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ANDREW WEATHERALL - ESSENTIAL MIX 22.02.20 (13.11.93) (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 22nd February 2020
Andrew Weatherall recorded two great Essential Mixes in the 1990’s. The peerless 1996 mix, and this, his historic first outing in November 1993, which was the third ever Essential Mix broadcast on Radio 1.
An atmospheric and psychedelic two hour musical journey taking in dub, acid house and techno. Featuring music from Black Dog, Planetary Assault Systems, Plastikman and The Sabres Of Paradise, including the classic Smokebelch II.
Killing Joke - Millenium [Butterfly/Zoo]
The Sabres Of Paradise - Edge [Warp]
Brothers Love Dubs - Mighty Ming (Sabres Of Paradise Remix) [Stress]
Unknown - Unknown
The Sabres Of Paradise - Smokebelch (Beatless) [Warp]
Plastikman - Spastik [NovaMute]
LFO & F.U.S.E. - Loop
The Sabres Of Paradise - Lik Wid Nit Wit [Warp]
The Black Dog - Virtual [Black Dog Productions]
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Pull
Shiver - Nightshift [Shiver]
Experimentation - Flight 15 [Oms]
Morgan Fisher - Humtone #4 (Sea Diver Remix) [MFF]
3M - Accu H [Vortex]
Planetary Assault Systems - Twilight [Peacefrog]
Innersphere - Lets Go To Work [Sabrettes]
Expérimental - Afghan Acid [EXperimental]
3 Phase - Rota [NovaMute]
N.A.D. - Habibi Halilu
Koenig Cylinders - Carousel [IST]
ANDREW WEATHERALL - CLASSIC 6 MIX (320kbs-m4a/280mb/1hr59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th & 19th February 2020
Following the sad news of the passing of Iconic DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall here is another chance to hear his 6 Mix from 2014. Andrew's name was one of the most widely regarded in British electronic music by those who have helped define it - Terry Farley, Paul Oakenfold and New Order to name a few.
Beginning his career as a journalist and starting the 'Boy's Own' fanzine, he met Danny Rampling while DJing in North London and was invited to be a resident at his legendary Shoom nights. His reputation continued to grow and as a producer he remixed tracks for the likes of Bjork and Manic Street Preachers, has released his own tracks on various labels including Warp, and along with Primal Scream won the first ever Mercury Music Prize for 'Screamadelica'.
ANDREW WEATHERALL - CLASSIC 6 MIX PART 1 (320kbs-m4a/138mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th February 2020
Andrew Weatherall - Selective Walking
Two Friends Crew - This Dub Will Self Destruct in 3'53
The Parkay Quarts - He's Seeing Paths
Brigitte Fontaine - Blanche Neige
C.O.M.A. - Verre
POW! - 66
Grumbling Fur - Protogenesis
The Names - Music For Someone
Survival - Survival
Afet Serenay - Maden Dagi
Barış Manço - Mozart
Patrizia & Jimmy - Trust Your Child
Kissing The Pink - 30,000 Women (Thomas Bullock Re-Edit)
Secret Boyfriend - Beyond The Darkness
Friendly Fires - Velo
ANDREW WEATHERALL - CLASSIC 6 MIX PART 2 (320kbs-m4a/138mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th February 2020
Friendly Fires - Velo
Heatstick - Re-Engineering
Flies + Flies - Bad Crab Hand
Stabile Elite - Dogan Bogart
The End - Dreamworld
Pete Molinari - No Love For Sale
She Lies - Needed You (Asphodells Remix)
Mano Le Tough - Return To Yoz
Whilst - Goya's Skull
Jex Opolis - Zither
Tristesse Contemporaine - Fire (Kasper Bjørke Version)
Intro (320kbs-m4a/3mb/35secs)
SOUND OF CINEMA - 270. A CELEBRATION OF ELMER BERNSTEIN (320kbs-m4a/135mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 22nd February 2020
Matthew Sweet introduces a celebratory concert of film music by Elmer Bernstein recorded especially for the programme by the BBC Philharmonic and Ben Palmer in their Salford Studios. The programme features music from The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, American Werewolf in London, Age of Innocence, True Grit, and Ghostbusters.
Image Courtesy of the Estate of Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein - Hollywood And The Stars (1963 TV)
Elmer Bernstein - The Magnificent 7 (1960); Suite
Elmer Bernstein - The Ten Commandments (1956); Overture
Elmer Bernstein - True Grit (1969); Suite
Elmer Bernstein - The Great Escape (1963); Suite
Elmer Bernstein - To Kill A Mockingbird (1962); Suite
Elmer Bernstein - An American Werewolf In London (1981); Suite And Metamorphosis
Elmer Bernstein - The Age Of Innocence (1993); Waltz And End Titles
Elmer Bernstein - Ghostbusters (1984); Antic And Theme
SOUND OF CINEMA - 266. THE MGM MUSICAL (320kbs-m4a/135mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 21st December 2019
As the nationwide BFI Musicals season continues Matthew Sweet celebrates the all-singing, all-dancing world of MGM musicals on film. Featuring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and Howard Keel in music from Easter Parade, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat, An American in Paris, and our classic score of the week Singin' in the Rain.
Image © Warner Bros. Ent. All rights reserved. Singin’ in the Rain is showing in selected cinemas as part of the BFI Musicals season.
Cole Porter - Broadway Melody (1940) [Rhino]
George Meyer - For Me And My Gal (1942) - For Me And My Gal [Premier Soundtracks]
Nacio Herb Brown - Babes In Arms (1939) - Good Morning [EMI]
Irving Berlin - Easter Parade (1948) - Easter Parade [CBS]
Saul Chaplin - Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954) - Barn Dance [EMI]
Jerome Kern - Show Boat (1951) - Make Believe [Premier Soundtracks]
Cole Porter - Kiss Me Kate (1953) - Too Darn Hot [MGM]
George Gershwin - An American In Paris (1952) - I Got Rhythm [CBS]
Frederick Loewe - Brigadoon (1954) - The Heather On The Hill [CBS]
Nacio Herb Brown - Singin' In The Rain (1952) - The Broadway Ballet [CBS]
Frederick Loewe - Gigi (1958) - Say A Prayer For Me Tonight [CBS]
Hugh Martin - Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [Rhino]
ORPHEUS UNDERGROUND (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 4th January 2016
Novelist
Neil Gaiman explores the intricacies of the Orpheus myth, the timeless
story of art's place in trying to recover the dead.
With
contributions from writers Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Carroll, the late
Russell Hoban and his daughter Phoebe Hoban, songwriter and cartoonist
Peter Blegvad, and composer and conceptual artist Hannah Catherine
Jones.
Produced by Michael Umney
A Resonance production for BBC Radio 4.
OPEN BOOK - NEIL GAIMAN SPECIAL (128kbs-m4a/26mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 27th June 2013
Neil Gaiman talks to Mariella Frostrup about his hugely popular Science fiction/ fantasy works for both adults and children alike and why he continues to be inspired by the thing lurking just out of sight in the shadows.
Author of the successful Coraline, The Graveyard Book and American Gods, Gaiman is a prolific writer and this year is no exception - so far he's published Chu's Day for younger readers, had Neverwhere, his novel set in the dark and dirty world of London Below, adapted on Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra, seen his second episode of Dr Who, Nightmare in Silver aired, published the book of a keynote speech he made in the US and edited a selection of short stories called Unnatural Creatures.
September sees publication of another children's title Fortunately the Milk, a fast paced story with a dinosaur who has invented a floaty ball person carrier (a hot air balloon), sparkly coloured ponies, vampires, pirates and globby green aliens and he has just published his first adult novel in eight years, The Ocean at the end of the Lane.
Producer: Andrea Kidd.
LENNY HENRY'S ROGUES GALLERY - SERIES 2 (320kbs-m4a/127mb/55mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 15th November to 6th December 2017
Written by and starring Sir Lenny Henry
Produced by Sam Michell
A BBC Studios Production.
LENNY HENRY'S ROGUES GALLERY - SERIES 2 - 1. LEFT HAND OF GOD (320kbs-m4a/32mb/14mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 15th November 2017
Lenny Henry writes and stars in a darkly comic story about Stan Clayton who has been a butcher all his life and hopes his sons will follow in his footsteps. But when one of them brings home a cherry red Stratocaster one day, it seems that Stan's plans are for the chopping block.
LENNY HENRY'S ROGUES GALLERY - SERIES 2 - 2. D.A.N.T.E. (320kbs-m4a/32mb/14mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 22nd November 2017
A frustrated artist is given a robot butler by her husband to cater for her every whim. But it soon turns out that that might not be enough... Lenny Henry writes this darkly comic monologue, performed by Tanya Moodie.
LENNY HENRY'S ROGUES GALLERY - SERIES 2 - 3. LEMAR'S CLEAN SHEET (320kbs-m4a/32mb/14mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 29th November 2017
A white boy from West Virginia is forced to join the Klu Klux Klan by his father, but when his black friends find out, they play a cruel trick on him. Voiced by George Fouracres (Radio 4's Daphne Sound Expensive).
LENNY HENRY'S ROGUES GALLERY - SERIES 2 - 4. MURDER MEN (320kbs-m4a/32mb/14mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 6th December 2017
Another darkly comic tale from the mind of Sir Lenny Henry, who plays Phil Hedley, an actor known for his "tough guy" roles. When Phil is suddenly cut from his hit cop drama "Tough Diamonds", for getting too close to the executive producer's daughter, the work dries up and he is forced to take a job fronting documentaries on gangs for niche cable channel Man Planet. But although Phil acts the tough guy, when he finds himself interviewing a drug lord in the middle of the Jamaican bush, it turns out he might not actually be as tough as he first thought...
JAMES FOLLETT - THE DESTRUCTION FACTOR (320kbs-m4a/386mb/2hrs47mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th to 20th January 2020
James Follett’s sci-fi thriller in six-parts starring TP McKenna.
Producer: David Spencer
First broadcast as 2 x 90 minute plays on BBC Radio 4 in March 1978.
JAMES FOLLETT - THE DESTRUCTION FACTOR - 1. THE SEEDS OF CREATION (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th January 2020
Ralph Exon - working for an international fertiliser corporation - has created a new strain of plant: a mutation which he hopes will bring relief to the famine-ridden countries of the world.
It's an innocent-looking plant. But in that plant, known as the Exon strain, there also lurks the Destruction Factor...
Max Flinders ...... TP McKenna
Denise Exon ...... Rosalind Adams
Howard Rogers ...... Paul Copley
Ralph Exon ...... Clifford Rose
Balfour ...... Peter Wickham
Garrard ...... Rod Beacham
Ted Downes ...... Bruce Beeby
Kathy Downes ...... Joan Matheson
Milly ...... Karen Archer
Anne ...... Christine Absalom
Harriet ...... Debby Cumming
JAMES FOLLETT - THE DESTRUCTION FACTOR - 2. THE DEVIL'S HARVEST (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 14th January 2020
As fires erupt - why is Ralph Exon's new plant strain mutation growing so rapidly?
Max Flinders ...... TP McKenna
Denise Exon ...... Rosalind Adams
Howard Rogers ...... Paul Copley
Ralph Exon ...... Clifford Rose
DI Balfour ...... Peter Wickham
Commander ...... Rod Beacham
Nurse ...... Joan Matheson
Voice in Climatorium ...... Jennifer Piercey
JAMES FOLLETT - THE DESTRUCTION FACTOR - 3. THE WINGS OF AZREAL (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th January 2020
Can a corporation's new plant strain mutation bring relief to famine stricken countries?
Max Flinders ...... TP McKenna
Denise Exon ...... Rosalind Adams
Howard Rogers ...... Paul Copley
Nurse ...... Joan Matheson
Anne ...... Christine Absalom
Blowers ...... Michael Shannon
JAMES FOLLETT - THE DESTRUCTION FACTOR - 4. BIRDSTRIKE (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th January 2020
After sparking a plane crash, the deadly Exon plant strain's advancement continues.
Max Flinders ...... TP McKenna
Denise Exon ...... Rosalind Adams
Howard Rogers ...... Paul Copley
Blowers ...... Michael Shannon
Prime Minister ...... Noel Johnson
Shand ...... Gregory de Polnay
Wayne ...... Roy Spencer
Dymond ...... Rod Beacham
JAMES FOLLETT - THE DESTRUCTION FACTOR - 5. SEARCH AND DESTROY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th January 2020
Despite the national emergency, landowners try to profit from the deadly Exon strain.
Max Flinders ...... TP McKenna
Denise Exon ...... Rosalind Adams
Howard Rogers ...... Paul Copley
Nurse ...... Joan Matheson
Prime Minister ...... Noel Johnson
Blowers ...... Michael Shannon
TV Presenter ...... Henry Knowles
TV PA ...... Mary Elliott Nelson
Climatorium Technician ...... Rod Beacham
Helicopter Pilot ...... Peter Wickham
Farmer ...... Roy Spencer
Corporal ...... Gregory de Polnay
Sachs ...... Denis Goacher
JAMES FOLLETT - THE DESTRUCTION FACTOR - 6. WORLD WITHOUT FIRE (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th January 2020
The British government must track down the Exon seeds before any American involvement.
Max Flinders ...... TP McKenna
Denise Exon ...... Rosalind Adams
Howard Rogers ...... Paul Copley
Nurse ...... Joan Matheson
Craig ...... Noel Johnson
Blowers ...... Michael Shannon
Miss Anderson ...... Diana Olson
Scott ...... Diana Olsson
Helicopter Pilot ...... Peter Wickham
Farmer ...... Roy Spencer
Corporal ...... Gregory de Polnay
Sachs ...... Denis Goacher
DO TELL THEM PIKE: ARTHUR LOWE ON THE RADIO (320kbs-m4a/411mb/2hrs59mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st February 2020
The radio legacy of iconic British comedy actor Arthur Lowe – best loved as Dad's Army's very own Captain Mainwaring.
Arthur's friend, and Dad's Army co-star, Ian Lavender (Private Pike) is our guide over 3 hours:
* Desert Island Discs - Arthur Lowe:
Lost to the BBC archives, but saved by a listener's off air recording, Arthur Lowe's castaway choices heard for the first time since 1970. Arthur tells Roy Plomley about his childhood, his early acting days whilst serving in the Second World War, his time on ITV's Coronation Street, and his joy at being part of the BBC's Dad's Army team – then in its relative infancy.
* Dad's Army:
Ian chooses his favourite episode about the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon from the many radio adaptations.
* Billy's Last Stand:
From 1965, Arthur stars in a startling drama, the first play from Barry Hines (who later wrote the novel 'A Kestrel For A Knave' - filmed by Ken Loach as 'Kes') In this darkly comic tale, Arthur Lowe plays casual labourer Billy who becomes the target of the schemes of parasitic Darkly, played by 'The Men From The Ministry' star, Ronald Baddiley. First heard on the BBC Third Programme.
* With Great Pleasure:
Not heard since 1976, Arthur Lowe's own choice of favourite readings and sketches. Helped by Martin Jarvis, hear Arthur's take on one of his favourite writers, PG Woodhouse, as he plays the ultimate British butler, Jeeves.
Arthur Lowe died aged 66 on 15th April 1982.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Peter McHugh.
First broadcast in September 2015.
ZIGGY STARDUST CAME FROM ISLEWORTH (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th December 2019
Martyn Day explores the life the British-born singer Vince Taylor, who inspired David Bowie's mythical rockstar.
Ziggy Stardust was a rock and roll fantasy. But David Bowie's fictional rockstar, around whom his 1972 album, stage show, and film were built, was inspired by a real performer, Vince Taylor, born in Isleworth, Middlesex. This programme uncovers the truth about a singer whose wild lifestyle ultimately destroyed him, but in so doing he gave rise to a myth that transcended glam-rock and science fiction.
His record "Brand New Cadillac" remains to this day a British rock 'n' roll classic, covered later by The Clash.
But Vince was frustrated by his limited success in Britain and, already displaying the unpredictable behaviour and volcanic temper that were to dog him for the rest of his days, he moved to France where the "yé-yé" crowd really went wild for him. They called him 'Le Diable Noir' - the Black Devil.
Decked out in black leathers, chains, kohl eye make-up and with his hair greased up into a high pompadour he was immediately signed to the French Barclay label. But fuelled by alcohol and drugs Vince's behaviour became increasingly erratic. At a party he tried LSD for the first time. In his state of mind at the time it was absolutely the very last thing that he needed.
Vince Taylor underwent a kind of public breakdown at his next gig, where he started claiming he was a divine being. David Bowie bumped into him in London and later said: "Vince Taylor was the inspiration for Ziggy...He always stayed in my mind as an example of what can happen in rock n roll. I'm not sure if I held him up as an idol or as something not to become. There was something very tempting about him going completely off the edge."
The programme, presented by Martyn Day, tracks down many of the people who worked with Taylor, including members of his original band and his family.
First broadcast on BBC Radio in August 2010.
THE VOICES OF... ANNIE BRIGGS (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 7th February 2020
An intimate portrait of the iconic but elusive English folksinger Annie Briggs.
Annie Briggs was a leading figure in the English folk revival of the early 1960s, inspiring Bert Jansch (famously, in Blackwater Side), Sandy Denny, The Watersons and many more. But she was a restless spirit, travelling through the British Isles and Ireland, finding songs and living close to the earth.
As Sandy Denny depicted her in The Pond and the Stream:
Annie wanders on the land.
She loves the freedom of the air.
She finds a friend in ev'ry place she goes.
There's always a face she knows.
I wish that I was there.
And so she remains, now a grandmother living by the water in the west of Scotland. She's always resolutely resisted celebrity and commercial success, withdrawing from the folk scene in the early 1970s, but her legacy - her voice and her attitude - continue to inspire and to carry a link to life as it was once lived in 'the imagined village'.
In this programme, she talks to Alan Hall about childhood holidays singing along with the waves, writing songs while living on a beach in west Ireland, her garden and the wildlife that she shares it with, and the ballad tradition she discovered as a teenager and that she 'belongs to'.
Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in September 2016.
THE 100 CLUB (320kbs-m4a/240mb/1hr44mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th to 31st January 2020
Robert Elms tells the colourful story of the famous venue located at 100 Oxford Street in London. First broadcast in 2004.
THE 100 CLUB - 1. FORGET THE DOODLEBUG - COME JITTERBUG (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th January 2020
Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson & His West Indian Dance Band - Please Be Kind [Topic]
Victor Feldman - Drumming Man [Parlophone]
Glenn Miller & The Army Air Force Band - Stealin' Apples [Happy Days]
Vic Lewis And Jack Parnell's Jazzmen - That's A Plenty [Avid Entertainment]
George Webb's Dixielanders - Come Back Sweet Papa [Melodisc]
Humphrey Lyttelton - Cakewalking Babies From Home [Lake]
George Melly & The Feetwarmers - Tain't Nobody's Business [Warner Bros]
Ken Colyer - Up A Lazy River [504]
George Hopkinson & Graeme Bell & Humphrey Lyttelton & John Sangster & Wally Fawkes - Apples Be Ripe [Parlophone]
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen - Midnight In Moscow [Timeless]
THE 100 CLUB - 2. THE TRAD BOOM (320kbs-m4a/59mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th January 2020
Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Storyville Blues [Ace Of Clubs]
Humphrey Lyttelton - Bad Penny Blues [EMI]
Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore [Polygram TV]
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen - When I'm Sixty Four [Castle]
Big Bill Broonzy - Glory Of Love [Munich]
Muddy Waters - Ramblin' Kid Blues [Proper]
The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home [EMI]
THE 100 CLUB - 3. PUNK AND THE 80S (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 30th January 2020
The Kinks - You Really Got Me [Telstar]
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Roebuck Man [Sequel]
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen [Columbia]
Sid Vicious - My Way [EMI]
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K [Virgin]
Dudu Pukwana & Spear - Baloyi [Earthworks]
Hugh Masekela - African Breeze [Jive]
THE 100 CLUB - 4. INDIE AND BEYOND (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 31st January 2020
The Drifters - In The Land Of Make Believe [Sequel]
Ben E. King - Gettin' To Me [Kent]
B.B. King - To Know You Is To Love You [Harmless]
Oasis - Wonderwall (Live) [Creation]
The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down [Xl Recordings]
Buck 65 - 463 (Live) [WEA]
The Ray Gelato Giants - The Celebrity Club [Double Scoop]
Julian Bahula - Celebrating The 100 Club
MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES (320kbs-m4a/395mb/2hrs52mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd to 10th January 2020
At the end of 2009, just a few months before he died, Malcolm McLaren put his musical life into context, in a programme first broadcast on 6 Music marking the end of the decade.
MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd January 2020
In From the Forties to the Noughties, Malcolm remembers dropping out of art school and setting up Live Fast Die Young on the Kings Road with Vivienne Westwood - the shop which eventually became SEX. Arriving in New York in his favourite black rubber coat and selling red PVC clothing to Debbie Harry and the New York Dolls. Meeting Johnny Rotten in SEX for the first time, getting him to audition an Alice Cooper track, and the Sex Pistols becoming the biggest-selling band at the time of the Queen's Jubilee. He also covers the origins of 40s music - organised crime and the cultural subversion of boogie swing bands.
Chuck Berry - Let It Rock [Music Club]
Lucky Millinder - Apollo Jump
Elvis Presley - Good Rockin' Tonight [RCA]
Link Wray - Rumble
The Impalas - Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) [Debutante]
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation [Debutante]
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen [Warner]
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Screaming Lord Sutch - 'Til The Following Night [Castle]
The Tornados - Telstar [Rialto]
Billy Lee Riley - Flyin' Saucers Rock 'N' Roll [Charly]
Charlie Feathers - Tongue Tied Jill [El Toro]
MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd January 2020
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis [Mercury]
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
New York Dolls - Jet Boy [Debutante]
Fats Domino - Walking To New Orleans [Liberty]
Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony [Sony/BMG]
Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is [Ace]
Big Joe Turner - My Gal's A Jockey [Proper]
Wynonie Harris - All She Wants To Do Is Rock [Reader's Digest]
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire [Polydor]
MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th January 2020
He talks about the origins of Rock n Roll - in particular the early blues - John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. The look of music and the sound of fashion. Sid Vicious dressing like Eddie Cochran and losing his virginity to Nancy Spungen.
The first record Malcolm bought - Twist and Shout, the Pierre Cardin Beatles suits and being obliged to give John Lennon one of his own silk suits.
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You [Edsel]
The Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster [K-Tel]
Howlin’ Wolf - Little Red Rooster [Charly]
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom [Musidisc]
Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues [Sony]
Ali Farka Touré & Bassekou Kouyaté & Mama Sissoko - Erdi [World Circuit]
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - I See A Darkness [Domino]
Alex St Clair Snouffer & Captain Beefheart & Jerry Handley & John French - Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do [Buddha]
MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th January 2020
The Clash - London's Burning
Suicide - Ghost Rider
Eddie Cochran - Pink Peg Slacks
Sex Pistols - Something Else
Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones - Black Slacks
The Royal Teens - Short Shorts
Gerry Granahan - No Chemise Please
The Isley Brothers - Twist And Shout
The Beatles - Please Please Me
John Lennon - Imagine
MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 5. EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th January 2020
The Death of punk and moving forward to the start of the New Romantics with Bow Wow Wow and Adam & The Ants. The start of Hip Hop which he describes as 'Black Punk'. Meeting Afrika Bambaata and cutting the Buffalo Girls track. The invention of cds and cd compilations. The growth in technology leading to Club Culture, Chip Music, Video games and the abuse of the internet. Looking like your straight counterpart - referencing Madonna and 'Vogue-ing'. 'Authenticity and Karaoke'. How it turns out that the bankers in the UK were the biggest punks of them all. 2008 was the end of the culture of desires.
Adam & The Ants - Unknown
Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go
The Drummers Of Burundi - The Burundi Drum
The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause
S'Express - Theme From S'Express
Tobiah - I Love Your Music
Malcolm McLaren - Ride A Fashion Horse
MALCOLM MCLAREN: FROM THE FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES- 6. EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th January 2020
Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Madonna - Vogue
Malcolm McLaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra - Deep In Vogue
Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
Laurie London - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
Go Home Productions - Franz Buffalo
Nova Nova - Love... (Malcolm McLaren Tribute)
GEORGE ORWELL - NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr54mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th & 30th January 2020
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one-room flat in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal.
One of the most influential novels of the 20th century, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published in 1949. Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.
Winston Smith ... Christopher Eccleston
Julia ... Pippa Nixon
O'Brien ... Tim Pigott-Smith
Parsons ... Kim Wall
Charrington ... Robert Blythe
Syme ... Sam Alexander
Prostitute ... Susie Riddell
With Christine Absalom, Don Gilet, Joe Sims and Joshua Swinney
Director: Jeremy Mortimer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th January 2020
When Winston finds love, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities.
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 30th January 2020
Winston Smith has found love and comfort with Julia, and now they are determined to join the Brotherhood, a secret, counter-revolutionary organisation pledged to destroy The Party. But for The Party's enemies, deep in the Ministry of Love, there is the threat of Room 101.
RICHARD ADAMS - WATERSHIP DOWN (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 23rd & 24th December 2019
First published in 1972, the award-winning Watership Down was Richard Adams' first novel and began life as improvised stories told to his two young daughters. Once published it became hugely successful, and won its author the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal.
Dramatised in two-parts by Brian Sibley
Producer: Gemma Jenkins
Director: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016.
WATERSHIP DOWN - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 23rd December 2019
Fearful that their home in Sandleford Warren is to be destroyed, a band of rabbits begins an epic and perilous journey to Watership Down.
Hyzenthlay ... Lyndsey Marshal
Hazel ... Gunnar Cauthery
Fiver ... Robert Emms
Bigwig ... Alex Lanipekun
Blackberry ... Finlay Robertson
Dandelion ... Luke MacGregor
Holly/Frith ... Nicholas Murchie
Strawberry ... John Dougall
Silver ... Gavi Singh Chera
Cowslip ... Keziah Joseph
Kehaar ... Karen Bartke
Other parts played by John Bowler and David Sterne
WATERSHIP DOWN - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th December 2019
The rabbits have found a new home on Watership Down but to ensure the warren's future they must now confront the terrifying General Woundwort.
Hyzenthlay ..... Lyndsey Marshal
Hazel ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Fiver ..... Robert Emms
Bigwig ..... Alex Lanipekun
Woundwort ..... Paul Hilton
Blackberry ..... Finlay Robertson
Dandelion ..... Luke MacGregor
Holly/Black Emissary ..... Nicholas Murchie
Kehaar ..... Karen Bartke
Strawberry ..... John Dougall
Silver ..... Gavi Singh Chera
Nelthilta ..... Keziah Joseph
Campion ..... John Bowler
The Farmer ..... David Sterne
MUSIC EXTRA - HUGH MASEKELA: WORDS AND MUSIC (96kbs-m4a/35mb/49mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 27th January 2018
The BBC’s Audrey Brown pays tribute to one of the best known trumpeters in the world - Hugh Masekela. Known affectionately as Bra Hugh, Masekela was a man whose personality was as big as the sound he blew through his trumpet.
Masekela’s love affair with music started very early in life. He picked up his first trumpet at the age of 14, a gift by the British anti-apartheid activist Trevor Huddleston. In 1956, Huddleston arranged for another trumpet to be given to the young Masekela. It was from another musical giant Louis Armstrong – and, as Masekela said, that small gesture changed his life and helped launch a career that spanned over 50 years and took him all over the world. But life was struggle. He spent three decades in exile – unable even to return to apartheid South Africa to bury his mother. And his music became one of the sounds of the struggle to overthrow apartheid. We look back at his life – the struggles, the sorrows, the passions and the joys – through his own words and music.
Producer: Penny Dale
(Photo: Hugh Masekela (centre) Marcus Miller and Guillaume Perret perform at the International Jazz Day 2015, Paris. Credit: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images)
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: IAN WRIGHT (320kbs-m4a/105mb/46mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 15th February 2020
Ian Wright is a former professional footballer and now a football pundit on TV and radio. He began his career at Crystal Palace before moving to Arsenal where he became their highest goal scorer of all time, a record only surpassed eight years later by Thierry Henry.
Born to a Jamaican couple in south-east London, Ian grew up with his mother and step-father. His biological father had left the family when Ian was under two years old. Things at home were difficult and Ian spent as much time as possible outside playing football.
At his primary school a teacher, Mr Pigden, took him under his wing and Ian would later credit him with changing his life. He left his secondary school at the age of 14 to get a job. Although he took part in trials for many professional football clubs as a teenager, he was never selected. He continued to play for amateur sides. By the age of 21, he had three children to provide for, so when Crystal Palace came calling in 1985, he turned them down three times before accepting a two-week trial, followed by a three-month contract. His football career had finally begun.
After impressing as a forward at Palace, he was bought by Arsenal for a record fee in 1991. He was called up to the England squad the same year and would go on to collect 33 caps. He spent his last couple of years in professional football at a number of clubs around the country and in total, he played 581 league games, scoring 387 goals for seven clubs in England and Scotland. Since his retirement from football in 2000, he has had a career as a pundit on both TV and radio.
He has eight children and has been happily married to his second wife, Nancy, since 2011.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Lorenzo Da Ponte - The Marriage Of Figaro/Duettino - Sull'aria [La La Land]
Kirk Franklin - Looking For You [GospoCentric]
Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High [Capitol]
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Redemption Song [Tuff Gong]
MSFB - Mysteries Of The World [Demon]
Randy Crawford - Endlessly [Warner]
Stormzy - Crown [#Merky/Atlantic]
Mary J. Blige - Just Fine [Polydor]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: RUPERT EVERETT (320kbs-m4a/85mb/37mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 5th January 2020
Rupert Everett is an actor, writer and director whose breakthrough came in 1981 when he was cast as a gay schoolboy in Another Country, Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film.
Rupert later starred in Dance with a Stranger before making a splash in Hollywood playing Julia Roberts's gay confidante in My Best Friend's Wedding. But his movie career took a dive after The Next Best Thing - in which he played the gay father of Madonna's baby - flopped. After a period out of the limelight he turned his attention to writing and won great acclaim for his witty and illuminating memoirs about his life in showbusiness.
In 2018 Rupert starred in his directorial debut, The Happy Prince - a film about Oscar Wilde's final years in exile. The film was a decade-long labour of love for Rupert from writing the screenplay to securing the funding and persuading his friends Colin Firth and Emily Watson to join the cast. The film was well-received, with one critic calling it a 'deeply felt, tremendously acted tribute to courage'.
Later this year Rupert is starring in the Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley
Odyssey - Native New Yorker [Sony Music]
Billie Holiday - You've Changed [Columbia]
Julie Andrews - Feed The Birds (Tuppence A Bag) [EMI]
The Specials - Ghost Town [Sony Music]
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring [EMI]
Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Desafinado [Polyphon]
Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Prelude, Act 1 [Deutsche Grammophon]
Stormzy - Shut Up [Universal]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: AMERICANS - TOM HANKS (320kbs-m4a/98mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th January 2020
From the Beatles to Richard Strauss. Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young
From 'Big' to 'Sleepless in Seattle', 'Captain Phillips' to 'Apollo 13', his long and distinguished film-making career has brought him multiple awards and many plaudits. He's the recipient of eight Emmys, one Bafta and four Golden Globes and was the youngest ever actor to be given a lifetime achievement award by the American Film institute. The voice of Woody in the 'Toy Story' films, he won the first of his two Oscars in 1993 for Philadelphia and again the following year for Forrest Gump.
His parents split up when he was 5 and he went to live with his father. By the age of 10 he'd lived in ten different houses in five different cities. He loved school and developed a passion for history which is reflected in the film he made with Steven Spielberg, 'Saving Private Ryan' and the TV mini-series 'Band of Brothers' and 'The Pacific' which he also produced.
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016.
Dean Martin & Line Renaud (Leen Reno) - Relax-Ay-Voo [Capitol]
The Beatles - There's A Place [Apple]
Dusty Springfield - Doodlin’ [Beat Goes On]
Richard Strauss - Main Title: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby - Main Title: “How The West Was Won” [CBS]
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime [Sire]
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out [Def Jam]
Derek And The Dominos - Layla [Polygram]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: AMERICANS - GILLIAN ANDERSON (320kbs-m4a/103mb/45mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 19th January 2020
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Gillian Anderson, best known for her role as Dana Scully in The X Files. Gillian was born in Chicago, Illinois. When she was two, she moved with her parents to London. At 11, the family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan which she found deathly dull in comparison to the big city life of London. Gillian began acting in community theatre productions while in high school and decided to study drama at the Goodman Theater School at Chicago's DePaul University. After she finished her degree, she moved to New York City to find work. She performed in a couple of plays, but then was cast as the female lead in a new science fiction TV series.
The X Files turned out to be a massive success and in September 1993, Gillian began a nine-year stint in the FOX TV series. For her role she received two Screen Actors Guild awards, an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series. In 1999 Gillian wrote and directed her own episode. In 2000, Gillian played Lily Bart in the Terence Davies' feature The House of Mirth and won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress. This year she debuts on the West End in Michael Weller's What the Night is For.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley
Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Luxury: Recordings of her daughter and "her love" reading self-written stories and poetry
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want [London]
Joan Armatrading - Save Me [A&M]
Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) [Parlophone]
Nina Simone - Strange Fruit [Verve]
Franz Schubert - String Quartet No. 14 In D Minor 'Death And The Maiden' [Deutsche Grammophon]
Jane Siberry - Love Is Everything [Reprise]
Roberta Flack - Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye [Atlantic]
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah [Columbia]
HORACE ANDY - LIVE GLASTONBURY 2009 (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th December 2019
Horace Andy - Surrender/Spying Glass
Horace Andy - Man Next Door
Horace Andy - Fever
Horace Andy - Problems/Children Of Rasta
Horace Andy - Zion Gate
Horace Andy - Rasta No Style Rasta No Fashion
Horace Andy - Every Tongue Shall Tell
Horace Andy - Skylarking/Cuss Cuss
Horace Andy - Leave Rasta
Horace Andy - Big Wheel
DBRIDGE - ESSENTIAL MIX 01.02.20 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 1st February 2020
dBridge, aka Darren White, mixes up two hours of experimental electronic dance music, with unreleased tracks from Joe Seven, Forest Drive West, Instra:mental, Burial and himself.
dBridge - Gen [Exit]
Joe Seven - NDT
Forest Drive West - FDW - 100 2b
Majid Jordan - Her [OVO Sound]
Instra:mental & Burial - Dark Untitled
Joy Orbison - COYP [Toss Portal]
The Fear Ratio - Captive [Skam]
Sabrina Claudio - Unravel Me [SC Entertainment]
Habitats - Friends [PLZ Make It Ruin]
dBridge - Nachtlus (The Fear Ratio Remix) [Exit]
Sin Falta - Diamonds [Youth]
Cienfuegoes - False Prophets [L.I.E.S]
dBridge - Broadcast Pain [Exit]
They Lived - The Ridgeway [Exit]
The Binary Collective - Cloud Creeping [Exit]
Consequence - Belmont
Joe Seven - Barkly [Exit]
E-Unity - 3.6 [FTD]
J Chrysalis - A Kind Robin [Blank Mind]
Kellen303 - Vital Signs [SPE:C]
Borderland State & The Best Kisser In LA - Hello Mainframe [Exit]
Vegyn - PLZ XX [PLZ Make It Ruin]
088 - Exu [Resonance Moscow]
Dan HarbarNam - Dolby Centaur
Consequence - Harpers Drum
Wun - Render [Jelly Bean Farm]
Appleblim - Vurstep (Forest Drive West Remix) [Boogie Box]
Joe Seven - F Test
Human Resource - Shaq Stem Edit [Pressure Dome]
Roberto & Yelsha - Auckland [Neighbourhood]
dBRm - The Third Room (Trevino Remix) [The Nothing Special]
dBridge - TNS
INVT - Sacred Space
dBridge & Trevino - dB&T
Dolenz - Dead That [Exit]
SP:MC - Test 7
Tasha & Cadans - Soft Grimness [Neighbourhood]
Skee Mask - Slow Music [Ilian Tape]
Joe Seven - Caimen Test
Joe Seven & dBridge - Emu Test
dBridge - B12 Test
Borderland State & The Best Dressed Kisser In LA - Happy Goose [Exit]
V.I.V.E.K. - Slumdog [System]
Leftlow - Green Eyes [Exit]
Sansibar - Targeted Individuals [FTP]
Sun People - To Give [Exit]
Vegyn - Blue Verb [PLZ Make It Ruin]
Lewis James & Mikarma (Feat. Alia Fresco) - Flawless
Two Masks - Scorch
dBridge - YRU
Heart Drive - When Whispers
SWOOSHES, SEABOARDS, SYNTHS AND SPAWN (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 27th December 2019
Singer, tech enthusiast and multi-instrumentalist Bishi explores how new technologies and artificial intelligence are shaping the future of music creation.
At the heart of the story, is the unlikely tale of London-based inventor Roland Lamb, superstar producer and recording artist Pharrell Williams and the creation of ROLI, a music tech company at the cutting-edge of expressive music creation.
How did an ex-Buddhist monk end up in business with one of the world's biggest music names? And what does this collaboration tell us about the shape of music-making to come?
We hear Bishi get her hands on some of ROLI's mould-breaking technology - including their tactile silicone Seaboards and modular rainbow synth Blocks. And across London, she's introduced to the extraordinary MI.MU glove, used by pioneering musician and multidisciplinary artist Lula Mehbrahtu, to play with sound, rhythm and voice by physically manipulating the space around her.
We'll find out how these innovations are not just making music more accessible, but transforming the way musicians - from professionals right the way down to total beginners - conceptualise musical creation.
It's not just a question of new toys. Composition and production is also being revolutionised by Artificial Intelligence, with neural networks that can analyse millions of bars of music and catalyse and compose new musical works and sounds at the touch of a button.
So are the machines taking over? Not quite. Vocalist and composer Jennifer Walshe discusses how, instead of replacing the human, these artificial musical brains can help catalyse new frontiers of composition in ways we might never have dreamed of. We also speak to musician Holly Herndon, who has built an AI "baby" - called Spawn - which mimics, interprets and develop Holly's musical ideas, often revealing new elements in her compositions.
Presenter: Bishi
Producer: Steven Rajam
A Boom Shakalaka production for BBC Radio 4
Photo credit: Zuzanna Blur
EARTH, WIND AND PYRE (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th December 2019
6 Music Wise Woman Jessica Hynes selects a documentary about the controversial 'Disco Sucks' campaign.
In 1979 the disco industry was worth an estimated $4 billion - more than movies, television or professional sport - and accounted for up to 40 per cent of the singles chart. The same year in Chicago, Steve Dahl, a disgruntled rock DJ left his WDAI radio show in protest at its switch to an all-disco play list. He really hated disco. A switch to rival station, which shared the same owners as the Chicago White Sox baseball team, resulted in an audacious publicity stunt that signalled the death knell of disco.
The promotion was simple: For a mere 98 cents listeners could bring all their unwanted disco records to the White Sox's Comiskey Stadium and watch them being blown up by Dahl and his chums, who called themselves "The insane Coho Lips Anti-Disco Army." Over 70,000 people turned up to offload their disco records and chant, "Disco sucks! Disco sucks!" Thousands were locked out and the riot police were called in to quell pitch invasions.
Recalling the event, Dahl has said: "Disco was a fad probably on its way out but the event hastened its demise." Presenter Candi Staton sets out to uncover if there was a true anti-disco sentiment while legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles charts disco's revenge and metamorphosis into house a decade later. We track down some of the pitch invaders and baseball players to find out how strongly they felt about disco then, and how they view the events of that July evening.
PEEL ACRES: JOHN PEEL REMEMBERED (320kbs-m4a/345mb/2hrs30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st December 2019
Jarvis Cocker remembers John Peel a decade after his death and talks to his wife Sheila Ravenscroft in their family home.
They look at his legacy in the form of the record collection which shaped the musical taste of the nation, now being put online.
Plus a visit to the John Peel Arts Centre in Stowmarket which, in the Peel tradition, is bringing fresh talent to the public.
Featuring:
* Desert Island Discs – John Peel:
Radio 1’s music guru John Peel looks back over his life and career sharing his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From January 1990.
* Home Truths:
John Peel presents an edition of Radio 4’s series showcasing the extraordinary stories of ordinary people. From October 2004.
Broadcaster John Peel died on 25th October 2004 aged 65. He championed British music for nearly 40 years on his late-night Radio 1 show. His uncompromising encouragement of new talent transformed the face of music all the way from hippy to house. From 1998, he became the presenter of Radio 4's Home Truths until his death.
Producer: Harry Parker.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2014.
DAN DARE: PRISONERS OF SPACE (320kbs-m4a/195mb/1hr25mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th, 25th January & 1st February 2020
Dan Dare, Digby and Peabody have overcome The Mekon’s ruthless robots and staved-off an attack by a rogue human scientist – Blasco - in cahoots with the fearsome Vora. Now, even though there has been no sign of the evil Mekon anywhere in the solar system for some time, Dare is wary.
Based on the Eagle comic strip 'Dan Dare' created in 1950 by the Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson.
Dan Dare ... Ed Stoppard
Digby ... Geoff McGivern
Professor Peabody ... Heida Reed
Sir Hubert ... Michael Cochrane
The Mekon ... Raad Rawi
Major Stranks ... Robert G. Slade
Cadet ‘Flamer’ Spry ... Noof McEwan
Sondar ... Bijan Daneshmand
Treen Captain ... Alistair Lock
On-board Computer ... Dianne Weller
Original music: Imran Ahmad
Dramatised by Colin Brake from an original story by Frank Hampson.
Produced and directed by Andrew Mark Sewell.
Made by B7 Media
DAN DARE: PRISONERS OF SPACE - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th January 2020
All seems well until unexplained spaceship disappearances near Venus, an Astral Academy student accidently launching a prototype spacecraft and a purpose designed floating prison all indicate that The Mekon has embarked on his latest scheme to defeat his nemesis.
DAN DARE: PRISONERS OF SPACE - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th January 2020
Dan Dare, Professor Peabody and Major Stranks arrive at the XQY03 space station to rescue Digby and Spry from The Mekon.
DAN DARE: PRISONERS OF SPACE - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st February 2020
Despite being imprisoned in his own impregnable cell, The Mekon throws down one last challenge to Dan Dare.
DAN DARE: OPERATION SATURN (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 4th & 11th January 2020
It’s a year since Dan Dare, Lieutenant Digby and Professor Jocelyn Peabody helped rid the Earth of The Mekon’s army of ruthless robots, although the evil alien is still at large.
When The Nautilus, an experimental ship that disappeared a decade previously, suddenly reappears in orbit around the Moon, they are sent to investigate. The clues point to Saturn being involved in some way, but the new threat to Earth comes from far closer to home.
Based on the Eagle comic strip 'Dan Dare' created in 1950 by the Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson.
Dan Dare ... Ed Stoppard
Digby ... Geoff McGivern
Professor Peabody ... Heida Reed
Sondar ... Bijan Daneshmand
Sir Hubert ... Michael Cochrane
Blasco ... Jonathan Rhodes
The Vora ... Nicholas Briggs
Flight Control ... Diane Spencer
Maxwell ... Fiona McAlpine
On-Board Computer ... Dianne Weller
Original music: Imran Ahmad
Dramatised by Patrick Chapman from an original story by Frank Hampson.
Produced and directed by Andrew Mark Sewell.
Made by B7 Media
DAN DARE: OPERATION SATURN - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 4th January 2020
When a ship lost a decade earlier reappears in orbit around the Moon, Dare, Digby and Peabody investigate.
DAN DARE: OPERATION SATURN - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 11th January 2020
Dan Dare realises where the new embittered threat to Earth is coming from.
