sessions and playlists from Mercury-nominated folk singer Sam Lee and musical impresarios Gwendolen Chatfield and Jamie Doe aka Magic Lantern. Listen to all previous shows on MIxcloud. Contact info@thenestcollective.co.uk. [Repeated Friday 8am.]
1:00pm - 1:30pm
The Workplace
[Repeated from Thursday 11am.] N.N.D. and guests discuss all aspects of work and workplaces.
1:30pm - 2:00pm
The Restart Project
Janet Gunter, Ugo Vallauri and Dave Pickering host a different kind of gadget show, discussing the work and philosophy of the Restart Project, a London-based social enterprise that encourages people to use their electronics longer, to prevent waste, save money, and make people happier. [Repeated Thursday 11.30am.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Isotopica
Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. Isotopica today features Jean Paul Sartre, Dudley Sutton, Simon Tyszko, and a slew of low pass filters. Pure class. Visit theculture.net/ for more information. [Repeated Thursday 2.30am.]
3:00pm - 3:45pm
Sound Out
Carole Finer presents a range of live music guests, ranging from the English modernist avant-garde (she was a member of The Scratch Orchestra) to bluegrass (she is also a keen banjo player), as well as field recordings from her extensive travels round the world. This week's guest is Jeni Hankins, wonderful country singer, storyteller, flatfoot dancer and multi-instrumentalist. Jeni grew up in the coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners and journalists. Her songs, self-penned and traditional, encompass the stories of ordinary people, the hardships and joys of the mining communities and life in the mountains. [Repeated Sunday 7.15am.]
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Drift Shift
Found sound and found text collected to form drifts that shift, produced and presented by Franziska Lantz. Visit driftshift.blogspot.com from more information. [Repeated Sunday 7am.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Heritage At A World In London
Discover the diverse connections in museums and historic homes, with Culture& and DJ Ritu. This week’s guest Tanaya, Collections Information Trainee at the Royal Collection Trust, speaks about the art of Collecting from Charles I to Queen Victoria & Albert. Visit
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Animal Sounds
With Robbie Judkins. This month: Animal Sounds #12 - sonic activism, animal rights and punk. Robbie speaks to Dave Phillips who is a sonic activist, composer, performer and researcher based in Zürich, Switzerland. He give us his thoughts on animal rights, humanimalism, field recording, punk, listening and sonic activism and provides a selection of pieces from his varied back catalogue. [Repeated Thursday 10am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Records Comic, Curious and Cracked
An eco-neutral trawl through the unusual records acquired by various means, including even purchase, during an otherwise mostly virtuous lifetime by Jack Thorington. [Repeated Thursday 3pm.]
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Talking Independent Dance
Zoe Baxter discusses the practice and lives of a wide range of choreographers in a six part series featuring dance practitioners across the generations. This week: Episode 5 features London based practitioners Harriet Latham and Meg Stewart. Commissioned by The Choreographer's Gallery. [Repeated Thursday 10:30am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Radio Diva
New LGBT series presented by Rosie Wilby and Heather Peace with Diva magazine. This week: Rosie and Heather speak to trans activist and actress Rebecca Root, comedian Julie Jepson and Diva's new film critic Rena Brannen. [Repeated Sunday 10am.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Gate Kicks
Introduced by MC 2 Decks 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. [Repeated Friday 4am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
A ‘safe house’ is a refuge from danger, a secret sanctuary, somewhere transient that can offer protection. It implies that home is elsewhere. In a special edition of ‘There then, hear now’, these themes are explored by artists exhibiting at Peckham 24, part of Photo London weekend. Mark Aitken is your host. [Repeated Wednesday 9am.]
9:00pm - 10:00pm
The Splice Festival Radio Show
London's leading audio-visual arts festival returns on 26 to 28 May at East London’s multi-arts centres Rich Mix, Red Gallery and Kamio. Part of the EU funded AV Node network, Splice brings together over 40 international artists to celebrate the diverse field of audiovisual performance, including live cinema, AV remixing, VJing, video art and projection mapping. This week: Ilia Rogachevski provides a selection of music from artists appearing at the festival. Visit splicefestival.com for more information. [Repeated Saturday 8am.]
10:00pm - 10:30pm
Pus Galore
New series. Luis Drayton presents cut-ups, mash-ups, sketches and other post-modernist transvestite electropunk hi-jinks, plus music from various new electronic/punk/drag artists. [Repeated Monday 4.30am.]
10:30pm - 12:00am
Artrocker
Paul Cox from the influential Artrocker magazine previews all the latest releases from London and the UK's thriving indie rock scene and beyond. Visit artrocker.tv for more information. To listen to past shows visit Paul's Mixcloud page. [Repeated Thursday 1am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Is Black Music
Is Black Music is the world's first and longest running Alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. This week: in celebration on the May 20th launch of the 2nd edition of Inside Hackney community guide, tonight's show will explore cities and gentrification. Featured artist include Burnt Sugar, Watsky and Chad Clark. [Repeated Sunday 3.30am.]