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Sunday 1st November

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: new releases from Solsa & Masro; dubs from Mesotron, Filthy Gears and Pakz; Grime classics by Charmzy, Danny Weed & Mega Montana, JT the Goon, Dizzle Kid, and Dullah Beatz. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Visit X @feraldubs.

1:00am - 2:30am

Adventures in Sound and Music

[Repeated from Thursday 9pm.] New music with The Wire magazine. This week: Joseph Stannard presents a generous earful of scintillating sound including tracks by Earthslayer, The Golden Corpse Of Midas, Allen Ravenstine and Ak’chamel. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information.

2:30am - 3:30am

Fog Cast

[Repeated from Wednesday 11.30pm.] A series of late-night isolationist soundtracks curated by Robin The Fog. Further details at: robinthefog.com.

3:30am - 4:30am

Sleeping Dogs Lie

Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax. This week: Cousin Silas collaborations featuring tracks with Pat Pik, Pendro, Pete Swinton, Puppy Bordiga, Ramón Sánchez, Ron Shayler, Scott Lawlor, Sergio Mariani, Shane Beck and Substak — a collection spanning releases from 2022 to 2025. For more information visit Sleeping Dogs Lie on Facebook and Mixcloud. [Repeats Monday 12am.]

4:30am - 5:00am

K-Pop Journey

[Repeated from Wednesday 11pm.] A weekly show dedicated to the phenomenon that is K-pop! Korean presenter Keissi takes you on a journey through Korean pop music from the 1990s to the present day. For more information visit K-Pop Journey on Facebook and @k_popjourney on X.

5:00am - 6:00am

Modulisme

[Repeated from Friday 11.30pm.] Modulisme (which translates as Modularism) is devoted to out of leftfield modular synthesis. This week: What happens when a piano goes off the rails, a trumpet splits in two and a modular synthesiser conjures sounds with no apparent source? In Hans Castrup’s world, nothing stays in place. Sounds collide, shed their identities and emerge as something unexpected. A German painter, photographer and musician, Castrup has explored sound since recording on a Synthi AKS in 1982. He cuts, layers and reassembles acoustic instruments, electronic textures and field recordings, resisting the comfort of a signature style. For more information visit modular-station.com.

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6:00am - 7:00am

Late Lunch with Out to Lunch

[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. This week, Ben presents tracks recorded by AMM All-Stars at their Friday lunchtime residency at the Betsey Trotwood pub in Clerkenwell, when the band consisted of: Vivienne Soan - soprano saxophone; Chariton Karalaktsios - electric guitar, mantura, handclaps; Anna Vershkova - electric guitar, footstomps; Out To Lunch - acoustic guitar, mouthnoise, percussion, recording, mix; and Nick Lubran - acoustic guitar, bamboo flutes, percussion. As usual, these reports from the frontline of non-idiomatic improvisation in London will be peppered with OTL's word jazz, and pertinent selections from the mass of recorded music which weighs like a nightmare on present creativity.

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7:00am - 8:00am

Langham Research Centre

[Repeated from Tuesday 9pm.] Langham Research Centre present musique concrète and electronic music from previous times along with recent releases. Rarely heard works along with little-known and neglected composers as well as those who are renowned and celebrated. Presented by Robert Worby, Philip Tagney and Iain Chambers.

8:00am - 9:00am

Electric Dish

[Repeated from Thursday 3.30pm.] Sophie Darling plays a plethora of new music from all corners of the world. With discussion, food for thought, live guests and interviews. Visit Instagram @djsophiedarling.

9:00am - 10:00am

The Curtain Up Show

[Repeated from Friday 4pm.] Tim McArthur, Nathan Matthews and guests discuss London's vibrant theatre scene. Today’s guest, Ed Baker-Cowell discusses the West End Wilma Awards. Follow on Facebook, X and Instagram for more information.

10:00am - 11:00am

Global Instruments

[Repeated from Tuesday 5pm.] Sofia Gaetani Morris presents a show that looks at instruments from around the world. This month, we head to the Black British Folk Takeover at Cecil Sharp House for a day of folk songs, sounds and stories that shine a light on the African Diaspora's love for British folk and its ongoing conversations with the genre. With music and conversation from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and founder of the Black British Folk Collective Angeline Morrison; folk singer and guitarist from Dundee, Andrew Baird whose warm voice and love for storytelling touches audiences; singer and songwriter Muco, whose music reimagines medieval folk songs through his voice and inanga instrument; and Bianca Wilson, also known as Island Girl, South London–born multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter whose work centres the banjo and its African diasporic histories. Follow us on Instagram @global_instruments_fm_ and listen again on Mixcloud.

11:00am - 12:00pm

Radio Public

[Repeated from Wednesday 5pm.] A monthly programme created by Workshop 24, a sound, visual and socially engaged art collective working in the Midlands. Each programme emanates from our experience of the local, creating a portal into sonic possible worlds. Today: Berllandeg and the Landing Project. Molly Brown and Andrew Howe, two artists from Shropshire, converse in and around Molly's farm on the Welsh Borders about their creative exploration of rural labour, the evolution of farming practices, and future relationships between people and land. Visit www.thelandingproject.com. First broadcast 22 October 2025.

12:00pm - 1:30pm

The Ambrosia Rasputin Show

Freewheeling music series with Ivor Kallin. This week's show features newish releases from Wadada Leo Smith; Ava Mendoza; Dan Melchior; Manabu Suzuki and Toshiji Mikawa; Douglas Benford; Martin Proscia, Luciano Bagnasco and Marcel von Schultz; Adam Bohman, Adrian Northover and Danny Kamins; Ricardo Arias and Miguel Frasconi plus oldish recordings of Ivor Cutler and Bill Herbert. Plus some weather. For more episodes visit The Ambrosia Rasputin Show on Mixcloud. [Repeats Friday 1am.]

1:30pm - 2:00pm

Arty Facts

Arty Facts with Master J is a show about working in the arts. Today: Master J is joined by performer, director, choreographer, theatre teacher and theatre-school principal Susy Puckett, whose career has taken her from touring with the original cast in the stage production of Victoria Wood's Dinner Ladies, CH4’s Top Boy, dancing in music videos for urban artist Jahna Sebastian, and working with Sir Michael Caine. But the question we ask is, what on earth possessed her to write, direct and star in her own sitcom pilot? In 2013 Susy made Help Yourselves, producing the whole thing herself. We discover what it takes to make a sitcom from scratch, what happened when she got the finished product in front of broadcasters, and whether she would do it all again. Expect stories about the difficulties of lighting a scene when you have no professional lighting, casting actors when you have no budget, and filming a sitcom with no audience to gauge the laughter. We'll also find out if Master J had been the commissioning editor, would he have given it a series? For more information visit Master J on Facebook. [Repeats Friday 3.30pm.]

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Calling All Pensioners

[Repeated from Monday 1pm.] Magazine programme with Tim Hamilton, addressing issues which affect pensioners across London. This week: Independent Age urges you to contact your MP to call on the Work and Pensions Secretary to uprate the Local Housing Allowance to further aid financial support for low-income renters. Age UK campaigner Shae reports on the charity’s work on ending hospital corridor care. Also, Age UK encourages you to make a difference to an older person this Christmas and all year round. Our musical tribute is to Lena Martell, a Scottish singer and Broadway performer whose long career spanned theatre, television and musicals. She was the first female artist from Scotland to top the UK singles chart. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly.

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Sitting With Gianluca

Interviews and informed portraits of contemporary American musicians with our stateside correspondent Gianluca Tramontana (in temporary and voluntary exile in Marseille). [Repeats Tuesday 12pm.]

4:00pm - 5:00pm

The Outerglobe

[Repeated from Thursday 6pm.] Debbie Golt FRSA takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point. This week, Debbie talks to activist/artist Zita Holbourne FRSA about her newly published autobiography, Zita: A life of Activism on Aurora Media Books. Zita has won many awards for her unwavering and skilled activism and creative practice, staying focused and fully engaged despite many challenges, making a difference at every turn. Music from Zara McFarlane and Marla Kether features. For more details follow @outerglobe on Instagram.

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Around The World With The Lallas

[Repeated from Tuesday 1.30pm.] Laura Pradelska and Lara Fraser share their international cultural interests, stemming from their respective careers as actor and producer as well as their joint DJ career as The Lallas.

6:00pm - 7:00pm

GRAIN

GRAIN is a concert series, a label, and an archive of experimental and improvised music, operating primarily out of London's Avalon Cafe, South Bermondsey. Curated and produced by Caius Williams and Theodora Laird. Visit grainresidency.bandcamp.com and Instagram @grain_residency. [Repeats Tuesday 4am.]

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Isotopica

Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. Visit theculture.net/ for more information. [Repeats Wednesday 5am.]

8:00pm - 9:00pm

The Organ presents The Other Rock Show

Marina Organ presents an hour of music that uses unconventional structures and 'other' time signatures – gathered from the worldwide undergrounds of math rock, avant prog, weird electronica and strange pop. Find the playlist, archives and links to all the bands at otherrockshow.wordpress.com. [Repeats Thursday 5am.]

9:00pm - 10:00pm

Daydreaming Machine

Ukrainian composer Andrey Kiritchenko explores ambient, experimental and independent music. For more information and tracklist visit fb.com/akiritchenko. [Repeats Wednesday 6am.]

10:00pm - 11:00pm

Make Your Own Damn Music

An audio postcard from the artist Bob and Roberta Smith’s studio by the seaside in Ramsgate. There will be time to murder and create: this week’s show is devoted to the spirit of T. S. Eliot. The art task is to create something exploiting materials. Visit @bobandrobertasmith on Instagram for more information. [Repeats Thursday 3am.]

11:00pm - 12:00am

framework

Field recording, phonography, and the art of sound-hunting, presented by Patrick Tubin McGinley. Visit frameworkradio.net for more information. [Repeats Tuesday 6am.]

12:00am - 1:00am

Sleeping Dogs Lie

[Repeated from Sunday 3.30am.] Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax. This week: Cousin Silas collaborations featuring tracks with Pat Pik, Pendro, Pete Swinton, Puppy Bordiga, Ramón Sánchez, Ron Shayler, Scott Lawlor, Sergio Mariani, Shane Beck and Substak — a collection spanning releases from 2022 to 2025. For more information visit Sleeping Dogs Lie on Facebook and Mixcloud.