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Tune in at 2:00pm for The Traditional Music Hour an hour of, you guessed it, the Tradional music of the British Isles, with pertinent and personal reflections courtesy of archivists and collectors Reg Hall, Kevin Shiels and other guest presenters. Amy Goodman presents the latest U.S and global news in Democracy Now at 3:00pm. From 4:00pm Cloche Coupe – fragments, excerpts and full pieces from miscellaneous composers of musique concrete/electroacoustic music/modernist composition. This week Piere Henry’s “Le Voyage” and three string quartets by Penderecki, Lutoslawski and  Mayzumi.

Last week Newt Gingrich declared that if he were elected President, he would build a manned base on the Moon by 2020. At 9:00pm Big Science hosts Dr.Ed Gertsner ponders this statement and contemplates the fading of the dream of manned space exploration with space guru, and Royal Society Fellow,Mike Lockwood.

From 5:30pm tune in for sixty minutes of handpicked 1970′s/1980′s  Coldwave  in this evening’s edition of  A Colder Consciousness. Flora Pitrolo hosts. In Out in South London at 6:30pm Rosie Wilby reports on LGBT history month celebrations in Manchester and Wendy Baverstock talks to Ezra Axelrod ahead of his month long West End residency.