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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.]
1:00am - 2:30am
The Sound Projector Radio Show
[Repeated from Friday 5.30pm.] An "aural appendix" to The Sound Projector Music Magazine, presented by Ed Pinsent. Visit thesoundprojector.com/radio-show/ for more information. Tonight, new records by Chris Abrahams and Burkhard Beins, Tanya Tagaq, CE François Couture, Michel Redolfi, Dennis Tyfus, pinkcourtesyphone, Tunnels of Āh, Fond Of Tigers, Film In Music, Hen Ogledd, Chester Hawkins, and Paul Wirkus.
2:30am - 4:00am
Psychosonic Cinema
Renowned Australian soundtrack theorist Philip Brophy presents 90 minutes of loud and luscious soundtrack dynamite! Across 13 episodes, he covers five strains of film music: Electronic Soundscapes; Big Beat Jive; Hard Rock Freak-Out; Funked-Up Grooves; and Atomic Atonality. In all cases, great tracks that speak for themselves!
4:00am - 5:00am
Flomotion
[Repeated from Saturday 8.30pm.] A hand-picked mix of the most dynamic and exciting new electronic music and beyond from veteran DJ and droadcaster Nick Luscombe. For archived programmes visit mixcloud.com/FlomotionRadio/ and keep in touch via Twitter at @nickluscombe and @flomotion_radio.
5:00am - 6:00am
framework
[Repeated from Sunday 11pm.] The best from a world of field recordings, curated by Patrick McGinley. This edition of framework:afield, entitled 'Capital Steel', has been recorded in Beijing, China, and produced in Zurich, Switzerland by Jason Kahn. Visit frameworkradio.net for more information. Contact info@frameworkradio.net.
6:00am - 7:00am
Balling the Jack
[Repeated from Friday 9pm.] Joe Cushley explores 13 Bar Blues and Twisted Roots music from around the globe. From the the 1920s to the present day, from the barrel-house to the arthouse via the bedsit, from Mali to Mississippi to the Mekong via New Malden - every culture has its blues. For more information visit ballingthejack on Facebook. E-mail ballingthejack1@gmail.com.
7:00am - 8:00am
Literary London
[Repeated from Friday 7pm.] Nick Hennegan explores the literary life of London and celebrates the popular cultural life and literary history of the city. For more information visit LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com.
8:00am - 9:00am
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
[Repeated from Saturday 1.30pm.] Classic Congolese dance music of the two Congos with Vincent and Koffi.
9:00am - 10:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Tuesday 8pm.] 'Nothing New Under the Sun'. A programme that reveals some of the most inventive and provocative musicians and composers from Brazil, presented by Francisco Mazza. The selected artists have in common a great sense of originality, experimentation and freedom, but for many years they were undeservedly labeled as damns, marginals or even completely ignored by the established commercial music industry. Today's programme features the work of Itamar Assumpção. For further information on Itamar's work and career visit daqueleinstanteemdiante.tumblr.com.
10:00am - 10:30am
The Optical Sound Show
From 2006, David Leister's zany translation of 16mm library films and found footage to the radio. [Repeated Sunday 6pm.]
10:30am - 11:00am
Hot Club du Monde
[Repeated from Thursday 7.30pm.] A Baedeker tour of international musical curiosities from the 78rpm era with Oliver Carter-Wakefield.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Intoxica Radio Hour
New series! Presented by Nick Brown of Intoxica Record Shop and dedicated to the dignity of vinyl, giving centre stage to new vinyl reissue releases, spotlighting Content Themes and specific artists' careers - and generally playing the gloriously unheralded low-brow rock and soul of the 20th Century, all rendered on little slabs of black plastic. This edition's featured artist is Don Drummond. For further information and general waffle, contact intoxica@intoxica.co.uk. [Repeated Sunday 5am.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Farside Radio
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. [Repeated Sunday 8am.]
1:00pm - 2:00pm
The News Agents
[Repeated from Saturday 2.30pm.] Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague. This week: guest Alessandra Genualdo discussing Italian illustration, art-cinema, French films and women drawing women. Collaborations, freelancing, working in gouache and other materials plus the potential of cinema to invigorate illustration with implied narrative and scene-making.
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. This week, the AMM All-Stars (Dave Black, electric guitar; Paul Shearsmith, trumpet; Peter Baxter, drums) respond to Ben's soundfiles, which include the words of Ben Moran Healy of the Psychedelic Bolsheviks, Len Massey's Theremin and "aural traces" of sitar maestro Shujaat Khan ("aural traces" are recordings made by listening to something on headphones whilst improvising a response: you only get to hear the response). [Repeated Tuesday 1am.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Great Exposure
Great Exposure offers discussion and insight into the the use of music in advertising and its effects on the music industry. Presented by music supervisor Marcus Brooke-Smith. [Repeated Monday 11.30am.]
3:30pm - 4:00pm
East London With Charles Saumarez Smith
Director of the Royal Academy and enthusiastic East London resident Charles Saumurez Smith joins friends and fellow east Londoners in a series of wide ranging discussions on the past present and future of Bow, Limehouse, Spitalfields and The Isle of Dogs. This week: Limehouse, with politician Lord David Owen; light artist Peter Fink; community activist Nick Wates; urban historian Professor Michael Hebbert and Cynthia Grant who worked for the Docklands Development Corporation from 1985 to 1998. [Repeated Monday 11am.]
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Kitchen Magic Time
Recipes in sound from Mama Dolores, Mistress of the Deep Soul Kitchen. [Repeated Tuesday 10.30am.]
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Ālāp With Adesh
New series! Adesh Sundaresan explores Indian classical music. This week: live music from singer Prabhat Rao. [Repeated Saturday 4am.]
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Kammer Klang
New music from the on-going Kammer Klang series of concerts in London, presented by Louis d'Heudieres. Featuring We Spoke, Hackuarium, Explore Ensemble and Mark Applebaum. See kammerklang.co.uk for more details of Kammer Klang's live music concerts. [Repeated Sunday 6am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
A World In London
DJ Ritu presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London. This week: Cameroon's premier Londoner Muntu Valdo plays harmonica, guitar & more before the unmissable Focus Africa Festival at Rich Mix on June 2nd! [Repeated Monday 8am.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
L'alternative
Eleonore Desnos explores French audio oddities and delights "a la carte". [Repeated Friday 2pm.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
A mix by Hungarian producer Új Bála, one of the artists championed by SHAPE (Sound, Heterogeneous Art & Performance in Europe), the platform established by 16 European festivals with support of EU's Creative Europe programme to promote up-and-coming musicians and innovative audiovisual artists. [Repeated Thursday 9am.]
9:00pm - 9:30pm
Six Pillars
Fari Bradley focuses on choice contemporary Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian sound, art and culture. This week: Lina Lazaar, curator of the Tunisian Pavilion at Venice Biennial (the first since 1958) explains "The Absence of Paths" - and why there are no artworks as such, but thirty Tunisians, including dancers and 'actors' who were would-be migrants, in the Pavilion. Visit sixpillars.org for more information. [Repeated Friday 3.30pm.]
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Club Integral Radio Show
The Earl of Killorglin and Andrew Scott-Bolton of Club Integral preview its upcoming concerts in London. [Repeated Friday 6am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Very Loose Women
Emma Grinfeld and Leonore Schick discuss young women’s issues. This week: Elaine Willis joins to speak about social housing and joining the Women Speak Out project. With Florence Burton of the Women's Resource Centre, Paola Tamma speaking about living in a cooperative and an excellent social housing quiz. For more information visit acast.com/veryloosewomen or follow them on Twitter at @VLWRadio. [Repeated Friday 4.30am.]
11:00pm - 1:00am
From the Archives
Audio from the vaults to mark our fifteenth year on 104.4 FM. This week: Ventures and Adventures in Topography by John Rogers (November 2009); Unknown Country by Martin Williams (September 2003); and Unter Radio by Benedict Drew (July 2009). [Repeated Saturday 5am.]