Alex Gallacher

A new mix from our Lost in Transmission Series featuring Karima Walker, Human Behavior, Dan Blakeslee, Robert Sunday, Alex Rex, HMS Ginafore, Harrow Fair, Dirtwire, Mount Eerie, Allred & Broderick and more.

Lost in Transmission No. 26 is filled with some familiar names: Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan alongside the likes of The Beta Band, White Fence, Cate Le Bon, The Wave Pictures, Courtney Barnett, Mama Rosin and Yorkston/Thorne/Khan.

The latest in our Lost in Transmission Series features new music from Lisa Knapp, Brigid Mae Power, Sam Amidon, Holy Modal Rounders, Toby Hay, David Allred, Peter Broderick and more.

Our latest mix in our Lost in Transmission series is here. Featuring the lesser well known – Anna Pancaldi, Ida Wenøe, Adaya, Thom Ashworth, Serafyn and The Brother Brothers. To the likes of Éilís Kennedy and a welcome return from The Straw Bear Band and more.

A new eclectic mix featuring new tracks from Luke Daniels, Emma Gatrill, Yorkston Thorne Khan as well as music from Ursina, Nadine Khouri, Adam Torres, Sarah Olivier, Suzanne Schmid, Keto, Various Guises and more.

For Winter Solstice, Michael Tanner treats us to a collection of hymns, carols, folk standards and field-recordings from the past 800 years. Whether it’s the pointed, bird-like quality of Jean Ritchie’s bare-branch voice or the hollow, reverent filigree of Dolly Collins portative organ, something about their use of minimalism perfectly captures the stark landscape, stripped of colour and commotion.

Whilst not a full-on festive offering, our latest mix does contain some festive cheer from Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle, Tim Laycock, Richard Farina With Blind Boy Grunt (better known as Bob Dylan) & Eric Von Schmidt, and some top-notch wassailing from John Kirkpatrick. Plus classics from the likes of John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Hamish Imlach and Richard Thompson and some great new music and a wee delve into Topic …

It’s a pretty eclectic mix this week, within, it is upbeat, crazy, chaotic, rebellious, mellow and unexpected. The tunes are a response recent events.

To mark the release of her new Four Songs EP on Fledgling Records, Anne Briggs talks to Folk Radio UK in a rare and in-depth interview in which she recalls the folk scene of the sixties and the time she spent with the travelling community.

We talk to Hanna Tuulikki about her new project ‘Away with the Birds’ which explores the mimesis of birds in Gaelic song which will be performed on the Isle of Canna this month.

An eclectic new Mix, high powered in places, a little mad in others, featuring: King Creosote, Sylvan Esso, Robert Plant, Ichi, Emma Tricca, Meic Stevens & more.

Listen to our new mix that celebrates Doc Watson and the music of the mountains: a celebration of the music and the people.