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TRACKS OF MY YEARS - JOHN BISHOP (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 25th January 2026
One of Britain's best-loved comedians, John Bishop joins Vernon to choose his Tracks Of My Years this week - ten songs that tell the story of his life and career to date.
Born in Liverpool in 1966, John Bishop grew up dreaming of playing football for Liverpool FC. Whilst he didn't make it to Anfield, he did play semi-professionally into his 20s, then working in pharmaceutical sales. In his 30s, he was in the middle of divorcing his wife when he started stand-up comedy by accident. He signed up to an open mic night at The Frog and Bucket in Manchester to avoid paying the £4 entrance fee and loved it so much that he became a regular. His set included material about his separation, and one night he didn't realise his wife was in the audience. A conversation after the show led to agreeing to get counselling, and they got back together. After years working on his stand-up alongside a full-time job, he became a full-time comedian, later also branching out into presenting and acting, where his credits include playing companion Dan on Doctor Who and acting on-stage opposite Sir Ian McKellen. Last year, he celebrated 25 years since he started stand-up with a huge live tour, as well as playing a show where it all started, at the Frog and Bucket.
The story of John's start in stand-up has inspired the new film Is This Thing On? which comes to UK cinemas on 30th January. Directed and co-written by Bradley Cooper, the films sees Will Arnett play Alex Novak, who tries his hand at the New York comedy scene in the face of a failing marriage to Tess Novak, played by Laura Dern.
Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 2.
Billie Jo Spears - Blanket On The Ground [Telstar]
The Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything [Now]
Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing [London]
Chris Isaak - Wicked Games [London]
Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You [Now]
David Gray - Sail Away [East West]
U2 - You're The Best Thing About Me [Island]
Jack Savoretti - Soldier's Eyes [De Angelis]
Elbow - One Day Like This [Fiction]
Gerry And The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone [Premier]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 35 - 4. JORDAN RAKEI (320kbs-m4a/139mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th January 2026
Matt Everitt sits down with musician, multi‑instrumentalist, singer and producer Jordan Rakei.
Matt and Jordan trace his journey from childhood in Hamilton, New Zealand, to Brisbane, Australia, and eventually to London. Jordan reflects on early experiments making up songs as a kid, producing beats at school, and releasing tracks online - culminating in his self‑released debut EP, Franklin's Room, in 2013. The conversation follows his evolution through albums Cloak, Wallflower, and his most recent project, The Loop, shaped deeply by his experiences as a new parent.
Along the way, Jordan shares stories, creative insights, and some of the music that has inspired him most - including Jeff Buckley, James Blake, Missy Elliott and Radiohead.
Jordan Rakei - Freedom [Decca]
Duran y Garcia - Round Midnight [Irma Unlimited]
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke [Motown]
2Pac (feat. Big Syke) - All Eyez On Me [Amaru Entertainment, Inc./Interscope]
Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour [Polygram Tv]
James Blake - Digital Lion [Polydor]
Radiohead - Nude [XL Recordings]
Jeff Buckley - Grace [Columbia]
Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch [Elektra]
Madison Cunningham - My Full Name [Verve Forecast]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 35 - 3. EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th January 2026
Musical polymath, producer, and DJ Emma-Jean Thackray joins Matt Everitt to explore the moments that shaped her sonic world. Together, they trace a childhood completely immersed in music — from the power of brass band traditions to the many instruments she learned to master along the way.
She reflects on formative nights spent in Leeds' electro clubs, her once-secret love of U.S. prog-rock giants Dream Theater, and the transformative influence of Miles Davis and Gil Evans' Sketches of Spain. She also opens up about the creative journeys behind her acclaimed solo EPs Rain Dance, her debut Yellow and most recent album Weirdo.
It's all soundtracked by Madlib, John Coltrane, Charles Stepney's Rotary Connection and more.
Emma‐Jean Thackray - Weirdo [Parlophone UK]
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free [Telstar]
Rune Gundersen & Musikkorpset Gjallarhorn - Isaiah 40 [Grong Musikkproduksjon]
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under [Atlantic]
Spice Girls - Wannabe [Sony Music TV]
DJ Q (feat. K Dot) - Bassline [Crucast]
Miles Davis - Concierto De Aranjuez [Play Digital]
Yesterdays New Quintet - Prelude [Stones Throw]
Rotary Connection - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun [Stateside]
Inner City - Good Life [10]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 35 - 2. HANNAH PEEL (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 27th January 2026
Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and soundtrack composer Hannah Peel shares her First Times with Matt Everitt, soundtracked by Tori Amos, Boards of Canada, Joni Mitchell, and more!
They talk about how important it is to win an Ivor Novello award, her love of working with Paul Weller, and how AI won't replace Hannah just yet!
Produced in Salford by BBC Audio North for BBC Radio 6 Music.
Hannah Peel - Midwinter Break [Back Lot Music]
Ronnie Hilton - A Windmill In Old Amsterdam [Parlophone UK]
Gustav Holst & London Symphony Orchestra - The Planets, Op. 32: 2. Venus, The Bringer Of Peace [Editions Audiovisuel Beulah]
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra - Walking In The Air [Silva Screen]
Tony Orlando & Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree [Old Gold]
Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You [A&M]
Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl [East West]
The Cinematic Orchestra - Work It! (Man With The Movie Camera) [Ninja Tune]
Hannah Peel - Tainted Love [My Own Pleasure]
Hannah Peel - The Almond Tree [Static Caravan Recordings]
John Foxx - Burning Car [Now! Music]
Boards Of Canada - Olson [Warp]
Alberto Iglesias (feat. Vicente Amigo & El Pele) - Hable Con Ella [Milan]
The Magnetic North - Bay Of Skaill [Full Time Hobby]
Hannah Peel - Game Of Thrones: Main Title [HBO]
Paul Weller - On Sunset [Polydor]
Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark [Rhino]
Hannah Peel - Hive Mind [Invada UK]
Hannah Peel - Cuckoo [Invada UK]
Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra - The Unfolding [Universal Music Operations Ltd]
Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - Sea, Swallow Me [4AD]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 35 - 1. PEACHES (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th January 2026
Electroclash indie warrior Peaches shares her musical milestones with Matt Everitt, with the art-pop pioneer revealing the joy of meeting Iggy Pop, the song the Peaches moniker came from, and how she might owe everything to a Canadian sound engineer who might not know the role she played in Peaches' life! It's all soundtracked by Suicide, Kate Bush, Robert Flack, Jesus Christ Superstar, and more!
Produced in Salford by BBC Audio North for BBC Radio 6 Music.
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her [XL Recordings]
Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [Rhino Atlantic]
Bette Midler - Friends [Rhino Atlantic]
Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (Love Theme From "A Star Is Born") [CBS]
Hair Band - Sodomy [RCA Victor]
Genesis - Land Of Confusion (Live) [Atlantic]
Donna Summer - Bad Girls [Mercury]
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon) [EMI]
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) [Now]
Eurythmics - I Need You [RCA]
Plasmatics - The Damned [Caroline]
Nina Simone - Four Women [Verve Reissues]
Peaches - AA XXX [XL Recordings]
Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away [XL Recordings]
Suicide - Johnny [Mute, a BMG Company]
Murray Head & The Trinidad Singers & Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Superstar [Decca]
Iggy Pop & Peaches - Rock Show [Virgin]
Peaches (feat. Iggy Pop) - Kick It [XL Recordings]
Peaches - No Lube So Rude [Kill Rock Stars]
JUSTIN ROBERTSON - MYSTERY OF MINERALS FREAK ZONE PLAYLIST (320kbs-m4a/139mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th January 2026
Producer, artist, writer and DJ Justin Robertson picks an hour of music exploring the mysterious vibrations of all things mineral. Expect dub, prog, acid folk and some things simply indescribable.
Justin's latest project Five Green Moons has been described as "a pastoral dub symphony."
The Mineral Tail - The Creak Of Insect's Knees [Self-release]
Pan & Regaliz - Waiting In the Monster's Garden [Wah Wah]
Panta Rhe - Shigu [Black Pearl]
Bobby Horton - Minerals (Invalid Corps) [Lyrical Learning]
Zombie Zombie - The Wisdom Of Stone [Versatile]
David Hemmings - Anathea [MGM]
Mark E. Smith - Self-Interview [Castle Communications]
John Berberian And The Rock East Ensemble - The Oud And The Fuzz [Verve]
Current 93 - Into The Menstrual Night I Go [Durtro]
Träd, gräs och stenar - Sanningens Silverflod [Silence]
The Laughing Softlies - Claude Hopper's Puritan Plimsoles [The Falcons Uf Haunt]
Boby Jack - Space Yo
Zorlok Compressor - Who Dubs Your Dreams [Legowelt]
Magick Knives - Existence (Justin Robertson's Five Green Moons Dub) [Library Of The Occult]
UFO - C'mon Everybody [Fuel 2000]
SML - Taking Out The Trash [International Anthem]
Syrinx - Tumblers To The Vault [RVNG Intl.]
Marie Celeste - I Am A Rock [Guerssen]
DJ DIE - THE SWEATBOX 01.03.26 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st March 2026
30 minutes of ruff'n'ready drum and bass from the Bristolian producer, as he accepts the keys to the Sweatbox. DJ Die is one of the scene's key figures, releasing on esteemed labels like V Recordings and XL, as well as running his own label GutterFunk. He is one of SHERELLE's key inspirations in the sound of drum and bass.
Produced by We Are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music.
DJ Die - Unity Is Strength [Unreleased]
DJ Die - Just Begun [Unreleased]
DJ Die - Supreme Team Show [Unreleased]
DJ Die - Once Upon A Time [Unreleased]
DJ Die - Slide Away [Ultra]
DJ Die - Specialist Funk [GutterFunk]
DJ Die & OH91 - Body [Unreleased]
Kamanchi - Never Can Tell (It's A Trap) [Full Cycle]
DJ Die - Sling Shot [Unreleased]
DJ Die - Back To Now [Gutterfunk]
Kamanchi - Hostile [Unreleased]
Watch The Ride - Mash Up The Dance (DJ Die VIP) [Unreleased]
DJ Die - Reincarnations [GutterFunk]
DJ Die - New Way [GutterFunk]
LONE - THE SWEATBOX 15.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th February 2026
Lone rounds out the show with 30 minutes of jungle and some exclusive, previously unheard productions.
Produced by We Are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music.
Tom VR - October (Lone Remix) [All My Thoughts]
Lone - Amenace1 (2005) [Unreleased]
Lone - Amenace2 (2005) [Unreleased]
Drumskull - Muscle Memory (Lone Remix) [Hooversound Recordings]
Lone - Trek2 (2004) [Unreleased]
Lone - Waterfall Reverse [Greco-Roman]
Lone - Waved Red Lines (2006) [Unreleased]
Max Cooper - A Sense Of Getting Closer (Lone Remix) [Self Released]
Lone - Ascension.png [Greco-Roman]
Lone - 74 Greenhills Rave (2003) [Unreleased]
DJ MINX - THE SWEATBOX 08.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/70mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th February 2026
Celebrated Detroit DJ, producer and label owner DJ Minx is at the Sweatbox controls. Founder of DJ collective Women on Wax and its companion label Women on Wax Recordings, DJ Minx is a trailblazer for women, queer and non-binary artists in electronic music. She has been releasing music for over 20 years on labels including Minus, HE.SHE.THEY and Nervous Records. In this mix, she shows why she is one of the most respected DJs working today.
Produced by We Are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music.
Kerri Chandler - Subbie (Sub Club) (Rattle The Subbie Vocal Mix) [Kaoz Theory]
Jondi & Spesh - Sixes And Fours [Loöq]
Cole Alexander - I Love The Sun [4th Set]
CASSIMM & Mahalia Fontaine - The Speech [Jackies Music]
DJ Minx - You Can [Rekids]
Nick Curly & Joëlla Jackson - Attention [Cecille]
David Penn (feat. Bemendé) - Reachin Out [Defected]
Shermanology - U Got Me [D'EAUPE]
DJ Minx - Energy [Rekids]
BASEMENT JAXX - CLASSIC ESSENTIAL MIX (1999) (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 8th March 2026
Relive Basement Jaxx's Essential Mix Of The Year from 1999. Featuring music from Mr Oizo, Eminem and Prince, alongside the Jaxx' own productions and remixes.
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat [PAIS]
Whitney Houston - It's Not Right, But It's OK (Accappella) [Arista]
Basement Jaxx - Music Keeps On Playing (Miracles Mix)
Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango [XL Recordings]
Hard Soul - Your Last Dance
Banana Kru - My Name Is Start
Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu [XL Recordings]
Teddy Douglas & Luis Radio - The Violin [Basement Boys]
Jaxx Booty Version - Knee Deep
Basement Jaxx - Jump N' Shout [XL Recordings]
Laidback Luke - Music's Always On My Mind (Scratch Obsession Remix) [Touche]
Urban Soul (feat. Shawnee Taylor) - Got To Believe (Geraldines Dub) [King St Sounds]
Basement Jaxx - Same Old Show [XL Recordings]
Tuffjam (feat. Michael Watford) - Reach On Up
Banana Kru - K.O.P.
Basement Jaxx - Yo Yo (Big Club Mix) [XL Recordings]
Basement Jaxx - Yo Yo [XL Recordings]
Monday Michiru - Cruel To Be Kind (Jaxx Nite Dub) [Polydor Japan]
Fatback Effekt - Untitled
The Weather Girls - Do You Wanna Boogie (BBE / Musicworks Re-Edit) [BBE - Barely Breaking Even]
Norman Connors - Mother Of The Future [Acid Jazz]
Nas - Nas Is Like [Colombia]
Trina & Tamara - What'd You Came Here For
Profyle (feat. Juvenile) - I Ain't The One
Remix Tip - Boyfriend / Girlfriend (Assasin Remix) [Remix Tip]
Eminem - My Fault [Interscope]
Busta Rhymes - Iz They Wildin Wit Us & Gettin Rowdy Wit Us
Party Busters - We Just Wanna (Make It Hot) [Buds International]
Prince - All The Critics Love U In New York
Atlantic Jaxx - Fukhouz
Fingers Inc. - Distant Planet
Corrina Joseph - I'm Thru With U [Atlantic Jaxx]
LAURENT GARNIER - CLASSIC ESSENTIAL MIX (1994) (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 1st February 2026
Relive Laurent Garnier's first ever Essential Mix from 1994. Featuring music from Armando, St Germain and Portishead.
Shazz - Leave Me [F Communications]
Mephisto Odyssey - Dream Of The Black Dahlia [Orpheos]
Black Tracks - Sensual Wash [Night Club]
Armando - Pleasuredome [Trax]
G Strings - The Land Of Dreams [G Strings]
Drivetrain - Music [Soiree]
Shiver - Oiled Love [Shiver]
Choice - Acid Eiffel [Fnac]
Portishead - Numb [Go! Beat]
St Germain - Dub Experience [F Communications]
51 Days - Tracktion
Rachmad Project - To The Top [Spiritual]
Esser'ay - Forces [KMS]
As One - Mihara [New Electronica]
Joey Beltram - Electric [Warp]
Jam & Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona [JAM!/Epic]
Silicium - Spirit Of Ankh [Step 2 House]
Edge Of Motion - Memories Of The Future [New Electronica]
Lemon8 - Model 8 [Basic Energy]
M:I:5 - Funk Information [Force Inc. UK]
D.S. - June [F Communications]
Laurent Garnier - Rex Attitude [F Communications]
Aurora Borealis - The Milky Way [F Communications]
Morph - X-Ex Our Future [Synewave]
Storm - Carbon Fury [DJax-Up-Beats]
Speed Jack - C.T.C [R&S]
Lunatic Asylum - The Meltdown [Fnac MDD]
Drax - Posphene [Trope Recordings]
L.S.G. - Hearts [Superstition]
Juantrip’ - Louis' Cry [F Communications]
DJ EZ - CLASSIC ESSENTIAL MIX (2015) (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 13th April 2025
Relive DJ EZ's two hours of UKG perfection from April 2015.
Authr - Belief [White Label]
GRADES - Crocodile Tears
Artful Dodger V Dreem Team - It Ain't Enough
Colours & Stephen Emmanuel & June Hamm - Hold On [Inferno]
MJ Cole - Bouldaz [White Label]
Tee Vish - Can't Tek This
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood (Roska Remix)
Nastee Boi - Greez
Cookie - Battle
Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure (Sunship Remix) [Dorado]
Ossie & Flava D - The Buzz (Flava D Remix)
Lxury - We Do [Method]
Musical Mob - Pulse X [Inspired Sounds]
Kry Wolf - Concrete [Sounds Of Sumo]
Preditah - Zero [White Label]
Robbie T - All I Know (Robbie T 4×4 Mix) [White Label]
The Mike Delinquent Project - Hype Ting (DJ EZ Special) [White Label]
TNT - Unique [Ministry Of Sound]
TuffCulture - Found My Heart [White Label]
Flava D - Gash (Edit) [White Label]
DJ Pied Piper & The Masters Of Ceremonies - Do You Really Like It (Acapella) [Soul Food]
Todd Edwards - Hold The Faith [Body High]
One Dark Martian - When You're There [Ayklogic]
Gutta - Nothing Wrong [Local Talk]
Chris Lorenzo - Hooch [White Label]
MJ Cole - Sincere
TJR - Just Gets Better (TJR Dub)
X-Presidents - Diamond Rings [Urban Hero]
Cause & Affect - Dimensions [Rinse]
Kim English - Nite Life (Retail Club Version) [Nervous]
Unknown - Deep Inside (Remix) [White Label]
Fono - Real Joy
Smokin Beats - Dreams [Hot Source]
Cloud 9 - Do You Want Me Baby [Defected]
Håkan Lidbo - Walk Away (Todd Edward's Tell Someone Dub Mix) [Loaded]
St Germain - Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards Mix) [F Communications]
Unknown - Untitled [White Label]
R-Tyme - Use Me (MK Mix) [Trance Fusion]
Groove Control - Beautiful (Tuff Jam Undavybe Mix) [Extatique]
Kristine Blond - Love Shy [Relentless]
Sam Smith - Lay Me Down (Todd Edwards Remix)
DAPHNI - BLEEP MIX #314 (LIVE AT LOFI AMSTERDAM 2025) (257kbs-m4a/328mb/2hrs57mins)
Bleep podcast: 18th February 2026
Celebrating his third Daphni album Butterfly, Dan Snaith unloads a bountiful three hour set recorded at Lofi Amsterdam in 2025 for this Bleep mix. With endless bounce, he presents playful switchups from sparkling kaleidoscopic sugar rushes to thick funk flips to heaving underground bass in between a generous helping of tracks from Butterfly, like the ticking timebomb of 'Two Maps' with robotic scrubs and thumps. The full spectrum is on display here: organic garage drums from Four Tet's KHLHI project, euphoric explosions of colour with Sofia Kourtesis, and the fluid subs and frenzied Morse code signals of Peder Mannerfelt's 'Geht's Noch?' remix.
Percussions - KHLHI
Deetron - Photon
Carlow - So Good (Javi Bora Remix)
Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man (Mood II Swing Hard Dub)
Sylvester - Dance (Disco Heat) (Daphni Edit)
Armand Van Helden x Carrie Lucas x Jack Harlow - Carrie
Caribou - Climbing (Instrumental)
Lil Silva - Seasons
Daphni - Unknown
Tony Romera - Boiling Room (Extended Mix)
Daphni - Two Maps
Caribou - Sun
Champion, Shermanology - Badder (Original Mix)
De Schuurman - Raw
Ron Costa - Skyfall (Instrumental Mix)
Daphni - Josephine
Love Committee - Just As Long As I Got You (Daphni Edit)
Sofia Kourtesis, Daphni - Unidos
Pangaea - Mania
Daphni - Fly Away (Deetron Mix)
Stephen Encinas - Lypso Illusion (Daphni Edit)
Daphni - Sizzling
Salute - Heaven
Champion x Royal T x Millennium Dubs - Over & Over (Daphni Dub)
INSTINCT - Bubble
DJ DAGGER - LIES
Underworld - Two Months Off (Daphni Edit)
Daphni - Sad Piano House
Jesse Gould - Out Of Work (FP Mix)
Daphni - Clap Your Hands
Aphex Twin x Leod - Pulsewidth x 532
WOST - Banda
Champion x Denham Audio - Untitled (Daphni Dub)
Devilfish - Manalive (Daphni Edit)
Ahadadream x Priya Ragu x Skrillex - TAKA (Caribou Remix Skrillex VIP)
Roman Flügel - Geht's Noch? (Peder Mannerfelt Remix)
Braga Circuit - Filter Feed (Leod Remix)
IsGwan - Dressed
Gold Panda - 500 Tool
Daphni - Hang
Rhyw - Honey Badger
Orch DO7 Shirati x G-Man - Mika Owiti Gor x Quo Vadis
DJ Tobzy - Gomina Mara (Daphni Edit)
Daphni - Eleven
DAPHNI - ESSENTIAL MIX 17.01.26 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 17th January 2026
Dan Snaith is back with a brand new Daphni Essential Mix. Featuring music from his new album Butterfly.
Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 1.
Seesselberg - Ouvertüre - "Jeder Ist Heutzutage Glücklich" [Self Released]
Daphni - Goldie [Jiaolong]
Miles Davis - Spanish Key (Daphni Edit) [Columbia]
Floorplan - Like Dat (Extended Mix) [Classic Music Company]
Malin Genie & Frits Wentink - Ambrosia [Bobby Donny/ACE Series]
Caribou - Climbing (Instrumental) [City Slang]
Daphni - Rico [Unreleased]
De Schuurman - Raw [Nyege Nyege Tapes]
Hatiras - Hypnotized (Extended Mix) [Toolroom]
Altrice - what a place [GODMODE]
Fred again.. & Caribou & Menor Teteu - Facilita [Atlantic]
Daphni - Talk To Me [Jialong]
Altrice - Unknown [Unreleased]
Voodoo People - Oscillating Electric States [Unreleased]
Josi Devil - No More [Nervous Horizon]
Daphni - Two Maps [Jiaolong]
Daphni - Josephine [Jiaolong]
Daphni - Fly Away (Deetron Mix) [Jiaolong]
Underworld - Two Months Off (Daphni Edit) [Smith Hyde Productions]
Liquid Liquid - Bellhead (Daphni Edit) [DFA]
Daphni (feat. Caribou) - Waiting So Long [City Slang]
efan & MPH & Daphni - Just Can't Stop x Raw x Unknown [Unreleased]
MPH - Raw [Black Book]
Silva Bumpa - Test [Hardline]
Daphni - Clap Your Hands [Jiaolong]
Daphni - Cloudy (Kelbin Remix) [Jiaolong]
Sebaas - No Plastic [Unreleased]
Mala & Magugu - Militant Don [DEEP MEDI MUSIK]
Flava D & Stush - Energy [UKF]
Champion & Denham Audio - Set Me Free (Daphni Dub) [Warehouse Project]
Daphni - Hang [Jiaolong]
Orch DO7 Shirati & G-Man - Shirati x Quo Vadis [Unreleased]
Florence Adooni - Otoma Da Naba [Philophon]
Daphni - Eleven
WALLY K DALY - THE BROKEN BUTTERFLY (320kbs-m4a/204mb/1hr29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 7th February 2026
15 years ago, Father Tom heard a killer's confession and now the killer is out and heading his way.....
Starring Kevin Whately and Reginald Marsh.
Wally K Daly's sequel to BUTTERFLIES DON'T COUNT available on BBC SOUNDS from 6th February 2026.
Matters of faith, morality and murder in Ireland as three priests become heavily involved in violent conflict as it reaches their parish.
Tom ... Kevin Whately
Peter ... Reginald Marsh
Penitent ... Tony Haygarth
Kathleen ... Marcella Riordan
Sion ... Sean Barrett
Deelan ... Des McAleer
O'Hagan ... Norman Rodway
Vietnamese boy ... Judy Bennett
Other parts played by:
Ronald Herdman
Jonathan Tafler
Theresa Streatfield
Alison Reid
John Church
Jonathan Adams
Peter Gunn
Gordon Reid
Directed by David Hitchinson for BBC World Service.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1992.
WALLY K DALY - BUTTERFLIES DON'T COUNT (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th February 2026
"The secrets of confession are inviolable - a lovely ringing phrase, but what a price we priests must pay...."
Father Peter can see that his colleague Father Tom is suffering after hearing about a terrible crime.
Starring Kevin Whately and Reginald Marsh.
Wally K Daly adapts his compelling BBC TV drama - first broadcast in 1978 as a Play for Today.
Tom ... Kevin Whately
Peter ... Reginald Marsh
Penitent ... Tony Haygarth
O'Neil ... T P McKenna
May ... Jill Shilling
Doctor ... John Church
Mr James ... Terence Edmond
Mrs James ... Kate Binchy
Directed by David Hitchinson for the BBC World Service.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1992.
**** Don't miss the sequel THE BROKEN BUTTERFLY on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 7th February 2026.
NICHOLAS MEYER - SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (320kbs-m4a/202mb/1hr28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd November 2025
The riddle of Sherlock Holmes' disappearance after the Reichenbach Falls is at last solved.
And the real reason for Professor Moriarty's power is revealed...
Starring Simon Callow, Ian Hogg and Karl Johnson.
Nicholas Meyer's Gold and Silver Dagger Award-winning novel, first published in 1974.
Dramatised by Denny Martin Flinn.
Sherlock Holmes .... Simon Callow
Dr Watson .... Ian Hogg
Sigmund Freud .... Karl Johnson
Professor Moriarty .... David King
Mycroft Holmes .... Philip Voss
Baron von Leinsdorf .... Matthew Morgan
Nancy Osborn Slater .... Melinda Walker
Baroness von Leinsdorf .... Geraldine Fitzgerald
Hugo von Hoffmansthal .... Wolf Kahler
Cab Driver .... David Bannerman
Mary Watson/Mrs Freud .... Kate Binchy
Maidservant .... Federay Holmes
Mrs Hudson/Freda .... Jillie Meers
Mr Sherman .... John Church
Music by David Chiltern and Nicholas Russell-Pavier.
Violin played by Steve Bentley.
Director: Jane Morgan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 January 1993.
ALMA CULLEN - MORSE: IN THE SHALLOWS (320kbs-m4a/199mb/1hr27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th November 2025
Terrible things happen - even in beautiful places and among highly-educated people.
A mysterious pair of students appear to be fish out of water, a Don's found dead in the river - and an attractive philosopher pleads for help to save her career.
Morse, Lewis and Strange are back on their criminally fertile Oxford patch.
It's still the early 1990s when computers, mobiles, digital media and sophisticated forensic techniques are not yet in use.
Morse's detection methods rely on instinct, acutely honed observational skills and dogged gumshoe perseverance.
Starring Neil Pearson, Lee Ingleby and Pip Torrens.
Colin Dexter's Oxford detectives feature in a story devised by former Morse TV writer Alma Cullen, dramatised by Richard Stoneman.
Chief Inspector Morse ...... Neil Pearson
Sergeant Lewis ...... Lee Ingleby
Superintendent Strange ...... Pip Torrens
Dr Jessica Hinkley ...... Anna Chancellor
Anthony Yateman ...... Kevin Eldon
The Master ...... Anton Lesser
Annie ...... Ashley Smith
Hazel ...... Rachel Atkins
Unsworth ...... Edward Killingback
Gregson ...... Harry Lister Smith
David Evans ...... Henry Pettigrew
Vic Nelson ...... Okorie Chukwu
Quentin Spencer ...... Ben Crowe
Director: Marilyn Imrie
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2018.
MICHAEL PALIN'S MEMORY PALACES: TERRY GILLIAM (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio4 Extra broadcast: 21st November 2025
An odyssey set inside the strange and wonderful mind of Terry Gilliam. Michael Palin invents fantastical new interview technology to fire James Peak deep inside Terry Gilliam's 'memory palace'.
Join them for an encounter that takes in Terry's films, the Monty Python foot, what it is like to have your obituary published in Variety magazine before you're dead, and why it always pays to have a Beatle on your side.
Starring Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Andre Jacquemin and James Peak
Produced by Andre Jacquemin and James Peak
An Essential Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
ROBERT SMITH - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 13.03.26 (320kbs-m4a/134mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 13th March 2026
The Cure frontman Robert Smith takes over the 6 Mix ahead of his 'Cureation' of this year's Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, featuring Elbow, My Bloody Valentine and Mogwai amongst others.
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Others who have played mixes for Mary Anne in the past include: Four Tet, SHERELLE, Helena Hauff, Blawan, Goldie, Chloé Robinson, Randall, Pet Shop Boys, Ben UFO, Rainy Miller, EMA, IMOGEN, Richie Culver, and Azu Tiwaline.
Elbow - Grounds For Divorce [Fiction]
MRCY - Wandering Attention [Dead Oceans]
Mogwai - Killing All The Flies [[PIAS] Recordings Catalogue]
Craven Faults - Yard Loup [The Leaf Label]
Annika Kilkenny - Look Mom I Made It [Tinpot]
Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life [Columbia]
The Joy Formidable - Austere [Canvasback/ATL]
My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath [Rhino/Warner]
CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue [EMI (Virgin)]
Garbage - Queer [Almo/Geffen]
Placebo - The Bitter End [Hut Music]
Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth [Dirty Hit]
Nilüfer Yanya - Like I Say I Runaway [Ninja Tune]
Nihad Hrustanbegović - Stork Suite: Jazz Ballade [Nihad Hrustanbegovic]
The Cure - Treasure [Polydor]
David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind [Parlophone UK]
MI-EL - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 06.03.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th March 2026
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Others who have played mixes for Mary Anne in the past include: Four Tet, SHERELLE, Helena Hauff, Blawan, Goldie, Chloé Robinson, Randall, Pet Shop Boys, Ben UFO, Rainy Miller, EMA, IMOGEN, Richie Culver and Azu Tiwaline.
Berlin via London DJ MI-EL takes over the 6 Mix.
Eomac - Entrance [Bedouin]
Ambien Baby - Mindkiss [NAFF]
Mxshi Mo & Skream - Imali Yami [Bandcamp]
Drexciya - Darthouven Fish Menn [Warp]
FELIX - PONTO ÁCIDO [Mutual Pleasure]
Ase Manual - Eat It Up [Like Dat Ent]
Avernian & Strick - Putrification
Floorplan - Baby, Baby [M-Plant]
WTCHCRFT - What Do You Call A Flood [Bandcamp]
DJ JM - Barrakuda [Nervous Horizon]
Erik Jabari - Screamore [Tresor]
Skream & Benga - The Judgement [Big Apple]
Chaos - Afrogermanic [Underground Resistance]
Sarayu - E30 Track [Boiled Wonderland]
Tzusing - Post Soviet Models [L.I.E.S.]
Pilo - Acid by Mouth [Bandcamp]
Kellen303 - Here I Come [Bandcamp]
JK Flesh - Kontorted [Avalanche Recordings]
Nannytown - Nannytown [Underground Resistance]
CHLOÉ ROBINSON B2B WITH PALEMAN - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 27.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadscast: 27th February 2026
It's been a few years since Chloé Robinson released on her own label, Pretty Weird. Chloé has been busy in the studio with close friend Paleman over the past year, and the cookie cutter / tiger EP is the first new release from those sessions.
Pugilist - Anomaly [Shall Not Fade]
SMIFF - Hotdawgs
Chloé Robinson x Paleman - tiger [Pretty Wierd]
Jay Carder & OneOneOne - Boats
Nikki Nair - Pillows
Tormented - Wurk (Paleman Remix)
Yanamaste - Dance [Vault]
Chloé Robinson & Paleman - cookiecutter [Pretty Wierd]
Addison Groove - Eh Wut [Pretty Wierd]
Macabre Unit - Sense
Trinity Carbon - Lost Everything
Ocirala - The Day I Didn't Graduate From Uni [Neighbourhood]
Chewlie - Inevitably We Fell (Rizla Ops Groove Crush Mix) [Ghosttown]
Carré (feat. Bbyafricka) - Hibiscus (Instrumental)
Identified Patient - Scales
Ocirala - Gina Doesn't Love Me [Nix]
Chlär - Populism Is Money [Primal Instinct]
BLUMITSU - Test Tube
Paleman - Wrap You Up
STENNY - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 20.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 20th February 2026
Born and raised in the industrial suburbs of Turin, Stenny earned recognition in the last decade both as an accomplished Producer and DJ. Currently Based in Munich, Stenny's latest release, Sharp Fragments, came out on the ever reliable Ilian Tape imprint.
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Others who have played mixes for Mary Anne in the past include: Four Tet, SHERELLE, Helena Hauff, Blawan, Goldie, Chloé Robinson, Randall, Pet Shop Boys, Ben UFO, Rainy Miller, EMA, IMOGEN, Richie Culver, and Azu Tiwaline.
F7 - Freeze [Acting Press]
Vardae - A Positive Flow [Non Series]
Brendan Ealey - Untitled [Inceptive]
Christian Bloch - Moonlite Shadow [Kontakt]
OK EG - Monument Stone [GEKO]
Sonic Wave Collective - Arise (Forest On Stasys Tribal Mix) [Arketip Discs]
Picture - Heeeeeeee [Short Span]
Zara - Arcadia [Amenthia Recordings]
Bandulu - Contingency [Foundation Sound Works]
Arum - Guus [ESHU Holland]
Selfsame - Selfsame 03 [False Aralia]
T++ - 100 Bar [Erosion]
Conrad Pack - Gateway (Version 2) [Lost Domain]
‐M‐ - 3 [Unknown]
2301 - 15II [Heaven Smile]
WeGo. - Insel [Unknown]
Konrad Wehrmeister - Seller [A Strange Child]
ADILR - I skuggan av ett namn [Unknown]
Rod Modell - Scrawler [Tresor]
mu tate - Safeguard (Art Crime Remix) [Edited Arts]
Stenny - Sharp Fragments [Ilian Tape]
SHACKLETON - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 13.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 13th February 2026
Sam Shackleton, born in Lancashire and now resident in Berlin, emerged during the early rise of the Dubstep scene, running the now defunct label Skull Disco alongside Appleblim from 2005 to 2008. Shackleton launched the label Woe To The Septic Heart! in 2010. He has just released a new album Euphoria Bound, the UK producer's debut for AD 93.
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Mordant Music - Gaining Momentum [Mordant Music]
Alice Coltrane - Sita Ram [The Verve Music Group]
Wrecked Lightship - Reeling Mist [Peak Oil]
Rhythm & Sound - Spend Some Time [Burial Mix]
Shackleton & MC Yallah - Tongues (Late Junction Collaboration Session)
African Head Charge - Stebeni's Theme [On-U Sound]
Fatala - Gongoma Times [Real World]
Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterhelt - Abdication [Umor Rex]
Uwalmassa - Majuh [Mana]
Shackleton - One Of Us Escaped [Woe To The Septic Heart]
C.O.B. - Sweet Slavery [Tapestry]
Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance - Spring Will Return [Drag City]
Suicide - Sweetheart [Mute]
VXRGO - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 06.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th February 2026
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Others who have played mixes for Mary Anne in the past include: Four Tet, SHERELLE, Helena Hauff, Blawan, Goldie, Chloé Robinson, Randall, Pet Shop Boys, Ben UFO, Rainy Miller, EMA, IMOGEN, Richie Culver, and Azu Tiwaline.
Boogie Times Tribe - The Dark Stranger Origin Unknown Mix) [Suburban Base]
Koda - Spacetek [Dee Jay Recordings]
Dillinger - Tear Down [Da Whole Place] [Conqueror]
DJ Buz - Slave [No U-Turn]
Ratty - Source of all Evil [Formation]
International Rude Boyz - Drum Programme (Remix) [Formation]
FFF - 10 Hour Sound [Rupture LDN]
Randall & Andy C - Sound Control (Remix) [RAM]
Prisoner - Mr. Fix It [London Some'ting]
Worsleyy & Glinks - Robing [Stereo 45 Music Ltd]
Fendi-K - You Are The One [Unreleased]
DJ Sofa - Horns For 24 (Tim Reaper Remix) [Brazen]
Fez The Kid & Duality - Spiritual Awareness [Fez The Kid And Duality]
Back 2 Basics - Horns For 94 (Get Busy Mix) [Back 2 Basics]
Fada - Decay [Pinecone Moonshine]
Duburban & Peeb & PIXL - Saxon 87 [Unknown]
Dub‐One - The Clash [AKO Beatz]
PEVERELIST - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 30.01.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 30th January 2026
We celebrate 15 years of Livity Sound with a mix from Peverelist. Livity Sound has positioned itself as a benchmark of quality and innovation since it first rolled out in 2011. The music has evolved considerably over that time, taking in artists from the immediate Bristol vicinity and much farther afield, exploring fluctuating tempos and structures, even on the same release. Elements of jungle, house, UK Funky and more flicker through the considerable catalogue, where artists as varied as Azu Tiwaline, DJ Polo, Kouslin and Surgeon's Girl can sit alongside each other without feeling incongruous.
Livity emerged as a next logical step for Peverelist after the success and acclaim around his first imprint, Punch Drunk, carrying his releases alongside solo and collaborative tracks from artists like Kowton, Asusu and label mainstay Hodge.
Central to the label's enduring appeal and influence is the ability to move forwards without losing a sense of identity.
TSVI (feat. DJ JM) - Aziza [Nervous Horizon]
DJ Soch - House Stringh [DBH Music]
DJ Skull - Cum-Up [DBH Music]
Viiaan - Keeper (Cassius Select Remix) [Sumac]
Peverelist - Pulse XIII [Livity Sound]
James Bangura - Branchbrook Park [Black Artist Database]
God Colony - Tony's Garage (Drumapella Mix) [Crack Copies]
Mattias El Mansouri - Struktur [Nous Klaer Audio]
Gafacci & Sam Interface - Brekete [More Time]
Terrain - Scatter
Erik Luebs - Riding The Blade [Kompakt Extra]
Nuron - Midnight Echo [De:tuned]
Anthony Shakir - Madmen [Tresor]
Calm Steige - Funk Piano [Funky Ajacent]
Hypogean Dweeb From The Deep - Parametric Experimental Studies On Supersonic Flow
Strange & Huey - State Of Emergency [Brainscraatch]
Jon Hester - Sustain [Odd Even]
Further - Shook Ones [DJ Bone presents FURTHER]
Mukana - Nguya [OMOB]
Leibniz - Ten Ten [Peach Discs]
RAYMOND CHANDLER - PHILIP MARLOWE: THE LONG GOODBYE (320kbs-m4a/205mb/1hr29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st November 2025
The world-weary private eye helps a friendly drunk conceal a crime.
He's also asked to protect a drunken writer from his own violence.
A murder seems to connect the two cases. And Marlowe almost falls in love.
Raymond Chandler's classic noir novel, first published in 1953.
Starring Ed Bishop.
Powerful and atmospheric full-cast dramatisation by Bill Morrison.
Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
Eileen Wade .... Toby Robins
Lynda Loring .... Margaret Robinson
Roger Wade .... David March
Terry Lennox .... Peter Marinker
Howard Spencer .... Don Fellows
Mendy Melendez .... Blain Fairman
Bernie Ohis.... Harry Towb
Dr Loring .... Paul Maxwell
Harlan Potter .... Bob Sherman
Captain Hernandez .... Gordon Sterne
Lonnie Morgan .... Henry Knowles
Grantz .... Rod Beacham
Sergeant Greene .... William Roberts
Detective Dayton .... Neville Jason
Willie McGoon .... Bill Morrison
Chick Agostino .... Malcolm Gerrard
Candy .... Anthony Daniels
Barman .... Brian Hewlett
Director: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978.
TAXI DRIVER AT 50: NEW YORK, THEN AND NOW (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 31st January 2026
It's 50 years since the film Taxi Driver was released in 1976. The story of Travis Bickle, a loner and cab driver, who tries to save a 14-year-old sex worker from the mean streets of 1970s New York was controversial at the time for its violence and sexual theme but is considered a classic today.
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the film's creation and how New York decayed into the condition which forms the backdrop for the story - and what the city is like today, half a century later.
Producer: Julia Hayball
A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 4
ROBERT GRAVES AND 'I CLAUDIUS', L YEARS ON (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 11th January 2026
It's 50 years on from the first screening of the TV series I, Claudius - the hugely popular and perhaps surprising cultural phenomenon that brought the story of a lesser-known Roman emperor into the living rooms of millions of families across the world. The person who wrote the novels that the series was based upon was the high-minded lyric poet Robert Graves, who was always quick to dismiss his achievements in prose, saying he'd knocked the books off as a means of paying a bill.
Graves was a survivor of the Somme, with a pedigree background and a cut-glass English accent - but he was deeply connected to Wales, Germany and Ireland and spent most of his adult life living in Mallorca, having said goodbye to all that class-ridden England had to offer. He developed an elaborate personal pagan mythology of muse worship that made him hugely influential on a generation of mid-century poets like Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - and had, across the course of his career, four women who served as muse to his poetic efforts.
The poet Michael Symmons Roberts was too young to see I, Claudius on its first outing, and is only now catching up. Through exploring the rich archive of Graves himself, along with conversations with members of his family and his fourth and final muse, Michael investigates Graves' extraordinary life and literary legacy. He seeks to discover whether, despite Graves's desire to be remembered as a poet, he will instead be chiefly known for his war memoir Goodbye to All That and the imperial intrigues of I, Claudius.
Presented by Michael Symmons Roberts
Produced by Geoff Bird
Executive Producer - Jo Meek
A Naked production for BBC Radio 4
ARCHIVE ON 4 - PARIS WITH MARIANNE (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 3rd January 2026
For journalist and writer Jude Rogers, when Marianne Faithfull died 12 months ago, the memory of one particular afternoon came flooding back - a visit to Marianne's Paris flat in the summer of 2018, where the legendary singer, actress and writer reflected on a life that had been endlessly mythologised. This Archive on 4 returns to that meeting to tell the fuller story of a woman far more complex than the clichés that followed her for decades.
Through rare interviews, music and testimony from those closest to her - including her grandson Oscar Dunbar, collaborators Ed Harcourt and Barry Reynolds, writer and performer Jennifer Saunders, and school friend Sally Oldfield - the programme traces Marianne's journey from convent schoolgirl to sixties pop icon, from tabloid scapegoat to homeless addict, and from the ferocious comeback of Broken English to her late, revelatory albums.
At the heart of the programme is Marianne Faithfull's own voice - witty, abrasive, vulnerable and fiercely intelligent. She speaks about love, loss, ageing, creativity and survival, and about the damage done by a culture that reduced her to a muse, a scandal, or a cautionary tale. This is an artist who insisted on being taken seriously - and who, against the odds, kept making extraordinary work to the very end.
Presenter: Jude Rogers
Producer: Victoria Ferran
Executive Producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4
HOW THE MUPPET SHOW BEGAN IN BRITAIN (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 27th December 2025
Before it became a global sensation, The Muppet Show was a British gamble. In this lively and affectionate documentary, Louise Gold – who played Annie Sue Pig – celebrates the show's anarchic birth in Britain in the mid-1970s. Rejected by American networks, Jim Henson's puppet troupe found a champion in ATV boss Lew Grade, who backed the series and gave it a home at Elstree Studios.
Broadcast on ITV Sunday nights, The Muppet Show was an overnight hit. Its surreal humour and chaotic brilliance won over British audiences instantly. Louise Gold, the show's first British female puppeteer, guides us through its early days, sharing how she landed her job, how the famous opening sequence was put together, and revisiting the creative process behind some of the show's most famous sketches – from the Swedish Chef and Veterinary Hospital to Pigs in Space.
We hear from floor manager Richard Holloway, art director Malcolm Stone, cameraman Jeremy Hoare, and the series' first production secretary Anthea Buxton, alongside Jim Henson's daughter Cheryl Henson, who recalls working in the Muppet workshop as a teenager. Archive contributions include writer Joe Bailey and Emilio Delgado – Luis from Sesame Street.
Guest stars Twiggy, Petula Clark, and Judy Collins reflect on their time in the spotlight, while TV supremo Michael Grade – nephew of Lew – and Muppet legend Dave Goelz, still the voice of Gonzo, Bunsen Honeydew, and Waldorf, add their memories.
The Muppets' anarchic antics didn't just entertain – they reshaped British children's television. We meet Hartley Hare and Nigel Paskin, who filmed Pipkins next door, and Ronnie Le Drew, who voices Zippy and George from Rainbow. Both Nigel and Ronnie would go on to work with the Jim Henson Company.
Producer: Ashley Byrne
A Made in Manchester Production for BBC Radio 4
ARCHIVE ON 4 - JODRELL BANK AT 80 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 8th November 2025
The sound of people partying in a field, of exploding stars and birdsong, of a clanking chunk of metal, mechanically maneuvering it's gaze across the heavens. They're all part of the rich sonic landscape of a British icon, of Jodrell Bank Observatory which turns 80 in December and some of the sounds which could inspire composer Hannah Peel to create a piece of music that marks that big birthday.
An Ivor Novello winning artist and Radio 3 presenter Hannah Peel is fascinated by space. It's inspired her work in the past, particularly her album Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia which she performed at the Blue Dot festival at Jodrell Bank in 2017. This Archive on 4 sees her come back to the site in Cheshire to learn about its founder Professor Sir Bernard Lovell and his iconic invention the Lovell telescope, which gave the UK a front row seat for the space race as Russia and the US vied to get the moon. She hears about the secret history of Jodrell Bank, where shadowy figures from GCHQ would use the telescope to assess Russian military capabilities during the Cold War in a relationship that lasted until the 1990s. And she learns about Sir Bernard and his love of music, how as a church organist, it tied to him a belief in something beyond science.
The stories and sounds she gathers on her journey form the elements of a new composition called Pulsar recorded by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Salford .Hannah Peel brings her unique creative experimental vision that draws on her background as a classical and electronic artist to the celebration of this British scientific and cultural icon.
'Pulsar' by Hannah Peel & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Gemma New
Mixed and Co-Orchestrated by Michael Keeney
Mastering by James Trevascus
Management by Steve Malins and Random Music Mgmt
Additional music:
Archid Orange Dwarf from the album Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia by Hannah Peel
CP1919 by Stephen Morris
Sonifications by Prof Tim O'Brien
Dr Who clip is from Logopolis part 4, Season 18.
Presenter: Hannah Peel
Producer: Catherine Murray
Programme Co-ordinator: Nancy Bennie
Studio Manager for 'Pulsar': John Cole
Studio Manager for documentary: Michael Smith
Exec Producer: Richard McIlroy
Editor: Gill Farrington
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: ABSENT FRIENDS 2025 - TERENCE STAMP (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 7th December 2025
BBC Radio 4 Extra remembers some of the desert island castaways who we lost in 2025.
Actor Terence Stamp is castaway for the second-time by Sue Lawley.
He originally joined Michael Parkinson in 1987.
Terence Stamp was one of the new group of confident, beautiful, working class young people who came to define the 1960s.
He shared a flat with Michael Caine, dated the actress Julie Christie and the first supermodel Jean Shrimpton. He became an overnight success - and won an Oscar nomination - for his first film role as Billy Budd. He acted alongside Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd and found further fame with roles in The Collector and Modesty Blaise.
He was driven to act after first seeing Beau Geste when he was just a small boy - the cinema offered an escape route from the monochrome world of London's East End.
But when the 1960s ended he found he was offered fewer interesting roles, his relationship with Shrimpton ended and he headed eastwards on a journey of self-discovery.
Now 66, he's suave, still acting and recently married.
Terence Stamp died on 17th August 2025 aged 87.
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Claudio Arrau - Frédéric Chopin’s Impromptu No.4 in C sharp Minor
BOOK CHOICE: The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
LUXURY CHOICE: One of his wheat-free loaves
Producer: Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
Claude Debussy - Clair de lune (from Suite bergamasque) [ASV]
Cole Porter - It's De-Lovely [Verve]
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Perdido [Fantasy]
Dean Martin - Memories Are Made Of This [Capitol]
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah [Columbia]
Tim Hardin - If I Were a Carpenter [Polydor]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower [MCD]
Frédéric Chopin - Impromptu No.4 in C sharp Minor [Philips]
