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12:00am - 5:00am
Radia Redux
A nine part retrospective of the first five seasons of the Radia network’s epochal (and on-going) radio art series. Assembled by Lee Stapleford. Today: Season 2, part 1, comprising Show 011: 24 hours as a slice of the East End by Dan Beban and Martin Williams; Show 012: Radio Cult; Show 013: Exotic Jam – are you Hungary?; Show 014: Martiensgohome pour Radia; Show 015: and The Sink of the World by the BzapCatrap team at Riist.
5:00am - 6:00am
The Swirling Seas Of Saturn Aliens
A surreal satirical swirling odyssey across the seas of time accompanied by interchanging characters from books, paintings, painters, authors and various mythological beings. The tale is told by two narrative voices dancing in and out of space and time. Seas awash with a cacophony of voices - the mythic, the bombed, the marginalised, the ostracised, the dying and the dead. Odysseus, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Poe, Shakespeare, Turner, Van Gogh are all found tossed about in the turbulent Twisting Seas of Saturn Aliens. Written by Noel Grassy Macken. Performed by Mark Rathmell and Noel Grassy Macken. Produced by Giles Hearn.
6:00am - 7:00am
Untimely
The combination of the pandemic and two learning difficulties (ADHD and dyspraxia) has made Robin Bale’s experimental music and sound making even more constellated, unfinished, preposterous. The unfinished album, the multi-genred EP, the untethered sample all collapse here, unfunctional, awkward, failed. This is a programme designed to help you lack focus, drift, scan without feeling bad for it.
7:00am - 8:00am
Fright Fest 2021
FrightFest 2021: Horror Cinema in Times of Pandemic. Film scholar Virginie Sélavy discusses the Arrow Video FrightFest festival which took place from 26 August to 5 September, with Kim Newman, author of Nightmare Movies and co-writer of Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema, and film critic Anton Bitel.
8:00am - 9:00am
Over Lunan
Things are not always as they seem, as the documentary-maker Charlie Ross explores thousands of years of history and mythology, and the natural forces that have shaped the stunning coast at Lunan Bay, Angus, Scotland. Produced by Steve Urquhart and directed by Purni Morell, with music and sound design by Andrew Knight-Hill. "Over Lunan" is an Aproxima Arts production.
9:00am - 10:00am
Trail Mix[Ed]: The Living Room
This eco-logical show about art takes a virtual trip to Denmark, meeting some agents of decomposition in a basement at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen where Prof. Martin Grunfeld and Prof. Caitlin Desilvey reframe the end of the lifecycle of museum objects as new beginnings. See museion.ku.dk/en/living-room/ for more information. Produced by bramthomasarnold.com.
10:00am - 11:00am
Animal Sounds
Animal Sounds examines how artists are using sound to explore human and non-human animal relationships. Presented by Robbie Judkins. Today: The Animal Sounds Mixtape. A special episode featuring a mix of the artists and sounds from the Animal Sounds series, including exclusive recordings from David Rothenberg and Tasos Stamou. With sounds from Ludwig Koch, Mark Peter Wright, Jana Winderen, Kathryn Eddy, Heike Vester, Jim Nollman and more. More Animal Sounds same time tomorrow.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Finnish Experimental Music And Sound Art
Sirpa Jokinen presents a selection of work by artists who have recently been part of the Helsinki live sound performance scene, including: Heta Bilaletdin - Noux buckets/snäx/ghost backwards/Anaksa; Minna-Kaisa Kallinen - Kohmeiset sormet jättävät jäljen ikkunaan (in English - Fingers Stiff From Cold Leave A Trace On A Window); LauNau - The Edge of Dwelling; Aloes - The Road; Marja Ahti - Coastal Inversion; Ana Gutieszca - Sound of Beasts; Elephant Howling; Sirpa Jokinen - Silence Please (Pantheon in Rain).
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. This week, Kevin plays a selection of seasonal tracks from Britain, Ireland and America.
1:00pm - 1:45pm
The Rez
Produced by multiple-award winning Lance Dann, The Rez is a sci-fi podcast adventure for 9 – 11 year olds also told through a comic book and a game-based website. Set in a future where happiness is just another download, our young heroes start to wonder what’s missing in their ‘perfect’ lives, and reach back to the children of the 2020s for help building meaningful relationships and defeating an AI that wants to keep them under its control. Today: episode 1 - Preen Supreme; and episode 2 - Sav Smarts.
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Night Of The Living Flatpacks
Feelgood new five-part drama series by disabled and deaf writers that lifts the lid off stereotypes and flatpacks. When wheelchair user Stella goes to Sharewoods for a bit of soft furnishing retail therapy, she immediately falls for shop worker Ali, then bumps into high maintenance old schoolfriend Erica. The three women end up locked in the store overnight, in a funny, upfront exploration of independence and friendship. A co-production between Naked Productions and Graeae Theatre Company. Supported by Audio Content Fund.
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Portrait Of The Ringbahn
"Portrait of the Ringbahn" by George Kafka is a sonic, historic and personal exploration of the ringbahn, an orbital railway that runs around the centre of Berlin. In this programme, the sound of a real time journey on the train is interspersed with conversations between writers George Kafka and Fiona Shipwright as they attempt to walk the train’s 37-kilometre route. These are joined by the voices of Berliners old and new who offer recollections and speculations on the ringbahn’s place in their own lives and in the life of the city. This assemblage of sounds and voices produces a fragmented image of an endless train line that is “more than just a line”. The ringbahn is hard infrastructure and imaginary boundary; a rolling viewpoint and a city-scale clock; a social place of introspection, heartbreak, parties, commuting and more.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Bears At A Picnic In Berlin
Bears at a Picnic - BACK: A special show for Berlin Performing Arts Festival (PAF). As we crawl out of lockdown and return to a world where live performance becomes possible again, Michelle Madsen and Niall Fallon explore how the past year has changed how we connect. A show about playfulness and vulnerability, with found sounds, audio-sensorial experiments and excerpts from Berlin performance collective Artwat's PAF series 'Abstand Bitte'. Speaking to Berlin-based theatre makers and artists including Forced Entertainment's Robin Arthur, Gob Squad's Sarah Thom and Spinner und Weber's Lars Pressier. With sounds from Emilie Scholten.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
In And Out Mix
In and Out Mix by New Bums. A little music on the inside, a little music on the outside. Freedom and restraint. Some psych and some uptight, but mostly pysch. New Bums is Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance) and Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards). Compiled for Clear Spot by Ben Chasny. New Bums 'Last Time I Saw Grace' is available on Drag City.
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Gone With The Rewind
Selected archival broadcasts realised at "Gone With The Wind" sound-art exhibition at Raven Row, July 2011. Today: Max Eastley and Richard Thomas in conversation; The Bohman Brothers performance.
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Mirror Lamp Press
Mirror Lamp Press No.1: Happiness. The radio launch edition of digital art and literary publication, Mirror Lamp Press. Editors Gwen Burlington and Eoghan McIntyre present and discuss a compilation of audio bytes that its contributors associate with happiness, have given them some reprieve over the recent past, or view as a 'pick-me-up'. The show features a collage of formats from songs, to film clips, to voice recordings, to readings. Visit www.mirrorlamppress.com to freely download the magazine. Support Mirror Lamp Press via its Patreon.
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
[Repeated from Wednesday 2pm.] A special seasonal episode of Ben Watson's Late Lunch with Out To Lunch, twice as long as usual and featuring A Xammas Carol, a 25m radio play written, directed, recorded and produced by Graham Davis, with a cast of the usual suspects, a cascade of contrasting voices and personalities (and swoosh noises). There's also Ornette Coleman's "Dancing in Your Head" as played by the Late Lunch House Band at the Betsey Trotwood with Nick Lubran on bamboo flute and Robert "Sugarlips" Goldsmith on sopranino saxophone; Iggy Pop on the Corona Virus; Frank Zappa's "Rubber Shirt"; Archie Shepp covering Duke Ellington; and lots of original improvised music, both xenochronic and live. Happy Christmas Everyone!
10:00pm - 10:30pm
Aufbau
A holiday repeat of the comedy sketch show that satirises politics, philosophy and modern technology. Episode 1: a man talks to a bus driver and a woman meets her KPIs. Visit twitter.com/aufbaucomedy for more information. Creator, producer, performer: Dominic John (@aufbaucomedy). Performer, additional material: Lucy Sky. Selected music: Martin Pearce (@lasthumanmusic). Episode 2 same time tomorrow.
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Palimpsest
A personal collage of thoughts and details from experiencing a particular place. Presented by Georgina Bowden. Today: Zoo. This episode is a game of guess-the-animal by its sound and habitat.
11:00pm - 12:00am
The Outerglobe Fiesty Festive Mix
[Repeated from Saturday 4pm.] Debbie Golt's Feisty Festive Season Mix has become something of a tradition. This time around Debbie plays a fabulous strictly vinyl mix of classics of yore and newer music. Reggae, Jazz, Dub and all points African feature from Pat Kelly Teshay Makeda and Sister Nancy to Malcolm Jyane Tree-o, Nsimba Foguis and Taxi Pata Pata to Joan Armatrading. Enjoy! Visit outerglobe.co.uk for more information. Tweet to @outerglobe.
12:00am - 4:00am
Radia Redux
A nine part retrospective of the first five seasons of the Radia network’s epochal (and on-going) radio art series. Assembled by Lee Stapleford. Tonight: Season 2, part 2, comprising: Show 017: The Wired Dudini Experiment by Kevin Blechdom & Heidi Mortenson (Reboot.fm); Show 018: random, voices, choir, questions (three pieces: Feif Minuten by Caroline Hofer, Jens Döring and Max Czerwenka; Von AHA bis WELL by Lale Rodgarkia-Dara; and Will it become a choir? – An acoustic world-tour across Vienna by Ilse Chlan); Show 019: Virtual Nature by Bill Fontana; and Show 020: hyper global soundscape by sound_00.