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45 minutes of words and music. You'll be doing 30% of the work. It will not be everybody’s cup of tea, but then who wants to be making tea for everybody.

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    • Jun 1, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 38m AVG DURATION
    • 131 EPISODES


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    Episode 151: BOBCAST JUNE 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 44:02


    'I can stand the heat'Generationals, Nikki Giovanni, Mathilda Santing, Joy Crookes, Isoa Tomita, Sean O'Hagan, Wings, Riziero Ortolani, Gabriels, Roy Orbison, Ennio Morricone, Stuart Moxham, The Stylistics, Yoko Kanno, The Boswell Sisters

    Episode 150: BOBCAST MAY 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 44:04


    'It must be so'Sérgio Mendes, George Carlin, Maighread & Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Viviane Audet, Martin Parr, Willy Chirino, Sly & The Family Stone, Julia Galef, Zager & Evans, Lisa O'Neil, Kazou Ishiguro, David Byrne & Balanescu Quartet, Lynne Boddy, Rubén González

    Episode 149: BOBCAST APL 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 43:49


    'When you're not on heroin' Seamus O'Rourke, Zadie Smith, Malcolm Gladwell 

    Episode 148: BOBCAST MAR 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2025 45:23


    'When is a meal not a meal?'Stuart Moxham, Spike Milligan, Devo, The Upsetters, Paddy McAloon, The Delines, Lloyd Cole & Jill Sobule, Aztec Camera

    Episode 147: BOBCAST FEB 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 45:07


    'OK, where next?'Brian Eno, Sean O'Hagan, Donald Hoffman, African Stone.

    Episode 146: BOBCAST JAN 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2025 41:18


    'That view is tremendous'NASA, The Flaming Lips, Bonny Light Horseman, Spike Milligan, Caterina Caselli, Prefab Sprout, Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen, Joy Crookes, Elaine Kim, Bonnie Guitar, Elaine Stritch, Mercury Rev

    Episode 145: BOBCAST DEC 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 44:55


    'Social Media & Religion & Whatever'The Joubert Singers, Tom Nichols, Baileys Nervous Kats, Pokey LaFarge, Malgorzata Fajkowska, Peter Gunn, Lily Kershaw, Tom Dae & The High Tensions, Old Man Saxon, Michael Kiwanuka, Don Drummond, Paul Quinn & The Independent Group, Johnny Blue, Ernest Ranglin & Selected Group, Les Mamans Du Congo & Rrobin, The Floresents, Lloyd Cole, The Little Shadows

    Episode 144: BOBCAST NOV 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 43:13


    'I don't bend the rules'Terri Gross, David Bowie, Joy Crookes, Daniel Kitson, Mark Beer, Aaron Sorkin, The High Llamas, Sean O'Hagan, James, Robert Wyatt, Mercury Rev, Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti, Werner Herzog, The Monkees, Roddy Frame, The Roches

    Episode 143: BOBCAST OCT 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2024 43:58


    'An unending list' Malcolm Gladwell, K.D. Lang, Banda El Recodo De Don Cruz Lizárraga, David Bowie, The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir, Los De Abajo, Joy Crookes, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ismo, Sean O'Hagan, The Atlantics, David Byrne, Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti

    Episode 142: BOBCAST SEP 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 44:56


    'It hasn't rained for six days'Lloyd Cole, Stuart Moxham, Virginia Astley, Selena Gomez, Lee Hazlewood, The Fall, Les Mamans du Congo & Rrobin, Roddy Frame, Tindersticks

    Episode 141: BOBCAST AUG 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2024 44:20


    'What does 'knowing' mean?'Sugata Mitra, Jonathan Richman, Brian Eno, Zadie Smith, Rich Hall, Amor Towles 

    Episode 140: BOBCAST JULY 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 45:28


    'Are you sure?' - 'Yep!'Young Marble Giants, Matthew Syed, Rufus Wainwright & David Byrne, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Marshall McLuhan, Generationals, Fin Taylor, The Lost Brothers, George Zimbel, The Grey Sisters, Etta James, Jimmie Rodgers, Eugene Mirman, The Jaynetts, Jeffrey Martin, Davi Não Vê Estrelas, The Fatima Mansions, Maya Angelou

    Episode 139: BOBCAST JUNE 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2024 45:05


    'Review everything we do'Electronic, Richard Rorty, Ludovico Einaudi, Rob Auton, Eliza Doolittle, Rufus Hound, Vince.Guaraldi, The Gravity Drive, Fryars, The Teen Teens, Roddy Doyle, Robert Franks, The Secret Sisters, Mathilde Santing, Saint Etienne, Rita Dove, Philip Glass, Daniel Dennett, Debbie Reynolds, Malcolm McLaren, The Boswell Sisters, Lucinda Williams, Gregory Isaacs, David Byrne, Sheldon Allman, Sarah Jones.

    Episode 138: BOBCAST MAY 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 44:33


    'A good story sticks'The High Llamas, Adam Grant, Nadiya Hussain, Thalia Wheatley, Lloyd Cole

    Episode 137: BOBCAST APL 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2024 45:00


    'The value of nothing' Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Edward L. Deci, Blindboy Boatclub, Yoko Kanno, The Necks, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adam Bloom

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    Episode 136: BOBCAST - MAR 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 45:30


    'Wisdom in motion'Jerskin Fendrix,  Maggie Jackson, Brian Klaas, Patrick Watson, David Byrne, High Llamas, New Radicals, Chris Packham, John Lloyd, Mathilde Santing, James Acaster

    Episode 135: BOBCAST FEB 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2024 44:55


    'One day at a time'Ken Loach, Lady Wray, Roddy Doyle, Matthew Herbert, David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, Barrington Levy, Champion Doug Veitch, Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Prefab Sprout, Nina Simone, The Kane Gang, Lord Huron, Mathilde Santing

    Episode 134: BOBCAST JAN 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 45:44


    'Take spoil, make style'Duke Ellington feat. Ivie Anderson, Jerry Seinfeld, Arturo Stalteri, Ike Ufomadu, David Byrne, Eugene Mirman, Moondog, Mitch Alborn, Everything But The Girl, David Bowie, Martin Parr, Roddy Doyle, Labi Siffre, Tom Waits, Matt Taibi, Maggie & Terre Roche, John Green, Yoko Kanno, Roddy Frame, Malcom Gladwell, Dinah Lee

    Episode 133: BOBCAST DEC 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 45:09


    'The very least you can do'David Greenberger, Hikaru Hayashi, David Byrne, Axel Krygier, Prefab Sprout, Roddy Doyle, Stevie Wonder, Young Marble Giants, DJ Yoda (Double Dee & Steinski Remix), David Bowie, Zadie Smith, Kid Loco, Adam Bloom, Perez Prado, Maggie & Terre Roche

    Episode 132: BOBCAST NOV 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 44:11


    'Being human being'Rory O'Neill,  Billie Holiday, David Byrne, Camille, Florence Pugh, Terri Gross

    Episode 131: BOBCAST OCT 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2023 44:58


    'Birds and a white light' Brian Eno, Louis MacNeice, Kutiman, Chloé Lexia Worthington, Cleo Sol, Susan Orlean, Case, Lang & Veirs, Billy Stewart, La Chorale Des Enfants De L'Opera De Paris, Portishead, Rosinha De Valencia, The Roches

    Episode 130: BOBCAST SEP 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 44:29


    'The effect rather than the process'David Bowie, Scroobius Pip, Tok Tok Tok, David Attenborough, Glen Baxter, Jaimie Branch, Steven Wright, Amanda Palmer, Augustus Pablo, Paul Chowdhry, Yves Klein Blue, Susan Orlean, Peggy Seeger, Albert Pla, Tom Waits, Vanessa Paradis, Young Marble Giants

    Episode 129: BOBCAST AUG 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 44:58


    'An elephant and a dove'Ira Glass, David Byrne, Ennio Morricone, Joni Mitchell, Susan Orlean, Axel Krygier, Martin Parr, Four Tet, Erol Josue, Hank Willis Thomas, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Radcliffe Bailey, Air, Roddy Frame, Ed Welch, Yoko Kanno, Brian Eno, Kerry James Marshall, The Divine Comedy, DAFNE, The Lemon Twigs, Nina Simone

    Episode 128: BOBCAST JULY 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2023 45:41


    'Too much novelty'Riziero Ortolani, Winifred Galagher, Dixie Kwankwa, Alport Astazio & The Kwana Moto Band, Caterina Caselli, Ray Perez y Sus Kenya, Benito Nava, Chang Loo, Bechuanaland Boys, Robert Wyatt, Monn Keys, Las Chics, The Grey Sisters, Helge & Rune, The Clinkers, Los Wawanco, D.D.E., Pedro Luis Ferrer, Los 4 Planetas, Paco Suárez, St. Vincent, The Platters, Antonio Adolfo E A Brazuca, Cecilia Todd, Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band, The Green Arrows, St Joseph's Maori Girls Choir

    Episode 127: BOBCAST JUNE 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2023 45:02


    'What they like for dinner'Iggy Pop, Case, Lang, Veirs, Tracey Shors, Ellý Vilhjálmsdóttir, Fred again.., Valerie Kaur, The Beaters, Roddy Frame, Mick Lynch, Caetano, Moreno, Zeca, Tom, Richard Hawley, Kirchin Band, Laura Veirs, Petros Mtambo, Mal Waldron, The Roches, Hljómsveit Ingimars Eydal, Vladimir Cosma, Dixie Kwankwa, Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band

    Episode 126: BOBCAST MAY 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2023 44:40


    'I don't actually have to know how to make a bus'Mahalia Jackson, Lyra McKee, Susan Carnicero, Ennio Morricone, Ha-Joon Chang, Spike Milligan, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Riziero Ortolani, Brian Eno, Can, Ed Welch, Paul Simon, Harmonia, Scritti Politti, Orkestra Obsolete, The Modern Lovers

    Episode 125: BOBCAST APL 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 45:00


    '….depending'Zadie Smith, Nina Simone, Yoko Kanno, Iris Dement, Paul Simon, Villagers, Kate Tempest, David Byrne, Prefab Sprout, Misty Miller, Roddy Frame, Tom Waits, Laurika Rauch, Loudon Wainwright III, 

    Episode 124: BOBCAST MAR 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2023 49:13


    'Weird relationships'Sally Rooney, Roddy Frame, Arturo Stalteri

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    Episode 123: The 'You and Me' session by Stuart Moxham

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2023 37:11


    In 2017 Stuart Moxham invited Debbie Pritchard into his recording studio to duet on a new song he'd written, titled 'You and Me'.This documentary recording not only takes us inside the studio to witness them working on the recording, we also hear Stuart planning, creating and reflecting on the session.

    Episode 122: BOBCAST FEB 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2023 40:25


    'And they don't like it'Yoko Kano feat Kiyo, Brian Eno, Jean Ashworth, David Byrne, Daniel Kahneman, Gretchen H. Gerzina, James T. Green, Laurie Anderson

    Episode 121: BOBCAST JAN 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2022 45:51


    'It's never going to stop being interesting'Brian Eno, Matthew Herbert, Carter Burwell

    Episode 120: BOBCAST DEC 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2022 45:00


    'I don't know if there's a story here, but I want there to be'Everyone, Everywhere, Everywhen 

    Episode 119: BOBCAST NOV 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2022 45:50


    'About 46.9%'Adam Curtis, Stuart Moxham, John Pilger, O.S.T., Queen Bee, The Bible, Brian Eno, Souad Massi, Gabriels, Kyu Sakamoto, The Triffids, Velly Joonas, Prefab Sprout, Alex Stone

    Episode 118: BOBCAST OCT 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2022 43:17


    'Lousy values' Les Mamans du Congo, Maria Kalman, Insides, Alan Moore, Branko Mataja, James Rebanks, Python Lee Jackson, Clara Nunes, David Byrne, Prefab Sprout, Brian Eno, Caetano Veloso, David Hockney, Austin McCoy & Frankie Ervin, Nando Cordel & Amelinha, Ben Calhoun

    Episode 117: BOBCAST SEP 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2022 45:11


    'The best we've ever managed'    Zadie Smith, C. Thi Nguyen, Joachim Horsley, Bruce Mau, Watkins Family Hour, Goede Hoop Marimba Band, Los Viajeros Siderales, David Byrne, Nutty Squirrels, Alan Moore, Johnny Mercer, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, Fran Lebowitz, Devo, Stewart Lee, Nina Simone, Double Dee & Steinski

    Episode 116: BOBCAST AUG 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2022 41:25


    'Kinder surprise'Hannah Gadsby, Home Free feat. Don McLean, John Koenig, Ennio Morricone, Malcolm Gladwell, Zadie Smith, The High Llamas, Al Letson, Jade Bird, Papa Levi, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tom Waits, Rebel MC & Dennis Brown, James Rebanks,

    Episode 115: BOBCAST JULY 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 45:42


    'I wasn't present in anything'The Delines, Zadie Smith, Joy Crookes, Jeffery Robinson, Rone, Nina Simone, Laurie Anderson, Usha Iyer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, James Acaster, Virginia Astley, Cool Breeze, Maisey & Lennon, Montaigne & David Byrne, The Secret Sisters

    Episode 114: BOBCAST JUNE 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 44:37


    'Hello, I'm lying'Jack Monroe,  Laurie Anderson,  Bulldog Breaks,  Steven Pinker,  Virginia Astley,  James Rebanks,  Zadie Smith.

    Episode 113: BOBCAST MAY 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2022 44:12


    'Take your crayons away for a week'Johann Hari, Barrington Levy, Gina Ekiss, High Llamas, Dan Jurafsky, Wizzard, Otis Redding, Faye Webster, Steinski, Nina Simone, Billy Paul, Camila Cabello feat. Willow, Don McLean

    Episode 112: BOBCAST APL 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2022 45:01


    'How are you feeling?'Dee Dee Sharp,George Saunders, Brian Eno, Brené Brown, Wilma Vritra, Mindy Alper, Marc Brackett, The Fall, Lolo Zouaï, David Byrne, Stewart Lee, Jackie De Shannon, Vivek Murthy, Will Chase & Maisy Stella, Virginia Astley, Nat Gonella & His Georgians, John Simpson, Nina Simone, Scritti Politti

    Episode 111: BOBCAST MAR 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2022 44:30


    'A cathedral turned into a toy shop'The Blues Busters, Walter Mosley. David Byrne, Philippa Perry, NozL, Old Man Saxon, Julian Abel, Ibeyi, Patience & Prudence, Dean Wareham, Slim Gaillard, Carol King, Scritti Politti, Mathilde Santing, The The,  Paul Timlett

    Episode 110: BOBCAST FEB 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2022 46:11


    'Endlessly absorbing'Stevie Wonder, Andy Norman, Brian Eno, Rosa Passos, India Arie, Michael Patrick Lynch, Elis Regina, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Anya Marina, Billie Holiday, Joyce, Joy Crookes, Art Garfunkel, Derek DelGaudio, Arlo Parks

    Episode 109: BOBCAST JAN 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2021 45:47


    'Some sort of epiphany'Jacquy Pfeiffer, Joy Crookes, Isabell Allende, Tindersticks, Mathilde Santing, Donald Hoffman, Pokey LaFarge, Robert Burton, Jerry Seinfeld, Tommy Tiernan, Saint Etienne, Double Dee & Steinski, Gregory Isaacs, Sheldon Allman, Edwyn Collins, The Bathers, Andy Kaufman, The Roches

    Episode 108: BOBCAST DEC 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2021 47:15


    'And came across a bear'  Jane Goodall, Eric Winstone, David McRanet, Kēpa, Sam Browne, Sarah Gimbel, Henry Hall, Jonas Kaplan, Jack Hylton, Ronnie Munro, Nat Gonella, Lou Preager, Ambrose, Frances Day, Richard Osman

    Episode 106: BOBCAST NOV 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2021 43:17


    'There isn't an outside'  Brian Eno, Nino Rota, Sly & The Family Stone, Gregory Crewdson, Inés Adam, Roddy Doyle, Bill Callahan, Bonnie Prince Billy, Sean O'Hagan, Puja Patel & Jeremy Larson, Nina Simone, David Eagleman, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Kasey Musgraves, Stuart Moxham, Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Joni James, Bonnie Guitar, Katy J Pearson, Yoko Kanno, Stevie Wonder

    Episode 105: BOBCAST OCT 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2021 43:31


    'Draining the 99 per cent'  Nick Hayes, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Bill Murray, Los Viajeros Siderales, Rachel Clarke, The Joubert Singers, Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra, George Saunders, Roddy Frame, Sverre Gjørvad, Werner Herzog, Leah Ray & Phil Harris Orchestra, Bill Evans, Joe Dolan, Paddy McAloon, Nina Simone, René Aubry, Prefab Sprout, Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri, Talking Heads, Mike Boo, Robert Wyatt

    Episode 104: BOBCAST SEP 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2021 43:32


    'The best possible day now'  Virginia Astley, Atul Gawande, Cristobal Tapia de Veer

    Episode 103: BOBCAST AUG 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2021 45:36


    'KFC for the soul'  Toni Morrison, Miles Davis, Johann Hari, Shemekia Copeland, The Seatbelts, Irma Thomas, David Boulter, Ricki Rucker & Mike Boo, Salman Rushdie, Roberto Murolo, The Marvelettes, Sudden Sway, NozL, Roddy Doyle, Bill Evans

    Episode 102: BOBCAST JULY 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 46:17


    'The one who smiled back' Jane Baker, George Saunders, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ludovico Einaudi, Prefab Sprout, Gregory Porter, David Byrne, John Lasalle Quartet, Nat Gonella and his New Georgians, Brian Eno, Angelina Jordan, Shane O'Mara, Shirley Horn, Tom Waits, Tommy Tiernan, Sunset Gun, Maurice Chevalier, Wolf Alice, Karen Dalton, Young Marble Giants

    Episode 101: BOBCAST JUNE 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2021 46:13


    '18 and very promising'The Sharks & the Federal Studio Orchestra, Christopher Hampton, Milt Hinton, George Saunders, Beverley Williams, David Sedaris, Nina Simone, David Cheal, Bonnie Guitar, Sheldon Allman, Stephen Sondheim, Lily Kershaw, Eleanor Tiernan, Connie Francis, Malcolm Gladwell, The Teen Teens, Samm Henshaw, Debbie Reynolds, Mark Rothko, Susan Orlean, Julie London, The Secret Sisters

    Episode 100: BOBCAST MAY 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2021 43:32


    'Do something beautiful'Eric Morris & Buster's Group, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Nuala O'Faolain, The Old 97s, Stewart Lee, George Saunders, Milder PS, Sam Shepard, Nina Simone, David Byrne & Brian Eno, Nick Drake, Roberto Fonseca, Steven Wright, Richard Linklater.

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