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1:00am - 2:30am
Artrocker Radio
[Repeated from Tuesday 10pm.] Paul from the influential Artrocker magazine previews all the latest releases from London and the UK's thriving indie rock scene and beyond. To listen to past shows visit Paul's Mixcloud page.
2:30am - 3:00am
From the Archives
[Repeated from Tuesday 11.30pm.] Unusual broadcasts and gems from our archives.
3:00am - 4:00am
Make Your Own Damn Music
[Repeated from Sunday 10pm.] An audio postcard from the artist Bob and Roberta Smith’s studio by the seaside in Ramsgate. Tonight's art task is to listen to the music on the radio show and draw it, then draw five noses. With music from Erik Satie, readings from Ian Breakwell and a history of the Beatles in Italian. Visit @bobandrobertasmith on Instagram for more information.
4:00am - 5:00am
Sonoro
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] A series showcasing Mexican contemporary sound and radio artists, curated by Ana Martínez de Buen. This week: Campo Blanco by Ariel Guzik. These recordings originate from a family of string instruments designed to explore various types of chaotic signals, considered as possible sources of sonic languages. The first of these instruments, the Plasmaht Mirror, comprising strings, wood and electromagnetic resonators, operates primarily using signals derived from living plants. Ariel has called the resulting progressive cascade of harmonic sounds a "harmonic field." Also featured here, the Harmonic Quartz Windows, were designed to elevate these experiments to a level of purity achievable by using fused quartz crystal membranes – rather than wood – as harmonic resonators. The signals employed here originate from thermal noise emitted by silicon crystals. This special edition of these works includes essays written by Ariel Guzik, voiced by Juan Stack, originally recorded for Radio UNAM, and curated for this broadcast by Ana Martínez de Buen.
Recording and sound production – Alejandro Colinas y Emilio Gálvez y Fuentes; instruments design – Ariel Guzik; editorial design and production – María Eugenia Calva; translation – Teresa Carter; photography – Raúl Gonzáles, Gabriel Figueroa, Izzy Seidman; drawings – Ariel Guzik; production – Catalina Juárez Oechler; voice – Juan Stack.
5:00am - 6:00am
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] 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.
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6:00am - 7:00am
Farside Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 12pm.] Music from the catalogues of Far Side Music, the world's primary source for East Asian sounds, presented by Paul Fisher. Visit farsidemusic.com for more information.
Listen live7:00am - 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 Naked Short Club
[Repeated from Monday 9pm.] Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around alternative investments, markets, the economy and wider world.
10:00am - 11:00am
The Clint Show
[Repeated from Wednesday 8pm.] A series hosted by former synth-pop attempter Clint, commuting weekly from Reno, Nevada. This week: The Clint Show is taken over by The Serpent Club (Kinga Janicka, Molly O’Gorman and Jack Synnott) for an evening of raucous performance and freewheeling discussion. Visit jamesoldham.net for press, questions and complaints.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
[Repeated from Saturday 1.30pm.] Mundele Mafuta presents classic dance music of the two Congos.
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The London Ear
Moonlighting ghostwriter Ben Thompson shakes up a snowdome of real and imaginary sessions with guests from the far-flung frontiers of musical and literary endeavour. Today's show features Ethiopian field recordings, the only (explicitly) real ale based youth jazz orchestra concept album and Armenians on the other side of the world. For further information visit @btfoshizzle on X and find playlists at Ben Thompson's Facebook page. [Repeats Wednesday 3pm.]
1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
Kevin Sheils presents an informed and judicious selection of recordings of traditional musics from Britain, Ireland and occasionally further afield. [Repeats Monday 12pm.]
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Open City Audio
Weekly programmes by Open City. Making architecture and cities more open, accessible and equitable. Today: Deconstructed. Lloyd’s of London - Inside-Out Architecture. In this episode, Matthew Lloyd Roberts is joined by Graham Stirk, Senior Director at RSHP, to discuss Lloyd’s of London, the first building Stirk worked on when he joined the Richard Rogers Partnership as an architecture graduate in 1983. The Lloyd’s Building is the Grade I listed home of the oldest continuously operating insurance market in the world. It was designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and is an icon of high-tech architecture, a work of industrial craftsmanship covered in a dense network of pipes and ductwork and dramatic glass elevators. The building was designed from 1978, with construction completing in 1986, it was given listed status in 2011. [Repeats Tuesday 2.30am.]
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Everyone Is Invited
Goldsmiths' MFA Alessandro Paiano presents a weekly arts talk show with live guest interviews. [Repeats Wednesday 2.30am.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Fieldnotes
[Repeated from Tuesday 4pm.] Broadcasts by the artist-run publishing project based in Newham, London. In this episode, we revisit recordings from a group residency project called Time Alone Together which took place at Can Serrat in Catalonia in 2019. A group of artists spent a week together, engaging in an improvised programme of serious play. Activities ranged from drawing to movement, deep listening to copycat games. Exploring the surroundings of the small village, peaceful groves, piles of broken tiles, a resonant bridge and the rocky routes up to Monserrat Monastery became interactive soundscapes, collectively documented, composed and performed. Visit fieldnotes.site.
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Electric Dish
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. [Repeats Sunday 8am.]
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Invisible Signals
A monthly open-form radio series that traverses archival fragments, field recordings and sonic atmospheres to examine the material and affective dimensions of imperceptible infrastructures. Presented by artist and researcher Florence To. Today: Across distance, telegraphic signalling turns language into duration and interval, carrying meaning through pulses that may be received, interrupted or lost. This episode features archival Morse code transmissions, maritime distress calls and the final broadcasts of radio stations across different geographies. Alongside these recordings, selected segments from the Research Agency publication, developed by Master’s students at the Centre for Research Architecture, are translated into a customised notation responding to the publication’s different curatorial pathways. The episode coincides with the Centre for Research Architecture Public Forum, opening this Thursday at St James Hatcham Church, Goldsmiths, and running until 2 October – a chance to see the works, the full publication, and the activations and events developed by this year’s cohort. [Repeats Monday 7am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull The Plug
Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. Today's show is a repeat broadcast from 18th June 2026. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. Visit Pull The Plug on Facebook. [Repeats Saturday 11am.]
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Outerglobe
Debbie Golt FRSA takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point. For more details follow @outerglobe on Instagram. [Repeats Sunday 4pm.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Rogue Planets
Presented by Frank Malachi, Rogue Planets explores ideas, culture and conversations through interviews and field recordings. This week: Part one of Frank's coverage from HowTheLightGetsIn festival, London 2026, organised by the Institute of Art and Ideas and recorded at Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath. Featuring conversations and interviews with Roger Penrose, Priya Natarajan, Neil Turok, Louis Theroux, Jimmy Wales, Nicola Sturgeon, John Gray, festival founder Hilary Lawson and more, alongside festival goers, live music and field recordings capturing the atmosphere from across the festival grounds. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4. [Repeats Monday 3am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
The Heat, Sounds of Climate Hope at the United Nations. Geoff Ryman and producer Tim Concannon explore field recordings from the United Nations interim climate summit held in Bonn in June. [Repeats Friday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:30pm
Adventures in Sound and Music
New music with The Wire magazine. This week, Shane Woolman hosts a special guest mix by shadowy trio Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness as well as a slew of new and archive releases and reissues from Harju, Ervin Omsk, Dur-Dur Band, yeongrak, Upsetters, Bill Orcutt and La Tène. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information. [Repeats Sunday 1am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
Hosted and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, new releases and unreleased dubs. This week: Grime classics by Mr Virgo, Syer B and Devlin, JT the Goon, Maniac, DJ Garna, Dot Rotten, HeavyTrackerz; exclusive dubs by Darx feat. Mr Traumatik; fresh dubs from Westy, Pakz and Filthy Gears; new releases from Real Grime Heads. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Visit X @feraldubs. [Repeats Sunday 12am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Tunes From Turtle Island
New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. This week's show has indie, hip-hop, dance, ambient, R&B, rap, techno, blues rock, and powwow from member of the Ojibwe, Oji-Cree, Inuit, Mi’kmaq, Huron-Wendat, Mexica, Navajo, Kickapoo, Apache, Oneida, Kickapoo, Métis, Cree and Navajo Nations. With Natasha Fisher, Mattmac & QuestionATL & Damasta, Union Native, Jens Kleist & Andachan & Nanook, Luna Red, Adam V & Darksiderz & CGK, Myles Bullen & Adam Chandelier, Rapolitics & Elias Ben Afia & Lace & Tarrak & Ludvig Popp, The Uhmazing, Eadsé, Sage Lacapa, Turquoise Steel & Sage Cornelius, Thomas X & Distant Feather, Mackelemore, Northern Cree, Binesi and Laura Niquay & Mara Tremblay. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 5am.]