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THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 91. LILY ALLEN (320kbs-m4a/98mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 23rd May 2024
Renowned for the autobiographical candour of her lyrics, Lily Allen has sung about the pitfalls of fame, drugs, broken relationships and motherhood. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for her debut album Alright Still and after the release of It's Not Me, It's You in 2010 won a Brit Award and three Ivor Novello Awards, including Songwriter of the Year. In 2021 she embarked on a stage acting career starring in 2.22 A Ghost Story, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. More recently, with her childhood friend Miquita Oliver, she launched her BBC podcast series Miss Me.
Talking to John Wilson, Lily recalls a sometimes sad and troubled childhood. Her father, the actor and comedian Keith Allen, had left the family home when she was four, and her film producer mother Alison Owen was often away working. She chooses as her first formative experiences a school concert in which she performed the song Baby Mine from the Disney movie Dumbo and captivated the audience. She recalls how the first started writing and recording her own songs, and built up a fanbase with the on-line platform MySpace. She chooses, as key musical influences the 1979 song Up The Junction by Squeeze, and the 2004 album A Grand Don't Come For Free by Mike Skinner, otherwise known as The Streets. Lily Allen also reflects on the pressures of juggling life in the spotlight with motherhood, and how theatre acting has offered her a new creative challenge.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
SULLY - MARY ANNE HOBBS ICONS MIX 17.05.24 (320kbs-m4a/71mb/31mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 17th May 2024
Sully aka Jack Stevens began finding a space between 2step's swing, dubstep's edge and breakstep's drums, all underpinned by the rude spirit of jungle.
The Criminal Minds - The Criminal (Swankout Rework)
Egyptian Empire - The Horn Track (Blade Rework 2024) [Missile]
Tim Reaper - Scorched Earth (A1) [Future Retro London]
Sully - XT [Uncertain Hour / Musique Nocturne]
Keaton & Nitrox - Venom [Renegade Hardware]
Kiljoy - Heart Of A Lion [Function]
Unknown - Unknown
J & J - 100 Tons Of Bass (Overwieght Mix) [Strictly Underground]
Unknown - "The Original Don Dada"
Unknown - Unknown
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: GREG DAVIES (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 12th May 2024
Greg Davies is a familiar face on television as the host of Taskmaster, the BAFTA-winning game show, and he has achieved sell out national arena tours as a stand-up. His on-screen breakthrough came in 2008 when he played the head of the sixth form, Mr Gilbert, in the highly successful teenage comedy series the Inbetweeners. He wrote and starred in the black comedy the Cleaner and co-wrote the sitcom Man Down in which he played a man in the grip of a midlife crisis.
Greg was born in St Asaph in North Wales and grew up in Shropshire. At school he gravitated towards what he calls the silly boys who created characters and devised comedy sketches in the playground. When he was 18 he discovered Eddie Murphy whose stand-up routines about his relatives spurred Greg to look to his own family as comedic source material.
Greg spent 13 years as an English and Drama teacher – a time he looks back on with mixed emotions and which he has mined for his stage act. When he was 33 he left teaching and started performing stand-up gigs and performed his first solo stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010.
Greg lives in south London.
BOOK CHOICE: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
LUXURY ITEM: Sausages
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: 100% Endurance - Yard Act
Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley
Madness - Baggy Trousers [Union Square Music]
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman [Capitol Nashville]
Yard Act - 100% Endurance [Universal/Island]
The Wonder Stuff - Circlesquare [Polydor]
The Smiths - Cemetry Gates (2008 Remaster) [Rhino/Warner]
Jack Wild And The Orchestra, conducted by John Green - Consider Yourself [Sony BMG]
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary [Warner]
Dr. Dre (feat. Snoop Dogg) - The Next Episode [Aftermath]
GLASGOW: WHAT'S IN A LABEL? (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th March 2024
Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian leads an expert panel through the music of Glasgow via its labels and club nights; from Postcard Records through to Chemikal Underground and Optimo. Stuart chats with Emma Pollock of The Delgados, Stephen McRobbie of The Pastels and Andrew Symington of Divine to uncover the people and nights that have been the beating heart of the city's creativity over the last forty years. Expect music from Orange Juice, Mogwai, Arab Strap and Sacred Paws, plus tales of a wild night or two.
Belle And Sebastian - Legal Man [Jeepster Recordings]
The Go‐Betweens - I Need Two Heads [Postcard]
Orange Juice - Falling And Laughing [Postcard]
Josef K - It's Kinda Funny [Postcard]
The Pastels - Crawl Babies [Glass]
The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes [Verve]
Orange Juice - Rip It Up [Polydor]
The Vaselines - Son Of A Gun [53rd & 3rd]
Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows [Paperhouse]
Teenage Fanclub - The Concept [Creation]
Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Belle And Sebastian - White Collar Boy [Rough Trade]
The Delgados - Monica Webster [Chemikal Underground]
bis - Kandy Pop
Mogwai - Christmas Steps [Chemikal Underground]
Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend
S'Express - Superfly Guy [Camden]
Neu! - Für Immer (Forever) [United Artists]
The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache [Decca]
Belle And Sebastian - The Party Line [Rough Trade]
Liquid Liquid - Optimo [99]
Franz Ferdinand - Darts Of Pleasure [Domino]
Jackie Wilson - Light My Fire [MCA]
Golden Teacher - Love Rocket [Optimo Music]
Spinning Coin - Raining On Hope Street
Errors - Genuflection [Rock Action]
Belle And Sebastian - Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie (Summer Sundae 2006)
Sacred Paws - Strike A Match [Rock Action]
7" OF JOY: THE SINGLE AT 75 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 13th April 2024
What makes the 7" single so magical is its power to instantly gratify, its ability to get the job done and dusted in approximately two minutes and 57 seconds. Its power outstrips its modest size.
Born out of a commercial war between record labels - shellac was expensive and fragile - RCA Records released the first 7" record on 10th January 1949. Eight decades later 7" singles are in more demand than ever from avid collectors - some commanding four figure sums - and a whole new generation born when the iPod became king are discovering the beauty of the physical 7" over the digital file and streaming.
In this Archive on 4, Pete Waterman, who knows a thing or two about the 7" single, charts its history since the 1940s.
Along the way, he hears from a plethora of people for whom the single has played a huge part of their lives - Petula Clark and John Leyton of 'Johnny Remember Me' fame remember the early years as recording artists in the 1950s. There was the moral panic of the rock'n'roll and beat generation, as mothers in headscarves queued up decrying the degenerative influence of the coffee bar and its jukebox. But the force of the 7" single changed lives, and helped to introduce the world to the teenager.
Pete guides us through pop culture high points, and low points, when British artists dominated the US singles charts - events that injected a newfound confidence and self-belief into the domestic music industry.
Among those recalling their own relationship with the 7" single is composer Simon May (of EastEnders fame) who had a series of singles hits in the 70s. He explains the excitement of watching the unlikeliest success stories rise up the charts. Pete also talks to producer Royston Mayoh who made the 80s ITV music shows Razzmatazz and The Tube.
We hear about 7" singles parties when enthusiastic young fans would show off and swap their latest records. Pete talks about the sound of the vinyl single, we hear how they were made initially and from one of only two Jukebox factories that exist in the world where they are still making vinyl 7" singles
Pete looks at the phenomenon of the A and B side, the charity and novelty songs which were greatly enabled by the 7" market and the way covers changed everything in later years, and the bizarre and off-beat world of the "flexidisc" - the freebie giveaway often found on the cover of magazines.
Where does the single fit in history and where does it sit today? Pete Waterman, tries to answer the question in a way only he can.
Producers: Wayne Wright and Ashley Byrne
A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4
THE RECORDING ANGEL W⧸ DJ KOZE 15.05.24 (257kbs-m4a/111mb/60mins)
NTS Radio broadcast: 15th May 2024
Sunset Corp - Angel
Gladys Knight & The Pips, Curtis Mayfield - The Makings Of You
Infinity Song - Hater's Anthem
Portraits Of Tracy - Conversation Snippet
Boy Deco & Quantum Keys - Real Sugar (Kosi Edit)
Harris Rudman & Brian Lentz - Really? (Interlude)
Meridian Brothers Y Grupo Renacimiento - Bomba Atomica
Overmono - Arla Fearn
High Frequency (1988) - Dialogue
Skiifall - Intense City
Moodymann - Live At The Music Locker, Los Santos
Yaya Bey, DJ Nativesun - Pour Up (Kosi Edit)
Iso, Dlala Thukzin - Nika Nika (Magical Remix)
Sykes, Dlala Thukzin, Zaba - IPlan (Original Mix)
Roisin Murphy - You Knew
Atmos Blaq - Mfana Wase Dobsi (Citizen Deep Edit)
Ghetts - Tumbi
Rosin Murphy - Crazy Ants Reprise
Salamanda - Kali
Pauline Oliveros - Music With Roots In The Aether
فرقة الأرض, Ferkat Al Ard - Oghneya
Thanx frazered
JOURNEYS IN SOUND - PAUL WELLER: THE MUSICAL UPS AND DOWNS OF MY LIFE (320lbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th May 2024
Paul Weller shares the pivotal moments that have made him the multi-talented musician and composer he is today. Talking to Nemone who combines her roles of DJ and practising psychotherapist, Paul reveals how his relationship with music has grown over the six decades he's been releasing and the experiences that have had an impact on his work.
The prolific award-winning singer songwriter, affectionately known as 'The Modfather' by his fans, burst onto the music scene back in the late 70s fronting The Jam. A string of hits followed such as 'Eton Rifles', 'A Town Called Malice', 'Going Underground', 'That's Entertainment' and 'The Bitterest Pill'. This led to further musical adventures with The Style Council in the 80s and solo material under his own name from 1992 onwards. Nemone and Paul chat in his studio ahead of the release of new album '66'. They talk about life growing up with the Wellers in Woking, teenage musical influences, the impact of The Jam's success and band's subsequent split, working with his musical partner-in-crime Ocean Colour Scene's Steve Craddock, the joy of playing live, the process of writing songs and the making of the new album which will be released the day before his 66th birthday on the 24th of May. Paul also talks about how life has changed since giving up alcohol and how he tries to look after himself.
During this intimate conversation Paul picks music that has sound-tracked his life from The Beatles, Little Richard, The Four Tops, The Who, Sex Pistols, The Clash and Frankie Knuckles, and shares his love of artists such as Liam Bailey and Vegyn. He also chooses his ultimate 'Self Care' track, one that helps him relax and re-set.
Paul Weller - Rise Up Singing [Polydor]
The Beatles - She Loves You (Mono / Remastered) [UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)]
Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly [Acrobat]
Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) [UNI/Motown]
Small Faces - Tin Soldier [Sanctuary]
The Kinks - Dead End Street [Sanctuary]
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows [Universal Music]
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock [RCA/Legacy]
Rufus Thomas - Walking The Dog
The Who - My Generation
Dr. Feelgood - She Does It Right [EMI]
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
The Clash - White Riot [Sony Music UK]
The Jam - That's Entertainment [Polydor]
Ocean Colour Scene - The Circle
Paul Weller - Soul Wandering
Paul Weller - I Woke Up [Polydor]
Paul Weller - The Changingman [Universal/Island]
The Jam - A Town Called Malice [Polydor]
Paul Weller - Nothing [Polydor]
Frankie Knuckles (feat. Satoshi Tomiie & Robert Owens) - Tears [Telstar]
Vegyn (feat. John Glacier) - A Dream Goes On Forever [PLZ Make It Ruins]
Ed Harcourt - Duet For Ghosts [Point Of Departure]
NOEL GALLAGHER'S PAUL WELLER PLAYLIST (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th May 2024
A Playlist selected and hosted by Noel Gallagher spanning Paul Weller's career from The Jam to recent releases interspersed with personal recollections, anecdotes and impressions. The programme also includes highlights from The Jam recorded live during what Noel Gallagher describes as their 'imperious phase' at the Rainbow Theatre in 1979 & the Golders Green Hipodrome in 1981.
The Jam - Start! [Polygram Tv]
The Jam - That's Entertainment [Polydor]
The Jam - A Town Called Malice [Polydor]
The Jam - Shopping [UMC]
The Jam - No One In The World [UMC]
The Style Council - Speak Like A Child [Polydor]
The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods [Polydor]
The Style Council - Shout To The Top [Polydor]
The Style Council - It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands [Polydor]
The Paul Weller Movement - Into Tomorrow [Island]
Paul Weller - Wild Wood [Island]
Paul Weller - Broken Stones [Island]
Paul Weller - Push It Along [Universal]
Paul Weller - Have You Made Up Your Mind [Island]
Paul Weller - White Horses [Parlophone]
The Jam - It's Too Bad (Rainbow Theatre, 19 Dec 1979)
The Jam - Thick As Thieves (Rainbow Theatre, 19 Dec 1979)
The Jam - Away From The Numbers (Rainbow Theatre, 19 Dec 1979)
The Jam - Butterfly Collector (Rainbow Theatre, 19 Dec 1979)
The Jam - The Gift (Golders Green Hippodrome 1981)
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (Golders Green Hippodrome 1981)
The Jam - In The Crowd (Golders Green Hippodrome 1981)
The Jam - Pretty Green (Golders Green Hippodrome 1981)
The Jam - Absolute Beginners (Golders Green Hippodrome 1981)
The Jam - Tales From The Riverbank (Golders Green Hippodrome 1981)
The Jam - Circus (Golders Green Hippodrome 1981)
The Jam - Boy About Town (Golders Green Hippodrome 1981)
PAUL WELLER LIVE (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th May 2024
Paul Weller recorded live at the Phoenix Festival in 1995 and the BBC Radio Theatre in 2010.
Paul Weller - Uh Huh Oh Yeh (Phoenix Festival 13/07/1995)
Paul Weller - The Changingman (Phoenix Festival 13/07/1995)
Paul Weller - Whirlpools' End (Phoenix Festival 13/07/1995)
Paul Weller - Porcelain Gods (Phoenix Festival 13/07/1995)
Paul Weller (feat. Noel Gallagher) - The Swamp Song (Phoenix Festival 13/07/1995)
Paul Weller - I Walk On Gilded Splinters (Phoenix Festival 13/07/1995)
Paul Weller - Sea Spray (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller - Pieces Of A Dream (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller - Strange Town (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller - Strange Town (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller - Start! (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller - Broken Stones (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller (feat. Rox) - Wild Wood (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller (feat. Rox) - You Do Something To Me (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
Paul Weller - Fast Car, Slow Traffic (BBC Radio Theatre 15/04/2010)
PAUL WELLER AT THE BBC (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th May 2024
Paul Weller in conversation from the BBC 6 Music archive. The programme features highlights from interviews with Lauren Laverne, Shaun Keaveny & Matt Everitt.
Paul Weller - Village [Polydor]
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Terry Callier & Paul Weller - Brother To Brother
The Jam - But I'm Different Now [Polydor]
Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me (Live Royal Festival Hall)
The Style Council - Headstart For Happiness [Polydor]
The Style Council - Speak Like A Child
The Jam - Move On Up [Polydor]
WHEN BRADLEY WIGGINS MET PAUL WELLER (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th May 2024
As cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins becomes Britain's most successful Olympian with another gold medal win at the Rio Games, here's another chance to hear him in conversation with musician Paul Weller.
The 2012 Tour de France winner and Olympic gold medallist took time out of his busy training schedule to meet his musical hero. They spent time swapping tunes and stories about the first records they bought, their first gigs, their shared love of northern soul and r'n'b, and the music that shaped their "mod" style.
This programme was first broadcast in 2012.
Paul Weller - Into Tomorrow
The Kinks - Wonder Boy
Junior Walker & The All Stars - (I'm A) Road Runner
Robert Wyatt - A Beautiful War
The Rifles - Peace & Quiet
The Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly
Gladys Knight & The Pips - No One Could Love You More
Bobby "Blue" Bland - These Hands (Small But Mighty)
The Jam - That's Entertainment
The Who - I'm A Boy
Dantalion's Chariot - Madman Running Through The Fields
July - Dandelion Seeds
Paul Weller - In The Crowd (Radio 2 Session, 12 Mar 2003)
Paul Weller - Wild Wood (Radio 2 Session, 14 Sep 2018)
BEN UFO - MARY ANNE HOBBS ICONS MIX 10.05.24 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th May 2024
As one of the co-founders of Hessle Audio, Ben UFO has been responsible, alongside Pearson Sound and Pangaea, for some of the most varied and ground breaking releases of recent years.
Xzavier Stone & DJ Plead & Phillip Jondo - SILVERWATER [SPA]
Or:la - Sea Slugs
Skream & Mxshi Mo - Imali Yami [More Time]
Anz - Clearly Rushing [Hessle Audio]
DJ Narciso - ZIU ZIU
Mina & Bryte - Follow Me [Earth Kicks]
Saoirse - Mangomouse [Peach Discs]
Symbiosis VI x Off The Meds - Voice Of Meds (K-Lone Edit)
Empress Of - Facil [Major Arcana / mtheory]
Murder She Wrote - Tweet
WOST - Calentura Vaginal (Hard Drum Edit)
Plus One - Bonk [Ar Ais Aris]
Pangaea - Squid [Hessle Audio]
FOUR TET - MARY ANNE HOBBS ICONS MIX 26.04.24 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th April 2024
Four Tet aka Kieran Hebden throws down a 30 minute self portrait ICONS Mix featuring some exclusive unreleased material.
Joni Mitchell - Tiger Bones [Warner]
Four Tet - Skater [Text]
Four Tet & Champion - Dec2019 [Text]
Four Tet - Ocoras [Text]
Four Tet - 31 Bloom [Text]
Hagop Tchaparian - Treacle
Four Tet & Skrillex & Starrah - Butterflies (Body Ocean Remix)
Fred again.. & Four Tet - Jennifer
Four Tet - Mango Feedback [Text]
KH & Jo - July2016 Demo
KH - I've Seen It All
Four Tet - Daydream Repeat [Text]
THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 87. ANTONY GORMLEY (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 27th April 2024
For over forty years, the sculptor Sir Antony Gormley has been using his own body as the basis for his artistic work, and is known for creating cast iron human figures that stand on high streets, rooftops and beaches, as well as in museums and galleries around the world. He won the Turner Prize in 1994 and the prestigious Premium Imperiale in 2013. Antony Gormley is best known for the Angel Of The North, a monumental winged figure on a hill in Gateshead which, overlooking the motorway and a mainline railway, is one of the most viewed pieces of modern art in the world.
He talks to John Wilson about his Catholic childhood and the influence that his former art teacher, the sculptor John Bunting had on him while he was at boarding school. Being taken by his father to the British Museum and seeing the colossal human-headed winged bulls, which once guarded an entrance to the citadel of the Assyrian king Sargon II (721-705 BC) captured his creative imagination. Gormley also chooses the life-changing experience of learning Vipassana meditation in India under the teacher S N Goenka, as one that has deeply informed his work.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
Archive:
The Shock of the New : The Future That Was, BBC 2, 1980
Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3, 1994
BBC News, 1998
Five Sculptors : Antony Gormley, BBC2, 1988
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: CLASSIC DESERT ISLAND DISCS - BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH (320kbs-m4a/79mb/34mins)
BBC Radio 4 podcast: 28th April 2024
Sue Lawley talks to the poet Benjamin Zephaniah in a programme first broadcast in 1997. Benjamin Zephaniah died in January 2024 at the age of 65.
As well as talking about his work as a performance poet often working in prisons or schools, Benjamin recalls a time when he was illiterate. He also remembers Nelson Mandela's request to meet him at seven o'clock in the morning to brief him on Margaret Thatcher.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Take Five by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Book: Poetical Works of Shelley by Percy Shelley
Luxury: Law of the land (so he could break it)
Sinéad O'Connor - Fire On Babylon [Ensign]
George Formby - Little Ukulele [Grosvenor]
Leonard Cohen - Last Year's Man [Columbia]
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey [Island]
Mikey Smith - Mi Cyaan Believe It [Island]
Bally Sagoo - Chura Liya [Columbia]
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five [Elite]
Steel Pulse - Klu Klux Klan [Mango]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: COMIC CASTAWAYS 4 - RICKY GERVAIS (320kbs-m4a/98mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 31st March 2024
Comedian and writer Ricky Gervais is castaway Kirsty Young.
In just twelve episodes, his show The Office changed the face of British TV comedy. At its centre was the comic monster, David Brent, a middle-manager being filmed for a mock-documentary who saw the ever-present cameras as his route to popularity and fame. Ricky Gervais's performance was both excruciating and unmissable - one critic called the programme "among the most affecting and invigorating works of fiction since the turn of the century".
As he discusses with Kirsty Young, comedy was the language he grew up with - the youngest of four children, being able to come up with a gag or a smart rejoinder was the linguistic currency of his home. That, he says, is where the 'show-off performer' was born.
Now with seven BAFTAS, two Golden Globes and an Emmy to his name, Ricky is gratified that his work is recognised and says his aim has always been to bring art into comedy.
Favourite track: Lilywhite by Cat Stevens
Book: A coffee table book of art
Luxury: Vat of novocaine - a non-addictive pain-killer.
Producer: Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2007.
Bob Dylan - If You See Her, Say Hello
Yusuf Islam - Lilywhite
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Radiohead - Bones
David Bowie - Letter To Hermione
Jimmy Webb - Galveston
Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: COMIC CASTAWAYS 4 - TRACEY ULLMAN (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th March 2024
Actor and comedian Tracey Ullman is castaway by Lauren Laverne.
Tracey was the first woman to be offered her own TV sketch show – both in Britain and America – and has starred in film and TV dramas alongside Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Hugh Grant. The Emmy-winning Tracey Ullman Show ran for four seasons in the US and provided the launch pad for The Simpsons.
Tracey was born in Slough and as a child she would impersonate people and put on shows for the amusement of her mother after the death of her father. At 12 she won a scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London and worked in repertory theatre and the West End in London before her television career took off. She was one of the stars of the BBC's primetime sketch show Three of a Kind alongside David Copperfield and a young Lenny Henry.
In 1985 she moved to Los Angeles with her husband, the producer Allan McKeown, where her uncanny impressions of Americans from all walks of life won her acclaim and awards in equal measure.
After the death of her husband Tracey returned to the UK in 2016 and was soon back on our screens in a new sketch series, Tracey Ullman's Show, which showcased her enduring talent for sending up the powerful and the famous, including Dame Judi Dench, Angela Merkel and Theresa May.
BOOK CHOICE: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
LUXURY ITEM: Nuts
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: You and I by Stevie Wonder
Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2021.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - American Girl
The Beatles - You Won't See Me
Mike Nichols And Elaine May - Nichols And May At Work
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Everyday I Write The Book
Kirsty MacColl - They Don't Know
Stevie Wonder - You And I
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: COMIC CASTAWAYS 4 - JOHNNY VEGAS (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th March 2024
From Don McLean to Johnny Cash. Comedian Johnny Vegas talks to Kirsty Young about his music castaway choices.
As a stand-up comic he made his name as one of the most brilliant and unpredictable acts on the circuit. His stage persona was a belligerent drunk who would heckle his own audience. But the more successful he became, the more the similarities between his own life and his stage character seemed to blur. "I found popularity through self-destruction" he says, "and that can be quite addictive".
In recent years, he has cut down on his drinking, lost weight and now got engaged - all part of a plan to ensure he reached his 40th birthday and could be a proper father to his young son. "Life's actually turned around and been very good to me," he says.
BOOK CHOICE: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
LUXURY CHOICE: Kiln
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Johnny Cash - Hurt
Producer: Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Deacon Blue - Dignity
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
Pulp - Common People
Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life To Begin
The Beautiful South - Domino Man
The La's - There She Goes
Don McLean - Vincent
TAILENDERS - THE MICHAEL PALIN SPECIAL (320kbs-m4a/166mb/1hr12mins)
BBC Radio 5 broadcast: 25th April 2024
Writer, comedian, broadcaster, documentary maker, presenter and all round genius Sir Michael Palin joins Greg, Jimmy and Felix for a very special episode of Tailenders.
In a wide-ranging interview he discussed his career with Monty Python, his legendary travelogues including his new series on Nigeria, his films and his love of cricket. Included are tales about George Harrison, Keith Miller, watching cricket around the world, his first job at the BBC and the perils of eating rotten camel meat. Plus, what happened when Jimmy was invited to meet the Dalai Lama.
JOHN MARTYN AT THE BBC (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st February 2024
John Martyn in session and concert recordings for the BBC.
John Martyn - Devil Got My Woman (The Old Grey Whistle Test, 23 May 1973)
John Martyn - Inside (Radio 1 Sounds Of The 70s Session, 23 May 1973)
John Martyn - The Message (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 7 Jan 1975)
John Martyn - My Baby Girl (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 7 Jan 1975)
John Martyn - Spencer The Rover (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 7 Jan 1975)
John Martyn - Certain Surprise/Couldn't Love You More (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1977)
John Martyn - Over The Hill (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1977)
John Martyn - May You Never (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1977)
John Martyn - You Can Discover (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 7 Jan 1975)
John Martyn - One Day Without You (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1977)
John Martyn - Make No Mistake
John Martyn - The Cure
John Martyn - Big Muff (Radio 1 In Concert, 11 Apr 1981)
BLONDIE - RADIO 2 IN CONCERT (1998) (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 10th March 2024
Blondie performing at London's Lyceum Theatre in November 1998. Featuring Hanging On the Telephone, Dreaming, Sunday Girl, Maria, One Way or Another, Rapture and Heart of Glass.
Blondie - Dreaming
Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
Blondie - Screaming Skin
Blondie - Forgive And Forget
Blondie - Shayla
Blondie - Union City Blue
Blondie - Sunday Girl
Blondie - Maria
Blondie - Call Me
Blondie - One Way Or Another
Blondie - In The Flesh
Blondie - Rapture
Blondie - Heart Of Glass
EARTH, WIND & FIRE - RADIO 2 IN CONCERT (1998) (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 3rd March 2024
Soul, funk and R&B legends Earth, Wind & Fire performing at the Royal Albert Hall in 1998. Featuring September, Shining Star, Boogie Wonderland, Sun Goddess, Sing a Song, Fantasy and Let's Groove.
Earth, Wind & Fire - September
Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Earth, Wind & Fire - You Can't Hide Love
Earth, Wind & Fire - Sun Goddess
Earth, Wind & Fire - In The Stone
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire - I'll Write A Song For You
Earth, Wind & Fire - After The Love Has Gone
Earth, Wind & Fire - Sing A Song
Earth, Wind & Fire - Getaway
Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland
Earth, Wind & Fire - Fantasy
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
A NIGHT OUT WITH: K-KLASS AT THE HAÇIENDA (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd March 2024
Get ready with K-Klass before taking a trip back to the legendary Manchester night club The Haçienda and then it's back to the afters!
Robin Wants Revenge - Robin Wants Revenge [White label]
Turntable Orchestra - You're Gonna Miss Me [New State Music]
Sinnamon - I Need You Now (Acapella) [Jive]
Inner City - Big Fun [Now]
Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It [Trax]
Orange Lemon - Dreams Of Santa Anna [Virgin/EMI]
"Fast" Eddie Smith - Can You Dance [D.J. International]
Farley Jackmaster Funk (feat. Darryl Pandy) - Love Can't Turn Around [House]
Marshall Jefferson - The House Music Anthem [D.J. International]
Rhythim Is Rhythim - Beyond The Dance [Transmat]
Kechia Jenkins - I Need Somebody [Profile]
Soul Central (feat. Kathy Brown) - Strings Of Life (Stronger On My Own) [Virgin TV]
LPM - Voices (SHEE Remix) [&Friends]
Afrika Bambaataa - Just Get Up And Dance (Acapella) [Expanded Music Srl]
K‐Klass - Rhythm Is A Mystery (Harry Romero Remix) [Klass Action]
Florence + The Machine - You've Got the Love (Mark Knight Remix) [UME - Global Clearing House]
House Of Virus & Jimi Polo - Better Days (Hoxton Remix) [Freakin909]
Technotronic (feat. Felly) - Pump Up The Jam [Virgin]
Kevin McKay & Moreno Pezzolato - Touch Me [Glasgow Underground]
Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix) [MCA]
K‐Klass & Anton Powers - Let Me Show You [3Beat]
Gabriels - Love And Hate In A Different Time (Greg Wilson Remix) [Atlas Artists/Parlophone]
Terry Farley & Wade Teo & Kameelah Waheed - Dancing After Dark [Faith]
Deep Aztec & Black Soda - For The Seeing Kind [Glasgow Underground]
James Lavonz - Reason For Love [Trippin]
Orbital - Belfast (Yotto Remix) [London Music Stream]
&ME & Black Coffee - The Rapture Pt.III [Kenemusik]
DANIEL AVERY - MARY ANNE HOBBS SPIRIT OF KURT MIX 05.04.24 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 5th April 2024
Daniel Avery with a Spirit of Kurt mix commemorating the 30th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's passing.
Pixies - Gigantic [4AD]
Melvins - It's Shoved [Boner]
PJ Harvey - Dress [Too Pure]
Wipers - Doom Town [Warner]
The Prodigy - Voodoo People [XL Recordings]
Meat Puppets - Lake Of Fire [London]
Mark Lanegan - Down In The Dark [Sub Pop]
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline [Atlantic]
Kim Gordon - Dream Dollar [Matador]
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) [Apple]
DANIEL AVERY - CLASSIC ESSENTIAL MIX (2014) (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 31st March 2024
Relive Daniel Avery's Essential Mix debut from March 2014.
Daniel Avery is living the dream. He's main room resident at one of the most cutting edge clubs in the world, Fabric in London. He shares a studio with his hero and mentor Erol Alkan. He released a critically acclaimed debut album on Phantasy in 2013 called Drone Logic. And, to top it off, he now joins the Essential Mix Hall Of Fame!
Alien Alien - One By One (Rodion Remix) [Meant]
Daniel Avery - Free Floating (Matt Walsh Remix) [Phantasy]
Daniel Avery - All I Need [Phantasy]
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic [Phantasy]
Basic Soul Unit - Flying Through The Fog [Dolly]
Boddika & Joy Orbison - Dun Dun (Daniel Avery Edit) [Sunklow]
Cassegrain & Tin Man - Sex Kit [Killekill]
Cottam - Harsh Side Effects [Machine]
CPI - Proceso (Barnt Remix) [Hivern Discs]
Factory Floor - How You Say (Daniel Avery Remix) [DFA]
Ghost Culture - Half Closed [Phantasy]
The House In The Woods - Bucolia [Exotic Pylon]
Innerspace Halflife - Electric Gaze [Skudge]
Johannes Hell - Transition Two [Figure]
Minor Science - Silence [The Trilogy Tapes]
Nautiluss - Solstice (Fractured Edit) [Audio Culture Label]
Omar-S - I Just Want [FXHE]
Radio Slave - Don't Stop, No Sleep [Nonplus]
Simian Mobile Disco & Roman Flügel - Hachinoko [Delicacies]
Steven Tang - Optimal Signals [Syncrophone]
Vermont - Dynamik [Kompakt]
WALLS/ORAM - Reflexions, Refractions And Multiplications
THE RECORDING ANGEL W⧸ THE AVALANCHES X NIKKI NAIR 17.04.24 (258kbs-m4a/110mb/60mins)
NTS Radio broadcast: 17th April 2024
Basic Channel - Mutism
The Smithereens - Dialogue
Paulo Geronimo - Vida
Agitada Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life
Grupo Irakere - Chekere Son
American Juggalo Documentary - Snippet
Photonz - Osiris Resurrected
Russell Haswell - Ant Colony
Errorsmith - Centroid
3M Floppy Disk Ad - 1984
The Durutti Column - Synergetic
Yasuaki Shimizu - Find No Word To Say (Avalanches Re-Work)
Foxes (1980) - Concert Scene
Phelimuncasi - Ngiphupha Izinto
rRoxymore - DR1
Jamón, Jamón - Dialogue
Ann McMillan - Syrinx
American Juggalo Documentary - Dialogue
UMRU - rhinediva
Radiq aka Yoshihiro Hanno - Sandinista
Andrew Weatherall - Interview Excerpt
MMM - Jack7
Eight Frozen Modules - Dogs Bark People Growl
American Juggalo Documentary - Dialogue
Foxes (1980) - Dialogue
Elektrochemie LK - Solid Deep (Stereo Jack Remix)
Mr. G - Sing It Loud
Nikki Nair & Hudson Mohawke - Set the Roof (Crookers & Dwarf Remix)
Unknown - White Label
Guchon - Don't You
American Juggalo Documentary - Dialogue
Unknown - White Label
Kid606 - Circuitstep
Iglooghost - Collision Data (feat. Marina Herlop)
Unknown - White Label
Lake Hills - LATENIGHTWALK
Unknown - White Label
Unknown - White Label
Hannah Mackay & Paul Lansky - Um
Unknown - White Label
Russell Haswell - Ablique Axis
Kids (1995) - Dialogue
Lonnie Liston Smith (feat. Phylis Hyman) - Obsession
Thanx frazered
FEMI KOLEOSO - THE MORNING AFTER MIX LIVE 6 MUSIC FESTIVAL 2024 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th March 2024
Ezra Collective's Femi Koleoso provides a blissful antidote for your festival morning. Femi is live from Ramona, Manchester as part of 6 Music Festival.
Clark Tracey Quintet (feat. Emily Masser) - A Bit A Bittadose
Nat King Cole - Smile
Ezra Collective - Smile (Children Of Zeus Remix)
Cleo Sol - When I'm In Your Arms
Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl
D'angelo - Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine (Jay Dee Remix)
Robert Glasper & Erykah Badu - Afro Blue
Ronnie Foster - Mystic Brew
DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De - Sing It Back
Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island
Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You
Jorja Smith - Rose Rouge
Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening
D'Angelo - Spanish Joint
J Dilla - Rico Suave Bossa Nova
Azymuth - Rico Suave Bossa Nova
MOON NIGHT: CHAPTER 5. WANING CRESCENT (320kbs-m4a/204mb/1hr29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th March 2024
It sits around 240, 000 miles away from earth, yet it dominates our night sky, moves our oceans and has been a source of cultural and artistic wonder for thousands of years.
Across this full moon night, Kevin Fong takes a journey through the BBC Archive for a long look at our relationship with the moon.
Programmes include a lunar adventure with Jarvis Cocker, a study of werewolves with Mark Radcliffe, Helen Sharman hears from those who have stood on the moon itself, and Bill Nighy stars in a drama about how love and the moon could destroy the world.
Going through the night, from 10pm until 5am, join Kevin Fong for a unique night of radio adventures, taking you all the way to the moon and back.
In Chapter 5: Waning Crescent programmes include;
- The Music That Melted - Richard Coles hears musicians gather under the full moon in Norway to make ice music.
- Re: The Moon - by Ross Sutherland, first heard in Short Cuts - Moonlight.
- I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse - Bill Nighy stars in Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy about the end of the world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her husband who falls back in love with her.
MOON NIGHT: CHAPTER 4. WANING GIBBOUS (320kbs-m4a/213mb/1hr33mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th March 2024
It sits around 240, 000 miles away from earth, yet it dominates our night sky, moves our oceans and has been a source of cultural and artistic wonder for thousands of years.
Across this full moon night, Kevin Fong takes a journey through the BBC Archive for a long look at our relationship with the moon.
Programmes include a lunar adventure with Jarvis Cocker, a study of werewolves with Mark Radcliffe, Helen Sharman hears from those who have stood on the moon itself, and Bill Nighy stars in a drama about how love and the moon could destroy the world.
Going through the night, from 10pm until 5am, join Kevin Fong for a unique night of radio adventures, taking you all the way to the moon and back.
In Chapter 4: Waning Gibbous programmes include;
- Ticket To The Moon - Patrick Moore tells Peter Scott why we should travel to the moon. From 1956.
- Moonwalk Memoirs - Helen Sharman recalls the Apollo missions with some of the men who left their footprints on the lunar surface.
Plus we hear from Mahesh Anand about the future of lunar exploration, and the amateur astronomer Roger Hutchinson shows us how to get close to the moon.
MOON NIGHT: CHAPTER 3. FULL MOON (320kbs-m4a/164mb/1hr11mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th March 2024
It sits around 240, 000 miles away from earth, yet it dominates our night sky, moves our oceans and has been a source of cultural and artistic wonder for thousands of years.
Across this full moon night, Kevin Fong takes a journey through the BBC Archive for a long look at our relationship with the moon.
Programmes include a lunar adventure with Jarvis Cocker, a study of werewolves with Mark Radcliffe, Helen Sharman hears from those who have stood on the moon itself, and Bill Nighy stars in a drama about how love and the moon could destroy the world.
Going through the night, from 10pm until 5am, join Kevin Fong for a unique night of radio adventures, taking you all the way to the moon and back.
In Chapter 3: Full Moon programmes include;
- A Sleepwalk on the Severn - The poet Alice Oswald's evocation of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary.
- 28ish Days Later - Day Twenty-One: In the Moonlight
- Ramblings - we join Clare Balding for part of her walk along the South Downs Way, this time at night under a full moon.
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