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Monday 18th May
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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 and Mixcloud.
1:00am - 2:30am
Bad Punk
[Repeated from Friday 10pm.] Hosted by Johny Brown and Band Of Holy Joy. For more information visit johny.co.uk, contact badpunkradio@gmail.com.
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3:00am - 4:00am
Rogue Planets
[Repeated from Thursday 7pm.] The quiet force of unbound rebellion. A telescope platform for cultural slowness, deep listening, anti-profiling and reflective transmissions. Frank Malachi celebrates the work of artists, collectives, producers and academics who forge their orbits through uncharted territories, creating a space that honours song-making, poetry, performance and mixed-media through conversations and live performance. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4.
Listen live4:00am - 5:00am
Waste Land Receiver
[Repeated from Saturday 5.30pm.] An hour of alternative, folk, and indie music plus discussion hosted by Robert Quinn. Borrowing its title from T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem, Waste Land Receiver sends a message to and from the void through music with consideration of the poem’s themes of despair, lack of humanity, and fragmentation with a will for its alternative.
5:00am - 6:00am
MOOAR Residency
[Repeated from Saturday 9.30pm.] A monthly residency celebrating experiments in music and sound by women, non-binary and GNC folk. Run by Kit Callin and Han Hogan. This month: "Escape to Erewhon" by Irrealis Mood takes over our residency, part of their series that explores escapology through voice samples mixed with music from the sub-bass genres and experimental fields. This episode, '...or shall mankind renounce war?’, features field recordings made with playwright Margaretta D'Arcy on a bus journey from Galway to Bilbao on the occasion of the translation of her book Tell Them Everything into Spanish. The book documented her sojourn in Armagh Gaol with female political prisoners. Dedicated to all those who are incarcerated for refusing to accept imperialist wars. For more information visit Instagram @mooar.residency.
6:00am - 7:00am
Come Digest With Me
[Repeated from Friday 7pm.] A live investigation of digestive systems presented by artist Joanna Penso, who invites an eclectic mixture of guests to talk about their relationship to the body and food. Stethoscope microphones reveal the internal acoustics from mastication to enzymatic hydrolysis as they make their way through Friday night dinner. Visit joannapenso.com for more information, contact pensostudio@gmail.com.
7:00am - 8:00am
Ukrainian Field Notes
[Repeated from Thursday 4.30pm.] A monthly series comprising interviews and music by musicians from all over Ukraine, sharing their experience of displacement and war. This month: Volodymyr Ponikarovskyi aka Ptastvo, and Kateryna Karaptan talk about the making of the album The Grit and processing war through the theatre. Music by Ptastvo and field recordings by Andrii Ponomarov. The Ukrainian Field Notes book based on over 300 interviews is out now from Velocity Press. To support Ukraine visit: supportukrainenow.org.
8:00am - 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
The News Agents
[Repeated from Saturday 3pm.] Experiments in international news and arts with Jude Montague. This week: Carolina Downey de Oliveira in conversation on music circles and sociocracy. Tracks from Brazil and beyond highlighting community music making, body percussion and social gathering and expression. Visit http://thenewsagents.blogspot.com.
10:00am - 11:00am
The Luca George Show
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] A live radio series by artist Luca George, featuring interviews with artists and musicians. Expect games, phone-ins and performances. All broadcast live from the Resonance studio, where anything can happen. This month’s episode features live performances from Luca alongside guest contributions and an interview with artist Bedwyr Williams. Visit Instagram @lucage0rge.
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: Daniel Trilling on his latest book, If We Tolerate This. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Visit X @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeats Saturday 9am.]
11:30am - 12:00pm
Six Volumes: Sounds Of The Folk Archive
Live sound pieces by Royal College of Art MA Writing students, made in response to the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s archival collection. Episode 2: Finding Nancy/Parliament of the Heath. Finding Nancy is a song-collecting journey, from London 2026 to Rye 1987, in search of the queer in folksong. Production: Katya Hudson, Mai Harris & Nye Conant. Sound: Georg du Boulay & Katya Hudson. Research: Alex Haydn-Williams. Written in Rye by Alex, Georg, Katya, Mai & Nye. Voiced by Mai Harris, with songs from Nye Conant, garden birds and the EFDSS archive. The sonic essay, Parliament of the Heath, invites listeners on a walk through Hampstead Heath as lost knowledge of birdsong is recognised, mourned, recollected and reclaimed. Composition, narration and research: Viola Fort. Sound design and research: Daphne Smith. Production, direction and research: Amy Wilde. Editorial management and research: Ana Martínez de Buen and Xuan Shi. Additional voices: Isha, Leon and Rosita. [Repeats Saturday 2.30pm.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
[Repeated from Thursday 1pm.] Kevin Sheils presents an informed and judicious selection of recordings of traditional musics from Britain, Ireland and occasionally further afield.
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Calling All Pensioners
Magazine programme with Tim Hamilton, addressing issues which affect pensioners across London. This week: national pensioners’ charity, Age UK, responds to the Tony Blair Institute which is calling to end the Pensions Triple Lock, stating the Triple Lock should be kept into the next Parliament. The charity shares from its new report that 1 in 4 pensioners are currently struggling financially; and we hear from their campaigner, Shae, who thanks those of you who took the time to answer their cost-of-living survey. Our musical tribute is to Beverley Martyn, aged 79, who was an English folk and folk rock musician. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly. [Repeats Sunday 2pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Radio Ecoshock
[Repeated from Friday 9am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: El Nino wildfires and Amazon tipping. In the last El Nino in 2023, carbon from Canada’s wildfires equaled total emissions from India. Wildfires are a world problem. Fire expert Michael Flannigan joins us. Then Amazon Godfather of rainforest science, Dr. Carlos Nobre: the Columbia conference to get off fossil fuels, better news on deforestation despite organised crime, and the awful Amazon tipping point. This is the find-out time. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
An Irish Sea Crossing
Thomas Burke journeys back and forth between Britain and Ireland, using sound, music and speech to explore entanglements of empire and logistics, water and violence, movement and beauty. Eight one-hour episodes between Belfast and Liverpool to form one extended audio essay, matching the length of the trip. [Repeats Friday 6am.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
What Iiif? Nowhere & Everywhere
What Iiif? Nowhere & Everywhere, generously entangled and resolutely contemporary, emits the sounds concocted during an ongoing 6 year running 40 minute Zoom based improvisation every Wednesday at 2pm Amsterdam time. What Iiif? Nowhere & Everywhere thrives in latency of space, time and subjectivity that negotiates and celebrates forms of distance between an act and its reception. Hosted and made by Catharine Cary and Chris Parfitt. Visit Instagram @whatiiif and Youtube. [Repeats Friday 4am.]
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Nunhead American Radio
A programme for the American community in Nunhead, south east London, presented by New York comic Lewis Schaffer. For more information visit @NunheadRadio on X and Nunhead American Radio on Facebook. [Repeats Saturday 9.30am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
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.
6:00pm - 7:00pm
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.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
For The Lost
A weekly exploration of the curious, dark and surreal. Through a curated blend of radio plays, poetry, experimental soundscapes, live performances and discussions, Dee Sada journeys into the intriguing corners of culture and the imagination. Visit Instagram @forthelostradio. [Repeats Wednesday 7am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
A is for Aardvark by Denzil Everett. Bayley skipped the light fantastic between and betwixt the parched beach and the saturated sea. She remailed unconscious of it being something like something indescribable. [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.]
12:00am - 1:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Saturday 7pm.] The :zoviet * france: radio show. The Red Constant and the Good Destiny. This week's edition features tracks from new releases by Réka Csiszér and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh; Eeem [eim]; and Ard Bit in and amongst recordings by Joe McPhee, John Edwards and Klaus Kugel; Miguel Molina and Anxo Invisibel; Taylor Deupree and Zimoun; Gil Scott-Heron; The Alaska None; Bing Satellites; RP Collier; Julie Berry; PJ Howe; Ray Cobley; De Fabriek; Abstraxus; and Ouzo))).