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       
   
rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

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)
   
rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

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)
 
 
rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

From Russia, With Love - Playlist, Credits

Part 1

(06.04) Suzanne   (17.36) Bird On The Wire   (26.33) Dance Me To The End Of Love   (37.30) Hallelujah (Live, Royal Albert Hall)   (52.53) First We Take Manhattan   (01.08.14) So Long, Marianne

I am greatly indebted to the following productions, for their inspiration and information:

Being Change, a film by acclaimed local filmmaker Toni Houston with original music by Kate Burke and Pete Wild   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9_WKM0pDY
   
ABC Conversation, with Richard Fidler
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/alexandra-sedden-russian-aristocracy-bolshevik-revolution-wombat/13382894

Velvet Bulldozer, an interview with Alexandra Seddon filmed by Noel Plunkett at Batty Tower in 2023 (produced by Alexandra and her husband, Nicho)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqZmTbmKGRE

Additional Thanks
The New Yorker Magazine & David Remnick
https://www.newyorker.com/

Panboola Wetlands & Heritage Project
https://www.panboola.com/

Potoroo Palace
https://www.potoroopalace.com/

Donate (tax deductible)
www.potoroopalace.com 

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

From Russia, With Love - Playlist, Credits

Part 2

(07.21) Thanks For The Dance   (22.19) Leaving The Table   (36.20) You Want It Darker   (50.36) Alexandra Leaving (with Sharon Robinson)

I am greatly indebted to the following productions, for their inspiration and information:

Being Change, a film by acclaimed local filmmaker Toni Houston with original music by Kate Burke and Pete Wild   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9_WKM0pDY
   
ABC Conversation, with Richard Fidler
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/alexandra-sedden-russian-aristocracy-bolshevik-revolution-wombat/13382894

Velvet Bulldozer, an interview with Alexandra Seddon filmed by Noel Plunkett at Batty Tower in 2023 (produced by Alexandra and her husband, Nicho)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqZmTbmKGRE

Additional Thanks
The New Yorker Magazine & David Remnick
https://www.newyorker.com/

Panboola Wetlands & Heritage Project
https://www.panboola.com/

Potoroo Palace
https://www.potoroopalace.com/

Donate (tax deductible)
www.potoroopalace.com

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Wavelength World of Music - July 14, 2025

Playlist

(00.13) Midlake/Head Home   (06.26) Tania Bowra/Sympathy   (10.56) Steve Harley/Coast Of Amalfi   (18.43) Scanners/Salvation   (22.04) Jon & Vangelis/I'll Find My Way Home   (26.30) Angélique Kidjo/Nadi Balance(ft.Fally Ipupa, Cavemen, Sheila Maurice-Grey)   (30.45) Tom Woodward/Mainstreet Shuffle (improvisation)   (35.25) Spooky Men's Chorale/Vote The Bastards Out   (40.09) Nanci Griffith/Down And Outer   (42.37) Supertramp/Even In The Quietest Moments  (49.54)   Lorde/Hammer   (53.07) David Holmes/Stop Apologising (ft Raven Violet)   (57.29) The Shipping Forecast   (58.37) Jarvis Cocker Interview   (01.02.22) Alan Perry-William Gardner Orchestra/Sailing By (comp.Ronald Binge)   (01.06.02) Björk & PJ Harvey/Satisfaction 

Program Links

100 Years of the Shipping Forecast   https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/c1mgyljr2yno 

Sailing By   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_By

Shipping Areas   https://au.pinterest.com/pin/maps-on-the-web-uk-shipping-forecast-areas--535224736965417278/

Angelique Kidjo’s Walk of Fame Star   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx2g5znggpo

Pam Goddard (for the Bega Community Potluck, July 27, 2.00pm)   goddardpamelacleo@gmail.com  

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Wavelength World of Music - July 2, 2025

Playlist

(00.13) Nation Of Language/Inept Apollo   (05.08) Amelia Curran/Song On The Radio   (09.01) Michael Fix/Marking Time   (Los Cuates De Sinaloa/Negro Y Azul (The Ballad Of Heisenberg)   (17.21) Joan & The Giants/Beg   (20.37) Pulp/Farmers' Market (Live, Later With Jools Holland)   (27.06) London Symphony Orchestra, cond. David Bedford, Barnet Schools Choir/Main Theme, The Mission (comp. Ennio
Morricone)   (32.10) Abba/Chiquitita (Spanish Version)   (37.22) Blue Jays/I Dreamed Last Night   (41.46) Loma/Relay Runner   (48.13) Kevin Johnson/Paraguayan Sunset   (52.18) Esther Ofarim/El Condor Pasa   (56.15) King's Singers/Alice In Wonderland   (01.00.05) Nana Mouskouri/Try To Remember (Live, Royal Albert Hall)

Program Links
 
NPR Report, Trump’s Bill to Destroy American Public Media
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g-s1-72223/public-media-funding-up-in-the-air-as-house-prepares-to-vote-on-claw-backs 

Chiquitita Lyrics (Translation From Spanish Version)   https://lyricstranslate.com/en/chiquittita-chiquitita-little-one.html   

Tony Hancock   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hancock
 
rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Hrafnsöngvar - Ravensongs
Composed 2001; World Premiere, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 29 2005

Rosalind Page - Music
Hrafn Andrés Harðarson - Texts  

Australian Music Centre
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/hrafnsoengvar-ravensongs-a-tone-poem-on-seven-texts-by-hrafn-andres-hardarson-escore 

Incidental Music
Ólafur Arnalds / Ljósið;    Eydís Evenson / Dagdraumur 

  1    In The Beginning
  Darkness
  Blue mantle
  Black bordered  
  Vision  
  In the ocean
  stars
  medusae
  Night pregnant
  with darkness

  2    Morning
  Caught in the net
  of the morning glare
  Never reaching day:
  night birds
  beating
  with both wings
  blood
  blood on their breasts
  from their own claws

  3   Birds Of Heaven
  Notes from the Creator’s harp
  glide above clouds
  on feathered wings
  below
  ie in the air
  like promises …
  Tone-birds
  on the ocean’s keyboard.


  4    Life Itself (Hildur’s Dance)
  Between heaven and ocean
  our happiness:
  Lands that ancestors saw
  with birds and mountains
  and rivers
  flowing like time
  Strange seed
  of all time, all tide
  rising and falling
  resonating earth
  rising and never ending
  As far as the eye can see
  the eye of god
  All years
  tears
  are lost and disappear,
  no, reappear
  forever
  in the eternal breath
  between sea and sky

  5    Prophecy
  Evening birds
  flee the day’s sadness
  into the shadowed embrace
  of night
  there where I often
  seek daydreams
  like a fan-winged raven
  seeks a prophecy
  of a new day
  like yesterday …

  6    Rain Of Pearls
  Tiny drop
  tiny drop,
  pearl amongst pearls
  in your eye
  a vision of your world
  in your eye
  an image of your god

  7    O, Frón (Iceland), Your Mother …
  Dead calm, flat
  lies the ocean at ease
  and stares deep, deep
  into a sunny blue,
  star-clear sky
  that has always been
  and that never sleeps …
  Featherlight fingers of breeze
  play
  on bird-viols
  mermaids dance
  beneath an aeolian heaven
  that never sleeps …
  Lighthearted waves
  aroused by the swell
  play with cinders
  from the sun
  that never sleeps …
  quiet snow, rain
  or mystical mist
  covering with a bare veil
  the billowing sea
  that never sleeps …
  then up from the tormented silence
  of sleeping Ægir
  breaking its way
  through green-deep waves
  swelling, booming crested seas
  of the violent ocean
  that never sleeps …
  a burning, glowing, raging river
  of melting metal and bursting stones
  ashgrey, black
  screaming, bright
  spitting oozing with urgent fury
  to heaven
  toward a burning sun
  that never sleeps …
  Your birth, my land,
  was like a fatal disease
  no-one welcomed you
  but your mother, the ocean,
  protects you and feeds you
  and never, no, never she sleeps.

  rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

A Winter Serenade

A Concert of Chamber Music by Three Piece Suite & David Hamilton

Blackheath Presbyterian Church Hall, June 1st, 2014

Rachel Westwood, violin - Valmai Coggins, viola - Deborah Coogan, cello
David Hamilton, tenor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hamilton_(tenor)

Playlist
 
(02.39) Henry Purcell/Music For A While Z583   (06.25) Henry Purcell/Fantazia Z734, G min   (09.31) Henry Purcell/Fantazia Z733, F maj   (12.40) Franz Schubert/Standchen (Serenade)   (16.17) Franz Schubert/Fruhlingstraum (Dream Of Spring)   (20.19) Franz Schubert/Die Post (The Post)   (24.07) Ernst von Dohnanyi/Serenade Opus10, 1 of 5 - Marcia   (26.32) Ernst von Dohnanyi/Serenade Opus10, 2 of 5 - Romanza   (30.45) Ernst von Dohnanyi/Serenade Opus 10, 3 of 5 -Scherzo   (36.10) Ernst von Dohnanyi/Serenade Opus 10, 4 of 5 - Tema con Variazioni   (43.10) Ernst von Dohnanyi/Serenade Opus 10, 5 of 5 - Rondo   (48.44) Wha'll Be King But Charlie (text Carolina Oliphant)   (51.00) Ae Fond Kiss (text Robert Burns)   (54.30) The Lincolnshire Poacher (trad)   (56.56) Ralph Vaughan Williams/Linden Lea   (01.00.22) Peter Warlock/Captain Stratton's Fancy   (01.03.17) Kitty My Love Will You Marry Me (trad)

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Wavelength World of Music - June 10, 2025

Playlist

(00.13) Joni Mitchell/Night In The City   (03.27) Mick Jagger/Strange Game   (06.51) Weyes Blood/Grapevine   (13.16) Pulp/A Sunset   (16.26) Justin Vali Trio/Rambala   (20.42) Kimmie Rhodes/The Corner Of The Bar   (26.09) David Holmes/It's Over, If We Run Out Of Love   (32.50) Jason Fine/Brian Wilson Tribute   (38.11) Beach Boys/I Just Wasn't Made For These Times   (41.23) Sally Oldfield/You Set My Gypsy Blood Free   (46.38) Steve Jewell (with Frank Corby drums & Andrew Ireland bass)/For Sephora   (53.23) Wolf Alice/Bloom Baby Bloom

Program Links

New Pulp Album   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y5152zy1po 

David Holmes, Jade Vincent & Raven Violet  https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2023/11/08/david-holmes-interview-this-album-is-me-screaming-from-the-rooftops/ 

New Wolf Alice album  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clearing_(Wolf_Alice_album) 

ABC Music Show June 15, 2025 (Beach Boys)  https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/musicshow/brian-wilson-beach-boys-quinie-josie-vallely-scots-folk-song/105368894 

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Wavelength World of Music - June 10, 2025

Playlist

(00.13) Waxahatchee/Much Ado About Nothing   (05.02) Anoushka Shankar/Bright Eyes   (09.17) Art Garfunkel/Bright Eyes   (14.44) Phil Collins/Both Sides Of The Story   (21.20) Unloved (ft Raven Violet)/Strange Effect   (25.09) Kate Miller-Heidke/I'll Change Your Mind   (29.00) Marlon Williams (ft Lorde)/Kāhore He Manu E   (31.10) Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris/Hickory Wind   (35.16) Shem Thomas (ft Jaël)/We Can   (39.55) John Prine/Linda Goes To Mars   (42.54) Alev Lenz/Song For Sea   (47.17) Green Day/American Idiot   (50.09) Stephen Wilson Jnr/Calico Creek   (58.13) The Anchoress/Unravel 

Program Links

Marlon Williams' New Album Te Whare Tīwekaweka https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-19/marlon-williams-maori-album-interview/104871440
Female Space Veteran Leads Axiom 4 crew Into Space https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce80glkl7nno
Green Day’s American Idiot   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_uujKuJMI

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Wavelength World of Music - May 31, 2025

Playlist

(00.13) Montaigne/Beyond The Glass   (03.09) Ocean Alley/Home   (06.39) Rosie Flores/So Sad   (10.14) Sparks/Do Things My Own Way   (13.54) Stina Nordenstam/Little Star   (18.07) Three Piece Suite/Aria & Variations 1 & 2, Bach's Goldberg Variations   (23.58) Dave Clark 5/Glad All Over   (26.40) Gerry & The Pacemakers (ft. Anfield supporters)/You'll Never Walk Alone   (29.22) Portishead/Only You   (33.34) Neil Young/Harvest Moon   (39.46) Anoushka Shankar/Daybreak   (44.20) The Waterboys/Peace Of Iona   (53.22) Taylor Swift/The Tortured Poets Department   (58.03) Sharon van Etten/Idiot Box   (01.02.39) 47Soul/Ghost Town

Program Links & Extras

Iona   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona
Rosie Flores Day in Austin   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Flores
Anoushka Shankar   https://www.anoushkashankar.com/
Sparks' new album 'Mad'  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad!
 
rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Wavelength World Of Music - May 13, 2025

Playlist

(00.13) The Cardinals/Get It  (03.54) Avalon Emerson/Sandrail Silhouette   (08.18)Damien Jurado/Ohio   (13.24) Chinawoman/I Kiss The Hand Of My Destroyer  (17.17) Russell Morris/End Of The Beginning   (22.42) Pink Floyd/Echoes Part 1 (from the 2025 remastered film, Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII)  (31.04) Khruangbin/Pelota   (33.51) Ruby Fields/Dinosaurs   (38.27) Will Varley/The Endlessness And The Space Between   (41.59) Alice Phoebe Lou/Dusk  (44.48) Ernest Tubb/Waltz Across Texas   (48.18) Gustavo Santaolalla & Otnicka/Dual Q   (52.10) Young Ejecta/Your Planet   (56.07) Martyn Wyndham-Read/Bold Reynolds 

Program Links & Extras

Pink Floyd At Pompeii 1972 (Re-mastered) https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/pink-floyd-at-pompeii-mcmlxxii-number-1-album/ 

Doc Ryan's Freelance Radio Show - Wed 13.00-16.00 AET;  = USA West 17 hours behind (yest);  USA East 14 hours behind (yest);  UK/Eire 9 hours behind;  Central Europe 8 hours behind  

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Classical Cameos - Pt 1

Playlist

(00.47) Mikalojus Konstantinos Čiurlionis (Lithuania)/Section 2, The Sea (Jura);  Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, cond. Juozas Domarkas  

(07.37) Anton Bruckner (Austria)/Movement #5, Mass #3 in F Minor; NDR Elbphilharmonie & Chor, cond. Herbert Blomstedt, soprano Angela Maria Blasi, alto Cornelia Kallisch, tenor Herbert Lippert, bass Franz-Josef Selig, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 1996, St. Marien, Lübeck   

(16.17) Seóirse Bodley (Eire)/Movement #1 (Allegro Moderato), Symphony #2, I Have Loved The Lands of Ireland;  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Bryden Thomson

(21.06) Frederick Delius (England)/Movement #2, Florida Suite;  Welsh Opera Orchestra, cond. Sir Charles Groves

(28.26) Gustav Mahler (Austria_Bohemia)/Movement #4 (Adagietto), Symphony #5;  Berlin Philharmonic, cond. Herbert von Karajan
  
(40.50) Fanny Mendelssohn (Germany)/Notturno in G Minor;  piano, Heather Schmidt

(45.30) Felix Mendelssohn (Germany)/Movement #1, Allegro Vivace, Symphony #4, Italian;  Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. Georg Solti

(56.02) Sir Edward Elgar (England)/Movement #1, Sea Slumber Song, Sea Pictures Op 37;  London Symphony Orchestra, cond Sir John Barbirolli, Mezzo Soprano Dame Janet Baker 

(01.01.49) Franz Joseph Haydn (Austria)/Movement #1, Moderato, Divertimento #2 in G Major;  Three Piece Suite (Rachel Westwood violin, Valmai Coggins viola, Deborah Coogan cello)

(01.06.49) Claude Debussy (France)/Jeux de Vagues (The Games of Waves), Movement #2, La Mer;  Cleveland Orchestra, cond. Vladimir Ashkenazy

(01.12.55) Louise Farrenc (France)/Movement #1, Adagio-Allegro, Symphony #3 in G Minor, Op 36;  Solistes Européens, cond. Christof König

(01.25.31, 01.29.35) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austria)/Movements #3 & #4, Menuetto & Presto, Symphony #28;  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Karl Böhm

(01.33.32) Frédéric Chopin (Poland)/Etude Opus 10 #3, Tristesse;  Pavel Kushnir

(01.38.20) Jon Lord (England)/Part 3, Movement 2, The Durham Concerto;  Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Mischa Damev, Northumbrian Small Pipes Kathryn Tickell

(01.51.09) Johann Sebastian Bach (Germany - Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach)/The Goldberg Variations, Aria + Variations 1-3;  Glenn Gould

(01.54.25) Lili Boulanger (France)/D'Un Matin de Printemps (On A Spring Morning);  Seattle Symphony Orchestra, cond. Cristian Măcelaru

(02.01.20) Benjamin Britten (England)/Movement #3, Moonlight, Four Sea Interludes (from Peter Grimes);  Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra, cond. Paavo Järvi   

Wavelength recommends:
2MBS-FM, Sydney, listen live & on demand - 2mbsfinemusicsydney.com
KUSC, Classical California, 9 on demand streams & a live stream 24/7 - kusc.org

Links
The Classical Age  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music
The Musical Eras  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dates_of_classical_music_eras
The Symphonic or Tone Poem  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dates_of_classical_music_eras
Female Classical Composers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHXNnOblgI#ddg-play
 
rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

The Cure In Concert
BBC Radio Theatre, October 31, 2024 

Introduction  (01.13) Alone  (08.16) Pictures Of You  (15.37) A Fragile Thing  (20.14) High  (23.59) A Night Like This  (28.19) Love Song  (31.58) The Walk  (35.34) In Between Days  (38.35) Just Like Heaven  (42.38) From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea  (50.36) End Song  (01.01.25) Friday I'm In Love   

Links
The Cure  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure
NME Interview, Robert Smith  https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-cure-2025-world-songs-lost-world-tour-2029-anniversary-tim-pope-documentary-3802253

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Wavelength World of Music - April 23, 2025

Playlist

(00.14) Black Angels/Grab As Much As You Can  (05.10) Dennis Browne/The Promised Land  (11.29) Joan Armatrading/The Weakness In Me  (15.51) Maire Brennan/To The Water  (19.12) James Mark/When There's A Will  (25.05) The Cure/Alone  (32.11) PJ Harvey/You Said Something  (35.21) The Seshen/Kitty Kat  (40.24) Weather Report/Nubian Sundance (radio edit, with Ravel's 'Bolero')  (44.05) Tei Shi/Year 3K  (49.40) Paul Weller & Amy Winehouse/Don't Go To Strangers (live, Jools Holland)  (56.20) Connie Converse/I Have Considered The Lilies  

Program Links
Artists' 'Silent' Protest Album   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyd3r62kp5o
Connie Converse   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Converse

rob.paul@sapphirefm.au

Wavelength World of Music - April 19, 2025

Playlist

(00.12) Amy Shark/All Loved Up  (05.03) Arctic Monkeys/A Certain Romance  (10.21) Sandy Denny (with Fairport Convention)/Down In The Flood  (13.59)Fraser Hayes Four/Nice Work If You Can Get It  (21.02) Florence & The Machine/Free  (24.54) Cigarettes After Sex/Cry  (29.00) Arushi Jain/Richer Than Blood  (34.29) Beatles/Paperback Writer  (36.40) Christine Wheeler/Rain In The Mountains  (40.52) Grandaddy/Watercooler  (47.26) John Mayall/Vacation_Walking On Sunset_Laurel Canyon Home  (57.31) Toumani Diabate (ft Ali Farka Toure)/Hawa Dolo  

(01.03.16) Woodes/Dots  (01.07.39) Darkbird/3-2 Wake Up  (01.11.25) Christy Hays/Ribbon Of Highway  (01017.24) Pavel Kushnir/Chpoin's Etude Op 10 #3 'Tristesse'  (01.21.49) Corridor/Mon Argent  (01.25.23) Ella Fitzgerald/Don't Fence Me In  (01.28.41) FFS/Johnny Delusional  (01.34.35)  Michelle Gurevic/Speechless  (01.38.21) Mike Batt/Soldier's Song  (01.42.42) King Ibis/Watch My Mind Bend  (01.46.48) Paul Simon/Something So Right  (01.51.14) Batts/Blue  (01.55.29) Travelling Wilburys/End Of The Line  (02.00.23) Bob Newhart/Training The Bus Driver

Program Links
The Arroyo Restaurant's Humourous Signs  https://www.boredpanda.com/best-el-arroyo-sign-of-all-times/
Pavel Kushnir  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Kushnir
Keith Jarrett:  The Koln Concert  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert 

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Gems of the 49th Parallel, Pt 1
A Showcase of Canadian Music, and a tribute to Jim Lanning 

Playlist 

(02.35) Rita MacNeil/The Music's Going Round   (06.12) Corridor/Topographe   (09.20) Cowboy Junkies/Oregon Hill   (14.06) Michelle Gurevic/Blue Eyes Unchanged   (19.08) Gordon Lightfoot/Rainy Day People   (21.52) Youngblood(now Blonde Diamond)/Broken English   (26.04) Bachman Turner Overdrive/Blue Collar   (34.42) Ray Materick/Carnaval Knowledge   (38.15) Luce Dufault/Soirs De Scotch   (41.38) Neil Young/Harvest Moon   (46.30) JP Hoe/Save You   (49.58) Grimes/Dream Fortress   (54.58) Lt Cdr Chris Hadfield/Space Oddity   (59.55) Carmanah/Never Goin' Back    

(1.08.09) Bryan Adams/Summer Of '69   (1.11.30) Susan Aglukark/O Siem   (1.15.50) Ocie Elliott/Like A River   (1.19.16) Young Galaxy/New Summer   (1.23.14) Couloir/The Swan (from Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals)   (1.26.00) Joni Mitchell/Marcie   (1.30.30) Timber Timbre/Too Old To Die Young   (1.38.14) Bruce Coburn/On A Roll   (1.41.26) Feist/1234   ((1.44.25) Slow Nerve Action/Bunz   (1.49.39) Ellevator/The City  (1.54.09) Leonard Cohen/So Long, Marianne   (1.59.40) Thomas Handy Trio/Spring   (2.09.41) Rachel Page/Belinda 

Dedication:   In memory of James Lanning 12/9/52 - 29/5/24, of Richmond, Vancouver - an inspiring Canadian and the finest of friends 

Special thanks:   Frank Handy 

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Gems of the 49th Parallel, Pt 2
A Showcase of Canadian Music, and a tribute to Jim Lanning

Playlist

Introduction   (02.58) Ian Tyson/Four Strong Winds   (06.48) Tei Shi/Bassically   (11.43) Be Good Tanyas/Waitin' Around To Die (Townes van Zandt cover)   (16.51) Broken Social Scene/Skyline   (20.58) Charlotte Cardin/Faufile   (23.27) Arcade Fire/The Suburbs   (28.34) Mo Kenney/Telephones   (36.46) Glenn Gould/JS Bach's Goldberg Variations - Aria, Variations 1-3   (40.58) Clann/Her And The River   (46.35) Lewis Furey/Lullaby   (51.22) Stan Rogers/Northwest Passage   (56.07) Ghostly Kisses/Empty Note   (59.54) Floes/A Long Time Ago   

(1.03.34) KD Lang/The Valley   (1.12.14) Tia McGraff/Hope Is Everything   (1.16.01) Jane Siberry/Calling All Angels   (1.21.10) Moxy Fruvous/My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors   (1.23.52) Kate & Anna McGarrigle/I'm Losing You   (1.27.32) Men I Trust/Show Me How   (1.31.00) James Keelaghan/My Old Man   (1.34.46) Alanis Morissette/Hand In My Pocket   (1.41.55) National Anthem, Oh Canada (bi-lingual)   (1.43.20) The Grateful Dead/Ripple

Dedication:   In memory of James Lanning 12/9/52 - 29/5/24, of Richmond, Vancouver - an inspiring Canadian and the finest of friends

Special thanks:   Frank Handy

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The Romans;   The Adventure Of English;   Boris Johnson;   1984;   Woke Therapy Group;   Drake Poem;   London Criminals;    The Great Train Robbery;   Coronation St

Adult content in this series is marked with an asterisk *

Introduction   Listen With Mother Introduction (Eileen Browne)   (02.45) Ian Dury/England's Glory   (06.06) Lewis Hamilton Wins Portuguese GP, 2020   (06.34) Paul Cosgrave/Pliny The Elder's Description of Albion   (07.09) Melvyn Bragg/Introduction to The Adventure Of English   (08.25) Paul Cosgrave/John Ruskin Quotation   (08.34) The Kinks/Waterloo Sunset   (11.37) Peter Baker/Prologue from Beowulf (excerpt)    (11.50) Yes Minister - Diplomacy   (13.26) Boris Johnson Loses Speech Notes   (13.55) Parliamentary Criticism & Brexit   (15.23) Fascinating Aida (*expletives)/We're So Sorry, Scotland   (19.22) Excerpts from the film 1984   (20.52) Dominic Muldowney/Oceania, Tis For Thee (the 'corporate anthem' from 1984)  (23.15) David Walliams/Computer Says No (from Little Britain)   (24.46) Melvyn Bragg, excerpts  from The Adventure Of English (general prologue, the Canterbury Tales;  Bragg on Chaucer;  excerpt from The Miller's Tale (*adult reference)   (26.05) Harry Champion/I'm Henery The 8th, I Am   (26.58) Excerpt from A Man For All Seasons (Orson Welles & Paul Scofield)   (30.30) Rick Wakeman/Catherine Parr   (32.47) Tracy Ullman/*The Woke Therapy Group  (34.43) Journey Into Space (opening)   (35.45) Gabrielle Drake/The Shell, Nick Drake/Chime Of A City Clock   (41.38) Gangsters:  Mad Frankie Fraser, Eddie Richardson, Ronnie & Reggie Kray   (44.08)  Ad - London Under Siege   (44.37) Jingle - Radio England   (44.41) The Great Train Robbery:  Bruce Reynolds, Ronald Biggs   (48.01) Jingle - Radio London   (48.13)  Ronald Biggs In Australia, Vox Pop   (50.26) Lily Allen/LDN   (53.18) Coronation St:  Theme;  Ena Sharples' debut appearance, ep 1, Dec 9, 1960 (Violet Carson);   10,000th Episode (BBC Newshour Report);  Full Theme (composer, Eric Spear)

Dedication:   In memory of Viola Mary Cosgrave, a true light of England

Special Thanks:   Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas

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Peter Sellers;   Soldiers;   WW1  &  WW2;   Dr Johnson's Dictionary;   Hancock's Half Hour;   Art

Introduction   (01.13) Steeleye Span/The Hard Times Of Old England   (06.17) Peter Sellers & Irene Handl/The Critics   (12.38) Mike Batt/Portishead Radio   (16.18) Pink Floyd/Introduction from When The Tigers Broke Free (film soundtrack version, The Wall)   (16.42) Edward Woodward/The Soldiers Of The Queen (film soundtrack   version, Breaker Morant)   (18.22) Crowning of Elizabeth 1 (film soundtrack, Shakespeare In Love)   (19.00) Elizabeth 1 at Tilbury, August 9, 1588 (film soundtrack Fire Over England, 1937, Dame Flora Robson)   (19.29) George Formby/Bless 'Em All   (20.23) Bertrand Russell/On Pacifism & The Great War (with Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, LSO, cond. Vernon Handley, violin David Nolan)    (22.26) Excerpt from Peaky Blinders, s01e01   (23.28) Station ID - Birmingham   (23.51) Film soundtrack Oh! What A Lovely War:   We Need Recruits  &  When They Ask Us    (28.14) Dame Vera Lyn/Bluebirds Over Dover (with Neville Chamberlain's war declaration, Winston Churchill's Never Surrender speech)   (31.05) George VI's Sept 3rd 1939 speech   (36.43) Excerpt from British Pathe News Report on Dunkirk Evacuation   (37.30) Pink Floyd/When The Tigers Broke Free (studio version)   (40.28) TV Commercial - The Dambusters   (41.48) Melvyn Bragg/Dr Johnson's Dictionary   (43.30) Excerpt from Hancock's Half Hour - A Sunday Afternoon At Home   (47.03) Jingle - Radio Caroline   (47.15) Mike Oldfield/Portsmouth   (49.13) Excerpt from Auf Wiedersehen Pet (s01e07), with Station ID - Geordie   (50.51) John Ruskin Quotation   (51.04) Art:  Excerpts from film soundtrack of Mr Turner &  Fake Or Fortune   (53.43) Brian & Michael/Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs   (57.55) Catherine Tate (The Posh London Family)/The Nannie From The North 

Dedication:  In memory of Kevin Boyd, a true light of England

Special Thanks:  Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas

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Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Sir Michael Caine;   A Clockwork Orange;   The 1984 Miners' Strike;   Shakespeare;   Social Housing;   Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

Introduction   (01.27) Roy Harper/One Of Those Days In England   (04.43) *Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon, from The Trip    (06.19) Michael Caine/Rudyard Kipling's If   (08.47) *Official Trailer,  A Clockwork Orange   (10.38) Acker Bilk/Stranger On The Shore   (13.25) The 1984 miners' strike - from BBC Radio 2's Ballad Of The Miner's Strike (ft music by John Tams, Bob Fox, Julie Matthews, Jez Lowe, Ray Hearne)    (23.55) She Drew The Gun/Class War   (27.06) Ad - Coffee   (27.38) Jingle - Radio Caroline   (27.45) Flanagan & Allen/Who You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler (with Arthur Lowe, Ian Lavender & Cast of Dad's Army)   (29.09) Britlish on Whinging  (29.28) *Catherine Tate/The Yorkshire Couple's Shiitake Mushroom Soup   (30.51) Station ID - Yorkshire   (31.07) Monty Python/Four Yorkshire Industrialists   (34.09) Neil Innes/Lie Down And Be Counted   (36.53) excerpt from Just A Minute   (38.45) Shakespeare:  Quotations, Documentary Introduction (John Nettles)   (39.45) Dame Judy Dench & Cast from Shakespeare In Love (with John Dowland's Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, Rosemary Hodgson lute)   (40.48) Sir John Gielgud_David Gilmour/Shakespeare's Sonnet #18   (43.11) John Ruskin Quotation   (43.24) Social Housing: Excerpts from Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, 9/10/2019 (with Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Fanfare For The Common Man, Rapper 'Plan B', Prof Tom Slater, Prof Insa Lee Koch)   (45.29) John Cooper Clarke/Beasley Street   (51.37) Bertrand Russell/What I Have Lived For (with John Dowland's Lachrimae, Julian Bream lute)   (54.11) Peter Cook & Dudley Moore/The Psychiatrist   (59.33) The Dudley Moore Trio/Amalgam (section)

Dedication:   In memory of Vince Petkevitch, a true light of England

Special Thanks:  Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas 

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Spies;   Sir Henry Rawlinson;   Radio London;   Cromwell & The English Civil War;  Football (Gordon, Motson, World Cup '66);   The Falklands Conflict;   Procol Harum

Introduction   (01.10) Jethro Tull/Jack In The Green   (03.32) Documentary Section on Spying - Harold Kim Philby Denies Involvement with Burgess & MacLean, but confirms it later in Stasi Video   (07.50) Vivian Stanshall/Intro to episode of Sir Henry At Rawlinson End, from John Peel's Radio 1 program, 1975   (08.57) Gustav Temple & The Blades/Puddings And Pies (intro, John Peel)   (11.38) The Close of Radio London, 3.00pm, August 14, 1967:  John Peel, Paul Kaye, Kenny Everett, Phillip Birch   (16.31) Radio London Closure & Theme Tune   (18.04) TV Ad -Beefburgers   (18.30) John Arlott/The Freaker   (19.43) Sir Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, excerpts from Cromwell, (1970)   (21.21) Martyn Wyndham-Read/When The King Comes Home   (27.10) Tommy Cooper/The Doctor sketch   (28.16) Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, excerpt from The Avengers   (29.22) Kate Bush/Oh England, My Lionheart   (32.25) Station ID, with William Walton's Touch Her Soft Lips And Part  - The Toff    (32.41) Tribute to James Alexander Gordon   (33.43) Football Results Parody   (34.49) Tribute To John Motson   (36.49) World Cup '66 Report, British Pathé   (37.15) Kenneth Wolstenholme/The Final 60 Seconds of The 1966 World Cup Final   (38.32) Atomic Kitten/Football's Coming Home   (41.23) The Falklands War:  Margaret Thatcher Announces Invasion, Inside Pt Stanley after British victory, The Harrier Contribution   (48.00) Rod Stewart/Sailing   (49.28) John Ruskin Quotation, Ruskin As A Political Theorist (unknown commentator)   (51.03) Linton Kwesi Johnson/Inglan Is A Bitch   (54.44) Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade Of Pale (live, Ledreborg Castle, Denmark,  August 2006, with The Danish National Concert Orchestra & Choir)

Dedication:  In memory of Geoffrey Ogden-Browne, a true light of England

Special Thanks: Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas

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The Post Office Horizon Scandal;   Herring Fishing;   Change Ringing at York Minster;   A History Cycle;   Holiday Camps;   The Keeler Affair;   Inside Anfield;   Kenneth Clark's Civilisation;   Pink Floyd's Postwar Requiem

Introduction   (01.17) Al Bowlly/Dinner For One Please, James   (03.03) Excerpt, Harry Enfield, Women, Know Your Limits   (04.28) The Bells & Bell Ringers of York Minster   (06.35) The Post Office Horizon Scandal (Ian Hislop with Robert Peston, Alan Bates)   (09.43) Ad - Postcodes   (10.10) Vashti Bunyan/Just Another Diamond Day   (11.49) Excerpt from My Word, 100th edition, 1962 - Denis Norden's She Stoops To Conquer   (17.10) Excerpts from Singing The Fishing, the third of the original eight BBC Radio Ballads, first broadcast August 16, 1960, conceived by Ewan MacColl & Charles Parker;   a modern day Yarmouth herring trawlerman   (18.31) Ewan MacColl/Shoals Of Herring   (22.19) Butlins Holiday Camps   (22.56) Jingle - Radio Caroline   (23.11) History Cycle, with Kate Bush’s England, My Lionheart:  Boudica, Athelstan & Alfred The Great, Battle of Hastings, Deposition of James II, The Glorious Revolution of 1688, The Good Friday Agreement   (30.52) Ralph McTell/England   (35.35) Excerpt from 1984 & Station ID - Newspeak   (35.54)  Horace Batchelor's Keynsham Radio Luxembourg Commercial   (36.34) The Keeler/Profumo/Ward Affair   (37.39) Mandy Rice-Davies/You Got What It Takes   (38.42) Janice Nicholls I'll Give It 5 (from Juke Box Jury)   (38.47) The Archers – Theme & Excerpt (1958 episode, ft Robert Mawdesley as Walter Gabriel)   (39.54) Theme from Time To Go Home   (40.17) Inside Anfield - Gerry & The Pacemakers/You'll Never Walk Alone, with Liverpool Football Club Fans   (42.58) Paul Cosgrave/John Clare's Poem I Am   (44.16) Dame Vera Lynn/There'll Always Be An England    (45.31) Sir Edward Elgar/Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, with A C Benson's words, Land of Hope and Glory, Last Night Of The Proms 2012 (BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Jiří Bělohlávek)   (47.03) Radio 4 Time Signal, Excerpt from the Shipping Forecast, and Sailing By (composer Ronald Binge, 1963)   (49.41) Lord Kenneth Clark, from the final episode of Civilisation (May 18, 1969)   (51.23) The Moody Blues/The Balance   (56.01) Pink Floyd/The Postwar Dream   (58.36) Radio 4 Close Down   (58.52) The Bells of York Minster (Reprise)   (59.14) John Ruskin Quotation There Is No Wealth But Life (reader, Paul Cosgrave) 

Dedications:  In memory of Viola Mary Cosgrave, Kevin Boyd, Geoffrey Ogden-Browne, Vincent Peter Petkevitch;  four true lights of England 
Special Thanks:  Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas

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Dr Who;   Tony Hancock;   Football;   Grumpy Old Men;   The Leveson Inquiry;   Dunkirk;   How To Be A Chap;   Brady, Hindley, Fred & Rosemary West;   Jimmy Savile;   The BBC

Introduction   (2.29) Denis Rice/The Evenlode (lyrics Hilaire Belloc;  piano, arrangement & vocal Denis Rice)  (04.09) BBC Radiophonic Workshop; Dr Who Theme; Delia Derbyshire on electronic sound  (05.17) Dr Who, The Execution of Leela (Louise Jameson, season 15, The Invasion Of Time)   (07.03) *Catherine Tate as ‘Nan’, The Ugly Baby  (09.37) The Clash/This Is England  (13.06) Tony Hancock, Face To Face, 1960  (17.09) William Blake - narrators Iain Sinclair, Melvyn Bragg, Peter Ackroyd  (19.58) Shirley Collins/The Unquiet Grave  (23.15) Bill & Ben, Flowerpot Men (from Cabbages)  (26.02) Ad - It's A Mobile  (26.28) Jingle - Radio Nord See International  (26.37) Football: Saturday 5.00pm Theme, Results; James Alexander Gordon Tribute (Jimmy Armfield, John Murray); Funeral & Tribute, Sir Bobby Robson, Durham Cathedral (Gary Lineker)  (30.46) Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy, Kevin Whately/The Blaydon Races (anthem of the north-east, arranged for Sir Bobby by Nail, Healy & Whately)  (34.43) Station ID - Somerset  (34.32) Adge Cutler & The Wurzels/Drink Up Thee Zoyder  (35.44) *Grumpy Old Men At Christmas (Geoffrey Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Andrew Marr, John Sergeant, Rick Stein, Arthur Smith, Elliott Gould, Rory McGrath, Will Self, Jeremy Clarkson, John O’Farrell, Tony Hawks)  (40.06) Henry Priestman/Old  (42.56) Brian Eno/Deep Blue Day  (44.04) The Leveson Inquiry:  Principal Witnesses, Kate McCann, Sally Dowler, Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson (questioning The Sun’s Piers Morgan), Heather Mills (Lady McCartney), JK Rowling, Sienna Miller, Steve Coogan, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Paxman, Charlotte Church, James & Rupert Murdoch  (52.05) Graham Parker & The Rumour/Nixon's Rules  (54.52) Ad - Babycham  (55.32) Antiques Roadshow: The Angel Of The North, by Antony Gormley  (58.42) Excerpt from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews)  

(1.00.14) Geoffrey Burgon/Brideshead Revisited Theme  (1.01.01) Excerpt from Dunkirk: A Sergeant's Story, a true account by Sgt Alfred Embleton of a week on Dunkirk beach (reader, Paul Cosgrave - full story, search Youtube)  (1.04.22) Clifford T Ward/A Day To Myself  (1.08.55) Captain Sir Tom Moore  (1.12.51) Station ID - Basil & Sybil Fawlty  (1.13.15) Gustav Temple, Editor, The Chap Magazine (ft Mr B)  (1.16.14) *Mr B/Damn It, It Feels Good To Be A Chap  (1.17.54) Paul Cosgrave/Musing by Anthony Trollope on The Way We Live Now   (1.18.58) *Ian Brady, Myra Hindley, Fred & Rose West, with Julian Bream/Lachrimae  (1.21.18) Jingle - Radio London  (1.21.39)   Ad - The Parker Lady (Penelope Keith)  (1.22.23) *The BBC:  Jimmy Savile, Bill Oddie, Andrew Gilligan, W1A intro & meeting  (1.32.55) Melvyn Bragg/English Into Space (1.34.38) Monty Python's Flying Circus/Woody Words  (1.35.49) David Attenborough  (1.37.08) Ray Davies/Is There Life After Breakfast

Dedications:   In memory of Viola Mary Cosgrave, Kevin Boyd, Geoffrey Ogden-Browne, Vincent Peter Petkevitch;  four true lights of England

Special Thanks: Anna Clark-Doyle, Louise Watson, Greg Bordas

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