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Wavelength World of Music - March 28, 2026
These programs may contain occasional adult content.  
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 

Please Note:  From April 1, 2026, this Buzzsprout site becomes an archive for Wavelength shows, specials & docos, Aug 2020 - March 2026.  Future programs will be available via the adjacent Soundcloud tab. 
 
Playlist
(00.15) Furniture/Brilliant Mind   (06.05) Alanna Eileen/Caravaggio   (10.12) Evan Jolly/Theme From The Split   (10.55) Warren Zevon/Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner   (17.33) Jethro Tull/Heavy Horses   (26.23) Susannah Joffe/Horses Can't Outrun Me   (30.21) Martyn Wyndham-Read/Copper And May   (36.29) Ludwig van Beethoven/Symphony #3, The 'Eroica', Eb maj, Op 55 (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Boder, live at 2021 Beethoven Festival, Bonn)   (42.00) Lisa Gerrard/The Sea Whisperer   (46.13) Split Enz/Sweet Talking Spoon Song (live, New Faces, NZTV, 25/11/73)   (51.05) Molly Nielsson/A Song The Won't Be Playing On The Radio   (55.36) Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros/Redemption Song   (01.01.40) Jessie Buckley/Troy   (01.07.29) SMS Kreyol/Untitled   (01.14.41) Nick Cave/Train Dreams
 
Info Links
Caravaggio 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93j2ekgwqko

Patty Hearst
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260313-the-shocking-kidnap-of-a-teenage-newspaper-heiress 

The ‘Real Songwriters of Melbourne’ 
https://rsom.au/news/2015/09/01/alanna-eileen 

Joe Strummer Biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption_Song%3A_The_Ballad_of_Joe_Strummer 

Jessie Buckley on Desert Island Discs (needs vpn)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sckz   

comment & music welcome (mp3, 128 kbps, thanks):
[email protected] (attn: rob paul) 

Wavelength World of Music - March 14, 2026
These programs may contain occasional adult content.  The final track today includes extended expletives. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15) Moonlight Reggae Band/Telephone   (05.49) Neil Sedaka/Laughter In The Rain   (08.28) Lykke Li/Lucky Again   (11.25) Fela Kuti/Black Men, Dey Suffer
(18.35) Academy Of Ancient Music (Christopher Hogwood)/Mozart's Symphony #25, Final Section, 1st Movement (period instruments)   (20.46) Olivia
Newton-John/Love Song   (24.19) Urban Heat/That Gun In Your Hand   (31.04) Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez/Don't Speak In English   (34.59) CMAT/Euro Country
(39.54) Dry Cleaning/Strong Feelings   (45.24) Aurora/Apple Tree   (48.28) Larysa Kovalchuk/The Frog (Galliard, composed John Downland, 1523-1626)   (49.32)
Dan Fogelberg/Sand And The Foam   (56.07) Lana Del Rey/Ride   (01.00.48) Beatrice/Something's On Your Mind   (01.06.21) Dog Trumpet/Fucking Idiots
 
Info Links
Fela Kuti Grammies Award     
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx1207757xo
Vinicius Jnr Racial Abuse   
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/vinicius-jr-racism-real-madrid-benfica-champions-league-b2922509.html
Neil Sedaka Obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/28/neil-sedaka-dies-aged-71-cause-of-death-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-singer
Larysa Kovalchuk  https://www.larissakovalchuk.com/about-larissa/ 

comment & music welcome (mp3, 128 kbps, thanks):
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Wavelength World of Music - February 28, 2026
These programs may contain occasional adult content. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15) Emily Wurramara/Adore Me   (04.18) Harry Nilsson/Everybody's Talkin'   (06.48) Molly Nilsson/Money Never Dreams   (09.50) Shearwater/You As You Were  (16.25) The Black Sorrows/Chained To The Wheel   (20.03) Celia Cruz/Guantanamera   (23.04) Tontta/Rabbit Hole   (28.26) Quivers/Burnt My Maps, Driving Rain   (35.52) Jon Lord/The Durham Concerto (Pt2, Afternoon;  Movement 1, The Road From Lindisfarne - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Mischa Damev;  Northumbrian Small Pipes, Kathryn Tickell)   (42.03) Rising Appalachia/Resilient   (46.09) Mel Tormé/A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (George Shearing, piano;  live Newport Jazz Festival, 18-8-89)   (51.09) CMAT/Running, Planning   (58.22) Elvis Costello/Brilliant Mistake   (01.01.57) Lucinda Williams/The World's Gone Wrong   (01.08.47) Oysterband/The World Turned Upside Down

Info Links
Curling – How & Why Does It Work?  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260213-the-unexplained-physics-of-curling Curling – the Olympic Cheating & Swearing Controversy https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c4gqw139ev3o
Quivers, Live at KEXP (full performance)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0PI_kACCJE

comment & music welcome (mp3, 128 kbps, thanks):
[email protected] (attn: rob paul) 
 

Wavelength World of Music - February 15, 2026
These programs may contain occasional adult content. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15) Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band/Abba Zabba   (03.55) Taylor Swift/Fortnight   (07.46) Peter Tosh/Stepping Razor   (15.55) Alison Krauss & Robert Plant/Going Where The Lonely Go   (19.53) Mike & The Mechanics/In The Living Years   (25.09) Madison Cunningham/Break The Jaw   (31.23) Stuart & McKay/My Friend   (35.27) Arctic Monkeys/Opening Night   (39.40) Lace Manhattan/In The Sun She Lies   (44.02) Craig Douglas/On The Sunny Side Of The Street   (46.19) Geike Arnaert/Cry   (49.52) Richard Clapton/Last Train To Marseille   (56.27) Lady Gaga/Fashion   (59.12) David Allan Coe/Please Come To Boston   (01.04.51) Lucinda Williams/How Much Did You Get For Your Soul

Info Links
Lucinda Williams “How Much etc…” Lyrics 
https://www.lyricsbull.com/how-much-did-you-get-for-your-soul-lucinda-williams-lyrics/
Lace Manhattan:  What Can’t Margaret Qualley Do? 
https://www.lofficielusa.com/film-tv/margaret-qualley-makes-music-debut-as-lace-manhattan-for-honey-dont-jack-antonoff
Pantone’s Colour Of The Year 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9w7qg2grq4o
Arctic Monkeys' New Release, ‘Opening Night’   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5gpyjqq30o

comment & music welcome (mp3, 128 kbps, thanks):
[email protected] (attn: rob paul) 

Wavelength World of Music - January 30, 2026
These programs may contain occasional adult content. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15) Grateful Dead/The Promised Land   (05.22) Fairport Convention/Promised Land   (08.21) Benny Andersson/I Let The Music Speak   (14.45) James Taylor/Mexico   (17.36) Carmen Souza/Song For My Father   (22.17) Drifting Clouds/Bawuypawuy   (29.23) Longplayer (excerpt)   (30.31) Carla Geneve/Better Believe It   (32.46) Izzy Escobar/Vendetta   (35.47)   Midnight Oil/When The Generals Talk   (42.10) Split Enz/I Got You   (45.35) Tim Finn/Made My Day   (48.50) Emma Swift/Beautiful Ruins   (56.12) Mickey Newbury_Dr Martin Luther King Jnr/An
American Trilogy_'I Have A Dream'   (01.01.05) Bobi Wine/Time Bomb Corruption   (01.08.25) Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Nimrod

Program Links
Bobi Wine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77k8pym06zo
The Uganda Election  
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c205dd7gjrpo

Split Enz Reunion  
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-15/split-enz-back-on-tour-after-17-years-/106234966

Rob Hirst Obituary  
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/20/rob-hirst-midnight-oil-drummer-and-founding-member-dies-aged-70

Bob Weir
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly95x9qe4ko 
Weir's 10 Best Recordings https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/12/bob-weir-grateful-dead-10-best-recordings   

Longplayer
Info & listen live  https://longplayer.org/     (then, use browser link http://icecast.spc.org:8000/longplayer )
Played Live, 12/9/09  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhEI3FEvxU0   
BBC Witness History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74r2 
Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longplayer   
Jem Finer  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_Finer

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Wavelength World of Music - January 15 2026
These programs may contain occasional adult content. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15) The Cure/Friday, I'm In Love   (05.20) Nightcrawl/Lost Highway   (09.03) Levante/Follemente   (12.15) Mulatu Astatke/Mulatu   (20.14) Flying Circus/Hayride   (22.02) Regine Velasquez/And I Love You So   (26.27) Michael Murphey/Wildfire (album version)   (33.00) Anna Calvi & David Byrne/Strange Weather   (38.31) John Mayall/World War Blues   (42.50) Haim/Cry   (48.25) Dan Fogelberg/Changing Horses   (50.54) Bec Sandridge/Healthy Shock   (56.35) Chris Rea/Fool If You Think It's Over   (01.00.29) Dwight Yoakham & Flaco Jimenez/Carmelita   (01.03.49) Ella Fitzgerald/Flying Home   (01.09.31) Blodwyn Pig/Summer Day 

Program Links
Perry Bamonte (The Cure)  
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yqnw9nwy9o 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/cure-guitarist-perry-bamonte-dies-aged-65/106181152
https://www.thecure.com/news/2025/12/perry-archangelo-bamonte-1960-2025/

BBC Arts Hour (with Levante)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6zvc

Ronnie Lockwood
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o

Haim
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp899w5xynzo

Heather Cox Richardson: The World Under Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JXQhff9aGc

Mulatu Astatke, Godfather Of Ethiopian Jazz:  Farewell Tour
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy073xp2yj0o

Chris Rea
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r3ne23e4go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Rea   

Mick Abrahams
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jwdwpgmm8o 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Abrahams 
https://jethrotull.com/band-member/mick-abrahams/#more
   
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Wavelength World of Music - December 15, 2025
These programs may contain occasional adult content. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15)  Clover County/Ultraviolet   (04.42) Rising Appalachia/Lady Liberty   (08.43) Richard Clapton/Capricorn Dancer   (14.22) Ella Fitzgerald/A Tisket A Tasket   (16.58) Jon & Vangelis/I'll Find My Way Home   (21.23) Emiliana Torrini/To Be Free   (26.19) Fionn Regan/Dogwood Blossom   (29.32) Olivia Ong/Fly Me To The Moon   (32.30) Buena Vista Social Club/Chan Chan   (37.51) Lana Del Rey/Video Games   (42.34) Theme From 'Severance' (comp. Theodore Shapiro)   (43.56) Ocie Elliott/Slow Tide   (51.47) Starling Arrow/By The Jordan   (56.07) Oliver Mtukudzi/Todii   (01.01.17) Jane Rutter/Botany Bay   (01.07.48) Mark Rylance/Arthur McBride

Program Links
Rising Appalachia Lady Liberty – Lyrics  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMO7v3e8mrM
Starling Arrow By The Jordan – Video & Lyrics https://www.lyricsondemand.com/starling_arrow/by_the_jordan   
The Music Of Severance (composer Theodore Shapiro)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Severance
   
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Wavelength World of Music - November 30, 2025
These programs may contain occasional adult content. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15)  The Cocteau Twins/Violaine   (06.15) The Boswell Sisters/Was That The Human Thing To Do?   (09.17) Nick Lowe/Are Men Are Liars   (15.27) Alanis Morissette/Unsent   Dave van Ronk (w. The Hudson Dusters)/Clouds (Joni Mitchell's original title 'Both Sides   Now')   (24.07) Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions/Drop   (28.57) The Hampden Park Crowd (Commonwealth Games, 2014)/Oh, Flower Of Scotland   (30.41) The Kinks/Days   (33.31) Kate Rusby/Friday I'm In Love   (39.30) J.S. Bach/Ciacona For Organ in B Min, BWV 1178 (end section - full story, see links, below)   (41.10) Al Bowlly/Dinner For One, Please, James   (47.33) Little Simz/Young   (50.35) Lenny Kravitz/American Woman   (56.50) Jimmy Cliff/Many Rivers To Cross

Program Links
The Boswell Sisters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boswell_Sisters   
Jimmy Cliff  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cliff 

Bach’s Rediscovered Organ Works
BBC story
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wlr7r747eo   
Story on 'Bachtrack'
https://bachtrack.com/news-two-rediscovered-organ-works-js-bach-performed-leipzig-november-2025
RN Hour interview, Peter Wollny, Director Leipzig Bach Archive, Nov 19, 2025 (13 mins)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-radio-national-hour/two-lost-compositions-of-j-s-bach-discovered/106029942
Full performance of both Ciacona, Nov 17, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeX6dbPNIgE#ddg-play
The Woehl organ, St Thomas’s Church, Leipzig
https://pipeorganmap.com/organ/leipzig-leipzig-thomaskirche-woehl-organ
Ton Koopman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Koopman
Leipzig Bach Archive
https://www.bacharchivleipzig.de/en/bach-archiv
 
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Wavelength World of Music - November 16, 2025
These programs may contain occasional adult content. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15) Soul Asylum/Runaway Train   (06.05) Bee Gees/Words   (09.13) London Grammar/Truth Is A Beautiful Thing   (16.28) Digby Richards/A Little Piece Of Peace  (21.09) Patti Smith/Redondo Beach   (24.26) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark/Enola Gay   (29.46) Nerina Pallot/Love Will Tear Us Apart   (32.55) Julio   Iglesias/Moonlight Lady   (36.54) Siouxsie & The Banshees/Israel   (43.50) Badly Drawn Boy/Magic In The Air   (47.26) Urubamba/El Condor Pasa   (53.13) Pia   Salvia/She's Leaving Home   (54.49) Jah Bouks/Angola   (01.00.25) Chip Taylor/Some Of Us (with the choir of the Dover Sherborn School)

Program Links
Collins Dictionary Words of the Year 2025  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd2y053nleo       
Patti Smith, back on the road:  News Story https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr038ze97yo
Digby Richards   https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/richards-digby-george-15594
Urubamba El Condor Pasa Live   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJXNGvTmn2Y#ddg-play
Chip Taylor   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Taylor
 
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Wavelength World of Music - November 1, 2025
These programs may contain occasional adult content. 
Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist
(00.15) Bec Sandridge/In The Fog, In The Flame   (04.43) Barry McLay Band/Mirrors (10.05) Fiona Apple/Slow, Like Honey   (18.55) Sexteto Habanero/Como Esta Miguel    (22.09) Beethoven's Romance For Violin #2, F Maj, Opus 50:  Jungyun Choi, violin - Haejung Cho, piano   (26.42) Clover County/Virginia Slim   (31.05) Colin Dodds/Percentages   (34.43) Wolf Alice/Thorns   (37.53) Mariza/Oica La O Senhor Vinho   (42.37) Amália Rodrigues/Uma Casa Portuguese   (45.13) Lee 'Scratch' Perry/Here Come The Warm Dreads (ft. Brian Eno)   (51.04) Geese/Taxes   
(54.18) O & The Mo/Make Way For The Sun   (59.22) Tom Waits/Take One Last Look

Program Links
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_%22Scratch%22_Perry
Tom Waits on David Letterman’s final show   https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tom-waits-final-serenade-of-david-letterman/
Documentary Fiona Has Wings   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpYkbeU7Q2U
Wolf Alice’s New Album, The Clearing   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmey4pw9vpo 
Fado Music  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fado 
Amália Rodrigues   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A1lia_Rodrigues
Amália Rodrigues Gaivota   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZ__8HSZsE#ddg-play
Sexteto Habanero   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexteto_Habanero

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