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MI-EL - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 06.03.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th March 2026
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Others who have played mixes for Mary Anne in the past include: Four Tet, SHERELLE, Helena Hauff, Blawan, Goldie, Chloé Robinson, Randall, Pet Shop Boys, Ben UFO, Rainy Miller, EMA, IMOGEN, Richie Culver and Azu Tiwaline.
Berlin via London DJ MI-EL takes over the 6 Mix.
Eomac - Entrance [Bedouin]
Ambien Baby - Mindkiss [NAFF]
Mxshi Mo & Skream - Imali Yami [Bandcamp]
Drexciya - Darthouven Fish Menn [Warp]
FELIX - PONTO ÁCIDO [Mutual Pleasure]
Ase Manual - Eat It Up [Like Dat Ent]
Avernian & Strick - Putrification
Floorplan - Baby, Baby [M-Plant]
WTCHCRFT - What Do You Call A Flood [Bandcamp]
DJ JM - Barrakuda [Nervous Horizon]
Erik Jabari - Screamore [Tresor]
Skream & Benga - The Judgement [Big Apple]
Chaos - Afrogermanic [Underground Resistance]
Sarayu - E30 Track [Boiled Wonderland]
Tzusing - Post Soviet Models [L.I.E.S.]
Pilo - Acid by Mouth [Bandcamp]
Kellen303 - Here I Come [Bandcamp]
JK Flesh - Kontorted [Avalanche Recordings]
Nannytown - Nannytown [Underground Resistance]
CHLOÉ ROBINSON B2B WITH PALEMAN - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 27.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadscast: 27th February 2026
It's been a few years since Chloé Robinson released on her own label, Pretty Weird. Chloé has been busy in the studio with close friend Paleman over the past year, and the cookie cutter / tiger EP is the first new release from those sessions.
Pugilist - Anomaly [Shall Not Fade]
SMIFF - Hotdawgs
Chloé Robinson x Paleman - tiger [Pretty Wierd]
Jay Carder & OneOneOne - Boats
Nikki Nair - Pillows
Tormented - Wurk (Paleman Remix)
Yanamaste - Dance [Vault]
Chloé Robinson & Paleman - cookiecutter [Pretty Wierd]
Addison Groove - Eh Wut [Pretty Wierd]
Macabre Unit - Sense
Trinity Carbon - Lost Everything
Ocirala - The Day I Didn't Graduate From Uni [Neighbourhood]
Chewlie - Inevitably We Fell (Rizla Ops Groove Crush Mix) [Ghosttown]
Carré (feat. Bbyafricka) - Hibiscus (Instrumental)
Identified Patient - Scales
Ocirala - Gina Doesn't Love Me [Nix]
Chlär - Populism Is Money [Primal Instinct]
BLUMITSU - Test Tube
Paleman - Wrap You Up
STENNY - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 20.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 20th February 2026
Born and raised in the industrial suburbs of Turin, Stenny earned recognition in the last decade both as an accomplished Producer and DJ. Currently Based in Munich, Stenny's latest release, Sharp Fragments, came out on the ever reliable Ilian Tape imprint.
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Others who have played mixes for Mary Anne in the past include: Four Tet, SHERELLE, Helena Hauff, Blawan, Goldie, Chloé Robinson, Randall, Pet Shop Boys, Ben UFO, Rainy Miller, EMA, IMOGEN, Richie Culver, and Azu Tiwaline.
F7 - Freeze [Acting Press]
Vardae - A Positive Flow [Non Series]
Brendan Ealey - Untitled [Inceptive]
Christian Bloch - Moonlite Shadow [Kontakt]
OK EG - Monument Stone [GEKO]
Sonic Wave Collective - Arise (Forest On Stasys Tribal Mix) [Arketip Discs]
Picture - Heeeeeeee [Short Span]
Zara - Arcadia [Amenthia Recordings]
Bandulu - Contingency [Foundation Sound Works]
Arum - Guus [ESHU Holland]
Selfsame - Selfsame 03 [False Aralia]
T++ - 100 Bar [Erosion]
Conrad Pack - Gateway (Version 2) [Lost Domain]
‐M‐ - 3 [Unknown]
2301 - 15II [Heaven Smile]
WeGo. - Insel [Unknown]
Konrad Wehrmeister - Seller [A Strange Child]
ADILR - I skuggan av ett namn [Unknown]
Rod Modell - Scrawler [Tresor]
mu tate - Safeguard (Art Crime Remix) [Edited Arts]
Stenny - Sharp Fragments [Ilian Tape]
SHACKLETON - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 13.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 13th February 2026
Sam Shackleton, born in Lancashire and now resident in Berlin, emerged during the early rise of the Dubstep scene, running the now defunct label Skull Disco alongside Appleblim from 2005 to 2008. Shackleton launched the label Woe To The Septic Heart! in 2010. He has just released a new album Euphoria Bound, the UK producer's debut for AD 93.
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Mordant Music - Gaining Momentum [Mordant Music]
Alice Coltrane - Sita Ram [The Verve Music Group]
Wrecked Lightship - Reeling Mist [Peak Oil]
Rhythm & Sound - Spend Some Time [Burial Mix]
Shackleton & MC Yallah - Tongues (Late Junction Collaboration Session)
African Head Charge - Stebeni's Theme [On-U Sound]
Fatala - Gongoma Times [Real World]
Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterhelt - Abdication [Umor Rex]
Uwalmassa - Majuh [Mana]
Shackleton - One Of Us Escaped [Woe To The Septic Heart]
C.O.B. - Sweet Slavery [Tapestry]
Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance - Spring Will Return [Drag City]
Suicide - Sweetheart [Mute]
VXRGO - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 06.02.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th February 2026
The 6 Mix is the new flagship mix on BBC Radio 6 Music, curated by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Each week, Mary Anne Hobbs will introduce a one-hour mix from a past, present or future icon of electronic music - artists, DJs, labels, and clubs.
Others who have played mixes for Mary Anne in the past include: Four Tet, SHERELLE, Helena Hauff, Blawan, Goldie, Chloé Robinson, Randall, Pet Shop Boys, Ben UFO, Rainy Miller, EMA, IMOGEN, Richie Culver, and Azu Tiwaline.
Boogie Times Tribe - The Dark Stranger Origin Unknown Mix) [Suburban Base]
Koda - Spacetek [Dee Jay Recordings]
Dillinger - Tear Down [Da Whole Place] [Conqueror]
DJ Buz - Slave [No U-Turn]
Ratty - Source of all Evil [Formation]
International Rude Boyz - Drum Programme (Remix) [Formation]
FFF - 10 Hour Sound [Rupture LDN]
Randall & Andy C - Sound Control (Remix) [RAM]
Prisoner - Mr. Fix It [London Some'ting]
Worsleyy & Glinks - Robing [Stereo 45 Music Ltd]
Fendi-K - You Are The One [Unreleased]
DJ Sofa - Horns For 24 (Tim Reaper Remix) [Brazen]
Fez The Kid & Duality - Spiritual Awareness [Fez The Kid And Duality]
Back 2 Basics - Horns For 94 (Get Busy Mix) [Back 2 Basics]
Fada - Decay [Pinecone Moonshine]
Duburban & Peeb & PIXL - Saxon 87 [Unknown]
Dub‐One - The Clash [AKO Beatz]
PEVERELIST - THE 6 MIX WITH MARY ANNE HOBBS 30.01.26 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 30th January 2026
We celebrate 15 years of Livity Sound with a mix from Peverelist. Livity Sound has positioned itself as a benchmark of quality and innovation since it first rolled out in 2011. The music has evolved considerably over that time, taking in artists from the immediate Bristol vicinity and much farther afield, exploring fluctuating tempos and structures, even on the same release. Elements of jungle, house, UK Funky and more flicker through the considerable catalogue, where artists as varied as Azu Tiwaline, DJ Polo, Kouslin and Surgeon's Girl can sit alongside each other without feeling incongruous.
Livity emerged as a next logical step for Peverelist after the success and acclaim around his first imprint, Punch Drunk, carrying his releases alongside solo and collaborative tracks from artists like Kowton, Asusu and label mainstay Hodge.
Central to the label's enduring appeal and influence is the ability to move forwards without losing a sense of identity.
TSVI (feat. DJ JM) - Aziza [Nervous Horizon]
DJ Soch - House Stringh [DBH Music]
DJ Skull - Cum-Up [DBH Music]
Viiaan - Keeper (Cassius Select Remix) [Sumac]
Peverelist - Pulse XIII [Livity Sound]
James Bangura - Branchbrook Park [Black Artist Database]
God Colony - Tony's Garage (Drumapella Mix) [Crack Copies]
Mattias El Mansouri - Struktur [Nous Klaer Audio]
Gafacci & Sam Interface - Brekete [More Time]
Terrain - Scatter
Erik Luebs - Riding The Blade [Kompakt Extra]
Nuron - Midnight Echo [De:tuned]
Anthony Shakir - Madmen [Tresor]
Calm Steige - Funk Piano [Funky Ajacent]
Hypogean Dweeb From The Deep - Parametric Experimental Studies On Supersonic Flow
Strange & Huey - State Of Emergency [Brainscraatch]
Jon Hester - Sustain [Odd Even]
Further - Shook Ones [DJ Bone presents FURTHER]
Mukana - Nguya [OMOB]
Leibniz - Ten Ten [Peach Discs]
RAYMOND CHANDLER - PHILIP MARLOWE: THE LONG GOODBYE (320kbs-m4a/205mb/1hr29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st November 2025
The world-weary private eye helps a friendly drunk conceal a crime.
He's also asked to protect a drunken writer from his own violence.
A murder seems to connect the two cases. And Marlowe almost falls in love.
Raymond Chandler's classic noir novel, first published in 1953.
Starring Ed Bishop.
Powerful and atmospheric full-cast dramatisation by Bill Morrison.
Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
Eileen Wade .... Toby Robins
Lynda Loring .... Margaret Robinson
Roger Wade .... David March
Terry Lennox .... Peter Marinker
Howard Spencer .... Don Fellows
Mendy Melendez .... Blain Fairman
Bernie Ohis.... Harry Towb
Dr Loring .... Paul Maxwell
Harlan Potter .... Bob Sherman
Captain Hernandez .... Gordon Sterne
Lonnie Morgan .... Henry Knowles
Grantz .... Rod Beacham
Sergeant Greene .... William Roberts
Detective Dayton .... Neville Jason
Willie McGoon .... Bill Morrison
Chick Agostino .... Malcolm Gerrard
Candy .... Anthony Daniels
Barman .... Brian Hewlett
Director: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978.
TAXI DRIVER AT 50: NEW YORK, THEN AND NOW (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 31st January 2026
It's 50 years since the film Taxi Driver was released in 1976. The story of Travis Bickle, a loner and cab driver, who tries to save a 14-year-old sex worker from the mean streets of 1970s New York was controversial at the time for its violence and sexual theme but is considered a classic today.
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the film's creation and how New York decayed into the condition which forms the backdrop for the story - and what the city is like today, half a century later.
Producer: Julia Hayball
A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 4
ROBERT GRAVES AND 'I CLAUDIUS', L YEARS ON (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 11th January 2026
It's 50 years on from the first screening of the TV series I, Claudius - the hugely popular and perhaps surprising cultural phenomenon that brought the story of a lesser-known Roman emperor into the living rooms of millions of families across the world. The person who wrote the novels that the series was based upon was the high-minded lyric poet Robert Graves, who was always quick to dismiss his achievements in prose, saying he'd knocked the books off as a means of paying a bill.
Graves was a survivor of the Somme, with a pedigree background and a cut-glass English accent - but he was deeply connected to Wales, Germany and Ireland and spent most of his adult life living in Mallorca, having said goodbye to all that class-ridden England had to offer. He developed an elaborate personal pagan mythology of muse worship that made him hugely influential on a generation of mid-century poets like Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - and had, across the course of his career, four women who served as muse to his poetic efforts.
The poet Michael Symmons Roberts was too young to see I, Claudius on its first outing, and is only now catching up. Through exploring the rich archive of Graves himself, along with conversations with members of his family and his fourth and final muse, Michael investigates Graves' extraordinary life and literary legacy. He seeks to discover whether, despite Graves's desire to be remembered as a poet, he will instead be chiefly known for his war memoir Goodbye to All That and the imperial intrigues of I, Claudius.
Presented by Michael Symmons Roberts
Produced by Geoff Bird
Executive Producer - Jo Meek
A Naked production for BBC Radio 4
ARCHIVE ON 4 - PARIS WITH MARIANNE (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 3rd January 2026
For journalist and writer Jude Rogers, when Marianne Faithfull died 12 months ago, the memory of one particular afternoon came flooding back - a visit to Marianne's Paris flat in the summer of 2018, where the legendary singer, actress and writer reflected on a life that had been endlessly mythologised. This Archive on 4 returns to that meeting to tell the fuller story of a woman far more complex than the clichés that followed her for decades.
Through rare interviews, music and testimony from those closest to her - including her grandson Oscar Dunbar, collaborators Ed Harcourt and Barry Reynolds, writer and performer Jennifer Saunders, and school friend Sally Oldfield - the programme traces Marianne's journey from convent schoolgirl to sixties pop icon, from tabloid scapegoat to homeless addict, and from the ferocious comeback of Broken English to her late, revelatory albums.
At the heart of the programme is Marianne Faithfull's own voice - witty, abrasive, vulnerable and fiercely intelligent. She speaks about love, loss, ageing, creativity and survival, and about the damage done by a culture that reduced her to a muse, a scandal, or a cautionary tale. This is an artist who insisted on being taken seriously - and who, against the odds, kept making extraordinary work to the very end.
Presenter: Jude Rogers
Producer: Victoria Ferran
Executive Producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4
HOW THE MUPPET SHOW BEGAN IN BRITAIN (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 27th December 2025
Before it became a global sensation, The Muppet Show was a British gamble. In this lively and affectionate documentary, Louise Gold – who played Annie Sue Pig – celebrates the show's anarchic birth in Britain in the mid-1970s. Rejected by American networks, Jim Henson's puppet troupe found a champion in ATV boss Lew Grade, who backed the series and gave it a home at Elstree Studios.
Broadcast on ITV Sunday nights, The Muppet Show was an overnight hit. Its surreal humour and chaotic brilliance won over British audiences instantly. Louise Gold, the show's first British female puppeteer, guides us through its early days, sharing how she landed her job, how the famous opening sequence was put together, and revisiting the creative process behind some of the show's most famous sketches – from the Swedish Chef and Veterinary Hospital to Pigs in Space.
We hear from floor manager Richard Holloway, art director Malcolm Stone, cameraman Jeremy Hoare, and the series' first production secretary Anthea Buxton, alongside Jim Henson's daughter Cheryl Henson, who recalls working in the Muppet workshop as a teenager. Archive contributions include writer Joe Bailey and Emilio Delgado – Luis from Sesame Street.
Guest stars Twiggy, Petula Clark, and Judy Collins reflect on their time in the spotlight, while TV supremo Michael Grade – nephew of Lew – and Muppet legend Dave Goelz, still the voice of Gonzo, Bunsen Honeydew, and Waldorf, add their memories.
The Muppets' anarchic antics didn't just entertain – they reshaped British children's television. We meet Hartley Hare and Nigel Paskin, who filmed Pipkins next door, and Ronnie Le Drew, who voices Zippy and George from Rainbow. Both Nigel and Ronnie would go on to work with the Jim Henson Company.
Producer: Ashley Byrne
A Made in Manchester Production for BBC Radio 4
ARCHIVE ON 4 - JODRELL BANK AT 80 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 8th November 2025
The sound of people partying in a field, of exploding stars and birdsong, of a clanking chunk of metal, mechanically maneuvering it's gaze across the heavens. They're all part of the rich sonic landscape of a British icon, of Jodrell Bank Observatory which turns 80 in December and some of the sounds which could inspire composer Hannah Peel to create a piece of music that marks that big birthday.
An Ivor Novello winning artist and Radio 3 presenter Hannah Peel is fascinated by space. It's inspired her work in the past, particularly her album Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia which she performed at the Blue Dot festival at Jodrell Bank in 2017. This Archive on 4 sees her come back to the site in Cheshire to learn about its founder Professor Sir Bernard Lovell and his iconic invention the Lovell telescope, which gave the UK a front row seat for the space race as Russia and the US vied to get the moon. She hears about the secret history of Jodrell Bank, where shadowy figures from GCHQ would use the telescope to assess Russian military capabilities during the Cold War in a relationship that lasted until the 1990s. And she learns about Sir Bernard and his love of music, how as a church organist, it tied to him a belief in something beyond science.
The stories and sounds she gathers on her journey form the elements of a new composition called Pulsar recorded by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Salford .Hannah Peel brings her unique creative experimental vision that draws on her background as a classical and electronic artist to the celebration of this British scientific and cultural icon.
'Pulsar' by Hannah Peel & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Gemma New
Mixed and Co-Orchestrated by Michael Keeney
Mastering by James Trevascus
Management by Steve Malins and Random Music Mgmt
Additional music:
Archid Orange Dwarf from the album Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia by Hannah Peel
CP1919 by Stephen Morris
Sonifications by Prof Tim O'Brien
Dr Who clip is from Logopolis part 4, Season 18.
Presenter: Hannah Peel
Producer: Catherine Murray
Programme Co-ordinator: Nancy Bennie
Studio Manager for 'Pulsar': John Cole
Studio Manager for documentary: Michael Smith
Exec Producer: Richard McIlroy
Editor: Gill Farrington
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: ABSENT FRIENDS 2025 - TERENCE STAMP (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 7th December 2025
BBC Radio 4 Extra remembers some of the desert island castaways who we lost in 2025.
Actor Terence Stamp is castaway for the second-time by Sue Lawley.
He originally joined Michael Parkinson in 1987.
Terence Stamp was one of the new group of confident, beautiful, working class young people who came to define the 1960s.
He shared a flat with Michael Caine, dated the actress Julie Christie and the first supermodel Jean Shrimpton. He became an overnight success - and won an Oscar nomination - for his first film role as Billy Budd. He acted alongside Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd and found further fame with roles in The Collector and Modesty Blaise.
He was driven to act after first seeing Beau Geste when he was just a small boy - the cinema offered an escape route from the monochrome world of London's East End.
But when the 1960s ended he found he was offered fewer interesting roles, his relationship with Shrimpton ended and he headed eastwards on a journey of self-discovery.
Now 66, he's suave, still acting and recently married.
Terence Stamp died on 17th August 2025 aged 87.
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Claudio Arrau - Frédéric Chopin’s Impromptu No.4 in C sharp Minor
BOOK CHOICE: The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
LUXURY CHOICE: One of his wheat-free loaves
Producer: Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
Claude Debussy - Clair de lune (from Suite bergamasque) [ASV]
Cole Porter - It's De-Lovely [Verve]
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Perdido [Fantasy]
Dean Martin - Memories Are Made Of This [Capitol]
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah [Columbia]
Tim Hardin - If I Were a Carpenter [Polydor]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower [MCD]
Frédéric Chopin - Impromptu No.4 in C sharp Minor [Philips]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: GORDON BUCHANAN (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 30th November 2025
Gordon Buchanan is a wildlife cameraman and TV presenter. He is best known for the Animal Family & Me series of BBC documentaries in which he gets up close to wild bears, Arctic wolves, elephants and reindeer among other species.
Gordon was brought up in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull where he spent his days exploring the island and developed his lifelong love of the outdoors. In 1988, when he was 17, he met the charismatic wildlife cameraman Nick Gordon who invited him to become his assistant for a project to film primates on the island of Tiwai in Sierra Leone.
Gordon spent 18 months in Sierra Leone working with Nick and after that the two of them worked in West Africa and South America. At 22 Gordon set up on his own – his first job was a year-long assignment to make three half-hour programmes for a 14-part wildlife series called Wild Islands.
In 2001 he made his debut as a presenter on the BBC's Natural World strand. He was appointed an MBE for services to conservation and wildlife filmmaking in 2020.
Gordon lives in Glasgow with his wife Wendy. They have two children.
BOOK CHOICE: Teach Yourself Tap Dancing by Derek Hartley
LUXURY ITEM: A mask, snorkel and fins
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: High and Dry - Radiohead
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley
Desert Island Discs has cast many wildlife experts and broadcasters away including Dr George McGavin, Professor Carl Jones, Sir David Attenborough and Dr Jane Goodall. You can hear their programmes if you search through BBC Sounds or our own Desert Island Discs website.
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads [Windstar]
Peat & Diesel - Brandy In The Airidh [Wee Studio]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze [Legacy Recordings]
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box [Geffen]
Radiohead - High And Dry [XL Recordings]
The Strokes - Last Nite [RCA]
U2 - Electrical Storm [UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)]
Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) [Music World Music/Columbia]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 23rd November 2025
Sir Salman Rushdie is a writer who has written over 20 books, seven of which have been nominated for the Booker Prize. In 1981 he won with his novel Midnight's Children which also topped the polls for the 25th and 40th anniversaries of the prize, making it the most lauded novel in Booker history.
He was born in Bombay in 1947 and educated at Rugby School in Warwickshire. After studying history at the University of Cambridge he worked as a copywriter at various advertising agencies before publishing his first novel Grimus in 1975. His breakthrough came with Midnight's Children and he was one of 20 writers named on Granta magazine's inaugural list of Best Young British novelists alongside writers including Martin Amis and AN Wilson.
He attracted considerable controversy with his fourth novel the Satanic Verses which won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Booker. Some Muslims considered the subject matter blasphemous and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman and the publishers of the book. Salman spent the following decade in hiding under police protection.
In 2022 he was stabbed multiple times while on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. He had been invited there to talk about keeping writers safe from harm. He survived devasting injuries – including the loss of his right eye – and wrote about the attack and its aftermath in his memoir Knife.
That same year he was awarded a Companion of Honour for services to literature.
Salman is married to the poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths and they live in New York. He has two grown up sons and two grandchildren.
BOOK CHOICE: Homer's Odyssey (Translated by Emily Wilson)
LUXURY ITEM: A bed with a mosquito net
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: For the Love of You, Pts. 1 & 2 - The Isley Brothers
Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side [RCA/Legacy]
Geeta Dutt & Mohammed Rafi - Yeh Hain Bombay Meri Jaan [Eben Entertainment]
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind [Columbia/Legacy]
The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction [ABKCO]
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) [Arista/Legacy]
Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard [Sony Music UK]
Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely [Sony Music UK]
The Isley Brothers - For the Love of You, Pts. 1 & 2 [Legacy Recordings]
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - LIVE KILBURN NATIONAL CLUB (1997) (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 10th January 2026
Echo & the Bunnymen performing live at the Kilburn National Club during their Evergreen Tour in 1997. Featuring The Cutter, Seven Seas, The Back of Love, Lips Like Sugar, The Killing Moon and Nothing Lasts Forever.
Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter
Echo & The Bunnymen - Just A Touch Away
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Echo & The Bunnymen - Bedbugs And Ballyhoo
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Back Of Love
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Echo & The Bunnymen - Forgiven
Echo & The Bunnymen - I'll Fly Tonight
Echo & The Bunnymen - Seven Seas
Echo & The Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace
Echo & The Bunnymen - Altamont
Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar
Echo & The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever
DONOVAN - LIVE PARIS THEATRE (1981) (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 7th December 2025
A classic In Concert performance from folk legend Donovan at the BBC's Paris Theatre in 1981. Featuring Sunshine Superman, Jennifer Juniper, Catch The Wind, Universal Soldier, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Colours, Season of the Witch and Mellow Yellow. Introduced by Pete Drummond.
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Donovan - Jennifer Juniper
Donovan - Lalena
Donovan - The Universal Soldier
Donovan - Catch The Wind
Donovan - Love Is Only Feeling
Donovan - Lady Of The Flowers
Donovan - Johnny Tuff
Donovan - Neutron
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan - Colours
Donovan - Season Of The Witch
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
THE STYLE COUNCIL - LIVE ROYAL ALBERT HALL (1987) (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 22nd November 2025
The Style Council performing live at The Royal Albert Hall in 1987. Featuring My Ever Changing Moods, Shout to the Top, It Didn't Matter and The Whole Point of No Return.
The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods
The Style Council - Shout To The Top
The Style Council - It Didn't Matter
The Style Council - Waiting
The Style Council - Walking The Night
The Style Council - The Cost Of Loving
The Style Council - With Everything To Lose
The Style Council - The Whole Point Of No Return
The Style Council - Homebreakers
The Style Council - Heavens Above
The Style Council - When You Call Me
The Style Council - Internationalists
Paul Weller & BBC Symphony Orchestra - English Rose
ROXY MUSIC - LIVE GLASGOW SECC (2001) (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 15th November 2025
Roxy Music performing live at Glasgow's SECC in 2001. Featuring Street Life, Out of the Blue, Oh Yeah, Avalon, Virginia Plain, Love is the Drug, Do the Strand and Editions of You.
Roxy Music - Street Life
Roxy Music - Ladytron
Roxy Music - While My Heart Is Still Beating
Roxy Music - Out Of The Blue
Roxy Music - Oh Yeah
Roxy Music - Both Ends Burning
Roxy Music - Avalon
Roxy Music - My Only Love
Roxy Music - Editions Of You
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
Roxy Music - Do The Strand
DYLAN THOMAS - UNDER MILK WOOD (320kbs-m4a/218mb/1hr35mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th November 2025
Conceived by Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas as a piece for performance on radio.
Richard Burton leads a huge cast in the tale about the lives and dreams of a Welsh seaside village called Llareggub.
Tragically, Dylan never heard it broadcast.
He died aged 38, two months before, on 9th November 1953.
First Voice ........ Richard Burton
Second Voice ........ Richard Bebb
Captain Cat ........ Hugh Griffith
Rosie Probert ........ Rachel Thomas
Polly Garter ........ Diana Maddox
Mog Edwards ........ Dafydd Havard
Myfanwy Price ........ Sybil Williams
Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard ........ Dilys Davies
Mr Ogmore ........ David Close-Thomas
Mr Pritchard ........ Ben Williams
Butcher Beynon ........ Meredith Edwards
Gossamer ........ Gwenllian Owen
Rev. Eli Jenkins ........ Philip Burton
Lily Smalls ........ Gwyneth Petty
Mr Pugh ........ John Huw Jones
Mrs Pugh ........ Mary Jones
Mary Ann Sailors ........ Rachel Thomas
Sinbad Sailors ........ Aubrey Richards
Dai Bread ........ David Close-Thomas
Mrs Dai Bread One ........ Gwyneth Petty
Mrs Dai Bread Two ........ Rachel Roberts
Willy Nilly Postman ........ Ben Williams
Mrs Willy Nilly ........ Rachel Thomas
Cherry Owen ........ John Ormord Thomas
Mrs Cherry Owen ........ Lorna Davies
Nogood Boyo ........ Dillwyn Owen
Organ Morgan ........ John Glyn Jones
Mrs Organ Morgan ........ Olwen Brookes
Mary Rose Cottage ........ Rachel Roberts
Gwenny ........ Norma Jones
The three boys: Ian Griffith, John Watts, Philip Cyster
Other parts played by the cast.
Children's songs and singing game by the pupils of Laugharne School
Music composed by Dr Daniel Jones
Singer-accordionist: Barney Gilbraith
Producer: Douglas Cleverdon
First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in January 1954.
***Broadcast to mark Richard Burton's entry to 4 Extra's 100 Club. Born on 10th November 1925, he died aged 58 on 5th August 1984 ***
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