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• Seckou Keita retunes West African traditional music, and Rowena Wise & Didirri's couples therapy through song 15.11.2025
• Cover Story: Reckless 09.11.2025
• The sound of County Clare with Martin Hayes; and Piotr Anderszewski connects Bach, Beethoven and Brahms 08.11.2025
• Cover Story: Time After Time 02.11.2025
• Come to the cabaret with Le Gateau Chocolat, and music from the borderlands of Iran and Afghanistan 01.11.2025
• Cover Story: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 26.10.2025
• Sorrow and songwriting: Irish musician Inni-K, and Joe Camilleri's The Black Sorrows 25.10.2025
• Cover Story: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 19.10.2025
• From Mao's Last Dancer to Master and Commander: Christopher Gordon on his film music and beyond, and The Apartments' Peter Milton Walsh 18.10.2025
• The Times They Are A-Changin' 12.10.2025
• Inside a showtunes sing-along bar, and composer Fritz Hart's unsung career 11.10.2025
• Shellie Morris sings for our little ones and Tim Brady composes for 100 electric guitars 05.10.2025
• Meow Meow's The Red Shoes and saxophonist Tessie Overmyer's Tidelands 04.10.2025
• Red Headed Stranger: how Willie Nelson's obsession spawned a classic country album 28.09.2025
• Stormy skies, Bulgarian voices, and Mervyn Peake with Neko Case and remembering legendary bassist Danny Thompson 27.09.2025
• Modern monodramas: deconstructing Pierrot Lunaire and unravelling The Big Idea 21.09.2025
• Recovering and uncovering: early Black music from America and the Persian music of Afghanistan 20.09.2025
• Bleak Squad: a supergroup with DNA from Magic Dirt, the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three; and a striking conversation with percussionist Steven Schick 14.09.2025
• Irish trad-punk for the 21st century with the Mary Wallopers, and music for dark times with Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon 13.09.2025
• Bold performances in music new and old: Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Havlat 07.09.2025