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Thursday 22nd October
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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. This week’s show features an interview with artist and art historian Julia Jane Heckles, who tells us about her recent project exploring the history and significance of tea. Her project Voices on Art is a radical in person and digital art history course. 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: Cinthya García Leyva is a cultural manager and facilitator for creative processes, particularly those around sound. In this interview conducted by Ana Martínez de Buen, they hold an essayistic conversation around the ways noise, sound, scape and voice transcend the idea of the 'present moment', that seems to reign in the act of listening. Cinthya retakes the concept of ‘constellations’ to exercise an expanded metaphor around what it means to hold and manage artistic spaces – she is the General and Artistic Director of Casa del Lago UNAM, the Artistic Director of Poesía en Voz Alta Festival, and a guest editor and author of the prologue to La materia del sonido (Gris Tormenta). Ana is a writer and an artist who has been working with radio essays for nearly a decade. For both voices in this piece, sound and writing are intrinsically defined by the body, as well as by each other – translation between mediums, languages and disciplines opens a terrain of possibilities and corpo-realities.
5:00am - 6:00am
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] Progressive sounds and music using unusual time signatures, song structures and dynamics, breaking out of Western music's obsession with 4/4.
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.
7:00am - 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. 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. This week's show finds a prophesy of the Trump White House in the music of The Butthole Surfers, with additional sounds from Les Baxter to the 13th Floor Elevators. 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: Intercities – Sheffield with Johny Pitts. Owen Hatherley is joined by the broadcaster, writer and photographer Johny Pitts. Johny is a Sheffield-native and has witnessed first-hand the huge social and architectural change the city has undergone since the early 1990s. Today, we use photographs from "After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989–2024" a roving exhibition Johny has curated, to track the cities shifting identity from the so-called Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to a city where leisure and comfort are the new guiding principles. [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. This week: Alessandro's guest is Steve Turtell. [Repeats Wednesday 2.30am.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Raft
[Repeated from Tuesday 4pm.] Soundscapes of hope and resistance. Raft is a vessel made of waves moving through the air. A signal floating over dark tides in the simple light of a tiny flame. As the waters rise, so does our singing. Produced by Chiara Ambrosio. Visit raftalondonstory.com.
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.]
ON NOW
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. This edition examines the relationship between sound, behaviour and computational logic through archival recordings of early computer music, arcade environments and interactive gaming systems. Algorithmic compositions, electronic signals and responsive musical environments reveal how sonic expression is shaped by decisions and their consequences. The programme combines fragments of historical broadcasts, gameplay recordings and electronic compositions, including Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse and Masaya Matsuura's Vib-Ribbon. These recordings preserve traces of earlier technologies and the conditions through which sound was generated, while the original interactions are often only partially accessible. Programmed structures establish limits on behaviour, yet players and composers find ways to manipulate, reinterpret or work against their intended functions. How do the sonic environments of technology-mediated play and interaction shape our physical responses, memories and understanding of the systems we engage with? Presented by artist and researcher Florence To. Visit invisiblesignals.org. [Repeats Monday 7am.]
Listen live5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull The Plug
Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. Today: Rain. Scaffolding. The neighbouring house is enveloped. Banging and drilling commence. The reasons for this activity remain obscure. An eye is inadvertently poked. The fragility of domestic tranquillity is considered. The week continues to deteriorate. 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. Visit Instagram @rogueplanets_fm104.4. [Repeats Monday 3am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Our open access slot for one-off, special and sometimes surprise broadcasts. [Repeats Friday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:30pm
Adventures in Sound and Music
New music with The Wire magazine. Tonight, host Chris Bohn visits Joshua Burkett’s "Lost Cat City", when he's not searching out the origin of violence that has lost its source on the Source Unknown anthology. Plus, Wadada Leo Smith, Mona Mur, Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet, Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Radical Polish Arkestra and Vietnam’s Lý Trang, alongside archive tracks taking in South African township soul music, Test Dept, Malaria! and Felix Kubin. 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: fresh dubs from Reeko, Darker, cd_dance, Dezzee, Westy, Ash Bash, Don Dillinger; new releases from Masro and Solsa, LRD and Kosa, Row D, Zedz; Grime classics by Merky Ace, Mr Virgo, D.O.K and Faze Miyake. 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 rap, hip-hop, country, indigi-pop, rock, indie, EDM and jazz-funk from musicians of the Cree, Métis, Mohawk, Ojibwe, Navajo, Huron-Wendat, Apache, Nakota, Inuk, Tlingit, Cherokee, Haida and Blackfoot Nations. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 5am.]