Hearspool 15: The Great Reversal is the latest hourlong experimental radio production from Momus, broadcast on Basic.FM and available here as an mp3. This episode focuses on Peter and Alison Smithson, as seen in BS Johnson’s BBC documentary about Robin Hood Gardens, the last project they built in Britain. The episode is also available, unusually, as a film.

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Hearspool 14: Ink and Velvet is the latest hourlong experimental radio production from Momus, broadcast today on Basic.FM at 2pm UK time or available here as an mp3. This episode mixes Pimsleur language-learning exercises with the ghost scene from Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, Lavinia Greenlaw’s verse take on Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Serge Gainsbourg in Morocco, documentaries on the Silk Road and the burning of the great library of Alexandria, an interrupted newscaster, a troglodyte musician, and the music

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Hearspool 13: Frank is the latest hourlong experimental radio production from Momus, broadcast today on Basic.FM or available here as an mp3. This episode mashes up the soundtrack of Walerian Borowczyk’s 1975 film The Beast with Arte Radio productions about pregnancy and bathing in Japan, economics documentaries by JK Galbraith, and the Fluxus-style choral work of Tomomi Adachi, Paul Lansky, Dominique Petitgand and Nobukazu

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Hearspool 12: A Strange Emotion is broadcast live on Basic.FM at 2pm UK time today. Since Momus has been out on the road for the past month, this week’s episode is a compilation of excerpts from the previous eleven hearspools. The piece is also available as an archived mp3 here.

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Hearspool 11: My Father is the latest hourlong experimental radio production from Momus, broadcast today on Basic.FM at 5pm UK time or available here as an mp3. This episode was made in Venice during the biennale, and interweaves Nikolas Montaldi talking about his father, the radical intellectual Danilo Montaldi, with the sound of art installations by Gilad Ratman, Ryan Trecartin, Chia-Wei Hsu, Tino Sehgal and Aurelien Froment, overlapped covers of the ballad Hushabye Mountain by Robert and Richard Sherman, and fragments of a heavily-edited radio essay by Gabriel Gbadamosi.

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Hearspool 10: Adorno is the latest hourlong experimental radio production from Momus, broadcast today on Basic.FM at 2pm UK time or available here as an mp3. This time, as well as Theodor Adorno, there are references to composer Harry Partch, actor-songwriter Jacques Palminger, writer Keith Waterhouse, poet Ezra Pound, singer and video-maker David Bowie, DJ John Peel, songwriter Paul Reekie, spy Anthony Blunt, poet Rainer Maria Rilke and artist Omer Fast.

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Hearspool 9: Obsession is the latest hourlong experimental radio production from Momus, broadcast today on Basic.FM at 2pm UK time or available here as an mp3. This time we’re on the moon – or is it Antarctica?

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Hearspool 8: Venice is broadcast live on Basic.FM at 2pm UK time today. The hour-long radiophonic composition by Momus revolves around fantastical travellers’ tales, trips to Kunming, Asmara and Makhachkala, the nature poetry of Marco Polo, and readings from Calvino’s Invisible Cities, with plenty of adultery and hesitation phenomena thrown in for good measure. The Hearspool is also available as an archived mp3 here.

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Hearspool 7: Kakistocracy is broadcast live on Basic.FM at 2pm UK time today. The hour-long radiophonic composition by Momus mixes up a fairytale told by a South Carolina babysitter with documentaries about a boarding house in Bayswater, Armenia, the Northern Lights, and Francis Bacon. There’s a song about a mammoth preserved in ice, and John Berger’s calls, in Ways of Seeing, for “a world-political view”. The Hearspool is also available as an archived mp3 here.

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Hearspool 6: The Miracle of Pie is broadcast live on Basic.FM at 2pm UK time today. The hour-long radiophonic composition by Momus mixes up Aldous Huxley’s drug experiences, a war between men and women, the supreme importance of pie, scraps of a German radio documentary about Momus, the entire lyrics of the Marzipan album read up the page instead of down, and the scariest bits of Night of the Hunter. It’s also available as an archived mp3 here.

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