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12:00am - 12:30am
Southern Whirled Service
[Repeated from Wednesday 10.30pm.] An exploration of the sounds and influences of south London music scenes with an emphasis on younger, newer artists. With Walter Lockwood playing the music that soundtracks his youth.
12:30am - 1:30am
Turtle Island
[Repeated from Wednesday 11pm.] Contemporary Native American and First Nations music from a wide range of indigenous musicians in North America, selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew Graves-Johnston (aka DJ Droid). This episode features Grant-Lee Phillips, 2 8 Tha Native ft Akil MC + Artson + Mic Crenshaw, Hotel Mira, Nanook, Sume, Thomas Starwalker, AG-47, Once A Tree, Caitlin Goulet, Jeremy Parkin, Cindy Paul, and Quanah Style ft Nick Bertossi. Visit facebook.com/turtleislandradio for more information.
1:30am - 2:30am
The Sounds Of DMWSound
[Repeats from Thursday 11pm.] Panix and Ranking Dan from DMWSOUND demonstrate the music that inspires their sound. Genres spanning from Reggae to Modern Bass music. Keep tuned for the classics and fresh new dubs. For more info visit Facebook and soundcloud.com/dmwsound.
2:30am - 3:30am
Flomotion
[Repeated from Monday 11pm.] Archival hand-picked mix of the most dynamic and exciting new electronic music and beyond from veteran DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe. For archived programmes visit mixcloud.com/FlomotionRadio/ and keep in touch via Twitter at @nickluscombe and @flomotion_radio.
3:30am - 4:30am
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. This week: Xenochronic Late Lunch All-Stars. In order of appearance: Cloughie - electric bass; Guy Evans - drumset, trumpet; Eleanor Crook - electric guitar; Graham Davis - jingles, synth; Out To Lunch - piano, readings from J. H. Prynne's Squeezed White Noise, Splash'n'Klang, google gargle, announcements, xenochrony; Jessica Harper - rhythm mashes; Dave Black - bottleneck guitar; Peter Baxter aka The Baxterium "With Beyonce in the Bayou", acid synth, percussion.
4:30am - 5:00am
Micro Clear Spot
[Repeated from Thursday 5pm.] From December 2014, a unique half-hour broadcast by Superlative TV, presenting an Extra-Terrestrial Transmission (ETx) in which a video communication is transmitted into deep space. Content is gathered from a multiplicity of sources, including the outsourced labour market, Amazon's mechanical turk, and Superlative TV's social networks, in what could be the first message alien civilisation receives from Earth.
5:00am - 6:00am
Hackney Social Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] Immediate Theatre’s weekly show for the young at heart. This week: Steve chats to Paul Fleming from the Hoxton Trust Legal Advice Service and Janet meets listener, lawyer and local poet Wendy Pettifer. Plus, May Robson brings us a special feature on the Hackney Brocals, a local organisation formed to combat male loneliness – or what they call “Bronliness”. Host Sue Elliott-Nichols is joined by Janet Evans, Sharon Aspess and Steve Roberts, and our resident DJ Frank Kaos shares his musical memories as well as some of his favourite tunes. For more info visit immediate-theatre.com/work/hackney-social-radio.
6:00am - 8:00am
The Dangerous Supplement
Ed Baxter presents a fascinating selection of recordings from the archives of London Musicians’ Collective - mostly live performances from the 1990s and early 2000s - the 'golden age' of experimental music.
8:00am - 9:00am
Outrage And Optimism
As a holiday treat, select episodes of the weekly Outrage + Optimism podcast co-hosted by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson and produced by Clay Carnill. Each show highlights how we can channel the outrage we see on the streets (and online) about incremental actions in the face of the climate crisis, toward the stubborn optimism needed to forge ahead with ambition. Each week’s discussion aims to inform, inspire and help listeners realise that this is both the most challenging, but also the most exciting time in history to be alive. Episode 49: The Third Mass Bleaching Event with Emma Johnston (COVID and Climate #5).
9:00am - 9:30am
Little Atoms
[Repeated from Monday 11am.] A talk show about ideas and culture, produced and presented by Neil Denny. Each show features guests from the worlds of science or the arts in conversation. This week: Niven Govinden on his novel, This Brutal House. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Tweet to @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com.
9:30am - 10:00am
Nunhead American Radio
[Repeated from Tuesday 6pm.] 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. Today's guests are New York businessman and entrepreneur Douglas Schoninger and the next generation - Charlie Schoninger, Scarlett Moyle and Columbus Schaffer. Visit lewisschaffer.co.uk/radio for more information.
10:00am - 11:00am
The Opera Hour
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Around The World With The Lallas
Laura Pradelska and Lara Fraser share their international cultural interests, stemming from their respective careers as actor and producer as well as their joint DJ career as The Lallas. This week: Laura and Lara run through different ways to enjoy culture during the eased lockdown with a focus on keeping the Notting Hill Carnival spirit alive this weekend. [Repeats Tuesday 2pm.]
12:00pm - 1:30pm
These Things Too
A grab bag of music from all corners of the earth and a modest exercise in aesthetic hospitality, selected by Ed Baxter. 5 of 5. [Repeats Tuesday 1.30am.]
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Sound Out: 50 Years From Scratch
The late Carole Finer in conversation with guests in the week of The Scratch Orchestra's 50th anniversary (celebrated at Morley College). First broadcast 1 November 2019 as part of Art On Air at Tate Modern. [Repeats Monday 7am.]
2:30pm - 3:30pm
The News Agents
Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague. This week: Brecht Evens talks about drawing and writing his ground-breaking and intriguing graphic novels and comic books. Known for 'The Wrong Place' and 'The Making of ...' among other texts he is one of the leading comic creatives working in Belgium today, now based in Paris. Music comes from a second feature insert from Kevin Burke, the legendary Irish fiddle player, talking about his journey in music and thoughts on different traditions. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.co.uk. [Repeated Tuesday 6am.]
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Stereo Cilia
Sharon Gal's polymorphic portrait of "Babylondon," journeying across the city and sharing with guests their favourite locations and sounds. First broadcast August 2016. [Repeats Tuesday 7.30pm.]
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Sound Of Lochaber
Realised as part of "Remote Performances," an audio portrait of Locaber in six parts by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks. First broadcast from Outlandia, Glen Nevis, Scotland, August 2014. [Repeats Monday 2.30pm.]
4:30pm - 6:30pm
The OST Show
Presented by Jonny Trunk, The OST Show is the only show anywhere dedicated to film music, TV music, library music and related recordings. Today: the rarely heard work of Albert Alan Owen, a progressive modern composer from Wales (via Zimbabwe) who comes to music via jazz and classical. His modern approach to music produced several unusual albums for library labels including Apollo Sound and Amphonic. We have a spread of his work from the mid 1970s modern classic period to his more radial pop electronics created in the mid 1980s. Visit www.trunkrecords.com for more information. Email jonny@trunkrecords.com.
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Micro Clear Spot
[Repeated from Wednesday 5pm.] Today: The First British Guitar Hero. Jonathan Richards explores the work of Ernest Shand (1868 - 1924). Recorded and edited by Mandy Baines. First broadcast December 2017.
7:00pm - 8:00pm
A Duck in a Tree
The :zoviet * france: radio show. This week: A Memory of the Future Calling Us to It. This edition continually moves away from the immediate present with new releases by BRB>Voicecoil, Anton Mobin and Andrew Sharpley, Peter Wullen + Boban Ristevski, Lawrence English, and Katja Institute, and with recordings by Nigel Good, Dowsabel, Artificial Memory Trace, Nelhma Chesmsa, Henna-Riikka Halonen, Stephen P. McGreevy, Sevenism, the Ghost Between the Strings, Lori Beckstead & Dave Rose, and Stephan Mathieu. [Repeated Tuesday 5am.]
8:00pm - 8:30pm
Radia
[Repeated from Thursday 10.30pm.] Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, presents a new show realised by one of its members, exploring "new and forgotten ways of making radio. Tonight: Show 803: Crown (from Radio Papesse and Usmaradio). For thirty days, every day, artists from all over the world came together for a live improvised session of radio, music, words and sound experiments together with Roberto Paci Dalò. To play together from different locations, yet united through radio. To listen together, from different locations, thanks to the medium of radio. This show presents bits and pieces from some of the sessions, sewn together by fragments of a long conversation with Roberto. Visit radia.fm for more information.
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Wednesday 8pm.] ‘I am the son you wanted, only queered. The turnip hits a rock in the soil and forks beautifully’. Tonight's Clear Spot is "Woman Peeling Turnips; A Portrait of my Father," a collboration by poet Richard Scott and artist Anat Ben-David - a commission by Southwark Park Galleries where Richard was in residence. This eighteen-part poetic essay was written specifically for broadcast and forms a poetic investigation into ekphrasis, father-figures and the violence of creation, using Chardin’s 1738 genre scene painting ‘Woman Peeling Turnips’ as a starting point. Supported by the Southwark Mayflower 400 Grants Fund from Southwark Council, British Land and United St Saviours. Cellist: Alice Dixon. Produced by Michael Umney.
9:30pm - 10:30pm
New Works For Radio
A special Wavelength produced for Resonance FM's 18th birthday concerning quarantined inventor Hugh de la Cruz's quest to obtain an antiquarian work on perpetual motion, 'Perpetuum Mobile' by Victorian engineer Henry Dircks (famous for designing the 'Pepper's Ghost' stage illusion). Through occasionally-precarious phone reception, book dealer William English and Hugh de la Cruz unpick the confusion over the Henry Dircks editions (two distinct volumes published a decade apart, 1861 and 1870) and a subsequent re-edited semi-pirated edition published in the United States in 1916 by Percy Verance. Edited by Dan Wilson (who is also implicated in the Hugh's Dircks search). First broadcast 1 May 2020.
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Hellworld Half Hour
[Repeated from Wednesday 10pm.] Andy Tuersley curates a sound collage of online panoptic hypnagogia from the dread year 2020. This week: Domino's Pizza finally teams up with virtual pop star and voice synthesizer Hatsune Miku, we heal the fractured imperial core with a list of lukewarm opinions, and hear from a report on how healing patients could harm business for gene therapy companies to the tunes of DIY electronics, breakcore and Swedish cyber-house.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Flowers In The Dustbin
A shamelessly retro journey through punk and reggae, Johnny Seven ransacks his dustbin to retrieve the incendiary recordings that inspired a generation of outcasts and ne'er-do-wells. This week: Episode 5. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. Visit facebook.com/pulltheplugresonancefm. [Repeated Monday 12am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Diary Of A Squat
[Repeated from Friday 9pm.] Diary of a Squat by Jean Delarue (1989). An audiobook read by Dorothy Spencer and Carl Cattermole. This week: episode 4/5. For free download, photos and more information visit prisonism.co.uk/#diary.