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Monday 20th July
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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.
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. This week: Frank's guest is Dr John Kannenberg. As Director of the Museum of Portable Sound, Kannenberg’s work reframes sound as something to be collected, curated and critically listened to, an archive of culture carried in the act of hearing itself. He discusses his new book, A Brief History of Sound Recording: Fully Incomplete & Highly Biased, a richly illustrated, deeply researched and deliberately unconventional guide to the history of recorded sound. Emerging from a decade of work at MOPS, the book moves through recordings, artefacts and listening essays to offer a personal, provocative map of how sound has been captured, shaped and understood. Frank telescopes into the resonances between archive, recording and the poetics of listening. First broadcast 30 April 2026. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4.
4:00am - 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: open your mind and lay your ears on July's residency, a pairing of two half-hour sonic explorations: '25.5 Hours on Whiddy Island', an audio essay by Rachel Donnelly and Eavan Aiken; and the soundscape 'What Does Peace Sound Like?' by Tess Davidson. 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
Hard Drive
[Repeated from Thursday 4.30pm.] Hard Drive is an extension of the label (same name), operating as a public archive of current works and influences. Spearheaded by Tom, Jo and Haydn of the band BC (Borough Council). Visit Instagram @hard___drive.
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: inspired by a trip by Hanitra Ranaivo to Hastings and an evening with Liz Overs and Kate Waterfield in Eastbourne, a playlist of English and international folk music taking Liz Overs' Nightjar album as a focus point. Music includes Anglican chant, Tony Rice's version of Muleskinner Blues, Fotheringay, The Owl Service and Lara Eidi. Visit http://thenewsagents.blogspot.com.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] Blue Hour. A journey through neo-soul, alternative R&B, Afro-house and electronic sounds, blending warm grooves, soulful vocals and immersive rhythms as day fades into night. Produced by Eddna Goke.
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: Yiyun Li on her novel, The Book of Goose. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Visit X @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeats Saturday 9am.]
11:30am - 12:00pm
Micro Clear Spot
GLAM Racket. A pilot radio series of sonic glimpses exploring libraries, archives, music, art and community histories through conversations, field recordings and creative public events across London. 2026 is the National Year of Reading – a UK-wide campaign designed to inspire more people to make reading a regular part of their lives. This episode listens in on a conversation led by Lewisham Libraries with people working and learning at Prendergast Vale School about all things book-related. The theme of this year's Summer Reading Challenge is "Read to the Beat." GLAM Racket took that literally – kicking off the challenge with Rough Music Rhyme Time in Newham libraries, where standard nursery rhymes got turned into something closer to a percussive, celebratory racket. For further information about those featured today, visit: www.glamracket.org. [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: Age UK offers more tips on coping in hot weather including advice on how you can keep cool at night and what you should do if you get dehydrated. England-based pensioners’ charity, Independent Age, advises people at risk of losing their home to seek help as soon as possible. Our musical tribute is to Gaynor Sullivan, aged 75, known professionally as Bonnie Tyler, a Welsh singer known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler ventured into rock music with songwriter and producer, Jim Steinman, who wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide. 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: Heat Storm! How it kills and who. Three experts on extreme heat: Elizabeth Hanna, Robert Kopp and Jonathan Patz. NASA announced Earth is heating faster than expected. Deadly heat in India, unheard-of heat in France and Alaska. The Arctic is thawing out. The U.S. East Coast roasted over 100°F. Around the world, people have died and many more will be killed by heat in the future. But how does heat kill? And who? A compilation from the best of Radio Ecoshock (replay). Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
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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.]
Listen live4:00pm - 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. This week: Lewis is joined by good friend Paul Yoward of Banbury, a far neighbour of Nunhead. They talk about Andy Burnham's upcoming ascension to Prime Minister. 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. Flanked by her faithful dogs-of-indifference, Baily fretted, "If you can sometimes see the moon in daylight, why is it you can never see the sun at night?" Audio art devised by Denzil Everett. [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. Unexplored Causes of Failure. This week's edition features a track from Jem Finer and John Matthias's new album released by Touch, and one from Ludovic Medery's released by Unfathomless, within an arc from honour to secrecy traced by Juxta Phona and Offthesky, Fennesz and Sakamoto, Tuonela and Hallberg, Julie Berry, Shaun Robert, Shhe, and Norah Lorway.