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REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL - IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th December 2018
A documentary presented by Andy Serkis telling the extraordinary story of Ian Dury and the Blockheads - how a disabled art teacher in his mid-thirties fused punk, funk and incredible lyrics to create some of the most important music of the 70s.
Friends and colleagues including Chas Jankel, the Blockheads, Suggs, Phill Jupitus and Ian's son Baxter reflect on a career of "sex, drugs and rock and roll", from the revolutionary "New Boots and Panties" through to Ian's early death and the legacy of the Blockheads, as the band continue to tour.
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Ian Dury - Billericay Dickie
Ian Dury - Wake Up And Make Love With Me
Ian Dury - If I Was With A Woman
Ian Dury - Clevor Trever
Ian Dury - Blackmail Man
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Ian Dury - Blockheads
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - What A Waste
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Ian Dury - Wake Up And Make Love With Me
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Live)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - This Is What We Find
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Lullaby For Francies
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Waiting For Your Taxi
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
Quincy Jones - Ai No Corrida
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - I Want To Be Straight
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Superman's Big Sister
Ian Dury - Spasticus (Autisticus)
Ian Dury - Funky Disco (Pops)
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
Ian Dury - Poo-Poo In The Prawn
Ian Dury - Bed 'O' Roses No. 9
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sweet Gene Vincent (Live)
Ian Dury (Robbie Williams) & The Blockheads - You're The Why
The Blockheads - Life In Your Hands
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Lily Allen - LDN
Robbie Williams - Do You Mind
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Live)
PATTI SMITH IN HER OWN WORDS (320kbs-m4a/135mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th December 2018
As part of Zawe Ashton's Three Wise Women curation of 6 Music, she selects Patti Smith: In Her Own Words.
Patti Smith shaped the New York City punk rock scene with her debut album 'Horses'. She's a poet, an artist, a singer and a songwriter who's pushed boundaries in everything she's ever done. Here, 6 music offers an intimate portrayal of this fascinating artist through her own words from interviews recorded across her career.
Patti arrived penniless in New York in 1967 and met her future muse and partner, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. She shares their relationship and what went on behind the scenes when he took that famous photo of her for the album cover of 'Horses'. She describes the thought process behind her poetry and songwriting and her feelings about artists like Janis Joplin and Barbra Streisand.
She reveals her love of poetry and how she thinks of music as war. Plus the pivotal theme of God and religion emerges again and again throughout the music of her epic and varied career.
Patti Smith Group - Till Victory
Patti Smith Group - Because the Night [Trax Label]
Patti Smith - 1959
Patti Smith - Piss Factory
Patti Smith - My Blakean Year
Patti Smith - Dylan's Dog
Patti Smith - Cartwheels
Barbra Streisand - Happy Days Are Here Again
Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby Mcgee
Janis Joplin - Maybe
Patti Smith - Gloria [Arista]
Patti Smith - Radio Baghdad
Patti Smith Group - Ain't It Strange
The Excellents - Coney Island Baby
Patti Smith Group - So You Want To Be (A Rock 'N' Roll Star) [Arista]
ELVIS AND DEWEY: RED HOT AND BLUE - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th December 2018
Paul Gambaccini continues the fascinating story of a pioneering disc jockey who played a part in the birth of rock 'n' roll in Memphis and early career of Elvis Presley.
A full two years before Alan Freed "discovered" rock 'n' roll, Dewey Phillips was playing rhythm and blues on WHBQ to an audience of black and white listeners. His zeal for rhythm & blues and country set the stage for both Elvis' subsequent success and the rock 'n' roll revolution of the 1950s. Significantly, Dewey captivated a huge white audience with previously forbidden "race" music.
Dewey was the first DJ to introduce an Elvis record on the radio in July 1954. On his Memphis radio show Red, Hot & Blue, he played an acetate of the first single That's All Right (Mama) cut for him by the owner of Sun Studios, Sam Phillips (no relation). Legend has it that Dewey played the song anywhere from seven to eleven times in a row and he interviewed Elvis that night.
Elvis always acknowledged his debt of gratitude to Dewey - not only for his first radio exposure but also for the influence on his musical development through hearing the exciting mix of blues and country records every night.
The programme includes extracts from Dewey's radio and TV programmes of the 50s and early 60s. Interviewees include Louis Cantor - author of Dewey And Elvis - who worked on Memphis radio station WDIA; Charles Raiteri - another Memphis radio veteran; Humes High School classmates of Elvis: George Klein and Jerry Schilling; and an archive interview with the late Memphis musician and producer Jim Dickinson.
First broadcast in 2009.
ELVIS AND DEWEY: RED HOT AND BLUE - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcat: 6th December 2018
Paul Gambaccini tells the fascinating story of a pioneering disc jockey who played a part in the birth of rock 'n' roll in Memphis and early career of Elvis Presley.
A full two years before Alan Freed "discovered" rock 'n' roll, Dewey Phillips was playing rhythm and blues on WHBQ to an audience of black and white listeners. His zeal for rhythm & blues and country set the stage for both Elvis' subsequent success and the rock 'n' roll revolution of the 1950s. Significantly, Dewey captivated a huge white audience with previously forbidden "race" music.
Dewey was the first DJ to introduce an Elvis record on the radio in July 1954. On his Memphis radio show Red, Hot & Blue, he played an acetate of the first single That's All Right (Mama) cut for him by the owner of Sun Studios, Sam Phillips (no relation). Legend has it that Dewey played the song anywhere from seven to eleven times in a row and he interviewed Elvis that night.
Elvis always acknowledged his debt of gratitude to Dewey - not only for his first radio exposure but also for the influence on his musical development through hearing the exciting mix of blues and country records every night.
The programme includes extracts from Dewey's radio and TV programmes of the 50s and early 60s. Interviewees include Louis Cantor - author of Dewey And Elvis - who worked on Memphis radio station WDIA; Charles Raiteri - another Memphis radio veteran; Humes High School classmates of Elvis: George Klein and Jerry Schilling; and an archive interview with the late Memphis musician and producer Jim Dickinson.
THE PRISONER – SERIES 1 (320kbs-m4a/628mb/4hrs33mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd December 2018 to 6th January 2019
The original 17-episode TV series of The Prisoner created intrigue and controversy in equal measure when it first aired in the UK in 1967. In a taut psychological spy thriller the main character, dehumanised as ‘Number 6’, has committed no crime, save for having resigned from some unspecified branch of the British Secret Service. His prison is a heavily guarded coastal village.
Under constant surveillance, Number 6 can trust no-one and relentlessly works to establish who his captors are, a seemingly impossible task when the most senior figure he encounters – Number 2 – changes frequently...
Music - Jamie Robertson.
Script Editor - Jamie Anderson.
Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs.
A Big Finish Production - based on the classic ITV series.
THE PRISONER - 1. DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL - PART 1 (320kbs-m4a/99mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd December 2018
After quitting his post, secret agent ZM73 wakes up imprisoned in a bizarre village with a new identity.
Mark Elstob stars as Agent ZM73 aka Number 6, with John Standing as Number Two, Sara Powell as Number 9, Helen Goldwyn as the Village Voice, Sarah Mowat as Zero Six Two, Jim Barclay as Control and Barnaby Edwards as Number 34.
THE PRISONER - 2. DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL - PART 2 (320kbs-m4a/84mb/36mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 9th December 2018
Number 6 continues to explore The Village, trying to establish who runs it and hoping to find some way out.
Mark Elstob stars as Agent ZM73 aka Number 6, with John Standing as Number Two, Sara Powell as Number 9, Helen Goldwyn as the Village Voice, Sarah Mowat as Zero Six Two, Jim Barclay as Control and Barnaby Edwards as Number 34.
THE PRISONER - 3. THE SCHIZOID MAN (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th December 2018
6 finds himself fascinated by a strange bond which has suddenly developed between himself and Number 9. But the next morning, 6 wakes to find himself changed. A moustache, different hair, and... a new name. Number 12.
Mark Elstob stars as Agent ZM73 aka Number 6, with Celia Imrie as Number Two, Sara Powell as Number 9, Helen Goldwyn as the Village Voice, Jim Barclay as Cobb, Jez Fielder as Number 17 and Barnaby Edwards as the Butler.
THE PRISONER - 4. YOUR BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 23rd December 2018
Something is very wrong, as Number 6 experiences the most disturbing sense deprivation.
Almost complete darkness, filled with haunting sounds, fragments of conversations, and a desperate call from 9 start to test his reason.
Mark Elstob stars as Agent ZM73 aka Number 6, with Ramon Tikaram as Number Two, Sara Powell as Number 9 and Helen Goldwyn as the Village Voice.
THE PRISONER - 5. THE CHIMES OF BIG BEN - PART 1 (320kbs-m4a/91mb/40mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 30th December 2018
A new prisoner arrives in The Village. The woman is strong-minded, independent, and refuses to accept her new number - 8.
She is not a number, she is Nadia. And 6 is convinced that she’s his ticket out of The Village...
Mark Elstob stars as Agent ZM73 aka Number 6, with Michael Cochrane as Number Two, Kristina Buikaite as Number 8, Helen Goldwyn as the Village Voice, Barnaby Edwards as Danvers and Nicholas Briggs as the Conductor.
Other parts played by members of the cast.
THE PRISONER - 6. THE CHIMES OF BIG BEN - PART 2 (320kbs-m4a/93mb/40mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th January 2019
Number 6 takes Number 8 to be a kindred spirit and, together, they plan an audacious escape from The Village...
Mark Elstob stars as Agent ZM73 aka Number 6, with Michael Cochrane as Number Two, Kristina Buikaite as Number 8, Helen Goldwyn as the Village Voice, Barnaby Edwards as Danvers and Nicholas Briggs as the Conductor.
Other parts played by members of the cast.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA (320kbs-m4a/817mb/5hrs54mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th to 28th November 2018
Futuristic tale set in 1965 as first broadcast in 1953.
Stars Andrew Faulds as Jet Morgan, Alfie Bass as Lemmy Barnett, Guy Kingsley-Poynter as Doc, David Williams as Mitch, Other parts by John Cazabon, Alan Keith, Duncan McIntyre, David Jacobs and Deryck Guyler.
Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips.
Written in thirteen parts and produced by Charles Chilton.
Though first heard in 1953, the original recordings were wiped.
Re-recording first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1958.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th November 2018
1965: Jet Morgan is in Australia, preparing for 'Operation Luna,' set to be man's first trip to the Moon.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th November 2018
Jet Morgan and his crew battle to make their 1965 landing on the moon as the world looks on.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 14th November 2018
Captain Jet Morgan is disturbed by visions and a sense of foreboding, as his rocket fails to respond...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th November 2018
Captain Jet Morgan and his crew face catastrophe when their rocket loses power.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 5. EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th November 2018
The stalled rocket ship stops Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from returning to Earth.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 6. EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 19th November 2018
Captain Jet Morgan decides to investigate the dark side of the moon before the ship returns to Earth.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 7. EPISODE 7 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th November 2018
As Captain Jet Morgan's crew are pursued on the dark side of the moon, they drift dangerously off course.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 8. EPISODE 8 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st November 2018
Captain Jet Morgan and his crew find themselves on a curiously familiar planet as visitors arrive.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 9. EPISODE 9 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd November 2018
Captain Jet Morgan and his crew have returned to Earth, but it's not as they left it.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 10. EPISODE 10 (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 23rd November 2018
Stranded in Earth's past, the Voice tries tempting Captain Jet Morgan and his crew out into the city of the aliens.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 11. EPISODE 11 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th November 2018
The Voice invites Captain Jet Morgan and his crew to meet him, but Lemmy is soon feeling terrified...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 12. EPISODE 12 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 27th November 2018
After travelling through time, could Captain Jet Morgan and his crew be bound for home at last?
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: OPERATION LUNA - 13. EPISODE 13 (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 28th November 2018
After blasting off, Captain Jet Morgan and his crew try to make sense of their mammoth trip through time.
DAVID BOWIE - LIVE BBC RADIO THEATRE LONDON 2000 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th December 2018
David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind [EMI]
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes [EMI]
David Bowie - Seven [EMI]
David Bowie - Absolute Beginners [EMI]
David Bowie - Always Crashing In The Same Car [EMI]
David Bowie - Survive [EMI]
David Bowie - Little Wonder [EMI]
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World [EMI]
David Bowie - Fame [EMI]
David Bowie - Stay [EMI]
David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy [EMI]
David Bowie - Let's Dance [EMI]
MANIC STREET PREACHERS - LIVE LONDON ASTORIA 1994 (320kbs-m4a/111mb/48mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 17th November 2018
Manic Street Preachers - P.C.P.
Manic Street Preachers - From Despair To Where
Manic Street Preachers - Faster
Manic Street Preachers - She Is Suffering
Manic Street Preachers - La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
Manic Street Preachers - Slash 'n' Burn
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
Manic Street Preachers - New Art Riot
Manic Street Preachers - Life Becoming A Landslide
Manic Street Preachers - Revol
Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lb
Manic Street Preachers - This Is Yesterday
Manic Street Preachers - Motown Junk
BUZZCOCKS - LIVE SUMMER SUNDAE LEICESTER 2006 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th December 2018
Buzzcocks - Noise Annoys/Breakdown
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What To Do With My Life
Buzzcocks - Sick City Sometimes
Buzzcocks - Promises/Love You More/What Do I Get
Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head/Autonomy
Buzzcocks - Wish I Never Loved You
Buzzcocks - Sell You Everything/I Don't Mind
Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It?
Buzzcocks - Oh Sh*t/Orgasm Addict
Buzzcocks - That's Alright/Boredom
Buzzcocks - Fast Cars (Peel Session, 7 Sep 1977)
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays (Peel Session, 18 Oct 1978)
Buzzcocks - Pulse Beat (Peel Session, 7 Sep 1977)
BUZZCOCKS (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th December 2018
Following the sad death of frontman Pete Shelley, Mark Lamarr tells the story of punk pioneers Buzzcocks. With recollections from Pete and other members of the band, as well as the thoughts of Paul Morley, Tony Wilson and Edwyn Collins. First broadcast in 2004.
Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
Sex Pistols - I'm A Lazy Sod
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant [Polygram]
Buzzcocks - I Love You Big Dummy
Buzzcocks - I Can't Control Myself
Buzzcocks - Love Battery
Buzzcocks - Breakdown [Castle Music]
The Bonzo Dog Band - Canyons Of Your Mind [EMI]
Buzzcocks - Boredom [Document]
Buzzcocks - Times Up [EMI]
Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? [Cool Badge]
Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind
Buzzcocks - Love You More
Buzzcocks - Promises [EMI]
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays [EMI]
Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Buzzcocks - Noise Annoys [Danceteria]
Buzzcocks - I Believe [EMI]
Pete Shelley - Homosapien [Genetic]
Orange Juice - Rip It Up [EMI]
Buzzcocks - Doesn't Mean Anything
Buzzcocks - Friends
Buzzcocks - Stars
Pete Yorn - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Buzzcocks - Something’s Gone Wrong Again
RICHARD NORRIS - MOON IN JUNE (LODOWN MONDAY MIXTAPE) (320kbs/145mb/64mins)
Lodown Magazine download 12th June 2017
Alice Coltrane - Om Shanti
Wayne Shorter - Ponta De Areia
Tourmani Diabate & Ballake Sissoko - Lamban
Bert Jansch - Bittern
Phil France - The Swimmer
Junun - Roked
ODMP - La Cuisine Asiatique
Fela Kuti - Let's Starta
Gilhad Kahana - Africa Sheli (Red Axes Mix)
Sahara All Stars - Take Your Soul
Danny! Feat. Che Grand - Off The Hook
The Souljazz Orchestra - Kossa Kossa
ARCHIVE ON 4: THE THREE DAY WEEK (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 1st December 2018
Back in 1973, Britain was plunged into darkness as Prime Minister Edward Heath introduced a three-day working week.
Cities fell dark. Factories and schools closed. People, often wrapped in blankets, worked by candle and torchlight. At home, people boiled water to wash and children were sent to school with luminous yellow bands so they could be seen in the gloom. And Britain's three TV channels came to an abrupt end at ten thirty!
For decades, British politics was shaped, perhaps defined, by the events of the early 1970s, with the three-day week as the centrepoint. Now it seems almost unimaginable that this could have happened in one of the world's richest countries so how did it ever get to this point? Could Heath have done anything different? Michael White of The Guardian, then a young reporter, takes us back to those extraordinary days and charts the long-term political significance of the crisis.
Producer: Jim Frank.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
METAL AT 40 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th November 2018
In 1968, Britain's first heavy metal bands were formed, transforming rock music around the world, forever. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple each had their own unique sound, but shared an approach that embraced "heavy" guitar riffs, powerful lead vocals and thunderous percussion. Since then, heavy metal has flourished and diversified, spawning sub-genres such as grindcore, thrash and death metal, ever eager to embrace extreme subject matter. Horror film actor and writer Emily Booth tells the story of the loudest, darkest form of rock, with the help of many of metal's leading musicians.
Presented by Emily Booth
Produced by Bob Dickinson
MUSIC EXTRA - MY MADONNA (96kbs-m4a/37mb/53mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 3rd November 2018
With contributions from people Madonna lived and worked with during her formative years, this programme highlights the drive and determination that took a struggling, ambitious young dancer from suburban Detroit, with grand visions of one day becoming a club dancer in New York City, on a journey that exceeded her wildest expectations as she evolved to become one of pop music’s most successful icons.
This is the inside story of Madonna’s early life, from her restrictive Catholic childhood in Detroit, where she said she felt like the 'quintessential Cinderella', to her escape to the bright lights of New York as a teenager, her transformation from dancer to rocker to pop singer and the recording and release of her eponymous debut album in 1983 — the LP that introduced the world to Madonna and set her on the road to pop stardom.
Convinced from an early age that she was going to become 'a star', Madonna diligently crafted her stage persona over a number of years, driven by a search for love and recognition and fuelled by a childhood diet of disparate influences, all of which fermented in her mind as she experimented with a variety of creative outlets including dance, poetry, rock, disco and pop, before finally settling on a distinctive style which she was determined to prove successful.
Never once doubting her ability to achieve her goal Madonna possessed incredible self belief and tenacity as she doggedly pursued her dreams of becoming a megastar.
(Photo: Madonna in her early years. Credit: Getty Images)
ON THE HOUR - SERIES 1 (320kbs-m4a/296mb/2hrs9mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 28th October to 25th November 2018
All the news as it happens, if it happens.
Plus all the sport from Alan Partridge.
Savagely satirical award-winning comedy starring Chris Morris.
With Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber and Doon Mackichan.
Written by Chris Morris, Richard Herring, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, David Quantick and Stewart Lee.
Editor: Armando lannucci.
ON THE HOUR SERIES 1 - EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/56mb/24mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 28th October 2018
From disasters and corruption to beachcombing and medical mayhem.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.
ON THE HOUR SERIES 1 - EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/56mb/24mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 4th November 2018
Tackling dangerous dogs, TV evangelism probe - and a surprising new role for Margaret Thatcher.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.
ON THE HOUR SERIES 1 - EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/56mb/24mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 11th November 2018
Campaigning to tighten the letter of the law, and war is declared.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.
ON THE HOUR SERIES 1 - EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th November 2018
Why cream maybe good for you - and another motorway goes missing...
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.
ON THE HOUR SERIES 1 - EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th November 2018
The latest on the 'Penelope Keith riots', and just 38 weeks to Wimbledon.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: TRACEY THORN (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 18th November 2018
Tracey Thorn, musician and writer, is best known as one half of the duo Everything but the Girl. Brought up in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, she bought her first guitar, a black Les Paul copy, when she was 16 and her first band was called the Stern Bobs. Shortly after, she formed her own all-female band, Marine Girls, before moving to Hull University to study English. On her first night there, she met her future husband, Ben Watt, and they went on to form Everything But the Girl. Between 1982 and 2000, they sold more than nine million records and toured Europe and America. Despite their success, Tracey did not always enjoy performing live.
At 35 she left the pop world to look after her twin girls, who were followed by her son Blake. She took about seven years out to be a full time parent, but since then she has come back to song-writing, recording music and writing: her first memoir Bedsit Disco Queen was a best seller, and she has a fortnightly column in the New Statesman.
This year Tracey was presented with the outstanding contribution to music prize, at the AIM independent music awards.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Frank Sinatra - You Make Me Feel So Young
Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting
Patti Smith - Gloria [Arista]
John Martyn - Solid Air [Universal/Island]
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog [Warner]
Evelyn “Champagne” King - Shame [Big Break]
The Mamas & The Papas - Dream A Little Dream Of Me [Universal/Island]
Daft Punk - One More Time [EMI]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: NILE RODGERS (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 14th October 2018
Nile Rodgers is a Grammy-winning composer, musician, and producer. With his own band, Chic, he's been enticing people on to the dance floor since the mid-1970s with hits like Le Freak and Good Times. With over 200 production credits to his name, he has worked on many highly successful albums from Sister Sledge’s We Are Family to David Bowie’s Let’s Dance and Madonna’s Like a Virgin.
Born in New York City in 1952 to a teenage mother, he spent his early life immersed in his parents’ bohemian, beatnik, and drug-dominated lifestyle. Drugs played a part in Nile's life too from an early age, and he took his first acid trip with Timothy Leary at the age of 15. After learning to play the guitar, he got his musical break touring with the Sesame Street stage show and playing in the house band of Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, where he met bassist Bernard Edwards with whom he developed a productive musical partnership and went on to found Chic.
Following the Disco Sucks movement of the late 1970s, Nile and Bernard turned to production, and sprinkled their magic dust on Sister Sledge and Diana Ross. When Nile and Bernard went their separate ways in the early 1980s, Nile forged ahead on his own, working with, among others, Madonna, Michael Jackson, David Bowie and Duran Duran.
Nile went into rehab in 1994 and has been clean and sober for the past 24 years and has received successful treatment for cancer twice. He won three Grammys for his 2013 collaboration with the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, and has recently released the first Chic album in 26 years.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Chic - Le Freak
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
The Doors - The End
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Chic - Good Times
THE CASBAH - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th November 2018
The Casbah: Birthplace Of Merseybeat celebrates the somewhat neglected and hugely significant venue where The Beatles enjoyed a residency prior to their later and more often recognised success at the Cavern Club. The documentary is presented by original Beatles' drummer Pete Best whose mother Mona both owned and ran the club.
The Casbah, a private members club in the basement of the Best family home, was distinctive in a number of ways having opened as a strictly Rock'n'Roll venue. The majority of Liverpool clubs in the late 50's having had roots in Jazz, Folk & Country music. It was also notable in that it was run by a woman, Mona Best, in an era when music/club promoters were invariably male. The documentary will explore the history of the club (decorated by The Beatles and now awarded Blue Plaque status) while examining the broader context of the boom that came to be known as Merseybeat.
Including contributions from Merseybeat newspaper founder Bill Harry alongside merseybeat veterans Mike Pender of The Searchers, Georgie Spruce (AKA Earl Preston of Earl Preston & The TT's), Howie Casey (of Derry & the Seniors-the first Liverpool combo to play in Hamburg and secure a recording contract), and Geoff Nugent (of The Undertakers). The programme also features the recollections of Casbah Club members and a fleeting, though noteworthy, contribution from Paul McCartney.
First broadcast on Radio 2.
The Undertakers - Money (That's What I Want)
Johnny Sandon & The Remo Four - Lies
The Beatles - P.S. I Love You
Lee Curtis & The All Stars - Let's Stomp
Faron's Flamingos - Do You Love Me?
Earl Preston & The T.T's - Thumbin' A Ride
The Big Three - Cavern Stomp
The Big Three - What'd I Say
The Beatles - The Hippy Hippy Shake
The Beatles - Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey!
The Beatles - One After 909
THE CASBAH - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 23rd October 2018
The Casbah: Birthplace Of Merseybeat celebrates the somewhat neglected and hugely significant venue where The Beatles enjoyed a residency prior to their later and more often recognised success at the Cavern Club. The documentary is presented by original Beatles' drummer Pete Best whose mother Mona both owned and ran the club.
The Casbah, a private members club in the basement of the Best family home, was distinctive in a number of ways having opened as a strictly Rock'n'Roll venue. The majority of Liverpool clubs in the late 50's having had roots in Jazz, Folk & Country music. It was also notable in that it was run by a woman, Mona Best, in an era when music/club promoters were invariably male. The documentary will explore the history of the club (decorated by The Beatles and now awarded Blue Plaque status) while examining the broader context of the boom that came to be known as Merseybeat.
Including contributions from Merseybeat newspaper founder Bill Harry alongside merseybeat veterans Mike Pender of The Searchers, Georgie Spruce (AKA Earl Preston of Earl Preston & The TT's), Howie Casey (of Derry & the Seniors-the first Liverpool combo to play in Hamburg and secure a recording contract), and Geoff Nugent (of The Undertakers). The programme also features the recollections of Casbah Club members and a fleeting, though noteworthy, contribution from Paul McCartney.
First broadcast on Radio 2.
Cliff Richard & The Drifters - Move It [EMI]
The Beatles - Hallelujah, I Love Her So [BBC]
The Beatles - You'll Be Mine [Parlophone]
The Beatles - Cayenne [Apple]
The Beatles - Money (That's What I Want) [EMI]
The Chants - I Don't Care [Sequel]
Howie Casey & The Seniors - Bony Maronie [Esoldun]
Howie Casey & The Seniors - I Ain't Mad At You [United Artists]
The Searchers - Hey Joe [Philips]
Earl Preston & The T.T's - Watch Your Step [Fontana]
The Beatles - Be-Bop-A-Lula [Lingasong]
The Beatles - Memphis, Tennessee (BBC Pop Go The Beatles, 30 Jul 1963) [Apple]
The Undertakers - Money (That's What I Want)
DOCTOR WHO - SPECIAL FEATURES (320kbs-m4a/72mb/31mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th October 2018
The Doctor contributes a DVD commentary to a cult 1970s horror movie re-release.
Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Nyssa played by Sarah Sutton. With James Fleet as Sir Jack Merrivale.
This episode is one of four generated by Big Finish Productions' 2010 'Opportunity for New Writers' contest, which attracted around 1200 entries,
Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor on BBC TV from 1981 to 1984.
Sarah Sutton played Nyssa between 1981 and 1983. She was first seen on 'The Keeper of Traken' - Traken being Nyssa's home planet, when she starred with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)
Written by John Dorney.
Original music composed by Richard Fox and Lauren Yason.
Directed by Ken Bentley
Producer: David Richardson
A Big Finish production.
DOCTOR WHO - DOING TIME (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th October 2018
The Doctor does time on the prison planet Folly. Can he endure a year in solitary?
Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Nyssa played by Sarah Sutton.
This episode is one of four generated by Big Finish Productions' 2010 'Opportunity for New Writers' contest, which attracted around 1200 entries,
Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor on BBC TV from 1981 to 1984.
Sarah Sutton played Nyssa between 1981 and 1983. She was first seen on 'The Keeper of Traken' - Traken being Nyssa's home planet, when she starred with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)
Written by Rick Briggs.
Original music composed by Richard Fox and Lauren Yason.
Directed by Ken Bentley
Producer: David Richardson
A Big Finish production.
DOCTOR WHO - THE ENTROPY COMPOSITION (320kbs-m4a/56mb/24mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th October 2018
A Prog Rock symphony rediscovered in the vaults can be catastrophic for the entire cosmos.
Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Nyssa played by Sarah Sutton.
This episode is one of four generated by Big Finish Productions' 2010 'Opportunity for New Writers' contest, which attracted around 1200 entries,
Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor on BBC TV from 1981 to 1984.
Sarah Sutton played Nyssa between 1981 and 1983. She was first seen on 'The Keeper of Traken' - Traken being Nyssa's home planet, when she starred with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)
Written by Rick Briggs.
Original music composed by Richard Fox and Lauren Yason.
Directed by Ken Bentley
Producer: David Richardson
A Big Finish production.
DOCTOR WHO - THE DEMONS OF RED LODGE (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th September 2018
Something menacing lurks outside the woodshed on a dark, misty Suffolk night in 1665.
Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Nyssa played by Sarah Sutton.
This episode is one of four generated by Big Finish Productions' 2010 'Opportunity for New Writers' contest, which attracted around 1200 entries,
Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor from 1981 to 1984.
Sarah Sutton played Nyssa between 1981 and 1983. She was first seen on 'The Keeper of Traken' - Traken being Nyssa's home planet, when she starred with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)
Written by Jason Arnopp.
Original music composed by Richard Fox and Lauren Yason.
Directed by Ken Bentley
Producer: David Richardson
A Big Finish production.
DOCTOR WHO: HEROES OF SONTAR - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd September 2018
The Time Lord is on the planet Samur, with three enemies after him. Nyssa hints at some intriguing secrets.
Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Tegan Jovanka played by Janet Fielding.
Planet Samur was once a peaceful haven. Pilgrims journeyed across the seven galaxies to meditate in the courtyards of the vast Citadel that spanned its equator. It was Samur's misfortune, however, to find itself situated on the furthermost frontier in the eternal war between the amoeboid Rutan Host and the belligerent, troll-like Sontarans...
Twenty years after detonating a bacteriological weapon over Samur, rendering it uninhabitable, the Sontarans are back: a select platoon of seven has landed here on a secret mission, carrying sealed orders given to them by Fleet Marshal Stabb.
The TARDIS has landed here, too, bringing the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa into the second great Battle of Samur. Fighting not only the Sontarans, but mystical mercenaries... and a deadly, decades-old curse.
Written by Alan Barnes.
Director: Ken Bentley.
Producer: David Richardson
A Big Finish production.
DOCTOR WHO: HEROES OF SONTAR - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th September 2018
The Time Lord takes Tegan to the planet Samur to recuperate. However, it's not the haven it once was.
Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Tegan Jovanka played by Janet Fielding.
Planet Samur was once a peaceful haven. Pilgrims journeyed across the seven galaxies to meditate in the courtyards of the vast Citadel that spanned its equator. It was Samur's misfortune, however, to find itself situated on the furthermost frontier in the eternal war between the amoeboid Rutan Host and the belligerent, troll-like Sontarans...
Twenty years after detonating a bacteriological weapon over Samur, rendering it uninhabitable, the Sontarans are back: a select platoon of seven has landed here on a secret mission, carrying sealed orders given to them by Fleet Marshal Stabb.
The TARDIS has landed here, too, bringing the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa into the second great Battle of Samur. Fighting not only the Sontarans, but mystical mercenaries... and a deadly, decades-old curse.
Written by Alan Barnes and directed by Ken Bentley.
A Big Finish production.
