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Imminent in the next 48 hours are some rather good programmes…

Today, Monday June 23rd, Vermillion Sounds double bill 2 - 4pm

Part 1. 2 - 3pm

Chernobyl Soundscapes - presented by Peter Cusack

“On two trips to Chernobyl in 2006/7 Peter Cusack made many field recordings in and outside the exclusion zone. These include the sounds of wildlife, radiometer bleeps, eerie rooms in the ghost town of Pripyat, work that still goes on around the nuclear reactors and songs and poems of the traditional people from the area who in many respects suffered very badly from the disaster and the responses to it. There will also be recordings from North Wales where sheep farming is still effected by Chernobyl fallout”.

Part 2. - 3 - 4pm

Spiti Weddings - Presented by Patrick Sutherland and Peter Cusack

“Spiti is a culturally Tibetan community in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Weddings are major communal events: a complex ceremony, lasting several days and involving two separate song cycles, religious rituals performed by monks, dance music provided by special lower caste musicians, the preparation and distribution of large quantities of food and alcohol. They are rich sonic events: the sounds of cheering, weeping, prayer, oracular mediums in possession, and much hard partying mixes with songs, speeches and music”.

Bike 630 - 700pm
The transcendental pleasure of cycling…presented by Jack Thurston. Bike returns with a feature on London’s Lidos, from a cyclists’ perspective - what else!

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Clear Spot 8 - 9pm
Equipped with vintage sound reproducing contraptions such as gramophones and wax-cylinders - Aleks Kolkowski introduces us to the the arcane world of Edwardian sound FX….(this programme was originally broadcast on January 25th 2008)….

Tuesday June 24th
Sonic horticulture with Mark Aitken…. I Can Hear The Grass Grow 6 - 630pm

Now digging into a fourth series and opening with a show about the power of sheep on the memory and the sounds that may arise from having too many sheep on the brain. A special all the way from the mountains of Romania where the greenest, tastiest grass grows at this time of year…

Clear Spot 8 - 9pm… Mr.Hovis’s guide to old and gold reggae….featuring interviews with major and minor players from the past 30 plus years of reggae’s rich heritage….

Carlos Slazengers Audio Obstacle Course - 9 - 10pm. This week the Audio Obstacle Course is not just in the aether but in outer space!

According to Monsieur Slazenger “this weeks show is all space themed stuff from the Monks to the Space Lady, Jean Jacques Perry to Large Number, Jimmy Lloyd to…er…Sarah Brightman..”