Tuesday 30 June 2020

Desert Island Discs: Charles Hazlewood

DESERT ISLAND DISCS: CHARLES HAZLEWOOD (320kbs-m4a/87mb/37mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 24th May 2020

Charles Hazlewood is a conductor and the founder of Paraorchestra, the world's first professional ensemble of disabled musicians.

Once described as the Heston Blumenthal of orchestral music, Charles has spent his career challenging Britain’s musical palate, exploding boundaries and expanding our ideas about what an orchestra can be - and do.

His repertoire encompasses Beethoven, Bruckner and Barry White, and his critically-acclaimed projects include more than 100 world premieres and the first orchestral headline performance at Glastonbury. Paraorchestra, the ensemble he established in 2011, reached a global audience at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Paralympics. He also co-founded an opera company in South Africa, and its production of Carmen, with a mainly black cast, won international acclaim.

He studied music at Keble College, Oxford and was the Organ Scholar there. He won the EBU conductor's competition in 1995 and has had an international career as a conductor.

Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor

Barry White & Love Unlimited Orchestra - Somebody's Gonna Off The Man [Island/Def Jam]
Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air [Esoteric]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ach, Ich Fühls [Great Recordings Of The Century]
Richard Strauss - R. Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op. 27 - 4. Morgen! [Philips]
Olivier Latry - Improvisation [Naïve Classique]
Paraorchestra - Kraftwerk-Rewerk
Pauline Malefane & Andile Tshoni & Dimpho Di Kopane & Imbumba Symphony Orchestra - Ndisakuthanda Mna [Classical]
Pauline Oliveros - The Last Time/Ultima Vez [Deep Listening]

Monday 29 June 2020

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Artists - Damien Hirst

DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: ARTISTS - DAMIEN HIRST (320kbs-m4a/99mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th April 2020

From The Clash to Joni Mitchell. Artist Damian Hirst shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2013.

Life, death, desire, fear, beauty, horror - his creative preoccupations are standard fair; his art - using sharks, maggots, butterflies, glass, formaldehyde and even sometimes paint - is not. His best known works have become iconic symbols of contemporary culture and his exhibitions and auctions attract attention the way a carcass attracts flies.

Growing up in Leeds his mother was something of an early artistic influence - she had dots painted on the front door and whenever Damien said he'd finished a drawing, she'd lay another sheet of paper down and tell her son "carry on."

He once said, "People don't like contemporary art but all art starts life as contemporary. I'm sure there were people in caves going 'I like your cave but I hate that crap you've got on the wall'."

Producer: Cathy Drysdale.

The Clash - The Magnificent Seven [Epic Legacy]
The Trashmen - Surfin’ Bird [Cascade]
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi [KM]
The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey [Britannia Music]
Bob Andy - You Don’t Know [Andisongs]
Ian Brown - F.E.A.R [Polydor]
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - X Ray Style [Mercury]
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection [Sony]

Sunday 28 June 2020

Sound Of Cinema - 278. The Atom

SOUND OF CINEMA - 278. THE ATOM (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 23rd May 2020

Matthew features music for films which take their inspiration from mankind’s inconsistent relationship with the atom and nuclear energy. The programme is prompted by the release of the new documentary film ‘The Atom: A Love Affair’. Matthew looks at how cinema has adopted an often contradictory relationship with things atomic. He also takes this opportunity to look at writing music for documentaries with the new film’s composer Paul Honey.

The programme features music from the films ‘Radioactive’; ‘X - The Unknown’; ‘Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox’; ‘Superman IV - The Quest For Peace’; ‘Edge Of Darkness’; ‘Goldfinger’; ‘Radium Girls’; ‘ The China Syndrome’; ‘Silkwood’; ‘Grand Central’; ‘Chernobyl’ and ‘The Atom - A Love Affair’. The Classic Score of the Week Is Leonard Rosenman’s extraordinary music for the 1970 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, ‘Beneath The Planet of the Apes’.

TV Themes - Atom Ant
Evgueni & Sacha Galperine - Radioactive (2019) - The Nicest Days [Milan]
James Bernard - X The Unknown (1956) - Radiation And Requiem
Frederik Weidman - Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013) - The Justice League [La-La Land]
John Williams - Superman IV (1987) - First Nuclear Man [La-La Land]
Eric Clapton - Edge Of Darkness (1985) - Theme [Reprise]
John Barry - Goldfinger (1964) - Goldfinger [EMI]
Lillie Rebecca McDonough - Radium Girls (2018) - Title Credits
Georges Delerue - Silkwood (1983) - Epilogue And End Titles [DRG]
Robin Coudert - Grand Central (2013) - Les Herbes Couchées [Music Box]
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Chernobyl (2019) - Vichnaya Pamyat [DG]
Leonard Rosenman - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) - Ape Soldiers Continue And Hail The Bomb [Silver Age Classics]
Paul Honey - The Atom: A Love Affair (2020) - Chernobyl
Laurie Johnson - Dr Strangelove (1964) - Bomb Run [Silva Screen]
Mark Korven - The Lighthouse (2019) - Arrival [Milan]

Saturday 27 June 2020

Sound Of Cinema - 277. Danny Elfman

SOUND OF CINEMA - 277. DANNY ELFMAN (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 16th May 2020

Danny Elfman is one of the biggest names in film music. His numerous collaborations with Tim Burton include Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice. He's scored Hollywood blockcusters Men in Black, 50 Shades of Grey, and Spider-Man, and been nominated for four Academy Awards. He's also worked extensively in television writing the themes for Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons.

From his home in Santa Barbara he talks to Matthew Sweet about starting out in the business, working with Tim Burton, and the challenges of 2020.

Danny Elfman - The Simpsons (Theme) [EMI]
Danny Elfman - Batman (1989) - The Batman Theme [Warner Bros.]
Danny Elfman - Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Main Theme [Sony]
Danny Elfman - Forbidden Zone (1982) - Journey Through The Intestines [Varèse Sarabande]
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party [MCA]
Danny Elfman - Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) - Breakfast Machine [Varèse Sarabande]
Danny Elfman - Big Fish (2003) - Titles [Sony Classical]
Danny Elfman - Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015) - Shades Of Grey [Republic]
Danny Elfman - Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Suite [Columbia]
Danny Elfman - Milk (2008) - Gay Rights Now! [Decca]
Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (1960) - Prelude [Unicorn-Kanchana]
Danny Elfman - Hitchcock (2012) - End Credits [Sony Classical]
Danny Elfman - Piano Quartet (5th mvt. Die Wolfsjungen) [Sony Classical]
Danny Elfman - Dumbo (2019) - Train's A Comin' / The Homecoming [Walt Disney]
Danny Elfman - Beetlejuice (1988) - End Credits [Geffen]

Friday 26 June 2020

Sound Of Cinema - 273. Weird Westerns

SOUND OF CINEMA - 273. WEIRD WESTERNS (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 14th March 2020

Matthew Sweet takes his cue from the UK release of Juliano Dornelles's and Kleber Mendonca Filho's award winning film 'Bacurau', with music by Mateus Alves and Tomaz Alves Souza, for an examination of the strange world of the 'Weird Western' and the music written for it. Weird Westerns combine the traditional cowboy film with elements of fantasy, science fiction or horror, and amongst his selection Matthew includes music for 'The Valley of Gwanji', 'Cowboys and Aliens', ''Westworld', 'Wild Wild West', 'High Plains Drifter', 'Rango', 'El Topo', 'Ravenous', 'Bone Tomahawk', and 'Bacarau'.

Ramin Djawadi - Westworld (2017 TV) [WaterTower Music]
Jerome Moross - The Valley Of Gwanji (1969) - Landscape; Forbidden Valley; Pterodactyl Attack [Silva Screen]
Alan Silvestri - Back To The Future III (1990) - End Credits [Varèse Sarabande]
Harry Gregson‐Williams - Cowboys And Aliens (2011) - I See Them [Varèse Sarabande]
Fred Karlin - Westworld (1973) - The Gunslinger [Watertower Music]
Elmer Bernstein - Wild Wild West (1999) - Main Title [Varèse Sarabande]
Hans Zimmer - Rango (2011) - Suite [Anti]
Roy Budd - Soldier Blue (1999) - Soldier Blue
Alejandro Jodorowsky - El Topo (1970) - The First Flower After The Flood [ABKCO]
Dee Barton - High Plains Drifter (1973) - Main Titles [Silva Screen]
Michael Nyman & Damon Albarn - Ravenous (1999) - Cannibal Fantasy & The Pit [EMI]
Jeff Herriott & S. Craig Zahler - Bone Tomahawk (2015) - Four Doomed Men Ride Out [Lakeshore]
Mateus Alves & Tomaz Alves Souza - Bacurau (2019) - Bacurau [Plaza Mayor]
Gene Autry - Back In The Saddle Again [Columbia‎]
Zviad Mgebry - And Then We Danced (2019) - Baghshi Gagitsan [GMI Rights Management]

Thursday 25 June 2020

Soulwax - Desert Island Disco

SOULWAX - DESERT ISLAND DISCO 29.05.20 (320kbs-m4a/47mb/20mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th May 2020

Nemone sits in with David and Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax as they take us to their Desert Island Disco.

Heldon - Back To Heldon
Meat Beat Manifesto - Yüri
Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)
Bruno Spoerri - Drillin'
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain [Virgin]
Hawkwind - Silver Machine [Polygram TV]
H. Tical - Colluvium
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again [Polydor]
Matthias Becker - Ems Synthi Aks
Bruno Spoerri - Glückskugel
The Alan Parsons Project - Boules (I Robot Experiment)
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Jean‐Michel Jarre - Oxygène Part IV
Pierre Henry - Psyché Rock
Martin Hannett & Delia Derbyshire - Hannett And Delia Synth Exchanges Track 6
White Noise - Here Come The Fleas
David Bowie - Speed Of Life
David Bowie - 'Heroes' [EMI]
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great [DFA]
François de Roubaix - Ballet Mechanique
Ron Grainer - Doctor Who [BBC]

Intro (320kbs-m4a/13mb/6mins)

Wednesday 24 June 2020

Luke Vibert - Residency Mix

LUKE VIBERT - RESIDENCY MIX 25.05.20 (320kbs-m4a/53mb/23mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 25th May 2020

Legendary British electronic musician and producer Luke Vibert delivers this month's guest mix.

Rotating Heads & Insolent Bwoy - Dark Secrets
Vibes & Wishdokta - Music's So Wonderful
Plasmic Life - Death Trip
Ian A. - Pure Science
The Truper - Anyone Here
Jonny L - I Won't Let U Go
Triple Six - DJ Flashback
Wicked Man - Bizzy B & TDK
Ricky Force - Live Forever
Tim Reaper - Lights Off, Heads Down

Tuesday 23 June 2020

Lee Ranaldo - Late Junction Mixtape

LEE RANALDO - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE 22.05.20 (320kbs-m4a/77mb/33mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 22nd May 2020

Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a rare mix from the great Lee Ranaldo, who guides listeners through a lovingly compiled 30-minute collage of his favourite music and sounds. Expect free jazz, cut-up poetry, and wild vocal improvisations.

Following a stint in the electric guitar orchestra of Glenn Branca, Lee Ranaldo formed the experimental rock group Sonic Youth in 1981, alongside Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. Thirty years later the founding trio decided to finally disband, having created multiple classic albums and influenced generations of musicians, composers, and creatives.

Since then, Lee Ranaldo has continued to release solo records, to produce for others, and to collaborate with a diverse bunch of interesting musicians. He also has an acclaimed visual art, sound art, and poetry practice. First and foremost though, Ranaldo will always be considered as one of the best guitarists of all time.

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

Lee Ranaldo - Glacial Trio (Studio Excerpt)
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Sibylle Baier - Tonight
Percy 'Thrills' Thrillington - Dear Boy
Carsick Cars - Wei Cheng
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Meredith Monk - Strand (Gathering)
Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music
Víctor Jara - El Aparecido
Aki Tsuyuko - Travel Alone
Areski - C'est Normal
Brion Gysin - I Am That I Am
Moondog - Moondog Monologue
Michael Siegel - Steel Saw Cutting Channel Iron In Two Pieces
Sydney Theatre Company - The Sprawl
Absent Sound - Buena Luna
The Feelies - Raised Eyebrows


Intro (320kbs-m4a/12mb/5mins)

Monday 22 June 2020

Jamie xx & The Avalanches - NTS Radio

JAMIE XX & THE AVALANCHES - NTS RADIO 15.05.20 (320kbs/134mb/58mins)
NTS Radio broadcast: 15th May 2020

Jeremy Cunningham - Sleep
Robert Ashley - The Park
Walter Hawkins & The Love Centre Choir - Changed
Moodyman - Technologystolemyvinyl
Jorge Ben - Comanche
The Kay-Gees - Celestial Vibrations
Hamilton Bohannon - Me And The Gang
The Kay-Gees - Tango Hustle
Dr. Charles Hayes & Cosmopolitan Church Of Prayer Choir - Jesus Can Work It Out
Theo Parrish - Early Byrd (Original Mix)
Red Axes - Arpman
Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains - Delicado
Unknown - Bored To Tears (Jamie's Lockdown Edit)
Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc. - Baila Chibiquiban
Unknown - White Label
Zé Roberto - Lotus 72 D (Fast Version)
Nomo - Nova
The Primitive Painter - Levitation
Taeko Ohnuki - 4:00 AM
Tatsuro Yamashita - Sparkle
Carly Simon - Tranquillo (Melt My Heart)
Klaus Wunderlich - Let's Do The Latin Hustle
Betty Everett - God Only Knows
The Kay-Gees (Feat. Something Sweet) - Acknowledgement

Sunday 21 June 2020

Matthew Broughton - Planet B: Series 2

MATTHEW BROUGHTON - PLANET B: SERIES 2 (320kbs-m4a/327mb/2hrs22mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th to 17th April 2020

Kip is looking for love on the dating site, The Spark. But he gets more than he bargained for when a mysterious woman explodes into his world.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.


PLANET B SERIES 2 - 1. THE TENDER TRAP (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th April 2020

Series 2 opens with a bang as we log back on to the virtual world where you can be whoever you want to be.

Lioba ... Tessa Nicholson
Kip ... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Noush ... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Cerberus ... Chris Pavlo
Loris21 ... Melissa Advani
Voice of Planet B ... Adjoa Andoh
Other Parts ... Rhys Jennings, Piers Wehner and John Biggins

Written by Matthew Broughton.

Director: James Robinson.


PLANET B SERIES 2 - 2. MAKE A WISH (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 14th April 2020

If Kip is confused by the soldiers in Desert Killzone practising magic words, that's nothing compared to Lioba's confusion at Sinbad's understanding of shock and awe. She helped design this site, didn't she?

Lioba ... Tessa Nicholson
Kip ... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Nugent ... Rhys Jennings
Abanaazer ... Bruce Alexander
Barks ... Piers Wehner
Ifrit ... Nigel Hastings
Voice of Planet B ... Adjoa Andoh

Written by Mike Carey.

Director: Jessica Dromgoole.

PLANET B SERIES 2 - 3. PARADISE HAZARD (320kbs-m4a/66mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th April 2020

Welcome to Happy Valley, the perfect environment for Planet B residents to live forever! Lioba and Kip marry, move in, and begin to raise a family. But it's harder to live the dream in this thoroughly modern community than it looks.

Lioba ... Tessa Nicholson
Kip ... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Cerberus ... Chris Pavlo
Vicar ... Ewan Hooper
Everett ... Bruce Alexander
Tom ... Nigel Hastings
Brenda ... Melissa Advani
Madeline ... Keely Beresford
Doctor ... Rhys Jennings
Voice of Planet B ... Adjoa Andoh

Written by Steve Sunderland.

Director: Jessica Dromgoole.

PLANET B SERIES 2 - 4. LIGHT CITY (320kbs-m4a/66mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th April 2020

In Light City you are either with the police or against them. Whichever side you're on, there are points to be earned. But when an uncompromising vigilante arrives it looks like the rules are changing.

Lioba ... Tessa Nicholson
Kip ... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Ed66 ... Rhys Jennings
Shiver ... Nigel Hastings
Clairesquare ... Melissa Advani
Reva ... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Trent ... John Biggins
Hand ... Bruce Alexander
Pauly ... Piers Wehner
Homeless Man ... Ewan Hooper
Voice of Planet B ... Adjoa Andoh

Written by Dawn King.

Director: Colin Guthrie.

PLANET B SERIES 2 - 5. DARK STAR (320kbs-m4a/66mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th April 2020

Lioba faces her biggest test, floating alone in pitch darkness - where only Cerberus feels truly at home.

Lioba ... Tessa Nicholson
Kip ... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Blend ... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Fabian ... Ewan Hooper
Cerberus ... Chris Pavlo
Voice of Planet B ... Adjoa Andoh
Other Parts ... Melissa Advani, Kate Layden, Rhys Jennings and Piers Wehner

Written by Matthew Broughton.

Director: Jeremy Mortimer.

Saturday 20 June 2020

Jamie xx - Essential Mix

JAMIE XX - ESSENTIAL MIX 25.04.20 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 25th April 2020

Jamie xx is back with a brand new Essential Mix.

Jamie xx - Idontpiano [Young Turks]
Philip Glass - The Grid / Koyaanisqatsi [Nonesuch]
Unknown - Wherever You Go / Sergio Mendes - Magalenha
Pangaea - Like This
DJ Technics - Party People [Baltimore Breakbeat]
Breaka - Get Your Sweat On [Holding Hands]
Elliot Adamson - No Chill [Me Me Me]
Koreless - Joy Squad [forthcoming]
Unknown - Smile Away
Lutto Lento + John Glacier - Rome [Forthcoming]
Peter Gabriel - Across the River [Alternative Recording Company]
Tom Zé - Complexo de Épico (JG Wilkes Edit) [Continental]
Aaron - 2020 Souls
Natureboy - Real [Dubwize]
Greg Cash - I Got Your Love [PK]
Unknown - Unknown
Two Shell - Unknown Title / Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You
Kelly Lee Owens - Melt
Vladimir Dubyshkin - Elvis Has Left the Building [TRP]
Carli - Lights And Strobes [Studio Barnhus]
Mystic Force - Mystic Force (Psychic Harmony Remix) [MFS]
Unknown - I Just Make Believe
La Tour - People Are Still Having Sex [Polydor]
Jamie xx - idontknow [Young Turks]
Romy - Weightless (Jamie XX Remix)
Henry Rodrick - Don’t Believe [Studio Barnhus]
Brother May & Mica Levi - Friday 13th
Robert - Jockstrap [Forthcoming]
Unknown - How You Feeling That?
Pearson Sound - Cobwebs
Floating Points - Bias (Mayfield Dub) [Ninja Tune]
Unknown - Breathe
Jungle By Night - Spending Week (Oceanic Cornucopia Remix) [New Dawn]
Fela Kuti (Feat. Roy Ayers) - 2000 Black’s Got To Be Free [Barclay]
Kamasi Washington, Nubya Garcia, Yussef Dayes, Charley Stacey, Mansur Brown, Rocco Palladin, MC Outro Tic - Live Jam At 180 Strand

Friday 19 June 2020

LTJ Bukem - Mary Anne Hobbs Mix

LTJ BUKEM - MARY ANNE HOBBS MIX 15.05.20 (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th May 2020

LTJ Bukem kick starts your weekend with a special guest mix. Bukem is a world renowned DJ who is responsible for taking drum and bass from tiny venues to the global stage. Known to his friends as Danny Williamson, Bukem has sat at the forefront of music revolutions throughout his career.

Paul SG - Airquotes
Workforce - Heart Crossed
Hugh Hardie (Feat. Pola & Bryson) - Day 6: Bending Light
FD - The Creatures From Planet 9
LTJ Bukem - Flip The Narrative
Jazzassins - Evolution
Flaco - Untitled
Command Strange - Blue Moon
Nectax - Vector
Londy - Rocksteady
Alix Perez & Specific - Just Memories

Intro (320kbs-m4a/4mb/2mins)
Outro (320kbs-m4a/2mb/1min)

Thursday 18 June 2020

Nightmares On Wax - Desert Island Disco

NIGHTMARES ON WAX - DESERT ISLAND DISCO 15.05.20 (320kbs-m4a/47mb/20mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th May 2020

SB Editz - B2B
Austin Ato - Heat (Extended Mix)
Moodena - Deep Fried Funk
Djosa - Amazone
Freedom Five & Carolyn Harding - Strength (The UK Shapeshifters Club Remix)
Nightmares On Wax - Mission Venice


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

Wednesday 17 June 2020

Ben Lukas Boysen - Mary Anne Hobbs Mix

BEN LUKAS BOYSEN - MARY ANNE HOBBS MIX 14.05.20 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 14th May 2020

Ketil Bjørnstad - Undercurrent (Solo Piano Version)
Aaron Martin - Slow Wake
Ketty Lester - Look For Me (I'll Be Around)
Other Lives - Ritual
Fennesz - July
Max Loderbauer - Jea
Andrea Belfi - Nel Vuoto
Qasim Naqvi - Intermission
Operation A - Operation A (Speedy J Tripl Tool)
Pub - Summer
Agora - Baboule Hair Cutting (Radio Slave Remix)
KiNK - Five
Ultramarine - Hooter (Carl Craig Remix)
LFO - Psychdelik
Nav Katze - Crazy Dream (Reload Remix)


Intro (320kbs-m4a/2mb/1min)

Tuesday 16 June 2020

Sam Redmore - Stevie Wonder Mix

SAM REDMORE - STEVIE WONDER MIX (320kbs-m4a/132mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th May 2020

This weekend The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show will be celebrating Stevie Wonder's 70th Birthday, with an hour-long mix from producer and DJ Sam Redmore.

Stevie Wonder signed with Motown’s Tamla label at just 11 years old and 2 years later became the youngest artist to have a number 1 record on the American Billboard chart. While performing as a Motown act, he also wrote for other artists, penning the classic ‘Tears of A Clown’ for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. Hardly a week goes by without us playing something Stevie has written, performed, produced or inspired. Throughout his stellar career, Stevie has worked with the ‘who’s who’ of musicians, from Chaka Khan to Snoop Dogg.

Producing tonight’s hour-long Stevie Wonder mix, is the highly talented DJ Sam Redmore. When Sam released his first remix in 2012 of Bob Marley’s “Is This Love”, we knew we had a serious talent on our hands. Since then, whether it’s a tropical re-rub of Sister Sledge or an afro rework of James Brown, Sam’s always brought the quality grooves. So sit back and enjoy this week's bumper edition of Wonder.

Syreeta - Come & Get This Stuff [Motown]
Rufus (Feat. Chaka Khan) - Tell Me Something Good (Platurn Re-Edit)
Stevie Wonder - Fingertips (Part 1) [Tamla]
The Jacksons - I Was Made To Love Her [Motown]
Ronnie Laws - Tell Me Something Good [Blue Note]
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City [Tamla]
Stevie Wonder - Superstition (Todd Terje Re-Edit) [Not On Label]
Richard Elliot - You Haven't Done Nothin' [Motown]
Stevie Wonder - Skeletons [Motown]
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin' (Intro) [Tamla Motown]
Stevie Wonder - Love Light In Flight [Motown]
Stevie Wonder - I Wish [Tamla Motown]
Joe Farrell - Too High [non given]
Yvonne Fair - You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover [Motown]
Stevie Wonder - Do Yourself A Favor [Tamla Motown]
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke [Motown]
Gene Harris - As (Danny Krivit Re-Edit) [non given]
Hugo Montenegro - Living For The City [RCA Victor]
Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children Of America [Tamla Motown]
First Choice - Love Having You Around [Salsoul]
Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life [Tamla]
Syreeta - To Know You Is To Love You [Tamla Motown]
B.B. King - To Know You Is To Love You [ABC]
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours [Tamla]
Ray Barretto - Pastime Paradise [Athens Of The North]
Stevie Wonder - Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing [Tamla]
Stevie Wonder - Spiritual Walkers [Motown]
Larry Graham & Grand Central Station - Higher Ground [non given]
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground [Tamla]
Misty Soul Choir - Higher Ground [non given]
Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin') [Tamla]
Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright) [Tamla Motown]
Smokey Robinson - Tears Of A Clown (Instrumental) [non given]

Monday 15 June 2020

DJ Zinc - Mary Anne Hobbs Mix

DJ ZINC - MARY ANNE HOBBS MIX 01.05.20 (320kbs-m4a/70mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st May 2020

Drum & Bass legend DJ Zinc kick starts your weekend with a special Friday guest mix.

Jammin - Moving Differently
Le Duke - We Want To Dance
Turtleneck - Right Back
Zero - Club Baiana
Distinkt - Predrinks
DJ Zinc & Alicai Harley - Bubble
Sammy Virji - Basic
Jammin - Always East
DJ SS - Black (Voltage 2020 Remix)
TI - Output
Annex - Boomerang
Stompz - Comms Check
Ti - Thin Line
Turno & Annie & Flowdan - Active
Unglued - Got to Have

Sunday 14 June 2020

Inside Inside No. 9

INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 (320kbs-m4a/422mb/3hrs5mins)
BBC Sounds webcast: 3rd February to 9th March 2020

Inside Inside No. 9 is the companion series to the long running anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, Inside No. 9

Join us directly after each episode, as creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton discuss the inspiration behind each story.

Come inside and listen along as they reveal behind the scenes insights and secrets...

Written by and featuring:
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith

Inside No. 9 is available on BBC iPlayer.

Podcast Producer: Adnan Ahmed

Inside Inside No. 9 is a BBC Studios Production.

INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 - 0. COME INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 (320kbs-m4a/2mb/35secs)
BBC Sounds webcast: 3rd February 2020

INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 - 1. THE REFEREE'S A... (320kbs-m4a/81mb/35mins)
BBC Sounds webcast: 3rd February 2020

Reece and Steve blow the whistle on Episode 1 ‘The Referee is A W—er’ with the help of guests, actor Ralf Little and producer Adam Tandy.

Cast and Crew

Brendan ... Reece Shearsmith
Oggy ... Steve Pemberton
Martin ... David Morrissey
Mitch ... Steve Speirs
Phil ... Ralf Little
Calvin ... Dipo Ola
Director ... Matt Lipsey
Producer ... Adam Tandy

INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 - 2. DEATH BE NOT PROUD (320kbs-m4a/57mb/25mins)

BBC Sounds webcast: 10th February 2020

Creators Reece and Steve take a deep dive into ‘Death Be Not Proud’ and talk to Production Designer Amy Maguire…

Cast and Crew

Beattie ... Jenna Coleman
Sam ... Kadiff Kirwan
Director ... Matt Lipsey
Producer ... Adam Tandy

INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 - 3. LOVE'S GREAT ADVENTURE (320kbs-m4a/56mb/25mins)
BBC Sounds webcast: 17th February 2020

Reece and Steve take a closer look at Episode 3 “Loveʼs Great Adventure” assisted by Gabby French, who plays Mia.

Cast and Crew

Trevor ... Steve Pemberton
Connor ... Olly Hudson-Croker
Julia ... Debbie Rush
Mia ... Gaby French
Alex ... Reece Shearsmith
Patrick ... Bobby Schofield
Director ... Guillem Morales
Producer ... Adam Tandy

INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 - 4. MISDIRECTION (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)

BBC Sounds webcast: 24th February 2020

Reece and Steve take a closer look at Episode 4 “Misdirection” assisted by editor Joe Randall Cutler.

Cast and Crew

Willy Wondo ... Steve Pemberton
Neville Griffin ... Reece Shearsmith
Jennie ... Jill Halfpenny
Gabriel ... Fionn Whitehead
DI Hewson ... Tom Goodman-Hill
Director ... Guillem Morales
Producer ... Adam Tandy

INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 - 5. THINKING OUT LOUD (320kbs-m4a/93mb/41mins)
BBC Sounds webcast: 2nd March 2020

Reece and Steve present more insights for Episode 5 “Thinking Out Loud” and are joined by costume designer Yves Barre.

Cast and Crew

Bill ... Phil Davis
Nadia ... Maxine Peake
Aidan ... Reece Shearsmith
Galen ... Steve Pemberton
Angel ... Ioanna Kimbook
Therapist ... Sara Kestelman
Diana ... Sandra Gayer
Director ... Steve Pemberton
Producer ... Adam Tandy

INSIDE INSIDE NO. 9 - 6. THE STAKEOUT (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Sounds webcast: 9th March 2020

Reece and Steve present more insights for the final episode of this series “The Stakeout” and are joined by producer Adam Tandy.

Cast and Crew

S/PC Varney ... Reece Shearsmith
PC Thompson ... Steve Pemberton
Controller ... Rebecca Callard
DC Dobson ... Malik Ibheis
Director - Guillem Morales
Producer - Adam Tandy


REECE SHEARSMITH & STEVE PEMBERTON - LAUREN LAVERNE INTERVIEW 30.01.20 (320kbs-m4a/30mb/13mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 30th January 2020

Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton join Lauren to talk about the return of Inside No. 9.

Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 [BMG/RCA]

Saturday 13 June 2020

Innes Own World

INNES OWN WORLD (320kbs-m4a/256mb/1hr52mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th January to 14th February 2020

Famed for The Rutles and The Bonzo Dog Band, Neil Innes ruminates wryly on the nature of civilisation.

Script Editor: John Dowie

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.

INNES OWN WORLD - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th January 2020

An opportunity to climb inside Neil Innes's head to find songs, atmospheric musings and some very irritating commercial breaks.

INNES OWN WORLD - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 31st January 2020

A radio programme that takes you inside Neil Innes's head and doesn't let you out for half an hour.

Featuring "The Breakfast Things", Neil's own version of The Today Programme, broadcast from his kitchen table.

INNES OWN WORLD - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 7th February 2020

Neil Innes shares some breakfast dramas and memories of touring the USA with the Bonzo Dog Band.

The Radio Show that spits the Gargle of Existence into the Bathroom Sink of Being and introduces the Man of Substance to the Woman of Intuition.

INNES OWN WORLD - 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)

BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 14th February 2020

Neil Innes invites you to join him inside his own mind for half an hour.

There are some stories of working with Monty Python, jingles for products you never thought you needed and a modest little song called Isn't It Great Being A Star?

It's the only show that promises to pluck the eyebrows of intelligence with the sugar tongs of fact.

Friday 12 June 2020

Gilles Peterson - The Shakedown: Lee "Scratch" Perry

GILLES PETERSON - THE SHAKEDOWN: LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY 25.04.20 (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th April 2020

The Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub [Auralux Recordings]
Dennis Brown - Oily [Aquarias]
Lee “Scratch” Perry - Return Of The Super Ape [Lion Of Judah]
Adrian Sherwood & Lee “Scratch” Perry - African Starship [Warp]
Zap Pow - River [Pressure Sounds]
Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Roast Fish And Cornbread [Upsetter]
Bob Marley - Place Of Peace [White Label]
Lennie Hibbert - Mighty [Jamrec Music]

Thursday 11 June 2020

Gilles Peterson - The Shakedown: Happy Birthday Herbie Hancock

GILLES PETERSON - THE SHAKEDOWN: HAPPY BIRTHDAY HERBIE HANCOCK 11.04.20 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 11th April 2020

Herbie Hancock - Do A Thing [CBS]
Herbie Hancock - Berangere's Nightmare [CBS]
Chaka Khan & Dizzy Gillespie & Herbie Hancock - And The Melody Still Lingers On (Night In Tunisia) [Warner Bros.]
Herbie Hancock - Palm Grease [Columbia]
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon (Direct Step Version) Part 2 [CBS]
Herbie Hancock - Gettin' To The Good Part [Columbia]
Herbie Hancock - I Thought It Was You [Columbia]
Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock - Speak No Evil [Blue Note]

Wednesday 10 June 2020

Kim Gordon Sits In For Iggy Pop - 6 Music 3rd April 2020

KIM GORDON SITS IN FOR IGGY POP - 6 MUSIC 03.04.20 (320kbs-m4a/266mb/1hr56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd April 2020

Kim Gordon sits in this week after a storming set at the 6 Music Festival in Camden last month.

Expect tracks by The Fall, Missy Elliott, My Bloody Valentine and Nina Simone.

Kim released the album No Home Record late last year to rave reviews. It's her first solo album in a 38-year music career that was largely spent as a key component of New York's Sonic Youth.

The Fall - Gut Of The Quantifier
Nina Simone - Suzanne
Alice Coltrane (Feat. Pharoah Sanders) - Journey In Satchidananda [Nascente]
The Stooges - Ann
DNA - Blonde Red Head
J Mascis - See You At the Movies
Heron Oblivion - Your Hollows
Missy Elliott - Work It [Elektra]
PJ Harvey - Shame [Island]
Gold Dime - Hindsight
Television - Venus
Talk Normal - In A Strangeland
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cortez The Killer
Brigitte Fontaine - Le Goudron
Eleanor Friedberger - I Won't Fall Apart On You Tonight
Linda Ronstadt - Different Drum [Asylum]
Stina Nordenstam - Purple Rain
Aimee Mann - Save Me [V2]
Nas - N.Y. State Of Mind
Nico - It Was A Pleasure Then
Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind
My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
Islaja - Laivat Saapuu
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You [Capitol]
Abbey Lincoln - Straight Ahead
Cardi B - Bodak Yellow
Charli XCX (Feat. Big Freedia, Brooke Candy, Pabllo Vittar & cupcakKe) - Shake It
Patty Waters - You Thrill Me

Tuesday 9 June 2020

Ed O'Brien Sits In For Iggy Pop - 6 Music 21st February 2020

ED O'BRIEN SITS IN FOR IGGY POP - 6 MUSIC 21.02.20 (320kbs-m4a/259mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st February 2020

Ed O'Brien sits in for Iggy Pop ahead of his performance at this year's 6 Music Festival in Camden.

Better known as one of the guitarists in Radiohead, Ed launched his solo project EOB at the end of 2019.

Jorge Ben Jor - Bebete Vāobora [Philips]
Chico Buarque - Sogno Di Un Carnevale
Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Só Danço Samba
Karine Polwart - The Wife Of Usher's Well
Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore
Paul Davidson - Midnight Rider [Tropical]
Primal Scream - Don't Fight It, Feel It [Creation]
Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 - Gwên
Little Simz - Sherbet Sunset [Age 101 Music]
Earth, Wind & Fire - That’s The Way Of The World [Columbia]
Michael Kiwanuka - Piano Joint
The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking [Rolling Stones]
CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola [Defected]
Roy Montgomery - Clear Night Port Hills [Drunken Fish]
Gilberto Gil - Aquele Abraço [Philips]
Labi Siffre - I Got The..
Luke Abbott - Brazil [Border Community]
Paco de Lucía - Almoraima
Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City [Vee-Jay]
Kamasi Washington - Connections [Young Turks]
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Bourgie Bourgie
Little Walter - Boom Boom Out Goes The Lights
XTC - Runaways [Virgin]
The The - Love Is Stronger Than Death [Sony]

Monday 8 June 2020

Adrian Sherwood - Club Unity Mix

ADRIAN SHERWOOD - CLUB UNITY MIX (DUB ECHO CHAMBER) (320kbs-m4a/42mb/18mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th June 2020

Gilles opens the doors to 'Club Unity' as part of 6 Music's 'Stay Home Rave Safe' day. Channel One Soundsystem, Adrian Sherwood, DJ Paulette, Steve Davis, Laurent Garnier, Neneh Cherry and her daughter Tyson all have their own rooms in the virtual club.

Lee Perry - Vampire (On-U Dub) [White Label]
The Prophets & Trinity - Chant Down Babylon Kingdom (On-U Dub) [White Label]
King Tubby - King Tubby's In Fine Style (On-U Dub) [White Label]
Al Campbell - Unfaithful Children (On-U Dub) [White Label]
Triston Palma - Time So Hard (On-U Dub) [White Label]
Disrupt - Don't Talk, SHOOT! [White Label]

Sunday 7 June 2020

Desert Island Discs: Brian Cox

DESERT ISLAND DISCS: BRIAN COX (320kbs-m4a/77mb/33mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 29th March 2020

Brian Cox CBE is a Scottish actor whose career spans almost 60 years, from his early days sweeping the stage at his local theatre in Dundee to his current Golden Globe-winning role as the media patriarch Logan Roy in the HBO series Succession. He has appeared in more than 100 films, many television series, and has won two Olivier awards for his work on stage.

Brian Cox was born in 1946, the youngest of five children, and grew up in a working-class household in Dundee. His father died of cancer when he was eight and his mother, who was receiving regular psychiatric treatment, was unable to take care of him. He moved in with his sister Betty and her family.

He left school aged 14 with no qualifications, and started out as a stage hand and stage cleaner at Dundee Rep, before winning a place at drama school. Years of theatre work followed, alongside actors such as Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Albert Finney. His later stage roles include acclaimed performances as King Lear at the National Theatre, and Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company. On film, his work includes the first screen portrayal of Hannibal Lecter - renamed Lecktor - in Manhunter, and blockbusters such as The Bourne Identity, X-Men 2, Braveheart and Troy.

He received a CBE in 2002, and lives in New York City with his second wife Nicole Ansari.

Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor

Johnny Cash - Bridge Over Troubled Water [Sony]
The Drifters - Saturday Night At The Movies [Old Gold]
K.D. Lang - The Air That I Breathe [Warner]
The Beatles - Get Back [EMI]
Jacques Brel - La Quête [Universal]
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now [Warner]
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows [Capitol]
The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong [Warner]

Saturday 6 June 2020

Desert Island Discs: Daniel Radcliffe

DESERT ISLAND DISCS: DANIEL RADCLIFFE (320kbs-m4a/124mb/54mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 15th March 2020

Daniel Radcliffe reached a global audience in the title role of the hugely successful Harry Potter films. He has also appeared on Broadway and in the West End, as well as in over a dozen films since the final part of the Harry Potter series was released in 2011.

Born in 1989, the only child of Alan and Marcia Radcliffe, Daniel made his acting debut aged 10 in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield. The following year he was cast as Harry Potter, and he and his co-stars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, would spend ten years filming the series. Daniel made a point of taking other roles before it had finished, and he appeared on stage in Peter Shaffer’s play Equus in 2007, a role which involved prolonged full frontal nudity.

Since then he has appeared on screen, on stage and on television, playing characters from the beat poet Allen Ginsberg to a cop going undercover as a neo-Nazi, and his recent films include Guns Akimbo and Escape from Pretoria. In the theatre, he is appearing in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame in London.

He supports the Trevor Project which works to prevent suicides among LGBTQ youth and which Daniel first became aware of during the Broadway run of Equus in 2008. Daniel has been in a long-term relationship with fellow actor Erin Darke who he met on a film set in 2012.

Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale

Morecambe & Wise - Bring Me Sunshine [EMI]
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go [Rhino]
Pixies - Where Is My Mind? [Beggars Banquet]
Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot [Mercury]
The Hold Steady - Killer Parties [Full Time Hobby]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms [Mute]
Joanna Newsom - Emily [YS]
Yo‐Yo Ma - Attaboy [Sony Classical]

Friday 5 June 2020

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Rock & Pop Stars - Alison Moyet

DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: ROCK & POP STARS - ALISON MOYET (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd March 2020

From Cilla Black to Talk Talk.

Singer-songwriter Alison Moyet shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From May 2014.

She's won three Brit awards, sold tens of millions in record sales and her career has spanned over 30 years. It all kicked off in 1981; just three months after forming her first band "Yazoo" she was on Top of The Pops performing her first hit.

Given that remarkably smooth start it might be tempting to think her achievements have come easy - they haven't. She found growing up tough, had prolonged agoraphobia and depression and weight problems cast their shadow.

Now in her early fifties she says, "I was always an odd girl, I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself."

Producer: Cathy Drysdale.

Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan [World Circuit]
Jacques Brel - Vesoul [Barclay]
Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart [Sony]
X‐Ray Spex - Identity [Spectrum]
Janis Joplin - Cry Baby [CBS]
Elvis Costello - I'm Your Toy [Demon]
Talk Talk - I Believe In You [Parlophone]
Elbow - Great Expectations [V2]

Thursday 4 June 2020

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Rock & Pop Stars - Keith Richards

DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: ROCK & POP STARS - KEITH RICHARDS (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th March 2020

From Chuck Berry to Antonio Vivaldi

Keith Richards, member of the Rolling Stones, shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

Keith was born in Dartford and grew up as an only child. He and Mick Jagger went to the same primary school, but then lost touch until meeting again at Dartford train station in 1961 and discovering they shared a taste in blues music. Keith picked up his love of the guitar from his grandfather and honed his skills whilst at art college.

If one single, living person could be said to personify rock n' roll then it is surely him. He's been making music and causing havoc for over half a century and counting. His song writing, singing and guitar playing have helped to make The Rolling Stones a stratospherically successful group and his early and single minded dedication to the triumvirate pursuits of sex and drugs and rock and roll made him a counter-culture icon.

No surprise then that as a boy he would go to sleep at night with his arm around his first guitar.

Producer: Sarah Taylor.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.

Chuck Berry - Wee Wee Hours [Music Club]
Hank Williams - You Win Again [Spectrum]
Aaron Neville - My True Story [EMI]
Etta James - Sugar On The Floor [Bullseye Blues]
Freddie Scott - Are You Lonely For Me Baby [Jayboy]
Gregory Isaacs - Extra Classic [Trojan]
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto No. 1 In E 'La Primavera' (The 1st Movement From Spring) [EMI]
Little Walter - Key To The Highway [Chess]

Wednesday 3 June 2020

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Rock & Pop Stars - Debbie Harry

DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: ROCK & POP STARS - DEBBIE HARRY (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th March 2020

From Nina Simone to Mahler.

Singer and punk icon Debbie Harry shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

Her group Blondie started out in seedy New York bars and went on to achieve international success - selling tens of millions of albums along the way. She was ultra cool - a striking beauty with platinum hair and a sneer. Now aged 65, her trademark look continues to serve her well, she says: "As far as ageing goes it's rough - I try my best - I'm healthy and I exercise like a fiend. I'm glad that I've had all the radical experiences in my life - it suits me."

Record: Mahler's Symphony No.5 in C sharp Minor -4th movement
Book: War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Paints and papers

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.

Gossip - Heavy Cross [Columbia]
Nina Simone - Strange Fruit [Mercury]
Calvin Harris - Merrymaking At My Place [Columbia]
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat [Verve]
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up [Rabid]
Nino Rota - La Passerella [Butterfly Music]
Peaches - Talk To Me [XL]
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor - 4th Movement (Adagietto) [EMI]

Tuesday 2 June 2020

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Rock & Pop Stars - Roger Waters

DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: ROCK & POP STARS - ROGER WATERS (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st March 2020

From Mahler to Neil Young.

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

As one of the founding members of the band Pink Floyd, he has seen huge critical and commercial success. But in 1985 he walked away from the group and years of acrimony followed. They were reunited for one final performance, twenty years later, for Live 8. It was a moment many of their fans thought they would not live to see and it was, he says, highly emotional.

"We did a run through on the Friday night and it was remarkable, there were about fifty or sixty people working on the site, putting out rubbish bins or whatever it was they were doing and they all stopped and at the end they all applauded - that was a very moving moment."

Record: Mahler - Symphony No.5 in C Sharp - 4th movement
Book: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Luxury: A grand piano

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.

Neil Young - Helpless [Atlantic]
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jaques Morelenbaum & Everton Norton - Endless Flight [Concord]
Leonard Cohen - Bird On The Wire [Columbia]
Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine [Pacific Jazz]
Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind [Westmoor]
Giacomo Puccini - E Lucevan Le Stelle (from Tosca) [EMI]
Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child [Verve]
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor - 4th Movement (Adagietto) [EMI]

Monday 1 June 2020

The First Time With... Series 21 - 5. Jeff Goldblum

THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 21 - 5. JEFF GOLDBLUM (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th April 2020

Matt Everitt talks to Hollywood A-list actor and acclaimed jazz pianist Jeff Goldblum about the music and moments that have defined him.

Jeff shares memories of growing up in Pittsburgh, surrounded by jazz songbooks and going on vacation with his family to Atlantic City to see The Thad Jones and Mel Lewis Orchestra.

He talks about moving to New York and buying his first ever albums from Colony Records, by Stevie Wonder and Miles Davis; his love of musicals and the influence of Jazz on his acting.

Later in the programme Jeff discusses the success of his band ‘Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra’; working with Miley Cyrus, Gregory Porter, Fiona Apple, Anna Calvi and Sharon Van Etten on the latest record and his love of the American Jazz Pianist Bill Evans.

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - The Cat
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - The Kicker
Danny Kaye - Mommy, Gimme A Drinka Water
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra - The Little Pixie (Live)
Miles Davis - It's About That Time
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'
Orchestra Of St Luke's - Cab And Bedroom
Jevetta Steele - Calling You
Donna Summer - Last Dance
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - Cantaloupe Island
Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra (Feat. Anna Calvi) - Four On Six / Broken English
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra (Feat. Fiona Apple) - Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans - When In Rome
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra (Feat. Sharon Van Etten) - Let's Face The Music And Dance