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12:00am - 1:00am
The Rob Simone Talk Show
Interviews with a wide range of alternative thinkers by the Los Angeles-based investigator of anomalous phenomena. Visit robsimone.com/ for more information. [Repeated Friday 7am.]
1:00am - 2:00am
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax and canines carry on slumbering. [Repeated Saturday 3am.]
2:00am - 3:00am
Radio Ecoshock
[Repeated from Friday 10am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week you will hear a full-length presentation called "Racing to the Precipice: Global Climate, Political Climate". The speaker is the world-famous Professor Noam Chomsky. This talk was given at the Starr Forum, presented by MIT Center for International Studies, on 23 March 23 2017. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
3:00am - 4:30am
The Hello Goodbye Show
[Repeated from Saturday 12 noon.] Upbeat, eclectic live music show hosted by deXter Bentley. This week's guests are: Ed Dowie and Honey Hahs. Also Zoë Howe, Celeste Bell and Paul Sng come in to discuss their Indiegogo crowd funding project, that aims to raise funding for a film about the life of Polystyrene (X-Ray Spex) entitled 'I am a cliché'. Visit hellogoodbyeshow.com for more information.
4:30am - 5:00am
The Truth about Markets
[Repeated from Saturday 6.30pm.] Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert ("the most dangerous people in financial media") scrutinise the markets. Visit maxkeiser.com/ for more information.
5:00am - 6:00am
Bad Punk
[Repeated from Friday 10pm.] 60 minutes in the eye of a radiophonic vortex - hosted by the Band of Holy Joy. Visit bandofholyjoy.co.uk for more information.
6:00am - 7:00am
The London Ear
[Repeated from Thursday 12 noon.] Wide ranging cultural salon hosted by ghostwriter and critic Ben Thompson. This week: the dream interludes from Roland Kirk's The Case of the 3-Sided Dream in Audio Colour find new homes amid the music of 75 Dollar Bill, Richard Dawson, Memphis Jug Band, Led Zeppelin, King Ayisoba and Ultravox.
7:00am - 8:00am
Novara FM
[Repeated from Friday 1pm.] A weekly show dedicated to political theory and current affairs hosted by Aaron Bastani and James Butler. Find Novara on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. E-mail info@novaramedia.com. All previous shows are available at novaramedia.com.
8:00am - 9:00am
A World In London
[Repeated from Wednesday 6.30pm.] DJ Ritu presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London. This week: Latin music star Eliane Correa live on AWIL before her La Linea Festival concert!
9:00am - 10:00am
The Self Road
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] The Self Road by musician, vlogger and actor Anne Gallien, a French Anglophile living in Bristol whose first love nevertheless remains London Bridge. What is it about? From war to peace within. From death to life inside. This inner voice keeps whispering "Listen to me! Ecoute-moi if you want to live!”. On The Self Road, you share the experiences of your inner voyage. Today, we are en route to meet Leo Coleing, the Laughing Buddha, the joyous father, the mediator for Alcoholic Anonymous who was once homeless, an alcohol and drug addict, MC on the hip hop music scene in Bristol and a bit of a gangster. Listen to his wake up call… and remember... "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
10:00am - 11:00am
The Other Woman
[Repeated from Thursday 3.30pm.] Curated by Ruth Barnes, The Other Woman is a collective representing alternative female artists in music, comedy and performance. This week: Musician Piney Gir will be joined by two men who consider themselves feminists: Mike Monaghan is a professional drummer from Oxfordshire with a tour blog called View From The Drum Stool reporting from the road about life behind the drum set; and Willie J Healy will do a live acoustic session, en route to his gig later that night at Shepherd's Bush Empire, promoting his forthcoming album. Visit ruthbarnes.co.uk for more information.
11:00am - 11:45am
Acoustic Mirrors
[Repeated from Wednesday 3pm.] Broadcasts by artist Lou Marcellin to coincide with Friche Broadcasts, an exhibition and participatory project space which focuses on ideas of ecology(ies), ecosystems and their communities, realised at Diaspore, an artist run space in Bermondsey, South London. Today: What is the next Machine? The Architect and the Experts' presented by Lucie Beauvert and curated by Marcellin.
11:45am - 12:00pm
Whytemead Weekly
[Repeated from Wednesday 3.45pm.] From 2012, a rare magazine radio show made by nine Year 3 (eight year old) pupils at Whytemead First School in Worthing, West Sussex, which is “exactly as funny and bewildering as children are. A great project.” (Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, who know a thing or two.)
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
[Repeated from Thursday 2pm.] Reg Hall and Kevin Sheils (on alternate weeks) present 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: news of Deptford Action Group for the Elderly's benefit fundraiser in memory of its former chairman, the late Harry Haward, on Saturday 6 May 2017 at the Shaftesbury Centre, Frankham Street, Deptford, SE8 4RN, 2pm to 6pm. DAGE also has a newly launched website. [Repeated Sunday 2pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
The Outerglobe
[Repeated from Thursday 6.30pm.] Debbie Golt explores African music and wider arts and culture. This week: Toto La Mompasina, here for La Linea Festival, is still passionate in her 70s about presenting and preserving Colombian culture in music and dance with a contemporary edge especially now (prerecord); Sarina in her 30s, is half of Native Sun (with Mohammed Yahya) creating conscious new style Afro Hip Hop/Spoken Word. Visit www.outerglobe.co.uk for more information.
3:00pm - 5:00pm
The OST Show
[Repeated from Saturday 4.30pm.] Presented by Jonny Trunk, The OST Show is the only show anywhere dedicated to film music, TV music, library music and related recordings. This week: we are lucky to have a show put together by collector Steven Simms-Luddington, who will be focusing on beautiful film music he has recently found and a library record that Jonny told him all about. Visit trunkrecords.com for more information. Contact jonny@trunkrecords.com.
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Sonic Blind Dates
A monthly experiment in shared listening, with Sophie Mallett: everything on the show is new to her ears, and hopefully to yours too. [Repeated Saturday 6am.]
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Tin Can Review
[Repeated from Saturday 8pm.] James Hodder present melodic new music by currently touring artists. Follow updates on Twitter @TinCanReview. Visit tincanreview.com for more information.
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Freedom Of Expression Awards 2017
Highlights of this year's Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Awards, hosted by Katy Brand. The Awards exist to celebrate individuals or groups who have had a significant impact fighting censorship anywhere in the world. Recorded on 19 April 2017 at Unicorn Theatre, London. [Repeated Wednesday 11pm.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Gwaith Sŵn's Sonic Darts
Sound-art and transmission-art from < ahref="https://www.facebook.com/gwaithswn/" target="_blank">, the London sound art collective. Tonight: the theme 'Piano', with pieces by Daria Baiocchi, Kevin Ka Wei Chan, Sam Conran, Disinformation and Strange Attractor, Paul Freeman, Jenn Kirby, and Dan Linn-Pearl. [Repeated Tuesday 9am.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Spool's Out Radio
Tristan Bath (of The Quietus) delves into music from the cassette tape underground. This week: #101 'Gosheven'. Gosheven is the nom de plume of Bálint Szabó, also half of Budapest duo 12z. Out soon via Opal Tapes, his debut solo release 'Leaper' sees Szabó utilising just intonation, Pythagorean tuning, Koto tuning, Meantone temperament - "and other non-typical tuning systems" - on his guitar and keys to craft music outside the realms of standardised Western practices. Aptly, he's assembled a mix for us guiding us through some music made with non-standard tuning, including the likes of Lou Harrison, Ellen Arkbro, and Terry Riley. Artists and labels can send their tracks to compilation@spools-out.com. Visit spoolsoutradio.wordpress.com for more information. [Repeated Saturday 12.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Queer Temporalities
A radiophonic journey through the queer time frame with Ennoia Neoptolomus, which challenges the commercialized, commodified and hyper-objectified view of identity projected by the mainstream (gay and straight) and to transform the way we listen to gender and sexuality. This week: in the third part of our series on Queering the Sound Archive, we zoom in upon the fifty Years that have passed after the Vietnam war. What happened to Dr. King’s Revolutionary Dream? We will play music and listen to a discussion between Robin D.G. Kelley & Fred Moten on this very subject. Join us for a third Queer Sonic Archival Journey. [Repeated Friday 1am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. 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.]