British DJ, electronic music producer and audio engineer Radioactive Man aka Keith Tenniswood takes over the decks for this week's ICONS mix.
Radioactive Man - Colourful Language [Asking for Trouble] Cyborg Nerve - Cyborg Nerve [Cyphon Recordings] Radioactive Man - Under The Counter [Asking For Trouble] Radioactive Man & Ben Pest - A Gentleman From London Was Very Upset [Asking For Trouble] Computor Rockers - Program A Beat [Breakin] Radioactive Man - Yew Got 2 B Yew [Asking For Trouble] Clarence G - 'Cause I Said It Right [Clone] Decent Damage - Popular [Off Me Nut] R.M.K. - Chengs Garden Avoidant [Avoidant]
From Judas Priest to Gene Autry, with some Scott Walker and The Muppets thrown in, Stephen O'Malley from power ambient drone rockers Sunn O))) shares his First Times with Matt Everitt. This is definitely one for the rock heads!
Sunn O))) - It Took The Night To Believe [Southern Lord] Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (Single Version) (2003 Remaster) [Rhino/Warner] Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus [100 Hits] Slayer - South Of Heaven [American Recordings Catalog P&D] Judas Priest - Breaking The Law [Legacy Recordings] Darkthrone - Thulcandra [Peaceville] Miles Davis - Bitches Brew [Columbia/Legacy] Miles Davis - Electric Red (Album Version) [Columbia] Sunn O))) - Black Wedding [Hydra Head] Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls [Blackened Recordings / Universal Music] Sunn O))) - F.W.T.B.T. [Southern Lord] Sunn O))) - Rabbits' Revenge [Hydra Head] Sunn O))) - My Wall [Southern Lord] John Abercrombie - Waiting [ECM] Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Brando [4AD] Sunn O))) - Troubled Air [Southern Lord] Black Sabbath - Hole In The Sky [Sanctuary]
British jazz musician, composer and bandleader, Nubya Garcia, talks about the pivotal First Times in her life, soundtracked by Esperanza Spalding, Erykah Badu, Sonny Rollins and more!
Nubya Garcia - Triumphance [Concord Jazz] Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds [Island] Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Ornette Coleman - Peace [Warner Jazz] Herbie Hancock - Chameleon [Columbia/Legacy] Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas [Prestige] Theon Cross & Moses Boyd - Activate [Gearbox] The Charles Lloyd Quartet - Tagi [ECM] Nubya Garcia - Hold (Alternate Take) [Jazz Re:freshed Erykah Badu - All Night Nubya Garcia - The Message Continues Nubya Garcia - La Cumbia Me Está Llamando [Concord Jazz] Nubya Garcia - The Seer [Concord] Nubya Garcia (feat. Esperanza Spalding) - Dawn [Concord] Esperanza Spalding - Precious
Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears talks about the pivotal First Times in his life with 6 Music's Matt Everitt, soundtracked by Nine Inch Nails, Beck, and The Muppets!
Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama [Parlophone] Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax [Sony Tv/Columbia] Willie Nelson - On The Road Again [Columbia] Bert & Ernie - I Refuse To Sing Along [Sesame Workshop Catalog] Scissor Sisters - Almost Sorry [Polydor] The Electric Mayhem - Can You Picture That? [Walt Disney] Deee‐Lite - Groove Is In The Heart [Telstar] David Bowie - Fantastic Voyage (2017 Remaster) [Parlophone UK] Siouxsie And The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me [Wonderland] Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole [TVT] Beck - Cellphone's Dead [Interscope] Scissor Sisters - Bicycling With The Devil Scissor Sisters - Electrobix [A Touch Of Class] Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb [Polydor] Scissor Sisters - Laura (Glastonbury 2004) Scissor Sisters - Fire With Fire [Polydor] Mega Bog - Cactus People [Mexican Summer]
6 Music's Matt Everitt presents in-depth, exclusive and revealing interviews with major artists revealing the pivotal moments and songs that shaped their lives and their careers.
Kate Nash reveals her musical firsts and talks looking after her fans at gigs, the hardships of the live music scene today, and how OnlyFans is financing her latest tour! With music from Nirvana, Connie Constance, Britney Spears, and more.
Kate Nash - Millions Of Heartbeats [Kill Rock Stars] Harry Nilsson - The Puppy Song [Atlantic] Harry Nilsson - Without You [Old Gold] Spice Girls - Wannabe [Sony Music TV] Britney Spears - Baby One More Time [Virgin] The Dubliners - Spancil Hill [Arran] RTÉ Concert Orchestra & David Brophy & Bill Whelan - Reel Around The Sun [UMC - Decca Gold] Ms. Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee [Now] Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit [DGC] Kate Nash - Caroline's A Victim [Polydor] Kate Nash - Foundations [Fiction] Kate Nash - Conventional Girl [Dine Alone Music] Connie Constance - Mood Hoover [Play It Again Sam]
Jake Xerxes Russell - Leaving Here Don't Know Where I'm Going Cabin Luv Affair - Time Is Killing Us Tartan - Orleans Fred Fisher Atalobour - W.T.F.S. Magic Wand - Shish Balearic Celine Dion - Think Twice (Kindness Remix) Soul Media - Breeze The Weathermen - On The Borderline Fun Kool (Feat. Bcleo & Anna Dee Tee) - Policy Aziendale George Otsuka Quintet - Loving You Bibleways - Thank You Lord Lulu - I Love To Boogie Strictly Butters - Loud And Clear Shep Cooke - Pretty Saro Blackfoot Sue - Summer (From The Summer Suite) D.D. Mirage - Night Time Lonnie Liston Smith - Divine Light The Basic - Milk Midnight Runners - I Like Funky Light Of The World - Get On Board Change Boys (Feat. Ndiaxo Dal Jaam) - Jaar Jaar Dub Demuir - In Awe Of You Super Flu - Believe Margie Cox - Standing At The Altar Ramsey Lewis - Breaker Beat Reptile Youth - Speed Dance Casino Boy - Honesty Sound Support - Nobody Knows Romanelli - Connecting Flight Hozan Yamamoto, Masahiko Togashi, Yosuke Yamashita - Breath Prologue Jazzanova - The Siren's Call The Polyversal Souls - Sad Nile Electrelane - Film Music Quincy Jones - Soul Full Of Gold John Beltran - Outro Stacey Kidd - Body Jerkin' Marco Lys & Ben Miller - Give It To Me Lindsay Buckingham - Trouble Makoto Matsushita - Business Man (Part One) Scruscru - Primavera Kim Yaffa - Once Bitten Twice Shy Paul McCartney - When Winter Comes (Anderson. Paak & Mac DeMarco Remix) Peter Skellern - A Shadow Of A Dream Marika Hackman - The Girl Who Fell To Earth
Ring them bells for this curated Christmas special Morning After Mix featuring Khurangbin, James Brown and Phoebe Bridgers.
Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes [Motown] The Sha La Das - She La Da La La Beach House - I Do Not Care For Winter [Bella Union] Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again [EMI] Chilly Gonzales - Snow Is Falling In Manhattan [Gentle Threat] Harry Nilsson - Snow (Alternative Version) [RCA] Sufjan Stevens - Ring Them Bells [Song Music Entertainment/Kinky Boots/Masterworks Broadway] Bob Dylan - Winterlude [Sony Music] Low - Just Like Christmas [Jeepster Recordings] Girl In Red - Two Queens In A King Sized Bed [World In Red] St. Vincent - Happy Birthday, Johnny [Loma Vista Recordings] Phoebe Bridgers - Christmas Song [Dead Oceans] Joni Mitchell - River [Reprise] Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal [Bella Union] The Unthanks - 2000 Miles [Rabble Rouser Music] Badly Drawn Boy - Donna And Blitzen [XL Recordings] Ella Fitzgerald - We Three Kings Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland [Fontana] Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Sandra Robinson - Merry Christmas, Happy New Year [Trojan] James Brown - Christmas Is Love Sharon Jones And The Dap‐Kings - Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects Prince - Another Lonely Christmas [Warner Bros] LCD Soundsystem - Christmas Will Break Your Heart The Velvet Underground - Jesus Mazzy Star - Lowers Broadcast - Winter Now [Warp] Luke Temple - The Birds Of Late December Marika Hackman - Driving Under Stars [Transgressive] Au Revoir Simone - Fallen Snow Ike & Tina Turner - Merry Christmas Baby [Rhino] Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz, It's Christmas Sonny Boy Williamson - Santa Claus [Universal Music Group International] The Drifters - White Christmas [Rhino] Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here [Craft Recordings]
Two hours of alternative Christmas treats to ease you through the festive period featuring Maple Glider, Rotary Connection and SZA. Hit subscribe to get new Morning After Mix playlists every week.
Marika Hackman - Winter Wonderland Phoebe Bridgers - Christmas Song [Dead Oceans] Khruangbin - Christmas Time Is Here [Dead Oceans] Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal [Sub Pop] HAIM - Hallelujah [Polydor] Lou Rawls - Christmas Will Really Be Christmas SZA - Snooze [Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA] FINNEAS - Another Year The Staves - Home Alone Too [Atlantic] Elliott Smith - Angel In The Snow Lisa Hannigan - Snow Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) Bob Dylan - Winterlude Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) [Virgin] Hania Rani - Silent Night Adrianne Lenker - Snow Song Frank Ocean (feat. John Mayer) - White Maple Glider - Mama It's Christmas Myrkur - Nordlys Lemonah & Lenny Loops & Intuitive - Snowy Night Kelly Finnigan - No Time To Be Sad Mos Def - May-December Rotary Connection - If Peace Was All We Had
Alison Goldfrapp, the long-running vocalist of iconic electronic duo Goldfrapp, provides a break from the standard Christmas ballads with two hours of festive, up-tempo electronica and dancefloor grooves.
Fresh from launching her solo career earlier this year with her debut album Love invention, Alison is here with a stocking full of electro bangers to get you moving, so shake off the chaos of the festive season and get dancing!
Expect a real jamboree of great tunes from the likes of Hercules & Love Affair, and Chic and Sylvester, to Peggy Gou, Hot Chip and Kaytranada.
Alison Goldfrapp - Every Little Drop (Edit) Will Powers - Adventures In Success Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix) Kylie Minogue - Tension (Extended Mix) Disclosure (feat. Zedd) - You've Got To Let Go If You Want To Be Free Róisín Murphy - Foolish Tame Impala - Breathe Deeper Inner City - Good Life New Order - Temptation Prince - 1999 Michael Jackson - Rock With You Laid Back - White Horse Kenya Grace - Strangers MUNA - One That Got Away Hot Chip - Ends Of The Earth Kaytranada (feat. Thundercat) - Be Careful deadmau5 (feat. Kaskade) - I Remember Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana (Edit) Alexander Robotnick - Problèmes d'Amour (Ah Ou Ah Version) Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love Tonight Chic - My Forbidden Lover Gaznevada - I.C. Love Affair Frank Ocean - Seigfried Doja Cat - Nunchucks LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great Solange - Sound Of Rain
He's sung about Christmas at the Zoo, covered White Christmas and even starred as alien Santa in the movie Christmas on Mars, so who could be better qualified than Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne to take control of 6 Music's Festive Takeover?
Along the way we can expect music from the likes, of Marvin Gaye, Yoko Ono, Nell, Miley Cyrus and David Bowie, plus stories from across The Flaming Lips 40 years at the heart of the indie music scene.
Produced by Paul Sheehan.
Low - Just Like Christmas shame - Feliz Navidad [Dead Oceans] Imagene Peise - Winter Wonderland [Warner Bros.] Petula Clark - Downtown [EMI] Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? [EMI] Imagene Peise - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [Warner Bros.] Yard Act - 100% Endurance [Island] Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) Burl Ives - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer [Capitol] The Organ Keys - Do You Realize [Warner Bros] Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town [Columbia] Steven Drozd - Christmas Snowflakes On The Autobahn [Boondice] Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [Pure Music] John Lennon - Cold Turkey [Calderstone] John Lennon & Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [EMI] Miley Cyrus - Karen Don't Be Sad [RCA] Vince Guaraldi Trio - The Christmas Song [Fantasy] John Coltrane - Greensleves [Supreme Media] Shane MacGowan And The Popes - Christmas Lullaby [EMI Music Australia] Imagene Peise - Christmas Laughing Waltz [Warner Bros.] Bee Gees - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Universal] Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime [MPL] Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Christmastime In The Mountains [Domino] The Who - Christmas Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes [Motown] The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn't So) [Warner Bros.] David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy [Telstar] Big Star - Jesus Christ [Rhino] Pretenders - 2000 Miles [Virgin] Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet [GB / Zaleski Enterprises]
Footballing icon Eric Cantona presents a playlist of some of his favourite music, with a particular emphasis on the energy between artist and audience captured in live recordings. Expect music by the likes of Nick Cave, David Bowie, and Daniel Johnson. One of the greatest players of his generation, Cantona has since turned his talents to acting and music, releasing his first single in the summer of 2023 before undertaking a European tour during which he recorded the tracks for his debut album due in 2024. A shorter version of this programme was broadcast as The Freak Zone Playlist in October 2023. This 'director's cut' version includes new stories and additional tracks chosen by Eric.
Éric Cantona - I'll Make My Own Heaven Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End The Pogues - Summer In Siam (Live) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - God Is In The House (Live In Paris) David Bowie & The Tony Visconti Trio - Port Of Amsterdam (Live At The BBC) Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored Liam Gallagher - Once (MTV Unplugged Live At Hull City Hall) Françoise Fabian - La Conversation Miles Davis - All Of You The National - Sorrow (Live At Berkeley 2018) Éric Cantona - The Friends We Lost Leonard Cohen - The Future Noir Désir - Si rien ne bouge (Live à l'Elysée Montmartre / Mai 1991) Manset (feat. Mark Lanegan) - Cover Me With Flowers Of Mauve (Élégie Funèbre 2014) Sid Vicious - My Way PJ Harvey - All And Everyone The Doors - The End (Live Hollywood Bowl 1968)
Mary Anne is in conversation with Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack, about The Act 1.5 Climate Action Accelerator, a weekend of live music and events taking place in the city from 28th - 30th November, in which they are performing alongside IDLES and Nile Rogers. The Liverpool concerts are a celebration of the city being named the world's first UN Accelerator City for climate action, promoting sustainability in music.
Killer Mike (feat. Future, André 3000 & Eryn Allen Kane) - Scientists & Engineers [Loma Vista] Pinch - Qawwali [Planet Mu] IDLES - Mother (6 Music Session, 02 June 2017) Björk (feat. Thom Yorke) - Náttúra [Polydor] Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) [Motown] Objekt - Worm Dance [Kapsela] Massive Attack - Risingson [Virgin] Massive Attack - Butterfly Caught (Version Point Five) [Virgin] Massive Attack - Angel (Blur Remix) [Virgin] Massive Attack - Future Proof Massive Attack (feat. Shara Nelson) - Safe From Harm (Just A Dub) [Circa] Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn - Protection (The Eno Mix) [Circa] Massive Attack (feat. Tunde Adebimpe) - Pray For Rain [Virgin] Massive Attack - Teardrop (Mad Professor Mazaruni Vocal Mix)
Ahead of their Act 1.5 Climate Action Accelerator event in Liverpool Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack compiles a playlist including stunning collaborations, rarities & remixes of the band including tracks with Young Fathers, Sinead O'Connor, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Mos Def.
Massive Attack & Mad Professor - Karmacoma (Bumper Ball Dub) [Virgin] 3D & Young Fathers - Give [Unreleased] Massive Attack (feat. Guy Garvey) - Fatalism (Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi Remix) [Virgin] Massive Attack (feat. Terry Callier) - Live With Me (Stripped Back) [Virgin] 3D On Jupiter - 3D On Jupiter (Main Mix) [Battle Box] Massive Attack (feat. Sinéad O'Connor) - What Your Soul Sings (EP Remix) [Unreleased] Massive Attack (feat. Martina Topley‐Bird) - Psyche (Fever Ray Remix) [Unreleased] Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps (Manic Street Preachers Mix) [Circa] Massive Attack (feat. Yasiin Bey) - I Against I [Virgin] Massive Attack - Redlight (Clark Remix) [Warp] Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix) [Real World] Peeping Tom (feat. Massive Attack) - Kill The DJ [Ipecac Recordings]
Featuring selections from their key albums, dub remixes and collaborators Mad Professor & Horace Andy among others.
Massive Attack & Horace Andy - Five Man Army [Wild Bunch] Horace Andy - Skylarking (Dub) [Gorgon] Massive Attack - Group Four (Mad Professor Remix) [Virgin] Massive Attack - Risingson [Virgin] Massive Attack & Horace Andy - Hymn Of The Big Wheel [Wild Bunch] William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You've Got [Polygram Tv] The Wild Bunch - The Look Of Love [Universal] Massive Attack - Teardrop [Now] Massive Attack - Teardrop (Mazarani Dub One) [Universal] Massive Attack - Wire (Leaping Dub) [Universal] Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps (State Of Bengal Mix) [Circa] Massive Attack - Safe From Harm [Virgin]
Massive Attack recorded live in concert. Featuring performances from Glastonbury and the Royal Albert Hall.
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (1996) Massive Attack - Teardrop (1996) Massive Attack - Safe From Harm (1996) Massive Attack - Heat Miser (1996) Massive Attack - Hynm Of The Big Wheel (1996) Massive Attack - Angel (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998) Massive Attack - Risingson (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998) Massive Attack - Man Next Door (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998) Massive Attack - Daydreaming (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998) Massive Attack - Mezzanine (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998) Massive Attack - Eurochild (Radio 1 Session, 21 Feb 1996)
NB: Massive Attack did not perform at Glastonbury in 1996, but did do so in 1997
Massive Attack live and in conversation at the BBC. Featuring archive 6 Music material and interviews with Matt Everitt, Julie Cullen, Stuart Maconie & Mark Radcliffe. The programme also includes contributions from documentary film maker & Massive Attack collaborator Adam Curtis.
Massive Attack & Elizabeth Fraser - Black Milk [Circa] Massive Attack - Risingson The Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead Massive Attack - Exchange Massive Attack - Angel (Mad Professor Remix) Massive Attack (feat. Tricky) - Inertia Creeps [Circa] Massive Attack - Teardrop Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl Massive Attack - Mezzanine Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn - Protection The Archies - Sugar Sugar Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack - Safe From Harm Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack - Blue Lines Massive Attack - Angel Massive Attack - Karmacoma Massive Attack - Protection Massive Attack - Teardrop
Expect some DJ special edits on some classic pop, R&B and soul classics courtesy of the likes of Dimitri from Paris, Masters At Work, Bicep, Shanti Celeste, Danny Krivit and more.
Soul Central - Strings Of Life (Danny Krivit Re-Edit) Janet Jackson & Masters At Work - Go Deep (Masters At Work Vocal Deep Disco Dub) Dominica - Gotta Let You Go (Bicep Edit) Destiny's Child - Girl (Junior Vasquez Club Dub) Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Kon's Illvester Feel Reel Remix) Chaka Khan - Like Sugar (Elliot Adamson Edit) 4hero (feat. Lady Alma) - Hold It Down (Bugz In The Attic's Co-Operative Mix) Orbital - Are We Here? (30 Something) (Shanti Celeste Edit) Kerri Chandler & Dennis Quin - You Are In My System (Faster Horses Sport Mix) Space Jams - What Have You Done For Me Lately (TMB Mix) 3 Winans Brothers & The Clark Sisters - Dance (Louie Vega Dance Ritual Mix) Mariah Carey - Fantasy (Def Club Mix) Disko Kidz - I Want To Thank You Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You (Dimitri From Paris Remix)
Throwback to November 2009, when DJ Zinc dropped two hours of bass-heavy house & jungle!
Geeneus - Get Low [Rinse] DJ Zinc - Nu Sound [Bingo Bass] Acid Girls - Lightworks (Harvard Bass Remix) [Iheartcomix] Tempa T - Boy Off Da Ting (Accapella) Unknown - Klambu [Unknown] Unknown - Unknown Major Lazer - Pon Di Floor (Zinc Edit) [Mad Decent] JME - Bigup De Bos - On The Run (Ralvero Get Down Remix) Unknown - Jazzy Olives Fake Blood - Dozens (Cheap Thrills) [CDR] Mike Dunn - Kavalla Funk vs. Deep Down (Zinc Edit) [Defected] Ramon Tapia - Whats Next [Herzblut] Yonurican - Boriken Soul [Priti Soul] Smify & Quiffy - Champion Sound AGel Abril - Spells Of Yoruba (Accapella) [Defected] Passion Pit - Little Secrets (Jack Beats Remix) [Columbia] Unknown - Bad Man Riddim SonicC - Saiph [Music Response] trRg - Twilight Riddim (Zinc Can't Mix Edit) [Tempa] Kid Cudi - Embrace The Martian (Seiji Mix) [Fools Gold] Zinc & Benga - My DJ Olivier Giacomotto & DJ T. - Superskank vs. Dis [Riva Starr Mashup] NG - Tell Me (Zinc Special) JoeySuki & Laidback, Luke & Apste - Need Your Lovin [Zinc Edit] [Mixmash] DJ Zinc - Pimp My Ride [Bingo Bass] Sydney Sampson - Riverside [Data] Starkillers - B. Ass Trick [Nervous] Marco del Horno - The Only Way Is Down [Bullet Train] Chase & Status - Eastern Jam (Kyle Watson Remix) [RAM] Tom EQ - Funk DJ Zinc - Horrible [Bingo Bass] Tempa T - Next Hype (Zinc Instrumental) [CDR] Major Lazer - When You Hear A Bassline (Tony Senghore's Accapella) [Mad Decent] Altered Natives - Rass Out Hard House Banton - Sirens SonicC - Stickin' [Music Response] SonicC - Stickin' (Digital Lab Remix) [Music Response] Snatch - Kewok (Daniel Hakaasman Remix) [Snatch Recordings] Laidback Luke & Diplo - Hey [Mad Decent] Laidback Luke & Diplo - Hey (Sydney Sampson Remix) [Mad Decent] DJ Zinc - Wile Out [Bingo] Emalkay - When I Look At You (Zinc Edit) [Dub Police] Hangman - The Shaman (Jundland Wastes Mix) Roska - Wonderful Day (Zinc Special) [Kicks An Snares] Laidback Luke & A‐Trak - Shake It Down [White Label] Oliver $ & Jesse Rose - Got Your Thing (Zinc Edit) Headhunter - Prototype (Modeselektor Remix) [Tempa] DJ Zinc & Benga - Number 1 Girls AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix) [Trouble & Bass] DJ Zinc - Killa Sound (Accapella) [Bingo Bass] DJ Zinc - 128 Trek Gracious Nappa Man K - Migraine Skank (Accapella) Proxy & No.Lay - Raven (Zinc Special) Jonny L - Hurt You So LFO - LFO [Warp] Bodysnatch - Euphony Kicks Like A Mule - The Bouncer Rufige Kru - Terminator LTJ Bukem - Atlantis [Goodlooking] Goldie - Inner City Life [London Music Stream/Because Music]
Singer and journalist Monica Vasconcelos meets the key artists and contemporary champions of Tropicalia - from Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil to Marcos Valle and Talking Heads' David Byrne - and explores its enduring musical and political force.
Burning brightly for only few years in the late 1960s, and politically inspired by the uprisings in Paris in May 68, the Tropicalia movement electrified Brazilian music.
It combined the sophistication of bossa nova, samba and baiao with psychedelia, new Beatles-inspired electric sounds and orchestral experimentation. It was a deliberately subversive mix that provoked the country's military regime and led to the exile and imprisonment of some of Brazil's star musicians.
Tropicalia brought a new wave of liberation and energy into Brazilian music.
Earlier in the decade, bossa nova had captured a mood of national optimism but, as the 1960s wore on, the political situation darkened. The military junta, in power since 1964, was drifting into open repression - the arts would be censored, musicians targeted, imprisoned and exiled. A new, more combative approach was called for.
Tropicalia was based around a core group of musicians – Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, the group Os Mutantes, singer Gal Costa and Tom Ze
It was a mash-up of styles which drew on the country's deep roots but pushed the sound elsewhere, radically.
Harvesting influences from inside and outside Brazil, drawing especially on Western rock, classical orchestration and electronic effects, Tropicalia parodied, mixed and sampled global styles.
Producer: Simon Hollis
A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2016.
A year has passed since the world lost one of its great songwriters. Journalist and author Sean O'Hagan explores the lyrical genius of Shane MacGowan, presenting him as a voice of the Irish diaspora.
Throughout, we interweave MacGowan's songs and interviews with fresh contributions from cultural icons and those who knew him best, seeking to understand his impact. Although Ireland's population is only 5 million, 70 million people worldwide have Irish ancestry, making the Irish diaspora one of the largest.
The Pogues were a London-Irish band, rather than purely an Irish one - a crucial distinction. This identity is reflected not only in their punk-inflected sound but also in Shane MacGowan's songwriting style, whether through the gritty urban realism of The Old Main Drag or the bruised romanticism of The Broad Majestic Shannon, a love song filled with longing for home. Through six selected songs, we come to appreciate MacGowan's artistry as that of an exile.
Featuring contributions from Bono, Nick Cave, Victoria Mary Clarke, Sir Bob Geldof, Bobby Gillespie, Siobhan MacGowan, David Simon, Daragh Lynch and Peter Doherty.
Thank you to Linda Dowling Almeida and Richard Balls
In November 1979, Margaret Thatcher exposed the British art historian Sir Anthony Blunt as a Soviet spy. She revealed that Blunt - openly gay and a former intelligence officer for MI5 - was a member of the infamous Cambridge Five spy ring who had traded secrets with Soviet Russia during the Second World War.
As one of the country's leading academics and a former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (a role for which he received his knighthood), Blunt's influence reached to the top of the establishment. In a Britain polarised by the Cold War, Blunt's exposure provoked an unprecedented media storm and turned him into a national hate figure.
Blunt had shared 1,771 top secret documents with Russia during the war and played a key role in the escape of Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby, fellow members of the Cambridge Five. Ironically, Stalin's regime was so distrustful of everything they received that it is questionable how much impact the information that Blunt shared actually had.
David Cannadine, the current President of the British Academy, reassesses Blunt's career before his exposure as well as the fallout afterwards. He uncovers the controversy which erupted over Blunt's academic position after he was revealed as a spy, and how the academic community came to terms with the revelation of a traitor in its midst.
Eventually stripped of his knighthood and expelled from academic life, Blunt's rapid downfall was driven as much by a hostile disdain for his position as a privileged left-wing intellectual, and by a rampant homophobia in the press that labelled him a 'treacherous Communist poof'.
Can artistic reputations survive political actions or personal disgrace, and what issues does Blunt's story raise for institutional loyalty and professional identity?
David Cannadine speaks to many of Blunt's former students and those directly involved in the raw and personal clash of ideals over Blunt's position, some of whom remained sympathetic to him as a great intellectual and great teacher, and saw themselves as defenders of intellectual liberty against a political witch-hunt.
With Dawn Ades, Christopher Andrew, Miranda Carter, Richard Davenport-Hines, Neil MacGregor, Charles Moore, Charles Saumarez Smith, Deborah Swallow, Sarah Whitfield and Richard Verdi.
Historical research: Martin Spychal
Producer: Melissa FitzGerald
A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.
In 1924 Andre Breton published the Manifesto of Surrealism, giving shape to a set of ideas that had a profound effect on cultural and artistic life. Despite the manifesto, Surrealism was less a cast-iron ideology than an evolving set of principles. In short, it aimed to loosen the shackles of rationality and to liberate minds. It drew on our dream lives, our unconscious selves and our nightmare visions. Not simply in the service of shock: surrealism sought to upend settled assumptions and change the world.
We might think first of the visual arts – of vivid and puzzling paintings – but Breton was first of all concerned with writing. And Surrealists went on to use any and all methods to dislocate conventional reason: poems, texts, photographs, collages, film. But in our digital age can the juxtapositions of surrealism carry any urgency? Has its emancipatory potential seeped away with familiarity and the easy ability to cut and paste? Can surrealism still be subversive? And, as we tell the stories and discuss the ideas, can we infuse this programme with an authentic surrealist spirit?
With Louisa Buck, Hamed Maiye, Desmond Morris, Adjoa Osei and Perdita Sinclair.
Professor Brian Cox looks back at the work of his all-time science hero, the American astronomer Carl Sagan.
As well as a well respected science career, Sagan is best known for his work in bringing the joy and wonder of science to as wide an audience as possible.
His landmark 13-part TV series, of the early 80s, COSMOS has been seen by a record 60 million people to date.
He was involved in the early days of the US space programme, was a strong advocate for the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, and his passion for the grandeur of the universe we live in and our place in it inspired a generation of young scientists.
Brian takes a nostalgic look back at the TV show that he credits with leading him into a career in science, and the man who many have called the greatest science populariser of them all.
Faithless' Sister Bliss takes us on A Night Out through the house music that first blew her mind, showing just how vast the canon of house music can be.
Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It [Trax] Andronicus - Make You Whole [Hooj Choons] George Morel - Let's Groove [Strictly Rhythm] Psychotropic - Hypnosis [Azuli] Shades Of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation (Herve Remix) [Cheap Thrills] Kristine W - Feel What You Want (Acappella) [Hed Kandi] Sterling Void - It's Gonna Be Alright Paperclip People - Throw [Open] SL2 - DJs Take Control [XL Recordings] Solution - Feels So Right [Ministry Of Sound] LFO - LFO [Warp] Original Rockers - Push Push [The Cake Label] Mylo - Drop The Pressure Joey Beltram - Mentasm [R&S] Charles B. - Lack Of Love [Desire] Slam - Positive Education [Soma Quality Recordings] Spectrum - Brazil [React] CJ Bolland - Camargue [Rewind The Classics] Lennie Di Ice - We Are I.E. Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles [Warner.ESP]
Kevin Ayers And The Wizzards Of Twiddly - Lady Rachel Kevin Ayers And The Wizzards Of Twiddly - Am I Really Marcel Kevin Ayers And The Wizzards Of Twiddly - Super Salesman
A star of stage and screen, Bill Nighy has enjoyed a fifty year career and is now among Britain's most prolific and much loved actors. Acclaimed for National Theatre roles in plays by David Hare and Tom Stoppard, his popular appeal lies with scene-stealing appearances in films including Pirates Of The Caribbean, Harry Potter and, most famously, Love Actually. Bill Nighy has won Bafta and Golden Globe awards and was Oscar nominated for his starring role in the 2022 historical drama Living. His most recent film is Joy in which he plays obstetrician Patrick Steptoe, one of the pioneers of fertility treatment.
Bill Nighy talks to John Wilson about some of the earliest influences on his career including a school drama teacher. He also recalls joining the Liverpool Everyman rep company in the 1970s and the influence of playwright David Hare who cast him in many of his works including Pravda, The Vertical Hour and Skylight.
Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi's first screenplay, My Beautiful Launderette brought him Oscar and BAFTA nominations in 1985. Five years later his debut novel The Buddha Of Suburbia, set amidst the social divisions of mid 70’s Britain, became a bestseller and was adapted as a BBC television series. After eleven screenplays including My Son The Fanatic, Venus and The Mother, and nine novels, including Intimacy and the Black Album, his latest book is a memoir called Shattered. It records the year he spent in hospital after a fall on Boxing Day 2022 which has left him paralysed.
Hanif talks to John Wilson about the influence of his father, also a writer, who in part inspired his debut novel The Buddha Of Suburbia. He also talks about the influence of Freudian analysis on his writing and how he is coping with the effects of his life-changing accident.
Nile Rodgers is one of the most successful and influential figures in popular music. As a songwriter, producer and arranger he has enjoyed a 50 year career with his bands Chic and Sister Sledge, and collaborations with artists including Diana Ross, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Madonna, Daft Punk and Beyoncé.
Bringing his 1959 Fender Stratocaster guitar to the This Cultural Life studio, Nile tells John Wilson how the instrument has been the bedrock of almost every record that he worked on, and acquiring the nickname 'The Hitmaker'. He discusses his bohemian upbringing in 1950s New York with his mother and stepfather who were both drug users. He chooses as one of his most important influences his jazz guitar tutor Ted Dunbar who taught him not only about musical technique but also how to appreciate the artistry of a hit tune. "It speaks to the souls of a million strangers" he was told.
Nile Rodgers reminisces about his musical partner Bernard Edwards, with whom he set up the Chic Organisation after the pair first met on the club circuit playing with cover bands. He discusses their song writing techniques and the importance of what they called 'deep hidden meaning' in lyrics. He also reflects on the untimely death of Bernard Edwards in 1996 shortly after he played a gig with Nile in Tokyo, and why he continues to pay musical tribute to his friend in his globally-touring stage show which includes the songs of Chic and other artists they worked with.
Radio 1 Dance Presents a series of DJ Sets recorded live at Glastonbury 2024. In this episode, it's Eats Everything B2B Groove Armada recorded live at the Levels Stage.
Eats Everything - Lovelee Day Julian Collazos - Londresway [Moon Harbour] Groove Armada - Free Jam Eats Everything - Unknown Deetron - Runnin [Nu Groove] Bicep & Groove Armada - Superstylin vs. Groove Armada Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (K&K Edit) Eats Everything - Unknown K + K - Luther Nic Fanciulli - Over Unknown - No No No (Eats Everything Edit) Trace - Fake Friends [Hot Creations] Fred again.. - Maria (spooky cash cash edit) Eats Everything - Turn Me Out (Edit) Tone Toy - Freek Groove Armada - Superstylin Bootleg
Author and children's poet Michael Rosen is castaway by Sue Lawley.
Since his first book, Mind Your Own Business, was published more than than 30 years ago, Michael has been credited with revolutionising the way children's poems are written and performed.
Words and language have always formed an important part of his life. The son of two teachers, he was born into a London, Jewish family, and brought up in a home full of literature, conversation and debate. His poems often rely on snatches of dialogue and memories from his own childhood and relate his experiences with his own children.
His greatest commercial success has been his hugely popular re-telling of the American folk tale We're All Going on a Bear Hunt.
He's also published a series of memories aimed at adults rather than children. In particular, these attend to the central tragedy of his life, the sudden death of his second son Eddie, when he was 18 years old. His death became a public matter because Eddie had featured so often in Michael's early work and was a well-known character to millions of children.
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Big Bill Broonzy - Black, Brown and White BOOK CHOICE: The Complete Poems - Carl Sandburg LUXURY CHOICE: A didgeridoo belonging to his late son Eddie
Producer: Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006.
Original Cast - Oh, What A Lovely War Ewan MacColl - Fourpence A Day Big Bill Broonzy - Black, Brown And White Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem John Doherty - Miss Ramsay Léo Ferré - Paname Smiley Culture - Cockney Translation Toumani Diabete - Taj Mahal's Tunkaranke
Appointed Poet Laureate in 2019 - Simon Armitage is castaway by Lauren Laverne.
His poems celebrate the everyday and the ordinary with wit and affection. But beyond the wood chip and washing lines he addresses the complexities and the profound feelings that underpin daily life.
Born in Huddersfield, Simon Armitage grew up in the village of Marsden in West Yorkshire. Marsden has informed and inspired much of his work and as a boy he would look out of his bedroom window at night to watch the comings and goings of village life.
He vividly remembers as a teenager discovering the work of fellow laureate Ted Hughes, recalling an almost electrical surge of excitement when he realised the power of words on a page. Hughes grew up in the next valley and Simon admits to thinking "If Ted Hughes can do it why can't I?"
He worked as a probation officer in Manchester for several years, writing poetry in the evenings and at weekends. His first collection Zoom! was published in 1989 and a few years later he left the probation service to write full time.
Prolific and popular, he was named the Millennium poet and in 2015 was appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Three years later he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Today he lives not far from Marsden where, when he's not writing poems, plays and novels, he still looks out of his window and daydreams.
BOOK CHOICE: The Oxford English Dictionary LUXURY ITEM: A tennis ball CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Moonage Daydream by David Bowie
Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Paula McGinley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2020.
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge - The Lamb by William Blake, composed by John Tavener, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha Jonathan Pryce and the 1994 London Palladium Cast Of Oliver! - You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two Ted Hughes - Icecrust and Snowflake Joy Division - Atmosphere Soft Cell - Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go? Jon Rennard - Holmfirth Anthem Else Torpe and Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - My Heart's In The Highlands
Sue Lawley talks to actor Donald Sutherland in a programme first broadcast in 2000. Donald Sutherland died in June 2024, aged 88. He has acted in 104 films, including such classics as MASH, Don't Look Now and JFK. Tall and lanky as a child, he was called 'Goofus' or 'Dumbo' because of his big ears. However, it was those ears that caught the attention of the director of The Dirty Dozen and thus his film career was launched.
Now appearing on the British stage for the first time in 36 years, he chooses eight records to take to the mythical desert island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major 412 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman Luxury: 100 cases of vintage Bordeaux
Peggy Lee - The Best Is Yet To Come [Capitol] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major [EMI] Patsy Cline - Sweet Dreams [MCA] Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations [Sony Classical] The Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko [Apple] Dave Brubeck - Take Five [Columbia] Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee [Columbia] Diane Dufresne - J'ai recontre l'homme de ma vie [Barclay]
American rock musician Alice Cooper is castaway by Kirsty Young.
As a teenager he says it was British music that he tuned in to - listening to The Beatles, The Yardbirds and The Who.
He realised that while rock music had many heroes, there were few villains - that was the territory he marked out for himself. He developed his trademark look - blackened eyes, straggly hair and glamorous clothes - and set about designing live shows that were gleefully gory and macabre.
While critics have described him as 'the world's most beloved heavy metal entertainer', it took him a while to untangle himself from his creation.
"For a long time I honestly didn't know where I began and Alice ended. My friends at the time were Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and I was trying to keep up with them. And I realised when they all died that you didn't have to be your character off stage."
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Work Song BOOK CHOICE: Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut LUXURY CHOICE: An indoor golf driving range
Producer: Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.
The Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago The Beach Boys - I Get Around The Who - I'm A Boy Laura Nyro - Timer King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (incl. Mirrors) Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Work Song Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man