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12:00am - 1:00am
Tunes From Turtle Island
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). Visit facebook.com/turtleislandradio and https://tunesfromturtleisland.eu/ for more information. [Repeats Saturday 12.30am.]
1:00am - 2:30am
Artrocker
[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. To listen to past shows visit Paul's Mixcloud page.
2:30am - 3:30am
Diary Of A Squat
[Repeated from Saturday 9.30pm.] Diary of a Squat by Jean Delarue (1989). An audiobook read by Dorothy Spencer and Carl Cattermole. This first episode introduces life at the autonomous homeless squat in Oval, South London. The occupants show strong shoots of community while churches and charities attempt to interfere. 1/5. For free download, photos and more information visit prisonism.co.uk/#diary.
3:30am - 4:00am
Arty Facts
[Repeated from Sunday 1.30pm.] Arty Facts with Master J is a show about working in the arts. Today: Master J is joined by K-Pop dancer Raymond Sweetman, singer/songwriter James Leon and comedian/YouTuber Guy Flores. They discuss failure. Many people go into the arts with aspirations of becoming well known or making a full time living from it, with only a few succeeding. Topics include: having no 'safety net', how important is talent compared to your work ethic, Victoria Beckham, timing and luck, Martin Freeman, Pete Best, hitting plateaus and losing your focus and drive, starting too late, Paul Daniels, ‘Superfans’, and knowing when to quit. For more information visit Master J on Facebook.
4:00am - 5:00am
From The Road
[Repeated from Tuesday 4pm.] A repeat of our series of music, anecdote and insight from legendary manager, record producer, and author Andrew Loog Oldham.
5:00am - 6:00am
Isotopica
[Repeated from Sunday 7pm.] Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. This week, City of Pirates: durational, attenuated, looping sequence. Isotopica in conversation with the work of filmmaker Roaul Ruiz. Visit theculture.net/ for more information.
6:00am - 7:00am
Modulisme
[Repeated from Friday 11.30pm.] Modulisme (which translates as Modularism) is a series devoted to out of leftfield modular synthesis. This week: Early ElectroMIX 9. The ninth part of a series documenting the history of experimental electronic music from the '50s to the '80s in hope that these pioneers may not be forgotten. Today's selection/mix by Philippe Petit includes Michel Chion, Hugh Le Caine, Thomas Hamilton, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Éliane Radigue, Klaus Hashagen, Mauricio Kagel. For more information visit modulisme.info/sessions.
7:00am - 8:00am
Sitting With Gianluca
[Repeated from Sunday 6pm.] Interviews and informed portraits of contemporary American musicians with our stateside correspondent Gianluca Tramontana.
8:00am - 9:00am
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
[Repeated from Sunday 9pm.] Marina Organ presents an hour of music that uses unconventional structures and 'other' time signatures – gathered from the worldwide undergrounds of math rock, avant prog, weird electronica and strange pop. This episode features music from Van Der Graaf Generator, Çub, Blindfolded And Led To The Woods, Ghost Rhythms, Myzylkypop, Psychoyogi and Usssy. Follow the playlist on Twitter @OtherRockShow. Visit otherrockshow.wordpress.com for more information.
9:00am - 10:00am
The Naked Short Club
[Repeated from Monday 9pm.] Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around alternative investments, markets, the economy and wider world with psychedelic sounds and sometimes poetry. This week's guests: Stephen Pope (University of Maryland); Andrew Milligan (Hayes Milligan/ Devlin Mambo).
10:00am - 11:00am
Literary South
[Repeated from Wednesday 8pm.] A monthly show about literature in translation, presented by Silvia Rothlisberger. Featuring writers and translators from around the world discussing contemporary translated books. In this episode Silvia talks to translator Sophie Hughes about her award winning translations of Fernanda Melchor, Laia Jufresa and Brenda Navarro. This was an online event with an audience during FLAWA Festival 2021. Visit literarysouth.org for more information.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Ireland's Eye
Johnny Jameson presents a weekly show dedicated to the latest from the Irish country music scene plus requests, dedications, news and more. Contact johnnyjameson@hotmail.co.uk. [Repeats Tuesday 8am.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The London Ear
Ghostwriter and critic Ben Thompson presents a DFS Algonquin Table for the post-thought era. This week's show explores the post Summer of Soul Big Band/Funk interface with music from Paul Horn, Charles Earland and the Band of the Black Watch. For further information visit @btfoshizzle on Twitter and find playlists at Ben Thompson's Facebook page. [RepeatsTuesday 7am.]
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Talking Africa
A magazine show covering African development issues hosted by Sonny Decker. This week: detained former Sudan Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok is now released and reinstated as Prime Minister by his military captors. He has also entered into partnership in a new deal with his military captors. Protestors on the street feel betrayed and denounce his actions. See mixcloud.com/talkingafrica for more Talking Africa shows. [Repeats 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. This week's show features classic Scots fiddle playing, Northumbrian pipes and fiddle and some Southern English singers including George 'Pop' Maynard. [Repeats Monday 12pm.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Down the Rabbit Hole
[Repeated from Tuesday 5pm.] A monthly show celebrating the richness of children's books. In this episode, presenters Caroline Carpenter and Charlie Morris discuss children's books that feature separated parents, single parents and blended families, and why these are so important. They are joined by authors Jason Reynolds and Tom Vaughan, who share their thoughts and the inspiration behind their recent books dealing with these topics. Visit https://dtrhradio.com for more information. Tweet @dtrhradio.
3:30pm - 3:50pm
In Our Element
[Repeated from Tuesday 7.30pm.] A poet’s inquiry into climate change presented by Linda France. This week: Episode 8 - Space. Space, an element in Buddhist classification, holds all the other elements together. Linda discusses the space opened up by ecological grief with Larry Butler and Sheila Templeton, editors of the anthology Living Our Dying. With poetry from Sheila and Linda. Music by Joshua Green. Produced by Sonderbug, with New Writing North and Newcastle University and funded by the Audio Content Fund and Arts Council England. 8/10.
3:50pm - 4:00pm
Racial Equity And The City
[Repeated from Tuesday 7.50pm.] An eight part series recorded as part of the research project by Arup, ‘Racial Equity & the City: Experiences of people of colour in London’, looking at the relationship between the built environment and racial equity through the eyes of community members. Each episode is taken from a radio discussion between community members in Newham and Thamesmead, focusing on lived experiences and what action can be taken towards anti-racist city-making. This was made possible by Arup, Decosm and Social Broadcasts. The findings and insights from this research will be shared in a report on arup.com in October.
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Smashing Records
Abs Tripp from DASL (Disability Advice Service Lambeth) discusses how music fires people up to jump higher, ride further and shout louder. This week: Hassan Khan is joined by Mariam Tartusy, a young visually impaired woman who survived a revolution in Syria. Mariam shares the story of how she had to leave her homeland because of the danger her family faced and how they ended up living in Norway via Turkey. She discusses her hardships and also talks about her passions of singing, podcasting and ultimately achieving. Norway is her new home, she is studying psychology at university and working as a travel guide for disabled people. Contact smashing.records@disabilitylambeth.org.uk. Twitter @smashingdasl. [Repeats Monday 2pm.]
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Hooting Yard On The Air
Archival repeats of the indescribable fiction of the late lamented Frank Key of hootingyard.org, for many years writer-in-residence at Resonance FM. [Repeats Friday 4am.]
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Meet Me On The Radio
[Repeated from Tuesday 11.30am.] A series created by Meet Me at the Albany members, artists and collaborators. This week: we explore storytelling, mythology and folklore inspired by the moon and the cosmos. We hear creative responses from the Poetry and Storytelling group and members share their experiences and stories of the moon and the stars from their childhood. Ron and Rosaline chat with children’s writer and storyteller, Chitra Soundar. Listen out for some wonderful South Indian Carnatic sounds selected by Chitra for our musical moment. What stories have you got about the moon? To tell us your tales and experiences, email meetme@thealbany.org.uk. Presented by Ron Savill and Rosaline Muirhead. Produced by Sarah Philips and Robin Warren. A co-production by the Albany and Entelechy Arts.
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull the Plug
Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. This week: And what costume shall the poor girl wear? Anything she likes for today's edition of Pull The Plug, as long as it swings. Featuring Fur, Cheval Sombre, Helado Negro, Polite Society, and Roman Angelos. Plus, the mighty Loop return with their first new album since 1990, and brace yourselves - The Love Explosion is all wired up and set to detonate. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. Visit Pull The Plug on Facebook. [Repeats Saturday 11am.]
6:00pm - 6:15pm
Drift Shift
Found sound and found text collected to form drifts that shift, produced and presented by Franziska Lantz. Today: Muzyka Dla Imigrantów by Bogdan Raczynski, 2001. Visit driftshift.blogspot.com for more information. [Repeats Saturday 11.30am.]
6:15pm - 6:30pm
Into The Moss
A 14 minute drift through original music, soundscapes and liminal yarns. Show archive at soundcloud.com/into-the-moss. Contact intothemossradio@gmail.com. [Repeats Saturday 11.45am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
The Outerglobe
Debbie Golt takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point. This week: Debbie has made a beautiful laid-back and enlivening mix with Malcolm Jyane Treeo's Umdali album, Shingai, Bev Lee Harling, Yuji Toriyama, London Tango Orchestra and Lady Lenka all in there. Visit outerglobe.co.uk for more information. Tweet to @outerglobe. [Repeats Sunday 4pm.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Hot Club du Monde
A Baedeker tour of international musical curiosities from the 78rpm era with Oliver Carter-Wakefield. This week: dramatic German xylophone solos, jug band hokum, Belgian big band jazz, the relentlessly hardworking son of an Ohio mine worker who composed some of the best-known songs of the 1920s and a recording made by a former pupil of Scot Joplin five months before the Original Dixieland Jass Band’s famous February 1917 session which may well be the first example of jazz on record. [Repeats Friday 2pm.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
One off, irregular and sometimes surprise broadcasts. [Repeated Friday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:30pm
Adventures in Sound and Music
New music with The Wire magazine. This week: join Shane Woolman for a special guest mix from NY dub collective Subatomic Sound System as well as tracks by Ghédalia Tazartès, Juan Belda, C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7, and Burka. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information. [Repeats Sunday 1am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
SHAPE
New music monthly from the SHAPE Platform. This month: we hear the live set of Vienna-based sound artist Gischt from this year's Skanu Mežs festival. The solo project of Ursula Winterauer draws its inspiration from the disparate sounds of metal, techno and ambient music. SHAPE is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. [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. This week: new releases from Becky On The Beat, Big E.D, Dullah Beats, Earthspin Recordings, Chameleon Audio, fresh dubs from Spooky Bizzle, Fench, Spectro and grime classics from DJ Eastwood, Maniac and J Sweet. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Twitter: @djbpm. [Repeats Sunday 12am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Club Integral Radio Show
[Repeated from Wednesday 9.30pm.] The Earl of Killorglin and Andrew Scott-Bolton of Club Integral - London's long-running "home to the uncategorisable" - explore the music that informs its long running concert series in London.