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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. Tonight: a Nigerian folk-rock music special. We explore the works of musicians in Nigeria that crossed the invisible boundary that separates African and European music by performing folk inspired rock music in the 1970s. The playlist includes Ofege, Question Mark, Warhead Constriction and Wrinkar Experience. For more information visit isblackmusic.com. [Repeats Saturday 11pm.]
1:00am - 2:30am
The Sound Projector Radio Show
[Repeated from Friday 5.30pm.] A showcase for records of contemporary experimental and underground music, hosted by Ed Pinsent. Tonight: new records received in January 2023. Names in the frame are Ed Williams, Sunday Sextet, Gintas K and Michelle O'Rourke, Kawashima - Mochizuki - Henritzi, Lull, Florian Wittenburg, James M. Creed, Jarl, Luca Giuoco, Lugola, and the Lina Allemano Four. A mixture of jazz, composition, dark ambient drone, industrial noise, minimalism, free improvisation, and more. Visit thesoundprojector.com/radio-show/ for more information.
2:30am - 8:00am
Day For Night
A selection of recent highlights, archival surprises, programmes that deserve a repeat and those that slipped through the net, taking you through from the wee hours to breakfast. With occasional forays into the Resonance Extra programme of new music and sound art - and further afield.
8:00am - 9:00am
Synaptic Island
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] A collective of DJs and artists explores a selected theme each week through music and conversation. This month's theme is: "Dreamtime" with Sylvia in the mix. Listen to archived shows on Mixcloud. For more information visit Synaptic Island on Twitter and Instagram.
9:00am - 10:00am
Code Lives!
[Repeated from Monday 2pm].Creative and live coding, handmade machine art and pattern-making with Jude Montague. For more information see codelives.blogspot.com.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Tuesday 8pm.] New works for radio realised by BA1 sound artists from London College of Communication, comprising "Tales of Time" made by Charlie Atkins, George Coggan, Zaron Lane and Ben Shiels; "What is Sound Art?" by Sun Sun, Wendi Shen, Ruby Tainton and Vit Trojanovski; "Cicada" by Evaneh Bennett, Louie Bourne, Tata Cheng, Miles Lukoszevieze, Daniel Marin-Morejon, Kiana Selusenkova and Lucas Yoshimura Wood; "Unheard Screams" by Robert Burton, Saia Dugan, Mario Edwards-Roberts, Robin Goodfellow, Amani Okundi, Gabriel Paz and Jay Smith-Wratten; and "Worship" by Declan Agrippa and Saffron Hassan.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Intoxica Radio Hour
Presented by Nick Brown and the Intoxica Records Radio Hour Choir, direct descendants of the Intoxica Records Shop. The show is dedicated to the dignity of vinyl, spotlighting Content Themes, specific artists' careers and generally playing the gloriously unheralded beat, soul and honkers of the 20th Century, all rendered on little slabs of black plastic. This week: music from the wired and wonderful world of Tawney Reed, Zenobia Bonner and The Wrongh Black Bag. For further information and general waffle, contact intoxica@intoxica.co.uk. [Repeats Sunday 10pm.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Farside Radio
Music from the catalogues of Far Side Music, the world's primary source for East Asian sounds, presented by Paul Fisher. This week: tracks from a new album called Kenang Kenangan that compiles old Indonesian 78s from the 1950s, mixing Indonesian sounds with pop, jazz and Latin music. Visit farsidemusic.com for more information. [Repeats Saturday 5.30pm.]
1:00pm - 1:30pm
New Works For Radio
[Repeated from Monday 11.30am.] Medium-specific artworks. Today: "First Sketch for Larry Shipping (The DCI)" by Ed Baxter, featuring Willie Carr.
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Gate Kicks
Introduced by DJ Ritchie Rich, multi-instrumentalist Duane aka Mr Amazing, and singer Labake Anisere, and produced by people with learning disabilities at the Gate Arts Centre, Gate Kicks covers art, music, dance, film, theatre and offers a hub where this truly underground art scene is exposed to a larger audience. [Repeats Monday 6pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. This week, Ben continues to present music played by Ammas, the Late Lunch house band, at their Friday lunchtime residency at the Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell: Nick Lubran on acoustic guitar, wooden flute and thumb piano; Robert "Sugarlips" Goldsmith on tenor sax, soprano sax and scraper; Emeka Okonkwo on words; Dave Black on acoustic guitar; Esther Leslie on iPad; and Out To Lunch on Yamaha keyboards and acoustic guitar. Halftime single was Grover Washington Jnr's "Knucklehead" (Kudu, 1975) and there are two recent solo pieces by Out To Lunch: "Not Waiting to Die" and "Shrimp Ego Gratification". [Repeats Sunday 6am.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Radia
[Repeated from Thursday 10.30pm.] Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, presents a new show realised by one of its members. This week: Show 966: "If you love me, you can tell me" by Elektro Kultura (for Kanal 103). Elektro Kultura is the solo project by Vladimir Muratovski Divo – a punk and social poet hailing from the streets of Skopje, Macedonia. On Skopje’s Liberation Day (13 November 2022) he had his second, long awaited live performance at Kanal 103 radio. After he finished his repertoire, the packed crowd in the studio wanted for more. He briefly answered: “Real punks don’t do encore”. This is the slightly edited recording of our little off programme afterparty. Visit radia.fm for more information.
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Balling the Jack
[Repeated from Friday 9pm.] Joe Cushley explores 13 Bar Blues and Twisted Roots music from around the globe. From the the 1920s to the present day, from the barrel-house to the arthouse via the bedsit, from Mali to Mississippi to the Mekong via New Malden - every culture has its blues. For more information visit Balling The Jack on Facebook. E-mail ballingthejack1@gmail.com.
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Spizz FM
An on-going audio autobiography from the punk and post-punk legend that is Spizz. Today: the 'card-only' war on cash, last week's adventures on the town, and this week's gig guide. New Band Spots from Jo-Jo & The Teeth, Lucy Dreams, Luke Skywalker, Captain Starlet, Cult Figures, The Good Water. Plus, Delta Unit, Guru Honey Badger and Spizzology. For more information visit the Spizzenergi Facebook page. Tweet to @spizzenergi. [Repeats Saturday 8am.]
5:30pm - 6:30pm
PassWord
A monthly exploration of current affairs and new technology with Peter Warren. Tweet to @PassW0rd_Radio. [Repeats Sunday 11am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
A World In London
DJ Ritu MBE presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London. [Repeats Saturday 3.30pm.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
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 model Sara Pereiro to discuss, at length, modelling scams. Other topics include: working London Fashion week, the secrets to 'cat walking', falling off the catwalk, how to sneeze, and the time it rained during an outdoor show. They discuss Sara's photographic work, cover various insider secrets, how she was discovered, and how Sara has been working with a music producer on her first single, which is dropping in a few weeks. For more information visit Master J on Facebook.
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Transmitter
Do you find yourself stuck in the same channels? Transmitter is here to cut through the noise, hosted by Lucia Scazzocchio from sonic storytelling portal xmtr.fm. This edition is dedicated to the joyful chaos that is Angel Edmonton in Enfield, North London. Once an industrial hub attracting factory workers and their families, the area has been neglected for decades as factories gave way to warehouses and social housing fell into decay. Today it's a multicultural crossroads undergoing massive redevelopment. Echoes of Angels produced by Social Broadcasts takes us on a trip down the main artery, Fore Street, guided by local residents and business owners. Next we join Enfield People’s Theatre with local producer Soveks Lo behind the scenes of their latest production Bread and Roses - a community play recounting the 1915 Edmonton Rent Strike and the community action (led and won by local women) drawing parallels with the current housing crises. [Repeats Thursday 10am.]
9:00pm - 9:30pm
K-Pop Journey
A weekly show dedicated to the phenomenon that is K-pop! Korean presenter Keissi takes you on a journey through Korean pop music from the 1990s to the present day. For more information visit K-Pop Journey on Facebook. For archive shows visit keissi.com/radioarchive. [Repeats Sunday 4.30am.]
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Club Integral Radio Show
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. [Repeats Friday 12am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Rockfort
[Repeated from Tuesday 7.30pm.] David McKenna presents the best in underground and out of left-field French music. This week: including Aho Ssan, Fantastic Twins, Bianca Warlord, Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi and Irko & Amne.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Fog Cast
A series of late night deep listening soundtracks presented by Robin The Fog. Tonight: a sublime mix of longform acousmatic music old and new, as we feature extracts from Mark Vernon's 'A World Beyond This World' (Persistence of Sound, 2008), Anla Courtis' 'Unstringed Guitar & Cymbals' (Blossoming Noise, 2008), Kuniharu Akiyama's 'Arcana 19' (produced in 1960 and issued on Edition Omega Point, 2006) and Rebecca Saunder's 'Skin' (NMC, 2022). Come drift into the night... Further details at: robinthefog.com. [Repeats Sunday 2.30am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Tunes From Turtle Island
New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. This week: music from Troy Kokol, Sake Red, Thea May & Troy Junker, Tyler Ogimaa & Nucky Jmc, Tom Wilson, Northern Knowledge & Dave Jamal, Darksiderz & Kamikaze, Red Poets Society & Twin City Tone & Tall Paul, Rollah Mack, iskwe, Lindy Vision, Kahtolin, Mattmac & Mariame, Harry Wylde, Soleil Launière, Melody McArthur, and Elisapie. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 8.30pm.]