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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. This week: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek's "The Next Generation," Rob talks with cast members Gates McFadden, Garrett Wang, William
Shatner and others. Visit robsimone.com/ for more information. [Repeated Thursday 2am.]
1:00am - 2:00am
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax and canines carry on slumbering. [Repeated Thursday 3am.]
2:00am - 3:00am
Radio Ecoshock
[Repeated from Friday 10am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: Is Humanity Unsustainable? What makes a mild-mannered biology professor call for a planned collapse of the economy? Canadian scientist Bill Rees would know. He was an inventor of the ecological footprint concept, and has been measuring our impact on the planet for decades. Now he's worried about survival: ours and all living systems. In this program, you will hear a mile-stone lecture by Dr. Bill Rees, as recorded by Alex Smith in 2010. It's about our three brains: the reactive reptile stem, mammalian emotions, and the late-coming attempt at rationality. Which wins? Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
3:00am - 4:30am
The Ambrosia Rasputin Show
[Repeated from Saturday noon.] New four part series. Live music, lopsided humour and radio adventures with Ivor Kallin and guests. This week's guests: Glowering Figs. Improvising trio of Jerry Wigens on electric guitar, Dave Fowler on Drums and Ivor Kallin on vocals will play stuff live and who knows what else will happen.
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. In this week's season finale, field recordings from Robin Hood Gardens and music from Rwandan Pygmies and Robert Fripp.
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.
9:00am - 10:00am
The Self Road
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] Musician and vlogger Anne Gallien explores journeys in self-realisation. This episode: "As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change toward him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” Mahatma Gandhi. Anne is en route to Wells, Somerset, to meet Andrew of The Awakening Heart, who left the corporate world after working in London for 20 years and who today is sharing his empowering journey - how he filled his void of unhappiness to find his inner peace.
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 presents... Visit ruthbarnes.co.uk for more information.
11:00am - 11:30am
Sculpt
[Repeated from Sunday 12pm.] Personally-felt sensory collages and sonic obscurities with Milo Thesiger-Meacham.
11:30am - 12:00pm
Hot Club du Monde
[Repeated from Thursday 7.30pm.] A Baedeker tour of international musical curiosities from the 78rpm era with Oliver Carter-Wakefield. This week: the last episode of the current series sees us travel from the back streets of Brussels to the sun-baked plains of Texas as we investigate recordings by Jelly Roll Morton, Fud Candrix, Frank Tanner and Bob Wills.
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: reaction from Britain’s largest pensioners’ movement, the National Pensioners Convention, to recent news on planned Government changes to the retirement age. Plus, in light of Theresa May’s announcement that we must work for longer, news from the website www.pensionbee.com which has compared a typical pension with that of an MP’s, and found that just 10 years of service as an MP can net £18,500 a year in retirement money. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly. [Repeated Sunday 2pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
The Outerglobe
[Repeated from Thursday 6.30pm.] Debbie Golt explores African music and wider arts and culture. 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: sitting in for Jonny Trunk will be super vinyl collector Alan McKinnon. With an ear firmly placed in the vintage eJazz Scene, Alan will be thrilling us with rare jazz covers of infamous film music themes, bizarre modal monsters from films you may not have heard of and more besides. He also has one of the best broadcasting voices we have ever heard. Visit trunkrecords.com for more information. Contact jonny@trunkrecords.com.
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Xi Carnival
[Repeated from Sunday 6.30pm.] Xi Carnival - music from behind the wall: Caralinda Booth presents an hour long special of alternative music from mainland China. Having lived and worked in Beijing in the Chinese music industry for over 10 years, Caralinda shares her unique knowledge of the richly diverse and emerging modern music scene. Joined by her trusty chums Tiger and ShanYi, who report in directly from Beijing and Chengdu, the team uncover some gems, from hip hop/rap, to electric cyberpunk; hear the godfather of Chinese rock, and the indie boys who supported Sonic Youth; the Chinese Michael Jackson; throat singing death metal; reggae from the Myanmar border. And this is just the beginning!...
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 - 7:00pm
Nunhead American Radio
The only radio programme for Americans living in Nunhead, hosted by Lewis Schaffer and Lisa Moyle, with music from The Relatives. Today's guest is comic Susan Murray. [Repeated Saturday 11.30am.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
One Life Left
An award-winning show about videogames for everyone, presented by Ste Curran, Simon Byron and Ann Scantlebury. Visit onelifeleft.com for more information. [Repeated Saturday 10am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Trail Mix[ED]: Ledger Lines. Volume 2. Trail Mix is artist Bram Thomas Arnold's geographical show about art and the journey as a form of process and product. Ledger Lines Volume 2 is the second show exploring the work of three artists whose work was shown as part of Ledger Lines, an exhibition at Kestle Barton, Rural Centre for Contemporary Art on the Lizard, in Cornwall. Bram joins Abigail Reynolds, Sophie Rickett and Michelle Stuart amidst three mythic West Country landscapes, taking in points of view from Lucy Lippard, Fay Godwin, and Alice Oswald. [Repeated Tuesday 9am.]
9:00pm - 10:00pm
The Naked Short Club
Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around hedge funds, markets, the economy and wider world. This week's guests: Marc Ostwald, Global Strategist, ADM; Stephen Pope, CEO, Spotlight Ideas; Tushar Patel, CIO, HFIM; Amy Maxwell, Editor, Citywire; plus by Tantric videolink from the USA, Mike Gasior. Special guests: Royal Academician Michael Sandle and poet Carol Dine. With heady music and the delicious products of sponsors Madoff Ponzi Bier. Master Engineer: Chris Dixon. [Repeated Tuesday 12 noon.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Spool's Out Radio
Tristan Bath (of The Quietus) delves into music from the cassette tape underground. Artists and labels can send their tracks to compilation@spools-out.com. This week: #112 'Artificial Incantations'. An episode of drones and chants, covering recent tape releases from around the world. Includes Canadian ambience, Chinese noise, and a new track by Bridget Hayden. Visit spoolsoutradio.wordpress.com for more information. [Repeated Wednesday 7am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Queer Temporalities
Queer Temporalities is 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. Tonight: in our last investigation on the idea of a Queer Sonic Archive, we head to a more sonic plateaux and finish the season with a Queer Summer Musical Special. Expect some great late night Queer tunage. Visit Queer Temporalities blog for more information. [Repeated Thursday 4am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. Visit Grime for the Unconverted on Facebook.