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GOOD OMENS: EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th December 2017
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Produced by Heather Larmour.
GOOD OMENS: EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 28th December 2017
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Produced by Heather Larmour.
GOOD OMENS: EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 27th December 2017
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Produced by Heather Larmour.
GOOD OMENS: EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th December 2017
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Produced by Heather Larmour.
GOOD OMENS: EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th December 2017
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, here on Radio 4.
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Produced by Heather Larmour.
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: CHARLIE BROOKER (320kbs-m4a/98mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 7th January 2018
Charlie Brooker is a satirist, broadcaster and writer. He created the Emmy-award winning series, Black Mirror, and presents Screenwipe and Newswipe which won Best Comedy Entertainment Show award at the British Comedy Awards in 2011.
Born in 1971, his career has been influenced both by his early love of technology - he was a keen computer gamer - and by his passion for the anarchic, surreal and experimental comedy of Monty Python and The Young Ones. After creating his own comic while at school, he went on to provide cartoons for the magazine Oink! at the age of 15. He cultivated his acerbic style and satirical pessimism as a writer of games reviews and features for PC Zone magazine.
His online creation TVGoHome, an often caustic parody of television listings in the style of Radio Times, brought him to the attention of the Guardian newspaper where he began writing a TV review column entitled Screen Burn in 2000. This was adapted into a BBC Four television series, and various spin-offs, including Gameswipe and Newswipe, followed.
The first two series of Black Mirror, an anthology of unrelated dramas focused around the unexpected consequences of new technologies, aired on Channel 4. The third series was released on Netflix in 2016, followed by a fourth at the end of 2017.
Charlie is married to former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq and they have two young sons.
Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows [EMI]
Eric Thompson - Florence's Sad Song [MFP]
Jonathan Dunn - Robocop
Pixies - Debaser [4AD]
Richie Warburton - The Scoops
Irma Thomas - Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) [EMI]
Radiohead - Present Tense [XL Recordings]
Denim - The New Potatoes [Virgin]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: CHRISTINE MCVIE (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 22nd December 2017
Christine McVie enjoyed huge success with Fleetwood Mac, penning many of their signature songs including You Make Loving Fun, Oh Daddy, Little Lies, Everywhere and Songbird. The band has sold more than 100 million records and the album Rumours remains one of the most popular discs of all time, with sales of more than 40 million copies. The album was recorded during 1976 whilst the band members were going through relationship break-ups and the stories of excess and drug taking during the 1970s and 1980s are well documented.
In 1998 McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The same year, after almost 30 years with the band, and having a developed a fear of flying, she opted to leave and lived in semi-retirement for the next 15 years, releasing only one solo album in 2004. She bought a Jacobean house in Kent and spent the next four years restoring it.
Christine rejoined the band officially in January 2014, and that year she received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto No. 4 In F minor [EMI Classics]
Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame [Imperial]
The Beatles - Roll Over Beethoven [EMI]
Fleetwood Mac - Man Of The World [Warner Music]
The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown [Warner Music UK]
The Beach Boys - Angel Come Home [CBS]
Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending [Teldec]
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind [MCA]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: KELSEY GRAMMER (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 15th December 2017
Kelsey Grammer is best known for his two-decade-long portrayal of psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane which began on the NBC sitcom Cheers. He continued the role in the hugely successful spin-off series Frasier which ran for 11 years. When the series ended in 2004, it had won a total of 35 Emmys.
Born in the Virgin Islands, he was brought up by his mother and maternal grandparents in Florida, after his parents divorced. He studied drama at the Julliard School in New York but left before the end of the second year. He got his big break when he joined the cast of Cheers in 1984.
In his personal life Grammer has experienced a great deal of loss - his much-loved grandfather died when he was 12 and his 18 year old sister was murdered when he was 20. His struggles with drink and drugs, now behind him, are well documented. Married four times, he is the father of seven.
The winner of multiple awards, he is also a TV producer, director, writer, and known for his voice work: among others he was Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons and Stinky Pete in Toy Story 2. He is currently on stage in London.
Presenter Kirsty Young
Producer Cathy Drysdale.
Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon [Warner Music UK]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower [Sony]
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92, Second Movement (Allegretto) [Philips]
Joe Cocker - The Letter [Fly]
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman [EMI]
Todd Rundgren - Mated [Esoteric Recordings]
Bad Company - Shooting Star [Warner Music UK]
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets [Universal/Island]
JOE STRUMMER'S LONDON CALLING - 6. SERIES 1 EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 13th December 2017
As the 15th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death approaches, there's a chance to enjoy twelve programmes the former Clash frontman recorded when he became a DJ for the BBC World Service.
Joe Strummer died on 22nd December 2002, aged just 50. His World Service programmes began in 1999, and show his great enthusiasm for music from all over the world and his eclectic tastes, ranging from the Beatles to the Wu-Tang Clan.
Joe often started these shows with a song by his favourite Jamaican toaster Big Youth. After that it was anybody's guess - from Bob Dylan to the Ramones via Nina Simone, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Here's a chance to see what he carried in his DJ box.
Elvis Presley - Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
Luyeye Gaston - Ah, Ngai Nzambe
Dust Junkys - Daddy
Buena Vista Social Club - De Camino A La Vereda
Bryan Ferry - Carrickfergus
Orquesta Emisora Fuentes - La Gaita
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Sandpaper Blues
JOE STRUMMER'S LONDON CALLING - 5. SERIES 1 EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th December 2017
As the 15th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death approaches, there's a chance to enjoy twelve programmes the former Clash frontman recorded when he became a DJ for the BBC World Service.
Joe Strummer died on 22nd December 2002, aged just 50. His World Service programmes began in 1999, and show his great enthusiasm for music from all over the world and his eclectic tastes, ranging from the Beatles to the Wu-Tang Clan.
Joe often started these shows with a song by his favourite Jamaican toaster Big Youth. After that it was anybody's guess - from Bob Dylan to the Ramones via Nina Simone, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Here's a chance to see what he carried in his DJ box.
Trini Lopez - This Land Is Your Land
U-Roy - Small Axe [Virgin]
Ernest Ranglin & Baaba Maal - Minuit
Thu Zahina - Lokoko
Monkey Mafia - Long As I Can See The Light [Heavenly]
Andrés Landero - Martha Cecilia
Pacou - Symbolic Language
JOE STRUMMER'S LONDON CALLING - 4. SERIES 1 EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th December 2017
As the 15th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death approaches, there's a chance to enjoy twelve programmes the former Clash frontman recorded when he became a DJ for the BBC World Service.
Joe Strummer died on 22nd December 2002, aged just 50. His World Service programmes began in 1999, and show his great enthusiasm for music from all over the world and his eclectic tastes, ranging from the Beatles to the Wu-Tang Clan.
Joe often started these shows with a song by his favourite Jamaican toaster Big Youth. After that it was anybody's guess - from Bob Dylan to the Ramones via Nina Simone, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Here's a chance to see what he carried in his DJ box.
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Global A Go-Go
Cornershop Feat. Paula Frazer - Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again
Saban Bajramovic - Pena
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba [EMI]
Shabba Ranks - Roots & Culture [Blue Mountain]
Baobab - Aida Baoury
The Ramones - Beat On The Brat
JOE STRUMMER'S LONDON CALLING - 3. SERIES 1 EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th December 2017
As the 15th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death approaches, there's a chance to enjoy twelve programmes the former Clash frontman recorded when he became a DJ for the BBC World Service.
Joe Strummer died on 22nd December 2002, aged just 50. His World Service programmes began in 1999, and show his great enthusiasm for music from all over the world and his eclectic tastes, ranging from the Beatles to the Wu-Tang Clan.
Joe often started these shows with a song by his favourite Jamaican toaster Big Youth. After that it was anybody's guess - from Bob Dylan to the Ramones via Nina Simone, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Here's a chance to see what he carried in his DJ box.
The Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away [Abkco]
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra - Unza Unza Time
I-Roy - Noisy Place
Big Dog - Raise the Alarm
Eddie Bo - Check Your Bucket
R. Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane [Motown]
Marvin Gaye - Can I Get A Witness [Motown]
Franco & Sam Mangwana - Co-operation
JOE STRUMMER'S LONDON CALLING - 2. SERIES 1 EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th December 2017
As the 15th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death approaches, there's a chance to enjoy twelve programmes the former Clash frontman recorded when he became a DJ for the BBC World Service.
Joe Strummer died on 22nd December 2002, aged just 50. His World Service programmes began in 1999, and show his great enthusiasm for music from all over the world and his eclectic tastes, ranging from the Beatles to the Wu-Tang Clan.
Joe often started these shows with a song by his favourite Jamaican toaster Big Youth. After that it was anybody's guess - from Bob Dylan to the Ramones via Nina Simone, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Here's a chance to see what he carried in his DJ box.
The Beatles - Rock And Roll Music [Parlophone]
Yellowman - Bunn The Kootchie
Ricardo Bornman - Umfaan
Amaswazi Emvelo & Mahlathini - Siwuhambile Umhlaba
Eddie Cochran - Nervous Breakdown
Nina Simone - Tell It Like It Is
Eric “Monty” Morris - Cinderella [Trojan]
Jimi Hendrix - Long Hot Summer Night
JOE STRUMMER'S LONDON CALLING - 1. SERIES 1 EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 5th December 2017
As the 15th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death approaches, there's a chance to enjoy twelve programmes the former Clash frontman recorded when he became a DJ for the BBC World Service.
Joe Strummer died on 22nd December 2002, aged just 50. His World Service programmes began in 1999, and show his great enthusiasm for music from all over the world, his eclectic tastes, ranging from Big Youth to the Beatles and Ray Charles to the Wu-Tang Clan.
Johnny Clarke - Top Ranking (I'm The Toughest) [Blood & Fire]
The Pogues - The Sunnyside Of The Street [Warner Specials Products]
Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning [Paradiso]
Thu Zahina - Sanga Mbele Mbele [Fiesta]
Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit [BMG]
Jules Allen - Long Side Of The Sante Fe Trail [Yazoo]
The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Pennsylvania 6-5000 [Interscope]
Huey Smith & His Clowns - Free, Single & Disengaged [Ace]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... CHARLIE WATTS (320kbs-m4a/132mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th December 2017
Charlie Watts discusses the musical milestones of his life in an interview with Matt Everitt first broadcast in 2011.
Jagger's ego might always occupy the centre stage, and Richards is the archetypal elegantly wasted rocker - but the heart of the Rolling Stones has to be drummer Charlie Watts.
His distinctive and deceptively powerful drumming has propelled the group throughout their career and countless hits. Other members may come and go, but as Keith himself admits: no Charlie? No Stones.
In this rare interview, Charlie tells of his life as the least rock 'n' roll, but always charming Stone. With his deadpan with and laconic style, he recalls his pre-Stones career; and the early, starving-in-a-bedsit days of what would become one of the greatest bands in the world; as well as the roots of his overriding passion, jazz.
He also sheds a light on his role in the complex relationships within the group; their golden years of recording; his own brief but hard-fought battle with heroin; and whether the Stones would, or could ever, tour again.
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black [ABKCO]
The Four Aces - Three Coins In The Fountain [Good Music]
Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Walkin' Shoes
Alexis Korner - Watermelon Man (Radio 1 Session 1965) [BMG]
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - Hoochie Coochie Man
The Rolling Stones - Come On [London]
The Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster [London]
The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (BBC Session 20 Aug 1965)
Sonny Rollins - Someone To Watch Over Me
The Rolling Stones - All Down The Line [Polydor]
Billy Strayhorn - Take The "A" Train (Live At Newport 1956) [Music & Memories]
The Rolling Stones - Sway [CBS]
The Beatles - I Am The Walrus [Apple]
Charlie Parker - Just Friends
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 3 - 8. BRIAN WILSON (320kbs-m4a/132mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th December 2017
Another chance to hear Brian Wilson sharing his musical milestones with Matt Everitt.
The creative force of the Beach Boys, a great American composer and one of popular music's true legends discusses his early influences, his experiments with recording music on a tape machine aged just 16, the huge difficulties he had creating masterpieces such as Good Vibrations and the Beach Boys' great lost album Smile (which was released 44 years after the original recordings) and how drugs influenced his work and then, sadly, forced his withdrawal from music.
While his fragile mental state does make Wilson a sometimes hesitant interviewee, his humour and passion for music still shine through. This interview was first broadcast in October 2011.
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice [EMI]
The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains [Capitol]
George Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue
Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High The Moon
The Delroys - Bermuda Shorts
The Four Freshmen - It's A Blue World
The Beach Boys - Surfin'
The Beach Boys - In My Room [EMI]
The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby [EMI]
The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA [EMI]
The Ronettes - Be My Baby [Phil Spector Int]
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows [EMI]
The Beatles - If I Needed Someone [Parlophone]
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations [EMI]
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up [Capitol]
Brian Wilson - California Girls
The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron [Phil Spector Int]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 3 - 7. ALICE COOPER (320kbs-m4a/132mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th December 2017
Another chance to hear Alice Copper sharing his musical milestones with Matt Everitt. First broadcast in 2011.
The image of Alice Cooper as a cartoon-ish Halloween schlock rocker is one that the 63 year old Vincent Damon Furnier has worked had to establish, but his real musical and cultural impact is often ignored.
His band emerged from the Detroit garage rock scene of the mid 60s alongside the MC5 and Iggy & the Stooges and he can lay claim to helping inspire punk as much as either of those revered acts (it's no coincidence his track Eighteen was sung by Johnny Rotten at his audition for the Sex Pistols). But Alice also helped develop the idea of the rock concert as theatre - employing theatrical imagery and stagecraft way before Bowie picked up the pan stick.
In 2011, Matt Everitt spoke to Alice about his early years, how he developed his showmanship, and the massive international success that followed albums such as Welcome to my Nightmare and School's Out - albums that turned him into a household name. With typical grace and humour, Alice also discusses his battles with alcoholism, his creative rebirth with a cameo in Wayne's World, and his life as a born-again Christian - an interesting contradiction considering the characters he portrays and the battles he's endured with moral crusaders.
And, of course, we talk about his current addiction... golf (he plays six days a week off a handicap of two).
Alice Cooper - Elected
Chuck Berry - School Days [Backline]
Frankie Avalon - Venus [Old Gold]
The Beach Boys - All Summer Long [EMI]
The Beatles - She Loves You [Apple]
The Yardbirds - I'm A Man [Band Of Joy]
Frank Zappa - Dancin' Fool [Rykodisc]
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia [Rykodisc]
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
David Bowie - All The Young Dudes [EMI]
Alice Cooper - Poison [Columbia]
Alice Cooper - School's Out [Warner E.S.P.]
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
The Who - I'm A Boy [Polydor]
The Yardbirds - Train Keep A Rollin [Go On De Luxe]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 3 - 6. ROBBIE ROBERTSON (320kbs-m4a/132mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 5th December 2017
Robbie Robertson shares the musical milestones of his life in an interview with Matt Everitt first broadcast in 2011.
Robbie Robertson's music is woven through American cultural history in remarkable way - and he's rightly seen as something of a creative godhead in the US and his home country of Canada. In this episode of The First Time, Robertson gives a rare interview and discusses his childhood and the influence of his combined Mohawk and Canadian parentage, becoming the precocious guitarist in the Hawks at the dawn of the 60s and his bond with the early rock n roll scene, as it swept across the world.
And happily - for someone who has often distanced himself from his past - Robertson also talks about his time as a key member and songwriter with the Band - one of the greatest groups in music history; responsible for the legendary Songs From Big Pink album and whose authentic, folk and country-influenced music, shifted the psychedelic flamboyance of the late 60s scene into a more soulful direction.
Robertson also recalls the Band backing Bob Dylan on his first electric tour, which caused huge shock waves, even prompting cries of "Judas" in Europe.
Now a well-respected solo artist, Robertson chats about his role as a music director for Martin Scorsese, a role he's enjoyed since the 80s, working on Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Casino, The Departed and Shutter Island.
The Band - Up On Cripple Creek [Capitol]
Hank Williams - I Saw The Light [Polydor]
Little Richard - Rip It Up [Mercury]
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes [Charly]
Ronnie Hawkins - Someone Like You [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat [CBS]
The Band - The Weight [Capitol]
The Band - Rag Mama Rag [Capitol]
The Ronettes - Be My Baby [RCA]
The Band - Theme From The Last Waltz [Warner Bros]
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [Rhino]
Dinah Washington & Max Richter - This Bitter Earth/On The Nature Of Daylight [Fat Cat]
Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River [Geffen]
Curtis Mayfield - People Get Ready [Eagle Vision]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 3 - 5. DJ SHADOW (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 4th December 2017
DJ Shadow shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in an interview first broadcast in 2011.
DJ Shadow discusses the music he first heard as a child, how a West Coast boy was so attracted by the New York hip hop, beat box, break dance & graffiti scene. He also remembers working with James Lavelle and his releases on Mo' Wax, including his record-breaking Entroducing album, and what it was like going from bedroom DJ to working with world-class artists.
DJ Shadow - The Number Song [Fontana/Island]
Lipps, Inc. - Funky Town [Polydor]
Devo - Jocko Homo [Virgin]
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message [2good]
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
The Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me [Mercury]
Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here [Fantasy]
Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos [Def Jam]
Zimbabwe Legit - Shadow's Legitimate Mix
DJ Shadow - In/Flux [Mo'Wax]
DJ Shadow - Organ Donor [MCA]
Portishead - Glory Box
Tricky - Black Steel
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World [Mo'Wax]
UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights [Mo'Wax]
DJ Shadow - I Gotta Rokk [Copyright Control]
The Royal Guardsman - Snoopy Vs The Red Baron [Old Gold]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 3 - 4. MICHAEL STIPE (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 27th November 2017
Another chance to hear Michael Stipe, then of R.E.M., discussing the musical milestones of his life with Matt Everitt.
Michael steered R.E.M. from the cult underground into the mainstream and set a precedent for alternative rock bands, opening the door for the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Radiohead.
Michael talks to Matt about the early songs that shaped his musical outlook (a love of Tammy Wynette, the Beatles and The Parent Trap soundtrack hints at the eclectism that would define his career); his close relationship with Patti Smith (who appeared on the last R.E.M. album Collapse Into Now); his desire to celebrate the concept of the album in a broken market.
First broadcast in April 2011.
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
David Essex - Rock On
R.E.M. - Drive
Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
R.E.M. - The One I Love (Live)
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 - Mais Que Nada
R.E.M. - Wendell Gee
R.E.M. - Discoverer
Patti Smith - Birdland
Pearl Jam - Better Man
R.E.M. - Mine Smell Like Honey
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 3 - 2. BJÖRK (320kbs-m4a/132mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd December 2017
Another highlight of Matt Everitt's First Time series sees him delving into the mind of Björk and finding out what makes this unique Icelandic artist tick.
Publicly and critically acclaimed, Björk has 13 Grammy Awards nominations, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards to her name, but it's her ability to use her distinct singing voice as an instrument to craft unique melodies that has won her millions of fans over the world.
Björk talks Matt Everitt through the her remarkable career. She discusses first falling in love with music after being fascinated by the artwork of her parents' collection of Joni Mitchell and Frank Zappa LPs, recording her debut album aged just 11, forming the Sugarcubes, working with Thom Yorke and what inspires her to return to the studio and the stage.
First broadcast in September 2011.
Björk - Big Time Sensuality
Frank Zappa - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
Kate Bush - In Search Of Peter Pan
The Sugarcubes - Hit
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar - Kata Rokkar
808 State - Ooops (Feat. Björk)
Björk - Human Behaviour
Björk - Venus As A Boy
Björk Feat. Thom Yorke - I've Seen It All
Björk - Crystalline
James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 3 - 1. RINGO STARR (320kbs-m4a/132mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st December 2017
Ringo Starr discusses his musical milestones with Matt Everitt.
Ringo
discusses his remarkable career - from the early days when his family
inspired him to pick up the drumsticks, the influence of Radio
Luxembourg and his very first performance with the Beatles; to
Beatlemania, conquering the world and how the band's slow and painful
break-up felt to an insider.
Ringo also discusses life after the
Beatles, his solo career and his All-Starr Band in an interview first
heard in September 2011.
The Beatles - Rain
Charles Jolly - The Laughing Policeman
David Whitfield - Mama
Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock
The Vipers Skiffle Group - Maggie May
Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
The Beatles - Love Me Do (BBC Session July 1963)
The Beatles - What Goes On
The Beatles - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy
Ringo Starr - Photograph
Nilsson - Without You
Ringo Starr - The No-No Song
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
The Beatles - Free As A Bird
Ringo Starr - Back Off Boogaloo
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 2 - 12. MICK JONES (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 30th November 2017
Mick Jones of the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite discusses the musical milestones of his life with Matt Everitt.
Many people consider the Clash the greatest band of all time - they took the spirit and anger of the Sex Pistols and combined it with an idealism and passionate political righteousness that's never been matched. They broke the mould of punk, by finding international success, absorbing a host of different influences and in doing so, producing a collection of great albums in their decade-long career - a collection that includes at least one genuine classic in London Calling.
At the helm of the band were the late great Joe Strummer - and this week's guest on The First Time, Mick Jones.
Mick talks Matt through his years with The Clash - the birth of their gang mentality, their love of musical experimentation and his eventual split from the group (something which clearly still smarts), while also looking back on his early life as a rock 'n' roller (even though his first musical memory was the Coldstream Guards) and the formation of the groundbreaking Big Audio Dynamite, as well as his work as a producer with bands including the Libertines and his experiences as a member of Damon Albarn's supergroup Gorillaz.
First broadcast in 2011.
The Clash - London Calling
Len Barry - 1-2-3
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Manic Depression
The Rollong Stones - Gimme Shelter
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
The Clash - White Riot
The Congos - Row Fisherman Row
The Clash - Train In Vain
Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Big Audio Dynamite - V. Thirteen
The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
Gorillaz Feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul - Superfast Jellyfish
The Beatles - Help!
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 2 - 10. MARIANNE FAITHFULL (320kbs-m4a/132mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th November 2017
Another chance to hear Marianne Faithfull discussing the music that changed her life.
Matt Everitt leads Marianne through a warm, engaging look at a career which has spanned five decades. She has worked with many great musicians including David Bowie and Dr. John, Blur and PJ Harvey.
Marianne discusses the music she grew up with - including Chuck Berry and the Everly Brothers - and the way it influenced her solo work. She also covers her forays into country music, her love of jazz, and explains why she received a credit on the Rolling Stones' song Sister Morphine. The singer also talks about her past drug problems and the way that she has now made peace with difficult periods in her life.
First broadcast in May 2011.
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English [Island]
The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown [Acuff-Rose Opryland]
Joan Baez - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By [London]
Marianne Faithfull - Come & Stay With Me [London]
Marianne Faithfull - North Country Maid
The Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away [London]
The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad Of The Soldier's Wife
Billie Holiday - The Man I Love
Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather
Dr. John - I Walk On Guilded Splinters [Rhino]
Marianne Faithfull - The Threepenny Opera: Pirate Jenny
Marianne Faithfull - Kissin Time
Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison
Marianne Faithfull - The Old House [Dramatico]
Marianne Faithfull - I'm Into Something Good
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake [Island]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 2 - 8. DEBBIE HARRY (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th November 2017
From their early days as part of the CBGBs scene in New York in the late 70's - it was obvious Blondie were a new kind of band. They absorbed influences such as Warhol, '50s Americana and '60s girl group pop with the rough edges of their new wave contemporaries. Fronting the band was Debbie Harry - sounding and looking smarter, cooler, more beautiful and charismatic than any other singer in any other band around.
On this week's First Time, Matt Everitt speaks to Debbie about Blondie's early career developing alongside CBGBs bands the Ramones, Talking Heads and Television, the pressures that came with the band's enormous fame (and her place as the focal part of that), the management problems that dogged Blondie's history, her strong views on the role of women in rock and her dislike of being called 'an icon'.
First broadcast in 2011.
Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
Blondie - Rapture
Fats Domino - Be My Guest
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - The Perfect Man
The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Talking Heads - Love Goes To Building On Fire
Blondie - X Offender
Blondie - Picture This
Blondie - Heart Of Glass
Blondie - I'm Always Touched By Your Prescence Dear
Blondie - Rapture
Debbie Harry - French Kissing In The USA
Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop - Well Did You Evah
Ornette Coleman - Ramblin
Blondie - Maria
Blondie - Mother
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 2 - 7. RAY DAVIES (320kbs-m4a/132mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th November 2017
Another chance to hear Matt Everitt's acclaimed series, in which he gets under the skin of some of music's most significant figures.
Ray Davies is arguably one of the greatest songwriters that England has ever produced. His catalogue of songs helped define whole eras of British cultural life, and the legendary songs he recorded with The Kinks reflected, celebrated and critiqued the concept of Englishness in a way that no pop band had ever done before.
Ray discusses a childhood dominated by a love of Mississippi blues, the difficult relationship with his brother - Kinks guitarist Dave, and the infighting which caused the band to be banned from the US. This led to Ray focusing on the idea of Britishness and inspired some of his finest work.
Ray also discusses the writing of proto-rock anthem You Really Got Me, the controversial (at the time) cross dressing epic Lola and, quite possibly, one of the greatest pop songs ever written - Waterloo Sunset.
First broadcast in April 2011.
The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night [Polygram]
The Kinks - Till The End Of The Day [Polygram TV]
Count Basie & His Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump [Verve]
Big Bill Broonzy - Hey Hey [Mojo]
Johnny And The Hurricanes - Red River Rock [Castle]
Ray Charles - What'd I Say [Atco]
Howlin’ Wolf - Smokestack Lightning [MCA]
Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn [Bear Family]
The Kinks - You Really Got Me [Castle]
The Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop [Ace]
The Kinks - See My Friends [Polygram TV]
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset [Select]
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society [Castle]
The Kinks - Lola [Castle Communications]
Ray Davies - Quiet Life [Virgin]
Mumford & Sons & Ray Davies - Days/This Time Tomorrow [UMTV]
Metallica & Ray Davies - You Really Got Me [UMTV]
Ray Davies & Paloma Faith - Lola [Universal]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 2 - 4. ANDREW WEATHERALL (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd November 2017
DJ Andrew Weatherall talks Matt Everitt through the musical milestones of his life.
While some DJs emerged out of the early house movement to settle into a comfortable and predictably lucrative careers as superclub-orientated superstar DJs, Andrew Weatherall has always followed his own musical compass.
Andrew discusses his career from the first track he ever DJ'd (the WWII War film theme 633 Squadron) onto his residency at the UK's earliest acid house club Shoom. He also talks about producing Primal Scream's genre-breaking Screamadelica and his later work delving into the darker side of vintage rock 'n' roll and techno.
This interview features the humour, style and impeccable musical choices that one would expect from one of contemporary music's most innovative and original figures in music. It first broadcast in March 2011.
Primal Scream - Movin' On Up
The Beatles - She Loves You
Neil Diamond - Craklin' Rosie
Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
Benny Hill - Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West
John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me
The Kinks - Jack The Idiot Dunce
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
Ron Goodwin - 633 Squadron
Frankie Knuckles - Tears
Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club Mix)
Primal Scream - Loaded
Primal Scream - I'm Losing More Than I'll Never Have
Jah Wobble - Bomba
The Sabres Of Paradise - Wilmot
Link Wray - Rumble
T. Rex - Solid Gold Easy Action
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 2 - 1. BRYAN FERRY (320kbs-m4a/132mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th November 2017
Roxy Music frontman and solo star Bryan Ferry discusses the musical milestones of his life with Matt Everitt. First broadcast in 2011.
Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together [Virgin]
The Ink Spots - Whispering Grass
Leadbelly - Midnight Special
Humphrey Lyttelton - Bad Penny Blues
Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock
Duke Ellington - Take The "A" Train
The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain [Virgin]
Roxy Music - Do The Strand
Roxy Music - Editions Of You
Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
Roxy Music - Avalon
Bryan Ferry - Reason Or Rhyme
THE TOTALLY WIRED WORLD OF THE FALL (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd December 2017
Another chance to hear Mark E Smith talking to 6 Music's Elizabeth Alker about his thirty nine years at the helm of one of Britain's most respected bands. With contributions from the Bard of Salford, poet John Cooper Clarke, who first performed with The Fall in 1977, John Leckie, who produced three of their key 1980s albums, writer Mick Middles, who wrote a biography of The Fall with Mark E Smith, Clint Boon of the Inspiral Carpets and Lias Saudi from 'Fall heirs' Fat White Family. Mark talks about his love of avant garde classical music, science fiction writer Philip K Dick and how Danny Baker helped to get the group their first record deal.
The Fall - Totally Wired [Beggars Banquet]
The Fall - Lost In Music [Artful]
Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles)
The Fall - Before The Moon Falls
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K. [Virgin]
The Fall - Bingo Masters Breakout
The Fall - Repetition
The Fall - Hip Priest
The Fall - 2 By 4
The Fall - Spoilt Victorian Child (BBC Session 14th May 1985)
The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist [Telstar]
The Fall - Touch Sensitive [Artful]
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum [DFA]
The Fall - Bill Is Dead
The Fall - Victoria [Beggars Banquet]
The Inspiral Carpets Feat. Mark E Smith - I Want You
The Fall - Theme From Sparta FC
The Fall - I Am Damo Suzuki
Fat White Family - I Am Mark E Smith
The Fall - Jerusalem
The Fall - Sir William Wray
ERIC CLAPTON - LIVE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 1990 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th November 2017
Eric Clapton recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1990. Presented by Chris Hawkins.
Eric Clapton - Key To The Highway
Eric Clapton - Worried Life Blues
Eric Clapton - All Your Love
Eric Clapton - Johnny's Boogie
Eric Clapton & Robert Cray - You Belong To Me
Buddy Guy & Eric Clapton & Robert Cray - Five Long Years
Eric Clapton - Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Eric Clapton - Standing Around Crying/Long Distance Call/Standing Around Crying
