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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. In honour of tomorrow’s International Women's Day, tonight Art features music by women. In the mix will be Elaine Mitchner, Wanda Robinson and Rosie Okae amongst other iconoclastic female artists. [Repeated Sunday 3.30am.]
1:00am - 2:30am
The Sound Projector Radio Show
[Repeated from Friday 5.30pm.] A showcase for records of contemporary experimental and underground music, hosted by Ed Pinsent. Tonight: dark drone and unsettling ambient sounds, with new records by J Surak, Common Eider King Eider, Jarl, Genetic Transmission, Maninkari, A Sphere Of Simple Green, and Massimo Olla. Plus selections from the comp "Visions Of Darkness in Iranian Contemporary Music". Less-recent tracks from Electric Sewer Age, Phallus Dei, Strotter Inst. and pinkcourtesyphone sustain the atmospheric mood. Visit thesoundprojector.com/radio-show/ for more information.
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! [Repeated Saturday 10.30pm.]
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.]A programme consecrated to field recording, phonography, and the art of sound-hunting. Presented by Patrick Tubin McGinley. This edition of framework:afield has been produced in the UK by Amanda Wilson, AKA <a href="https://kassiaflux.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Kassia Flux,</a> using recordings she made in Italy in 2017.
6:00am - 7:00am
There Then, Hear Now
[Repeated Wednesday 6am.] Mark Aitken examines the relationship between photography and sound. This week Chris Dorley-Brown returns to the show with a new book about street corners in the East End. His work takes on a topographical time travel mode whereby each picture simulates ongoing moments. We’ll also find time to discuss an exhibition of historical pictures of Tower Hamlets by David Granick and the merits of high res vests. With sounds from Ken Nordine, Robert Wyatt and Patrice Rushen.
7:00am - 8:00am
Sonic Blind Dates
[Repeated from Monday 4.30pm.] A monthly experiment in shared listening, with Sophie Mallett: everything on the show is new to her ears, and hopefully to yours too. This month: an International Women's Day Special, featuring a new release of Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou; all-female Swiss punk band LiLiPUT; 70's Madagascan crooners Vetson' Androy; a 7" inch from London punks Frau; 90's compilation 'There's a dyke in the pit' and more. Tune in to chance. For more information visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sonicblinddates" target="_blank">facebook.com/sonicblinddates</a>.
8:00am - 9:00am
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.
9:00am - 10:00am
The Naked Short Club
[Repeated from Monday 9pm.] Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around hedge funds, markets, the economy and wider world. With heady music and the delicious products of sponsors Madoff Ponzi Bier. Master Engineer: Chris Dixon.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Tuesday 8pm.] Join DASL (Disability Advice Service Lambeth) and hear people talk about how they got into sport, what barriers they may have faced, why they enjoy doing physical activity and what music they exercise to. Visit http://www.disabilitylambeth.org.uk/dasl/sport/ for more information.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Intoxica Radio Hour
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 week's featured artist: Sharon Tandy. For further information and general waffle, contact intoxica@intoxica.co.uk. [Repeated Saturday 7am.]
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. This week: David Hughes and Gina Barnes are live in session. Visit farsidemusic.com/ for more information. [Repeated Sunday 5pm.]
1:00pm - 1:30pm
The Atomic Drop
[Repeated from Friday 5pm.]
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Constructive Forces
Interviews with artists and specialists examining social, political and environmental issues, conducted by K. Yoland. This week: Co-curator, Melinda Lang, discusses the artist Toyin Ojih Odutola's solo exhibition, 'To Wander Determined', a series of drawings using pastel, charcoal and pencil, at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Presenting a series of fictional portraits, the artist chronicles the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families, united by the marriage of two men. 'To Wander Determined' upends assumptions about race, wealth and class, supporting Odulola’s continuing examination of narrative, authenticity and representation. [Repeated Saturday 6.30pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. Today's show fuses members of two bands for a live session: Late Lunch All-Stars (OTL - mouthnoise, piano, soundfiles; Dave Black - electric guitar; Paul Shearsmith - trumpet, Baliphone, Jew's harp, squeakers) and Somers Town Blues Band (Stephen Denholm - keyboards; Dave Daws - electric guitar). Denholm is an organiser for the Somers Town START Festival, and involved in current anti-HS2 protests. He's a Buddhist - and learned to sing the blues when told to shout. [Repeated Friday 12am.]
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
[Repeated from Saturday 1.30pm.] Classic Congolese dance music of the two Congos.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Spizz FM
[Repeated from Friday 11am.] An on-going audio autobiography from the punk and post-punk legend. For more information visit the Spizzenergi Facebook page.
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Dig That Treasure
William Hall brings his Dig That Treasure blog to the radio, aiming to give light to lost classic recordings and obscurities. [Repeated Sunday 1.30pm.]
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Panel Borders
The art of the contemporary graphic novel and strip cartoon, with Alex Fitch. Toys and Games. In a pair of interviews looking at the connections between toys, games and comics, Alex talks to artists Karen Rubins and Bob Molesworth about their work. Karen discusses her new comic art card game, Comic Turns, and Bob talks about drawing Lego Star Wars, and cyberpunk adult colouring book Part Robot. Visit panelborders.wordpress.com for more information. [Repeated Tuesday 7am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
A World In London
DJ Ritu presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London. Tonight the distinguished director of the superb Yoruba Women Choir, Funmi Olawumi, is her guest. [Repeated Monday 8am.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
L'alternative
Eleonore Desnos explores French audio oddities and delights "a la carte". Today: a celebration of female artists, musicians, composers and divas from France, in honour of International Women's Day. [Repeated Friday 2pm.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Studio Visit
Studio Visit is an hour-long in depth interview based programme, presented by Morgan Quaintance, featuring international contemporary artists, writers and theorists as guests. This month he talks to Glasgow-based artist Hardeep Pandhal. [Repeated Monday 3am this week only.]
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: Fari and film maker Rammy Elsaadany review AVA, by Iranian-Canadian female director Sadaf Forougi. About a teenager from a conservative, patriarchal community in Tehran, it screens twice at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF), Barbican, 14 and 15 March 2018. They also review the forthcoming UK release of British-Iranian thriller Gholam - inspired by a real character, an exile's search for a sense of purpose in an alien environment, after going through a revolution, a war and migration. This, the debut feature from Iranian artist and filmmaker Mitra Tabrizian, stems from her award winning photographic series Border in which the original enigmatic Iranian exile actually featured in 2006. Visit sixpillars.org for more information. [Repeated Monday 5pm.]
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 7am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Very Loose Women
Private conversations made public, often with special guests including artists, musicians, academics, comedians, film-makers, journalists and friends. Presented by Katherine Johnston, Leonore Schick and Soila Apparicio. For more information visit acast.com/veryloosewomen or follow them on Twitter at @VLWRadio. [Repeated Friday 1am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Spool's Out Radio
Tristan Bath (of The Quietus) delves into music from the cassette tape underground. Drones and soft waves of beauty define most of the music on this week's cassette tape release roundup, including new gear from synthesist Byron Westbrook, Brianna Kelly's stacked voices, a new track by ambient master Rafael Anton Irisarri, plus plenty more. Visit spools-out.com for more information. [Repeated Saturday 12.30am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
The News Agents International Women's Day Special
Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague, hear presenting selections from three feminist collaborations - comprising creative writing, feminist discussion and sound art - with Mia Kukathasan. Includes 'Vagina Asteroids', 'Alternative Annunciation' and a collaged homage to women of science fiction - notably Ursula Le Guin.