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12:00am - 1:00am
Is Black Music
The world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. For more information visit isblackmusic.com. Tonight we will listen to tracks by UK artists that reflect their feelings about racism in the UK. The playlist includes Benjamin Zephaniah, John Vigo, and Al Campbell. First broadcast 1 July 2020.
1:00am - 1:30am
Weird Tales For Winter
Eight part seasonal series of shudder-inducing horror stories, produced by Johnny Mugwump. More same time tomorrow.
1:30am - 2:30am
Me & My Rhythm Box
Me & My Rhythm Box by Felix Kubin. Guests from the fields of music, art science, and instrument-making are invited to explain (live) their relationships to their own instrument through sample sounds, brief concerts, and conversations. Realised as part of 2017's documenta 14 radio project.
2:30am - 3:30am
Radio Is A Foreign Country
Kenneth Routon's radio programme featuring the raw sounds of obscure international folk and pop music. Visit facebook.com/radioisaforeigncountry for more information.
3:30am - 4:00am
Our Journey
[Repeated from Monday 5pm.] A six part series which celebrates and explores the significance of the first Black led civil rights campaign in the UK, the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963. Produced and presented by Miranda Rae. A Sound Women South West Network production supported by the Audio Content Fund. Next episode same time tomorrow.
4:00am - 5:00am
How To Write A Song
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] Host James Hodder explores how to write a song. Today: No Rhyme or Reason. 2/5.
5:00am - 6:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Saturday 7pm.] The :zoviet * france: radio show. This week's edition - Terra nullius - features a track from Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist's new album, 'Still', released by Glacial Movements and recordings by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band, François Bayle, Denes Dobai, Sevenism, Detritus Tabu, Emerge, Chester Beachell, and DR.
6:00am - 7:00am
The London Ear
[Repeated from Thursday Noon.] Ghostwriter and critic Ben Thompson presents a DFS Algonquin Table for the post-thought era. This week: the central panel of our festive triptych goes back to the days when Russell Brand still evinced an interest in comedy for a loving caress of his formative inspirations, from Dudley Moore to the East End musical hall. For further information visit @btfoshizzle on Twitter and find playlists at Ben Thompson's Facebook page.
7:00am - 8:00am
Clear Spot
First broadcast 26 August 2020. ‘I am the son you wanted, only queered. The turnip hits a rock in the soil and forks beautifully’. "Woman Peeling Turnips; A Portrait of my Father" is a collboration by poet Richard Scott and artist Anat Ben-David - a commission by Southwark Park Galleries where Richard was in residence. This eighteen-part poetic essay was written specifically for broadcast and forms a poetic investigation into ekphrasis, father-figures and the violence of creation, using Chardin’s 1738 genre scene painting ‘Woman Peeling Turnips’ as a starting point. Supported by the Southwark Mayflower 400 Grants Fund from Southwark Council, British Land and United St Saviours. Cellist: Alice Dixon. Produced by Michael Umney. [Repeats Thursday 3pm.]
8:00am - 8:30am
Vegetarianism The Story So Far
A fifteen part radio history of vegetarianism by Ian McDonald, who starts right at the beginning and tracks the story of the ideas that inspired vegetarians around the world up to the present day. Today: Episode 9. Renaissance – venturing to Paris as its thinkers rediscover the vegetarianism of antiquity, and recoil in horror from Descartes’ denial of animal feelings. For more information visit: theveganoption.org.
8:30am - 9:00am
Art Of Change
Curators Florence Devereux and Clementine Butler-Gallie explore how art practice can offer new perspectives on facing the unknown. Today: as Lockdown is being tentatively eased at different paces around the world, we begin to dare to think about the future and questions of rebuilding society arise. Art of Change interviews artist Winnie Herbstein. Through an exploration of two works, we touch on issues of community activism and how to organise groups. Winnie works with archival material and personal experience in these fields to explore how we can build on the lessons of the past, while keeping the discourse and practice of community organisation alive. We hear from the artist along with sound from the video works 'Minutes' (2019) and 'Studwork' (2018). Text in 'Studwork' is voiced by musician Cass Ezeji with a recording of Phoebe Ali. Visit www.artofchangeradio.org.
9:00am - 10:00am
Ode To An Object
A poetic exploration of everyday objects, listening out for the unsung, untold story. Phoebe McIndoe and Emily Naylor explore these objects through a mixture of found-sound, soundscaping, poetry, and narrative. Today: episode #2 explores clocks. We look at our perception of time and the history of clocks, delve into poems and films which feature them and learn about our biological clock. Featuring James Nye (Chair of the Antiquarian Horological Society), Sasha Eremina (Biologist), Yan Li, Hailey Choi, Billy Kay, Angharad Wells, Finn Paul, James Naylor, Sasha Eremina, Bex Hindmarsh, Michael Chidgey, Rhiannon Barker, Roger Wood, Rosa Lewis, Saif Beejay and Tiff Ip. Follow us on Mixcloud or email odetoanobject@gmail.com. [Repeats Thursday 9.30pm.]
10:00am - 10:15am
Connections
[Repeated from Wednesday 7.45pm.] Five 15-minute dramas by new writers with disabilities, performed by a mainly disabled cast, about making choices to make connections. Produced by Naked Productions with input from Graeae Theatre and financial support from Audio Content Fund. Today: To the Stars by Leanne Allen. A young woman reaches out to her estranged mother, and inadvertently connects with a lonely stranger. Tina: Liz Carr. Cassie: Nadia Albina. Directed by Polly Thomas. Sound engineer: Louis Blatherwick. Sound design: Eloise Whitmore.
10:15am - 11:00am
Radiaphiles
A major retrospective of the work of the radio art network Radia, whose collective mission is to make radio that transcends the borders and boundaries of land and language. Mobile Radio visits each station in turn to discern their motives and inspirations, and explore the work of one of their associated artists. Commissioned for documenta 14.
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 816: Sounds Queer? Vienna-base collective Sounds Queer? was founded in 2014 by Zosia Hołubowska as a flying queer synthesizer laboratory and is now – with Adele Knall and Violeta Gil Martínez – a vital collective working on the intersection of electronic music, sound art and queer activism. Their approach was a unique one in Vienna that has been the spot for feminist networks and labels for many years such as female pressure, unrecords label, temp-records. This show features music productions of the collective's members. Visit radia.fm for more information.
11:30am - 12:00pm
The Bike Show
This Christmas holiday we dip into the archives of The Bike Show, Jack Thurston's definitive and era-defining broadcast and podcast series which does exactly what you'd expect from the title. This selection of the show's timeless Rolling Interviews ranges from the streets right outside the Resonance studio to the avenues of New York and beyond, each with a different and fascinating cycling guest. Today it's the Dunwich Dynamo 2008, London Fields to Dunwich, overnight. Broadcast on 21 July 2008.
12:00pm - 2:00pm
The OST Show
A series dedicated to Ennio Morricone, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, who died in 2020. Featuring beautiful lesser-known works and excursions, presented by The OST Show's Jonny Trunk. Visit www.trunkrecords.com for more information. Email jonny@trunkrecords.com. 5/6.
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Clear Spot
First broadcast 28 July 2020. A selection of outstanding projects by graduating sound artists from London College of Communication, University of Arts London. Featuring works by Kyrin Chen, Faith Oluwadaisi, Ciara Drew, Esther Gayle and Doran Edwards, the cohort explore sonic creation in diverse approaches, including field recording, experimental music, storytelling and multi-media exquisite corpse. Presented and edited by Doran Edwards. Produced by Ciara Drew and Kyrin Chen. Visit https://graduateshowcase.arts.ac.uk/home for more information. [Repeats Sunday 4am.]
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Clear Spot
First broadcast 14 July 2020. South Bank Sound Lab. Listen to music and interviews from London South Bank University’s Music and Sound Design students. There’s some industrial techno, grime, a Shakespearian soundwalk and music made using a video game engine. Presented by Adam Parkinson (aka Dane Law), experimental musician and Senior Lecturer in Sound Design at LSBU. Visit https://www.facebook.com/southbanksoundlab/ or email adam.parkinson@lsbu.ac.uk for more information. [Repeats Sunday 7am.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Blood Culture
Another chance to hear Resonance's iTunes chart topping high-octane, award-winning drama serial, produced by Lance Dann. A'isha (Chetna Pandya) is just about holding down her job at tech giant Meta, until her old friend Livi (Bryony Afferson) appears in a rage and denounces their boss Richard Dreyer (Jack Klaff) as a murderer. Then she has to face up to what she has become, the lies that are woven in her past and the terrifying truth of what Meta are doing... Supported by The Wellcome Trust. (2/5.)
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Our Journey
A six part series which celebrates and explores the significance of the first Black led civil rights campaign in the UK, the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963. Produced and presented by Miranda Rae. A Sound Women South West Network production supported by the Audio Content Fund. Next episode same time tomorrow. [Repeats Wednesday 3.30am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
The Adults Of Farthing Wood
Omnibus edition. All five parts of our five minute drama series - a dark nostalgic comedy with heroes and villains written by Alex Sebley. The Yellow Canary must stop the mad Dr Lambeth building an Earth destroying monster... Narrated by Talbot Crisp (episodes 1 and 5) and Alan Jarvis (episodes 2, 3,and 4).
6:00pm - 6:45pm
Christmas Carole
Carole Finer - painter, teacher, musician and Resonance broadcaster - died earlier this year. To celebrate her long and eventful life we're broadcasting selected episodes of her long-running and wide-ranging "Sound Out" series this holiday, reflecting in particular her enthusiasm for the English modernist avant-garde, bluegrass and field recording. Today, from 22 May 2018, guests Sarah Walker (pianist and Radio 3 programme presenter) and Hugh Shrapnel (composer, musician and Scratch Orchestra member) are in conversation with Carole and play a carefully selected set of piano duets.
6:45pm - 7:00pm
Prison Bag
When Josie Bevan’s husband was jailed for nine years, a window opened on to a whole new world. This is Prison Bag. Episode 9 of 12 (contains material which some listeners may find offensive and deem unsuitable for children.) Written and presented by Josie Bevan. Music: Can, Zimbo Freemind and members of the Bevan family. Producers: Rebecca Lloyd-Evans and Alan Hall. A Falling Tree Production supported by the Audio Content Fund.
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Ireland's Eye New Year Special
[Repeated from Thursday 2pm.] Johnny Jameson presents a New Year's Eve special edition of his weekly show dedicated to the latest from the Irish country music scene plus requests, dedications, news and more. Contact johnnyjameson@hotmail.co.uk.
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Make Your Own Damn Music
The Apathy Band Jam. This week Bob asks Apathy Band members about their preparations for the end of the year. Esther K. Smith tells us about Chanukah in New York, Calvin Tsai tells about what goes in in Taiwan at this time of year, Rebecca and Colin free style us with the Blues, and Dikko excels on his trombone. It's the party you missed out on. Enjoy! (Delayed from last week due to a technical error. Apologies.) [Repeats Sunday 9am.]
10:00pm - 10:30pm
The Diaries Of Xentos Fray Bentos
Started shortly before his birth in 1402, The Diaries of Xentos Fray Bentos cover a period right up to the moment of Xentos' death on 21 September 2757 (aka 'The Cusp'). In that time, Xentos has witnessed bumper harvests, bumper cars, bumps going bump in the night and countless global holocausts. Resonance FM is delighted to bring these illuminated writings to radio for the very first time. Tonight: episode five features Natasha Killam in ‘Estate’ while Lauren Regan, Monika Herberova and Barry Pushkas appear in ‘The Blood On Jesus’ Shoe’. John Glyn’s Fruit Stall returns with ‘The Creepy Crabapple’. Your MC is Megan Robinson. Interludes from sound artist Haco. For more information visit Instagram @TheDiariesofXentosFrayBentos. [Repeats Monday 3.30am]
10:30pm - 11:30pm
A Grassy Noël
This Christmas holiday we eagerly take the opportunity of broadcasting a retrospective of the radio plays of Noel Macken, who for the last 15 years has quietly but assidiously been developing a unique body of work for the medium. Tonight: We Are Plastic People by Grassy Noel & APE. Featuring Grassy Noel - poetry and vocalizations; Mike Walter - saxophone, percussion and chaos device; Paul Shearsmith - pocket trumpet, fire extinguishers, trombone; Graham Mackeachan - double bass and found objects; Keisuke Matsui - electric guitar, saw, electrified found objects.
11:30pm - 11:45pm
The Inspector Wall Adventures
Grimly humorous lopsided crime fiction, written by Dave Milton, read by Tam Dean Burn and produced by Larry Cravat. Contains scenes of violence and material some listeners may find offensive. Chapter 2 - Gone Fishing. A celebratory fishing trip takes a turn for the worse, with disastrous results for Sir Rodney.
11:45pm - 12:00am
The Hum
An ominous hum has been heard rolling over the faceless suburbia of Rothstead. Wailing and sweeping like whale-song. The locals are scared and the cats are screaming. Peter Heath is the man tasked with investigating these unsettling acoustic events. Will he find his answer, or get lost in the mist? Radio drama written and read by James O'Neill, with sound design and music by Paul Freeman.
12:00am - 1:00am
Is Black Music
The world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. For more information visit isblackmusic.com. The world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. Tonight: Women Artists Alive and Doing It. Featuring female artists that are currently working as musicians and vocalists. The playlist includes Sophia Jernberg, Rosie Okae, and Stephanie McDee. First broadcast 3 June 2020.