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A NIGHT OUT WITH: DJ MINX 18.10.25 (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th October 2025
Detroit house and techno staple DJ Minx takes over Rave Forever with an all-vinyl mix, exploring the music that made her want to DJ. Featuring tracks from Juan Atkins, Chez Damier and Cybotron, DJ Minx reflects on raving in Detroit and the 'snaps, crackles and pops' of her record collection!
Produced by We Are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music.
K.E.L.S.E.Y. - Boy (M.K. Deep Dub) [Strictly Rhythm]
Cybotron - Alleys Of Your Mind [BGP]
Rhythim Is Rhythim - Beyond The Dance [Telstar]
Robert Owens - I'll Be Your Friend [Warner Dance]
A Tongue & D Groove - Feel Surreal [10]
Chez Damier - Can You Feel It [DMC]
George Kranz - Din Daa Daa (Trommeltanz) [Cherry Pop]
Lil' Louis - French Kiss [FFRR]
Armando - 100% Of Dissin' You (Mike Dunn's House Mix) [Warehouse]
Fast Lane - Young Ladies [Sunnyview]
R-Tyme - Illusion (Juan Atkins' Techno Mix) [Telstar]
"Little" Louie Vega & Marc Anthony - Ride On The Rhythm (Masters At Work Dub) [Strictly Rhythm]
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (The Dub Of Doom) [Great Jones]
Greg Greene - After The Dance [Pagan]
PEACHES - FOREVER DARK TAKEOVER 11.10.25 (320kbs-m4a/140mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 11th October 2025
Peaches guest curates this Forever Dark special with a mix of beat based sounds both old and new. Includes Moderna, Miss Kittin, Nuxx, Tones On Tail, GHOSTWOMAN and Patriarchy.
Peaches - Sick In The Head [I U She Music]
Moderna - DIE4U [Brave New Rave]
Nuxx - Outside Days [Synthicide]
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - La Cave [Nobody's Bizzness]
Public Circuit - No Faith [à La Carte]
Sextile - Disco [Felte]
Peaches - Burst! (Planningtorock Remix) [Boysnoize]
Gamma Intel - Nonchalance [Pinkman]
ADULT. - Shake Your Head [Ersatz Audio]
Austra - Beat And The Pulse [Domino]
Malaria! - Your Turn To Run [moabit musik]
Tones On Tail - Go! (Club Mix) [Beggars Banquet]
Krisma - Black Silk Stocking [Universal Music Italia Srl]
GHOSTWOMAN - 5 Gold Pieces [Full Time Hobby]
Peaches - Free Drink Ticket [I U She Music]
Patriarchy - Boy On A Leash [Patriarchy]
ARTWORKS - FOR FUZZ SAKE (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 30th September 2025
Can a sound effect change the world?
Since the dawn of the electrical age, we've lived alongside the sound of distortion. It's the hiss of TV static, the harsh crackle of a speaker pushed too loud. However, what happens when this glitch, a signifier of the broken and the wrong, becomes part of popular music?
Fuzz flung open the door for rule breakers and rebels. It was a sonic weapon that could stimulate powerful emotions, whip audiences into a frenzy and spark rebellion.
Starting on a highway in 1950s America, music journalist John Robb will follow fuzz through time, calling on philosophy and science to uncover the secrets of this sound. He will stop off at the magical moments of accident and destruction that allowed the sound to evolve and spread. Including a rare demonstration from rock and roll icon Dave Davies on how he crafted the iconic guitar distortion on You Really Got Me.
Interviews with Jerry Phillips, Toby Young, Dave Davies, Mathilde Massenet, Greg Bryant, Ant Macari and Matthew Worley.
Actors voices provided by Paul Colgate (So Sinatra), Phia Saban and Rob Campbell
Presenter: John Robb
Producer and Sound Designer: Seb Masters
Production Assistant: Tom Waterworth
Production Coordinator: Mica Nepomuceno
GREAT LIVES - HG WELLS (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 23rd October 2025
Author Fay Weldon proposes the writer and visionary HG Wells
Presented by Humphrey Carpenter.
Expert witness: Biographer, Vincent Brome, who met Wells and many of his mistresses.
Biographical series in which a distinguished guest chooses someone who's inspired their life.
Will their hero stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of having led a great life?
Producer: Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.
GREAT LIVES - OLIVER POSTGATE (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 6th October 2025
"Postgate's work is deep inside me and I think that's true for so many of my generation... His work represents nothing less than a touchstone for our national imagination and in that sense it's profoundly important."
Andrew Davenport, writer, composer, and creator of Teletubbies and In the Night Garden, nominates Oliver Postgate, who, along with his Smallfilms business partner, the artist Peter Firmin, invented the children's television shows Ivor the Engine, The Clangers and, perhaps most loved of all, Bagpuss.
Postgate was a late bloomer. Following Dartington school (which he hated) a stint in jail and working the land, several odd jobs and even odder inventions, he eventually discovered a love of stop-motion animation and created some of the most enduring worlds and best-loved characters in television, all from a cowshed in Kent.
Including clips of his programmes, contributions from singer and musician Sandra Kerr, and archive from Postgate's 2007 Desert Island Discs interview.
With cultural historian Matthew Sweet. Produced by Ellie Richold. Presented by Matthew Parris.
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: RONNIE WOOD (320kbs-m4a/132mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 12th October 2025
Ronnie Wood is a musician and artist who has been a major player on the UK music scene for over 60 years. In 1975 Ronnie became a member of the Rolling Stones, one of the most influential and enduring bands of the rock era.
Ronnie's parents were born and worked on barges moving cargo up and down the canals between Manchester, Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Ronnie and his two older brothers were the first in the family to be born on dry land.
Ronnie's brothers, Ted and Art, were accomplished musicians and played in highly respected bands. Ronnie made his debut at nine-years-old when he played the washboard in Ted's band during a performance at their local cinema. Ronnie formed his first band, The Birds, with some friends. In 1967 he joined the Jeff Beck Group with his lifelong friend Rod Stewart. Two years later they formed the Faces with the remaining members of the Small Faces.
Ronnie joined the Rolling Stones in 1975, replacing the band's previous guitarist Mick Taylor. Ronnie's love of art developed in childhood and he studied at Ealing College of Art. His work has been shown in exhibitions around the world.
Ronnie lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Sally and their two children.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley
There are more than 2000 programmes in our archive available for you to listen to. We have cast away other musicians and songwriters including Mark Knopfler, Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper. Ronnie's fellow Stones, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, are in our archive too along with Ronnie's friend Paul McCartney. You can find their episodes on BBC Sounds or on our Desert Island Discs website.
Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Shuffle [Stardust]
Jimmy Reed - Shame, Shame, Shame [Life Series]
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning [Avid Entertainment]
Muddy Waters - You Need Love [Acrobat]
Frank Sinatra - Adelaide [Classic Soundtracks]
Anda Géza - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante "Elvira Madigan" [Deutsche Grammophon (DG)]
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven [Universal Music S.A.]
Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed [Paul McCartney Catalog]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: MICHAEL SHEEN (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 28th September 2025
Michael Sheen is an award-winning actor.
After finding his love for the stage with the West Glamorgan Youth theatre as a teenager, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
He spent the 1990s making a name for himself as a stage actor, shining in the classics from Romeo and Juliet to Peer Gynt as well as in 20th century masterpieces such as Look Back in Anger and Amadeus, receiving several Olivier Award nominations along the way.
A relocation to the US in the early 2000s with his then partner, the actress Kate Beckinsale, and their young daughter Lily prompted a move into films. His breakthrough came in 2003 when he portrayed Tony Blair in a Stephen Frears film called The Deal. It was the beginning of what became an unlikely specialism: morphing into real people from recent history: Kenneth Williams, David Frost, Brian Clough, Chris Tarrant, and Prince Andrew – with two more outings as Tony Blair thrown in for good measure.
Michael was born in Newport, South Wales, in February 1969, the eldest of two children to Meyrick and Irene. He grew up in Port Talbot from the age of eight and considers it his hometown.
His first love was football, and he was spotted as youngster by an Arsenal talent scout to play for their youth team. His parents decided against moving the family to London and he turned to acting instead and graduated from RADA in 1991.
Alongside the classic dramas, his range extends to appearing in fantasy and science fiction films such as The Twilight Saga and Tron: Legacy.
Michael has said that the most meaningful project to him was a modern restaging of the passion play in Port Talbot in 2011, which involved the participation of a thousand local people, because it opened his eyes to the difficulties many of them were experiencing. He has since used his own money to fund the 2019 Homeless World Cup in Cardiff and set up an organisation which supports community groups.
Michael lives in Wales with his partner, the actress Anna Lundberg, and their two young daughters.
BOOK CHOICE: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
LUXURY ITEM: A football
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Vienna - Ultravox
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor
There are more than 2000 programmes in our archive available for you to listen to. We have cast away other notable actors including Sir Anthony Hopkins and some of the people Michael has played including Kenneth Williams, Chris Tarrant and Tony Blair. You can find all those episodes and more by searching BBC Sounds.
Ultravox - Vienna
Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy Of Gold
Talk Talk - Desire
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Manic Street Preachers - Ready For Drowning
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Lau - Dark Secret
Yello - Oh Yeah
CLASSIC THRILLER SOUNDTRACKS (320kbs-m4a/284mb/2hrs3mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 4th September 2025
Live at the BBC Proms. BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Edwin Outwater play film scores by Bernard Herrmann, who died fifty years ago. There's also music by Lalo Schifrin and Quincy Jones; and Sterling Elliot is the soloist in Korngold's Cello Concerto.
Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Herrmann Prelude (North by Northwest)
Herrmann Suite: Psycho (Prelude; The Murder; Finale)
Raksin Laura
Herrmann Suite: Vertigo
Korngold Cello Concerto
INTERVAL: Steven C. Smith is the author of the biography, A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann. He talks about the film scores created by the composer.
Quincy Jones Ironside theme
Quincy Jones, arr Guy Barker In the Heat of the Night
Herrmann Twisted Nerve
Herrmann Taxi Driver (Nightpiece)
Isaac Hayes Shaft
Quincy Jones On Days Like These (Italian Job)
Schifrin Shiftin Gears (Bullitt)
Quincy Jones It's Caper Time (Italian Job)
Sterling Elliot (cello)
Singers Lance Ellington, Ashton Jones
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Edwin Outwater
From the shrieking strings of Psycho to the brooding jazz-club sleaze of Taxi Driver: Bernard Herrmann’s music is the soundtrack to the greats of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor and Curator Edwin Outwater to celebrate the composer’s iconic film scores. A programme rich with suspense and drama also includes excerpts from film scores by Quincy Jones, David Raksin and Lalo Schifrin.
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR - CHAPTER I, II & III (320kbs-m4a/188mb/1hr22mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 12th August 2025
Live at the BBC Proms: Anoushka Shankar brings her Chapter albums to the Royal Albert Hall
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Anoushka Shankar , sitar
London Contemporary Orchestra
Robert Ames, conductor
Anoushka Shankar
Chapter I : Forever, For Now
Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn
Chapter III: We Return to Light (world premiere)
Multi-Grammy-nominated sitar virtuoso and composer Anoushka Shankar returns to the Proms for the world-premiere performance of music from her three ‘Chapter’ albums, tracing her musical and geographical journeys
She is joined by Robert Ames and the London Contemporary Orchestra to perform new orchestral arrangements of the trilogy: Forever, For Now; How Dark It Is Before Dawn and We Return To Light.
Anoushka Shankar - Daydreaming
Anoushka Shankar - Stolen Moments
Anoushka Shankar - What Will We Remember
Anoushka Shankar - Sleeping Flowers (Awaken Every Spring)
Anoushka Shankar - Pacifica
Anoushka Shankar - Offering
Anoushka Shankar - What Dreams Are Made Of
Anoushka Shankar - In the End
Anoushka Shankar - Below The Surface
Anoushka Shankar - New Dawn
Anoushka Shankar - Daybreak
Anoushka Shankar - Hiraeth
Anoushka Shankar - Dancing On Scorched Earth
Anoushka Shankar - We Burn So Brightly
Anoushka Shankar - Amrita
Anoushka Shankar - We Return To Love
OUT OF THIS WORLD: 25 YEARS OF THE ISS (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 1st November 2025
Out of This World unveils compelling personal tales of bravery, tragedy, ingenuity, political manoeuvring, and triumph, revealing the remarkable story of one of humanity's greatest ever feats – the International Space Station.
Celebrating 25 unbroken years of humans living in space, engineer and former international director at the UK Space Agency, Alice Bunn charts the shifting geopolitics which led to the East and West putting aside their differences and creating the ultimate symbol of human ingenuity and collaboration – a space station orbiting our planet at 17500 mph, which has been home to over 300 people from 23 different nations.
Using mission audio, news archive and personal stories of those intimately involved in the station's creation, Alice explores acts of epic survival, inventiveness, humour and selflessness that made the station a reality. She investigates the blueprint for the ISS – Apollo-Soyuz, a joint Soviet/US mission at the height of the Cold War - and why a near fatal disaster on a Russian space station spurred nations to commit to the ISS.
She reveals how a Moscow basement and Hollywood royalty sparked bonding between Russians and Americans and the bromance that fuelled the mission of the first crew to call the ISS home. Alice also discovers how quick thinking and plastic tape saved the station, allowing it to grow to the size of a football pitch and how one astronaut came within seconds of drowning in space.
And looking into the future, Alice questions what is next for the ISS amid such geopolitical turbulence and uncertainty.
This is a timely reminder of the extraordinary feats humanity can achieve when we unite and strive for a common goal.
Producer: Duncan Bulling
Presenter: Alice Bunn
A 2 Degrees West production for BBC Radio 4
INNER VOICES - THE BURTON DIARIES (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 10th November 2025
The archive of Richard Burton is a treasure. Hamlet, Under Milk Wood, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Equus stand out, and then there are the movies: Wild Geese, Where Eagles Dare, Antony and Cleopatra, Night of the Iguana and The Robe.
Through several periods of Burton's life, most notably from the mid-1960s to the early '70s he kept a diary, sometimes handwritten, mostly typed out and assembled in thick notebooks. The diaries provide a unique view of the world in which he moved, among actors and directors, writers and poets, millionaires and royalty. They also give an insight into his approach to acting, his insecurities, his drinking and his volatile relationship with Elizabeth Taylor at a time when they were the most famous couple in the world.
Shortly after Burton's death in 1984, Melvyn Bragg was given access to the diaries to write his biography of Burton, Rich.
Burton was the son of a Welsh miner. He met a remarkable teacher and made the journey to Oxford and on to fame and fortune but was seldom really happy. He was a hellraiser who often behaved appallingly and was accused of squandering an extraordinary talent on drinking and bad movies. But Burton was also a man of wonderful erudition, passion, insight and self- knowledge. He fought his way in life through force of will, love, and voracious reading. It is this side of the man that makes him such a remarkable presence. It is also a side of him captured in a rich vein of BBC archive and interviews.
Presented by Melvyn Bragg
Reader Josh Richards
Taking part Dai Smith and Chris Williams
Producer Jeremy Grange
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2012.
ONE LAST CHANCE TO SEE (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 4th October 2025
"It's funny how often, every author I know, their own favourite book is the one that sold the least… My favourite book is what I'm here to talk about tonight."
Douglas Adams is best known as a science fiction writer. But in the late 80s, the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy embarked on something completely different. After a life-changing meeting with a rare lemur called an Aye-Aye, he decided he wanted to travel the world with the zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of endangered species. Their journeys became a book and a Radio 4 series called Last Chance To See.
A few years ago, Katherine Rundell stumbled upon Last Chance To See in a second hand book shop. "It was a revelation... the way that he managed to salute the intricate variety and infinite strangeness of living things and still tell some of the best jokes that you will encounter in print, that seemed to me both an extraordinary thing and the thing that we need so much more of."
Here, Katherine Rundell revisits the story behind the book and Radio 4 series – as told by its co-author Mark Carwardine in a new interview, and Douglas himself, thanks to archive from the lecture Douglas gave at the University of California in 2001, just a month before his death.
Ever ahead of his time, the message of the book is even more stark today.
"We don't have to save the world. The world's fine. The world has been through five periods of mass extinction…. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it. That's what we need to think about."
With thanks to Mark Carwardine, the Douglas Adams Estate, and the University of California.
Presented by Katherine Rundell. Produced in Bristol by Polly Weston
THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 138. MARK RONSON (320kbs-m4a/98mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 23rd October 2025
Having spent his early years in London, Mark Ronson grew up in Manhattan, began working as a DJ as a teenager and quickly made a name for himself on the New York club scene of the 1990s. He moved into music production and, in 2006, co-wrote and co-produced the Amy Winehouse album Back To Black. The record won five Grammys and Mark Ronson himself scooped the Producer of the Year Award. Since then, he has released five solo albums and worked with some of the most successful names in pop including Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Queens Of The Stone Age and Paul McCartney. The winner of ten Grammys and two Brits, he added an Academy Award to his list of accolades in 2018 as co-writer of the song Shallow from the film A Star Is Born. He was also Oscar nominated for his work as executive producer, composer and songwriter for the soundtrack to the Barbie movie. More recently he has written a book called Night People, a memoir about his time as a DJ in 90s New York.
Mark Ronson tells John Wilson about the influence of his music-loving parents, who often threw parties at their north London home when he was a child. He talks about the influence of his stepfather Mick Jones, songwriter, guitarist and producer of the 80s rock band Foreigner, who allowed Mark to experiment with equipment in his home studio in New York and encouraged his early interest in production. He remembers how hearing the 1992 track They Reminisce Over You by Pete Rock and CL Smooth led him to pursue a career as a club DJ and become renowned for the diverse range of music he played in clubs - from soul and hip-hop to classic rock - an eclectic approach which later informed his work as a producer. Mark Ronson also recalls first meeting Amy Winehouse and how they wrote and recorded the songs for her Back To Black album.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 132. ALICIA VIKANDER (320kbs-m4a/98mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 11th September 2025
Swedish-born Alicia Vikander won global acclaim in 2015 for playing Vera Britten in Testament Of Youth, and a humanoid robot in the thriller Ex-Machina. The following year she won an Academy Award for her supporting role with Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl, along with a Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Since then her diverse range of screen roles have included playing a spy boss in the film Jason Bourne, computer game heroine Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, and Gloria Steinem in the biopic The Glorias. The daughter of acclaimed stage actor Maria Fahl, she tells John Wilson how she first performed on stage at the age of seven in a musical written by Benny and Bjorn of ABBA. She also appeared in Swedish television dramas and films as a child actor. In 2025 Alicia Vikander makes her return to the stage in a new version of Ibsen's The Lady From The Sea at The Bridge in London, her first theatre role since she was a child.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
UNDERSTAND - THE TRIP (320kbs-m4a/345mb/2hrs28min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 30th July to 15th August 2025
THE TRIP - 0. INTRODUCING THE TRIP (320kbs-m4a/7.4mb/3min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 30th July 2025
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled with strange, incandescent visions and hallucinations. That experience is something he would never choose to revisit but, around the world, large numbers of people are deliberately seeking out powerfully altered states.
In this ten-part series, Tim sets out to better understand a group of substances that induce altered states: psychedelics.
There's been a surge of interest in their therapeutic potential for various mental health conditions - as well as a range of other clinical possibilities. As research around the world ramps up after years of taboo and prohibition he tries to get to grips with - or at least get a clearer sense of - how science, culture, politics and business might all interact in this changing psychedelic landscape, and what it all might mean.
He also explores what might be happening in the brain during a trip and whether, by studying psychedelics, we might uncover more about consciousness, imagination and even the mysteries of reality itself.
Presenter: Tim Hayward
Producer: Richard Ward
Executive Producer: Rosamund Jones
Editor: Kirsten Lass
Written by Tim Hayward and Richard Ward
Sound Design and Mixing: Richard Ward
Researcher: Grace Revill
Commissioning Editor: Daniel Clarke
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4
THE TRIP - 1. ALTERED STATES (320kbs-m4a/34mb/14min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 4th August 2025
In this first episode Tim discovers where psychedelics come from, gets terrified about ergot poisoning, and hears from a scientist at the forefront of clinical research looking at psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for treatment resistant depression.
Contributors:
Lucie Berkovitch, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences
Erika Dyck, historian of psychedelics, University of Saskatchewan
Mike Jay, author and cultural historian
David Luke, psychologist and psychedelic researcher, University of Greenwich
THE TRIP - 2. WHEN THE DRUGS TAKE HOLD (320kbs-m4a/34mb/15min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 5th August 2025
In this second episode Tim stares at a rose, encounters an inflatable head, and tries to get to grips with the anatomy of a trip.
Contributors:
Eugenia Bone, journalist and author of “How to Have a Good Trip”
Steven A. Jones, filmmaker
Katrin Preller, neuropsychologist and neuroimaging researcher, University of Zurich
THE TRIP - 3. STRANGER THINGS (320kbs-m4a/34mb/15min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 6th August 2025
In this third episode Tim hears tales of pixies, hyper-intelligent alien entities and explores a highly unusual molecule found in the glands of a toad.
Contributors:
Lisa Luan, neuroscientist and psychologist, Imperial College London
David Luke, psychologist and psychedelic researcher, University of Greenwich
Chris Timmermann, neuroscientist and psychologist, University College London
THE TRIP - 4. LOOKING FOR A CURE (320kbs-m4a/33mb/14min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 7th August 2025
In this episode, Tim Hayward hears the story of a paramedic who decided to travel abroad in a search for a cure.
Contributors:
John, paramedic practitioner
Katrin Preller, neuropsychologist and neuroimaging researcher, University of Zurich
THE TRIP - 5. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (320kbs-m4a/34mb/14min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 8th August 2025
In this episode, Tim travels back in time to a Victorian pharmacy, drinks a lot of coffee, uncovers some pioneering psychedelic research in 1950s Canada - and discovers a nurse who was there.
Contributors:
Erika Dyck, historian of psychedelics, University of Saskatchewan
Mike Jay, author and cultural historian
Kay Parley, former nurse Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn, Canada
Andrew Penn, psychiatric nurse practitioner and psychedelics researcher, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing
THE TRIP - 6. CRITICAL PERIODS (320kbs-m4a/34mb/15min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 11th August 2025
This episode features Dr Gül Dölen who is exploring a possible connection between psychedelic trips and how and when humans learn new things. The implications of her research are potentially ground-breaking.
Contributors:
Eugenia Bone, journalist and author of How to Have a Good Trip
Gül Dölen, neuroscientist, University of California, Berkeley
THE TRIP - 7. FASCINATION AND TABOO (320kbs-m4a/33mb/14min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 12th August 2025
This episode looks into the history of psychedelic research. From the “dawn” of psychedelic science in 1799 through to prohibition in the second half of the last century, Tim explores shifting cultural and scientific approaches to substances that induce altered states. There had been a willingness to openly explore the trip experience and to see what might be discovered by doing so. Why did all that become taboo?
Contributors:
Erika Dyck, historian of psychedelics, University of Saskatchewan
Mike Jay, author and cultural historian
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, philosopher of mind and metaphysics, University of Exeter
THE TRIP - 8. A TIPPING POINT? (320kbs-m4a/35mb/15min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 13th August 2025
In this episode, Tim explores the many barriers to researching the potential therapeutic value and other potential applications of psychedelics. He assesses how other countries are weighing up and reacting to the current evidence, and asks if a tipping point may be looming in the UK.
Contributors:
David Luke, psychiatrist and psychedelic researcher, University of Greenwich
Lauren MacDonald, psychiatrist and psilocybin group facilitator
Jo Neill, professor of psychopharmacology, University of Manchester and Chair of Trustees, Drug Science
THE TRIP - 9. SACRED PLANTS FOR SALE (320kbs-m4a/34mb/15min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 14th August 2025
In this episode, we hear from members of the psychedelic community who fear the consequences of plants and fungi that are sacred to some indigenous communities being exploited for commercial gain. This would not be the first time, they say - just look at what happened with tobacco.
Contributors:
Osiris García Cerqueda, historian and sociologist, Program Coordinator, Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative (IRI)
Ariel Clark, lawyer and founding member of the Psychedelic Bar Association
Mike Jay, author and cultural historian
Audio footage from Psychedelic Science 2023 and 2025 used with permission from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).
THE TRIP - 10. UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS (320kbs-m4a/34mb/15min)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 15th August 2025
In this final episode, Tim explores how much there is still to understand about the therapeutic possibilities of psychedelics and, furthermore, what other insights research might lead us towards. Will curious minds be given the space to roam free?
Contributors:
Lucie Berkovitch, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences
Osiris García Cerqueda, historian and sociologist, Program Coordinator, Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative (IRI)
Gül Dölen, neuroscientist, University of California, Berkeley
David Luke, psychologist and psychedelic researcher, University of Greenwich
Andrew Penn, psychiatric nurse practitioner and psychedelics researcher, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, philosopher of mind and metaphysics, University of Exeter
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING (320kbs-m4a/336mb/2hrs25mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
Artwork Photo Credit: Ellen von Unwerth
A Zinc Media Production.
Series Producer: Des Shaw
BBC Commissioners: Will Wilkin & Hannah Clapham
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 1. OH YOU PRETTY THINGS! (320kbs-m4a/35mb/15mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
Kate Moss describes David's early life in Brixton, South London and the family influences that began to shape his early interest in music. School friend George Underwood describes going with David to see his first rock concert, which was Little Richard, when they were both 14 and Peter Frampton explains the help and advice his art teacher father gave Peter, George and David. Once he decided he wanted to become a musician, David moved quickly through several bands, each with a slightly different style - and in 1967 he became enamoured with the art of mime and met mime artist Lindsay Kemp, with whom he studied for several months. Then after years of struggle and experimentation, fuelled by a desperation to become famous, David finally scored his first hit in 1969 with 'Space Oddity'.
With contributions from Brian Eno, St. Vincent, Sinead O'Connor, Rick Wakeman, Peter Frampton, George Underwood and Lindsay Kemp.
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 2. ALL THE MADMEN (320kbs-m4a/36mb/16mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
Encouraged by the success of Space Oddity, David Bowie began working with producer Tony Visconti to craft another hit. He and his girlfriend Angie moved into a flat in Beckenham, South London, where Bowie drew inspiration from Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and dabbled in musical theatre, influenced by Anthony Newley.
At Haddon Hall, Bowie met Freddie Buretti, who became central to his evolving visual style, designing bold outfits that matched Bowie's artistic transformation. While developing new material in the basement studio, Bowie and his band—briefly known as The Hype—played gigs under various names.
This period of creative experimentation and reinvention is celebrated in a special event hosted by Kate Moss.
With contributions from Tony Visconti, John Cambridge and Wendy Kirby.
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 3. THE WARHOL CONNECTION (320kbs-m4a/36mb/15mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
Amid writing, recording, and performing, David Bowie married Angie on March 20, 1970. With no time for a honeymoon, Bowie was back in the studio working on new material that explored themes of isolation and alienation.
Frustrated with his lack of progress, Bowie parted ways with manager Ken Pitt and signed with Tony Defries, who believed in Bowie's star potential. The Man Who Sold the World was released in the U.S. in November 1970, and Bowie headed to America—packing his Mr Fish dresses—for a short promotional tour.
Energised by the music scene there, Bowie returned to the UK and kept writing. In August 1971, he saw Andy Warhol's Pork at Camden's Roundhouse, a show that deeply influenced him. Bowie, Angie, and Defries connected with Warhol's team, many of whom later helped shape Hunky Dory.
With contributions from Tony Defries, Tony Zanetta, Anya Wilson, Trevor Bolder, Ken Scott, John Mendelsshon and Woody Woodmansey. Narrated by Kate Moss.
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 4. BECOMING ZIGGY (320kbs-m4a/35mb/15mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
David Bowie was captivated by Tony Zanetta, known as 'Z', who played Andy Warhol in Pork, and asked him to arrange a meeting with Warhol in New York. During that trip, Bowie also met Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, both of whom would profoundly influence his music.
Kate Moss explores Bowie's journey back in the UK where he was creatively recharged. Inspired by the artists and sounds he encountered, he began writing new material and shared his vision for a new persona: Ziggy Stardust.
His next album, Hunky Dory, showcased Bowie's immense potential. Released on December 17, 1971, it featured tracks like Changes and Life on Mars, which marked a turning point in his career.
With contributions from Iggy Pop, George Underwood, Tony Zanetta, Woody Woodmansey, Anya Wilson and Leee Black Childers.
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 5. WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (320kbs-m4a/42mb/18mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
Kate Moss digs into how Bowie brought Ziggy Stardust to life, through a striking transformation. Though Hunky Dory showed him with flowing golden hair, Bowie was already embracing a bolder look inspired by Warhol's circle and Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
Despite the daring style, early gigs drew small crowds, some nights just ten people, and not everyone embraced the new aesthetic. One early show featured Roxy Music, another band pushing boundaries.
Bursting with creativity, Bowie wrote and produced All the Young Dudes for Mott the Hoople, an anthem that defined the era. Then in June 1972, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was released. A month later, Bowie's electrifying Top of the Pops performance of Starman in full Ziggy costume became a cultural milestone.
That summer, riding the wave of Ziggy's success, Bowie produced Lou Reed's Transformer.
With contributions from Suzi Ronson, Trevor Bolder, Woody Woodmansey, Michael Watts, Mick Ronson, Phil Manzanera, Mick Rock, Ian Hunter, Lou Reed & Boy George.
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 6. A LAD INSANE (320kbs-m4a/35mb/15mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
In April 1973, David Bowie fulfilled a long-held dream by touring Japan. Designer Kansai Yamamoto gifted him a collection of flamboyant stage outfits that Bowie wore with confidence, looks that continue to inspire fashion today.
On April 19, Bowie released Aladdin Sane, featuring the iconic lightning bolt artwork that became one of rock's most enduring images. As Ziggy Stardust's fame soared, Bowie's reality blurred with fantasy. Within just 18 months, Ziggy had become a global phenomenon.
But fame came at a cost. The pressures of touring and financial strain began to mount. On July 3, 1973, at London's Hammersmith Odeon, Bowie dramatically retired Ziggy Stardust, closing a defining chapter in his career.
With contributions from Mike Garson, Geoff MacCormack, Dana Gillespie, Lady Gaga, Chris Duffy, Harris Reed and Sir Paul Smith.
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 7. THE 1980 FLOOR SHOW (320kbs-m4a/36mb/16mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
Following the end of Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie entered a period of reinvention. While Tony Defries negotiated a complex publishing deal, Bowie owed RCA another album, so he recorded Pin Ups, a collection of covers that paid tribute to the songs that shaped his early musical journey. He and Angie spent the summer of 1973 at Château d'Hérouville in France working on the project.
That same year, Bowie was invited by NBC to film a concert for their Midnight Special series. Unable to secure rights to adapt Orwell's 1984 for the stage, Bowie channelled his vision into a theatrical performance titled The 1980 Floor Show, filmed at London's Marquee Club. Still in Ziggy mode for one final outing, Bowie was joined by guests including The Troggs, Carmen, and Marianne Faithfull.
With contributions from Marianne Faithfull, Chrissie Hynde, Cherry Vanilla, Mike Garson and Gene Simmons.
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 8. THE YEAR OF THE DIAMOND DOG (320kbs-m4a/41mb/18mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
The series concludes with Kate Moss exploring the lasting legacy of David Bowie and the story behind Diamond Dogs, an album that carried themes from Bowie's unrealised Orwell adaptation. Released on May 24, 1974, it marked a shift, Tony Defries had convinced Bowie to drop "David", and all promotional material referred to him simply as Bowie.
Unable to stage his 1984 concept, Bowie transformed it into a theatrical U.S. tour, bringing in Broadway designers and choreographer Toni Basil. After months of rehearsals, the Diamond Dogs Tour launched in Montreal, pioneering large-scale rock theatrics and earning rave reviews.
During the tour, Bowie began recording Young Americans in Philadelphia, where filmmaker Alan Yentob captured his volatile state in the documentary Cracked Actor. Bowie, inspired by the new sound, incorporated it into the tour's final leg and completed the album with Tony Visconti. The last track, Fame, was co-written with John Lennon.
Cracked Actor aired in January 1975, catching the eye of director Nic Roeg, who cast Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth, sparking the birth of his next persona: The Thin White Duke.
In just five years, Bowie evolved from a shy outsider into a global icon, constantly reinventing himself through music, fashion, and art.
With contributions from Tilda Swinton, Dave Gahan, Robbie Williams, Florence Welch, Nick Knight, Christine & The Queens, Toni Basil, Jules Fisher, Mark Ravitz, Elton John, Geoff MacCormack, Tony Zanetta and Edward Enninful,
MUSIC UNCOVERED: DAVID BOWIE CHANGELING - 9. KATE MOSS AND NICK GRIMSHAW TALK BOWIE (320kbs-m4a/41mb/18mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd September 2025
In this special episode, fashion icon Kate Moss joins Nick Grimshaw for an intimate conversation within the David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse. Together, they delve into Kate's personal friendship with Bowie and reflect on his enduring influence across music, fashion, and culture. First broadcast on the 6 Music Breakfast Show.
REWINDER - LIVE FROM SHEFFIELD WITH MICHAEL PALIN (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 19th July 2025
Greg James is back for another trip deep into the BBC Archives, and into the past, as he uses current stories and overlooked anniversaries to guide him to audio gold.
This week, for the first time ever, Rewinder comes to you in front of a live audience at the Crossed Wires Festival in Sheffield, and features a very special star guest....Sir Michael Palin!
Michael helps Greg on his archive quest, uncovering the time Michael was interviewed live on Radio Sheffield in the back of a cab as the taxi dispatch radio kept cutting in. They look back to when floundering Sheffield Wednesday, languishing in the third division, tried to turn things around by bringing in a consultant clairvoyant, and they listen to the worries of ordinary Sheffield residents from 1959 - dogs, buses and students were on one woman's mind.
Michael relives moments from his childhood, as he remembers being terrified by the BBC's early crime and sci-fi dramas like Fabian of the Yard and Quatermass and the Pit. Greg digs out Michael's first ever travel documentary, Confessions of a Trainspotter, which was the programme that led to all of Michael's subsequent travel adventures.
And a trail of letters takes us back to Michael's first ever appearance on the BBC when, aged 21, two sketches he co-wrote and starred in were broadcast on television. But the letters suggest he might never have been paid.
Plus there's Python, cutlery, pork pies and much more...
Producer: Tim Bano
Series archivist: Tariq Hussain
An EcoAudio Certified production
SOUND OF CINEMA - 480. A PLACE FOR IDEAS (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 23rd October 2025
A selection of music for the big screen introduced by Matthew Sweet (in his final show) suggesting that cinema is not only a great source of entertainment but a perfect medium for expressing ideas. Matthew's choice of scores includes David Shire's 'The Taking of Pelham 123', Johann Johannsson's 'Arrival', Jerry Goldsmith's and Michael Giacchino's music for 'The Planet of the Apes' series, Laura Karpman's 'American Fiction', Naomi Sato's 'Godzilla Minus One', Angelo Badalamenti's 'Twin Peaks', and Howard Shore's 'Hugo'.
David Shire - The Conversation (1974) - Theme [Silva Screen]
David Shire - The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Main Title [EMI America]
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Arrival (2016) - Kangaru [Deutsche Grammophon]
Jerry Goldsmith - Planet Of The Apes (1968) - The Hunt [Varèse Sarabande]
Michael Giacchino - Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2014) - End Credits [Sony Classical]
Michael Giacchino - Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) - Star Trek Main Theme [Varèse Sarabande]
Laura Karpman - American Fiction (2023) - Family Is, Monk Is [Mutant]
Laura Karpman - American Fiction (2023) - Romantic Ending [Mutant]
Naoki Satō - Godzilla Minus One (2023) - Godzilla Suite II [Waxwork]
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks (1990) - Main Theme [Warner Bros.]
Howard Shore - Hugo (2011) - Winding It Up [Howe]
Jean Vincent Plummer - Casablanca (1942) - As Time Goes By [Sony Classical]
Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso (1988) - Love Theme - Version 3 + Main Theme [EMI]
Paul Giovanni - The Wicker Man (1973) - Festival / Sumer Is A-cumen In [Trunk]
SOUND OF CINEMA - 477. ANNE DUDLEY (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 6th September 2025
Matthew Sweet is joined by multi-award-winning composer, Anne Dudley, to discuss her latest work for the film Signs of Life - which is released in cinemas on 5 September.
Art Of Noise (feat. Duane Eddy) - Peter Gunn [ZTT]
Anne Dudley - American History X (1998) - Benedictus [Angel]
Anne Dudley - Jeeves And Wooster (1990) - Jeeves & Wooster [Parlophone UK]
Anne Dudley - The Hustle (2019) - Theme [Masterworks]
Anne Dudley - The Full Monty (1997) - The Lunchbox Has Landed [RCA Victor]
Anne Dudley - The Crying Game (1992) - The Transition [Polydor]
Anne Dudley - Poldark (2015) - Suite from Poldark [Sony Classical]
Anne Dudley - The Velveteen Rabbit (2023) - A New Home [Platoon]
Anne Dudley - Benedetta (2021) - Plague Stalks The Land [Dubois]
Anne Dudley - Elle (2016) - A Tortured Soul [Sony Classical]
John Williams - The Witches Of Eastwick (1987) - The Dance Of The Witches [Rhino/Warner]
Anne Dudley & Pete Millson & Sara Wolstenholme & Christopher Murray - Signs of Life (2025) - Estrangement
SOUND OF CINEMA - 476. BERNARD HERRMANN (320lbs-m4a/135mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 30th August 2025
Matthew Sweet on the music of Bernard Herrmann - his work with Alfred Hitchcock on Marnie, with Orson Welles on Citizen Kane, and with François Truffaut on The Bride Wore Black. And there's more Herrmann in the Classic Thriller Soundtracks Prom on 4 September at 7.30, with music from Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest and Taxi Driver.
Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo (1958) - Vertigo (Suite) [Varèse Sarabande]
Bernard Herrmann - The Devil And Daniel Webster (1941) - Mr. Scratch [New York Philharmonic]
Bernard Herrmann - Citizen Kane (1941) - Prelude: Xanadu - Snow Picture [RCA Red Seal]
Bernard Herrmann - Citizen Kane (1941) - Aria From Salammbo [RCA Red Seal]
Bernard Herrmann - Jane Eyre (1943) - The Fire [Hollywood]
Bernard Herrmann - Jane Eyre (1943) - Jane's Return [Hollywood]
Bernard Herrmann - Marnie (1964) - Suite: I. Prelude [Sony Classical]
Esa‐Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Suite For Strings, Harps, And Percussion: Flowers Of Fire [Sony Classical]
Esa‐Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Suite For Strings, Harps, And Percussion: Fire Engine [Sony Classical]
Esa‐Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Suite For Strings, Harps, And Percussion: The Bedroom [Sony Classical]
Esa‐Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Suite For Strings, Harps, And Percussion: The Reading [Sony Classical]
Bernard Herrmann - The Bride Wore Black (1968) - The Wedding [Quartet]
Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) - Valse lente [Decca Music Group Ltd.]
Bernard Herrmann - Obsession (1976) - Kidnap [Decca Music Group Ltd.]
Bernard Herrmann - The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) - Prelude - Outer Space - Radar [Classic Soundtracks]
Bernard Herrmann - The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) - Klaatu [Classic Soundtracks]
Bernard Herrmann - The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) - GORT - The Visor - The Telescope [Classic Soundtracks]
Bernard Herrmann - Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1959) - Underworld Ocean - The Dimetroden's Attack [Varèse Sarabande]
Jess Gillam - This Classical Life (2019) - Theme - Brazileira (Scaramouche)
SOUND OF CINEMA - 89. HAMMER! (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 17th September 2025
Matthew Sweet explores the music of Hammer Horrors and other films made by the eponymous British production company.
Founded in 1934, the company acquired the film rights to BBC radio series such as Dick Barton: Special Agent before going on to launch its iconic Horror series in the mid-1950s.
Cinema hits included The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy.
Featuring horror scores by composers James Bernard, Tristram Cary and Benjamin Frankel, as well as music from Hammer's highly successful comedy films and only space western...
Producer: Ruth Thomson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in August 2015.
Charles Williams - Dick Barton: Special Agent (1946) - Theme [Memory Lane]
James Bernard With Christopher Lee - Hammer Presents Dracula (1974) - Dracula [Silva Screen]
Laurie Johnson - Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter (1974) - Main Titles [GDI]
Benjamin Frankel - The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961) - Pastorale / The Werewolf At Bay And Apotheosis
Ron Grainer - Mutiny On The Buses (1972) - Mutiny On The Buses Theme [GDI]
James Bernard - She (1965) - Ayesha - She Who Must Be Obeyed [Silva Screen]
Don Banks - The Reptile (1966) - Sitar Music
Mario Nascimbene - Creatures The World Forgot (1971) - Life Of The Tribe / Finale [Silva Screen]
Don Ellis - Moon Zero Two (1969) - Moon Zero Two [GDI]
Tristram Cary - Quatermass And The Pit (1967) - Prelude [GDI]
David Whitaker - Vampire Circus (1972) - Prologue [Silva Screen]
James Bernard - Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) - Main Title [GDI]
James Bernard - Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974) - Death Of The Monster [GDI]
James Bernard - Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968) - Dracula And The Crucifix [Silva Screen]
HOT CHIP - THE MORNING AFTER MIX 07.09.25 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th September 2025
Relax and unwind with a laid-back selection of chilled out tracks handpicked by Alexis Taylor and Felix Martin of Hot Chip. With music from artists including Euros Childs, Sly and the Family Stone, Robert Wyatt, Aphex Twin and The Cure.
Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music.
Brian DeGraw - Lullaby [Artificial Instinct]
Brian Dewan - Coconut [The Royal Potato Family]
Kath Bloom (feat. Loren Mazzacane Connors) - We're On Our Way [Chapter Music]
Geologist & D.S. - Avarice Edit [Drag City]
Euros Child - Kitty Dear Part 1 [National Elf]
Pablo Milanés - La Vida No Vale Nada [Universal Music Spain S.L.]
Robert Wyatt - Muddy Mouse (a) [Domino Recording Co]
Bill Fay - Garden Song [Decca]
Tim Buckley - I Woke Up [Rhino/Warner]
Ornette Coleman (feat. Billy Higgins & Don Cherry & Charlie Haden) - Lonely Woman [Atlantic]
Dan Bodan - Good Time Summer [DFA]
Abe's Megachurch - I Know You Know How This Ends [Verdigris]
Marvin Gaye - When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You [Motown]
New Build - Do You Not Feel Loved? [Lanark]
John Denver - Mother Nature's Son [RCA/Legacy]
Aphex Twin - Xtal [Apollo]
Suicide - Surrender ('88 Version) (2023 Remaster) [BMG]
Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street [Virgin]
George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity [Apple]
The Band - I Shall Be Released (Remastered 2000) [Capitol/Universal Music Publishing]
Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People [Epic/Legacy]
Brian Eno - The Big Ship (2004 Remaster) [EMI]
Brian Eno (feat. John Cale) - Spinning Away [Warner Bros.]
The Cure - A Forest [Fiction]
Francis Bebey - Yes, I Believe In You [Ozileka]
Keith Jarrett - All I Want [Atlantic]
Bert Jansch (feat. Martin Jenkins) - Avocet [Earth]
MALA - THE SWEATBOX 19.10.25 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th October 2025
In order to orderstand the sound and cultural movement of UK dubstep, one must understand Mala's place within it. As the co-founder of club night and label DMZ, as well as Deep MEDi - which remains one of dubstep's most esteemed labels - Mala has been nurturing and spotlighting talent in the dubstep, 140 and bass spectrum for over two decades. His own project alongside Coki, Digital Mystikz, is responsible for some of the scene's most iconic music.
Mary Anne Hobbs says that Mala 'is foundational in the dubstep scene. He's an artist who has stayed really true to the core foundation of that DMZ sound, and propagated it in every landscape across the globe, and continues to do so. He was also, in the early days, one of the artists who took a huge amount of responsibility for actually organising the scene. Who is going to put the club nights together? Do the fliers? Hire the rig? My understanding of sound system culture [...] was borne out of watching the way that Mala worked, the way that Mala would build a rig. I adore him - he's a beautiful, spiritual human being.'
This week, it's dubstep's godfather, Mala, taking over the Sweatbox.
Produced by We Are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music.
Nomine - Nomine's Ego [Tempa]
J Sparrow - Kaleidascope [Deep MeDi]
Distinct Motive - Check Up [Deep MeDi]
HIJINX - Peril Prediction [Twenty Twenty London]
Criso & PAV4N & Rakjay - Strictly Business
MYTHM - Screamer [Dubpate]
Darkai - Untitled [Dubplate]
Jammz - Picture This (Rakjay Flip) [N/A (Unreleased/Dubplate/Bootleg)]
En:vy - Untitled
Sir Spyro & Killa P - Start & Stop [Neighbourhood Recordings]
Mala & Maguga - Militant Don [Deep MeDi]
Zero - Centipede [Deep MeDi]
Wraz - Lurch
Intro (320kbs-m4a/5mb/2mins)
CONGO NATTY - THE SWEATBOX 12.10.25 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th October 2025
One of the titans of jungle, the Rebel MC, Congo Natty enters the Sweatbox for an unmissable mix of dubplates.
Produced by We Are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music.
Killah Priest - Anak (Winged People 2)
Nipsey Hussle - Racks In the Middle (Dubplate)
Yabby You - Dubplate [Vivian Jackson]
Killah Priest - Nag Hamadi [Proverbs]
Lila Iké - Batty Rider Shorts (Dubplate) [RCA]
Yahoo - Rophnan (Dubplate)
Kaya Fyah - Dubplate [Supa Subs]
Stephen Marley - Dubplate
Double Trouble & Rebel MC & Blackout Ja & Kaya Fyah - This Is Ska (Dubplate)
Pa Salieu - My Family (Dubplate) [Warner Music UK Limited]
Riko Dan & Flowdan & White Pony - Do It Like Me (Dubplate)
Falle Nioke & Barry Brown - Barry Brown (Dubplate)
Junior Gong - Jo Merca Dubplate [Ghetto Youths]
Enoch Fikir - Amlak (Dubplate)
Ras Michael - Dubplate
Gladiators - Dubplate [Studio One/Virgin]
Bob Marley - Revolution
Akae - Beka (Dubplate)
DANIEL AVERY - ESSENTIAL MIX 25.10.25 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 25th October 2025
Daniel Avery returns to the Essential Mix with a two-hour musical journey through euphoric shoegaze, ambient soundscapes and submerged techno. Featuring tracks from his latest album 'Tremor'
Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 1.
Daniel Avery & Alison Mosshart - Greasy Off The Racing Line (Midnight Version) [Domino]
Ruthlss - Flourishes [White Label]
Deftones - Teenager [Maverick]
Maria Somerville - Projections [4AD]
Daniel Avery & Cecile Believe - Rapture In Blue [Domino]
Daniel Avery - A Memory Wrapped In Paper And Smoke (Midnight Version) [Domino]
Von Haze - Golden Symmetry [Pendu Sound Recordings]
Nine Inch Nails - Find My Way [The Null Corporation]
MPU101 - WTFJH [Ilian Tape]
Hagop Tchaparian - Raining [Text]
Om Unit - Altitude (Daniel Avery Remix) [Om Unit]
Daniel Avery - Trip [Phantasy]
julie - feminine adornments
Glixen - sick silent [Glixen]
Daniel Avery - In Keeping (Midnight Version) [Domino]
Wisp - Latvia [Music Soup]
Skee Mask - Van99 [White Label]
Hesaitix - Geflatnet [PAN]
Blawan - No Rabbit No Life [XL Recordings]
Daniel Avery & bdrmm - A Silent Shadow (Midnight Version) [Domino]
P.O.D. & Edward Richards - Flux Growth [Kinetic Vision]
Valentino Mora - IIIII1IIIIIIII3IIIIIIIII [Spazio Disponibile]
Daniel Avery - Until The Moon Starts Shaking (Midnight Version) [Domino]
IMOGEN & Ben Pest - Captain Crunch [Wigs]
Nørbak - Navalha [NRBK]
Müzmin - Yai [Planet Rhythm]
Peryl - 555 (Rødhåd Remix) [The Third Room]
Atonism - At The End Of The Corridor [Vault]
Yan Cook - Eyes Adjust To The Dark [ARTS]
Daniel Avery & Julie Dawson - The Ghost Of Her Smile (Midnight Version) [Domino]
Nastia Reigel - End Up Here [Infrastructure]
The Advent & Zein Ferreira - Space Surfer [Cultivated Electronics]
Gal Tsadok-Hai - Mirroir [Raising Pulses]
Death In Vegas - Death Mask [Drone]
Daniel Avery - mkf [Domino]
RIVAL CONSOLES - ESSENTIAL MIX 13.09.25 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 13th September 2025
Rival Consoles takes control of Radio 1's Essential Mix. Featuring music from Skee Mask, Blawan, Autechre and Vegyn.
Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 1.
Dorian Concept - SPACE II
Konduku - Kızılırmak
Skee Mask - 50 Euro To Break Boost
Koreless - Deceltica [Young]
Barker & Baumecker - Turnhalle
Floating Points - Fast Forward [Pluto]
Nosaj Thing & Jacques Greene - RB3
Hihats In Trees - CAIRO
Blawan - Fires
Torus - Radiate
Bby Eco - Sol
Max Cooper - A Sense Of Getting Closer
Aoki Takamasa - Move 1
Carrier - Still So
Barker - Reframing [Smalltown Supersound]
Oneohtrix Point Never - Mutant Standard
James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Autechre - Eutow
Hihats In Trees - Sun Salutations
Daniel Brandt & Hatis Noit - Paradise O.D.
Rival Consoles - Dreamer's Wake
Caterina Barbieri - At Your Gamut
Rival Consoles - Coda (Loraine James Remix)
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Clark - No Pills U
Loukeman - Won't U
Lorenzo Senni - Canone Infinito
Vegyn - The Path Less Travelled [PLZ Make It Ruins]
Minor Science - Contingency
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