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Saturday 24th October
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2:30am - 3:30am
XMTR Radio Hour
[Repeated from Wednesday 10pm.] Do you find yourself stuck in the same channels? XMTR is here to cut through the noise. Hosted by Lucia Scazzocchio from sonic storytelling portal xmtr.fm and Social Broadcasts. This month: a taste of what people experienced at the XMTR Audio Arts Festival (25-27 September in St Leonards on Sea) followed by a field trip to Dungeness. This is a montage from works, sound walks, performances and installations made for and experienced at the festival as well as recordings from some of the events, installations and happenings and some short audio pieces made over that weekend. Featuring works by: Miri Berlin, Katharina Smets + Katherina Lindekens, Helly McGovern, Tony Birch, Marie Chesteron, Sarah Frosh + Pete Hazell, Simon Schaffer Colour Carver + Jude Montague, Jessica Beck + Jackson, Carrie Rolls and M. Cristina Marras + Gianfranco Bitti. You can hear these audio works in full at xmtr.fm/festival.
3:30am - 5:00am
LOUD WOMEN
[Repeated from Tuesday 6pm.] LOUD WOMEN brings the best new music from women and non-binary artists around the world. This week: hosts Cassie Fox and Anastasia Starkova are joined by London singer-songwriter Freya Everest for a live session and chat. With LOUD WOMEN Fest Halifax returning to Nova Scotia on Saturday 24 October, the show also features a special Halifax preview, plus loads more brand new music. For more info visit loudwomen.org.
5:00am - 6:00am
Tunes From Turtle Island
[Repeated from Friday 12am.] New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. This week's show has rap, hip-hop, country, indigi-pop, rock, indie, EDM and jazz-funk from musicians of the Cree, Métis, Mohawk, Ojibwe, Navajo, Huron-Wendat, Apache, Nakota, Inuk, Tlingit, Cherokee, Haida and Blackfoot Nations. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu.
6:00am - 7:00am
Hit It and Split
[Repeated from Tuesday 3pm.] DJ Deb Smith shares a lexicon of global sounds from the past to the future - new releases, forgotten greats and little heard gems. Visit Hit It and Split on Facebook for the playlist and Mixcloud link to the show.
7:00am - 8:00am
The Sound of Photography
[Repeated from Friday 2.30pm.] Frank Watson examines the relationship between photography and sound. This week: in a new series, Frank’s guests are Zelda Cheatle and Seamus Murphy. They’ll be talking about PhotoMonth26 festival in London, and the events taking place during October. Seamus Murphy discusses his exhibition Para (পাড়া) at The Pavilion in Mile End. For more information visit thesoundofphotography.com.
8:00am - 8:15am
There's No Place Like Home
[Repeated from Wednesday 4pm.] A weekly comedy drama serial set in the fictional Australian town of Coochie Creek. Enjoy a glimpse into the daily lives, struggles and malicious gossip of a typical community in the Aussie bush. Episode 15: Danny Twill is checking into the Belle Maison Guesthouse, Curly and Wurly are leaving and Ronnie Roach is behaving very suspiciously.
8:15am - 9:00am
And Then
[Repeated from Wednesday 4.15pm.] "And Then" finds Ed Baxter and Michael Umney in conversation about Resonance FM. Episode 7/8: "Producing without thinking." This series was commissioned by the Independent Community Radio Network and was supported by the Nordic Culture Point "Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture." Produced by Michael Umney and Ed Baxter.
9:00am - 9:30am
Little Atoms
[Repeated from Monday 11am.] 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: Elif Shafak on her latest novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Visit X @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com.
9:30am - 10:00am
Nunhead American Radio
[Repeated from Monday 5pm.] A programme for the American community in Nunhead, south-east London, presented by New York comic Lewis Schaffer. Today: Lewis is joined by good friend Liz Bentley of Peckham. They talk about Liz going to the dentist, marriage and cheating, and getting old and dying. For more information visit @NunheadRadio on X and Nunhead American Radio on Facebook.
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10:00am - 11:00am
One Life Left
[Repeated from Monday 6pm.] 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.
Listen live11:00am - 11:30am
Pull The Plug
[Repeated from Thursday 5.30pm.] Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. Today: Rain. Scaffolding. The neighbouring house is enveloped. Banging and drilling commence. The reasons for this activity remain obscure. An eye is inadvertently poked. The fragility of domestic tranquillity is considered. The week continues to deteriorate. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. Visit Pull The Plug on Facebook.
11:30am - 11:45am
Drift Shift
[Repeated from Friday 5pm.] Found sound and found text collected to form drifts that shift, produced and presented by Franziska Lantz. Visit driftshift.blogspot.com for more information.
11:45am - 12:00pm
Into The Moss
[Repeated from Friday 5.15pm.] A 14 minute drift through original music, soundscapes and liminal yarns. Show archive at intothemoss.com. Contact intothemossradio@gmail.com.
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Hello Goodbye Show
Upbeat, eclectic live music show hosted by deXter Bentley. This week: the welcome return of Anat Ben-David performing live in session. Dr. Anat Ben-David explores the freedom of live improvisation combined with traditional methods of musical composition. A debut live session by the gothic-torch duo Scarecrow People (Diane Scarlet and Kevin Blue) who formed in London in March 2026, their debut single, A Dirty Heart is out now. Plus, Hello GoodBye regular, contemporary Jazz saxophonist Dee Byrne pops in to discuss and air tracks by DOX - the collaborative project of Swiss keyboardist Oli Kuster and UK saxophonist Dee Byrne, teaming up with Swiss drummer Xavier Kaeser for their new EP, Wayfinding, due for release via Efpi Records on 30 October 2026. Visit hellogoodbyeshow.com for more information. [Repeats Tuesday 1am.]
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
Mundele Mafuta presents classic dance music of the two Congos. [Repeats Thursday 11am.]
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Micro Clear Spot
[Repeated from Monday 11.30am.] Updating The Brent Black Music Project. History consultant Kwaku discusses his recent hybrid event, Updating the Brent Black Music Project, held at Harlesden Library and online via Zoom. The event revisited and updated the archive he created two decades ago by further exploring local histories such as the pioneering work of Clinton "Sonny" Roberts, who founded the UK’s first Black-owned recording studio and record label, the origins of Island Records (founded by Chris Blackwell, who catapulted Bob Marley and The Wailers onto the global stage), other stories by music lovers and the enduring cultural and economic legacy of reggae. First broadcast 7 October 2026 to launch the Black History Month UK 2026 series of The Workplace. Book here to attend Kwaku's next event, The Brent Reggae Album Covers Exhibition. Continue the #workplacennd discussion on X with @workplacennd.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The News Agents
Experiments in international news and arts with Jude Montague. This week: tracks from international releases from 2026 including by Marisa Anderson, Daughters of Donbas, Neba Solo & Benego Diakité, Spell Songs, Charlie Parr, Aly Eissa, Magic Tuber Stringband and The Clover Valley Boys. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com. [Repeats Monday 9am.]
4:00pm - 5:30pm
The Sound Projector Radio Show
A showcase for records of contemporary experimental and underground music, hosted by Ed Pinsent. This afternoon: a very noisy show dedicated to Paul Harrison and his many aliases and collaborative projects. CDRs and cassettes by Hairs Abyss, Expose Your Eyes, Paradox Encounter Group, Ortooen Waves, Feral Copse and Egone, many of them released on Paul's own Xemporium label. Visit www.thesoundprojector.com/radio-show for more information. [Repeats Wednesday 1am.]
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Waste Land Receiver
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, considering the poem’s themes of despair, lack of humanity and fragmentation with a will for its alternative. [Repeats Monday 4am.]
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Literary London
Nick Hennegan explores the literary life of London and celebrates the popular cultural life and literary history of the city. Tweet to @NickHennegan. For more information visit LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com. [Repeats Tuesday 11.30am.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
A Duck in a Tree
The :zoviet * france: radio show. Seinkönnen. This week's edition features tracks from new releases by Peder Simonsen and Jo David Meyer Lysne, Stock, Hausen and Walkman, Jimmy Peggie, Shizima, and Kate Carr, in being and in time with recordings by Julien Ash and Philippe Neau, Freetousesounds, William Spivey, Julie Berry, Roland Kayn, and Richard Gould. [Repeats Tuesday 12am.]
8:30pm - 9:30pm
A World in London
[Repeated from Wednesday 6pm.] DJ Ritu MBE presents the UK’s definitive global music show. Today: We pay tribute to Norman Druker, our much-loved colleague and AWIL family member for more than 13 years who died on 8th October. Ritu has chosen tracks by artists Norman introduced to the show and other music that he loved including jazz giant Branford Marsalis, Senegalese legends Orchestra Baobab, folk singer Aimee Leonard, Blues boys Adam Blake and Errol Linton, South London duo The Gillies, divine vocalist Sheila Chandra, Ukraine’s Daughters of Donbas, world fusionists Naka Beyond and Balkans band ShunTA. Norman will live forever in our hearts, ears and minds.
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Precious Nothing
A monthly hour-long programme of videogame music, experimental tones, melodic vignettes, fast-dance, slow-trance, and otherworldly sounds. Sonically compiled and dispensed from Glasgow by Aka_Siro_DJ. [Repeats Monday 5am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Kitchen Magic Time
[Repeated from Tuesday 1pm.] Recipes in sound from Mama Dolores, Mistress of the Deep Soul Kitchen.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Is Black Music
[Repeated from Wednesday 12am.] The world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. For more information visit www.artterry.co.uk.
12:00am - 1:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
[Repeated from Thursday 11pm.] Hosted and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, new releases and unreleased dubs. This week: fresh dubs from Reeko, Darker, cd_dance, Dezzee, Westy, Ash Bash, Don Dillinger; new releases from Masro and Solsa, LRD and Kosa, Row D, Zedz; Grime classics by Merky Ace, Mr Virgo, D.O.K and Faze Miyake. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Visit X @feraldubs.