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12:30am - 1:30am
Turtle Island
[Repeated from Thursday 12am.] 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), who first came across it when researching the Standing Rock protests of 2016/17. Visit facebook.com/turtleislandradio for more information.
1:30am - 2:30am
Intoxica Radio Hour
[Repeated from Friday 12pm.] 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. For further information and general waffle, contact intoxica@intoxica.co.uk.
2:30am - 3:30am
Is Black Music
[Repeated from Wednesday 12am.] The world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. Tonight's show is a response to the ongoing Derek Chauvin trial and deaths at the hands of the police. Artists featured include Johnniqua Charles, Sula & The Noise and Del Huzitt. For more information visit isblackmusic.com.
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: with the gradual lifting of Covid lockdown restrictions in the UK, the Late Lunch House Band discovered that four members could play together in the flesh for the first time for a year - under a eucalyptus tree in a West Ealing garden on Sunday 18th April: Out To Lunch on vocals, keyboards and guitar; Iris Watson on djembe hand drum; Graham Davis on keyboards, bass ukulele and cuica; Guy Evans on drumset.
4:30am - 5:00am
The Wrong Show
[Repeated from Wednesday 10.30pm.] Extraordinary radiophonic probes with Orlando Harrison. This week: NOT a guided meditation. For more information visit soundcloud.com/orlando-harrison.
5:00am - 6:00am
Hackney Social Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 11am.] Immediate Theatre’s weekly show for the young at heart. This week: we chat to Pete Bennett from Grow, an independent community venue in Hackney Wick, and find out about the Sakura Cherry Tree project. Plus, we hear the first of a new 3-part soap opera, The Corona Sisters, from the Jackson’s Lane Lockdown Lunch group. Host Sue Elliott-Nichols is joined by Janet, Sharon, Steve and Judy, with music from our resident DJ Frank Kaos. For more info visit immediate-theatre.com/work/hackney-social-radio
6:00am - 7:00am
Sitting With Gianluca
[Repeated from Sunday 6pm.] Interviews and informed portraits of contemporary American musicians with our stateside correspondent Gianluca Tramontana. This week: an exclusive archive interview and radio session with late Texan songwriting legend Guy Clark to coincide with the release of a documentary of Guy’s life and music, “Without Getting Killed or Caught”. Featuring an exclusive performance of two of his songs. This serves as a good primer for the documentary’s producer and publicist Tamara Saviniano’s sit-down next week.
7:00am - 8:00am
In Place
[Repeated from Wednesday 3.30pm] First broadcast 30 April 2018. In Place 2: Grafted Landscapes. Colin Riley explores the layers of history in our urban and edgeland environments, plundering tracks from city and suburbia alongside his own new songs from ‘In Place’. Colin takes a walk with deep topographer Nick Papadimitriou across the mysterious edgelands of West London and traces the first landscape seen at speed, Liverpool-to-Manchester, with poet Paul Farley. Visit http://inplaceproject.co.uk for more information. 2/3.
8:00am - 9:00am
Spizz FM
[Repeated from Wednesday 4.30pm.] An on-going audio autobiography from the punk and post-punk legend that is Spizz. This week: an interview with "general specialist" Nigel Proktor - a graphic designer and manager of Magazine front man, Howard Devoto; outdoor location art show chat with Gzillion Artist; and more on Citrusism. For more information visit the Spizzenergi Facebook page. Tweet to @spizzenergi.
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: Chris Power on his debut novel, A Lonely Man. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Tweet to @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com.
9:30am - 10:00am
Nunhead American Radio
[Repeated from Monday 6.30pm.] 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. Today's guest is Trevor Lock, British comic and founder of "Boyfriend Experience" - an online service for women looking for emotional attention during lockdown. Visit lewisschaffer.co.uk/radio for more information.
10:00am - 11:00am
One Life Left
[Repeated from Monday 7pm.] 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.
11:00am - 11:30am
Pull the Plug
[Repeated from Thursday 5.30pm.] Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. This week: whether in a darkened subterranea spent gazing at the frozen moments captured by stroboscopic bursts, or staring at the sun in a field in England... the incessant squelch of the 303 endures. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com.
11:30am - 11:45am
Drift Shift
[Repeated from Thursday 6pm.] Found sound and found text collected to form drifts that shift, produced and presented by Franziska Lantz. Today: detecting space vibrations from unusual star merger. Visit driftshift.blogspot.com for more information.
11:45am - 12:00pm
Into The Moss
[Repeated from Thursday 6.15pm.] A sunken raft of weeds woven into a verdant morass of sound, song and story by the whinnying horses of the Ear Pocket hotel. This week: Rumination 30 – meat is muddier on the grassier climbs, yet climbing is cruddier to the meatier minds. Show archive at soundcloud.com/into-the-moss. Contact intothemossradio@gmail.com.
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Hello Goodbye Show
Upbeat, eclectic new music show hosted by deXter Bentley. Today: Jamie Irrepressible discusses the inspiration behind his new LP 'Superheroes' by The Irrepressibles, an artistic odyssey that begins with him leaving London for Berlin with nothing more than a guitar, a rucksack and a head and heart alive to new possibility. The resulting work effortlessly combines elements of neo-classical, folk, electro-pop and Kosmische. Visit hellogoodbyeshow.com for more information. [Repeated Tuesday 2.30am.]
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Nostalgie Ya Mboka
Mundele Mafuta presents classic dance music of the two Congos. [Repeated Monday 7am.]
2:30pm - 3:30pm
The News Agents
Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague. This week: Dr Helen Reddington (aka Helen McCookerybook) discusses her newly published research on women sound engineers and producers, 'She's At The Controls'. Her book is a socio-historic exploration of gender and audio production in the pop music industry with multiple interviews with women audio specialists who report back from their careers and lives in music production. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.co.uk. [Repeated Tuesday 6am.]
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Synaptic Island
A collective of DJs and artists explores a selected theme each week through music and conversation. This week's theme is: Playlist. Listen to archived shows on Mixcloud. For more information visit Twitter @synaptic_island, Instagram @synapticisland and synapticisland.com. [Repeats Friday 5am.]
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. This week: the third and possibly final part of the Roger Webb exploration, cleaning up on the de Wolfe side of things and joining him in the USA for some prime disco oddness. Visit www.trunkrecords.com for more information. Email jonny@trunkrecords.com. [Repeated Monday 3pm.]
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Literary London
Nick Hennegan explores the literary life of London and celebrates the popular cultural life and literary history of the city. This week: Nick talks to Kirsty Lothian, co-director of Fun Palaces, an idea first created by Joan Littlewood, director of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in London. Tweet to @NickHennegan. For more information visit LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com. [Repeated Tuesday 2.30pm.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
A Duck in a Tree
The :zoviet * france: radio show. This week's edition - Keine Inhalte - features a track from Pat Hime's new album, 'Undulets', a new remix of :zoviet*france: field recordings by Fossil Aerosol Mining Project, and tracks by Kent Sparling, Schnee, The London Sound Survey, Biosphere, Ben Vida, Fluorescent Grey, and Undercurrent. [Repeated Tuesday 5am.]
8:00pm - 8:30pm
Southern Whirled Service
[Repeated from Tuesday 6pm.] Walter Lockwood presents an exploration of the sounds and influences of south London music scenes with an emphasis on younger, newer artists.
8:30pm - 9:30pm
2k Ok
A fortnightly weave of melancholic techno, peculiar-pop, alternative soundscapes, and beyond. Assembled by Outgoing Person & Si-Ro. [Repeated Monday 2am.]
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Bears At A Picnic
Andrea Spisto and Michelle Madsen explore themes of playfulness and vulnerability through music, poetry, performance and clowning. Tweet to Bears_at. [Repeated Tuesday 4am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
K-Pop Journey
[Repeated from Wednesday 9pm.] A weekly show dedicated to the phenomenon that is K-pop! Korean presenter Keissi takes you on a journey through Korean pop music from the 1990s to the present day. For more information visit K-Pop Journey on Facebook. For archive shows visit keissi.com/radioarchive.
11:00pm - 12:00am
The Sounds Of DMWSound
[Repeated from Tuesday 12am.] 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.
12:00am - 1:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
[Repeated from Thursday 11pm.] Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. This week: new releases from Syernide and Tommy, Spooky Bizzle and Jakebob, JT The Goon and Moscow Legend, Blvck Covvboys, Mojoe; unreleased dubs by Darx, Mr Peoples, Chaotic, Filthy Gears, Uncle Dreama; and Grime classics from Virgo (Mr V). Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Twitter: @djbpm.