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Monday 13th 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, creating a space that honours song-making, poetry, performance and mixed-media through conversations and live performance. 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.
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5:00am - 6:00am
MSCTY Radio Tokyo
[Repeated from Saturday 9.30pm.] Travel to Japan with Nick Luscombe and James Greer as they explore the sound of Tokyo. This month's edition features a special Japanese ambient music mix to celebrate a week of live shows, playbacks and talks in London and Brighton from 13th-18th July with composer Yumiko Morioka and MSCTY Studio. For more information visit www.mscty.space.
Listen live6:00am - 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: Maksym Son aka Volyn Field, Dmytro Bereziuk and Vlad Pochebula talk about Lutsk, the administrative centre of Violin Oblast in northwestern Ukraine. Music by Svitlana Nianio, Volyn Field, Turbinaria, Mermaids' Farewells between the Dnipro and the Desna (Cmyk), DvaTry, embased/TIM PACHE/41th, and Styr. 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: songs of the Vietnamese composer Pham Duy. Plus, sounds from the k'ni fiddle mouth resonator instrument used by the Jarai people in Vietnam. 'Riddle' from 'Daughters of Donbas' recorded live in Lviv in Western Ukraine – the fiddle and singing family from Estonia Õtekse known for their experimental take on traditional Estonian folk music. Plus tracks from Brazilian pop artists Caetano Veloso and Cida Lobo. Visit http://thenewsagents.blogspot.com.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] A special radio show to celebrate the radical history of New Internationalist magazine, presented by Maxine Betteridge-Moes. For over 50 years, New Internationalist has provided an alternative perspective to the narrow representation of the Majority World in the mainstream media. Our global network of journalists continue to amplify the voices of people and movements fighting for justice around the world today. In this episode we hear from former co-editors Anuradha Vittachi, who talks about how she helped expose the Nestle baby milk scandal in the 1970-80s, and Dinyar Godrej, whose 1999 issue sounded the alarm on climate change long before it was mainstream. Freelance contributor Jack Davies discusses his 2019 investigation that prompted the UN to divest from its pension funds in occupied Palestine, and Koteka Wenda, the daughter of West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda talks about her early memories of this little-known example of anti-imperialist activism and resistance. Plus, a soundtrack of global sounds mixed by DJ Ritu.
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: Kevin Barry on his novel, The Heart In Winter. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Visit X @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeats Saturday 9am.]
11:30am - 12:00pm
Micro Clear Spot
Shorter specials and one-off programmes. [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 tips on looking after yourself in a heatwave, and campaigner Jade updates us on the charity’s work with the millions of older people providing unpaid care for their loved ones and the challenges many are facing. Age UK’s campaigner Shae shares the responses to their recent digital survey on older people's experiences of trying to keep up with an increasingly digital world. Our musical tributes are to Geoff Keating, aged 88, who was a member of The Master Singers, a British vocal group in the 1960s; and Dame Penelope Keith, aged 86, who was an English actress, active in film and on radio, stage and television. 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: We Told You This Heat Would Come. Deadly historic heat strikes across the world. Meteorologist Jeff Bernadelli on heatwaves in UK, Europe and America. Heat risks for pregnancy. From Switzerland, Coral Salvador: excess heat leads to more premature births. Heat reporting from Mark Hertsgaard and Jeff Goodell. Dr. J. Mijin Cha with a climate plan for America’s biggest coal mining. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Flamencohead
Javier Surroca hosts a show on the Art of Flamenco: fusion, pop, experimental, rock, ethnic and all the variations in the Flamenco universe. This month: music from Manolo Caracol, Piramide, Porrina de Badajoz, Rocio Guzman, Za! & Perrate and Las Grecas among others. For more episodes visit Flamencohead on Mixcloud. [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
Literature Live
London author Tony White presents readings and chat with some of the best novelists and short story writers around, in a monthly programme focusing on live literature with authors reading from and discussing their fiction live on the air. Today, Tony's guests are M.H. Ayinde and Mahmud El Sayed, for a Future Worlds Prize special. Visit pieceofpaperpress.com for more information. [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.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Art Monthly Talk Show
An audio supplement to Art Monthly magazine, broadcast on the second Monday of each month. Today: Dan Rees and Bob Dickinson discuss their feature articles from Art Monthly issue 498 July/August 2026. Dan analyses the complicated layers and meaning in the work of work of Sung Tieu encompassing the German Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale and Bob reveals art in Latin America which has led him to argue that it may be time to adopt the newly coined term Hydrocene to describe our current era. Hosted by Matt Hale. [Repeats Saturday 12.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Devil’s Dancers
An episodic history of synthesised sounds with Nina Kehagia. This month: Nina speaks with Keeley Forsyth following her appearance at Outer Waves Festival in Liverpool, where she presented HAND TO MOUTH TO; a newly reimagined live performance commissioned by Outlands Network and Full of Noises. Building on her 2025 HAND TO MOUTH EP, the performance transforms the intimate voice-and-piano compositions into a striking work that blurs the boundaries between concert, theatre and sound art. Email hello@ninakeh.com. Instagram @ninakeh. [Repeats Saturday 1.30am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Saturday 7pm.] The :zoviet * france: radio show. Airs and Disgraces. This week's edition features tracks from new releases by Marla Hlady and Christof Migone, Sue Lynch and Regan Bowering, Dtyb, and Gintas K in and amongst recordings by Merle Bardenoir and Tertön, Adrià Bofarull and Joan Saura, Johannes Malfatti, Jean-Claude Risset, John Sivinski, Lee Patterson, Lord Havoc, Tyler Bajsa, Silvum, and Mimetic X.