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1:30am - 3:00am
3:00am - 5:00am
The Dangerous Supplement
Ed Baxter presents a fascinating selection of recordings from the archives of London Musicians’ Collective - mostly live performances from the 1990s and early 2000s - the "golden era" of experimental music.
5:00am - 7:00am
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
[Repeated from Saturday 2pm.] Second of two 2-hour "seasonal specials" by Ben Watson of Late Lunch with Out To Lunch. This one includes an elaborate 19m radio-version by Graham Davis of Frank Zappa's The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, originally made for the Virtual (i.e. lockdown) Zappanale of 2021, with animated visuals by Eleanor Crook. The extended time also provides the opportunity for some underplayed "Third Stream" compositions by Hall Overton, Frank Zappa and Simon H. Fell, plus "Matterhorn Unsquished" by Xammas with electric bass by Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE), "The Horny Ornithologist" by Ammas recorded live at the Betsey Trotwood with guest Mike Fox (London Zappa Collective) on electric guitar, plus songs by Lord Brynner and the Sex Pistols.
7:00am - 9:00am
A Reason To Wake Up
Daniel Kitson's new, live breakfast show. Each week day in January.
9:00am - 10:00am
The Coast Is Queer
The Coast is Queer. Ahead of 2022's The Coast is Queer Festival in Brighton (7-9 October 2022), writer Sophia Blackwell speaks to novelist Beatrice Hitchman and poets Fran Lock, Maria Jastrzebska and Livia Kojo Alour. Music by Joshua Idehen and Alexandra Shrinivas. First broadcast 4 October 2022.
10:00am - 11:00am
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
Mundele Mafuta presents classic dance music of the two Congos, in a selection of show presented each day as part of our holiday schedule.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Future Classical
Benjamin Tassie speaks with contemporary composers about their music and the music that inspires them in selected holiday repeats from this year's series. Benjamin speaks with four of the composers featured in this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Irish composer and harp player Úna Monaghan, Navajo composer and winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize Raven Chacon, English composer Naomi Pinnock, and Ukrainian composer Illia Razumeiko.
12:00pm - 4:15pm
Body Edit Mind
Part 3 of a 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes about editing and the mind, created by Milo Thesiger-Meacham. An unnamed narrator moves house and pieces together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and media from across the globe. "Body Edit Mind" features 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 individual videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing. The project is currently becoming a film. Follow @fox_neame on Instagram for daily videos. Commissioned by Radio Art Zone, a temporary radio art station by Radio ARA and Mobile Radio for the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022. Part 4 tomorrow at noon.
4:15pm - 4:30pm
Taught In Time
As part of the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret’s Bicentenary celebrations, we present a new audio drama: “Taught in Time”. Written and performed by Tyrese Campbell, Alaadin Grwan, Rafe Hodge, Jenni Hunt, Phillip Mills, and Aziza Rozmetova. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. With thanks to Victoria Spooner, Jon Fell, Leigh Wilson, and Southwark College.
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Archaeology Of The Ear
Season 2. Presented by musician and composer Chris Cundy and featuring poet Adam Horovitz who look at ancient objects on display at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. Today: A Land Between Two Rivers. In this episode we talk to museum director Katharine Walker about a Lower Paleolithic handaxe, and archaeologist Timothy Darvill shows us a Neolithic arc pendant. Botanist Mike Ward ventures back into the landscape where these objects were found, and we meet up with Boss Morris, an all female Morris dancing side. 1/5. For more information visit coriniummuseum.org/discover/archaeology-of-the-ear/. First broadcast 15 November 2022.
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Haunted Network Research Initiative
Haunted Network Research Initiative researcher and junior librarian Dameron Codds explores ancient folk traditions, cybernetic magic rituals, and interdimensional wormhole adjacent music from the institution’s archive in an attempt to find out what happened to the missing (possibly presumed dead) composer Cameron Dodds. Today: Episode 3 - SMITH FAMILY HOLIDAY SUMMER ’76 RENDLESHAM FOREST.mp4. Dameron Codds blindfolds himself, spins round a number of times, and picks a VHS at random from the archive. First broadcast 26 July 2022. Visit www.hnri.xyz.
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Outerglobe
Debbie Golt FRSA takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point in selected holiday repeats from the 2022 series. Visit outerglobe.co.uk for more information. Tweet to @outerglobe.
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Synaptic Island
A collective of DJs and artists explores a selected theme through music and conversation in selected holiday repeats from this year's series. Listen to archived shows on Mixcloud. For more information visit Synaptic Island on Twitter and Instagram.
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sounding Sites
Sounding Sites: Registos Bantu - on Radio. An audio segment composed by artist Henrique J. Paris, extending from his research project ‘Registos Bantu’, which reflects on the Bantu thought and sonority. The project highlights discourses and sonic works by a range of knowledge producers, including DJ Danifox, Tristany, Oseias, Raquel Lima and several others, whose cultural/critical crafts shift and shape Lisbon’s quotidian and dance-floor languages. The audio segment was produced as part of FAMILY LINES; a multi-platform project by artist Alice Rekab in collaboration with Éireann and I: A community archive for Black migrants in Ireland. Sounding Sites is a series of hour-long podcasts presented by Cypher BILLBOARD and collaborators. This audio segment corresponds with billboard artworks by Henrique J. Paris, displayed across London and Dublin throughout Autumn 2022; delivered in partnership with Cypher BILLBOARD and Douglas Hyde Gallery. First broadcast 6 December 2022.
9:00pm - 9:30pm
Dingus
An extraordinary series by artist Mike Cooter. Episode 3: The Half-Seen Shadow. Dingus heads to the County Library to do some sleuthing the old-fashioned way. The situation in Peru becomes more clear. “Experience told him that meeting mysterious women in secluded mob-owned bars of their own choosing was always a sour idea...” Dingus looks death in the face, and from its pocket takes a clue. Starring Mitchell Mullen as John Dingus, Christy Meyer as Veronica Marden, Colin Stinton as Lieutenant Johanssen, Cory Peterson as Finnegan. Narrators: Alexandra Metaxa and John Christian Bateman. Composer: Jobina Tinnemans. Written, directed and produced by Mike Cooter. Editor and assistant producer: Jim Whelton. Commissioned by Resonance FM. Supported by Jerwood Arts, The Elephant Trust and The Henry Moore Foundation. First broadcast 8 November 2022. Visit www.radiodingus.com for full details. Part 4 same time tomorrow.
9:30pm - 10:00pm
Radio Folk Tales
Dramatic monologues for radio written and sound designed by Ed Baxter.
10:00pm - 10:30pm
The Diaries Of Xentos Fray Bentos
The Diaries covers a golden era starting shortly before Xentos arrival on earth via a medieval Sputnik in 1402 and continues right up until the point of his ascension into the firmament in 2757. Episode three features the amazing Emma Songeur in 'The C Word' and straight from Terminal Dock, Larry Cravat in 'Punchy Drummer'. Meanwhile, sax maestro John Glyn returns with another tasty fruit stall entitled 'The Lamentable Lemon'. Your MC is Megan Robinson with interludes by Japanese sound artist Haco. First broadcast 22 December 2020.
10:30pm - 12:00am
Bad Punk
Hosted by Johny Brown and Band Of Holy Joy. For more information visit johny.co.uk, contact badpunkradio@gmail.com.
12:00am - 1:00am
Turtle Island
New series! New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. He plays a wide range of genres, expect to hear many styles and categories, from jazz to rock to techno and everything in between. This episode: Mia Sable, Mattmac & Dakota Bear & Okema, Andrea Menard, Nucky Jmc, Universal Honey, Falynn Baptiste, Tarrak & Peand-el, Condemn The World, Cliff Cardinal & The Sky-Larks, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Aysanabee & DJ Shub, 1876, Charlie Parker, Elexa Dawson, and DJ Javier Estrada. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Sunday 9am.]