Wavelength World of Music - April 19, 2025Playlist(00.12) Amy Shark/All Loved Up  (05.03) Arctic Monkeys/A Certain Romance  (10.21) Sandy Denny (with Fairport Convention)/Down In The Flood  (13.59)Fras...

Gems of the 49th Parallel, Pt 1A Showcase of Canadian Music, and a tribute to Jim Lanning Playlist (02.35) Rita MacNeil/The Music's Going Round   (06.12) Corridor/Topographe   ...

Gems of the 49th Parallel, Pt 2A Showcase of Canadian Music, and a tribute to Jim LanningPlaylistIntroduction   (02.58) Ian Tyson/Four Strong Winds   (06.48) Tei Shi/Bassically   (1...

The Romans;   The Adventure Of English;   Boris Johnson;   1984;   Woke Therapy Group;   Drake Poem;   London Criminals;    The Great Train Robbery;   Coronation StAdult content in thi...

Peter Sellers;   Soldiers;   WW1  &  WW2;   Dr Johnson's Dictionary;   Hancock's Half Hour;   ArtIntroduction   (01.13) Steeleye Span/The Hard Times Of Old England   (06.17) Peter S...

Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Sir Michael Caine;   A Clockwork Orange;   The 1984 Miners' Strike;   Shakespeare;   Social Housing;   Peter Cook & Dudley MooreIntroduction   (01.27) Roy Harper/One Of T...

Spies;   Sir Henry Rawlinson;   Radio London;   Cromwell & The English Civil War;  Football (Gordon, Motson, World Cup '66);   The Falklands Conflict;   Procol HarumIntroduction   (01.10) Jet...

The Post Office Horizon Scandal;   Herring Fishing;   Change Ringing at York Minster;   A History Cycle;   Holiday Camps;   The Keeler Affair;   Inside Anfield;   Kenneth Clark's ...

Dr Who;   Tony Hancock;   Football;   Grumpy Old Men;   The Leveson Inquiry;   Dunkirk;   How To Be A Chap;   Brady, Hindley, Fred & Rosemary West;   Jimmy Savile;   The BBCIntroduc...

A Christmas Pot PourriHo Ho Ho, and a warm welcome to the Wavelength Christmas Pot Pourri Special.  It's a random jumble of silent nights in several languages, grumpy old men moaning and two hours of Christmas music ...

IntroductionPeople of my generation are increasingly horrified at how quickly a stable, postwar, rules-based order has been changed into something that looks rather like anarchy.Here in Australia, political choices are worr...

This program was made to mark the 100th edition of my (then) weekly live music show, Wavelength, and features a selection of some of my very favourite recordings.The weekly live Wavelength program has now ceased but I'm...

PlaylistThis program focuses on the life and work of Merimbula composer and performer, Corinne Gibbons, who boasts an international reputation.  It takes the form of a beach-side conversation with Corinne, and we look closely...

Kathleen Ferrier - A Tribute October 8 marks the anniversary of the death of the great English contralto singer, Kathleen Ferrier, in 1953.She achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording arti...

IntroductionSimply put, Irish music and spoken word are incomparable.  Music and speech weave together into textures both refreshingly abrasive and silky smooth with an energy which, for Irish people, is like the air they bre...

IntroductionSimply put, Irish music and spoken word are incomparable.  Music and speech weave together into textures both refreshingly abrasive and silky smooth with an energy which, for Irish people, is like the air they bre...

IntroductionThis program showcases the English-speaking folk music I've experienced  in my lifetime.  When I was a young man in England, the '60s UK folk resurgence was in full swing.   My friends and I greatly...

A conversation with Richard Cox, great-great-grandson of William Cox, who built the first road over Australia's Blue Mountains, from Sydney to Bathurst.Cox built the road with a team of 30 hand-picked convicts, whom he treated well. ...

Playlist(01.54) Teddy Afro/Ethiopia   (06.24) Tony Allen & Friends/African Man (instrumental)   (11.30) Amazones d'Afrique/Dombolo   (14.47) Les Ambassadeurs (ft Salif Keita)/Tounkan   (21.24) Aşa/Fire On T...

Playlist(01.04) Angelique Kidjo/Sedjedo   (03.55) Fela Kuti/Lady (radio edit)   (09.39) Ladysmith Black Mambazzo (ft Salif Keita)/United We Stand   (14.31) Ismaël Lô/Africa   (19.27) Miriam  Makeba/Malaika...

PlaylistIntroduction    (01.38) Feist/Of Womankind ('Multitudes')   (05.12) Kevin Morby/Like A Flower ('Music From Montana Story')   (08.25) Jen Cloher/Harakeke ('I Am The River The River Is Me')   (12.39)...

 PlaylistFollowing their two Wembley Stadium concerts, for their 2023 reunion, Blur performed a smaller, more intimate concert at the BBC Radio Theatre, July 18, 2023, recording a mix of older hits and new album tracks. &nbs...

Playlist(09.06) We’re All In This Together  (from ‘Awake Is The New Sleep’, 2005)   (18.46) I Love Pop Music  (from ‘The Rebirth Of Venus’, 2009)  (24.06) Slow Down  (from ‘I’m Fun’, 202...

This program is a collage of Australian & British music, poetry, letters & diary entries.   The film passages come from Stanley Kubrick's 'Paths Of Glory' (1957) and Richard Attenborough's 'Oh! What A Lovely War' (196...

The History of the 1960s European 'Pirate' Broadcasters(00.00.00) Introduction   (00.04.02) The Who/My Generation(1967)   (00.07.21) The Easybeats/Friday On My Mind(1966)   (00.09.54) Kathy Kirby/Dance On (1963)&nbs...