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12:00am - 1:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing unreleased promos, Grime classics and new releases - and dedicated to the sharing of a passion for Grime. This week we have a very special guest mix from DJ Buster aka Nuno Nune, one of the founders of Badmood Recordings and 19th Studio Records. For a full set list and links to all the artists, including many legal free downloads visit Grime for the Unconverted on Facebook. [Repeated Sunday 2.30am.]
1:00am - 2:00am
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson.
2:00am - 3:00am
Black 2 Comm
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] A music radio show about connections, produced and presented by Paul Jackson. Visit black2comm.com for more information.
3:00am - 4:00am
Drones Of Hell
[Repeated from Sunday 10pm.] Ray Kirby presents an hour of Extreme Metal, featuring tracks old and new from the last three decades. For more information visit http://dronesofhell.blogspot.com.
4:00am - 5:00am
Free Lab Radio
[Repeated from Saturday 11pm.] Sound Art Dance Music Radio presented by Fari Bradley. This week: To mark a performance by Candoco Dance Company at Sadler's Wells, we sample music by composers Laurie Anderson and Nils Frahm. In 1984 Laurie Anderson collaborated with improvising choreographer Trisha Brown, for Set and Reset, the costumes and set by artist Robert Rauschenberg. Now in 2016, former Trisha Brown dancer Abby Yager's restages Brown's work with a company that includes dancers in wheelchairs and crutches. Along with Set and Reset/Reset. Candoco Dance perform Beheld, to tracks by Nils Frahm, reworked by Rutger Zuydervelt. Visit freelabradio.blogspot.com or facebook.com/FreeLabRadio for more information. Visit freelabradio.blogspot.com or facebook.com/FreeLabRadio for more information.
5:00am - 6:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Sunday 12am.] The :zoviet*france: radio show. This week’s edition features tracks from new releases by Golgotha Communications Limited, Kenneth Kirschner, Kassel Jaeger, Fells, and 156, interwoven with recordings by 400 Lonely Thing, Benjamin Heidersberger, Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, Kokkala, Art Electronix, Alozeau, Cheapmachines, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
6:00am - 7:00am
The Relatively Good Radio Show
[Repeated from Sunday 3pm.] Cousins Richard Guard and Anna Crockatt celebrate the capital's past, present and future in the show where everything is live. With regular guests Buffalo Bill, Alex The Greek and Mickey Science.
7:00am - 8:00am
Talking Africa
[Repeated from Thursday 1pm.] A magazine show covering African development issues hosted by Sonny Decker. This week: The Burundi government has withdrawn the country's membership of the International Criminal Court. Will this act bring dire consequences upon the country?
8:00am - 9:00am
Soundhub
[Repeated from Sunday noon.] Soundhub brings together a diverse range of music creators based at LSO Soundhub to talk all things composition.
9:00am - 10:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Monday 8pm.] The Gallows Ballads Project - Paul Slade tells eight of the true crime stories behind Victorian Gallows Ballads and plays the best new music they’ve inspired. For the past five years, PlanetSlade.com has been collecting the printed ballad sheets sold as souvenirs at public hangings and inviting modern musicians to perform their gory songs afresh. Includes contributions from The Jetsonics, Pete Morton, Fred Smith and Elsa “Bride of Frankenstein” Lanchester.
10:00am - 10:30am
The Atomic Drop
[Repeated from Friday 5pm.] A series about the world of professional wrestling with news, features and music, hosted by Tariq Haque. This week: A preview of this year's Hell In A Cell event being held in Boston, Massachusetts, and we ask whether or not the use of this iconic gimmick match has perhaps lost it's impact as a result of over exposure and poor booking. We also share some musical gems from those wonderful moments when a pro wrestler finds themselves in a recording studio. Email theatomicdrop@hotmail.com or tweet to @theatomicdrop.
10:30am - 11:00am
Kitchen Magic Time
[Repeated from Wednesday 4pm.] Recipes in sound from Mama Dolores, Mistress of the Deep Soul Kitchen. "Like Mary Berry, only without the cotton wool."
11:00am - 12:00pm
Little Atoms
A talk show about ideas and culture, produced and presented by Neil Denny. This week: Naomi Alderman on her new sci-fi novel The Power, and Petina Gappah on her latest short story collection Rotten Row. Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers, and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. In 2013 she was selected for the prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers. Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. She is the author of a novel, The Book of Memory, and now a second short story collection Rotten Row. Visit littleatoms.com for more information and/or contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeated Saturday 9am.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Nest Collective Hour
An hour of contemporary, international folk and acoustic music from London’s go to folk club The Nest Collective, covering the spectrum of 'new folk, old folk and no folk’ sounds. Live sessions and playlists from Mercury-nominated folk singer Sam Lee and musical impresarios Gwendolen Chatfield and Jamie Doe aka Magic Lantern. Today Sam Lee presents a live session from The Furrow Collective, one of the UK’s finest super groups of talent including Emily Portman, Alasdair Roberts, Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton, who together are carving new sounds in British traditional song, in advance of their single launch today in Cecil Sharp House. Also music from the recent WOMEX world music expo. Listen to all previous shows here. Contact info@thenestcollective.co.uk. [Repeated Friday 8am.]
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Voice Over
Voice Over is 30 street performers, 30 songs, 30 minutes made by artist, Daniel Newton. This work is being streamed live into 'A Foolish Fire, Perhaps', a one day exhibition at St Nicholas Gardens, which sits behind Provand's Lordship, the oldest house in Glasgow. This exhibition has been curated by Rudy Kanhye, Laura O'Leary and David Upton.
1:30pm - 2:00pm
The Restart Project
Janet Gunter, Ugo Vallauri and Dave Pickering host a different kind of gadget show, discussing the work and philosophy of the Restart Project, a London-based social enterprise that encourages people to use their electronics longer, to prevent waste, save money, and make people happier. [Repeated Thursday 11am.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Isotopica
Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. Visit theculture.net/ for more information. [Repeated Thursday 2.30am.]
3:00pm - 3:45pm
Sound Out
Carole Finer presents a range of live music guests, ranging from the English modernist avant-garde (she was a member of The Scratch Orchestra) to bluegrass (Carole is a keen banjo player), as well as field recordings from her extensive travels round the world. [Repeated Sunday 7.15am.]
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Drift Shift
Found sound and found text collected to form drifts that shift, produced and presented by Franziska Lantz. [Repeated Sunday 7am.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Making Conversations
Professor Andrew Prescott talks to Michael Saunby, a leading figure in the British open science movement, particularly in the field of meteorology, and a pivotal figure in community data activities, such as Mozfest. Following his interventions at the 2016 Mozfest, which included a future toys hack, Michael talks about his fascination with the old tech world of valves, practical wireless and homemade electrical devices, and they discuss what insights this provides into digital making and craft. [Repeated Friday 11am.]
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Vegetarianism: The Story So Far
A fifteen part monthly radio history of vegetarianism by Ian McDonald. Today: episode 9, "Renaissance". Ian discovers how the rediscovery of classical philosophy leads to the breakdown of Europe's meat-eating consensus, and the emergence of a long-lasting medical tradition of prescribing vegetarianism. He visits Paris's Royal College, where a seventeenth century maths professor taught astronomy and advocated vegetarianism. And with the help of Prof Jean-Charles Darmon, an expert in the "Republic of Letters" that crossed borders in the name of knowledge, he tracks the bitter feuds over Descartes' denial of animal minds. [Repeated Thursday 10am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Records Comic, Curious And Cracked
An eco-neutral trawl through the unusual records acquired by various means, including even purchase, during an otherwise mostly virtuous lifetime by Jack Thorington. [Repeated Thursday 3pm.]
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Near Mint
Adventures in compulsive record-collecting with obsessive hoarder Robin The Fog. Following on from last week's trip to the Yugoslavian Space Programme and a recent digging excursion to the Saxany-Anhalt city of Halle; this week we bring you the electronic and exotic sounds of the former German Democratic Republic. Visit RobinTheFog.com for further information. [Repeated Thursday 10.30am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Radio Diva
New series! Rosie Wilby, who has presented award-winning LGBT show Out in South London on Resonance since 2009, has now teamed up with the newly relaunched Diva magazine to create Radio Diva. Co-hosted by actress, musician and downright lesbian superstar Heather Peace, this promises to be a show that everyone can fall in love with, regardless of sexuality and gender. This week: Heather and Rosie kick off Radio Diva with a truly international flavour as they are joined by one of Australia's best-known performers. Magda Szubanski created the iconic character of Sharon Strzelecki in Kath and Kim. She is in the UK to promote her award-winning new memoir Reckoning. [Repeated Sunday 10am.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Gate Kicks
Introduced by MC 2 Decks and produced by people with learning disabilities at the Gate Art 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. [Repeated Friday 4am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Stephanie Feeney discusses brain injury and creativity. [Repeated Wednesday 9am.]
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Make Your Own Damn Music
Artworld shenanigans with Bob and Roberta Smith and George Lionel Barker. [Repeated Saturday 8am.]
10:00pm - 10:30pm
Pus Galore
Luis Drayton presents cut-ups, mash-ups, sketches and other post-modernist transvestite electropunk hi-jinks, plus music from various new electronic/punk/drag artists. [Repeated Monday 4.30am.]
10:30pm - 12:00am
Artrocker
Paul Cox from the influential Artrocker magazine previews all the latest releases from London and the UK's thriving indie rock scene and beyond. Visit the Artrocker website http://www.artrocker.tv/ for more information. To listen to past shows visit Paul's Mixcloud page. [Repeated Thursday 1am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Is Black Music
Is Black Music is the world's first and longest running Alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. [Repeated Sunday 3.30am.]