Sunday 18th July
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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. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Twitter: @djbpm.
1:00am - 2:30am
Adventures in Sound and Music
[Repeated from Thursday 9pm.] New music with The Wire magazine. Host: Chris Bohn. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information. Contact theconduit@thewire.co.uk.
2:30am - 3:30am
Fog Cast
[Repeated from Wednesday 11pm.] Robin The Fog presents a series of late-night, deep listening soundtracks for our current era of isolation. Further details at: robinthefog.com.
3:30am - 4:30am
Sleeping Dogs Lie
Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax. For more information visit Sleeping Dogs Lie on Facebook, Mixcloud and WhitelabelRecs Bandcamp. [Repeated Monday 1am.]
4:30am - 5:00am
Kitchen Magic Time
[Repeated from Tuesday 1pm.] Recipes in sound from Mama Dolores, Mistress of the Deep Soul Kitchen.
5:00am - 6:00am
Make Your Own Damn Music
[Repeated from Tuesday 9pm.] Artworld shenanigans with Bob and Roberta Smith OBE. This week: Thamesmead is a sprawling Brutalist housing estate on the banks of the Thames Estuary in the suburbs of South East London. Bob and Roberta Smith has spent the past two years interviewing some if its inhabitants and transcribing their interviews in a huge 24-meter-long painting. This show features over-layered voices reading the texts, cut and paste with media coverage, music from Rich Little and sounds from Bob and Roberta Smith’s studio. Looking, listening, writing fabricating.
6:00am - 7:00am
A Colder Consciousness
[Repeated from Monday 10pm.] Flora Pitrolo plays music from the dark synth underground on the second Monday of each month. Visit ACC on Facebook or Tweet to @colderlondon for more information. Archive (2011 - present) to be found on Mixcloud. ACC also broadcasts on Skopje’s Kanal 103 every last Sunday of the month, 21.00 - 23.00.
7:00am - 8:00am
Devil’s Dancers
[Repeated from Monday 11pm.] An episodic history of synthesized sounds with Nina Kehagia, broadcast monthly. Tonight: brand new music by CLAIR, DJ Stingray, Nene H, Wanton Witch, Moritz von Oswald Trio single featuring Laurel Halo, Heinrich Köbberling, Shackleton, Loula Yorke, Polypores, Marc Cantu and Danny Passarella, Tim York and Sólskin'.
8:00am - 9:00am
Farside Radio
[Repeated from Wednesday 12pm.] Music from the catalogues of Far Side Music, the world's primary source for East Asian sounds, presented by Paul Fisher. Today: Balinese gamelan has long fascinated western musicians (from Debussy, Colin McPhee to Philip Glass) and has largely been recorded by western and Japanese record labels, (Nonesuch, Folkways, Ocora, JVC, King) while gamelan orchestras are found around the world. On this week’s show is Balinese gamelan recorded and released by local labels in Bali. Plus one interesting piece to end with, recorded by the Warsaw Gamelan Group. Visit farsidemusic.com for more information.
9:00am - 10:00am
The Curtain Up Show
[Repeated from Friday 4pm.] Tim McArthur, Nathan Matthews and guests discuss London's vibrant theatre scene. Today's guest: Rachel Tucker chats about 'John and Jen' at Southwark Playhouse, recording her latest album, and returning to 'Come From Away' on Broadway. Visit thecurtainupshow.com for more information. In association with TodayTix.
10:00am - 11:00am
Out in South London
[Repeated from Tuesday 6.30pm.] Award-winning LGBTQI magazine show created by comedian Rosie Wilby and hosted by Sophia Blackwell. This week: Sophia speaks to authors Alex Hopkins and Neil Bartlett about their contributions to the new anthology, Mainstream from Inkandescent, plus new music and interviews from the band The People Versus. Follow @outsthlondon for more info.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Henry Scott-Irvine Presents
[Repeated from Tuesday 4pm.] Henry Scott-Irvine Presents... an hour of Irish music with Rosalind Scanlon, Director of Programming at The Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith. Ros curated a series of pre-recorded concerts of traditional Irish music during lockdown for ICC Digital online. These featured players utilising acoustic instruments. Music chosen comes from T Rex, Van Morrison, The Fureys, Hothouse Flowers, Sean McGuire, Flook, and Ian Dury. First broadcast as part of Henry's The Bright Side Of The Road series on 29 September 2020. Find Henry on Facebook.
12:00pm - 1:30pm
The Ambrosia Rasputin Show
Freewheeling music series with Ivor Kallin. This week's show features the July performance of the compact and socially distanced London Improvisers Orchestra at Iklectik, in its entirety! Adrian Northover and the Remote Viewers get a brief look in. [Repeated Friday 1am.]
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Arty Facts
Arty Facts with Master J is a show about working in the arts. Today, Master J is joined by Alabama 3's Orlando Harrison, big band singer John Carroll, and West End musical performer Karen Holmes. They take a deep dive into the thorny subject of rock stars and their bad behaviour. From under aged groupies, to performing drunk, and having your own band telling you you're out of line. The guests discuss booking Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and a pianist who couldn't play; what it was like at the height of Brit Pop playing the big festivals; and why the historic actions of big pop and rock stars have since gone largely unpunished. For more information visit Master J on Facebook. [Repeated Thursday 3.30am.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Calling All Pensioners
[Repeated from Monday 1pm.] Magazine programme with Tim Hamilton, addressing issues which affect pensioners across London. This week: the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) 2021 annual convention features Judith Ish-Horowicz MBE, founder of Apples & Honey Nightingale Nursery for Toddlers and Older People. She shares her passion of multi-generational living, learning and laughing together and in realising her dream of starting a nursery in the grounds of a care-home when the doors of Apples and Honey Nightingale opened. Plus, the NPC's Statement on the end of Covid-19 restrictions warning that many older and vulnerable people will be afraid to go out after 19 July ‘free-for-all’. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
MSCTY Radio Tokyo
Travel to Japan with Nick Luscombe and James Greer as they explore the sound of Tokyo. Today: Nick and James bring their sound excursions back to Tokyo, with a special journey around the artificial island complexes of Tokyo Bay – setting for much of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. For more information visit www.mscty.space. [Repeats Wednesday 4am.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Definitely Dylan
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. This week: in anticipation of tonight's Shadow Kingdom broadcast (Dylan's first paid live-streamed concert), Laura and Robert discuss his live albums. For more information visit www.definitelydylan.com. [Repeated Thursday 4am.]
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Around The World With The Lallas
[Repeated from Tuesday 11.30am] 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. Today: The Lallas explore a new subsect of TickTock called FinTok or StockTok and what to be wary of. They also run through some of the islands in Spain that the double-vaxed can explore, and for those that are not travel ready, some great exhibitions in London. All to the soundtrack of nostalgic '90s tunes.
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sitting With Gianluca
Interviews and informed portraits of contemporary American musicians with our stateside correspondent Gianluca Tramontana. [Repeated Saturday 6am.]
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Isotopica
Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. Visit theculture.net/ for more information. [Repeated Thursday 5am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Ross's Cantina
Ross Forrest walks us through the shadier side of roots, country and Americana. Today: you'll be hearing the latest releases from the likes of Lukas Nelson, Pony Bradshaw, Colter Wall and Waylon Payne, plus all the Country news that fits. Contact the show at cantinacomms@gmail.com. [Repeated Thursday 2.30am.]
9:00pm - 10:00pm
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
Marina Organ presents an hour of music that uses unconventional structures and 'other' time signatures – gathered from the worldwide undergrounds of math rock, avant prog, weird electronica and strange pop. This week: previews of the new Flying Luttenbachers and Osiris Club albums, plus music from aPAtT, Tim Smith's Oceanland World, Ultra Zook, the 180Gs, Upsilon Acrux, Sax Ruins, Plain Cheese Pizza, The Laze, Imagination School, Sebkha-Chott, A Formal Horse, and Sun Colored Chair. Follow the playlist on Twitter @OtherRockShow. Visit otherrockshow.wordpress.com for more information. [Repeated Thursday 8am.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Drones Of Hell
Ray Kirby presents an hour of Extreme Metal, featuring tracks old and new from the last three decades. For more information visit dronesofhell.blogspot.com. [Repeated Wednesday 2.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
framework
A programme consecrated to field recording, phonography, and the art of sound-hunting, presented by Patrick Tubin McGinley. This week's regular edition features Paulo Raposo, Kate Carr, Paula Garcia Stone, Grey Magik, Chris Lynn, sounds from The Aporee Maps, and an intro by Mode Analogue. Visit frameworkradio.net for more information. [Repeated Wednesday 5am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
The Rob Simone Talk Show
[Repeated from Wednesday 9am.] Interviews with a wide range of alternative thinkers by the Los Angeles-based investigator of anomalous phenomena. This week: Rob discusses the UFO phenomenon with other British talk show hosts and replays the unedited military radio traffic of the infamous UFO encounter at Edwards Air Force base, upon which Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was based on. Visit robsimone.com/ for more information.