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12:30am - 1:30am
Listening With
[Repeated from Monday 10pm.] Cameron Randall invites you to 'listen with' as he navigates and constructs environments that border both the imaginary and the concrete. This month: Listening With - Melissa Pons. This edition is a takeover from field recordist and Earth FM curator Melissa Pons. Melissa describes the mix as, "A sensorial journey with some of the most poetic field recordings I have encountered. They are delicate, requiring a certain level of attention. From the Nordic solitude of a snowy forest to the sublime manifestation of our living planet of an erupting volcano in Vanuatu. The recordings are woven with music from Patrícia Wolf, Verónica Cerrotta and me; this mix is an expansive invitation to tune in to our natural world and a plea for us to love it and nurture it”. To see more of Cameron's work visit his website and Bandcamp.
1:30am - 2:30am
Devil’s Dancers
[Repeated from Monday 11pm.] An episodic history of synthesised sounds with Nina Kehagia. This month: Nina is joined by electronic musician and AV artist Halina Rice to dive into her new album, Unreality. Known for her immersive-first approach, Rice blends emotive electronic music with cutting-edge visual and spatial-audio work, and speaks about the concepts, collaborations and live shows shaping this new chapter. Email hello@ninakeh.com. Instagram @ninakeh.
2:30am - 3:30am
From the Archives
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] Unusual broadcasts and gems from our archives.
3:30am - 5:00am
Loud Women
[Repeated from Tuesday 6pm.] Loud Women turns up the volume on fast rising women and non-binary musicians in the grassroots scene with live performances, fresh new music and chat, hosted by Cassie Fox and the Loud Women team. For more info visit loudwomen.org.
5:00am - 6:00am
Tunes From Turtle Island
[Repeated from Thursday 12am.] New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. For more information visit 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. Today: Frank's guest is Mandy Williams, an artist working with photography and video whose work is concerned with issues around perceptions of landscape. Following studies in London in History of Art and Film, she moved to Canada, worked as a freelance photographer and had commercial gallery representation. Returning to London in 2021, Mandy received a Photography MA from LCC, University of the Arts London. Her ongoing photographic series, Disrupted Landscapes, and video, Chalk, explore contemporary politics in England through the metaphor of landscape, focusing on the landscape of the Kent coast. Her work is held in public collections including Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, and UK Parliament, Parliament Art Collection. For more information visit thesoundofphotography.com.
8:00am - 9:00am
Rogue Planets
[Repeated from Wednesday 4pm.] The quiet force of unbound rebellion. A telescope platform for cultural slowness, deep listening and anti-profiling. Frank Malachi celebrates the work of artists who forge their orbits through uncharted territories. This week: an in-depth interview with filmmaker, artist and cultural activist Dr. Andrea Luka Zimmerman. Known for their immersive explorations of social justice, housing and marginalised communities, Dr. Zimmerman discusses their life’s work, including groundbreaking films such as Estate, a Reverie, Here For Life, Erase and Forget and Wayfaring Stranger. Discover the stories, motivations and vision behind their unique approach to intuitive cinema and community-focused storytelling in this exclusive conversation. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4.
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: Harry Sidebottom on his latest book, Those Who Are About To Die. 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. This week: Lewis is joined by Paul Courtney Hyu, actor and Chinese Elvis of Honor Oak Park, the neighbour of Nunhead. They talk about how miserable the London winter weather is, and old men and marriage - more misery. For more information visit @NunheadRadio on X and Nunhead American Radio on Facebook.
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.
11:00am - 11:30am
Pull The Plug
[Repeated from Thursday 5.30pm.] Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. This week: Anti-tail extends ~1 million kilometers, tail extends ~5 million kilometers. Tails show 'tightly-collimated' structure (NOT natural comet spray). Solar wind ~400 km/s but jets remain straight - implies artificial directional control OR exotic physics. 12 anomalies identified. Retrograde trajectory 0.2% probability. Arrival time fine-tuned 0.005% probability. Nucleus 1 million times more massive than 1I/'Oumuamua, thousand times more than 2I/Borisov, moving faster than both. 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 new music show hosted by deXter Bentley. Today: Son of Punk live in session. Son of Punk (Otis Coulter) crosses many genres and generations, not conforming to any particular style but exposing a thoughtful lyrical approach to depth and substance, from the personal to the bigger landscape of human bondage. Debut LP, 'Children Of The Free' is out now. Visit hellogoodbyeshow.com for more information. [Repeats Tuesday 1am.]
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
Mundele Mafuta presents a new season of shows devoted to classic dance music of the two Congos. [Repeats Thursday 11am.]
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Micro Clear Spot
[Repeated from Monday 11.30am.] The Theremin: Past, Present and Future. Maia Appleby Melamed and Eliot Lambert take us on a deep dive into the electromagnetic world of the theremin - from its origins as a Soviet science experiment to its use as an instrument where the body is the interface. We explore the instrument’s political history, which includes Cold War espionage and Soviet labour camps. The theremin's power as a 'deep listening instrument', used even to broadcast humanity's first interstellar musical message into space, makes it both a relic of the past and a portal to the future. As this year marks the 20th anniversary of the New York Theremin Society, the show demonstrates why the instrument remains so fascinating today, with an interview from one of the society's co-founders and renowned thereminist Dorit Chrysler.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The News Agents
Experiments in international news and arts with Jude Montague. This week: an end of year mixtape of releases from 2025. Includes reissues from Buried Treasure (Rupert Hine, Language Field, James Stevens) and Zdeněk Liška. Contemporary tracks from Graham Beck, Ani Zakareishvili, Derya Vildrim and Grup Şimşek, WARYZ, Crumpsall Riddle, The Hare and Hoofe & Ensemble Gamut. For more information see http://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 we present the last of the promos found in the December 2024 incoming-bag. Long-form and possibly rather quiet music from Lia Bosch, Hari Hardman, Bertrand Gauguet/Didier Lasserre, Fear Of The Object, Peter Herbert & Wolfgang Mitterer, Maja Osojnik, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and Noiserist. Our penultimate show of year 2025. Visit www.thesoundprojector.com/radio-show for more information. [Repeated 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 with consideration of 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. Stretch and Release. This week's edition features tracks from new releases by 400 Lonely Things, Durán Vázquez and Kloob, Matthias Puech, and Stefan Schultze, in and amongst recordings by Paulo Chagas, Marco Lucchi, Dario Derek Lucchi and Moody Alien; Artificial Memory Trace; Hamlet Gonashvili; Fordell Research Unit; Rescopic Sound; and Detritus Tabu. [Repeated 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 from London. This week: DJ Ritu spins ambient Amapiano, awesome Afrobeats, classic Soul, Latin Jazz, Bengali anthems and Bollywood, Turkish pop, Peruvian surf, and global grooves galore by the Pasadenas, Soothsayers, Isaac Birituro and Ziynet Sali.
ON NOW
9:30pm - 10:30pm
MSCTY Radio Tokyo
Travel to Japan with Nick Luscombe and James Greer as they explore the sound of Tokyo. For more information visit www.mscty.space. [Repeats Monday 5am.]
Listen live10:30pm - 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 1am.] 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. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. X @feraldubs.