Wednesday 15th January
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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’s programme is inspired by the fire and winds in Los Angeles California. The playlist includes Tatiana Garnett, Max Roach, Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar. For more information visit www.artterry.co.uk. [Repeats Saturday 11pm.]
1:00am - 2:30am
The Sound Projector Radio Show
[Repeated from Saturday 4pm.] A showcase for records of contemporary experimental and underground music, hosted by Ed Pinsent. Visit thesoundprojector.com/radio-show/ for more information.
2:30am - 5:00am
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.
5:00am - 6:00am
Isotopica
[Repeated from Sunday 7pm.] Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. Visit theculture.net/ for more information.
6:00am - 7:00am
Synaptic Island
[Repeated from Sunday 9pm.] A collective of DJs and artists explores a selected theme each week through music and conversation. Listen to archived shows on Mixcloud. For more information visit Synaptic Island on X and Instagram.
7:00am - 9:00am
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.
9:00am - 10:00am
Lucky Cat
[Repeated from Sunday 3pm.] If Wong Kar Wai had a radio show. Lucky Cat is a spicy chop suey of music and culture produced and presented by Zoë Baxter.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Tuesday 8pm.] In Memoriam Mick Hobbs. Well known as a musician for his part in The Work, Officer!, Mad Family and more, a contributor since the very early days of the 1998 Resonance RSL at the Southbank Centre, and for many years the producer of the "Life & Living" series, Mick died earlier this month. By very modest way of a tribute we offer the hour long "Dumpertruck in Sabshertown: a transcontinental radiophonic meditation" from 4 July 1998 - his earliest broadcast for Resonance. RIP.
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. For further information and general waffle, contact intoxica@intoxica.co.uk. [Repeats Saturday 2.30am.]
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. Visit farsidemusic.com for more information. [Repeats Thursday 6am.]
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Hooting Yard On The Air
Archival repeats of the indescribable fiction of the late lamented Frank Key of hootingyard.org, for many years writer-in-residence at Resonance FM.
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: for their first broadcast of 2025, Out To Lunch and the Baxterium of AMM All-Stars air some recent recordings and improvise guitar and tabletop percussion live. With recordings of Graham Davis and OTL in West Ealing on 27th December; Mario Guarnieri, Dave Black, Robert "Sugarlips" Goldsmith and OTL at the Betsey Trotwood on 10th January; and Lo-Fi Collective featuring Stuart Wilding, Dominic Thurston, Joe Plastic, Seb Stone, Andrew Ciccone, Gerhard Boomgaarden, James Spinney, Adrian Roper, Antonio Arca, Andrea Bolzoni, Xia-Wei Zou, Ian Kennedy, Charlie, Sally Stamp, Isaac Robson, Saulius Bendoraitis, Felix X, Freland Green, Matteo Malquori, Pete Robson, Mario Guarnieri, Chris Jones, Greta Lange, Michael Zbyszyński, Simon Lawson, Barbie Mukoda, Ning Rui Liu (Akira) recorded by Out To Lunch and Melissa Fry at Longfield Hall, Camberwell on 11th January; plus Andrew King and Out To Lunch recorded in Somers Town on 12th January. As the Great Nazz said, "By their fruits shall ye know them!" [Repeats Sunday 6am.]
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The London Ear
[Repeated from Thursday Noon.] Ghostwriter and critic Ben Thompson presents a DFS Algonquin Table for the post-thought era. For further information visit @btfoshizzle on X and find playlists at Ben Thompson's Facebook page.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Spizz FM
An on-going audio autobiography from the punk and post-punk legend that is Spizz. This week: Happy New Year and Happy Birthday Special. A Gold and Star Trek themed celebration show with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy plus tunes by Golden Earring, The Stranglers, Die Toten Hosen, Milky Edwards & the Chamberlains, REM and Delta Unit. For more information visit the Spizzenergi Facebook page. Tweet to @spizzenergi. [Repeats Saturday 8am.]
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Ukrainian Field Notes
A monthly series comprising interviews and music by musicians from all over Ukraine, sharing their experience of displacement and war. This month, Human Margareeta, Lenoczka, Lvcerate and Vladyslav Putistin discuss LGBTQAI+ rights and queer clubbing in Ukraine. Music by Human Margareeta, Lenoczka, Vladislav Putistin & Lvcerate and Heinali. For more interviews with Ukrainian artists visit the Ukrainian Field Notes pages. To support Ukraine visit: supportukrainenow.org. [Repeats Sunday 11am.]
6:00pm - 7:00pm
A World In London
DJ Ritu MBE presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London. [Repeats Saturday 8.30pm.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Radiophrenia Redux
Works commissioned by and broadcast at Radiophrenia, the arts radio station broadcasting from Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts in May 2019. [Repeats Friday 5am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Time Loops is a temporary exhibition taking the form of a 70-minute performance at the Science Museum, London, on 6 February. In this programme, Aisling Gallagher and Niamh Gallagher explore some aspects of this project through interviews with Annie Jamieson and Ian Stonehouse discussing the museum’s role in the preservation of instruments, the influential electroacoustic musician and organiser Hugh Davies, ShoZygs and more. The programme includes music by Thelma Rose on the VCS4; improvisations from James Bulley and Ian Stonehouse on the new ShoZyg variations and a rehearsal preview of Gavin Bryars’ 'ShoZyg Revisited'. Time Loops is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation. It follows the Science Museum Group’s research project 'Music, Noise, and Silence' which examined music and sound in relation to science and technology within the context of sonic modernity alongside the implications for exhibiting these instruments and technologies. Details of the exhibition and tickets can be found here. Follow @museumtimeloops on Instagram. [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
Andrea Rocca 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
Micro Clear Spot
Shorter specials and one-off programmes. [Repeats Saturday 2.30pm.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Fog Cast
A series of late-night, deep listening soundtracks hosted by Robin The Fog. Tonight we celebrate two major recent releases on the Touch label - 'Mosaic' by Fennesz and 'rpm', a posthumous collection of collaborations, sketches and improvisations by the turntablist Philip Jeck. Alongside the glacial soundscapes of Fennesz, we'll hear Jeck in performance with Gavin Bryars, Claire M. Singer, Rosy Parlane and the Liverpool Improvisation Collective. 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. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 5pm.]