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MAX REINHARDT WITH JONNY TRUNK AND LUCY WOODWARD - LATE JUNCTION 17.05.18 (320kbs-m4a/206mb/90mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 17th May 2018
Max is joined by record collector, DJ and broadcaster Jonny Trunk who reports back on his trip to meet a fellow collector Lucy Woodward, owner of 17,000 vinyl records. Alongside everything from rare early music recordings to obscure library music releases, Lucy's specialist area is transmission discs, the music that accompanied the test card screen on your television in the days before 24 hour broadcasts. Jonny delves into the mind of the collector asking where the interest comes from, how to shop for rare records and why a complete set is so satisfying.
Donning his best beret, Max celebrates two icons of French chanson Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf, and there's afrocentric grooves from alt-keyboard player Jessica Lauren.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell for Reduced Listening.
Édith Piaf - Sous Le Ciel De Paris [EMI Gold]
Jean Monet Orchestra - The Winslow Boy
Jessica Lauren - Kofi Nomad (Emanative Remix) [Freestyle]
Swan Meat - Mute [Self-released]
Morgana King - A Taste Of Honey [Mainstream]
Sam Lee - Hullucination (New Music Biennial) [Live] [NMC]
Simon May - Time To Spare
Norman Warren - Campus Capers [Regency Line]
Cliff Jones - Goofy [Studio G]
Jackie & Roy - You Smell So Good [Trio]
Goldmund - No Story [Western Vinyl]
Edgard Varèse - Poème électronique [El]
By The Waterhole - A Thought Caught On Fire [Playdate]
Jacques Brel - La Chanson de Jacky [Barclay]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 16 - 4. LIAM GALLAGHER (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 24th December 2017
Liam Gallagher talks to Matt Everitt about the songs and bands that have meant the most to him down the years. He discusses the Manchester music scene of the early 90s, meeting various members of The Beatles, the formative years of Oasis and his hopes for his brand new solo album.
Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol [Big Brother]
Madonna - Like A Virgin [Warner Bros]
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
John Lennon - Imagine [Parlophone]
Oasis - Supersonic [Big Brother]
Sex Pistols - Bodies [Virgin]
Oasis - Morning Glory [Creation]
Oasis - Little James [Big Brother]
George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity [Apple]
Liam Gallagher - Wall Of Glass [Warner Bros]
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natural Mystic [Tuff Gong]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 16 - 3. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 17th December 2017
Matt talks to Charlotte about the first key musical moments in life and her career to date.
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine [Because Music]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Sylvia Says [Because Music]
Serge Gainsbourg - Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll [Repertoire]
Bob Dylan - Lay, Lady, Lay [Global Television]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Lemon Incest [Universal Music (UK) Limited]
John Williams - Theme From Jaws [Sony Classical]
Giorgio Moroder - The Chase
Elvis Presely - Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Live In Las Vegas)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (Radio Edit) [Warner Music UK Limited]
Air - The Duelist (Feat. Jarvis Cocker & Charlotte Gainsbourg)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations BWV 988: Aria Da Capo
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Songbird In A Cage [Because Music]
Frank Ocean - Chanel [Blonded]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 16 - 2. BECK (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th December 2017
Matt talks to Beck Hansen about the first key musical moments in his career to date.
He is one of the most versatile and inquisitive musical minds to emerge from the US underground.
He grew up listening to classic rock, punk and hip hop in Los Angeles and busking around the underground anti-folk scene in New York. This journey led to him creating albums that have encompassed blues, slacker rock, lush Americana, Prince-style soul funk, psychedelia and pop.
In the 90s when he first found fame he was regarded as a postmodern pop star for his skill in playfully blending the past and present, but now nearly 25 years later it's obvious he was just a great songwriter looking to see what styles worked best for his music.
Beck - Tropicalia [Columbia]
Beck - The New Pollution [DGC]
Frank Churchill And Larry Morey - I'm Wishing, One Song [Disneyland]
The Beatles - If I Needed Someone [Parlophone]
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge [Warner Music UK Limited]
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
Prince - The Beautiful Ones [Warner Bros.]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity [Mute]
Beck - MTV Makes Me Want To Smoke Crack
Beck - Loser [Geffen]
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come [BR Music]
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F [Kenwest]
Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause [Global Television]
Neil Young - Pocahontas [Reprise]
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl [MCA]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 16 - 1. ROBERT PLANT (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd December 2017
Robert talks to Matt about the first key musical moments in his career to date.
They chat about his very earliest influences, the impact of early rock n roll and the emerging blues scene in the late 60s that would see him partner up with the drummer John Bonham - and what happened when the pair of them became 50% of Led Zeppelin.
They discuss the fall out of that experience, but also his acclaimed collaboration with Alison Krauss and his on-going band - The Sensational Space Shifters who released their last album Carry Fire early this year.
Robert Plant & Band Of Joy - Angel Dance [Decca]
Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters - Little Maggie [Nonesuch]
Ann Stephens - Christopher Robin At Buckingham Palace
Little Richard - Lucille [Specialty]
Sonny Boy Williamson - Help Me [Universal/Island]
Lazy Lester - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times [Atlantic]
Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters - Rainbow [Nonesuch]
Led Zeppelin - Going To California (Live)
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) [Rounder]
Joni Mitchell - Amelia
DOUGLAS ADAMS - THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: THE PRIMARY PHASE (320kbs-m4a/404mb/2hrs55mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th to 21st April 2018
An epic adventure in time and space including some helpful advice on how to see the Universe for less than 30 Altairian dollars a day.
Arthur Dent is one of only two survivors from Earth, demolished to make way for a by-pass. He survived thanks to his friend, Ford Prefect (who hails not from Guildford, but somewhere near Betelgeuse), a writer for the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, "the most successful book ever to have come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor". They've managed to escape from Restaurant at the End of Universe on the Black Ship only to find themselves where they never thought they'd be, only 2 million years earlier. What on earth are they going to do when face to face with 'how, why and where phases' of galactic development?
The global multi-media success story that is "Hitchhiker's" started life as a Radio 4 series in March 1978. The original scripts by the late Douglas Adams then went on to spawn a series of novels, a feature film, at least three stage shows, a TV series, a computer game, a collection of comic books - and various towels.
The Guide helpfully informs us that the most obscene expletive in the Galaxy is "Belgium".
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge and died in 2001 at the age of 49. He suffered a fatal heart attack after working out at his gym in California.
The answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything is 42.
Starring Peter Jones as The Book, Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Bill Wallis as The Vogon Captain, Jo Kendall as Lady Cynthia and David Gooderson as the Barman. Produced by the late Geoffrey Perkins.
Radiophonic sound and music by Paddy Kingsland.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: THE PRIMARY PHASE - EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th April 2018
Arthur Dent is trying to stop his house being demolished to make way for a by-pass. But his friend, Ford Prefect is more concerned about the imminent destruction of the Earth.
Ford is a writer for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "the most successful book ever to have come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor" and he may just know how to avoid being evaporated by the Vogons...
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: THE PRIMARY PHASE - EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th April 2018
Arthur Dent is - so far - the only survivor from Earth, demolished to make way for a by-pass. He survived thanks to his friend, Ford Prefect (who hails not from Guildford, but somewhere near Betelgeuse), a writer for the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, "the most successful book ever to have come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor". Both are now at the mercy of the Vogon Captain, and even worse, powerless in the face of his poetry. The only thing which can save them now is an unlikely coincidence or two - and it may lead to an encounter with a certain bipolar automaton.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: THE PRIMARY PHASE - EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th April 2018
A whale meets an unfortunate end, as Arthur Dent and company meet the Earth's creators. By Douglas Adams. From March 1978.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: THE PRIMARY PHASE - EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 19th April 2018
Arthur learns the lucrative answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything. By Douglas Adams. From March 1978.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: THE PRIMARY PHASE - EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th April 2018
Arthur and company are blown up, but still find time for a bite at a very exclusive eatery. By Douglas Adams. From April 1978.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: THE PRIMARY PHASE - EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/71mb/31mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st April 2018
Arthur and company escape from a war, but exactly when have they escaped to? By Douglas Adams. From April 1978.
TERRY PRATCHETT - NIGHT WATCH (320kbs-m4a/321mb/2hrs20mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th to 12th May 2018
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel dramatised in five parts by Robin Brooks.
Stars Philip Jackson as Sam Vimes, Carl Prekopp as Young Sam, Paul Ritter as Carcer, Peter Marinker as Willikins and as Tilden and as Major Clive, Clare Corbett as Rosie, Sam Dale as Fred Colon, Ben Onwukwe as Dr Lawn, Matt Addis as Sergeant Knock, Joseph Kloska as Reg Shoe and Rachel Atkins as Lady Meserole.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
NIGHT WATCH: EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th May
Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy.
Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch falls through time and arrives in the city of his youth.
NIGHT WATCH: EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 9th May
Chasing a villain called Carcer, Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch has been thrown back in time. The Old Watch are a lack-lustre bunch and they've taken him prisoner.
NIGHT WATCH: EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 10th May
Thrown back in time, Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is training his young self in the art of policing - then runs into his old enemy, Carcer.
NIGHT WATCH: EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 11th May
Thrown back in time, Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch relives the glorious revolution of his youth. But he must also protect his younger self from arch-enemy Carcer.
NIGHT WATCH: EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th May
Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch, thrown back into his own past, has little time left there to undo the harm done by his arch-enemy Carcer, before coming back to his present...
J WILLGOOSE ESQ. SITS IN FOR IGGY POP - 6 MUSIC 11.05.18 (320kbs-m4a/259mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 11th May 2018
J Willgoose Esq. from Public Service Broadcasting sits in for Iggy Pop ahead of their appearance at BBC 6 Music's Belfast leg of The Biggest Weekend at the end of the month.
Public Service Broadcasting are a London-based pseudonymous musical group consisting of J. Willgoose, Esq. on guitar and electronics, Wrigglesworth on drums and electronics, and J F Abraham on bass and assorted other instruments. The band have toured internationally and released their third studio album Every Valley in the summer of 2017.
Here We Go Magic - How Do I Know
Courtney Barnett - Nameless, Faceless [Marathon Artists]
Hazel English - Never Go Home
Laura Veirs - Lightning Rod
Life - Popular Music
Leftfield - Head And Shoulders (Feat. Sleaford Mods) [Infectious Music]
George FitzGerald - Burns [Domino / Double Six]
Battles - Ice Cream [Warp]
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance [Now]
Solange - Losing You [Terrible]
Caribou - Mars
Baxter Dury - Miami [Heavenly Recordings]
DJ Shadow & Nas - Systematic [Mass Appeal]
Funkadelic - Can You Get To That [Westbound]
The Walkmen - The Rat [Record Collection]
Four Tet - LA Trance
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited - Butsu Mutandarika
Hailu Mergia And The Walias - Tche Belew
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog [Elektra]
The Breeders - Wait In The Car [4AD]
Little Dragon - Ritual Union [Peacefrog]
Grizzly Bear - Four Cypresses
Haiku Salut - Cold To Crack The Stone
David Holmes - I Heard Wonders [Mercury]
Lower Dens - Ondine
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps [Polydor]
Manic Street Preachers - This Is Yesterday [Epic]
Clor - Good Stuff
Charlotte Hatherley - Hook You Up
Archibald Joyce - Song D'Automne (Dream Of Autumn)
DAVID HOLMES SITS IN FOR IGGY POP - 6 MUSIC 04.05.18 (320kbs-m4a/266mb/1hr56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 4th May 2018
Belfast born DJ and musician David Holmes sits in for Iggy Pop ahead of his DJ set BBC 6 Music's Belfast leg of The Biggest Weekend at the end of the month.
David's first solo record, 'This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats' was released in 1995, and plugged into his most enduring inspiration - cinema. 1997 saw the release of 'Let's Get Killed' and 2000's 'Bow Down to the Exit Sign' was created as the soundtrack to a not-yet-made movie,
Thus, it was inevitable that he would go on to soundtrack films such as Out of Sight, Ocean's Eleven, Hunger, Haywire, I Am Here and last year's Logan Lucky.
He's also produced Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, John Spencer Blues Explosion and Cashier No. 9 as well as remixing the likes of U2, Doves, Sabres of Paradise and Jon Hopkins among others.
Extract From "An American Werewolf In London"
Unloved - Devil's Angel (Killing Eve)
Darlene Love - Lord, If You're A Woman
Yasuaki Shimizu - Tachikawa
Yasuaki Shimizu - Seiko 1
The Gospel Clefs - Rock Me To Sleep
Del Shannon - Conquer
Henri Salvador - Pauvre Jésus-Christ
Etienne Daho - Les Cordages De La Nuit
The Vendetta Suite - Just Like Joe
Sons Of Raphael - Eating People
Sort Sol - Boy-Girl
Jon Hopkins - Luminous Beings
Chris Hartwig - Sexy Witches
That Thing - That Thing (Part II)
Sylvia - Lay It On Me
Andrew Weatherall - Making Friends With The Invader
Raphael Doyle - I Come From Ireland
Batsumi - Lishonile
Nicky Bulldog - Chewin' Gum Rock
Martin Rev - Salve Dominus
Jonny Greenwood - Tree Strings
Endaf Emlyn - Dwynwen
Entourage - Tarbox Poltergeist
Thunder Tillman - Oceanic
Ill Considered - The Good Cop
Aksak Maboul - A Modern Lesson
The Honeymoon Killers - Décollage
Vivi - Mi Bord' A Toue
Lyn Cornell - African Waltz
Unloved - Bill's Dead
Teenage Fanclub - What You Do To Me
High Spirits Choir Of Holy Spirit School - A Taste Of Honey
ALEKS IN WONDERLAND: THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET - INTERNET OF THINGS (96kbs-m4a/19mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 18th September 2017
Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet?
The Internet is the world's most widely used communications tool. It’s a fast and efficient way of delivering information. However it is also quite dumb, neutral, treating equally all the data it passes around the world. From data that forms scientific research papers, the wealth of social media to keep us all connected with friends and relatives, entertainment or material we would rather not see- from political propaganda to horrific violence, the Internet makes no distinction.
Is it time to change that? And can we?
In this programme Aleks Krotoski looks at whether it’s possible to use technological fixes to regulate the internet or whether a more political approach is needed to governance of this vital but flawed communications medium.
Picture: Human Hand Using Application on Mobile Phone, Credit: Onfokus
ALEKS IN WONDERLAND: THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET - DARK SIDE OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB (96kbs-m4a/19mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 11th September 2017
With the coming of the World Wide Web in the 1990s internet access opened up to everybody, it was no longer the preserve of academics and computer hobbyists. Already prior to the Web, the burgeoning internet user groups and chat rooms had tested what was acceptable behaviour online, but access was still limited.
Aleks Krotoski asks whether the Web through enabling much wider use of the internet is the villain of the piece in facilitating not just entertainment and commerce, but all aspects of the darker side, from malicious computer hacking attacks, worms and viruses, to new channels for criminality, online extortion and identity theft.
(Photo: Internet sign. Credit: code6d)
ALEKS IN WONDERLAND: THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET - THE ORIGIN OF THE INTERNET (96kbs-m4a/19mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 4th September 2017
Just how did the Internet become the most powerful communications medium on the planet, and why does it seem to be an uncontrollable medium for good and bad? With no cross border regulation the internet can act as an incredible force for connecting people and supporting human rights and yet at the same time convey the most offensive material imaginable. It has become the most useful research tool on earth but also the most effective way of delivering threats to the security of governments, the health service and on a personal level our own identities.
In this series Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet, meeting the people who really invented it, looking behind the myths and cultural constructs to explain what it actually is and how it came to exist outside of conventional regulation. We’ll ask whether the nature of the net itself really is cause for concern - and if so what can be done to reign in the negatives of the internet without restricting the positives?
In this first episode we go back to the days before the internet to look at the cultural and technological landscape from which it grew, and unravel some of the key moments - now lost in time and obscured by technology folklore, which mark when the internet lost its innocence.
Picture: Mechanical computer keyboard blurred, credit: OSchaumann/Getty
DOUGLAS ADAMS - THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: HEXAGONAL PHASE (320kbs-m4a/379mb/2hrs44mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 8th March to 12th April 2018
Simon Jones stars as Arthur Dent in a brand new full-cast series based on And Another Thing..., the sixth book in the famous Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy.
Forty years on from the first ever radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent and friends return to be thrown back into the Whole General Mish Mash, in a rattling adventure involving Viking Gods and Irish Confidence Tricksters, with our first glimpse of Eccentrica Gallumbits and a brief but memorable moment with The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal.
Starring John Lloyd as The Book, with Simon Jones as Arthur, Geoff McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson and Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Jim Broadbent as Marvin the Paranoid Android and Jane Horrocks as Fenchurch. The cast also includes Samantha Béart, Toby Longworth, Andy Secombe, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, Philip Pope, Mitch Benn, Jon Culshaw and Professor Stephen Hawking.
The series is written and directed by Dirk Maggs and based on And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, with additional unpublished material by Douglas Adams.
Music by Philip Pope
Production research by Kevin Jon Davies
Written and directed by Dirk Maggs
Based on the novel And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, with additional material by Douglas Adams
Recorded at The Soundhouse Ltd by Gerry O'Riordan
Sound Design by Dirk Maggs
Produced by Dirk Maggs, Helen Chattwell and David Morley
A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: HEXAGONAL PHASE - EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 8th March 2018
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: HEXAGONAL PHASE - EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 15th March 2018
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: HEXAGONAL PHASE - EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 22nd March 2018
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: HEXAGONAL PHASE - EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 29th March 2018
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: HEXAGONAL PHASE - EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 5th April 2018
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: HEXAGONAL PHASE - EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 12th April 2018
TERRY PRATCHETT - SMALL GODS (320kbs-m4a/256mb/1hr51mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 9th to 30th April 2018
Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy stars Anton Lesser as the Narrator, Patrick Barlow as Om, Carl Prekopp as Brutha, Alex Jennings as Vorbis, Philip Fox as Aktor, Sean Barrett as Xeno, Gerard McDermott as the Captain, John Cummins as the Sergeant and as Urn, Gerard McDermott as Didactylos, Geoffrey Beevers as the Guard and as Nhumrod, Nick Sayce as Sergeant Simony and Michael Kilgarriff as Death
Dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Producer: Claire Grove
Director: Gordon House
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2006.
SMALL GODS: EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 9th April 2018
Set in a complex state of beliefs, Great God Om appears before a novice monk.
There are gods everywhere on Discworld - you can't swing a simian librarian without hitting one - except, of course, only a few people can see them. Each small god lies in wait, desperately seeking to make someone believe in him. On Discworld, gods need people more than people need gods, for belief is the food of the gods.
SMALL GODS: EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th April 2018
Novice priest Brutha has been selected by Deacon Vorbis to go on a secret mission to the infidel city of Ephebe.
The Great God Om, who is stuck in the body of a small tortoise, is going with him in a little wicker basket.
SMALL GODS: EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 23rd April 2018
Ephebian philosophers argue violently among themselves but they're no match for Deacon Vorbis. However one philosopher, Didactylos, is prepared to stand up to him.
SMALL GODS: EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 30th April 2018
Deacon Vorbis has returned triumphantly to Omnia. He proclaims himself the One True Prophet.
But Brutha knows what really happened in the desert and the Great God Om is still out there, stuck in the body of a tortoise.
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: PAUL WELLER (128kbs-m4a/40mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 21st December 2007
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician Paul Weller. As the lead singer of The Jam, the founder of The Style Council and a hugely successful solo artist, he is one of the most revered music writers and performers of the past 30 years and is cited as an influence by countless other singers.
In a rare interview, he describes the chronic shyness he had to overcome; how he is still gripped by fear before each performance and how, after he had been dumped by his record label, he was unable to write songs and found that even picking up a guitar felt alien to him. His father has been a constant support to him - as his mentor as well as his manager - and has always believed that his son had something special.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Tin Soldier by The Small Faces
Book: Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
Luxury: A settee to sit on.
Small Faces - Tin Soldier [Castle Music]
Dinah Washington - September In The Rain [Mercury]
Charles Mingus - Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul [MCA]
James Brown - Don't Be A Dropout [Pye]
Claude Debussy - Arabesque No. 1 [CBS]
Declan O’Rourke - Galileo (Someone Like You) [V2 Music]
Nick Drake - River Man [Island]
Roscoe Robinson - That's Enough [Wand]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: CLASSIC DESERT ISLAND DISCS - ANNIE LENNOX (320kbs-m4a/82mb/36mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 22nd April 2018
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is one of our most successful singer-songwriters, Annie Lennox. Her extraordinary voice has captivated us for more than a quarter of a century and, as one half of the group Eurythmics and as a solo artist, she's sold tens of millions of records and won fistfuls of awards. As a teenager, her musical ability was her passport out of her home town of Aberdeen. At that point, a career as a flautist beckoned: but, after studying in London, she felt she could never make her mark as a classical musician. It was a chance encounter with aspiring pop-star Dave Stewart that set her on an entirely different path.
For much of the 1980s, all her creative energy went into making music. But when her children were born, she says, her priorities shifted. Now she devotes much of her time and energy to supporting different humanitarian causes. She says: "I need to find meaning in my life to make me happy; and that's been an ongoing struggle."
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: I Say A Little Prayer by Aretha Franklin
Book: Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Luxury: Suncream.
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman [Capitol]
The Beatles - Penny Lane [Apple]
Claude Debussy - Syrinx [RCA]
Traffic - Hole In My Shoe [Band Of Joy]
Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer [Polygram]
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops [Linn]
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Winter - 1st movement [Deutsche Grammophon]
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay [Atlantic]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: CLASSIC DESERT ISLAND DISCS - HUGH MASEKELA (320kbs-m4a/78mb/34mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 1st April 2018
Another chance to listen to the world famous musician speaking to Sue Lawley in 2004. As a boy growing up in the impoverished townships of South Africa, he was inspired to learn the trumpet after seeing Kirk Douglas play Bix Beiderbecke in Young Man With A Horn. He begged one of his teachers - the anti-apartheid crusader Father Trevor Huddleston - to buy him a horn and in return he promised to stay out of trouble.
Hugh soon made a name for himself in South Africa but as the racial tensions intensified during the 50s he decided he had to leave his homeland to get a better music education in America. There he quickly made a name for himself with his fusion of African jazz music and became a 'flower child' playing with some of the great bands of the decade: Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and the Byrds. He's still probably best known for his number-one track, Grazing in the Grass, which sold four million copies worldwide in 1968. He returned to Africa in 1973, spending the next 17 years working on a range of musical collaborations in Botswana, Liberia, Nigeria, Congo and Guinea. Then, after thirty years in self-imposed exile, he returned to his homeland in 1990.
Favourite track: Lilizela Mlilezeli by Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens
Book: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Luxury: A keyboard
Mahlathini And The Mahotella Queens - Lilizela Mlilezeli [Kaz]
Louis Armstrong - Rockin' Chair [Accord]
Miles Davis - All Blues [Columbia]
Dizzy Gillespie - Con Alma [Verve]
Billie Holiday - You've Changed [CBS]
Franco & Sam Mangwana - Fabrice Akende Sango [CBS]
Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir - Radke, Mama Radke [Philips]
Louis Armstrong - When It's Sleepy Time Down South [Columbia]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 15 - 7. THURSTON MOORE (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 13th March 2018
Thurston Moore shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2017.
He is undoubtedly one of the most influential guitarists in alternative music. Along with his band Sonic Youth, he pioneered the noise rock sound, taking the hardcore punk ethos and DIY ethic and creating a new sound and musical style. He is renowned for his unconventional approach to the guitar, using unorthodox tunings and unusual tools to prepare his instruments. The band developed a cult status over a thirty year career, and many of their albums are regarded as classics. Since their split in 2011, Thurston has continued to write and record.
He discusses his earliest musical passions, the first record he owned and his first guitar. He also recalls the first Sonic Youth gig and key influences John Coltrane and Patti Smith. He talks about end of Sonic Youth and their 'hiatus' and his status as an avant garde master of the guitar.
Thurston Moore - Turn On [Caroline International]
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing [Geffen]
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie [Old Gold]
The Kingsmen - Haunted Castle
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida [ATCO]
John Coltrane - Impressions
Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot
Patti Smith - Hey Joe
The Backbeat Band - Money
The Backbeat Band - C'mon Everybody
Thurston Moore - Smoke Of Dreams [Caroline International]
Beck - Loser [Geffen]
Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane [Geffen]
Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 15 - 3. DAN AUERBACH (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th March 2018
Dan Auerbach shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2017.
Dan is best known as half of the guitar-and-drum garage and blues band the Black Keys. As a producer and musician he's collaborated with the Pretenders, Dangermouse, Lana Del Rey, Ray LaMontagne, A$AP Rocky and Dr John.
He chats to Matt about his earliest musical influences growing up in Ohio, which were bluegrass and country, the impact of his father's staggering vinyl collection and his formative gigging experiences, which varied from the Grateful Dead to Whitney Houston. He also discusses the formation and huge success of the Black Keys, working with Danger Mouse and Dr John, and his passions for JJ Cale, T Rex, the Sonics and Link Wray.
The Black Keys - Gotta Get Away
The Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling [Nonesuch]
The Stanley Brothers - Angel Band
The Beatles - Revolution [Apple]
Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues (Take 1)
Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) [Warner E.S.P.]
Gregg Allman - Midnight Rider [Castle]
Itzhak Perlman And The Klezmer Conservatory Band - Ale Brider
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay [Polygram TV]
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me
Isaac Hayes - Hung Up On My Baby [Universal]
Grateful Dead - Truckin' [Warner Bros]
Whitney Houston - All At Once [Arista]
The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel [Etiquette]
The Black Keys - The Moan (Peel Session)
T. Rex - Mystic Lady
Dan Auerbach - Shine On Me [Easy Eye Sound]
John Prine - Daddy's Little Pumpkin [Oh Boy]
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy [Nonesuch]
J.J. Cale - Magnolia [Mercury]
Dr. John - Locked Down
Link Wray - Jack The Ripper
THE REUNION - THE YOUNG ONES (320kbs-m4a/96mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 29th April 2018
Sue MacGregor reunites five people who made their names in the ground-breaking TV comedy The Young Ones.
In the early 1980s, the most popular TV comedies were cosy sitcoms like To The Manor Born and Last of the Summer Wine. Live stand-up comedy was largely confined to working men's clubs and seaside resorts. Mother-in-law and Irish gags were still a staple.
But, in the backroom of a Soho strip club, an underground venue called The Comic Strip emerged. The non-sexist, anti-racist but violent and bolshy acts drew a fashionable crowd. Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman were among the stars in the audience.
TV producers drew from the performers they saw there for the casting of The Young Ones. The bunch of loud-mouthed scruff bags thrown together as housemates in grotty, tumbledown digs, really broke the mould.
When The Young Ones was first aired in November 1982, ratings were pitiful. But before long, the show, with its wild slapstick and surreal twists, soon won a dedicated following. Within six months, a second series was on TV and the team had a BAFTA award for their mantelpiece.
Like the British classic Fawlty Towers, the team decided that The Young Ones should only run for 12 episodes. By then, everyone involved had made their name and alternative comedy became the TV phenomenon of the decade.
Sue MacGregor is joined by original Young One Nigel Planer who played depressed musician Neil; Chris Ryan who played Mike "The Cool Person"; Alexei Sayle who played members of the Balowski family; Lise Mayer who co-wrote the series with Ben Elton and her then partner actor Rik Mayall; and Stephen Frost who played a number of roles across both series.
Producer: Karen Pirie
Series Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
THE REUNION - BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF (128kbs-m4a/38mb/41mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 28th July 2014
In this edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor reunites Julie Walters, Alan Bleasdale, Tom Georgeson, Michael Angelis and producer Michael Wearing to talk about their roles in the landmark 1980s drama series Boys from the Blackstuff.
Writer Alan Bleasdale's hard-hitting drama series was set against the harsh backdrop of struggle and bleak unemployment in the Liverpool of Thatcher's Britain. It chronicled the lives of a group of men as they sought to find work, whilst suffering the despair and indignity of life on the scrapheap. First transmitted in October 1982, it received widespread critical acclaim and became a 'television event'.
Boys from the Blackstuff had an immediate and startling impact, thanks to the sheer heartfelt emotional power of Bleasdale's uncompromising writing and an extraordinarily gifted ensemble cast. It painted an uncomfortable, but warranted portrait of a city and a country teetering precariously on the brink of social and economic disaster, where the only real victims were those who were prevented by circumstances from leading fulfilling and productive lives.
The original team join Sue MacGregor to talk about their experiences of the making of the series and its widespread resonance across the nation.
Producer: Christina Captieux
Series Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 14 - 2. MIKE OLDFIELD (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th March 2018
Mike Oldfield shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2017.
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Part One) [Virgin]
ATV - Bill & Ben Flower Pot Men
Annette Mills - Muffin The Mule
Henry Hall & His Orchestra - Teddy Bears' Picnic [EMI]
Mario Lanza - Madame Butterfly
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Pastoral Symphony: 5th Movement
Burl Ives - Blue Tail Fly
The Shadows - Apache [EMI]
The Shadows - The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt [EMI]
John Renbourn - I Know My Babe
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World - May I
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Caveman Demo)
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (Excerpt)
Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Demo)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Part One) [Virgin]
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow [EMI]
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells/In Dulci Jubilo
Mike Oldfield - Return To Ommadawn (Part One) [Virgin]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 14 - 1. SHAUN RYDER (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 4th March 2018
Shaun Ryder, frontman of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2017.
Matt asks about Shaun's earliest musical passions - the Beatles, Bowie, and Buzzcocks and about his first meeting with Tony Wilson, who would help steer Shaun's band Happy Monday's to great success.
They discuss the creation of the albums that spawned songs like Step On, Hallelujah, Loose Fit and 24 Hour Party People (and talk about that movie) and his triumphant return with Black Grape.
Shaun also discusses his battles with drug abuse and how accepting his role as a national treasure has breathed new life into both the Mondays and the newly reformed Black Grape.
Happy Mondays - Hallelujah [Factory]
Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck [Factory]
The Beatles - Hey Jude [Apple]
David Bowie - Sorrow [EMI]
UFO - Doctor Doctor (Live Paris Theatre 1975)
Buzzcocks - Love You More [EMI]
Happy Mondays - Delightful [Factory]
John Kongos - He's Gonna Step On You Again [See For Miles]
Happy Mondays - Step On [EMI]
Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People [London]
Happy Mondays - Loose Fit [Factory]
Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape [Radioactive]
Gorillaz - Dare [Parlophone]
Dean Martin - Little Ole Wine Drinker, Me [Reprise]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... ROY WOOD (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 5th March 2018
Roy Wood shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2016.
Roy recalls his time as member and co-founder of the Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard. And, of course, Matt had to ask about that Christmas song!
The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow [Fly]
The Move - Blackberry Way [Esoteric Recordings]
The Shadows - Apache [EMI]
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It [Ace]
The Move - Night Of Fear [Deram]
The Move - Fire Brigade [Esoteric Recordings]
Electric Light Orchestra - Whisper In The Night [Harvest/EMI]
Electric Light Orchestra - 10538 Overture [Epic]
The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You [Phil Spector Int]
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Radio [Harvest/EMI]
Wizzard - Ball Park Incident [Virgin]
Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday [EMI]
The Beach Boys - It's O.K.
The Beach Boys - Break Away [EMI]
Nigel Kennedy - I Believe In God
Robert Farnon - Jumping Bean
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 13 - 2. KELIS (320kbs-m4a/132mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st March 2018
Kelis shares her musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2016.
She talks through her musical story, from growing up in a strict 'jazz only' household with a saxophonist dad, through to discovering a love of grunge at college, and combining this with a passion for RnB. She talks about meeting the Neptunes, which proved to be a pivotal partnership in her genre bending musical path, although getting a record deal for was far from easy.
She tells of her struggles to be 'understood' by a music industry that wanted to pigeonhole her, and of the astonishing year-long battle she had over the track 'Milkshake', which of course went on to be a global hit and who's terminology became part of popular culture.
She explains her love for food and how she stepped out of music for a time to focus on this, and how she came back and worked with Dave Sitek on a new album, which was of course titled Food.
Kelis - Trick Me [Virgin]
Kelis - Good Stuff [Virgin]
Sarah Vaughan - Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year [Columbia]
Betty Carter - All I Got [Verve]
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind [MCA/Chess]
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) [Telstar]
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit [Geffen]
N*E*R*D - Lapdance (Feat. Lee Harvey & Vita)
En Vogue - Free Your Mind [Atlantic]
Gravediggaz - Fairytalez [Gee Street]
O.D.B. - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis) [Elektra]
Kelis - Caught Out There [Virgin]
Kelis - Milkshake [Virgin]
Sheryl Crow - My Favorite Mistake [A&M]
TV On The Radio - Dancing Choose [4AD]
Kelis - Jerk Ribs [Federal Prism]
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - You Are My Heaven [Atlantic]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 13 - 1. RICKY GERVAIS (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th February 2018
David Brent creator Ricky Gervais sits down with Matt Everitt to discuss his and Brent's musical influences and passions.
Ricky shares stories from his youth, about going to a record store for the first time and the impact it had on him. He talks of his first musical loves, including Roxy Music, Cat Stevens and Simon & Garfunkel, and how The Old Grey Whistle Test was so important to him. And of course he tells of seeing Bowie for the first time.
He also discusses his short-lived new Romantic band Seona Dancing and their ultimate demise, plus his belief - as a director - in the genuine power of music. He shares his passion for Radiohead and discusses David Brent's soon-to-be legendary band Foregone Conclusion.... and reveals David Brent's favourite chord!
First broadcast in 2016.
Rod Stewart - Handbags And Gladrags [Mercury]
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone [CBS]
Cat Stevens - The Wind
Roxy Music - Street Life [EG]
David Bowie - 'Heroes' [EMI]
Seona Dancing - More To Lose
The Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want [Warner]
Vaughan Williams - Five Variants Of Dives & Lazarus
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
David Brent & Forgone Conclusion - Ooh La La
Radiohead - Bones [Parlophone]
David Bowie - Letter To Hermione [EMI]
CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: JOHN MARTYN - SOLID AIR (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st May 2018
Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.
In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2006, Davie selects John Martyn's Solid Air. Released in 1973, The Glasgow-raised singer / songwriter's distinctive vocal style and stunning guitar playing combine to pay homage to friendship, love and life.
John Martyn - Over The Hill
John Martyn - Solid Air
John Martyn - I'd Rather Be The Devil
John Martyn - May You Never
John Martyn - May You Never (Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test)
John Martyn - The Easy Blues
John Martyn - Go Down Easy
John Martyn - Dreams By The Sea
CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - PSYCHOCANDY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th May 2018
To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.
In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2010, Davie looks back at Psychocandy, the debut album by the Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 1985. With the help Janice Long, Bobby Gillespie and the famously-elusive Reid brothers themselves, Davie comes to the conclusion that teen angst never sounded so good... well certainly not from East Kilbride.
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey [Blanco Y Negro]
The Shangri‐Las - Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) [Instant]
The Velvet Underground - Heroin [Polygram]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down [Warner Bros.]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste The Floor [Strange Fruit]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - It's So Hard [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste Of Cindy [Blanco Y Negro]
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows [Capitol]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Cut Dead [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - In A Hole [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey [Blanco Y Negro]
The Shangri‐Las - Leader Of The Pack [Spectrum]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - The Living End [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste Of Cindy [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Never Understand [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Cut Dead [Blanco Y Negro]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: DAVID BYRNE (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 23rd March 2018
David Byrne was a founding member of the band Talking Heads. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, he emigrated first to Canada and then to the USA before the age of ten.
He started playing in bands at school and, when art school didn't work out for him, he founded Talking Heads with a couple of friends. They played their first gig, opening for the Ramones, at the legendary New York club CBGB's, in June 1975. Eight studio albums later, cracks were beginning to show in the relations between band members, and by 1991 Talking Heads had officially split up.
Since then, he has enjoyed a solo career, and also made films, published photographic books, composed scores for musicals, created art installations and written books. He has received an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, as well as a Golden Globe and a Grammy, for his soundtrack to the 1987 film The Last Emperor.
He and his fellow Talking Heads members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. He lives in New York and has a daughter in her late twenties from his 17 year marriage to Adelle Lutz.
Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
Halsey - Bad At Love [Astralwerks]
Jean Redpath - The Rowan Tree [Greentrax Recordings]
Woody Guthrie - Do-Re-Mi [Music Club]
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man [Sony]
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog [Elektra]
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove [Charly Groove]
Tom Zé - Toc [Luaka Bop]
Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word (Larry Levan Mix) [Next Music]
