Monday 16th July
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12:00am - 1:00am
Sleeping Dogs Lie
[Repeated from Friday 1.30am.] Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax and canines carry on slumbering.
1:00am - 2:00am
The Rob Simone Talk Show
[Repeated from Saturday 6am.] Interviews with a wide range of alternative thinkers by the Los Angeles-based investigator of anomalous phenomena. This week the phenomenon of re-incarnation is discussed with medical doctors who rate the merits of its veracity.
2:00am - 4:00am
Hoenn Sound
A fortnightly conceptual radio show by SJ Wilson - all vinyl, all 33rpm. But all the vinyl is 45rpm techno (or otherwise) played at the slower speed setting. From pounding, pulsating techno jams to slow, chuggy, mesmerising soundscapes designed for the early hours of the morning...
4:00am - 5:00am
Musical Minds
[Repeated from Tuesday 4pm.] An anecdotal history of classical music presented by 18 year-old composer and writer Jack Pepper. This week Jack explores the composer who was also a gold medal-winning Olympic rower, the musician who wrote most of his seminal opera having returned home from driving taxis, and the pianist who became Prime Minister. Also discussed today is a composer stabbed 56 times for having an affair with a queen. All episodes can be heard on www.jackpeppermusician.com. Follow Jack on Twitter @jrapepper and use the hashtag #MusicalMinds.
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
Radio Ecoshock
[Repeated from Friday 10am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: The Warming Soil. Fifty scientists warn official predictions don't include a carbon feed-back as large as all U.S. emissions. From the Netherlands, Dr. Thomas Crowther. From Maine, paleobiologist Dr. Jacquelyn Gill says abrupt climate change hit species before us. We're next. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
7:00am - 8:00am
The News Agents
[Repeated from Saturday 2.30pm.] Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague. This week: Drawing the Curtains. Koestler Trust judges meet to discuss the entries for the Koestler Awards 2018 drawing prize. This year the themed category is 'connections'. Following on from judging day we look at issues of drawing from real life stories as well as the imagination, wondering how drawing can process what happens to us in and out of our perceived environment and create new experiences. Reflecting on practising this particular art in and out of prison. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.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. This week: global music-making feminista and genre-bending Trinidadian Londoner, Ms. Mohammed debuts on the show.
9:00am - 10:00am
Novara FM
[Repeated from Friday 1pm.] A weekly show dedicated to political theory and current affairs hosted by Aaron Bastani and James Butler. This week James is joined by Will Davies, Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, to discuss Economic Science Fictions, dystopia, speculative politics, what neoliberals actually believe, and the fantasies behind Brexit. Find Novara on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. E-mail info@novaramedia.com. All previous shows are available at novaramedia.com.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] Sharon Gal and Helen Frosi delve into the sonic world of field recordings, bioacoustics, soundscape studies and the intersection between inter and intra-species encounters. This show presents work by sound artists and musicians including Lee Patterson, Kate Carr and David Toop, with a preview of the forthcoming live concert, EnCOUnTErs, on 25 July at Café OTO, which will explore birds and their song through live performances ranging from documentation in the field, through to phonetic evocations and beyond; into abstraction and the realm of the 'avian speculative.'
11:00am - 11:30am
Little Atoms
A talk show about ideas and culture, produced and presented by Neil Denny. This week: Miranda Doyle on her memoir, A Book of Untruths. Doyle's family come from the tiny island of Coney in Sligo Bay. She grew up in Edinburgh alongside three brothers and a suspicious number of ill-fated pets. With an MA from Goldsmiths in Creative and Life Writing she has lectured on Autobiography for the Philosophy and European Literature degree at Anglia Ruskin University and continues to teach creative writing. Her debut title, A Book of Untruths, written with the support of an award from Arts Council England, explores the lies we tell ourselves. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeated Saturday 9am.]
11:30am - 12:00pm
Literary London
[Repeated from Thursday 5pm.] 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.
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: news from Lewisham Pensioners Forum’s Annual Pensioners’ Day, plus DAGE’s Barbara Banks and Barbara Raymond share the number one issues for them as pensioners. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly. [Repeated Sunday 2pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Shoot The Breeze
[Repeated from Friday 7pm.] A talk show dedicated to films and television shows, presented by Marcus Ako and Laura Sampson, with special guest hosts David Campbell and actor/producer and YouTuber, Michael Burhan. They talk latest film and TV news, discuss Burhan's short film on Amazon Prime 'A Long Time Gone', and the main discussion this week is the top 5 favourite films so bad they’re good.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Wavelength
[Repeated from Friday 2:30pm.] A programme of multiple agendas presented by William English. This week: Nothin' to Look at Just a Record by Phill Niblock. Minimal trombone/tape pieces recorded in 1982, plus unrecorded parts of ten John Cage records from the collection of Pavel Buchler.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Suite (212)
A monthly discussion show about the social and political issues around the arts, with guest host Tom Overton (while Juliet Jacques is away). Tom is joined by the filmmaker Mike Dibb to discuss his lifelong collaboration with John Berger on works such the TV series and book 'Ways of Seeing' (1972), but also the broader body of Mike's work - from the Emmy-winning 'The Miles Davis Story' (2002), through films on drawing, literature, sport and the idea of play, to a new project on art in in solitary confinement in US prison. [Repeated Wednesday 7am.]
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Six Pillars
[Repeated from Wednesday 9pm.] Fari Bradley focuses on choice contemporary Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian sound, art and culture. This week: actor-puppeteer Peyvand Sadeghian is a Persian-Chinese-Brit with a background in boundary-pushing theatre. In Soho for the Cabaret & Drag Lab on 21 July, experience Sadeghian's world of drag, cabaret, and a Persian Punch & Judy to explore what her life might have been like as a citizen of Iran. Visit sixpillars.org for more information.
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Turtle Island
While recently researching the Standing Rock protests of 2016 in the USA, multi disciplinary sculptor Andrew Graves-Johnston came across a lot of new First Nations and Native American music covering many genres. This week: N'we Jinan. N'we Jinan is a non profit project which goes to schools and youth clubs on the reservations of Canada and North America with a mobile video and sound studio. The programme offers youth the chance to create an original song and music video that explores relevant issues and topics while promoting positive messaging, community engagement and collective voice. [Repeated Wednesday 4am.]
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Nunhead American Radio
A programme for the American community in Nunhead, south east London, presented by New York comic Lewis Schaffer and co-hosted by American economist Lisa Moyle, with musical accompaniment by The Relatives. This week's guests are Italian comic in the UK Alex Martini, and Nunhead historian Andy Brockman. Visit http://www.lewisschaffer.co.uk/radio for more information. [Repeated Saturday 9.30am.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
One Life Left
An hour-long celebration of everything that's great about videogames. Hosted by Ste Curran, Simon Byron and Ann Scantlebury, the show features the latest news, reviews and gossip from the world of gaming, usually with a studio guest. You don't need to be a gaming expert to appreciate the show - One Life Left offers something for everyone, whether you are a hardcore League of Legends player or someone who's occasionally loaded up Candy Crush. Visit onelifeleft.com for more information. [Repeated Saturday 10am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
Georgie McVicar of Stray Landings talks to Sheryl Cheung and Lucia H Chung about Taiwanese electronic music, ahead of an artist residency this summer at Somerset House. Visit http://musichackspace.org for more information.
9:00pm - 10:00pm
The Naked Short Club
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. [Repeated Wednesday 9am.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Polifony
Polifony, with Kristopher Winter, is a monthly programme dedicated to the exploration of Eastern European culture. [Repeated Friday 5am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Baba Yaga's Hut
[Repeated from Friday 12noon.] 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.
12:00am - 1:00am
The 140 Hour
New series with DMWSOUND. Panix & Ranking Dan explore into UK based 140bpm music, with origins spanning from Grime, Dubstep and Garage. Visit: youtube.com/user/PanixDUB for more! [Repeated Sunday 4.30am.]