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12:00am - 2:00am
Is Black Music Christmas Special
An extended Christmas Special edition of the world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. For more information visit isblackmusic.com.
2:00am - 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
Robyn Rocket's Zoom Zoom
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] Interviews and music charting the musical life of artists. Robyn’s Rocket is a semi-regular night of live music and visual art at Café OTO. Robyn Rocket's Zoom Zoom is Robyn’s monthly radio show, offering a mix of chat with artists about their influences and experiences, with a selection of music under discussion. Transcript and track listing at www.robynrocket.com/zoomzoom.
9:00am - 10:00am
JazznewbloodTAPES
An exploration by Patricia Pascal of the revolution in UK jazz, each morning this week. For more info visit Jazznewblood.org/jazznewbloodtapes.
10:00am - 11:00am
safe + sound
A bi-monthly audio open mic night hosted by Jesse Lou Lawson and Kit Callin. Find out about our new themes and how to submit on Instagram or Twitter.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Radio Ecoshock
[Repeated from Friday 9am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: Beat the Soaring Heat. With research into heat and the limits of human health Dr. Ollie Jay, Director of the Heat and Health Research Incubator at the University of Sydney. Doctor and University of Sydney Professor Adrienne Gordon explains her specialty in care of mothers and the unborn during heat waves. Then UK film-maker Nick Breeze wraps it up with Dr. Jack O’Connor: Tipping Points and Interconnected Disaster Risks. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Other Rock Show's Christmas Dinner
[Repeated from Monday 4pm.] Marina Organ has curated a family-friendly selection of unusual yet seasonal music with a tendency towards structural otherness - music that not only breaks out of the constraints of usual songwriting, but is just what you need to get you through your Yule, whatever you're doing. Welcome to a very special largely gentler but still sneakily weird Christmas edition of The Other Rock Show. Follow the playlist on Twitter @OtherRockShow and find links to all the bands at otherrockshow.wordpress.com.
1:30pm - 2:00pm
New Works For Radio
"The Deserter" by Ed Baxter. Voice: Steffan Cennydd. Recording engineer: Michael Umney. One of "44 Folk Tales," realised for Radio Art Zone at Esch2022 European Capital of Culture, a project of Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington.
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
A seasonal edition of the always extraordinary broadcasts of polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. [Repeats Sunday 5am.]
4:00pm - 5:30pm
The Hello Goodbye Show
[Repeated from Saturday 12pm.] Upbeat, eclectic new music show hosted by deXter Bentley. Today: a special feature with the nomadic, soul-fusion troubadour Eki Shola, playing tracks from, and discussing the making of her beguiling new LP 'Kaeru'. Also, lots of new music and a dive into our extensive 21-year-old live session archive. Visit hellogoodbyeshow.com for more information.
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Radio Public Pick Of The Year
2023 the Best Bits. A special compilation from the monthly programme created by Workshop 24, a sound, visual and socially engaged art collective working in the Midlands. With Bill and Helen from Radio Public, featuring Riverside House, Das Tek, Paul Gittens, Elena Thomas, Pensmeadow School, Janet Tryner, Adrian Garbett and Reno & Me. [Repeats Sunday 11am.]
6:30pm - 6:50pm
The Scarlet Cross
Drama written by James O'Neill, performed by Anton Lesser, with sound design and music by Paul Freeman. 1665. The Great Plague has reached Cambridge. Man of learning Francis Mortymer describes the blight and its tightening grip. Sitting alone in a stifling chamber with the plague closing around him, amid regular visits of his haunting, spectral doctor, his thoughts circle smaller and smaller and darker and darker. An atmospheric account of dread and fear. And death!
6:50pm - 7:00pm
The 7 O’Clock News / Silent Night
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press presented a live performance of The 7 O’Clock News / Silent Night on Thursday 19 December at Frith Street Gallery, London. This version of The 7 O’Clock News / Silent Night reflects a period of particularly intense media activity and political strife. It is a reworking of Simon and Garfunkel’s 7 O’Clock News, recorded in 1966, a year in which conflict, civic protest, economic uncertainty and political discord were rife; a period not dissimilar to the one in which we find ourselves now. A text based on the news headlines was read by Emily Maitlis in a specially recorded piece played over a live choral rendition of the carol Silent Night. Presented as part of Banner’s exhibition P E R I O D, a new body of work which reflects on the current crisis of language.
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Outrage & Optimism
As a holiday treat, Resonance brings you select episodes of the Outrage + Optimism podcast co-hosted by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson and produced by Clay Carnill. Each show highlights how we can channel the outrage we see on the streets (and online) about incremental actions in the face of the climate crisis, toward the stubborn optimism needed to forge ahead with ambition. Each show's discussion aims to inform, inspire and help listeners realise that this is both the most challenging, but also the most exciting time in history to be alive. This episode: listeners' questions answered, plus Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, a Tanzanian biodiversity leader and lawyer, speaking in her capacity as Co-Chair of The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
8:00pm - 8:30pm
Aufbau
The second series of the surreal comedy sketch show that makes fun of the horrible future we’re all laughing our way into. Episode 2: a grandfather enjoys a barbeque and someone plays the lottery. Performers: Dominic John, Lucy Sky, Calum Ecroyd, Victor Hampson. Writers: Dominic John, Lucy Sky, Victor Hampson, Calum Ecroyd, Mark Orbine, Sean Fee. Music: Dominic John, Will Roberts, Victor Hampson. Engineers: Dominic John, Victor Hampson. Producers: Dominic John, Calum Ecroyd, Victor Hampson. Follow Aufbau on Twitter, Instagram or TikTok. Episode 3 same time tomorrow.
8:30pm - 9:00pm
Joe Bates Explains It All
A series of guides to everything in the world by comedian Joe Bates. Football, the weather, God, the best type of filled pasta: all these things and more will be explained in a series they're already calling 'Joe Bates Explains It All'. Tweet to @joebatesss.
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
Garden. Something. Meeting. Thank Godto Christ. (Christmas Edition)
[Repeated from Sunday 6pm.] Borrowing this one word prayer from Tiny Tim for the title, here's a completely non-religious Christmas episode that still fills the religion-shaped hole in our hearts. Outsider music, old recordings, sacred music and an end-of-the-year meditation. Tunes by Tiny Tim, Joselito, Jacob Niles, Mykola Leontovych, Gavin Bryars and more. Produced by Eugene Shimalsky. Visit Instagram @garden.something.meeting for more information.
10:30pm - 12:00am
Music By My Friends
In an in-depth 12 part series over this Christmas Holiday, Tom Johnson explores the work of key 20th century composers.
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. Featuring Yako, Brandi Vezina, Burnstick, Cary Morin, Aaron Neville & Robbie Robertson, Renee Lamoureux, Beatrice Deer, Tom Wilson, The Prairie States, Sebastian Gaskin, Billy Simard, Elexa Dawson & Stanley Hotel, Chevy Beaulieu, Bearhead Sisters & Tre'leigh, Lena Horn, KindaColt, and Jah'Milla & Wolf Castle & Aquakultre & Wendy MacIsaac. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 8.30pm.]