Monday 21st December

12:00am - 1:00am

The Rob Simone Talk Show

[Repeated from Wednesday 9am.] Interviews with a wide range of alternative thinkers by the Los Angeles-based investigator of anomalous phenomena. Today: Rob discusses ancient artefacts, some of which in particular, Hollywood loves to exploit. Visit robsimone.com/ for more information.

1:00am - 2:00am

Sleeping Dogs Lie

[Repeated from Sunday 3.30am.] Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax. For more information visit Sleeping Dogs Lie on Facebook, Mixcloud and WhitelabelRecs at Bandcamp.

2:00am - 3:00am

Hoenn Sound

[Repeated from Saturday 8.30pm.] A conceptual radio show by SJ Wilson - all vinyl, all 33rpm. But all the vinyl is 45rpm techno (or otherwise) played at the slower speed setting. From pounding, pulsating techno jams to slow, chuggy, mesmerising soundscapes.

3:00am - 3:30am

Previously On Resonance FM

[Repeats from Thursday 4.30pm.] A gem plucked from our archive. Today: Found Sound Bulletin number 1 by Mark Vernon. The Found Sound Bulletin is an archive of lost voices, audio letters, home sing-alongs and phone conversations. Drawn from a collection of found recordings unearthed from many years of sifting through car boot sales, second hand shops and flea markets, this compilation allows us a brief glimpse into the everyday lives of other people. These discarded recordings, rescued from the sea of cultural flotsam & jetsam are windows on another world, inadvertently captured for posterity on magnetic tape. Visit www.meagreresource.com for more information. First broadcast 10 May 2013.

3:30am - 4:00am

The Diaries Of Xentos Fray Bentos

[Repeated from Tuesday 10pm.] The Diaries cover a period from shortly before Xentos’ acquisition of human consciousness in 1402 right up to the period shortly after his reincarnation as a futuristic Yoplait manufacturing complex in 2757. We are delighted to bring these illuminated writings to the airwaves for the very first time. Episode two features Carola Stewart in 'Flaming Flag', a timely exposé of the American flappy contraption. Also appearing, Lisa McGuire in 'I Wonder How That One Will Fly' and master drummer Richard Dudanski in 'Club Sandwich'. Your MC is Emma Songeur with appellations and affidavits from Megan Robinson, saxophonist John Glyn and Japanese sound-artist Haco. For more information visit Instagram @TheDiariesofXentosFrayBentos.

4:00am - 5:00am

The Outerglobe

[Repeated from Thursday 6.30pm.] Debbie Golt takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point. This week: Debbie talks with the wonderful and determined Stella Chiweshe who continues to break new ground at 74. Her original label, Piranha, are re-issuing 'Ambuya!' 33 1/3 years after its international breakthrough, and Ambuya Stella Chiweshe is crowdfunding for The Chivanhu Centre, her heritage legacy project. Visit outerglobe.co.uk for more information. Tweet to @outerglobe.

5:00am - 6:00am

Wavelength

[Repeated from Friday 2.30pm.] A programme of multiple agendas presented by William English. Today: To Be or Not to Be. A Christmas offering with 78rpm recording of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier played at 33rpm plus Meeuw Muzak singles by Tom Recchion amongst others; Kenneth Williams reads In The Workhouse - Christmas Day, Let Us Hang the Holly by Anna Russell, Early Frost by Leslie Norris (from Poets of Wales), Christmas Child by the full company of Irma La Douce, The Gospel According to Clyde by Bill Comeau and Carmel Signa, and Universal Solar Calendar by Angus Maclise. First broadcast 15 December 2017.

6:00am - 7:00am

Radio Ecoshock

[Repeated from Friday 9am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: Climate Collapse and The Plastic Plague - scientists ready to talk about collapse. Professor Will Steffen speaks for hundreds of scientists and experts with a warning: global warming may drive societies to collapse. Carroll Muffett from the Center for International Environmental Law explains plastics and climate change. Big oil and gas plan to flood the world with plastic, and heat the world past the brink. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.

7:00am - 8:00am

Nostalgie Ya Mboka

[Repeated from Saturday 1.30pm.] Mundele Mafuta presents classic dance music of the two Congos.

8:00am - 9:00am

A World In London

[Repeated from Wednesday 6.30pm.] DJ Ritu presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London. This week: great music from Sergio Mendes, Stevie Wonder, Luedji Luna, Tigerstyle, Rick Wakeman, and Trio Da Kali.

9:00am - 10:00am

Novara FM

[Repeated from Friday 1pm.] A weekly show dedicated to political theory and current affairs hosted by James Butler. Today: James is joined by Aaron Benanav, author of Automation and the Future of Work, to discuss what the automation theorists have got wrong, and what kind of world human beings might usher in instead. Find Novara on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. E-mail info@novaramedia.com. All previous shows are available at novaramedia.com. More Novara FM on Wednesday and Thursday at 9am.

10:00am - 11:00am

More Womxn

[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] Katie Callin and Hannah Hogan present left-field, experimental and alternative music exclusively by women, the third Friday of each month. Tweet to @morewomxn.

11:00am - 11:30am

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. Today: Show 803: Crown (from Radio Papesse and Usmaradio). For thirty days, every day, artists from all over the world came together for a live improvised session of radio, music, words and sound experiments together with Roberto Paci Dalò. To play together from different locations, yet united through radio. To listen together, from different locations, thanks to the medium of radio. This show presents bits and pieces from some of the sessions, sewn together by fragments of a long conversation with Roberto. Visit radia.fm for more information.

11:30am - 12:00pm

Southwark COVID - A Housing Response

[Repeated from Friday 5pm.] Up-to-date information for Southwark residents regarding Covid-19. This week: join Figs in Wigs (who spent many years in the Rye Hill Estate) for a special seasonal quiz! Have your pen and paper ready as we join 3 figs - Alice, Rachel and Rachel for a half hour of fun. Produced by Southwark Group of Tenant Organisations (SGTO) with and on behalf of the Southwark Tenants Movement. Get involved and get in touch at info@sgto.co.uk or telephone 0207 639 6718.

12:00pm - 1:00pm

The Traditional Music Hour

[Repeated from Thursday 2pm.] 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. This week: Kevin looks through the Alan Lomax Archives at festive traditions around the world.

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Judy Dyble RIP

Today, to mark her death earlier this year Judy Dyble, singer-songwriter and founding member of Fairport Convention, in conversation with Jude Cowan Montague in an episode of The News Agents from 3 February 2018. RIP.

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Smashing Records

[Repeated from Thursday 4pm.] Abs Tripp from DASL (Disability Advice Service Lambeth) discusses how music fires people up to jump higher, ride further and shout louder. Today: following DASL's AGM, we chat to members Lauren, Owais, Richard, Steven and Isabelle to discuss how the major events of 2020, including the Covid crisis and the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, will change their approach going into 2021. Music includes tracks by Earth, Wind and Fire. Contact abs.tripp@disabilitylambeth.org.uk.

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Art Then And Now

[Repeated from Thursday 3.30pm.] A discussion of art from the past and the present with Anna Gammans. This week: Brush and Bubbles. Anna speaks to founders of Brush and Bubbles, Tiffany and Lara about starting a creative business, their new at-home art kits, and the ways they’ve been keeping everyone creative during Covid-19. To get in touch visit Instagram @annagammansart or Facebook theartthenandnowshow.

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Sir Alan Parker RIP

Sir Alan Parker died on 31 July 2020. In this edition of "Henry Scott-Irvine Presents" from 8 October 2013, Henry talks to the illustrious film maker about his career, including 19 BAFTA awards, 10 Golden Globes and 10 Oscars as well as the CBE for his services to the British film industry. A founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain, he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in February 2013, the highest honour the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker. He was Chairman of both The BFI and The Film Council. And he made 14 international feature films.

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Justin Townes Earle Rip

An episode of "Sitting with Gianluca," first broadcast on 27 January 2011, aired again now by way of modest tribute to songwriter Justin Townes Earle who died earlier this year. Eight years ago Justin and Gianluca Tramontana lived on the same street. Here Justin drops into Gianluca’s apartment for a candid on-the-record conversation, soon after coming out of rehab.

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Radio Sketches

Definitive 21st century radio-artworks by the Resonance Radio Orchestra. Today, a classic of its kind: Fifth Sketch for Ascent and Descent, featuring Willie Carr. Recorded live at HearsayFestival, Kilfinane, Ireland, 2014. [Repeats Tuesday 3.30am.]

5:30pm - 6:30pm

Drivetime Underground

A short series from early 2016 featuring experimental music and performance, but devised, produced, curated and presented by Neil Luck in the style of a commercial radio 'magazine style' show. Drivetime Underground is where artistic and commercial concerns can collide - a dissonant combination of the highbrow and the lowbrow, the esoteric and the exoteric. Next episode at 5.30pm tommorrow.

6:30pm - 7:00pm

New Works For Radio

New (and old, even classic) decidedly medium-specific pieces and radiophonic experiments. Today: solo guitar improvisation by Tom Besley to mark Resonance FM's 18th birthday; Sam Robinson's exquisite corpse piece, The Joy of 18, also from last May's celebration; and then Jadé Fadojutimi's Imagination (realised as part of STUDIOAUDIO, curated by AICA-UK and PEER and supported by Art Fund).

7:00pm - 8:00pm

In Memoriam Kassia Flux

Amanda Wilson, aka Kassia Flux, died earlier this year. By way of modest tribute to her, we're repeating this edition of framework: afield from March 2018, using recordings she made in Italy in 2017. Presented by Patrick Tubin McGinley.

8:00pm - 10:00pm

The Hello Goodbye Show

[Repeated from Sunday 3pm.] One Minute Wonders 2020: The Director's Cut. Listeners have submitted sound-files of no longer than 1 minute in total duration of their own music, poetry, sound-art, and found-sound. First broadcast in two parts on 30 May 2020 and 6 June 2020. Contributors: Toxic Chicken, Butsenzeller, Syren, Sophie Pathan, Kevin Burrows, Alex Botten, Helen McCookerybook, Tristan Burfield, Jake Burgess, Emma Roper-Evans, Mark Saberton, Chips For The Poor & Suprmeme Vagabond Craftsman, James A. Smith, Bettina Schroeder, Probably Robert, Marilyn George, Y’Mum, Lumpen Nobleman, The Silver Tears, Shadows of Stephen, Niki Matita, Cowboy Flying Saucer, Caroline Mawer, Moon Drive 71, Discount Gnostic, Sad Man, Leonheart, Simon Kunath, Azalia Snail, Montague Armstrong, Chris Tanzi, Kelly The, Jay Nemor, Dan West, Habbit, The Hello GoodBand, Gharana, Eki Shola, Charlie Darling, Daniel B. Truen, All Open Electrics, Dendy Tech Support, Albaluna, Madame So, David G.A. Stephenson and Mike Gosling, Wonder Boy Preacher, Joshua Bluegreen Cripps, Notious, Dirty Viv, Trappist Afterland, Jessica Irvine, Stanley Bad, UNIT, Laura Budzeleks, Hank Osasuna, Rosita Piritore, Lester Square, Ray Kosmiche, Simon Bromide, The Slate Pipe Banjo Draggers, Sally Child, Studio Clown Knowm Workshop, Lucinda Sieger, Dara Yara, Lenkadu, Caroline Trettine, Lou Witham, Debra Watson, Eugene Coyne, Pandoras Diary, Mish Rah, The Old Matkins, Liz Bentley, Gagarin, Tigersonic, Manu Louis, Gerry Mitchell, Keshco, Drunk Generation, Xqui, Susanna Ferrar, Sairie, Birikiti Pegram, Dee Byrne, Our Carbone, Maryam Hashemi, Ellen Southern, Marion Michell, Francesca Ter-Berg, Rich Nuvo, Lee Berwick, Ellis Berwick, DeLila Black, Joe Wilkes, Alice Karveli, Cockney Street Triage Team Band, Sons Of Mu, Ean Ravenscroft, The Unkown Composer, Fragile Star, Martin Lau, Louise O’Connor, Lana Furchick, James Alec Hardy, Ric Clark, Barnsley Townes Van Coking Plant, Gardyloo Spew, James Alec Hardy, Joss Cope, Flame Proof Moth, and Art Terry. Visit hellogoodbyeshow.com for more information.

10:00pm - 11:00pm

Tim Smith RIP

Marina Organ presents an edition of The Other Rock Show first broadcast 8 July 2018 - a birthday celebration for Cardiacs founder Tim Smith, who died earlier this year. Featuring music from Koenji Hyakkei, Make A Rising, Lapsus Linguae, Henry Cow, Sir Millard Mulch, Cheer Accident, 180Gs, Nick Prol and the Proletarians and Thumpermonkey.

11:00pm - 12:00am

Ho Ho Hoenn Sound Christmas Special 2020

An all-new slowed down Christmas special by SJ Wilson. From pounding, pulsating techno jams to slow, chuggy, mesmerising soundscapes! [Repeats Friday 12.30am.]

12:00am - 1:00am

Drones Of Hell

[Repeated from Sunday 10pm.] Special Christmas edition! 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.