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Monday 6th 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. Today: this special live edition welcomes guest artists Scarlet Woolfe, Suzie Clarke (of Mabel Clarke) and Alice Bradley (aka Vodka Terry). Each artist will perform two live songs in support of a three-week awareness campaign for War Child UK. The programme serves as a preview to the upcoming event in aid of Warchild UK at St Matthias Church on 3rd July, featuring the screening of a film by Mia Michelino followed by a concert by Frank Malachi. The campaign aims to raise awareness and support for the work of War Child UK and its efforts to help children affected by conflict around the world. 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
Such Music
[Repeated from Saturday 9.30pm.] Hosted by Rihards Endriksons, journalist and artistic director of Latvia's Skaņu Mežs festival, Such Music is devoted to new works of free improvised music, either previously unheard or created specifically for the show.
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
Novelty Actress
[Repeated from Thursday 4.30pm.] Part audio-diary, part sound collage, part archival practice; through the guise of auditioning, writer and artist Dora Maludi investigates what it means to become in a society obsessed with reinvention. This month: Dora auditions for the role of the pastor, relaying personal testimony as well as exploring what qualifies as a church, alongside a curated selection of tracks that fall into the realm of worship. Visit Instagram @doramaludi for more information.
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: Choro, soft Samba, Brazilian and instrumental music. Tracks from Jacob Do Bandolim, Altamiro Carrilho, Os Originais do Samba, Agustin Barrios, Waldir Azevado, Georgette, Edu Lobo, Loz Zafiros and some Hammond instrumentals from Montague Armstrong. Visit http://thenewsagents.blogspot.com.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] COLOURWORXX is a colour adventure to elevate life. A genre-fluid journey with features and experiments, presented by artist Colour Carver. Colour as a portal, key and mirror. For our lives and times. Today we step through Red Gates with musician Hyetal, writer Tim Maughan, visual artist R3N, and Andrew Hillock of Pure Life Records. Plus, reflections on vitality. COLOURWORXX is brought to you by arts and research practice Colour Your City. Visit linktr.ee/colouryourcity. [Repeats Monday 10am.]
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: Lauren Groff on her novel, Matrix. 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. Today, three works for radio by composer and sound artist Harvey Young. First, Schisma Gulf: “In September 2024, I traced ethnographer Maurice Born’s journey to the island of Spinalonga, a former leper colony in the Gulf of Elounda, Crete. Buoyed by foggy iterations of Saint Panteleimon and mid-50s atrium film nights, I set about sonifying his initial investigations, from his arrival in a blow-up dinghy to the final survey of the admission and disinfection buildings." Secondly, Isolgoss, a composition for five loudspeakers: "I'd been reading linguist James Burridge's work on dialectal formation and spread. He applies surface tension dynamics to the interaction between language groupings. I thought it would be tasteful to interpret these mechanics using extended vocal techniques (trills, ululation, phonetically varied vowel shapes) and granular synthesis to capture the kineticism that underpins linguistic evolution. Mixed into spatial audio at Piel View House, Cumbria." Thirdly, Lament for the Old Clock which tells the story of an 18th-century agricultural worker plunged into the vicious new frontier of industrial capitalism who must leave his simple agrarian existence behind and submit to the callous and dehumanising demands of the factory floor. The piece documents the change in temporality from the feudal notion of cyclical, reverential time to the concept of future-oriented progress that defined the beginning of the industrial revolution. Through extended vocal techniques, found instruments and granulation, Lament for the Old Clock explores this transient yet profound period of temporal and spiritual upheaval. Harvey composer-in-eesidence at the Abeceda Institute, Ljubljana (2025), and has presented electroacoustic installations in Europe and North America. His experimental opera and poetry works have been commissioned by Resonance Extra and Whitechapel Gallery, and he writes at presents Pitch-Complex on Radio Worm. He has contributed research to Oscar-nominated producer Jaimie D’Cruz’s Acme Films, and assisted John Akomfrah on the video installation In the Hour of the Dog for the Baltimore Museum of Art. [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: in our holiday repeat, the National Pensioners Convention reports that more than 20,000 people have signed up for the Big Energy Credit Claim Back to reclaim some of the £3 billion in unused customer credit held by energy suppliers. England-based pensioners’ charity, Independent Age reveals the latest on their Two Million, Too Many campaign which urges all political parties to take action for older people in financial hardship. Plus, Age UK shares that pensioner, Terry, in turning to the Age UK Advice Line, boosted his monthly income by more than £400. Our musical tributes are to John Koerner, an American Blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player. First broadcast 24 June 2024. 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. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Science Show
Mike and Richard from Science in the Pub present a monthly science show for everyone in a magazine-style miscellany packed with news, interviews, chat and discussions, plus great music, cultural crossovers, and our favourite events and exhibitions happening around London. For more episodes visit The Science Show 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. This week, Lewis is joined by good friend Paul Yoward of Banbury to talk about the 250th anniversary of the British freeing themselves (mostly) of the Americans! 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 special live 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. [Repeats Tuesday 10am.]
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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.]
Listen live10:00pm - 11:00pm
Gwaith Sŵn's Sonic Darts
Sound-art and transmission-art delivered by London sound art collective Gwaith Sŵn. This month: Sonic Darts returns to our Sound Art Kids theme, playing unusual and brilliant sound and music made with children and young people, including family field recording outings, harmonising with hoovers and chill out music for pigs. We also speak to Dan Mayfield from sound and science educators, School of Noise, and sound artist, musician and composer Duncan Chapman about his workshops for children focussing on sound, place and the environment. Featuring work from Andy Kelleher Stuhl, Aurélien Laville, The Wonder Club, Cozy Cozy, Oliver Payne, Robin Payne, Sol Payne, Esben Payne and Erin Allerton-Payne, Emmett and Benedict Glynn, Dan Mayfield and School of Noise, Duncan Chapman, Tasos Stamou and Dylan Freeman. Further information can be found at sonicdartsshow.medium.com. [Repeats Saturday 12.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Unusual Music Exchange
Glasgow-based Canadian composer, artist, and writer, Josh Thorpe likes to listen to unusual music, and to talk with interesting people about it. This month: Doug Tielli discusses what improvisation is, how we make things we like, what music's for and more. We listen to music by Carla and Paul Bley, Gilius van Bergeijk and Maarten Altena. For more listening visit www.unusualmusicexchange.com. [Repeats Saturday 1.30am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Saturday 7pm.] The :zoviet * france: radio show. The Codes of Silence. This week's edition features tracks from new releases by John Also Bennett, Nicolas Debade, Anthéne, and Berndt/Schmidt in and amongst quiet ciphers by Rune Martinsen and Øystein Jørgensen, Gustavo Santaolalla, Police des Moeurs, Half Unusual, Linear Bells, Earthborn Visions, Heavy Cloud, and Fabio Anile.