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12:30am - 1:30am
Turtle Island
[Repeated from Wednesday 11pm.] Contemporary Native American and First Nations music from a wide range of indigenous musicians in North America, selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew Graves-Johnston (aka DJ Droid), who first came across it when researching the Standing Rock protests of 2016/17. This week: i.a. Divide And Dissolve, Tracy Lee Nelson, Skylar Wolf, Alas, Black Rain, Burnstick Ms. Panik and award winning songwriter Jade Turner whose Highway Town has just been released. Visit facebook.com/turtleislandradio for more information.
1:30am - 2:30am
The Opera Hour
[Repeated from Friday Noon.] Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes.
2:30am - 3:30am
Is Black Music
[Repeated from Wednesday 12am.] The world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. Tonight's show is titled In The Trees. It is a tribute to The Happy Man Tree in Hackney which is scheduled to be cut down by developers soon. We hear tracks by Black musicians expressing their impressions and life experiences with trees.
3:30am - 4:30am
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. This week: with venues closed due to coronavirus lockdown, what should musicians do? Ben proposes Digital Xenochrony, the combination of playing recorded at different times: "If you can't be live, at least you can be strange". Eleanor Crook and Ben Moran Healy on electric guitar, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells and Cloughie on bass, Guy Evans and Peter Baxter on drums, Out To Lunch on Splash 'n' Klang and vocal intimacies, Dave Black on Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Red Cross Store", and Graham Davis on synth and "I Wish My Cuica Would Arrive".
4:30am - 5:00am
The Wrong Show
[Repeated from Wednesday at 10.30pm.] Extraordinary radiophonic probes with Orlando Harrison. Tonight: Club Disintegration Radio – London’s long running-running home to the unlistenable. With Anthony Bolt-Goblin and the Duke of Killjoy. For more information visit soundcloud.com/orlando-harrison.
5:00am - 6:00am
Hackney Social Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] Immediate Theatre’s weekly show for the young at heart. This week: we explore the great outdoors as we chat to Tim Webb about Hackney’s parks and green spaces and go for a walk with the Shoreditch Trust Community Connections team. Plus, we revisit the Hackney Empire Elders songwriting group with Antonia Folivi. Host Sue Elliot-Nichols is joined again by Theatre Exchange members Sharon Aspess and Janet Evans, with music from our resident DJ, Frank Kaos. For more info visit immediate-theatre.com/work/hackney-social-radio.
6:00am - 7:00am
Sitting With Gianluca
[Repeated from Sunday 6pm.] Interviews and informed portraits of contemporary American musicians with our stateside correspondent Gianluca Tramontana.
7:00am - 8:00am
Intoxica Radio Hour
Presented by Nick Brown of Intoxica Record Shop and dedicated to the dignity of vinyl, giving centre stage to new vinyl reissue releases, spotlighting Content Themes and specific artists' careers - and generally playing the gloriously unheralded low-brow rock and soul of the 20th Century, all rendered on little slabs of black plastic. For further information and general waffle, contact intoxica@intoxica.co.uk.
8:00am - 9:00am
Spizz FM
[Repeated from Wednesday 4.30pm.] An on-going audio autobiography from the punk and post-punk legend that is Spizz. This week: July is a time when good things happen – well it used to be in the 70s and 80s. For more information visit the Spizzenergi Facebook page. Tweet to @spizzenergi.
9:00am - 9:30am
Little Atoms
[Repeated from Monday 11am.] 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: Adam Hart on his new book, Unfit For Purpose. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Tweet to @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com.
9:30am - 10:00am
Nunhead American Radio with Lewis Schaffer
[Repeated from Monday 6.30pm.] A programme for the American community in Nunhead, south east London, presented by New York comic Lewis Schaffer and co-hosted by American economist Lisa Moyle, with musical accompaniment by The Relatives. Today's guest is comedian and Youtuber Paul Ricketts. Visit http://www.lewisschaffer.co.uk/radio for more information.
10:00am - 11:00am
Ross's Cantina
[Repeated from Monday 7pm.] Ross Forrest walks us through the shadier side of roots, country and Americana. Today: expect music from the likes of Waylon Jennings, Margo Price, Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson and Glen Campbell. Contact the show at cantinacomms@gmail.com.
11:00am - 11:30am
Pull the Plug
[Repeated from Thursday 5.30pm.] Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com.
11:30am - 12:00pm
Hooting Yard On The Air
[Repeated from Thursday 6pm.] Live, out of leftfield fiction with Resonance's prodigious author-in-residence Frank Key. Visit hootingyard.org for more information.
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Hello Goodbye Show
Last in the present series. Upbeat, eclectic new music show hosted by deXter Bentley. Today: Last in the current series with Helen McDonald (Yaaba Funk/Future Groove) singing a capella jazz and soul classics and discussing her new li-fi, over the telephone, sing-a-long project dubbed #BetweenSpaces. Plus, Michael J. Sheehy talks about and plays songs from his new LP, Distance Is The Soul Of Beauty. Visit hellogoodbyeshow.com for more information. [Repeated Tuesday 2.30am.]
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
Mundele Mafuta presents classic dance music of the two Congos. [Repeated Monday 7am.]
2:30pm - 3:30pm
The News Agents
Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague. This week: Plague Songs. Martin Rowson and Jon Tregenna have produced an alternative musical poetry for our times. The Guardian cartoonist has produced a new ranting, boiling, rhyming splurge of poetry during lockdown which Jon Tregenna has set to music. Rowson and Tregenna speak about the project and the performers including Jane Williams from the Wild Willy Barrett Band and Jack Klass, Bond henchman. Visit Plague Songs Youtube channel. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.co.uk. [Repeated Tuesday 6am.]
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Synaptic Island
A collective of DJs and artists explores a selected theme each week through music and conversation. This week’s theme: Slow. Listen to archived shows on Mixcloud. For more information visit Twitter @synaptic_island, Instagram @synapticisland and synapticisland.com. [Repeats Friday 5am.]
4:30pm - 6:30pm
The OST Show
Presented by Jonny Trunk, The OST Show is the only show anywhere dedicated to film music, TV music, library music and related recordings. This week: Rest in Peace Morricone. Part two of our series dedicated to the recently deceased Maestro. More beautiful lesser-known works and excursions. Visit www.trunkrecords.com for more information. Email jonny@trunkrecords.com. [Repeated Monday 3pm.]
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Literary London
Nick Hennegan explores the literary life of London and celebrates the popular cultural life and literary history of the city. For more information visit LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com. Tweet to @NickHennegan. [Repeated Tuesday 2.30pm.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
A Duck in a Tree
The :zoviet * france: radio show. This week: The Stream Only Echoes. This edition opens with an outtake from the new Fossil Aerosol Mining Project and 400 Lonely Things album, 'Nigths and Profecy', made exclusively available to the show. Flowing from there, are tracks from new releases by the Sand Rays, Katja Institute, Emile Bojesen, and Fells, mingled with recordings from Sevenism, Alejandro Albornoz, Dave Dorgan, Tu m', Gavin Prior, and Havdis. [Repeated Tuesday 5am.]
8:00pm - 8:30pm
New Works Of Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 4pm.] Today: a new sound work by Viv Corringham, first broadcast 1 May 2020.
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Hoenn Sound
A conceptual radio show by SJ Wilson. This week: 'Almost Normal'. AKASiroDJ and Outgoing Person (2K-OK) note in audio some of the more complex emotions that have arisen as things resolve into a strange new state of almost normal. An hour-long weave of cautiously optimistic alternative pop, melancholic techno and pensive ambient. [Repeated Monday 2am.]
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Bears At A Picnic
Andrea Spisto and Michelle Madsen explore themes of playfulness and vulnerability through music, poetry, performance and clowning. Tweet to Bears_at. [Repeated Tuesday 4am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Very Loose Women
[Repeated from Wednesday 10.30pm.] Friends Leonore Schick and Soila Apparicio like to make private conversations public. They discuss art, activism and women’s issues, often with special guests and friends. For more information visit acast.com/veryloosewomen or follow them on Twitter at @VLWRadio.
11:00pm - 12:00am
The Sounds Of DMWSound
[Repeated from Tuesday 12am.] Panix and Ranking Dan from DMWSOUND demonstrate the music that inspires their sound. Genres spanning from Reggae to Modern Bass music. Keep tuned for the classics and fresh new dubs. For more info visit Facebook and soundcloud.com/dmwsound.
12:00am - 1:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
[Repeated from Thursday 11pm.] Presented and mixed by DJ BPM and Sharon-Rose (on alternate weeks), showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Twitter: @djbpm and @sharonrose__.
