Monday 19th February
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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.
1:00am - 2:30am
Bad Punk
[Repeated from Friday 10pm.] Hosted by Johny Brown and Band Of Holy Joy. Tonight: Radio Landfill Season Episode 5 - Frankenstein Revived. A score by David Coulter as first performed at the Stratford Festival with Morris Panych. For more information visit johny.co.uk, contact badpunkradio@gmail.com.
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
Talk To The Chip
[Repeated from Saturday 8pm.] Elif Yalvaç (Professor of Electronic and Produced Music at Guildhall) and Jono Podmore, aka Kumo (Professor of The Practice of Popular Music at the Hochschule for Musik in Cologne) explore early electronic music.
9:00am - 10:00am
The News Agents
[Repeated from Saturday 2.30pm.] Experiments in news and arts with Jude Montague. This week: a fundraising mixtape with a 1960s and Brazilian theme. A show of appreciation for all the wonders of radio and music, internationally. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.co.uk.
10:00am - 11:00am
MOOAR Residency
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] A monthly residency celebrating experiments in music and sound by women, non-binary and GNC folk. Run by Katie Callin and Hannah Hogan. Our resident this month is Ró, a photographer, filmmaker, singer and harpist based in Dublin, with a mix to welcome more warmth and light in the weeks to come.
11:00am - 11:30am
Little Atoms
A talk show about ideas and culture, produced and presented by Neil Denny. Each show features guests from the worlds of science or the arts in conversation. This week: Molly McGhee on her debut novel, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Tweet to @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeats Saturday 9am.]
11:30am - 12:00pm
Records Comic, Curious And Cracked
An eco-neutral trawl through the unusual records acquired by various means, including even purchase, during an otherwise mostly virtuous lifetime by Jack Thorington. [Repeats Friday 3.30pm.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
[Repeated from Thursday 2pm.] Kevin Sheils presents an informed and judicious selection of recordings of traditional musics from Britain, Ireland and occasionally further afield. Today: on a second show in this Resonance FM Fundraiser week, Kevin presents another selection of tracks. This time the Artists' initials will spell out "Fundraiser".
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Calling All Pensioners
Magazine programme with Tim Hamilton, addressing issues which affect pensioners across London. This week: the National Pensioners Convention points out that raising retirement to 71 will condemn millions of the next generation of older people to misery and make things worse not better. Independent Age’s campaigner, George, shares that it must be a priority for any government to ensure that older people in poverty have the financial support to make ends meet. Age UK’s campaigns manager, Eorann Lean, calls for your help in getting a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing in England and following earlier campaigns. Our further musical tributes are to Marlena Shaw, aged 84, who was an American jazz, blues, soul and disco singer, and to Chita Rivera, aged 91, who was an American actress, singer and dancer. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly. [Repeats Sunday 2pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
The Bing Selfish Radio Show: Selfish Tales
In a Mediaeval world where everyone thinks it’s great to be on the Great Chain of Being, one man’s unstoppable mission to bring people together through music is set against the immovable object of Lord Selfish’s demand for total obedience and a catchy tune (about total obedience). Join us on a trip, by foot, through the magical world that is Selfish Manor for stories, songs and a moral lesson on why we must always obey our social superiors. Bring your best boots! It’s going to be muddy as hell! Selfish Tales is the latest emanation from The Bing Selfish Radio Show and will bring you stories you never knew you wanted to hear. Expect music, including actual songs, voices, sounds and surprises. We can’t tell you much more right now, or you’d just steal all our ideas and do it all yourself on far more expensive equipment. [Repeats Wednesday 9am.]
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Sound Of Photography
Frank Watson examines the relationship between photography and sound. This week: Frank's guest is Daniel Meadows. Daniel is a photographer and documentarist, best known for his work 'The Free Photographic Omnibus Project' and the portraits taken whilst driving his bus around England in the 1970s. He has an extensive archive of documentary projects about ordinary people’s lives. In 2019 The Bodleain Library acquired his entire archive. Daniel has also had a career in teaching photography and journalism including teaching a course on Digital Storytelling and Photography. The show focusses on Daniel’s many sound recordings made during his career. For info visit http://thesoundofphotography.com/. [Repeats Thursday 4.30pm.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Radio Ecoshock
[Repeated from Friday 9am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: Cat 6, Grid Down and the Behaviour Crisis - where it goes nobody knows. Horrendous climate-driven storms are here. From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, senior scientist Dr. Michael Wehner makes the case for Cat 6. Electricity from natural gas is more reliable than renewables, right? Wrong. Mark Specht from the Union of Concerned Scientists finds gas plant failures bring grids down. From New Zealand Joseph Merz on the latest World scientists’ warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Isolation Vacation
Embark on a journey with the Spencer family as they go on a musical holiday to all four corners of the world. Today: it's your lucky day! And luck is the name of the game for Isolation Vacation. We celebrate fortune good and bad through a musical lens. Featuring heavy metal, disco, indie rock and folk. [Repeated Thursday 3.30pm.]
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Gate Kicks
[Repeated from Wednesday 1.30pm.] 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.
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Nunhead American Radio with Lewis Schaffer
A programme for the American community in Nunhead, south east London, presented by New York comic Lewis Schaffer and co-hosted by American economist Lisa Moyle. Today's show is all about the dating game, especially for older people. Our big Resonance FM Fundraiser show is on Thursday 29th February 2024 at the Old Nuns Head pub in Nunhead. Please join us. And it is fundraising month now. Go to fundraiser.resonance.fm and give! Visit lewisschaffer.co.uk/radio for more information. [Repeats Saturday 9.30am.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
One Life Left
An hour-long celebration of everything that's great about videogames. Hosted by Ste Curran and Simon Byron, the show features the latest news, reviews and gossip from the world of gaming, usually with a studio guest. You don't need to be a gaming expert to appreciate the show - One Life Left offers something for everyone, whether you are a hardcore League of Legends player or someone who's occasionally loaded up Candy Crush. Visit onelifeleft.com for more information. [Repeats Saturday 10am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Derek Jarman, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping. An archival reading of Derek Jarman’s sole work of narrative fiction, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping (Prototype Publishing/House Sparrow Press) — as read by the author — in a special broadcast to mark the 30th anniversary of Jarman’s death. This broadcast is introduced by a collage of comments from the publication’s launch at the London Review Bookshop (03.11.22), with contributions from (in order of appearance) Gareth Evans, Declan Wiffen and So Mayer, alongside excerpts from Benedict Drew’s Music for Bookshops. Listen to the launch event in full here (with thanks to Claire Williams and all at the Shop). Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping broadcasts on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra as a part of a collaborative series of radio works from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio. Thanks to Milo Thesiger-Meacham. [Repeats Tuesday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:00pm
The Naked Short Club
Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around alternative investments, markets, the economy and wider world. [Repeats Thursday 9am.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Polifony
A monthly programme with Kryś Winter, dedicated to the exploration of Eastern European culture. For more information visit Polifony on Facebook. Listen to previous shows on Mixcloud. [Repeats Saturday 12.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Voixxe
The monthly audio magazine from South London's foremost music and arts lab, Iklectik. Tonight: featuring tracks from Luke Howard & Fia Fiell, Gentle Stranger & Martha Skye Murphy, Mariam Rezaei & Gwily Edmondez, Graham Dunning, Wojciech Rusin, Ka Baird, Slikback, KAVARI, AGF, Venus Ex Machina, Sarahsson, Phill Niblock. [Repeats Saturday 1.30am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Saturday 7pm.] The :zoviet * france: radio show. Out of Whose Womb Comes the Ice. This week's edition is a special one, created for Resonance FM's fundraising appeal with award-winning Scottish composer, Michael Begg. Michael is this year's Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute musician in residence and is currently onboard the ice patrol ship, HMS Protector, on a six-week voyage in Antarctica gathering field recordings and sketching new compositions. To highlight Resonance's fundraising drive, he's done us the great honour of exclusively providing us and you, the listeners, with some of the work he's made so far in the first week of his trip. Support Resonance FM and help keep A Duck in a Tree on air here: fundraiser.resonance.fm.