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12:00am - 1:00am
Nana Nicol's Cosmic Balearic Slop
[Repeated from Saturday 10.30pm.] Sarah "Nana" Nicol delves into her trolley bag and pulls out a selection of out of leftfield disco, edits, and cosmic delights.
1:00am - 2:30am
Artocker
[Repeated from Tuesday 10.30pm.] Paul and Lewis from the influential Artrocker magazine previews all the latest releases from London and the UK's thriving indie rock scene and beyond. Visit the Artrocker website artrocker.tv/ for more information. To listen to past shows visit Paul's Mixcloud page.
2:30am - 3:30am
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.
3:30am - 4:00am
Dig That Treasure
[Repeated from Tuesday 7.30pm.] William Hall brings his Dig That Treasure music blog to the radio, aiming to give light to lost classic recordings and obscurities.
4:00am - 5:00am
Definitely Dylan
[Repeated from Sunday 4pm.] Taking Tom Waits' description to heart - “Dylan is a planet to be explored” - Laura Tenschert presents a series dedicated to the planet that is Bob Dylan and his musical and cultural orbit.
5:00am - 6:00am
Isotopica
[Repeated from Sunday 7pm.] Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. Visit theculture.net/ for more information.
6:00am - 7:00am
Bears At A Picnic Naked And Laughing
[Repeated from Saturday 3.30pm.] Andrea Spisto and Michelle Madsen explore themes of playfulness and vulnerability through music, poetry, performance and clowning.
7:00am - 7:30am
Records Comic, Curious And Cracked
[Repeated from Tuesday 5.30pm.] An eco-neutral trawl through the unusual records acquired by various means, including even purchase, during an otherwise mostly virtuous lifetime by Jack Thorington.
7:30am - 8:00am
Gate Kicks
[Repeated from Tuesday 10pm.] Introduced by MC 2 Decks and produced by people with learning disabilities at the Gate Art 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.
8:00am - 9:00am
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
[Repeated from Sunday 9pm.] Marina Anthony presents rhythmically other, entertaining, perplexing and unashamedly progressive sounds, playing music that uses unusual time signatures, song structures and dynamics - sounds that break out of Western music's obsession with 4/4. Visit otherrockshow.wordpress.com for more information.
9:00am - 10:00am
New Works For Radio
[Repeated from Monday 9pm.] Brand new works by award-winning young radio producer Stuart Russell, comprising 1. Above the Persea Tree (22:55); 2. The Nut Owl and the Stone Whale (24:00); 3. The Wave Museum (08:05); and 4. An interview with Stuart Russell (04:00).
10:00am - 11:00am
EastCast
[Repeated from Wednesday 8pm.] EastCast explores the arts, culture and community nurtured in East London but resonating way beyond. This month Pearl Wise and Jessie Lawson speak to choreographer and African dance specialist Alessandra Seutin about her Sadler’s Wells debut for ‘Reckonings’ and to Laura Mitchison from oral history and digital storytelling outfit On The Record about their latest sound walk ‘A Hackney Autobiography’. In the latest episode of Jessie Lawson’s Now Then series (stories from the over 70’s in their words) Daniel reveals his passion for Elvis, and there’s live music from genre bending East London based four piece Dishy Tangent. For more information visit eastcastshow.com.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Tony's Various Whatevers With Matthew Highton
The world's wildest stand-up Tony Law hosts his own madcap radio series. [Repeated Sunday 6pm.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The London Ear
Wide ranging cultural salon hosted by ghostwriter and critic Ben Thompson. [Repeated Tuesday 7am.]
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Talking Africa
A magazine show covering African development issues hosted by Sonny Decker. This week: Eliminating brutality from political practice in Africa. The beating of Bobi Wine, Ugandan musician turned politician, is case in point. See mixcloud.com/talkingafrica for more Talking Africa shows. [Repeated Tuesday 9am.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
Reg Hall and Kevin Sheils (on alternate weeks) present an informed and judicious selection of recordings of traditional musics from Britain, Ireland and occasionally further afield. To start the new season Reg Hall returns with more recordings from his archives. [Repeated Monday 12pm.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
The Restart Project
[Repeated from Tuesday 5pm.] 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. This month they interview Jon Dawes and Lauren Crilly from Repair Cafe Glasgow; discuss summer tech news; and talk about the spread of the community repair movement across Scotland and the UK.
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Tin Can Review
James Hodder meets the Wood Brothers of Nashville Tennessee. The trio consisting of brothers Chris and Oliver and multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix have just released their 6th studio album 'One Drop Of Truth' to critical acclaim and are currently touring the UK with appearances in London and The Long Road Festival. The band discuss writing and recording the album as well as performing live tracks. [Repeated Saturday 9.30pm.]
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Why Is Improvising Important?
The London Improvisers Orchestra is now 20 years old. LIO member and conductor Caroline Kraabel speaks to people who improvise in music, visual art, dance, politics and religion, as well as in life. This week’s guest is singer Maggie Nicols: ‘We’re learning how to share power, to navigate, negotiate and create.’ [Repeated Monday 7am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull the Plug
Brace yourselves for the shocking return of Pull The Plug to the airwaves, with promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. Will the resultant cacophony, travelling inexorably through the cosmos, bounce off your eardrums, or just end up bouncing off the ionosphere, unheard and unloved? Enjoy a smattering of kosmische, a dash of faux-library music, some Australian psychedelia and slabs of analogue synth. Tune in and help make the world a better place. Send your new and/or unreleased to Pull the Plug, ResonanceFM, 144 Borough High Street London SE1 1LB or email an mp3 to pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. [Repeated Saturday 11am.]
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Hooting Yard On The Air
Live, out of leftfield fiction with Resonance's prodigious author-in-residence Frank Key. Visit hootingyard.org for more information. [Repeated Saturday 11.30am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
The Outerglobe
Debbie Golt takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point. Debbie starts the new season with music all the way, sharing recently sent gems alongside longtime favourites. Visit www.outerglobe.co.uk for more information. [Repeated Tuesday 8am.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Hot Club du Monde
A Baedeker tour of international musical curiosities from the 78rpm era with Oliver Carter-Wakefield. [Repeated Tuesday 11.30am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Steep Incline
A diverse mix of out-of-leftfield music and sound presented by James Hassall, Bene Pooley, Jack Greenhalgh and Matt Soczywko from London-based label Steep Incline. They play a selection of new releases, recent reissues and unreleased tracks spanning noise, post-punk, techno, avant-garde sound and everything in between. Visit steepincline.co.uk for details of the label or Bandcamp to hear their releases. [Repeated Friday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:30pm
Adventures in Sound and Music
New music with The Wire magazine. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information. Contact theconduit@thewire.co.uk. [Repeated Sunday 1am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Radia
Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, presents a new show realised by one of its members, exploring "new and forgotten ways of making radio." This week: show # 702: “Tractatus illogico-insanus” by Mark Kanak (from Radio Helsinki): a mixture of parody of Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus logico-philosophicus” which he wrote exactly100 years ago in the summer of 1918, also influenced by Walter Serner’s “Last Loosening” and Hermann Burger’s own “Tractatus logico-suicidalis”. In short, it’s the author’s musing on the surveillance state. Based on the book “Tractatus illogico-insanus”, upcoming early 2019, Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt (AT). Visit radia.fm for more information. [Repeated Wednesday 3.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. [Repeated Sunday 12am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. This season starts with yet another improvised outing by the All-Stars: OTL (piano, vocals, prerecords), Paul Shearsmith (trumpet, Baliphone, squeakers), Dave Black (electric guitar), Graham Davis (synths), Peter Baxter (drums). Guests are: Alex Ward (clarinet), and Luke 'Public Poet' Davis (typewriter). As J.H. Prynne puts it in his newly-published Or Scissel (Shearsman Chapbooks): "Wild reject obtuse thrown down whenever on".