Wavelength World of Music - October 19, 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) Erika Wennerstrom   (06.55) Ilaria Argento/Slow The World Down   (14.36) Urubamba/Kachapari   (19.46) Henry Priestman/Old   (22.42) Lori McKenna/When You're My Age   (27.47) Chip Taylor/Gettin' Older, Lookin' Back   (32.39) Carrie Rodriguez/Frio En El Alma   (35.50) Dusken Lights/Kisses, Kisses, Kisses   (40.13) Kenny Rankin/Blackbird   (44.47) Slim Dusty/Indian Pacific   (48.10) Elsie Carlisle (with Ambrose & His Orchestra)/The Clouds Will Soon Roll By   (53.31) Susanne Sundfør/When The Lord   (57.35) Steely Dan/Haitian Divorce   (01.04.26) All Them Witches/L'Hotel Serein

Program Links

Urubamba El Condor Pasa   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJXNGvTmn2Y
Italia Argento Slow The World Down  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSesl_BImmA 
Kate Liston Mills Booklaunch Event, Nov 8   https://events.humanitix.com/to-heal-a-lyrebird
Pam Goddard’s Monthly Potluck (Bega) – info at [email protected]
Susanne Sundfør  When The Lord   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWFCkcdmZI

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Wavelength World of Music - October 5, 2025
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Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist

(00.15) The Jesus And Mary Chain/April Skies   (05.14) Hank Marvin's Gypsy Jazz/Minor Swing (live, NZ TV)   (08.41) Freya Josephine Hollick/Me And Mine
(14.55) Ólafur Arnalds & Talos (Eoin French)/A Dawning   (18.43) Big Thief/Mythological Beauty   (23.48) Peter Skellern/She's A Lady (live, John Dankworth's Stable Theatre, Wavenden)   (30.12) Iris De Ment/My Life   (33.35) Grace Cummings/Heaven   (37.59) Gorillaz & Sparks/The Happy Dictator   (44.58) Bruce Springsteen/Ghost Of Tom Joad   (49.10) The Christians/Hooverville   (56.44) Lia Ices/Daphne   (01.01.58) Ode To Greg Bordas/John Hawkes (with Greg's selected station IDs)   (01.04.24) Nilüfer Yanya/Cold Heart   (01.09.21) Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade Of Pale (live, Ledreborg Castle, Denmark, 2006, with Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir) 

Program Links
 
Peter Skellern’s Top Songs   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmiDjwiuCZFuJAzmkuti_vh5Ea3Ohs2VP
Hank Marvin’s Gypsy Jazz   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csUweTAK73I#ddg-play ,  https://hankmarvingypsyjazz.com/meet-the-band/
Olafur Arnalds & Talos:  A Dawning   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEBbhgMp8Ok#ddg-play
London Airport:  BBC Story   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8ze69ye4po
Gorillaz’s The Happy Dictator – lyrics   https://genius.com/Gorillaz-the-happy-dictator-lyrics

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Angélique Kidjo's African Symphony
The Proms - September 7th, St George's Hall, Bradford
 
With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor Chris Cameron
Special Guest, Corinne Bailey Rae
Amen Viana, guitar;  David Donatien, percussion
 
All songs performed by Angélique Kidjo (* with Corinne Bailey Rae)
Orchestration by Derrick Hodge    

Playlist

(02.01) Lady (comp. Fela Kuti)   (07.19) Nongquongqo (comp. Miriam Makeba)   (11.16) Soweto Blues* (comp. Hugh Masekela)   (15.48) Soul Makossa (comp. Manu Dibango)   (18.47) Angola (comp. Worin Shaw)   (22.35) 7 Seconds* (comp.Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry   (28.13) Carnaval De Sao Vicente (comp. Cesária Évora)   (33.06) Medley: Anybody/Calm Down/Shekere (comps. Burna Boy/Rema/Yemi Alade)   (40.49) Malaika (comp. Adam Salim)   (45.21) Folon (comp. Salif Keita)   (50.10) Bring Him Back Home* (comp. Hugh Masekela)   (55.10) Jerusalema (comp. Master KG)   (01.00.58) Agolo (comp. Angélique Kidjo)   (01.07.50) Afrika* (comp. Angélique Kidjo)   (01.14.16) Pata Pata (comp. Angélique Kidjo)   (01.19.44) Money Is Not God (comp. Angélique Kidjo)   (01.22.49) Carnaval De Sao Vicente - reprise (comp. Cesária Évora)

Links

Angélique Kidjo   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%A9lique_Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo Agolo   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgESq5FAx4#ddg-play
 
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Mahler's 5th Symphony
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Klaus Mäkelä 
The Proms - Royal Albert Hall, August 29, 2025

Part 1
1  Trauermarsch
2  Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter vehemenz
 
Part 2
3  Scherzo
4  Adagietto
5  Rondo Finale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Mahler)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Concertgebouw_Orchestra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4

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Wavelength World of Music - September 18, 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) Nation Of Language/Inept Apollo   (05.50) Sally Oldfield/Morning Of My Life   (10.55) Arturo Benavenides/Desiderata   (17.26) Angélique Kidjo & Yo Yo Ma/Summertime (live, Hollywood Bowl, sung in Swahili)   (20.45) David & Romany Gilmour/Between Two Points   (26.10) Manfred Mann/Pretty Flamingo   (30.13) Bill Bailey/The Typewriter (Last Night Of The Proms, 2025)   (33.24) Mary Chapin Carpenter/Goodnight America   (38.57) Radical Face/Welcome Home   (44.53) Ocie Elliott/Like A River   (48.19) Angélique Kidjo/Afirika (live, The Proms)   (57.16) Ozark Mountain Daredevils/It'll Shine When It Shines   (01.00.41) Charlotte Cardin/Main Girl   (01.05.48) Queen & the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus & Singers/Bohemian Rhapsody (at the Last Night Of The Proms, Sept 13, 2025)     

Program Links

David Gilmour’s Astoria Houseboat Studio  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria_(houseboat)
Short films of Arturo Benavenides   https://www.youtube.com/@artbenavides
The Proms (all available concerts)    www.bbc.co.uk/proms
50th Anniversary of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (news story)  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyn7lq1q1ro
Watch Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Last Night Of The Proms  https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/play/m002k6dr
Watch Bill Bailey’s The Typewriter, Last Night Of The Proms (at approx. 35.00 mins)   https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/play/m002jm3q   
The Typewriter, by Leroy Anderson   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typewriter 
Watch Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Mahler’s 5th Symphony, The Proms, August 29  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002hqxz/bbc-proms-2025-mahlers-fifth-at-the-proms 
Listen to the full ‘Last Night Of The Proms’ (4 hours)  https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/play/m002j624 
Listen to St Vincent’s full concert, Sept 3 (2 hours)  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002hlh7

nb: concerts are posted for a limited time, although the BBC indicates Mahler’s 5th is available for 11 months.  Use of a VPN, connected to a UK server, is recommended. 

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Anoushka Shankar, Sitar:  Chapters 1-3, August 12, 2025, Royal Albert Hall
With the London Contemporary Orchestra - Conductor, Robert Ames

Chapter 1:  Forever, For Now   (07.45) Daydreaming   (11.30) Stolen Moments   (15.55) What Will We Remember   (19.27) Sleeping Flowers (Awaken Every Spring) 

Chapter 2:  How Dark It Is Before Dawn   (24.05) Pacifica   (27.45) Offering   (33.05) What Dreams Are Made Of   (35.30) In The End   (39.24) Below The Surface   (41.42) New Dawn

Chapter 3:  We Return To Light (World Premiere)   (48.55) Daybreak   (53.16) Hiraeth   (55.54) Dancing On Scorched Earth   (59.08) We Burn So Brightly
(01.09.00) Amrita   (01.15.54) We Return To Love

Anoushka Shankar News  
https://www.anoushkashankar.com/news/anoushka-shankar-presents-chapters-at-bbc-proms

Concert Review
https://www.london-unattached.com/proms-2025-anoushka-shankar-chapters/

The Proms  (we suggest the use of a VPN, connected to a UK server, to avoid current UK blocking problems)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Proms     

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Wavelength World of Music - September 2, 2025
These programs may contain occasional adult content.  Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and don't reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist

(00.15) Israel Nash/Lucky Ones   (04.59) Fiona Apple/Across The Universe   (09.15) The Byrds/Eight Miles High   (15.08) Charlotte Cardin/Faufile   (17.33) Mick Jagger/Strange Game   (20.58) Pale Honey/Some Time, Alone   (26.21) Russell McDougall/Catherine Hill Bay, 1942   (28.04) Jamilla Woods/Sula (Paperback)   (32.10) Kings Of Leon/17   (37.09) Mary Chapin Carpenter/Grand Central Station   (41.21) Cyndi Lauper/Strawberry Fields Forever   (48.42) Roger Waters/Sumud   (56.47) Chip Taylor/Same Old Story   (01.02.16)  Les Crane/Desiderata   (01.06.36) Anoushka Shankar, sitar (with the London Contemporary Orchestra, conductor Robert Ames)/We Return To Love (at the Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, Royal Albert Hall, August 12th, 2025, from the World Premiere of 'Chapter Three:  We Return To Light')           

Program Links
‘Play Music On The Porch’ Day   https://playmusicontheporchday.com/about-us/
James McAuley   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McAuley
The ‘Ern Malley’ Affair   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley_hoax
Fiona Apple ‘Across The Universe’   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmlnO1EwCT4#ddg-play
The Proms (advise use vpn)   https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms

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Wavelength World of Music - August 21, 2025

Playlist

(00.15)  Rayland Baxter/Albatross   (05.46) Tia Gostelow/Spring To Life   (08.11) Genesis/Follow You, Follow Me   (13.35) Avi Avital (mandolin) & Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)/Beethoven's Adagio in Eb Maj (originally composed for mandolin & harpsichord)   (17.58) Francis Cabrel/Il Faudra Leur Dire   (21.32) Elizabeth Fraser & Jeff Buckley/All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun   (27.45) Kate Rusby/The  Lark   (31.54) Philip Glass/Powaqqatsi   (37.20) Russell McDougall/You Cannot Go Down to the Spring   (42.24) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss/Last Kind Word Blues   (46.21) Graham Bond Organisation/Train Time   (50.35) Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth/Crazy Rhythm   (54.16) Fulu Miziki/Unknown Title   (01.03.01) The Proclaimers (with Hibernian Fans at Easter Rd, Leith)/Sunshine On Leith

Program Links

Francis Cabrel's 'Il Faudra Leur Dire' (English lyrics)   
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/il-faudra-leur-dire-one-will-have-tell-them.html
Proclaimers + Hibs Fans, 'Sunshine On Leith’ (at Scottish Cup Final, Hampden Pk, 2016:  Hibernian 3 – Rangers 2)  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt26StUVHoc&list=RDlt26StUVHoc&start_radio=1
Powaqqatsi (watch full film)   https://archive.org/details/fricke-godfrey/Powaqqatsi.1988.720p.BluRay.x264-mSD.mkv
Fulu Miziki, live, Aug 15 2025   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsaFXvgNsA4#ddg-play
Graham Bond Organisation -  history   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLQeF61gqUM       
   
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Wavelength World of Music - August 10, 2025

Playlist

(00.15) Of Montreal/A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger   (05.52) Yemi Alade (ft. Angelique Kidjo)/Shekere   (09.39) Joe Bonnamassa/Boogie Woogie Woman   (14.27) Felicity Dowd/Give And Take   (17.34) Griffschen/Desperate People   (21.24) Velvet Trip/Moving On   (26.46) Cleo Laine (with the John Dankworth Orchestra (live, Carnegie Hall, 1974)/Send In The Clowns   (31.28) Chuck Mangione/Feels So Good   (41.31) Morcheeba/Crystal Blue Persuasion   (45.18) William Prince/On Rolls The Wheel   (51.22) Tom Lehrer/A Christmas Carol   (53.53) Grace Sorensen/Cologne   (56.48) Poco/Rose Of Cimarron   (01.04.20) Jack Kennedy, Jonjo Kerr & The Yorkshire Regiment, Lesley Garrett, Alistair Griffin, Brian Blessed & The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, The Rock Up And Sing Choir/Ilkla Moor Baht 'At 

Program Links

The Yorkshire Anthem   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Ilkla_Moor_Baht_'at   
Tom Lehrer   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv02yd2714o 
Cleo Laine   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Laine
Chuck Mangione   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feels_So_Good_(Chuck_Mangione_album)
William Prince  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Prince_(musician)
   
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Wavelength World of Music - July 27, 2025
 
Playlist

(00.15) Blondshell/Salad   (05.53) Kit Hain/Looking For You   (08.45) Eric Burdon & The Animals/Sky Pilot (full version)   (17.26) Josh Orange/Birds For The Bayou
(21.08) Yothu Yindi/Gapu   (23.51) Maple Glider/Performer   (29.46) Nubya Garcia/Source (opening section, live at Glastonbury)   (33.36) Fontaines DC/Starburster   (37.57) Aldous Harding/Fixture Picture   (41.54) Sparks/Drowned In A Sea Of Tears   (47.34) Flying Burrito Brothers/Sin City   (51.42) George Jones/Choices   (56.58) William Prince/Goldie Hawn       

Program Links
 
Blondshell   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondshell
Kit Hain   https://kittusmusic.com/bio
Nubaya Garcia   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubya_Garcia
Gram Parsons   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZd8u2OGscc#ddg-play
William Prince   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Prince_(musician)
 
 
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