Friday 11th May
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12:00am - 1:00am
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson.
1:00am - 1:30am
Very Loose Women
[Repeated from Wednesday 10.30pm.] 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. This week: Key4Life delivers programmes for young men in prison and those at risk of going to prison. Ana, a Key4Life case worker, and Mo, who has been through the programme, join Leo and Soila to talk about how the training functions. For more information visit acast.com/veryloosewomen or follow them on Twitter at @VLWRadio.
1:30am - 2:30am
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax. [Repeated Monday 12am.]
2:30am - 4:00am
The Ambrosia Rasputin Show
[Repeated from Sunday noon.] Freewheeling music series with Ivor Kallin.This week’s guest is the phenomenal globe-trotting Chinese percussionist, Beibei Wang, who will deploy, among other things, the biggest drum ever played in the Resonance studio.
4:00am - 5:00am
Definitely Dylan
[Repeated Friday 4am.] Taking Tom Waits' description to heart - “Dylan is a planet to be explored” - Laura Tenschert presents a series dedicated to the planet that is Bob Dylan and his musical and cultural orbit.
5:00am - 6:00am
Gwaith Sŵn's Sonic Darts
[Repeated from Monday 10pm.] Sound-art and transmission-art from London sound art collective Gwaith Sŵn.This month they explore the theme of Rhythm. In response to an open call for new work there are pieces from a host of international artists including Sebastien Sequoiah-Grayson, David Nadeau, Varun Krishnan, Kazuya Ishigami, Olaf Baars and Muesli Boys. A big thanks to all who got involved and sent in material.
6:00am - 7:00am
The Splice Festival Radio Show
[Repeated from Saturday 3.30pm.] London's leading audio-visual arts festival returns on 10 to 13 May at East London venues Rich Mix and Stour Space. Splice brings together dozens of international artists to celebrate the diverse field of audiovisual performance, including live cinema, AV remixing, VJing, video art and projection mapping. This week’s show is presented by Orka (aka artists Francine Perry and Jens L. Thomsen), who perform on Friday 11 May at Rich Mix with their style of electronics, created using handmade instruments, some originally crafted from agricultural tools on the Faroe Islands. For Resonance, they play an eclectic mixture of tracks, including from artists performing at this year’s Splice. Visit splicefestival.com for more information.
7:00am - 9:00am
A Reason To Wake Up
For just under three weeks in May, Daniel Kitson will wake up at 6 am, get dressed, make himself a nice coffee, ride his bike to Borough in south London and let himself into the studios of Resonance FM using a key code and a special fob. Once inside, he’ll reassure himself as to the probable absence of murderers in the building, turn the desk on, make a cup of tea, almost certainly go to the toilet before, at 7am exactly, presenting a radio show for two hours until 9 am. After that, the day’s his own. [Does not repeat. Nor is it archived. Next episode: Monday at 7am.]
9:00am - 10:00am
Radio Ecoshock
Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: weather has become destabilized around the world. We have new science about risk and the way forward - just released by the Royal Society. From the University of Bristol, lead editor Dann Mitchell is our guest. Environmental lawyer Robert Verchick asks: who pays for climate loss and damage made by Western civilization? How much is a country worth? Where will millions and millions of climate refugees go? It's talk at the highest levels, right here on Radio Ecoshock. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org. [Repeated Monday 6am.]
11:00am - 12:00pm
Spizz FM
[Repeated from Wednesday 4pm.] An on-going audio autobiography from the punk and post-punk legend. For more information visit the Spizzenergi Facebook page.
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Baba Yaga's Hut
Every kind of music from Krautrock, 60’s psych and crime-jazz to baile-funk, progressive rock, blaxploitation soundtracks, no-wave disco, ghetto-tech and free noise with Anthony Chalmers, promoter of Baba Yaga's Hut. For more information visit Baba Yaga's Hut Facebook page. [Repeated Monday 11pm.]
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Novara FM
A weekly show dedicated to political theory and current affairs hosted by Aaron Bastani and James Butler. This week: Utopia Now? Ash Sarkar and James Butler tackle the politics of utopia: derided, longed-for, betrayed, utopian thinking is a permanent feature of the political imagination. But what might 'utopia now' actually mean? What did utopians think they were doing – and do any still exist today? Find Novara on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. E-mail info@novaramedia.com. All previous shows are available at novaramedia.com. [Repeated Monday 9am.]
2:00pm - 2:30pm
L'alternative
[Repeated from Wednesday 7.30pm.] Eleonore Desnos explores French audio oddities and delights "a la carte".
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Wavelength
A programme of multiple agendas presented by William English. Poet Lewis Parker is this week's guest. Lewis composes typewriter poems for a fee on the South Bank usually in the form of an acrostic of the purchaser's name. The fee is at the subject's discretion. He discusses his latest collection, ‘Poetry for the Poorly Educated,’ and composes poems live on air for occupants of the Resonance studio. Released in May 2018 by Morbid Books, the poems were composed while stationed as a ‘Literary Prostitute’ or ‘Poet for Hire’ at events and in the streets of London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh and smaller towns. [Repeated Monday 3pm.]
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Records Comic, Curious And Cracked
[Repeated from Tuesday 5.30pm.] An eco-neutral trawl through the unusual records acquired by various means, including even purchase, during an otherwise mostly virtuous lifetime by Jack Thorington.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Curtain Up Show
Tim McArthur, Nathan Matthews and guests discuss London's thriving music-theatre scene. Today’s guests: Nadim Naaman, co-composer of new musical ‘Broken Wings’ which receives its World Premiere at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in August; and live from Lisbon, radio broadcaster and Eurovision superfan, Paddy O'Connell. Visit thecurtainupshow.com for more information. In association with TodayTix. [Repeated Sunday 9am.]
5:00pm - 5:30pm
The Atomic Drop
A broadcast dedicated to the art of professional wrestling, hosted by Tariq Haque. This week we bring you music from Collie Buddz, Wockenfuss, and The Great Kabuki, as well as one of Kabuki's matches from Georgia Championship Wrestling as called by Gordon Sollie and Rowdy Roddy Piper. Ths week promo work comes from current NWA World Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis. Dsound feed: https://dsound.audio/#!/@tatta. Email theatomicdrop@hotmail.com or tweet to @theatomicdrop. [Repeated Wednesday 1pm.]
5:30pm - 7:00pm
The Sound Projector Radio Show
A showcase for records of contemporary experimental and underground music, hosted by Ed Pinsent. Tonight: new releases received in January 2018. Artistes in the frame are: Lauri Hyvarinen; Ghost Flute & Dice; The Nazgul; Internal Cold; Sypros Polychronopoulos; Heal; Jozef Dumoulin / Orca Noise Unit; Para; Muddersten; Oker; James O'Sullivan; Plastiglomerate / boringcharlie. Visit thesoundprojector.com/radio-show/ for more information. [Repeated Wednesday 1am.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Shoot The Breeze
A talk show dedicated to films and television shows, presented by Marcus Ako and Laura Sampson. Special guests this week are the filmmakers behind 'Reign of Dracula' - Diana Karas and Charlotte Browne. They talk latest film and TV news, and the main discussion this week is Top 5 films/TV Vampire films/shows. Visit Facebook page for more information and send them a tweet @STB_ResonanceFM. [Repeated Monday 2pm.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Steep Incline
A diverse mix of out-of-leftfield music and sound presented by James Hassall, Bene Pooley and Matt Soczywko from London-based label Steep Incline. They play a selection of new releases, recent reissues and unreleased tracks spanning noise, post-punk, techno, avant-garde sound and everything in between. Visit steepincline.co.uk for more details of the label. [Repeated Monday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Balling the Jack
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. [Repeated Wednesday 8am.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Bad Punk
60 minutes in the eye of a radiophonic vortex, hosted by the Band of Holy Joy. Visit bandofholyjoy.co.uk for more information. [Repeated Monday 5am.]
11:00pm - 12:30am
50-50 Sound System
50-50 Soundsystem bring 20 years of DJing experience to ResonanceFM with 60's, 70's & 80's old skool reggae, instrumental dub classics, and original soul breaks, all plucked from the 50-50 vaults. [Repeated Tuesday 1am.]