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01/03/2025

This week on Music Planet
Kathryn Tickell () celebrates St. David’s Day, with a selection of three tracks showcasing Wales’ national instrument, the triple harp - or telyn deires - handpicked by fiddle player and composer, Angharad Jenkins ()

Elsewhere in the show, we hear some Kurdish folk music written and recorded by Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian () a young tanbur player from western Iran, and a track from an upcoming album of acoustic songs from Malian songwriter, Salif Keita (

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Produced by Gabriel Francis ()
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

05/02/2025

This week on Music Planet transported us to Glasgow’s kaleidoscopic wintertime celebrations of local and global folk music at , with a live recording of Finnish folk heavyweights @friggtheband playing alongside the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra ( )

Plus music from other artists also performing at this year’s festival, including some energetic polyrhythms from Tanzanian duo , collaboration between Senegalese kora player and French accordionist .brotto as well as music from

Image 1 - F***g performing alongside BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Image 2 - The Zawose Queens
Image 3 - Jupiter & Okwess
Image 4 - Ablaye Cissoko and Cyrille Brotto

You can catch up on BBC Sounds.

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21/11/2024

🚨 We're hiring 🚨

We’re on the lookout for a new Executive Producer to head up some of our most influential music shows 🔥📻

This is an opportunity to join our talented team and open windows to new worlds for our audiences 🎙️🌏

To apply and for more information on the role, follow the Linktree in our bio 🌳

26/10/2024

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” is a quote of unknown origin dating back to the 19th century.

Foregrounding issues of capitalism, state bureaucracy and prison reform, our adaptation of Little Dorrit brings a fresh and timely contribution to the current Radio 4 Dickensian season with all three episodes available from tomorrow over on

Huge thanks to writer Mike Walker for his magnificent reduction of this mighty Dickens tome and producer for his joyful casting and direction along with the rest of the creative team ( .archer, Claire Price, Joseph Millson, Paul Bradley, David Tarkenter, , Sean Mason, Ewan Bailey, Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong, Mike Walker) Recorded in our favourite audio drama space, FishFactory.

If you’re enjoying the season so far, you can find a new version of Hard Times available already and also look out for the forthcoming adaptation of Our Mutual Friend by for , beginning next Sunday.

Executive Producer
Sound design Alisdair McGregor and Markus Andreas
Production Coordinator

29/09/2024

So lovely to spend a day together with (almost) all of the .listening crew.
Our Away Day was a journey through space and time around the east end of London, peaking at Denis severs house (pictured). Props to for masterminding
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As we celebrate our 10th year in the business we have much to be thankful for. Feeling very fortunate to work with such a sound lot, and also to the wider team of folk who have helped us thrive and grow over the last decade 🎈🥳

13/09/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LATE JUNCTION !!!! 🎈🎉🎊🎈🎂🎆

The first episode of Late Junction was broadcast exactly 25 years ago - on the 13th September, 1999.

And so, you are cordially invited to join Verity Sharp for a silver jubilee of a show in celebration of two and a half decades spent riding the waves of adventurous music. It’s not every day you reach a quarter of a century, eh?

Alongside highlights, memories, and a couple of old friends dropping in as guests, we’ll dip into our archive of collaboration sessions!

Elsewhere, we’ll have our eyes on a couple of upcoming festivals, including Fat Out in Manchester and Glasgow’s Sonica, as well as new releases, including Nigerian synth pioneer Mamman Sani.

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20/07/2024

On this afternoon, we have the Sicilian group Erlend Øye & La Comitiva .band’s BBC Maida Vale session, perfectly encapsulating the warmth and community of Siracusa.

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19/07/2024

International Moon Day is upon us! 🌕🌘🌑🌙(tomorrow..!)

To celebrate the big day, join Verity Sharp on Late Junction tonight on BBC Radio 3 from 10pm, for a moonwalk through sound, giving a nod to music that feels the pull of the lunar.

We’ll drop in on a celestial nighttime vision, experienced from the shadows of the forest, courtesy of David Lynch; and in southern Albania, a shepherd, a police commissioner and a barber come together as Grupi Lab to sing stirring polyphonic folk songs by moonlight. Yoshikazu Iwamoto, meanwhile, offers a Buddhist anthem, “Shingetsu (Moon of the Heart)”, played on a Shakuhachi bamboo flute.

Elsewhere, we have music from , and Merzbow, Ryuichi Sakamoto, , Bongo Ossie and the Moonlights, , , & helen island , , Sub Jam record’s Scream album, and more!

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28/06/2024

Tonight on Late Junction, is joined by ***rfolkuk, aka and , to dig into the rich q***r history of traditional songs and folk music.

The Q***r Folk project began from the question “LGBTQIA+ people have always existed so where are they in our folk music, song, stories, and dance?” Their work aims to counter the invisibility of q***r history and performers in the traditional music world, and the pair have been digging through archives to find traces of q***rness - some explicitly q***r, some more implicit or coded, and some which they felt were ripe for q***ring.

Elsewhere, Jennifer plays some more folk music (if you subscribe to the Big Bill Broonzy school of thought that “all music is folk music. I ain’t ever heard a horse sing.”)

And, there’ll be a track by everyone’s favourite disco cellist Arthur Russell, music from hell courtesy of ‘80s punk band Nervous Gender, and brand new club experiments from , part of Uganda's rebellious

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Image: lyrics from the folk ballad The Female Husband.

25/06/2024

Listen back to 's latest jam packed show on !

Gilles spoke to ahead of his Glastonbury Pyramid Stage set this weekend, as well as sharing a special BBC Maida Vale session from legendary Chicago percussionist and bandleader and his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, including Alex Harding and Corey Wilkes.

Plus, bonus beats from singer and keyboardist Lonnie Jordan, and a chat with producer about his upcoming album.

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21/06/2024

Tonight at 10pm, on Late Junction, Sounds for a Midsummer’s Night! Verity Sharp celebrates the longest day of the year, embracing the summer with open arms (and ears)!

We'll hear a compositions from , , , Julius Eastman, .tiwaline & , , , Áine O’Dwyer & more...

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20/06/2024

Happy solstice from Reduced Listening! 🌞

In our new episode of The Sleeping Forecast, we mark midsummer with a soundtrack of sleepy, sun-filled songs, the Shipping Forecast and a dreamy lecture from the BBC Archive on how Stonehenge helped ancient civilisations to observe the motions of the sun and the moon, by astronomy professor Gerald Hawkins 🌙 💤

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Sounds
Pictures: BBC Archive

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