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12:00am - 1:00am
Is Black Music
The world's first and longest running alternative Black music radio show, hosted by Art Terry. Tonight: we focus on artists that have upcoming gigs this spring. The playlist includes Cosmo Pyke, Josha Idehen and Lord Spikeheart. For more information visit isblackmusic.com. [Repeats Saturday 11pm.]
1:00am - 2:30am
The Sound Projector Radio Show
[Repeated from Friday 5.30pm.] A showcase for records of contemporary experimental and underground music, hosted by Ed Pinsent. Tonight: new releases from June 2023. Hear album tracks Don & Françoiz, Hyunhye Seo, Léa Boudreau, Hilde Marie Holsen, Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard, Sawt Out, Martin Küchen & Sophie Agnel, Orquestra del Tiempo Perdido, João Orecchia and Sicker Man, Kajsa Magnarsson, and Vasco Trilla. Visit thesoundprojector.com/radio-show/ for more information.
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
Dig That Treasure
[Repeated from Sunday 8pm.] Will Hall presents 60 minutes monthly of forgotten, underrated and under-appreciated pop and folk music from across the world. International scenes are at home alongside outsider musics, demos and covers, film and game soundtracks, and long-lost rarities in this decentred selection. Follow @digthattreasure on Instagram.
9:00am - 10:00am
Lucky Cat
[Repeated from Monday 2pm.] If Wong Kar Wai had a radio show. Lucky Cat is a spicy chop suey of music and culture produced and presented by Zoë Baxter.
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Monday 8pm.] One off, irregular and sometimes surprise broadcasts.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Intoxica Radio Hour
Presented by Nick Brown and the Intoxica Records Radio Hour Choir, direct descendants of the Intoxica Records Shop. The show is dedicated to the dignity of vinyl, spotlighting Content Themes, specific artists' careers and generally playing the gloriously unheralded beat, soul and honkers of the 20th Century, all rendered on little slabs of black plastic. This week: music from the wired and wonderful world of The Paris Studio Sound, Victory Five and The Chantells. For further information and general waffle, contact intoxica@intoxica.co.uk. [Repeats Sunday 10pm.]
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Farside Radio
Music from the catalogues of Far Side Music, the world's primary source for East Asian sounds, presented by Paul Fisher. This week: All tracks are from albums whose front cover artwork were hand drawn or painted by Yasuo Yagi who died on 9th April. Some of the musicians whose albums he graced with his distinctive illustrations are by Haroumi Hosono, Makoto Kubota, Zelda, Geoff Muldaur and others from France, Italy, Sierra Leone and Okinawa. Visit farsidemusic.com for more information. [Repeats Saturday 5.30pm.]
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Gate Kicks
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. [Repeats Monday 6pm.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Late Lunch with Out to Lunch
Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson. This week: lacking music recorded by Ammas at their Betsey Trotwood Friday lunchtime residency, Ben programmes a "Splash 'n' Klang" recorded on 29th May 2018, a session which ended with a thunderstorm over Somers Town, accompanied here by mouth sounds, improvised acoustic guitar and Yamaha strings recorded at various different dates. [Repeats Sunday 6am.]
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Balling the Jack
[Repeated from Friday 9pm.] Joe Cushley explores 13 Bar Blues and Twisted Roots music from around the globe. From the the 1920s to the present day, from the barrel-house to the arthouse via the bedsit, from Mali to Mississippi to the Mekong via New Malden - every culture has its blues. For more information visit Balling The Jack on Facebook. E-mail ballingthejack1@gmail.com.
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Spizz FM
An on-going audio autobiography from the punk and post-punk legend that is Spizz. This week: an archive CD discovered last weekend with many early demos, Athletico Spizz 80 rehearsal recordings never heard or shared on any radio show. Also, some amusing answer machine recordings from 1986-88, plus New Band Spots with Prince Fatty, Bad Mary, The Witchdoktors, Jamie Reid, Simon Emmerson and Youth. For more information visit the Spizzenergi Facebook page. Tweet to @spizzenergi. [Repeats Saturday 8am.]
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Radio Public
A monthly programme created by Workshop 24, a sound, visual and socially engaged art collective working in the Midlands. Each programme emanates from our experience of the local, creating a portal into sonic possible worlds. Episode 18: Reno & Me the lo-fi album about life on the dole in Wolverhampton during the 80s and 90s by Glenn Hilton and Bill Laybourne. [Repeats Sunday 11am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
A World In London
DJ Ritu MBE presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London. This week: a flight of love through international sounds, DJ Ritu mixes the best global music by New Regency Orchestra, Florence Adooni, Ajda Pekkan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Max Clouth, Lass, La Yegros, JT Conception and Rim Banna. [Repeats Saturday 3.30pm.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Arty Facts
[Repeated from Sunday 1.30pm.] Arty Facts with Master J is a show about working in the arts. Today: Master J is joined by musical theatre actor Karen Holmes. Karen is currently on national tour in Greatest Days – The Official Take That Musical. In this review show they discuss Algorithms (written and directed by Sadie Clark) at the Park Theatre, and the new British comedy film, Seize Them! (directed by Curtis Vowell and written by Andy Riley). Topics include: sound FX, dating advice, and James Acaster. Plus, the usual amount of bickering and bleating - on and off topic. For more information visit Master J on Facebook.
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
One off, irregular and sometimes surprise broadcasts. [Repeats Thursday 10am.]
9:00pm - 9:30pm
K-Pop Journey
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. [Repeats Sunday 4.30am.]
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Club Integral Radio Show
The Earl of Killorglin and Andrew Scott-Bolton of Club Integral - London's long-running "home to the uncategorisable" - explore the music that informs its long running concert series in London. [Repeats Friday 12am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Rockfort
[Repeated from Tuesday 7.30pm.] David McKenna presents the best in underground and out of left-field French music. This week: including Inui, Leila Martial & Valentin Ceccaldi, Laurent Pernice, Mille, Irnini Mons and Electronicat.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Fog Cast
A series of late night deep listening soundtracks presented by Robin The Fog. Tonight: we open with 'Melancholia' from Fog Cast favourite Christine Ott's recent album 'Eclats (Piano Works)', before moving into this week's two featured albums, 'Canyon' by Portland-based composer Saloli and the newly released 'Every Creeping Thing' from Simon McCorry & Wodwo. We also hear new and recent works by One Million Eyes, Loula Yorke and Ghost Harmonic. Come drift into the blissful night with us... Further details at: robinthefog.com. [Repeats Sunday 2.30am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Tunes From Turtle Island
New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 8.30pm.]