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ERIC CANTONA - A FREAK ZONE SPECIAL (320kbs-m4a/254mb/1hr51mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th December 2023
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 HOBBS - IN CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT DEL NAJA FROM MASSIVE ATTACK
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th November 2024
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)
MARY ANNE HOBBS - ROBERT DEL NAJA PLAYLIST
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th November 2024
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]
MASSIVE ATTACK PLAYLIST (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th November 2024
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 LIVE (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th November 2024
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 do in 1997
MASSIVE ATTACK AT THE BBC (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th November 2024
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
EDITS EDITS EDITS! (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st December 2024
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)
DJ ZINC - CLASSIC ESSENTIAL MIX (2009) (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 1st December 2024
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]
TROPICALIA - REVOLUTION IN SOUND (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd December 2024
Tropicalia was a musical revolution in Brazil.
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.
SHANE MACGOWAN: THE OLD MAIN DRAG (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 30th November 2024
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
Produced by Richard Power
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4
ANTHONY BLUNT: A QUESTION OF RETRIBUTION? (320kbs-m4a/129mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th November 2024
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.
ARCHIVE ON 4: LOBSTER TELEPHONE (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 16th November 2024
Matthew Sweet explores a century of surrealism.
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.
With grateful thanks to Sabina Stent.
CARL SAGAN: A PERSONAL VOYAGE (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th November 2024
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.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
A NIGHT OUT WITH: SISTER BLISS (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th November 2024
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]
PRIMAL SCREAM AT THE BBC (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th November 2024
Primal Scream performing live and in conversation at the BBC.
Primal Scream - (Feel Like A) Demon Again
Primal Scream - Jailbird
Primal Scream - Accelerator
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies
Primal Scream - Dolls
Primal Scream - I Can Change
Primal Scream - It's Alright, It's Ok
Primal Scream - When The Bombs Drop
Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
Primal Scream - I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have [Creation]
Primal Scream - Country Girl
Primal Scream - Rocks
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: PRIMAL SCREAM (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th November 2024
Primal Scream reveal their story through interviews from the BBC archives.
Primal Scream - Exterminator [Creation]
Primal Scream - Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Primal Scream - Dolls [Columbia]
Primal Scream - Where The Light Gets In
Primal Scream - Movin' On Up [Creation]
Primal Scream - Loaded [Creation]
Primal Scream - Come Together
THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 107. BILL NIGHY (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 31st October 2024
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.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 105. HANIF KUREISHI (320kbs-m4a/99mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 17th October 2024
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.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 104. NILE RODGERS (320kbs-m4a/98mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 10th October 2024
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.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
EATS EVERYTHING B2B GROOVE ARMADA - RADIO 1 DANCE PRESENTS... GLASTONBURY 2024 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 6th July 2024
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
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: POET CASTAWAYS - MICHAEL ROSEN (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th October 2024
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
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: POET CASTAWAYS - SIMON ARMITAGE (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th October 2024
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
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: CLASSIC DESERT ISLAND DISCS - DONALD SUTHERLAND (320kbs-m4a/78mb/34mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st September 2024
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]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: AMERICAN SINGERS - ALICE COOPER (320kbs-m4a/99mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th August 2024
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
HIGH CONTRAST CURATES & HOSTS AN UNDERWORLD PLAYLIST (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 16th July 2024
Welsh music producer & DJ High Contrast curates & hosts a career spanning Underworld Playlist. Including tracks he has collaborated on with the influential Dance act.
The playlist includes material from Underworld's canon from 1987 to the present day and reflects both their range of styles and forays in to soundtrack work-notably for director Danny Boyle.
High Contrast is a highly regarded Drum & Bass & Electronica artist, DJ & Producer.
Underworld - Two Months Off [JBO]
Underworld - Trim [Smith Hyde Productions]
Underworld - Scribble
Underworld - Dirty Epic
Underworld - Push Upstairs [JBO]
Underworld - Capa Meets The Sun [Hollywood]
Underworld - Peggy Sussed
Underworld - Brilliant Yes That Would Be
Underworld - Banstyle
Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)
UNDERWORLD AT THE BBC (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 16th July 2024
Underworld in session and in conversation at the BBC.
Underworld - Fever (BBC Session 03/09/1989)
Underworld - And The Colour Red
Underworld - Texas (BBC Session 03/09/1989)
Mase - Feel So Good
Todd Terry - Something Goin' On (In Your Soul)
Photek - The Hidden Camera
Roni Size / Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag
Underworld - Moaner
Underworld - Thrash (BBC Session 03/09/1989)
Underworld - Born Slippy (BBC Session 10/12/2003)
UNDERWORLD LIVE (320kbs-m4a/275mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 16th July 2024
Underworld recorded live at Glastonbury, Alexandra Palace & Creamfields festival.
Underworld - Shudder / King Of Snake (Alexandra Palace, London 1998)
Underworld - Dark & Long (Alexandra Palace, London 1998)
Underworld - Cowgirl (Alexandra Palace, London 1998)
Underworld - Push Upstairs (Alexandra Palace, London 1998)
Underworld - MMM Skyscraper (Alexandra Palace, London 1998)
Underworld - Rez (Alexandra Palace, London 1998)
Underworld - Two Months Off (Alexandra Palace, London 1998)
Underworld - Rez / Cowgirl (Glastonbury)
Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx) (Glastonbury)
Underworld - Moaner (Creamfields 2002)
Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx) (Creamfields 2002)
BLUR - LIVE IN LONDON 1997 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 17th September 2024
As part of an Artist Collection celebrating blur, here's the band recorded live at London's Astoria and Brixton Academy in 1997, the year their self-titled record was released.
Blur - Beetlebum (London Astoria 1997)
Blur - Movin' On (London Astoria 1997)
Blur - Oily Water (London Astoria 1997)
Blur - Stereotypes (London Astoria 1997)
Blur - MOR (London Astoria 1997)
Blur - Advert / Bank Hioliday (Birxton Academy 1997)
Blur - Girls And Boys (Birxton Academy 1997)
Blur - Death Of A Party (Birxton Academy 1997)
Blur - This Is A Low (Birxton Academy 1997)
Blur - Theme From Retro (Birxton Academy 1997)
Blur - The Universal (Birxton Academy 1997)
Blur - Parklife (Birxton Academy 1997)
Blur - Coping / Killing For Love (Birxton Academy 1997)
Blur - Song 2 (Birxton Academy 1997)
ADAM F - MARY ANNE HOBBS ICONS MIX (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th November 2024
Adam F is a multi genre artist, record producer, DJ, musician, singer & songwriter. Born in Liverpool he has 7 Gold and 4 Platinum certified music awards under his belt. As a writer, producer and singer he's held the No. 1 Album spot in the USA Billboard chart, No. 1 on the UK national singles chart, won the MOBO best album award for debut album Colours and named MTV Top 5 producers in the world.
Marcus Intalex - Temperance [Soul:r]
Adam F & Paul T - Aromatherapy Revisited (Adam F VIP & Paul T Reboot) [EMI]
Adam F - Circles Revisited (Adam F VIP & ALIBI Reboot Bootleg) [Unreleased]
MC Conrad & Total Science - Soul Patrol [C.I.A.]
LTJ Bukem - Music [Good Looking]
MC Conrad & LTJ Bukem - Promised Land [Higher Limits]
Goldie - Inner City Life (Nookie Remix) [Metalheadz]
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine (Adam F VIP) [Unreleased]
L‐Side & Makoto & Frank H Carter III - What You Won't Do for Love [V Recordings]
Motiv - Walkin' Jazz [V Recordings]
MC Conrad & Makoto - Golden Girl [Good Looking]
LTJ Bukem & Adam F - Atlantis & Music In My Mind Revisited (Adam F VIP)
DBRIDGE - MARY ANNE HOBBS ICONS MIX (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st November 2024
dBridge, also known as Darren White, has put together this week's ICONS mix. A stalwart of the drum and bass scene since the early '90s, dBridge has continually pushed the boundaries of the genre. Since founding Exit Records in 2003, he has demonstrated a clear desire to move away from the typical club sound associated with contemporary drum and bass. Instead, dBridge has embraced old-school techniques, equipment, and production styles, creating a unique sonic palette that reflects his artistic vision.
dBridge - Violence Of Positivity [Candy Mountain]
Madam X & Cartridge - Hoodlum FC [Kaizen]
Quartz - Gaslight Social Club
COIDO - Wedge [Twenty Twenty]
NINA - Papaya [Faux Poly]
Tronikhouse - Up Tempo (Original Mix) [KMS]
God Colony - The Column [Crack Copies]
Adam Curtain - I Want, I Want [yoyaku]
COIDO - Sandero [Twenty Twenty]
Poison Arrow - Juego Carnal (Konrad's Final Dayz Version)
Hannibal Rex - Refeeling [Unreleased]
Or:la - Chant [Fabric Originals]
Boofy - Medina
Madi Willing - Patient (COIDO Remix)
Joe Seven - Typh Jam [Exit]
JOHN CARPENTER - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE (320kbs-m4a/85mb/37mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 25th October 2024
It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare...
Prepare for a mixtape from the master of horror, John Carpenter. Known as the Prince of Darkness, Carpenter is one of the most celebrated directors and composers of the horror genre, the man behind the Halloween series, The Thing and The Fog among many others.
A huge music-lover, Carpenter believes music is the greatest of all artforms and a reason to be alive. So with that in mind, he has curated some of his favourite tracks for the Late Junction mixtape, including soundtracks from Dario Argento's Suspiria composed by the Italian prog-rock band Goblin, compositions by Ennio Morricone and Vince DiCola, and some classics from the likes of Devo and Buffy Saint-Marie.
John Carpenter - I Have a Message For You [Varèse Sarabande]
John Carpenter & Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - Intro
DEVO - Jocko Homo [Virgin]
Goblin - Opening To The Sighs [Cinevox]
Gentle Giant - An Inmate's Lullaby [Vertigo]
KENSO - The Split Gate
Michael Small - Love Theme From Klute
National Health - Brujo [Affinity]
Ennio Morricone - Uno che grida amore [Bixio Cemsa]
DEVO - Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA [Warner Bros.]
Buffy Sainte‐Marie & Jack Nitzsche - Define Love [Varèse Sarabande]
John Carpenter - Prologue
Goblin - E Suono Rock [Cinevox]
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - THE LOST WORLD (320kbs-m4a/354mb/2hrs34mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd, 10th & 17th August 2024
**** This series was suggested by Hadrian Jeffs as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's All Request Weekend ****
Professor Challenger is leading an expedition - determined to prove that dinosaurs are not extinct.
Starring Francis de Wolff, Kevin McHugh, Gerald Harper and Carleton Hobbs.
A three-part dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic adventure, first published in 1912.
Adapted by Peggy Wells and Barry Campbell.
Producer: Betty Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1975.
**** To nominate a programme from the archive that you would like to hear again, please email radio4extra@bbc.co.uk ****
THE LOST WORLD - 1. THE MONSTER OF ENMORE PARK (320kbs-m4a/122mb/53mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd August 2024
It's 1907. Having claimed to have found living dinosaurs in South America, Professor Challenger leads an expedition to prove the doubters wrong.
Professor Challenger .... Francis de Wolff
Edward Malone .... Kevin McHugh
Lord John Roxton .... Gerald Harper
Professor Summerlee .... Carleton Hobbs
Gladys .... Carole Boyd
McArdle .... Henry Stamper
Austin .... Paul Gaymon
Mrs Challenger .... Norma Ronald
Policeman .... Alan Dudley
Chairman .... Denis McCarthy
THE LOST WORLD - 2. THE EDGE OF TERROR (320kbs-m4a/114mb/49mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 10th August 2024
Having reached the mysterious plateau in Brazil, he and his party now must tackle the perilous climb.
What awaits them at the summit?
Professor Challenger .... Francis de Wolff
Edward Malone .... Kevin McHugh
Lord John Roxton .... Gerald Harper
Professor Summerlee .... Carleton Hobbs
Gomez .... Ronald Faulkener
Zembo .... Tommy Eytle
THE LOST WORLD - 3. OUR EYES HAVE SEEN GREAT WONDERS (320kbs-m4a/118mb/51mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th August 2024
Around a campfire, surrounded by a thin hedge of thorns, the petrified group can hear something out of the black prehistoric darkness, coming ever closer and closer to their flimsy defences...
Professor Challenger .... Francis de Wolff
Edward Malone .... Kevin McHugh
Lord John Roxton .... Gerald Harper
Professor Summerlee .... Carleton Hobbs
Chairman .... Denis McCarthy
Doctor Illingworth .... Hector Ross
Gladys .... Carole Boyd
Williams Potts .... John Bull
JOHN WYNDHAM - THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (320kbs-m4a/240mb/1hr44mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 5th & 12th October 2024
John Wyndham's classic post-apocalyptic novel, first published in 1951.
Dramatised in two parts by Lance Dann.
Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell.
Director: Rosalynd Ward
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2001.
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - 1. CAN'T YOU SEE? I'M BLIND... (320kbs-m4a/109mb/47mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 5th October 2024
The world is struck blind by a solar storm.
Millions of man-eating, walking plants are released to roam across Britain.
Bill Masen .... Jamie Glover
Josella Playton .... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Colonel Jacques .... Geoffrey Whitehead
Walter Lucknor .... Gavin Muir
Coker .... Lee Ingleby
Miss Durrant .... Richenda Carey
The Nurse .... Helen Ayres
The Blindman .... Jonathan Forbes
Young Bill .... Oliver Cookson
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - 2. THE SEARCH FOR A HAVEN (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th October 2024
As the Triffids destroy Britain, Bill works with his father to clone a genetic mutation to try and sterilise them all.
Bill goes in search of Josella to seek a haven where they can rebuild their shattered lives.
But the Triffids aren't the only threat to their survival....
Bill Masen .... Jamie Glover
Josella Playton .... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Coker .... Lee Ingleby
Colonel Jacques .... Geoffrey Whitehead
Miss Durrant .... Richenda Carey
The Blind Girl .... Helen Ayres
Susan .... Lucy Trickett
Yellow Team Leader .... Jonathan Forbes
Bill's Guard .... Gavin Muir
JOURNEYS IN SOUND - GRAHAM COXON (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th October 2024
Musician and songwriter Graham Coxon of Blur and The Waeve shares the pivotal moments that have made him the multi-talented artist he is today. Talking to Nemone, who combines her roles of DJ and qualified psychotherapist, Graham dives deep to share his story and the songs that have moved him and sound-tracked the ups and downs of his eventful life. He also reveals how personal experiences and emotions are woven through his own work. It's a chance to understand his relationship with music more intimately, to learn more about how he has used sound to communicate, and how he has reached the place we meet him in.
The multi-instrumentalist began his musical adventure by playing saxophone on his schoolmate's first records. With that friend, Damon Albarn, he went on to form one of Britpop's biggest bands, Blur, with gargantuan success through the 90s and 00s. Graham has released eight solo LPs, TV film scores, been in The Jaded Hearts Club alongside Muse's Matt Bellamy and Miles Kane, and has created his own graphic novel and album 'Superstate'. Graham is now one half of The Waeve with Rose Elinor Dougal, his partner in life as well as music. The couple released their second album 'City Lights' last month.
Graham shares his memories of childhood, growing up on army estates and his early musical mentors. He also talks about living with anxiety, the circumstances that led him to rehab, his romantic and musical partnership with Rose, and the stories behind the tracks on their new album.
In this series Nemone will be talking in depth to Nadine Shah, Joan As Policewoman and Simon Raymonde formerly of Cocteau Twins and now head of well respected label Bella Union.
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The WAEVE - City Lights [Transgressive]
Blur - Beetlebum (Instrumental) [Parlophone UK]
The Beatles - Lovely Rita [Apple]
Hot Butter - Popcorn [Compact]
The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys [Virgin]
Soft Cell - Tainted Love [Vertigo]
Blur - There's No Other Way [Food]
Graham Coxon - Livin' [Parlophone UK]
Blur - The Everglades (For Leonard) (Instrumental) [Warner Music UK Limited]
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Blow By Blow (Live)
The WAEVE - Kill Me Again [Transgressive]
MaCarthy - Red Sleeping Beauty
My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss [Rhino/Warner]
Pixies - Where Is My Mind? [4AD]
Blur - Coffee & TV [Food]
Blur - Tender [Food]
The WAEVE - You Saw
The WAEVE - Can I Call You [Transgressive]
The WAEVE - Song For Eliza May [Transgressive]
Talk Talk - Myrrhman [Polydor]
