Sunday 28th May
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12:00am - 1:00am
Bermuda Triangle Test Transmissions Broadcasts
[Repeated from Thursday 11pm.] "The soundtrack to the end of the world" - Chris Maume, The Independent. Visit btttb.blogspot.com for more information. Contact testtransmissions@gmail.com.
1:00am - 2:30am
Adventures in Sound and Music
[Repeated from Thursday 9pm.] New music with The Wire magazine. As a 400 special, Gustave Evrard will be playing some of his favourite Wire featured artists from 1986 archive issues, the year he was born. Releases by Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Golden Palominos, Bill Laswell, Naná Vasconcelos and more. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information. Contact theconduit@thewire.co.uk.
2:30am - 3:30am
Grime for the Unconverted
[Repeated from Tuesday 12am.] Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. This week: a unique showcase of mostly exclusive tracks by Grime legend JT the Goon, a founding member of Slew Dem - whose earliest Grime track was made on a Playstation in 2000! "I have my own unique relationship with music," JT has said, "to me it's alive, and responds to emotions better than humans, it's my friend when no one cares, music talks to me and always listens, wakes me up and sends me to sleep." 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.]
3:30am - 4:30am
Is Black Music
[Repeated from Wednesday 12 midnight.] Is Black Music is the world's first and longest running Alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry.
4:30am - 5:00am
Pus Galore
[Repeated from Tuesday 10pm.] New series. 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.
5:00am - 6:00am
Intoxica Radio Hour
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] 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.
6:00am - 7:00am
Kammer Klang
[Repeated from Wednesday 5.30pm.] 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.
7:00am - 7:15am
Drift Shift
[Repeated from Tuesday 3.45pm.] Found sound and found text collected to form drifts that shift, produced and presented by Franziska Lantz. Visit driftshift.blogspot.com from more information.
7:15am - 8:00am
Sound Out
[Repeated from Tuesday 3pm.] 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 (she is also a keen banjo player), as well as field recordings from her extensive travels around the world. This week: composer, musician, and political activist Michael Chant, talks about forthcoming events organised by the Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust in partnership with Morley College. In particular, a Day School at Morley College on Sunday 18th June, under the topic of The Music of Cornelius Cardew and the field of music-making in the 21st century.
8:00am - 9:00am
Farside Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 12 noon.] 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.
9:00am - 10:00am
Wavelength
[Repeated from Friday 2:30pm.] A programme of multiple agendas presented by William English. Today’s programme features a couple of rare recordings by the concrete poet John J. Sharkey. Sharkey was born in 1936 in Dublin, moved to London, and for a while managed the gallery of the ICA. His poems appeared in Henri Chopin’s OU revue, Tlaloc, Poetry Ireland, LISN (the poster poem magazine he published with Sonia Sharkey) and several anthologies. He edited the anthology of British concrete poetry called ‘Mindplay.’ He made a film-poem called OPENWORDROBE and in 1964 made his first wall poems, one of which, the 20 foot long ‘Magic Poem’ was shown at the Oxford Kinetic and Concrete exhibition. He also wrote plays for stage and radio. The recordings by Sharkey on today’s show turned up in a bookseller’s catalogue as reel to reel tapes, one of which was recorded in the Middle Earth Club in the 1960s.
10:00am - 11:00am
Radio Diva
[Repeated from Tuesday 6.30pm.] New LGBT series presented by Rosie Wilby and Heather Peace with Diva magazine. This week: Rosie co-hosts with comedian Jen Brister while Heather is away on maternity leave. They are joined by Wendy Meakin, host of the new online Diva literary salon. Also guesting in the studio is Emma Frankland, a performer exploring themes of gender and transition.
11:00am - 12:00pm
The Curtain Up Show
[Repeated from Friday 4pm.] Tim McArthur, Nathan Matthews and guests discuss London's thriving music-theatre scene. This week's guests: Steven Dexter, director of ‘When Harry Met Barry’ at Above The Stag Theatre in Vauxhall; and Karen Fishwick, Kirsty MacLaren and Frances Mayli McCann from ’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’ at the Duke of York's Theatre. Visit thecurtainupshow.com for more information.
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Killjoy FM
A new series of Ray Filar's left feminist radio series. [Repeated Tuesday 8am.]
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Latin Waves
A bilingual programme (English & Spanish) presented by critic and producer Javier Chandía which covers Latin American music from its roots to the avant-garde. This week: an interview with Brazilian composer Marco Scarassatti, who has an extensive career as a sound artist, improviser, researcher, and building new instruments. His pionering book 'Smetak o alquimista do som' (2009), about Walter Smetak, opened the door to explore this outstanding and influential musician. Scarassatti has produced different albums with collaborators such as Sonax (2007), Novelo Electrico (2014), Rumor (2015) and Amoa Hi (2016). He is currently preparing a new solo improvised work, 'Casa Acustica - Fragments from an Improvisation Diary'. Visit latinwavesresonancefm.com for more information. [Repeated Thursday 5am.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Calling All Pensioners
[Repeated from Monday 1pm]. Magazine programme with Tim Hamilton, addressing issues which affect pensioners across London. This week: music dedicated to DAGE’s Harry Haward, who passed away in November 2016, aged almost 84. Plus tributes from DAGE’s Kitty Finch, Barbara Banks, Kath Waldron, Robert, Winnie and Brenda, who are joined by Harry’s younger brother, Brother Bill. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Relatively Good Radio Show
Cousins Richard Guard and Anna Crockatt celebrate the capital's past, present and future in the show where everything is live. With regulars Buffalo Bill, Alex The Greek and Mickey Science. [Repeated Tuesday 6am.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Honeydripper
Anne Frankenstein presents an hour of rare funk, soul, jazz, calypso, afrobeat and exotica treasures. For more information visit Anne Frankenstein on Facebook. [Repeated Thursday 8am].
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Nana Nicol's Balearic Cosmic Slop
Sarah "Nana" Nicol delves into her trolley bag and pulls out a selection of leftfield disco, edits, and cosmic delights. [Repeated Friday 2am.]
6:00pm - 6:30pm
The Optical Sound Show
[Repeated from Tuesday 10am.] From 2006, David Leister's zany translation of 16mm library films and found footage to the radio.
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Knowledge After Austerity And Brexit
The second of two panel discussions on the subject of Knowledge after Austerity and Brexit, which took place on 23 February and 3 March 2017 at the London College of Communication, UAL. This programme focuses on designing solutions and considers new forms of knowledge creation and dissemination that could provide an alternative future for knowledge production in the UK. Invited Panelists were: David Cross, Reader in Art and Design, University of the Arts London; Mor Rubinstein, Community Coordinator, Open Knowledge International; Shiri Shalmy, artist and curator, Antiuniversity Now co-organiser; Tom Wakeford, Reader in Public Science, Coventry University and Lead Practitioner, People’s Knowledge. Chair: Rebecca Bramall, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, London College of Communication. Recorded by Ethan Pickthall and Edwin Hind. Visit listeningacrossdisciplines.net for more information. [Repeated Thursday 4.30pm.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Hooting Yard On The Air
[Repeated from Thursday 6pm.] Live, out of leftfield fiction with Resonance's prodigious author-in-residence Frank Key. Visit hootingyard.org for more information.
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Black 2 Comm
A music radio show about connections, produced and presented by Paul Jackson. Visit black2comm.com for more information. [Repeated Tuesday 2am.]
9:00pm - 10:00pm
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
Rhythmically other, entertaining, perplexing and unashamedly progressive sounds, playing music that uses unusual time signatures, song structures and dynamics - sounds that break out of Western music's peculiar obsession with 4/4. Visit otherrockshow.wordpress.com for more information. [Repeated Friday 3.00am.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Drones Of Hell
Ray Kirby presents an hour of Extreme Metal, featuring tracks old and new from the last three decades. For more information visit dronesofhell.blogspot.com. [Repeated Tuesday 3am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
framework
The best from a world of field recordings, curated by Patrick McGinley. This week: the 600th (!) edition, approaching our 15th anniversary, features works by Tarab, Scott Sherk, Carlos Casas, Gavin Prior, sounds from the Aporee Soundmaps by Tsan-Cheng Wu and Udo Noll, and a framework introduction recorded for us in Australia by Jeremy Hegge. Visit frameworkradio.net for more information. Contact info@frameworkradio.net. [Repeated Wednesday 5am.]
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.]