Monday 8th April
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12:00am - 1:00am
Sleeping Dogs Lie
[Repeated from Sunday 3.30am.] Ambient music selected by Miguel Santos to help night owls relax. For more information visit Sleeping Dogs Lie on Facebook, Mixcloud and WhitelabelRecs Bandcamp.
1:00am - 2:30am
Bad Punk
[Repeated from Friday 10pm.] Hosted by Johny Brown and Band Of Holy Joy. Tonight: The World Is Not Where We Are. A soundscape consisting of the music of IX TAB As Never Before, Mark Tremolo, Loyalty Freak Music and The Sad Flute. For more information visit johny.co.uk, contact badpunkradio@gmail.com.
2:30am - 8:00am
Day For Night
A selection of recent highlights, archival surprises, programmes that deserve a repeat and those that slipped through the net, taking you through from the wee hours to breakfast. With occasional forays into the Resonance Extra programme of new music and sound art - and further afield.
8:00am - 9:00am
Such Music
[Repeated from Saturday 8pm.] Hosted by Rihards Endriksons, journalist and artistic director of Latvia's Skaņu Mežs festival, Such Music is devoted to new works of free improvised music, either previously unheard or created specifically for the show. As of March 2023, the show is produced in collaboration with Burning Ambulance, an online journal of arts and culture. This month: an unpublished live recording of the percussion-electronics trio of Regan Bowering, Li Song and Conal Blake playing at Cafe OTO, as well as exclusive previews of upcoming releases by Stephen Grew and أحمد [Ahmed].
9:00am - 10:00am
The News Agents
[Repeated from Saturday 2.30pm.] Experiments in news and arts with Jude Montague. This week: Tango Studies. Part of an occasional series digging into aspects of tango and concentrating on early Argentine tango canción. Songs made famous by Carlos Gardel and his 1930s contemporaries, plus music from the early tango musical 'Soul of the Accordion' and from the biopic of Rudy Valentino. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.co.uk.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Friday 8pm.] One off, irregular and sometimes surprise broadcasts.
11:00am - 11:30am
Little Atoms
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: Stuart Turton on his latest novel, The Last Murder At The End Of The World. Visit littleatoms.com for more information. Tweet to @littleatoms. Contact littleatomspodcast@gmail.com. [Repeats Saturday 9am.]
11:30am - 12:00pm
Records Comic, Curious And Cracked
An eco-neutral trawl through the unusual records acquired by various means, including even purchase, during an otherwise mostly virtuous lifetime by Jack Thorington. [Repeats Friday 3.30pm.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
[Repeated from Thursday 2pm.] Kevin Sheils presents an informed and judicious selection of recordings of traditional musics from Britain, Ireland and occasionally further afield. This week: a look at The Bothy Band, who recently reunited with the surviving members for a TV documentary and tour. We also explore some of the other projects the band members have been involved in. Plus, a mixed bag selection of tracks.
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Calling All Pensioners
Magazine programme with Tim Hamilton, addressing issues which affect pensioners across London. This week: the National Pensioners’ Convention (NPC) highlights from its Connections for All March 2024 newsletter that digital technology is putting older people at risk of social exclusion, and shares from the letters page that the landline going digital means it will stop working without battery back-up, and not everyone wishes to do everything on-line. England-based pensioner’s charity, Independent Age, reminds you to get your MP along to Independent Age’s event so that MPs can stand up for what's right and fair. Musical tributes are to Steve Harley, aged 73, an English singer-songwriter and frontman of the rock group, Cockney Rebel, and also to Bruce Springsteen, for receiving one of the highest honours in songwriting, the Ivor Novello Award for enriching the cultural fabric of the UK. Produced by Deptford Action Group for the Elderly. [Repeats Sunday 2pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
The Bing Selfish Radio Show: Selfish Tales
Selfish Tales: Selfish in Space - Part 1. In a post-scarcity universe, an intrepid team of space explorers encounter (and epitomise) scarcity of good sense, good anticipation and good music when they stomp into the middle of a civil war between Experimentalists, Avant Gardists and Improvisers. Will they manage to make a bad situation worse? A deep philosophical meditation on the nature of art, interstellar navigation and reality, with jokes. Selfish Tales is the latest emanation from The Bing Selfish Radio Show and brings you stories you never knew you wanted to hear. Expect music, including in this case, experimentalism, avant gardism and improvisationalismisticality, plus actual songs, voices, sounds and surprises. We can't tell you much more right now, or you'd just steal all our ideas and do it all yourself with a finely tuned grant application. [Repeats Wednesday 9am.]
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Sound Of Photography
Frank Watson examines the relationship between photography and sound. For info visit http://thesoundofphotography.com/. [Repeats Thursday 4.30pm.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Radio Ecoshock
[Repeated from Friday 9am.] Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: Why So Hot So Fast? Even cautious scientists are worried. Gavin Schmidt is Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He tells us "Climate models can’t explain 2023's huge heat anomaly - we could be in uncharted territory." Meanwhile, so much ice is melting at the Poles, Earth’s rotation is changing. Dr. Chad Greene from NASA’S lab in California reveals Greenland lost even more ice than we knew. Cutting climate science from NASA, on Radio Ecoshock. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org.
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Isolation Vacation
Embark on a journey with the Spencer family as they go on a musical holiday to all four corners of the world. This week: London Hat Week kicked off on Sunday with the London Hat Walk, and seeing everyone's magnificent headwear has inspired Isolation Vacation to doff their caps to some musical hatters. Featuring post-metal, soul, pop-rock and jazz. [Repeated Thursday 3.30pm.]
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Gate Kicks
[Repeated from Wednesday 1.30pm.] Introduced by DJ Ritchie Rich, multi-instrumentalist Duane aka Mr Amazing, and singer Labake Anisere, and produced by people with learning disabilities at the Gate Arts Centre, Gate Kicks covers art, music, dance, film, theatre and offers a hub where this truly underground art scene is exposed to a larger audience.
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Nunhead American Radio with Lewis Schaffer
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. This week: Lewis and Lisa talk about the events of the day. Plus, old school New York chop houses - before steak was so expensive, Lewis's fear of being unwanted, and the new charity shop at Nunhead's Salvation Army station on Nunhead Green. Visit lewisschaffer.co.uk/radio for more information. [Repeats 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 and Simon Byron, 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. [Repeats Saturday 10am.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Art Monthly Talk Show
An audio supplement to Art Monthly magazine, broadcast on the second Monday of each month. Today: Watching the Dictators. For Bob Dickinson the new extreme right-wing regime of Javier Milei in Argentina provides only the latest lesson in the dangers of populist politics and proves more than ever the need to resist the rise in authoritarianism in life and art. Bob discusses his feature from April 2024 Art Monthly with host Matt Hale - artist and broadcaster. Bob Dickinson is a freelance writer based in Manchester and Argentina. [Repeats Tuesday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:00pm
The Naked Short Club
Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around alternative investments, markets, the economy and wider world. [Repeats Thursday 9am.]
10:00pm - 11:00pm
An Ambient Year
A series of hour long live mix recordings, compositions and productions by Mac Dunlop. These broadcasts explore the knock on effects of sound layers within the evolution of sonic themes as they form. This series arose from a desire for a sound that is no more music than it is noise. A sound that feels like it is around all the time, a sound that compliments, a sound that is camouflaged inside everything else. Find out more at www.macspianolounge.blogspot.com. [Repeats Saturday 1.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Devil's Dancers
An episodic history of synthesized sounds with Nina Kehagia, broadcast monthly. Tonight, Nina's guest is Armenian-American vocalist, songwriter, composer/producer and multimedia artist KÁRYYN. Her 'Calm KAOSS!' EP is due to be released via Mute Records on 22 May 2024. Email hello@ninakeh.com. Instagram @ninakeh. [Repeats Saturday 12.30am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
A Duck in a Tree
[Repeated from Saturday 7pm.] The :zoviet * france: radio show. The Nowhere Line. This week's edition features tracks from new releases by Philippe Lamy & Shaun Robert, Jos Smolders, Chelidon Frame, and Pinkcourtesyphone, a new recording by Gallery Six & SetField and recordings from now to here by Analoc, Leafcutter John, #000000, François Bayle, Enrique Maraver, Anders Johansson, and Ade Hodges.