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THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 32 - 2. CORINNE BAILEY RAE (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 20th August 2024
6 Music's Matt Everitt presents in-depth, exclusive and revealing interviews with major artists, revealing the pivotal moments and songs that shaped their lives and their careers.
"After a short time, the tiny woman in the corner turned around, and it was Prince! He came over and said 'can I get you anything?'"
Corinne Bailey Rae talks about playing with the likes of Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder, and shares a Prince hotel room revelation! Also, she opens up about how it feels going from achieving fame and fortune to grieving the death of your partner and finding your purpose again.
Music includes Al Green, Nirvana, a rarely heard Prince demo, and Bob Marley.
Corinne Bailey Rae - New York Transit Queen [Thirty Tigers]
Elton John - Benny And The Jets
Stevie Wonder - Earth's Creation [UNI/Motown]
Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well [Telstar]
Nirvana - Come As You Are (Live) [DGC]
Kenickie - Punka [EMI]
The New Mastersounds - Your Love Is Mine [Savoy Jazz]
Al Green - Here I Am (Come And Take Me) [Beechwood]
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds [Tuff Gong]
Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On [EMI]
Corinne Bailey Rae - Like A Star [EMI]
Prince - Mary Don't You Weep (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version) [Warner]
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon [Columbia/Legacy]
Herbie Hancock (feat. Corinne Bailey Rae) - River [Verve]
Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows [Black Rainbows Music]
We Are King - Hey (Extended Mix) [King Creative LLC]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 32 - 1. BERNARD BUTLER (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th August 2024
6 Music's Matt Everitt presents in-depth, exclusive and revealing interviews with major artists revealing the pivotal moments and songs that shaped their lives and their careers.
"The great myth was that I was always trying to get out, and that's complete rubbish."
Bernard Butler talks about the difficulties in finding his tribe when younger, being spat at for playing the violin while at school, the unusual working process when making an album with Jessie Buckley, and how he absolutely, definitely, completely wasn't ready for his departure from Suede.
Music includes The Velvet Underground, The Smiths, Madonna, and Suede.
McAlmont & Butler - You Do (Full Length) [Hut]
Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born [Old Gold]
New Order - Blue Monday [Now]
The Velvet Underground & Nico - Femme Fatale [Verve]
The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain [WEA]
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry [Fiction]
Madonna - True Blue [Connoisseur Collection]
Suede - The Drowners [Nude Records]
Suede - Introducing The Band [Suede Ltd.]
Suede - The Wild Ones [Nude]
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You [Setanta]
McAlmont & Butler - Yes [Hut Music]
Duffy - Mercy [A&M]
Duffy - Rockferry [A&M]
Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - The Eagle & The Dove [EMI]
The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
A NIGHT OUT WITH: EATS EVERYTHING AT MACEO'S BAR, GLASTONBURY (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 24th June 2023
With a mix full of his own edits and reworks, Eats Everything takes us on a night out to his favourite place to rave: Maceo's Bar within Block9 at Glastonbury Festival. Expect music from Carolyn Harding, GIDEÖN and Ashford & Simpson.
Angela Bofill - People Make The World Go Round (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
Cyclades - Fire To Desire (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
Ashford & Simpson - Don't Cost You Nothing (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
Jestofunk - Stellar Funk
Mike Woods - Rapping Wordyhood
Carolyn Harding - Movin' On (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
GIDEÖN - Vasquez Goes East
Mary Wells - Gigolo (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
Lorenz Rhode - And I Said
Benny Mussa - Save Our Life (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
Rose Royce - Pop Your Fingers (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
Purple Vein - 1999
Brothers Love Dubs - Ming's Incredible Disco Machine (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
Rafael Cameron - Boogies Gonna Get Ya (Eats 2023 Maceos Reebeef)
Thanx ENNISELLIS
THE RECORDING ANGEL W/ THE AVALANCHES B2B A-TRAK 02.10.24 (257kbs-m4a/114mb/62mins)
NTS Radio broadcast: 2nd October 2024
Rhythm Heritage - Theme From Rocky (Gonna Fly Now)
A-Trak - DMC Introduction 2001 (Snippet)
Masters At Work - The Ha Dance
Masters At Work - The Ha Dance (Pumpin' Dubb)
The Black Dog - Barbola Work
Rakewon - Glaciers Of Ice (Snippet)
Caribou - Volume
A-Trak - Like I Said
Big Ria - Knuckleheads Remix
Vernon Burch - Never Can Find The Way (Hot Love)
Duck Sauce - Get To Steppin
Jovon - Not The Way
Mantan Moreland - That Aint' My Finger (Snippet)
Karizma - Work It Out
Nebraska - Patina
Earls BOOOM!!! (feat. K-Tel) - The Paper
Funky Fresh League - Risky Changes
The Dells - All About The Papers
Leon Vynehall - It's Just (House Of Dupree)
Sam Ruffillo & Kapote - The La Tune (A-Trak Remix)
Duck Sauce - Fallin In Love
G.Q - Lies
J.Rocc & Flaunt Edwards - Party Goin On
Mandrill - Ape's Back In Town (The Reflex Revision)
Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox
Gal Costa - Pontos de Luz
The Kay-Gees - Tango Hustle
Richard Pryor - Car Wash (Snippet) (1976)
Garys Gang - Do It At The Disco
Kathy Brown - Give It Up (Moplen Remix)
BeBe Winans - He Promised Me
Elements Of Life - Stand On The Word (DJ Spen Remix)
Parliament - Mothership Connection
DeBarge - I Like It (Soul Synopsis Remix)
Rons Edits - Back 4 More
Edwin Starr - Get Up (Pilooski Edit)
Thanx frazered
MARY ANNE HOBBS - NICK CAVE AND US (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th August 2024
Nick Cave joins Mary Anne ahead of the release of Wild God, the 18th studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the follow-up to 2019's Ghosteen. Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann, Cave began writing the album on New Year's Day 2023. With sessions at Miraval in Provence and Soundtree in London, the Bad Seeds added their unique alchemy, with additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar, acoustic guitar).
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God [Bad Seeds]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Anthrocene
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Song Of The Lake
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Conversion
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Frogs [PIAS]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - I Let Love In (2011 Remastered Version) [Mute, a BMG Company]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Joy
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street [Bad Seed Ltd]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree [Bad Seed Ltd]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms (2011 Remastered Version) [Mute, a BMG Company]
DOCTOR WHO - 1963: THE ASSASSINATION GAMES (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
Sylvester McCoy: The Doctor
Sophie Aldred: Ace
Oliver Cotton: Sir Gideon Vale / Handler
Karen Gledhill: Allison Williams
Gerald Kyd: Martin Regan / Sir Robert DeVere / Mulryne
Hugh Ross: Sir Toby Kinsella
Pamela Salem: Rachel Jensen
Gemma Saunders: Eleanor Vale / Amanda Caulfield
Alisdair Simpson: Sir Francis White / Ritchie
Simon Williams: Ian Gilmore
Written by John Dorney
Music and sound design by Wilfredo Acosta
Produced by David Richardson
Directed by Ken Bentley
Executive Producers: Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
A Big Finish Production
DOCTOR WHO - 1963: THE ASSASSINATION GAMES - PART ONE (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
London. The end of November, 1963. A time of change. The old guard are being swept away by the white heat of technology. Political scandals are the talk of the town. Britain tries to maintain its international role; fanatics assassinate charismatic politicians and Group Captain Ian Gilmore is trying to get his fledgling Counter-Measures unit off the ground.
When his life is saved by a familiar umbrella-bearing figure, he knows something terrible is going on. Whilst Rachel investigates an enigmatic millionaire and Allison goes undercover in an extremist organisation, Gilmore discovers a sinister plot with roots a century old.
The Doctor and Ace are back in town. A new dawn is coming. It's time for everyone... to see the Light.
DOCTOR WHO - 1963: THE ASSASSINATION GAMES - PART TWO (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
With Ace and Professor Rachel Jensen investigating the Starfire missile project and Alison Williams infiltrating the mysterious DN group, it would seem there's a conspiracy at work at the heart of the British state. Is it entirely terrestrial? Captain Gilmore consults parliament's newest MP, who seems rather familiar.
DOCTOR WHO - 1963: THE ASSASSINATION GAMES - PART THREE (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
As the Prime Minister prepares to attend the launch of the Starfire missile, the Doctor discovers a personal connection between the conspirators.
With Rachel and Ace held prisoner, the conspiracy's plans appear to be falling into place. Is the Doctor right when he says it will all be over by evening?
DOCTOR WHO - 1963: THE ASSASSINATION GAMES - PART FOUR (320kbs-m4a/73mb/32mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
As the dark forces conspiring to bring chaos to the Earth finally come into The Light, it's a race against time for The Doctor, Ace and the Countermeasures team. Is it too late to stop a global disaster?
DOCTOR WHO: CLASSIC DOCTORS, NEW MONSTERS - 4. THE SONTARAN ORDEAL (320kbs-m4a/126mb/55mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
An instant of the Time War brings centuries of conflict to the planet Drakkis, and the Eighth Doctor is there to witness the terrible results.
A Sontaran fleet, desperate to join the epic conflict, follows in its wake to take advantage of the fallout. But when Commander Jask is beamed down to the ravaged surface, there is more to his arrival than first appears.
Soon, an unlikely champion joins forces with the Time Lord to fight for the future of her world, and together they must face the Sontaran Ordeal...
The Doctor: Paul McGann
Sarana Teel: Josette Simon
Jask: Dan Starkey
General Stenk / Flitch: Christopher Ryan
Tag Menkin / Ensign Stipe: Sean Connolly
Written by Andrew Smith
Music and sound design by Howard Carter
Produced by David Richardson
Directed by Barnaby Edwards
Executive Producers: Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
A Big Finish production
DOCTOR WHO: CLASSIC DOCTORS, NEW MONSTERS - 3. HARVEST OF THE SYCORAX (320kbs-m4a/147mb/64mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
In the far future, humanity has a remedy for everything. Whatever the problem, Pharma Corps has the answer and a designer disease tailored to every human's blood-type. Zanzibar Hashtag has no need to be sad, scared, stressed, or depressed ever again.
That is, until vicious aliens arrive on her space station intent on opening its Vault. What will it mean for the human race if the Sycorax take control of what's inside?
And when the Seventh Doctor arrives on the scene, can he convince Zanzibar to care about her life long enough to help him?
The Doctor: Sylvester McCoy
Zanzibar: Nisha Nayar
Cadwallader: Jonathan Firth
Shadrak: Rebecca Callard
The Sycorax Chief: Giles Watling
Eshak: Alex Deacon
Written by James Goss
Music by Howard Carter
Sound Design by Iain Meadows
Produced by David Richardson
Directed by Barnaby Edwards
Executive producers: Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
A Big Finish production
DOCTOR WHO: CLASSIC DOCTORS, NEW MONSTERS - 2. JUDOON IN CHAINS (320kbs-m4a/179mb/1hr18mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
The Sixth Doctor is no stranger to courtroom drama, but faces a very different challenge when he prepares to defend a most unusual Judoon.
After an environmental clearance mission goes wrong, Captain Kybo of the Nineteenth Judoon Interplantary Force is stranded in Victorian England, bound in chains, an exhibit in a circus show. But he has allies: Eliza Jenkins – known to audiences as 'Thomasina Thumb' – and the larger-than-life 'clown' in the colourful coat.
Uncovering a trail of injustice and corruption, the Doctor and Kybo soon find themselves on trial for their lives...
The Doctor: Colin Baker
Captain Kybo / Commander: Nicholas Briggs
Eliza Jenkins: Kiruna Stamell
Jonathan Jaggers Esq / Mr Preddle: Trevor Cooper
Justice Burrows / Jonty: Tony Millan
President Beel / Aetius/Herculania: Sabina Franklyn
Meretricious Gedge / Billy: Nicholas Pegg
Judoon Computer: Barnaby Edwards
Written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris
Music by Howard Carter
Sound design by Martin Montague
Produced by David Richardson
Directed by Barnaby Edwards
Executive Producers: Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
A Big Finish production
DOCTOR WHO: CLASSIC DOCTORS, NEW MONSTERS - 1. FALLEN ANGELS (320kbs-m4a/124mb/54mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
The Fifth Doctor confronts the Weeping Angels in 16th Century Rome.
2015: When sightseers Joel and Gabby Finch encounter a strange man in Edwardian cricketing garb in the Sistine Chapel, their honeymoon suddenly takes a terrifying turn.
1511: Michelangelo is commissioned to create some very special sculptures by a mysterious sect. But as he carves, angels seem to emerge fully-formed from the rock. Almost as if they are alive…
From Michelangelo's workshop to the catacombs of Rome, the Fifth Doctor must keep his wits about him and his eyes wide open as he confronts the Weeping Angels.
The Doctor: Peter Davison
Joel Finch: Sacha Dhawan
Gabby Finch: Diane Morgan
Michelangelo: Matthew Kelly
Piero: Joe Jameson
Priest: Dan Starkey
Jacopo: Barnaby Edwards
Written by Phil Mulryne
Music and sound design by Howard Carter
Produced by David Richardson
Directed by Barnaby Edwards
Executive producers: Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
A Big Finish Production
DOCTOR WHO - MIND OF THE HODIAC (320kbs-m4a/297mb/2hrs9mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford star in an adaptation of Russell T Davies' first ever Doctor Who story, submitted but never made in the 1980s.
Colin Baker (The Doctor)
Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush)
Annette Badland (Mrs Chinn)
Richard Clifford (Jessop)
Lu Corfield (Matra Fennel)
Sutara Gayle (Nan)
Raj Ghatak (Jenfold / Tungsten Leader)
Loreece Harrison (Lisa)
Laurie Kynaston (The Hodiac)
Victoria Lambert (Matra Fiss)
Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (The Woman)
T'Nia Miller (Mrs Maitland)
Laura Riseborough (Miss Fairfax)
Wilf Scolding (Jassic / Guard)
Alexander Vlahos (Jerring)
Darcey-Ella Whittington (Katy)
Written by Russell T Davies and Scott Handcock
Music and sound design by Rob Harvey
Directed by Scott Handcock
Produced by Emily Cook
Executive Producers: Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
A Big Finish Production
DOCTOR WHO - MIND OF THE HODIAC - PART ONE (320kbs-m4a/146mb/64mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
In the depths of space, the mysterious Hodiac is manipulating the Galactic Stock Exchange to raise money. His aim? To hire mercenaries for a deadly quest across the stars.
Meanwhile, on Earth, an ordinary British family is plagued by a series of psychic events.
The one thing connecting these events is a magnificent patchwork coat - which just so happens to belong to the Doctor!
DOCTOR WHO - MIND OF THE HODIAC - PART TWO (320kbs-m4a/151mb/66mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
Can the Doctor and Mel save the Earth from the machinations of the Hodiac?
DOCTOR WHO - OUT OF TIME (320kbs-m4a/135mb/59mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
The 10th and the 4th Doctor must join forces in an attempt to defeat the Daleks.
The Cathedral of Contemplation is an enigma, existing outside time. It turns through history, opening its doors across the universe to offer solace to those in need.
Occasionally, the Doctor drops in - when he's avoiding his destiny, it's an ideal place to get some perspective. Only this time he's already there from several lives earlier, so when dimension barriers break down, his past and present collide.
And when the Daleks invade and commandeer the Cathedral, two Doctors must unite to stop them - or face extermination twice over!
David Tennant: The Doctor
Tom Baker: The Doctor
Nicholas Briggs: The Daleks
Nicholas Asbury (Captain Zenna / Kivall)
Kathryn Drysdale (Jora)
Claire Rushbrook (The Abbess / Marna)
Written by Matt Fitton
Music and sound design by Howard Carter
Directed by Nicholas Briggs
Produced by David Richardson
Executive producers: Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
A Big Finish production
DOCTOR WHO - THE ISOS NETWORK (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
On the planet Isos II The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe face an old enemy.
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon / The Doctor / Narrator)
Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot / Narrator)
Rachel Bavidge (Seru)
Nicholas Briggs (The Cybermen)
Kieran Hodgson (Alam / Hilsee)
Richard James (Enab)
Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs
Music and sound design by Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Produced by David Richardson
A Big Finish production
DOCTOR WHO - THE ISOS NETWORK - PART 1/4 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/28mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are leaving Earth after having successfully defeated a Cyberman invasion... The Cyber-fleet is still exploding... But something is escaping through the mass of vaporising debris.
In hot pursuit, the Doctor and his friends find themselves drawn to a mysterious planet where strange beasts slither through the streets of a deserted city... And an old enemy lurks beneath the streets.
As a force of heavily-armed aliens arrives, a battle to save the entire galaxy from invasion begins.
DOCTOR WHO - THE ISOS NETWORK - PART 2/4 (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
The Doctor has been taken captive by the crew of the spaceship Braxos, while Jamie and Zoe find themselves in the tunnels beneath the surface of Isos II, following a trail of slime. And waiting in the dark is the secret of the fate that has befallen the people of Isos II.
DOCTOR WHO - THE ISOS NETWORK - PART 3/4 (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
Beneath the surface of Isos II, Zoe and Hilsee face the anger of the giant slugs. Meanwhile, The Doctor, Jamie and the crew of the Braxos are on the run from the Cybermen…
DOCTOR WHO - THE ISOS NETWORK - PART 4/4 (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are at the mercy of the Cyber Controller. Can the Doctor save his friends from being converted into Cybermen?
DOCTOR WHO: THE BEGINNING (320kbs-m4a/144mb/63mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
The Doctor's granddaughter Susan recalls the day they left Gallifrey...
Performed by Carole Ann Ford (Susan) and Terry Molloy (Quadrigger Stoyn)
Written by Marc Platt
Directed by Lisa Bowerman
Music and sound design by Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Producer: David Richardson
Executive Producers: Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery.
A Big Finish Production
DOCTOR WHO: THE BEGINNING - 1. THE FIRST FLIGHT (320kbs-m4a/77mb/33mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
When the First Doctor and his granddaughter Susan escape through the cloisters of Gallifrey to an old Type 40 Time Travel capsule, little do they realise the adventures that lie ahead... And little do they know, as the TARDIS dematerializes and they leave their home world behind, there is someone else aboard the ship.
He is Quadrigger Stoyn, and he is very unhappy...
DOCTOR WHO: THE BEGINNING - 2. RED LIGHTING (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 15th November 2023
On the surface of the Moon, the Doctor and Susan confront the Archaeons and their First Propagator. What are its plans for the Earth? And whose side is Quadrigger Stoyn on?
REWEAVING THREADS, 40 YEARS ON (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 21st September 2024
40 years ago, a BBC film showing the grim reality of a post-nuclear world terrified a generation. Jude Rogers meets its cast and crew to unravel why it still haunts so many today.
It was a film that spawned a thousand nightmares, including the most terrifying traffic warden. When the Cold War film Threads was broadcast on BBC Two on the evening of Sunday 23rd September, many across the nation didn't sleep.
Directed by Mick Jackson and written by Barry Hines, Threads explored what would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in the city of Sheffield. The BBC production did what no other film had done to date - showing the grim reality of life after a nuclear attack in painstakingly researched and horrifying detail.
On a tiny budget and reliant on hundreds of willing extras from the city of Sheffield, Threads painted a picture so chilling that its images of melting milk bottles, urinating women, and the bleak wind of a nuclear winter have been branded into the memories of many of those who watched it when it was broadcast, or who have seen it since.
Jude Rogers saw Threads in the 1990s, when nuclear war seemed like a distant nightmare. She was drawn to the cult status of the film and the community of "Threads Heads" who re-watch it, discuss it, dissect it. But in today's world, with wars raging and increasing political instability and unrest, some believe Threads is starting to feel eerily relevant again.
With an original soundtrack from Jim Jupp of Belbury Poly, Jude speaks to the cast and crew of Threads, as well as those who've been fascinated by it since, to explore how Threads was made, and how it has haunted so many in the forty years since.
Featuring:
Mick Jackson, the director
Jan Nethercot, Head of Make Up on Threads
Reece Dinsdale, who played Jimmy
Catherine Taylor, who was an extra on Threads
Dave Forrest, Professor of English at the University of Sheffield
Sylvan Baker, Senior Lecturer at the Central School for Speech and Drama
Craig Ian Mann and Rob Nevitt, filmmakers
Neil Kinnock, former Leader of the Labour Party.
With thanks to Roger Bolton, Karen Meagher, and Jim Jupp.
Presented by Jude Rogers
Produced by Leonie Thomas
Executive Producer: Steven Rajam
Soundtrack credit: Jim Jupp of Belbury Poly.
Image Credit: Catrin James
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 4
ARCHIVE ON 4: BOWIE IN BERLIN (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 14th September 2024
How David Bowie saved his life and career in 1970s Berlin. Bowie had become a superstar by creating musical characters. Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke were alter egos through which he could tell stories. They helped him achieve global fame and wealth, and yet by 1976 his notorious excess had become the cause of his deep depression. Living in Los Angeles, addicted to cocaine and financially broke, he was feeling artistically washed-up and suicidal. David Bowie stood at a crossroads: become yet another rock 'n roll casualty or face his demons.
"I started getting very very worried for my life and just had to get myself out of that situation... so I ended up in Berlin."
In 1976, moving to the epicentre of the Cold War more than saved his life and career. It allowed him to rediscover his youthful creative passions for art and literature, and - as one of the most famous people on the planet - to hide in plain sight. Dressed in simple check shirt and jeans, Bowie enjoyed relative anonymity on the streets of Berlin. With Iggy Pop as his flatmate, he lived in a cheap apartment in a working-class district of the city. And in Hansa Studios, alongside musical collaborator Brian Eno and producer Tony Visconti, he began one the most artistically ambitious periods of entire career, honing a completely new sound with the albums Low and Heroes.
For many years his time in Berlin between 1976 and 1978 has been mythologised and romanticised by writers, filmmakers, critics and by Bowie himself. There's no footage of Bowie in Berlin and very few photographs. But now documentary filmmaker Francis Whately reveals what really happened thanks to the testimonies of three women who knew Bowie intimately, all talking publicly about their relationships with him for the first time. Artist and former RSC actor Clare Shenstone, performer and legendary nightclub owner Romy Haag, and former journalist Sarah-Rena Hine all shared time with him in Berlin. Exclusive interviews with these remarkable muses, alongside other first-hand witnesses and a cache of previously unheard archive interviews, help tell a completely new story. Bowie In Berlin reveals how he drew upon the history, culture and anonymity of the German city to recuperate and regenerate.
Over those Cold War months of rain and beer, cycle-rides and cigarettes, Bowie wrenched himself from his past and thrust himself towards the future. For the first time we can hear how, in Berlin, David Bowie reinvented himself ...as himself.
Writer and presenter: Francis Whately
Producer: John Wilson
A Blackstar production for BBC Radio 4
Interviewees: Clare Shenstone, Romy Haag, Sarah-Rena Hine, Esther Freidman, Michael Rother, Tony Visconti, Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar.
Archive: David Bowie, Iggy Pop.
PCs GONE MAD: COMPUTERS IN FICTION AND REALITY (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 24th August 2024
Broadcaster and comedian Steve Punt fires up the archives to examine the cultural history of computers on screen.
From Katharine Hepburn and the electronic brain of the 1950s, to Jurassic Park and the threat of malicious hackers; Steve explores the parallel history of how (and why) the fiction and the fact of computers developed.
With guests:
Charlie Brooker, media commentator and creator of Black Mirror
Zoe Kleinman, the BBC's Technology Editor
Kevin Murrell, co-founder of The National Museum of Computing
Producer: Becca Bryers
A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4
ARCHIVE ON 4: SISTER BLUES (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 10th August 2024
To mark the sixty-year anniversary of the American's seminal 1964 performance at a Manchester train station for Granada TV, Joan Armatrading explores the life and music of blues trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
As an influence to Little Richard, Elvis and Chuck Berry, the legacy of the so-called 'Godmother of Rock and Roll' is far-reaching. Joan talks to surviving members of Sister Rosetta's family, contemporaries of the '64 UK tour, modern-day female singer songwriters from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean as well as devotees from across the music and entertainment world to explore the remarkable impact of her pioneering work. Drawing on archive and unique recordings from Sister Rosetta's back catalogue, Joan brings focus to a foundational figure whose contribution has too often been overlooked.
Producer and Writer: Ben Wyatt
Sound Editor: Rich Evans
Original music composition: Christopher Fletcher
A Comuniqé production for BBC Radio 4
NIXON, A RESIGNING MATTER (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 3rd August 2024
Fifty years ago, on August 8th 1974, President Richard Milhouse Nixon announced on national television that he would resign from office. He became the first and only man to resign the Presidency. The lies he had told concerning his involvement in the Watergate scandal finally caught up with him.
He knew the game was up when, the previous day, three leading figures in the Republican party including Senator Barry Goldwater went to the White House to make it clear that he did not have the votes within his own party to avoid impeachment.
Nixon's political end still casts a long shadow across American history. It changed the trajectory of the Republican party, as well as American foreign policy, by opening the door to Ronald Reagan. The reaction to the event raised the temperature of partisanship in American politics. Impeachment, which was the threat hovering over Nixon that forced his hand, has become a cudgel used by both parties. And as for accountability, Nixon's famous utterance echoing Charles the First at his treason trial - "When the President does it, that means it isn't illegal" - was echoed half a century later by President Donald J Trump's lawyers when they argued before the US Supreme Court in February 2024 that Presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution.
Yet Nixon the man remains a figure frozen in time. He is still a hate figure for many on the left who cannot forgive him for expanding the war in Southeast Asia beyond Vietnam into Cambodia, and for many on the right his policy of détente and the opening to China needlessly prolonged Communism as a force on the world stage.
This 50th anniversary look back explores the high political drama of the resignation and the personal tragedy of the man. It's an opportunity to look at the myriad ways that Nixon's forced departure changed the course of American history, and a chance to wonder out loud what America and the world might have been like had he managed to stay in office.
And crucially, what has happened to the Republican party? Where are the independent Republican congressional leaders who might stand up to their candidate for president who many are describing as a would-be autocrat?
Using plentiful archive sound from the Nixon tapes held at his presidential library, Michael Goldfarb recreates in Nixon's own voice the days leading up to his departure and the long decades of trying to reclaim his reputation through pronouncements on international affaiirs. He also uses music, held by the Nixon Library (a part of the National Archives) and written for him.
Michael interviews the surviving members of his White House staff and those who worked with him in the two decades of life he had left after leaving office as well as biographers and chroniclers of the Republican party.
Presenter: Michael Goldfarb
Producer: Julia Hayball
A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 4
MARY ANNE HOBBS - LIVE ALL QUEENS STAGE ALL POINTS EAST FESTIVAL 2024 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 30th August 2024
30 minutes of Mary Anne Hobbs live DJ set recorded at the 6 Music Stage ALL QUEENS takeover at All Points East Festival which took place in Victoria Park in London.
Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20210310 [Milan Entertainment]
Warren Ellis - Because I Was A Girl [Invada]
The Haxan Cloak - Consumed [Tri Angle]
Burial - Distant Lights [Hyperdub]
Al Wootton & Azu Tiwaline - Nine Points [Livity Sound Recordings]
Pris - Reef (Stenny Remix) [Resin]
Pearson Sound - XLB [!K7]
Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj - Princess Diana [10K Projects/Capitol]
Atrice - Kine [Atrice]
Richie Culver - Changed My Style 4 U [Richie Culver]
Azu Tiwaline & Forest Drive West - The Pitch [Livity Sound Recordings]
Quiet Husband - A1 [Industrial Coast]
Paleman - Bite [Sublunar]
JAMES LAVELLE - TRIP-HOP THEN & NOW MIX 17.08.24 (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 17th August 2024
UNKLE - Time Has Come (Portishead Plays UNKLE Mix) [Mo'Wax]
Tranquility Bass - They Came In Peace [Three Sixty]
Atsushi Akuno - I Just Wanna Touch Her (DJ Krush Stoned Jazz Mix) [Grass Fruits]
Massive Attack - Blue Lines [Wild Bunch]
Photek - Into The 90's [Metalheadz]
Coldcut - Autumn Leaves [NTone]
United Future Organization - Moondance (U.N.K.L.E. Mix)
Nightmares On Wax - Nights Interlude [Warp]
Kruder & Dorfmeister - High Noon [G-Stone Recordings]
Brian Eno & Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn - Protection (The Eno Mix) [Virgin]
Tricky - Aftermath [4th & Broadway]
Attica Blues - Contemplating Jazz [UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)]
Zimbabwe Legit - Shadow's Legitimate Mix [pH Music, LLC]
DJ Shadow - In/Flux [[PIAS]
DJ Krush - Kemuri [UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)]
DJ Shadow - Lost And Found (S.F.L.) [PIAS]
Maxence Cyrin & Rob Dougan - Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Version) [Evidence (LTR)]
Boom Bass & La Funk Mob - La Doctoresse [Lovesupreme]
DJ Food - Spiral (Dub) [Ninja Tune]
R.P.M. - 2000
DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1 (Blue Sky Revisit) [(PIAS)]
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground (Nellee Hooper's Dub) [One Little Independent]
Thom Yorke & UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights (Underdog Mix) [PIAS]
SOUND OF CINEMA - 433. THE FILMS OF DONALD SUTHERLAND (320kbs-m4a/135mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 20th July 2024
With a career spanning 60 years and over 200 films, the late Donald Sutherland was a true acting legend.
His son, actor Kiefer Sutherland - best known for his starring roles in 1987's The Lost Boys plus Designated Survivor and 24 - joins Matthew Sweet to look back at his father's life through the soundtracks of his major films.
It includes music from The Hunger Games (by composer James Newton Howard), Don't Look Now (composer Pino Donaggio), Six Degrees of Separation (composer Jerry Goldsmith) and Pride and Prejudice (by composer Dario Marianelli), this episode also contains insights into what it's like learning about your father through film...
Johnny Mandel - M*A*S*H (1970) - M.A.S.H. Theme (Instrumental) [Legacy/Columbia]
Michael Small - Klute (1971) - Love Theme [Not On Label]
Pino Donaggio - Don't Look Now (1973) - John's Theme (Flashbacks) [Silva Screen]
Pino Donaggio - Don't Look Now (1973) - I Colori Di Dicembere [Silva Screen]
Danny Zeitlin - Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) - Main Title [United Artists]
Nino Rota - Fellini's Casanova (1976) - O Venezia, Venaga, Venusia [Decca (UMO) Classics (CAM)]
Elliot Goldenthal - A Time To Kill (1996) - Main Theme [Varese Sarabande]
Jonathan Goldsmith - Forsaken (2015) - Redemption [Filmtrax]
Jerry Goldsmith - Six Degrees Of Separation (1993) - Ouisa and Flan [Elektra]
Win Butler - The Hunger Games (2012) - Horn Of Plenty [Universal]
James Newton Howard - The Hunger Games (2012) - Tenuous Winners/Returning Home [Universal]
Jean‐Yves Thibaudet - Pride And Prejudice (2005) - Dawn [Decca (UMO)]
FLOATING POINTS - PLAYLIST #4: FROM PHAROAH SANDERS TO CHATEAU FLIGHT... (320kbs-m4a/140mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th July 2024
British producer and composer Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points, curates a playlist full of the tracks that inspired and shaped his forthcoming project 'Cascade' which lands in Autumn via Ninja Tune. To sign off the residency Floating Points shares cuts old and new - with music lifted from Tems' latest record, Pharoah Sanders, Olof Dreijer and Swedish producer Ebende!
Ojerime - 2 Much Pride (Interlude)
Pharoah Sanders - As You Are [Arista/Legacy]
Tems - Wickedest [RCA/Since 93']
Leod - Untitled 05
Kali Malone - Prisoned On Watery Shore [Ideologic Organ]
Baby Ford - WestWay [Autoreply Music]
Ebende - Rotations [Aniara Recordings]
100 Hz - Rio [Bosconi]
Olof Dreijer - Camelia [Heesle Audio]
Floating Points - Key103 [Ninja Tune]
Château Flight - Cosmic Race [Versatile]
FLOATING POINTS - PLAYLIST #3: FROM JOY ORBISON TO RICARDO VILLALOBOS... (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 14th July 2024
British producer and composer Sam Shepherd, aka Floating Points, curates a playlist full of the tracks that inspired and shaped his forthcoming project 'Cascade' which lands in Autumn via Ninja Tune. For the penultimate episode in the series, Floating Points picks tracks from the legendary Ranking Ann and Joy Orbison, plus 14 minutes of minimal goodness from the great Ricardo Villalobos.
Marcus Intalex - Temperance
Rezzett - Worst Ever Contender [The Trilogy Tapes]
T++ - Dig [Honest Jon's]
June Lodge - Between The Sheets [Real Authentic Sound]
Ranking Ann - Moonlight Lover [Ariwa Sounds]
Lifetones - Good Side [Light In The Attic]
Ricardo Villalobos & Einzelkind - Arnorac C
Joy Orbison - Shiloh's Revenge [XL Recordings]
Wizdom - I'm So In Love With You [Drive]
Soul Liberation - Send Me [BBE Music]
FLOATING POINTS - PLAYLIST #2: FROM KIKAGAKU MOYO TO ENNIO MORRICONE... (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 16th July 2024
British producer and composer Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points, curates a playlist full of the tracks that inspired and shaped his forthcoming project 'Cascade' which lands in Autumn via Ninja Tune. In his second show of the residency, he's featured some Japanese psychedelia from Kikagaku Moyo, krautrock from Agitation Free, a piece by the late Ennio Morricone and more!
Junior Kimbrough - Meet Me In The City [Fat Possum]
Kikagaku Moyo - Smoke and Mirrors [Beyond Beyond Is Beyond]
Bonnie Raitt - I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again [Capitol]
Claudio Cavina & La Venexiana & Roberta Mameli - Madrigals, Book 8 (Madrigali, libro ottavo), "Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi)" [Note 1 Music GmbH]
PFM - Danny's Song
Agitation Free - First Communication
The Raveonettes - Recharge & Revolt [UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)]
Azymuth - Zé e Paraná [Far Out Recordings]
Ennio Morricone - Ti Prego Amami [Cinnevox]
Tahira Syed - Pata Das Ni [EMI Pakistan]
Lô Borges - Trem De Doido [Universal Music]
Bobby Hutcherson - NTU [CM Blue Note (A92)]
FLOATING POINTS - PLAYLIST #1: FROM ALICE COLTRANE TO MIŁOSZ PĘKALA... (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th July 2024
British producer and composer Sam Shepherd, aka Floating Points, curates a playlist full of the tracks that inspired and shaped his forthcoming project 'Cascade' which lands in Autumn via Ninja Tune. In the first episode of the series, he has chosen music by the likes of Michael Gregory Jackson, Miłosz Pękala, Alice Coltrane and more!
Kurt Vile & Dan Park & Farmer Dave Scher & Jesse Trbovich & Rob Laakso & Stella Mozgawa - Was All Talk [Matador]
Alceu Valença - Anunciação [Deck]
O Terço - Adormeceu
Michael Gregory Jackson - Prelueoionti
Clarissa Connelly - Wee Rosebud [Warp]
Maxime Denuc - Ouverture
Karma - Tributo ao Sorriso [Best]
Suzanne Ciani - Inverness [Private Music]
Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R And Me [Music From Memory]
Alice Coltrane - Wisdom Eye [Rhino/Warner]
João Bosco - A Nível De... [Universal Music]
Klaus Weiss - Survivor [Anthology Recordings]
Pinegrove - Need 2
Miłosz Pękala - Slow #2
THE BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES AND THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR WITH CONDUCTOR ALISTAIR KING - PROM 48: DOCTOR WHO PROM (320kbs-m4a/301mb/2hrs11mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 26th August 2024
Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the London Philharmonic Choir with conductor Alistair King, soprano Aida Garifullina and a host of Whovian guests.
Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Prom Interval: Matthew Sweet, presenter of BBC Radio 3's Sound of Cinema and Radio 4's Free Thinking programmes, joins presenter Georgia Mann to talk all things Doctor Who. Matthew has written Doctor Who audio dramas and presented a Free Thinking episode about the Daleks.
Aida Garifullina (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
London Philharmonic Choir
Alistair King (conductor)
Doctor Who makes its much-anticipated return to the Proms with a brand-new show celebrating the latest adventures of the Doctor. Showcasing Murray Gold's epic music for the series performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Prom features sequences from the series on big screens, spectacular lighting and a host of special guest appearances - and, yes, there will be monsters! A concert like no other in all of space and time ...
Aida Garifullina - Fifteen
Murray Gold - The Doctor, Donna And The Toymaker
Murray Gold - Into The Vortex
Murray Gold - I Am The Doctor
Murray Gold - The Life Of Sunday
Aida Garifullina - Vale Decem
Murray Gold - A Good Man
Murray Gold - 73 Yards To Finetime
Murray Gold - Companions Suite
Segun Akinola - Thirteenth Doctor
Aida Garifullina - Abigail's Song
Murray Gold - The Legend Of Ruby Sunday
Murray Gold - Doctor Who Theme
Murray Gold - There's Always A Twist
THE RECORDING ANGEL W/ THE AVALANCHES B2B LAUREN DUFFUS (257kbs-m4a/114mb/62mins)
NTS Radio broadcast: 4th September 2024
Sunset Corp - Angel
Lauren Duffus - Permanence
Unknown Kids Record - Orchestraville
Salem - Capulets
Donald Byrd - Stepping Into Tomorrow
Khadija Al Hanafi - Village Party
Westside Gunn & Stove God Cooks - Kitchen Lights
jaidenxou - Wanna Go To War
Lauren Duffus - Unreleased WIP
Lauren Duffus - Unreleased WIP
Skee Mask - 7AM At The Rodeo
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
EQ Why - Finished
Ghostlore Of Britain - M5m25
Lauren Duffus - Love Love Love
Cranes - Watersong
Westside Gunn (feat. Roc Mariano & Conway) - Omar's Coming
Kazumi Totaka - 4th Goal (Wave Race 64)
Lauren Duffus - Spare Seat Demo
Pink Siifu - GOT FOOD AT THE CRIB'! VOL.1
Bullion - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Doris - Reservations
Doris - Spirits And Funny Men
Doris - Winning Numbers
Bladee - Reality Surf
Julee Cruise - Floating
Sly5thAve - Super Rich Kids
Lauren Duffus - Wires
Lauren Duffus - Unreleased WIP
Florence Sinclair (feat.Klein) - We Fly High
Lauren Duffus - Unreleased WIP
Wench - Sick
Lauren Duffus - Unreleased WIP
Honor - U&Me (decemberseventeen)
Lauren Duffus - Unreleased WIP
Salem - Until The World Ends
Thanx frazered
THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 97. PETER BLAKE (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 4th July 2024
The grandfather of British Pop Art, Sir Peter Blake is one of most influential and popular artists of his generation. A Royal Academician with work in the national collection, including Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, he is renowned for paintings and collages that borrow imagery from advertising, cinema and music. Having created The Beatles' Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band sleeve in 1967 he became the go-to album designer for other musical artists including The Who, Paul Weller, Madness and Oasis. He was knighted for services to art in 2002.
Sir Peter tells John Wilson how, after a working class upbringing in Dartford, Kent, he won a place at the Royal College of Art alongside fellow students Bridget Riley and Frank Auerbach. He recalls being influenced by early American pop artists including Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and how he began making art inspired by everyday popular imagery. He chooses Dylan Thomas's 1954 radio play Under Milk Wood as a work which captivated his imagination and later inspired a series of his artworks based on the characters, and also cites Max Miller, the music hall artist known as 'the Cheeky Chappie'; as a creative influence. Sir Peter remembers how he made the iconic Sgt Pepper sleeve using waxwork dummies and life size cut-out figures depicting well-known people chosen by Peter and The Beatles themselves.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
Archive used:
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, performed by Richard Burton, BBC Third Programme, 25 Jan 1954
Max Miller, introduced by Wilfred Pickles at the Festival of Variety, BBC Light Programme, 6 May 1951
Max Miller archive from Celebration, The Cheeky Chappie, BBC Radio 4, 3 July 1974
Monitor: 89: Pop Goes The Easel, BBC1, 25 March 1962
Peter Blake: Work in Progress, BBC2, 21 February 1983
Newsnight, BBC2, 7 February 1983
Ian Dury, Peter the Painter
DAVID RODIGAN - ALL DAY CARNIVAL MIX (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th August 2024
Legendary radio broadcaster David Rodigan in the mix for All Day Carnival!
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown [Mango]
Yellowman - Zungguzungguguzungguzeng [Greensleeves]
Dennis Brown & Prince Muhammed - Money In My Pocket [Trojan]
Janet Kay - Silly Games [Sony Tv/Columbia]
Dennis Brown - Here I Come [VP]
Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message To You [Trojan]
Sizzla - Just One Of Those Days [VP]
Protoje - Who Knows [Easy Star]
Junior Reid - One Blood
Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote [Mango]
Super Cat - Ghetto Red Hot [Columbia]
Serani - No Games [WMG]
Cham - Ghetto Story [Madhouse/Atlantic]
M‐Beat & General Levy - Incredible [Renk]
Jodian Natty - Rudeboy Sound [Crate Classics]
