Saturday 31 August 2019

John Wyndham - The Day Of The Triffids

JOHN WYNDHAM - THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (320kbs-m4a/373mb/2hrs42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st to 8th July 2019

John Wyndham's classic post-apocalyptic tale of murderous plants following a devastating meteor shower.

First published in 1951, John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel dramatised in six parts by Giles Cooper.

This compelling tale has been made into a film, two television series and three radio versions.

Music composed by David Cain.

Producer: John Powell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June/July 1968.

JOHN WYNDHAM - THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - 1. THE END BEGINS (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st July 2019

It all begins with the end - the end of the world - almost.

It happens during a night of brilliant green flashes - meteors? Perhaps - or satellite weapons. Who can say?

Survivor, Bill Masen recalls how the world was plunged into darkness with the dawning monstrous horror of ambulant plant life...

Gary Watson … Bill Masen
Freda Dowie … Elspeth
Barbara Shelley … Josella
Garard Green … Umberto Palanguez
Ralph Truman … Managing Director
Michael Deacon … Young Bill
Peter Pratt … Mr. Masen
Peter Baldwin … Walter Lucknor
Jan Edwards … Nurse
Rolf Lefebvre … House Surgeon
Haydn Jones … Publican
John Pullen … Radio Commentator

JOHN WYNDHAM - THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - 2. A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd July 2019

'London was a city of the blind, the capital of a blind country in a blind world.'

Bill Masen finds a new companion, but can they survive the chaos of their surroundings?

Gary Watson … Bill Masen
Barbara Shelley … Josella Playton
John Wyse … Blind Man
John Pullen … Radio Commentator

JOHN WYNDHAM - THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - 3. CONFERENCE AND CONFUSION (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd July 2019

'There's a light... someone's trying to get the sighted people together - we're not alone!'

Bill and Josella join an army-led group, but their plans for a new community falter...

Gary Watson … Bill Masen
Barbara Shelley … Josella Playton
Anthony Viccars … Colonel Jaques
Peter Sallis … Coker
Freda Dowie … Elspeth
Victor Lucas … Doctor Varless
Michael McClain … Michael Beadley
Nigel Graham … Ivan Simpson
Marjorie Westbury … Miss Barr
Michael Deacon … Mac
Jan Edwards … Lucy
James McManus … Alf
Hilda Kriseman … Child
Anthony Jackson … Other
Pauline Letts … Other
Christopher Bidmead … Other

JOHN WYNDHAM - THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - 4. DEAD END (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 4th July 2019

'How am I supposed to find supplies like this - chained to a lot of blind men?'

Bill is forced to help a group of blind survivors. Will he ever find Josella, again?

Gary Watson … Bill Masen
James McManus … Alf
Michael Deacon … Mac
Jan Edwards … Lucy
Peter Sallis … Coker
Hilda Kriseman … Miss Durrant
John Pullen … Stephen Brennell
Wilfred Carter … Sid
Rosalind Shanks … Vera
Ann Murray … Woman

JOHN WYNDHAM - THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - 5. WORLD NARROWING (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 5th July 2019

'The utter loneliness was beginning to get on my nerves.'

Killer plants are on the rampage across the countryside. Bill sets-off in search of Josella but finds a new companion...

Gary Watson … Bill Masen
Barbara Shelley … Josella Playton
Jill Cary … Susan
Freda Dowie … Mary
David Brierley … Dennis
Margaret Robertson … Joyce

JOHN WYNDHAM - THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - 6. STRATEGIC WITHDRAWL (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th July 2019

Bill and Josella are offered hope, but yet another obstacle is put in their way...

Gary Watson … Bill Masen
Barbara Shelley … Josella Playton
Freda Dowie … Elspeth
Haydn Jones … Torrance
Nigel Graham … Ivan
David Brierley … Dennis
Margaret Robertson … Joyce
Jill Cary … Susan
Alexander John … First man
Leonard Fenton … Second Man

Friday 30 August 2019

Plaid - Freak Zone Playlist

PLAID - FREAK ZONE PLAYLIST (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th July 2019

IDM duo Ed Handley and Andy Turner, founding members of Black Dog productions now Warp Records stalwarts, present a playlist of playful electronica. Featuring music by Scorn-Fury, Roel Funcken, Max de Wardener and a bonus track from the Japanese release of Plaid's recent 10th studio album 'Polymer'.

Aot-x - Electroveins [Touched - Music For Macmillan Cancer Support]
Scorn-Fury - Snowflakes [Rednetic Recordings]
Richard Devine - Anemap [Timesig]
Velum Break - Lamellae Tear [Touched - Music For Macmillan Cancer Support]
Ruby My Dear - Jit Thin [Analogical Force]
Roel Funcken - Credence Barebones [Self-Released]
Othello Aubern - Slow [Self-Released]
Max de Wardener - Palindrome [Village Green]
Plaid - Sol [Warp]
Anna Meredith - Paramour [Moshi Moshi]
Ilkae - Metal Rooster Mask [Eerik Inpuj Sound]
Kettel - Boekebaas [Sending Orbs]



PLAID - TOM RAVENSCROFT SITS IN FOR SHAUN KEAVENY INTERVIEW (320kbs-m4a/42mb/18mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th June 2019

Tom Ravenscroft sits in for Shaun Keaveny & has a chat with electronic due Plaid before their London shows this week.

Plaid - Dancers [Warp]

Thursday 29 August 2019

Dälek - Freak Zone Playlist

DÄLEK - FREAK ZONE PLAYLIST (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st July 2019

Dälek compile a playlist of experimental hip-hop, featuring tracks from Shabazz Palaces, Sunns and Kill Alters. The pioneering experimental noise-rap group is composed of MC Dälek and Mike Manteca. They formed in Newark, New Jersey, in the mid-90’s and have delivered seven ground-breaking albums over a twenty year career. Their music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, where Einstürzende Neubauten meets My Bloody Valentine and Public Enemy.

Dälek - ...With These Mics [Exile On Mainstream]
Suuns - After The Fall [Secretly Canadian]
SPC ECO - Teach Yourself [Self-Released]
Palms - Antarctic Handshake (IconAclass/Deadverse Remix) [Ipecac Recordings]
Jett Brando - Give Yourself Away [Deadverse Recordings]
King Midas Sound - Bluebird (After Bukowski) [Cosmo Rhythmatic]
Stvn Wlsn - Get All You Deserve (Dälek Mix) [Kscope]
Les Discrets - Virée Nocturne (Dälek/Deadverse Remix) [Prophecy Productions]
John Morrison - Sunshine Floaters (AKA Firework Theme) [Deadverse Recordings]
House Shoes - Castles (The Sky Is Ours) [Tres]
Shabazz Palaces - Shine A Light (Feat. Thaddillac) [Sub Pop]
Kill Alters - Sensory [Hausu Mountain]
Odonis Odonis - Check My Profile [Felte]
Dreamcrusher - Fever [Self-Release]

Wednesday 28 August 2019

Fleetmac Wood - Desert Island Disco

FLEETMAC WOOD - DESERT ISLAND DISCO (320kbs-m4a/47mb/20mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th July 2019

Fleetwood Mac - Albatross [Warner Bros]
Metro Area - Miura
Fleetwood Mac - Sara [Warner Bros]
Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger [RCA]
Fleetwood Mac - Songbird (Roxanne Roll Sun Shining Edit)
Róisín Murphy - Unputdownable (Tom Demac Remix)
Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (Chewy Rubs Extended Dub)
Kraftwerk - Computer World (Alkalino Re-Edit)
Caribou - Can't Do Without You [City Slang]
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon (Roxanne Roll Remix)
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain [Warner Bros]
The Prodigy - Full Throttle
The Police - Bring On The Night [A&M]
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (Smooth Sailing Edit)
Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs (Roxanne Roll Remix)
The Rolling Stones - Miss You (Roxanne Roll Edit)
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Psychemagik Remix)


Intro (320kbs-m4a/10mb/4mins)
Outro (320kbs-m4a/5mb/2mins)

Tuesday 27 August 2019

2ManyDJs - Mini Mix

2MANYDJS - MINI MIX (320kbs-m4a/12mb/5mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 5th July 2019

Kraftwerk - Ohm Sweet Ohm [Capitol]
Blake Baxter - Brothers Gonna Work It Out [Logic]
Ministry - Work For Love [Arista]
Missy Elliott - Work It [Elektra]
Sadie Nine - Let's Work It Out [Matra]
The Next Movement - Let's Work It Out
Factory Floor - Work It Out [DFA]
Top Cat - Work It Out
Traxxxsters - Da Way U Work (Club Mix) [Underground Construction]
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Diplo Remix)
DSK - Work My Body Over (Sweat) [Jack Pot]
Mick Jagger - Let's Work [Rolling Stones]
LNR - Work It To The Bone [House Jam]

Monday 26 August 2019

Mickey Pearce - Mini Mix From The Moon

MICKEY PEARCE - MINI MIX FROM THE MOON (320kbs-m4a/54mb/24mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th July 2019

Producer and DJ Mickey Pearce goes in the mix for Mary Anne. Pearce has been a shining light on the scene since 2008, with numerous releases on Loefah‘s Swamp 81 imprint.

No tracklist available.

Sunday 25 August 2019

Public Service Broadcasting And The Multi-Story Orchestra - Prom 10: The Race For Space

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING AND THE MULTI-STORY ORCHESTRA - PROM 10: THE RACE FOR SPACE (320kbs-m4a/170mb/1hr14mins)
BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th July 2019

Live at BBC Proms: Public Service Broadcasting, the Multi-Story Orchestra and London Contemporary Voices conducted by Christopher Stark

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Elizabeth Alker

Cult London band Public Service Broadcasting makes its Proms debut in a special Late Night Prom to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon.

The electronics/instrumental outfit is joined by The Multi-Story Orchestra to perform an orchestral arrangement of their 2015 studio album The Race for Space.

Blending both acoustic and electronic performance and archive audio samples, the album explores the highs and lows of the US–Soviet space race of the 1960s, and is heard here for the first time in this specially commissioned new version.

Public Service Broadcasting - Introduction
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
Public Service Broadcasting - Sputnik
Public Service Broadcasting - Gagarin
Public Service Broadcasting - Fire In The Cockpit
Public Service Broadcasting - E.V.A.
Public Service Broadcasting - The Other Side Interlude
Public Service Broadcasting - The Other Side
Public Service Broadcasting - Valentina
Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
Public Service Broadcasting - Korolev
Public Service Broadcasting - Tomorrow
Public Service Broadcasting - Coda



Saturday 24 August 2019

Discovery - What Next For The Moon?

DISCOVERY - WHAT NEXT FOR THE MOON? (96kbs-m4a/18mb/27mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 22nd July 2019

The Moon rush is back on. And this time it’s a global race. The USA has promised boots on the lunar surface by 2024. But China already has a rover exploring the farside. India is on the point of sending one too. Europe and Russia are cooperating to deliver more robots. And that’s not to mention the private companies also getting into the competition. Roland Pease looks at the prospects and challenges for all the participants.

(Image caption: Chinese lunar probe and rover lands on the far side of moon. Credit: CNSA via EPA)

Friday 23 August 2019

Eno And Cox On The Moon

ENO AND COX ON THE MOON (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st July 2019

Celebrating 50 Years since the Apollo 11 landings, Brian Cox and Brian Eno share their passion for the Moon. Discussing the science behind it, the technology it drove forward, the art it inspired, and picking their favourite music about it, the Two Brian’s spend an hour exploring all things lunar.

Dinah Washington - Destination Moon [Roulette Jazz]
Barry Gray - Space 1999
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising [Fantasy]
The Marcels - Blue Moon [Old Gold]
Public Service Broadcasting - Go! [Test Card Recordings]
David Bowie - Starman [EMI]
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Frank Ocean - Moon River
Isao Tomita - Clair De Lune (Suite Bergamasque No. 3) [RCA]

Thursday 22 August 2019

James Burke: Our Man On The Moon

JAMES BURKE: OUR MAN ON THE MOON (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 20th July 2019

Fifty years ago, when the Apollo 11 mission landed the first human beings on the moon, James Burke was the voice of science for the BBC. Join him to relive the dramatic days in the studio, sharing the moment-by-moment drama to a live audience. You'll remember his excited voice counting down the seconds and desperately trying to avoid talking over any communication with the astronauts. Here is your chance to find out what went on behind the scenes as James revisits the final moments of the Apollo mission. He'll recreate the drama, struggling to make sense of flickering images from NASA and working with the limitations of 1960s technology. We'll hear what went wrong as well as what went right on the night! Illustrated with amazing archive material from both the BBC and NASA, this will be the story of the moon landings brought to you by the man who became a broadcasting legend. A night neither he nor we will never forget.

Wednesday 21 August 2019

Jarvis Cocker's Giant Leap

JARVIS COCKER'S GIANT LEAP (320kbs-m4a/266mb/1hr56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th July 2019

Jarvis Cocker returns to the airwaves in place of Iggy Pop tonight as part of our celebration of Apollo 11 putting man on the moon.

Join us from 7pm as he rifles through his record box of celestial sounds to create a two hour sonic journey into inner and outer space. Expect eclectic and exotic sounds, spoken word gems and random nuggets of interstellar information.

It's one small step for Jarvis...

Life - 2001
The Birthday Party - Blast Off
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
The Sun Ra Arkestra - Space Is The Place
Clear Spot - Moonman Bop
Tom Dissevelt - Waltzing Matilda
Bobby Womack - Everyones Gone To The Moon
The Langley Schools Music Project - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
The Arnold Corns - Moonage Daydream
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Bolero On The Moon Rocks
Richard Hawley - Cry A Tear For The Man On The Moon
W.H. Auden - Moon Landing
Gil Scott‐Heron - Whitey On The Moon
Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - Maid Of The Moon [Ace]
Frank Sidebottom & Frank Little - First Puppet On The Moon
Rockets - Space Rock
Slick - Space Bass (12" Disco Mix)
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Orchestra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Moonlight In Glory
The Orb - Man In The Moon (Feat. Lee “Scratch” Perry)
The B‐52s - Planet Claire [Reprise]
The Electric Moog Orchestra - The Conversation (from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind)
Geoff Love's Big Disco Sound - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Leonard Nimoy - A Visit To A Sad Planet
John Grant - Outer Space
Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light
Felt - Space Blues [Immediate/Complete]
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Alone With The Moon
The King’s Singers - After The Goldrush [Broken Arrow/Broken Fiddle/Sharandall]
Ernie & Sesame Street - I Don't Want To Live On The Moon

Tuesday 20 August 2019

Moonbase 2029

MOONBASE 2029 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 19th July 2019

Fifty years after Apollo astronauts first walked on the lunar surface, the world is heading back to make the Moon a new home.

“We left flags and footprints,” said the head of NASA Jim Bridenstine recently. “This time when we go, we’re going to go to stay.”

The United States has pledged to return by 2024 and NASA is building an orbiting space station near the Moon, called the Lunar Gateway, and is planning a field station as a base.

But the return to the Moon will be international. The European Space Agency (ESA), for instance, is building the service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft - which will take humans to the Moon using its new giant SLS rocket. China aims to get its own astronauts on the Moon within the decade. Meanwhile ESA is constructing a lunar simulator facility in Cologne, Germany.

Space expert and TV science presenter Dallas Campbell hears from scientists at NASA, ESA and the German Aerospace Centre DLR who are working to make the practicalities of building a Moonbase reality.

Dallas meets those who are experimenting with solar ovens to build lunar bricks and one researcher who is making filters for human urine to produce fertiliser for crops on the Moon.

British astronaut Tim Peake discusses his recent lunar training underwater and Dallas travels to Bavaria to discover why current astronauts are training there for a lunar landing.

Producer: Sue Nelson
A Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 4

Monday 19 August 2019

Discovery - Earthrise

DISCOVERY - EARTHRISE (96kbs-m4a/18mb/27mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 24th December 2018

On Christmas Eve in 1968 Bill Anders was in orbit around the moon in Apollo 8 when he took one of the most iconic photos of the last fifty years: Earthrise. The image got to be seen everywhere, from a stamp issued in 1969 to commemorate the success of Apollo 8, to posters that are still available today. Gaia Vince explores the impact of this image on the environmental movement and our understanding of our place in the universe.

“Oh my God. Look at that picture over there. Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, isn’t that pretty.”

Bill Anders was on the fourth of the ten orbits of the moon on Apollo 8, along with James Lovell and Frank Borman. Bill had spotted the earth through one of the hatch windows and grabbed his camera to take a black and white photo. But just in time, he picked up another camera with a colour film loaded, and the rest is history. When they returned from space – the first mission to orbit the moon – Nasa used Bill Anders’ image of Earthrise in its publicity. Nasa had understood there was an added value of going into space: taking pictures of our home planet.

Stewart Brand was part of both the counterculture and the environmental movement; he’d hung out with Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters and put on happenings. He went on to found the Whole Earth Catalog, which brought together all kinds of alternative thinkers. Stewart Brand put the Earthrise photo on the front cover of one of the editions of the Whole Earth Catalog.

Gaia Vince talks to Stewart Brand, and to scientists and artists, about the continuing importance of seeing Earth from above.

Picture: Earthrise - The rising Earth is about five degrees above the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft on December 24th 1968, Credit: Nasa

Presenter: Gaia Vince
Producer: Deborah Cohen

Sunday 18 August 2019

Between The Ears - Message From The Moon

BETWEEN THE EARS - MESSAGE FROM THE MOON (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 22nd December 2018

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth…

On Christmas Eve 1968, as the crew of Apollo 8 orbited the Moon, they read extracts from Genesis live on TV to tens of millions of people around the world. Later, they would also capture – by accident – a photograph of the Earth rising above the lunar landscape: Earthrise. Both events would have a profound and influential effect that continues to this day.

In Message from the Moon, we follow the Apollo 8 mission from launch to splashdown – including the reading from Genesis – and hear from astronauts giving their unique perspective on creation, faith and God. Their thoughts are interwoven with music from Hannah Peel's composition, Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia.

The programme features original interviews with Apollo 8 commander, Frank Borman, Apollo 16 astronaut and Moonwalker Charlie Duke, Shuttle astronauts Nicole Stott and Mike Massimino, as well as serving NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli.

Archive includes NASA commentary from the mission, previously un-broadcast extracts from the Apollo 8 capsule flight recorder and BBC TV commentary.

And God bless you all, all of you on the Good Earth.

The producer is Richard Hollingham, with sound engineering by Sam Gunn.

Message from the Moon is a Boffin Media Production for BBC Radio 3

Saturday 17 August 2019

A Brief History Of... Apollo 8

A BRIEF HISTORY OF... APOLLO 8 (320kbs-m4a/96mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st December 2018

Chris Hawkins and Public Service Broadcasting's J Willgoose Esq. tell the story of the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space programme, launched on December 21, 1968, at the height of the space race.

This special programme features archive audio from on board the Apollo 8 space craft, including a reading from The Book of Genesis, the astronaut's amazing Christmas eve message to planet earth and from the crew that were responsible for ‘Earthrise’ - a photograph that has been described as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken”.

The story will also include a soundtrack which includes music by Radiohead, The Who, Clint Mansell, Pink Floyd and Brian Eno.

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic [Grand Royal]
Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There?
Inspiral Carpets - Saturn 5 [Cow]
David Bowie - Space Oddity [EMI]
The Who - I Can See For Miles [Polydor]
Radiohead - Sail To The Moon [Parlophone]
Clint Mansell - We're Going Home
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) [Editions EG]

Friday 16 August 2019

John Doran On New Weird Britain - Late Junction 30th May 2019

JOHN DORAN ON NEW WEIRD BRITAIN - LATE JUNCTION 30.05.19 (320kbs-m4a/206mb/1hr30mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 30th May 2019

Co-founder of The Quietus magazine John Doran has been travelling the length and breadth of the country in search of the musicians of New Weird Britain, an underground movement of music in the margins that favours one-off art happenings that are improvised, shocking and surreal. Artists of all stripes in Britain have been driven out of city centres by soaring rent prices, hit hard by cuts in arts funding and dwindling revenues from the digital economy. But untethered from the prospect of making any money and fueled by the current political crisis, a band of musicians are splintering away from convention to stage unrepeatable performances that stand in diametric opposition to austerity.

Ahead of his four-part Radio 4 series on the subject, John talks Max Reinhardt through the bands he discovered on his trip and the heritage of British esoteric music made in times of unrest.

Elsewhere Max plays music by CukoO, a musician based in the west country who makes organic dance music for school children, and languid psychedelia from Vanishing Twin’s latest album.

Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.

Max Bacon - Beigels [JWM]
Vanishing Twin - Backstroke [Fire]
The Galilee Singers - Didn't It Rain, Little Children? [Document]
Jiha Park - On Water [Glitterbeat]
George Cromarty - Flight [Numero Group]
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - The Parakeet Beat [Smalltown Supersound]
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3am
Natalie Sharp - BodyVice
Hawthonn - Eden
Coil - Ether [Chalice]
Beluga Stone - Master Stone Runs The Voodoo Down [U Know Me]
Franck Biyong - Voodoo Pulses [Afrolectric Music Ltd.]
CukoO - Rain [Patterned Air Recordings]
Mirela Ivičević - Baby Magnify/Lilith's New Toy [Huddersfield Contemporary]
Brian Harnetty - Lucy [Karl]

Thursday 15 August 2019

Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Live Essential Festival, Brighton 30th May 1994

REVOLUTIONARY DUB WARRIORS - LIVE ESSENTIAL FESTIVAL, BRIGHTON 30.05.1994 (320kbs/92mb/40mins)
Recorded Live by Ras Berry. Mixcloud stream.

1. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Dub The E (Intro)
2. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Creation
3. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Walkabout
4. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Mount Uhuru
5. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Dread
6. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Dub The E
7. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Industrial
8. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Warrior

Live mix by Adrian Sherwood

Wednesday 14 August 2019

Punky Reggae Party

PUNKY REGGAE PARTY (320kbs-m4a/191mb/1hr23mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th to 20th June 2019

Tom Robinson celebrates the unlikely alliance between punk and reggae. With contributions from Don Letts, John Lydon, Paul Simonon and Viv Albertine. First broadcast in 2003 and repeated as 6 Music celebrates punk, dub and the 1970s.

PUNKY REGGAE PARTY - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th June 2019

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Punky Reggae Party [Tuff Gong]
Prince Buster - Al Capone [Westmoor]
The Slickers - Johnny Too Bad [Island]
Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves [Mango]
The Clash - White Riot [CBS]
Culture - Two Sevens Clash [Shanachie]
The Clash - What's My Name [CBS]
Tapper Zukie - M.P.L.A. Dub [Virgin]
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown [Shanachie]
The Clash - Police And Thieves [CBS]

PUNKY REGGAE PARTY - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th June 2019

The Clash - Police And Thieves [CBS]
Big Youth - Screaming Target
The Clash - Safe European Home
The Clash - (White Man) In Hamersmith Palais
The Clash - Armagideon Time (Live)
The Clash - One More Dub
The Slits - Typical Girls
The Slits - Newtown
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Punky Reggae Party [Tuff Gong]

PUNKY REGGAE PARTY - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 20th June 2019

Dr. Alimantado - Born For A Purpose
The Gladiators - Dreadlocks The Time Is Now
U Roy - Chalice In The Palace
Steel Pulse - Ku Klux Klan
The Police - Roxanne
UB40 - One In Ten
Aswad - African Children
Tom Robinson Band - Up Against The Wall
The Clash - London's Burning (Live)
Steel Pulse - Jah Pickney-R.A.R.

Tuesday 13 August 2019

Archive On 4: The Eccentric Entrepreneur

ARCHIVE ON 4: THE ECCENTRIC ENTREPRENEUR (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 22nd June 2019

"Radio Normandy Calling!" The Belles of Normandy sing the station ident; Roy Plomley (of Desert Island Discs fame) introduces the artistes from the Bradford Alhambra, and another melody-packed hour - sponsored by a patent medicine - begins on the commercial radio station that, back in the 1930s, was often more popular than the majestic BBC.

The man behind it all was called, improbably, Captain Leonard Plugge. And in this programme, Dominic Sandbrook tells the story of this clever, enterprising and subversive man. Tory MP, passionate European and backroom boffin, Plugge created a string of brilliantly successful commercial stations in France and beyond that challenged Sir John Reith's radio monopoly with popular music and variety shows, sponsored by Bile Beans, Persil and Diploma cheddar cheese. So wealthy did his radio network make him that he owned two yachts, six cars (including two Rolls Royces), a Mayfair mansion, employed twelve staff, and lived a life that lay somewhere between The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane.

With Plugge's son Frank, Dominic leafs through his father's mountain of diaries and scrapbooks - news cuttings, photographs... memorabilia of a life that brought him the Legion d'Honneur, a medal from US broadcaster NBC and made him a worldwide celebrity. With a rich archive of contributions from Roy Plomley, Bob Danvers-Walker and many others who first made their names on Plugge's stations, plus recordings from the shows they broadcast, Dominic Sandbrook brings a forgotten mogul of a bygone era to life.

And next time you approach a road junction with an elongated 'SLOW' painted on the tarmac, you can thank Captain Plugge for it, because that was his idea too...

Producer Simon Elmes.

Monday 12 August 2019

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live Oxford Polytechnic 1980

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - LIVE OXFORD POLYTECHNIC 1980 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th June 2019

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Shadow Of A Doubt (A Complex Kid)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Here Comes My Girl
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Need To Know
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Luna
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Stories We Could Tell
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Refugee
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Breakdown
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Bring Me Down (Vintage American Bandstand, 1987)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Fought The Law (Vintage American Bandstand, 1987)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You're Gonna Get It (Vintage American Bandstand, 1987)

Sunday 11 August 2019

New Weird Britain - 4. Coastal Underground

NEW WEIRD BRITAIN - 4. COASTAL UNDERGROUND (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 24th June 2019

Music journalist John Doran travels the country in search of the musicians of New Weird Britain, an underground movement which is blossoming in the margins of Britain.

Artists of all stripes have been driven out of the city centres by soaring rent prices and hit hard by the dwindling revenues of the digital economy. A new wave of musicians are splintering away from convention to stage bizarre one-off performances that fly in the face of austerity. They live off-grid, building their own instruments out of electronic junk, staging strange rituals with priests smeared in clay or performing with a team of dancers dressed as anatomically correct vaginas which squirt cream over the audience.

In this episode, John Doran heads to the ultimate edgelands of Britain, to hear from the musicians who have sought out refuge in the broad horizons of the coast. In Kings Lynn we hear from the transgressive performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti, one of the founding members of the radical group Throbbing Gristle from the late 1970s, to understand how New Weird Britain can also be seen as a response to the current political turmoil. We also interrogate what the idea of Britain means to this community of artists in 2019.

Other contributors include Rhodri Davies, Kemper Norton, Jennifer Lucy Allen, Hannah Catherine Jones, Jennifer Walshe and Lee Patterson.

Produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4

Photo: Rhodri Davies
Image credit: Kuba Ryniewicz

Saturday 10 August 2019

New Weird Britain - 3. Radical Rural

NEW WEIRD BRITAIN - 3. RADICAL RURAL (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 17th June 2019

Music journalist John Doran travels across the country in search of an underground movement of musicians, blossoming in the margins of Britain.

Artists of all stripes have been driven out of the city centres by soaring rent prices and hit hard by the dwindling revenues of the digital economy. But untethered from the prospect of making any money and fueled by the current political turmoil, a new wave of musicians is splintering away from convention to stage bizarre one-off performances that fly in the face of austerity.

They are living off-grid in the countryside, building their own instruments out of electronic junk, staging strange rituals with priests smeared in clay or even performing with a team of dancers dressed as anatomically correct vaginas which squirt cream over the audience.

Rather than moving to the capital to seek out the crumbling infrastructure of the music industry, these musicians are self-releasing straight to the internet, teaching themselves how to edit via youtube or abandoning recording entirely.

Now that all you need to be a musician is a bit of spare time and reliable broadband, some musicians have sought out the space and isolation of the countryside for their creative practice. In this episode, John Doran heads to the rural areas of Britain to discover what musicians actually find when they go in search of England’s green and pleasant lands.

Contributors include Elizabeth Bernholz, aka Gazelle Twin, David Chatton Barker, Layla and Phil Legard from Hawthonn, Saxon Roach, Farmer Glitch and Richard Skelton.

Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4

Friday 9 August 2019

New Weird Britain - 2. Post-Industrial Towns

NEW WEIRD BRITAIN - 2. POST-INDUSTRIAL TOWNS (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 10th June 2019

Music journalist John Doran travels across the country in search of an underground movement of musicians, blossoming in the margins of Britain.

Artists of all stripes have been driven out of the city centres by soaring rent prices and hit hard by the dwindling revenues of the digital economy. But, untethered from the prospect of making any money and fuelled by the current political turmoil, a new wave of musicians is splintering away from convention to stage bizarre one-off performances that fly in the face of austerity.

They are living off-grid in the countryside, building their own instruments out of electronic junk, staging strange rituals with priests smeared in clay or even performing with a team of dancers dressed as anatomically correct vaginas which squirt cream over the audience.

Rather than moving to the capital to seek out the crumbling infrastructure of the music industry, they are self-releasing straight to the internet, teaching themselves how to edit via YouTube or avoiding recording entirely to put on unrepeatable live shows.

In this episode, John Doran heads to the East Midlands and Northern England where a musical underground is flourishing in the back rooms of Newcastle, the bedrooms of Nottingham and the phone boxes of Todmorden.

Contributors include Sophie Cooper, Nwando Ebizie, AJA, Richard Dawson and Urocerus Gigas from Guttersnipe.

Produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4

Image credit: Laura Kate Bemrose

Thursday 8 August 2019

New Weird Britain - 1. Urban Hinterlands

NEW WEIRD BRITAIN - 1. URBAN HINTERLANDS (320kbs-m4a/64mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 3rd June 2019

Music journalist John Doran travels across the country in search of an underground movement of musicians, blossoming in the margins of Britain.

Artists of all stripes have been driven out of the city centres by soaring rent prices and hit hard by the dwindling revenues of the digital economy. But untethered from the prospect of making any money and fueled by the current political turmoil, a new wave of musicians is splintering away from convention to stage bizarre one-off performances that fly in the face of austerity.

They are living off-grid in the countryside, building their own instruments out of electronic junk, staging strange rituals with priests smeared in clay, or even performing with a team of dancers dressed as anatomically correct vaginas which squirt cream over the audience.

In this episode, John Doran seeks out the musicians who are managing to cling on to the edgelands of the big cities to find out whether, away from the expensive artisanal coffee outlets of the urban centres, a new musical underground can still survive in the major cities of Britain.

Contributors include Natalie Sharp, aka Lone Taxidermist, Dan Jones and Charlotte Blackburn from UKAEA, Marion Andrau, Kelly Jayne Jones, Emma Thompson, LOFT, Gordon Bruce and Joel White from GLARC.

Produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4

Image credit: Luis Kramer

Wednesday 7 August 2019

The Reunion - The Glastonbury Festival

THE REUNION - THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL (320kbs-m4a/96mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 28th August 2016

Billed acts bailed out, naked hippies horrified locals, and Hells Angels provided the security. But even then, Michael Eavis knew that the first Glastonbury Festival, held at his dairy farm in Pilton in 1970, was the start of something that would change his life. Sue MacGregor reunites key players from the early days of the festival.

Now Glastonbury is a British institution and the biggest festival of its kind in the world. It's a rite of passage for any self-respecting teenage music fan and the acme of many musicians' careers.

At the first Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival, The Kinks were booked to headline but cancelled in disgust after reading that they were to appear at "a mini festival". Eavis was delighted when a band called T Rex stepped in to replace them. But a disappointing turn-out left him in the red.

Winston Churchill's debutant turned peacenik granddaughter bankrolled the 1971 "Glastonbury Fayre". Her entourage of Notting Hill hippies lent it a glamorous air, although the organisers still lost money!

Acts in 1971, included Melanie, veteran of Woodstock and the Isle of Wight festivals, the incendiary Arthur Brown whose dark and theatrical stage act countered the hippies' peace and love aesthetic, and flautist Jessica Stanley Clarke's prog band Marsupilami. Jessica's home in Pilton became the negotiating ground between festival organisers and incensed villagers. Jessica, now Jekka McVicar, is an organic herb grower recently appointed vice-president of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Arthur, Jekka and Melanie are reunited with Michael Eavis and Chris Church, who bunked off school to go to the early festivals.

Producer: Karen Pirie
Series Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Tuesday 6 August 2019

Johnny Cash - Live Glastonbury 1994

JOHNNY CASH - LIVE GLASTONBURY 1994 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th June 2019

Johnny Cash's memorable appearance in the Sunday afternoon legends slot in 1994. Presented by Chris Hawkins.

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash - Get Rhythm
Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down
Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
Johnny Cash - (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
Johnny Cash - Guess Things Happen That Way
Johnny Cash - Deliah's Gone
Johnny Cash - The Beast In Me
Johnny Cash - Let The Train Whistle Blow
Johnny Cash - Tennesse Stud
Johnny Cash - Bird On A Wire
Johnny Cash - The Man Who Couldn't Cry
Johnny Cash - Redemption
Johnny Cash - Big River
Johnny Cash With June Carter - Jackson
Johnny Cash With June Carter - If I Were A Carpenter
Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue

Monday 5 August 2019

Four Tet - Essential Mix Glastonbury 2016

FOUR TET - ESSENTIAL MIX GLASTONBURY 2016 (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 29th June 2019

Annie Mac presents an Essential Mix Glastonbury Rewind, Four Tet DJing live on the Essential Mix on The Wow Stage in 2016.

Rebound X - Rhythm & Gash [Land Of X]
Percussions - KHLHI [Text]
Bill Withers - Harlem [Sussex]
Jamie xx & Four Tet - Seesaw (Club Version) [Young Turks]
Steven Be Calm - Never Go Back [Shall Not Fade]
Eric Prydz - Opus (Four Tet Remix) [Virgin]
Boddika & Joy Orbison - In Here [SunkLo]
Four Tet & Mike Dunn - God Made Me Kool FM
Grain - Untitled
Denis Sulta - Dubelle Oh XX [Sulta Selects]
Taraval - Texler Acid [Text]
Herbie Hancock - Nobu [CBS/Sony]
XTC - Functions On The Low
Digital Mystikz - Anti War Dub [DMZ]

Sunday 4 August 2019

The Chemical Brothers - Live Glastonbury 2015

THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - LIVE GLASTONBURY 2015 (320kbs-m4a/141mb/61mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 29th June 2019

Annie Mac presents an Essential Mix Glastonbury Rewind, checking out two blockbuster dance and electronic performances from the last few years down on Worthy Farm.

First up, The Chemical Brothers Sunday Night headline set on the Other Stage from back in 2015, followed by Four Tet DJing live on the Essential Mix on The Wow Stage in 2016.

The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
The Chemical Brothers - EML Ritual
The Chemical Brothers - Do It Again
The Chemical Brothers - Go
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon
The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
The Chemical Brothers - Sometimes I Feel So Deserted
The Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats
The Chemical Brothers - Acid Children

The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun / Out Of Control
The Chemical Brothers - It Doesn't Matter
The Chemical Brothers - Saturate
The Chemical Brothers - Elektrobank
The Chemical Brothers - I'll See You There
The Chemical Brothers - Believe (Feat. Kele)

Saturday 3 August 2019

The Prodigy - Live Glastonbury 2009

THE PRODIGY - LIVE GLASTONBURY 2009 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th June 2019

As a tribute to Keith Flint, who sadly died in March, a chance to hear his band the Prodigy's 2009 Glastonbury set. The band were to have appeared at this year's festival. Presented by Chris Hawkins.

The Prodigy - World's On Fire
The Prodigy - Breathe
The Prodigy - Omen
The Prodigy - Poison / Jaws Interlude
The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance
The Prodigy - Firestarter
The Prodigy - Run With The Wolves
The Prodigy - Voodoo People
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
The Prodigy - Take Me To The Hospital
The Prodigy - Out Of Space

Friday 2 August 2019

Sidekick

SIDEKICK (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 10th May 2019

The sidekick is not, by definition, the focus of our attention. They are destined to be overshadowed by their better half, the hero who will save Gotham, solve the uncrackable case or rescue the girl from the bad guys...

But without the sidekick these heroes would often remain too distant, too powerful or just too brilliant for us to ever really love them. So in steps the earthy, flawed and loyal sidekick to provide the audience with someone to connect to, a character who knows how the world really works to help the hero off tilting at windmills.

Whether it's in countless children's films - think Eddie Murphy's Donkey to Mike Myers's Shrek - or a hundred comic books and cartoons - or high literature from Cervantes to Sterne and Shakespeare to Verne - the sidekick provides the laughs, the pratfall and the focus of our empathy.

Frank Cottrell Boyce talks with those who've created sidekicks, those who've played the parts and those who've studied just how essential these characters really are to making the fiction seem believable and offer a human face to the often inhuman character supposedly at the centre of the show.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.

Thursday 1 August 2019

Pete Tong's House Nation - 4. Episode 4

PETE TONG'S HOUSE NATION - 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 22nd June 2019

From the seaside soul weekenders of the seventies to a night at The Proms, house music has been on an amazing journey and Pete Tong has been there for every step. In this four-part series, Pete traces the history of the music he loves from his days in the Kent Soul Mafia to the white island of Ibiza and beyond. The jazz-flavoured sounds that filled the disco clubs in New York, new wave synths and drum machines, the underground tracks from Chicago and Detroit and the chilled Balearic influences of the 90s - they’re all in Pete’s record box and he’ll be dusting them off for airplay. Dance music changed the face of club and youth culture in the UK and worldwide, and this is a rare opportunity to hear the story from one of its key players.

In the final part of his journey, Pete recalls the years when dance went global, and found a special home on the island of Ibiza. From the eclectic Balearic sets of the pioneer DJ Alfredo, to the million selling Cafe Del Mar albums and the super clubs like Cream and Ministry of Sound, this is the international sound of house. Tracks from Bassheads, Robert Miles, The Residents and, of course, Energy 52.

Bassheads - Is There Anybody Out There (Original Mix) [Deconstruction]
Carly Simon - Why (12 Inch Mix) [WEA]
Izit - Stories (The Jackanory Mix) [Pig & Trumpet]
The Beloved - Sweet Harmony [EastWest]
Robert Miles - Children (Dream VRS) [DBX]
Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities (Original Mix) [Virgin]
William Pitt - City Lights (Vocal Version) [Public]
The Residents - Kaw-Liga (Prairie Mix) [Torso]
U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing (The Perfecto Mix) [Island]
Sueño Latino - Sueno Latino [DFC]
Art Of Noise - Moments In Love [ZTT]
Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Three 'N' One Remix) [Hooj Choon]