Sunday 17th December

12:00am - 1:00am

Grime for the Unconverted

[Repeated from Thursday 11pm.] Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. Tonight: DJ BPM showcases a new release from LRD "Been There Done That" featuring Flirta D, Loon, Manchester Hypes, Kruz Leone, Fugzi, and Args. Fresh dubs from Loonz, M4xwell, Shem, Deanoh, Jamzigg and Lewi B, Grime classics by cast Iron, Iron Soul, J Beats. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Twitter: @feraldubs.

1:00am - 2:30am

Adventures in Sound and Music

[Repeated from Thursday 9pm.] New music with The Wire magazine. Adventures In Sound And Music is hosted by members of the magazine staff: Emily Bick, Chris Bohn, Phil England, James Gormley, Joseph Stannard, Derek Walmsley, Meg Woof and Shane Woolman. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information.

2:30am - 3:30am

Fog Cast

[Repeated from Wednesday 11pm.] A series of late night deep listening soundtracks presented by Robin The Fog. Tonight: we celebrate the launch of Claire M. Singer's new album 'Saor', a record partly inspired by both a trek across the Cairngorms and by the 1872 organ in Forge Kirk, Aberdeenshire. We'll hear two extended pieces including the glacial magnificence of the title track, followed by 'Rionnag a Tuath', Claire's 2020 contribution to the 'Touch: Isolation' album; and 2017's transept organ work 'Fairge' in its entirety. Come drift into the night... Further details at: robinthefog.com.

3:30am - 4:30am

Sleeping Dogs Lie

Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax. For more information visit Sleeping Dogs Lie on Facebook, Mixcloud and WhitelabelRecs Bandcamp. [Repeats Monday 1am.]

4:30am - 5:00am

K-Pop Journey

[Repeated from Wednesday 9pm.] 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.

5:00am - 6:00am

Modulisme

[Repeated from Friday 11.30pm.] Modulisme (which translates as Modularism) is a series devoted to out of leftfield modular synthesis. This week: Buchlaïsms 3, Part 2. The Buchla synthesiser, "the Stradivarius of synthesisers", is one of the most innovative musical vessels ever designed. It's named after electronics pioneer Don Buchla, who manufactured his first modular synthesiser in 1963, The Buchla Series 100. The Music Easel appeared in 1973, so we are celebrating both a diamond and silver jubilee to close 2023. This second homage offers the music of Wilfried Thierry, Lyonel Bauchet, Shawn Wu, Cray, Wang inc, Genshi, Batchas, Alan Smithee 40, Rocco Perciante, René G. Boscio and Rex Maximus. Bon appetite! For more information visit modulisme.info/sessions.

6:00am - 7:00am

Late Lunch with Out to Lunch

[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson.

7:00am - 8:00am

Make Your Own Damn Music

[Repeated from Tuesday 9pm.] Artworld shenanigans with Bob and Roberta Smith OBE. This week: WARNING some Xmas music is included in this show, as well as recordings of Dylan Thomas, the Beatles and other avant-gardists.

8:00am - 9:00am

Wavelength

[Repeated from Friday 2.30pm.] A programme of multiple agendas presented by William English.

9:00am - 10:00am

The Curtain Up Show

[Repeated from Friday 4pm.] Tim McArthur, Nathan Matthews and guests discuss London's vibrant theatre scene. Today's guest: Ellie Morris from 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' at the Lyric Theatre. Follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more information.

10:00am - 11:00am

JazznewbloodTAPES

[Repeated from Tuesday 3pm.] A monthly exploration by Patricia Pascal of the revolution in UK jazz. For more info visit Jazznewblood.org/jazznewbloodtapes.

11:00am - 12:00pm

PassWord

[Repeated from Wednesday 5.30pm.] A monthly exploration of current affairs and new technology with Peter Warren. Today: PassW0rd examines the world of cybercrime. This month saw official acknowledgement that for nine years hackers from foreign powers have sat inside Sellafield, the UK and Europe's largest nuclear waste reprocessing centre and the world's largest store of plutonium, and admission hackers have also been routinely targeting UK politicians, civil servants and journalists. A month after Rishi Sunak said Artificial Intelligence is an existential risk, we ask is cyber a greater threat? Tweet to @PassW0rd_Radio.

12:00pm - 1:30pm

The Ambrosia Rasputin Show

Freewheeling music series with Ivor Kallin. This week's episode features some improvised music from De Saram, Benford, Marshall and Edwards, some music box toons and some Bloodcog, plus some more violina scrapings and Gaelic psalm singing. [Repeats Friday 1am.]

1:30pm - 2:00pm

Arty Facts

Master J presents the final of eight different Arts Based Game Shows that Won't Work. Helping this series of misguided game show concepts go out with a whimper are this week's guests: poet Dennis Just Dennis, comedian Geoff Steel, singer-songwriter James Leon, screenwriter James Ruzicka, and musical theatre actor Karen Holmes. The challenge this time is for the panellists to put on a big Christmas Gala Show for children. Will this be a heart-warming extravaganza or a complete disaster that will ruin Christmas for everyone? For more information visit Master J on Facebook. [Repeats Tuesday 11am.]

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Calling All Pensioners

[Repeated from Monday 1pm.] Magazine programme with Tim Hamilton, addressing issues which affect pensioners across London. This week: the National Pensioners Convention reports the 8.5% state pension rise will actually be just 6.8% as more retirees will now start paying the HMRC as their income becomes taxable. England-based pensioners’ charity, Independent Age, shares its winter appeal to you, pointing out people who never thought they would need to call a helpline are doing just that now. Plus, Age UK campaigner, Caroline with your thoughts on climate change and what more Age UK should do to ensure that older people's experiences and views on it are heard. Our musical tributes follow the Christmas theme and include: Celine Dion, Tony Bennett accompanied by Lady Gaga, Andrea von Kampen, Shane MacGowan, Les Maguire, Art Carney and the Golden Gate Quartet. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly.

3:00pm - 4:00pm

The Sampler Mixtape

[Repeated from Friday 12pm.] A weekly mixtape of eclectic new music from Sound and Music. This week: hosted by Rhys Llewellyn. Featuring Drumcunt, PC World, Dreamcrusher, Powerplant, Louse, Obey Cobra, Thee Alcoholics, Kulk, Sial, Taqbir. For more information and complete tracklist visit www.thesampler.org or follow us @samplernews.

4:00pm - 5:00pm

The Outerglobe

[Repeated from Thursday 6.30pm.] Debbie Golt FRSA takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point. This week: for the last show of the year - before returning in January - Debbie has made a beautiful reflective and energising mix with a sequence of Sahel Sounds' Malian and Niger artists who first came to the fore on Whatsapp exchanges across West Africa, and music from SistaSara, Johanna Saint-Pierre, Ancient Infinity Orchestra, Saxman Jerry Jonson, Pratibha Singh Baghel and Lowkey. Debbie pays tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah who just died and invites Hannah from the Alanouwaly Salifou Sylla Foundation to talk about their Christmas Appeal. For more details follow @outerglobe on Instagram and Twitter.

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Around The World With The Lallas

[Repeated from Tuesday 1.30pm.] Laura Pradelska and Lara Fraser share their international cultural interests, stemming from their respective careers as actor and producer as well as their joint DJ career as The Lallas. Today: Lara and Laura round up the year in typical "Lallas style", having a chat about AI, New Year's resolutions and fashion forecasts for 2024. Peppered with their favourite music, this is one not to miss!

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Sitting With Gianluca

Interviews and informed portraits of contemporary American musicians with our stateside correspondent Gianluca Tramontana. [Repeats Tuesday 12pm.]

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Isotopica

Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. This week: Simon presents two remarkably similar sounding recordings by two very different groups of artists, each produced in unusual and interesting ways. "Each features a dark and industrial yet essentially poetic sound, a sound most fitting to finding oneself being in a world complicit in the live streamed genocide of the Palestinian people. Words fail!" Visit theculture.net/ for more information. [Repeats Friday 8am.]

8:00pm - 9:00pm

Dig That Treasure

Will Hall presents 60 minutes monthly of forgotten, underrated and under-appreciated pop and folk music from across the world. International scenes are at home alongside outsider musics, demos and covers, film and game soundtracks, and long-lost rarities in this decentred selection. Follow @digthattreasure on Instagram. [Repeated Wednesday 8am.]

9:00pm - 10:00pm

The Organ presents The Other Rock Show

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 week's show looks back at some more of the best releases of this year, and new releases from Abstract Concrete, Bob Drake, Univers Zero, Surplus 1980, Craig Fortnam, Cheer Accident, Acqua Fragile and Seas of Mirth, plus Poil, Rascal Reporters, Octarine Sky, and Chop Chop. Follow the playlist on Twitter @OtherRockShow. Visit otherrockshow.wordpress.com for more information. [Repeats Tuesday 8am.]

10:00pm - 11:00pm

Intoxica Radio Hour

[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] 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 The Argons, Golden Catalinas and The Rovin' Gamblers. For further information and general waffle, contact intoxica@intoxica.co.uk.

11:00pm - 12:00am

framework

Field recording, phonography, and the art of sound-hunting, presented by Patrick Tubin McGinley. This is our last edition for 2023, featuring the sounds of Alien Kin, Fletina, Raphael Malfliet, Kate Carr, Ben Link Collins, and Christina Giannone. Also listener-chosen favorites from The Aporee Maps by mzhou (USA), sonidando (Colombia), Flavien Gillié (Thailand), and Chloé Despax (Morocco). And we begin with a framework introduction recorded in Canada by James Bailey. Visit frameworkradio.net for more information. [Repeats Thursday 8am.]

12:00am - 1:00am

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 Bandcamp.