Wednesday 24th July
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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. 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, we revisit a few favourites from the last 24 months: album tracks by DER, Officer!, Sonologyst, Trupa Trupa, We Be Echo, Bruxa Maria and Moe, Jozef van Wissem, Tim Olive, Jussi Lehtisalo, David Lee Myers, Illitch, Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne, Exit Electronics, and JH AL. 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 Tuesday 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. 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: tracks from the fantastic newly released double CD in Japan, Nigerian Guitar Roots - Juju, Guitar Band Highlife 1936-1968, plus two rare tracks by Malian kora player Toumani Diabate who died recently, from his Japan only album Shake the Whole World and a track from his superb album recorded with Spanish guitar group Ketama and bassist Danny Thompson, Songhai. Visit farsidemusic.com for more information. [Repeats Saturday 5.30pm.]
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Micro Clear Spot
[Repeated from Tuesday 10pm.] Shorter specials and one-off programmes.
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, Ben compiles a programme of music using two different methods. One is free improvisation, where the musicians respond to each other in "real time", the other is xenochrony, the artificial combination of instruments played at different times for different purposes. Musicians are: Out To Lunch - piano, acoustic guitar, electric bass, melodica, percussion; Paul Moss - clarinet, recorder, mandolin, percussion; François Moreau - double bass; Peter Baxter - drum set. The tracks are: The Yellowy Canary Ivor Swallowed (dedicated to Ivor Cutler), Zoom Night Stomata, The Biggie and "Playing with Myself". [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. Email 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 end of the season episode with chats with artists showing at the Salon Noir Summer Art Show starting Wednesday 24 July. Breaking news about DamageUK LP launch in August and some New Band Spots by The Good Water, Sophie Kilburn and Regent, plus tracks by Rachel Darq, Spizzenergi, Delta Unit, Labelle, Dana Gillespie and Paranoid Visions. 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 21: The Quest Gets Ambient. DJ Savlon's quest to find the beat takes us on a journey to the Centre of the Earth by way of Alder Coppice in Sedgley and Sidbury Church in Shropshire, featuring DJ Savlon, Lucy Henderson and Reno & Me. [Repeats Sunday 11am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
A World In London
DJ Ritu MBE presents the UK’s definitive global music show from London. Today: international legends and talented newcomers resonate in this final show before the long summer break. DJ Ritu mixes great global music including by Toumani Diabate, The Four Tops, Sweet Honey On the Rock, Fania All Stars, Incognito, Angelique Kidjo, Amr Diab, Cornershop, Bombay Mami and Sister Cookie. [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: to celebrate over seven years of weekly Arty Facts shows, for the first time in the history of the show, Master J presents the show as it was originally pitched. Musical theatre actor Karen Holmes (currently on national tour in Greatest Days – The Official Take That Musical) will be subject to a John Freeman style 'face to face' serious interview about her life as a performer. Expect deep painful questioning, with hopefully tears of anguish, or more likely for the format to fail on every level. 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: for the last in the current series, David pays tribute to Françoise Hardy with a selection of some of her less familiar songs.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Fog Cast
A series of late night deep listening soundtracks presented by Robin The Fog. 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.]