A quick glance around the schedules

[Lat-Literal]

Channel 4 - Unreported World - China's Pop Idols:

"Marcel Theroux explores the extraordinary world of China's music stars, inspired by hip-hop, punk and K-pop but working under increasing censorship and authoritarian government".

Broadcast yesterday, this was a much more interesting programme than one might have expected in that it showed how mainstream music in China actually operates, from boy and girl bands who are given lavish Hollywood lifestyles to sing songs overtly promoting communism and its values to hip-hop rappers, mainly undercover, on the urban fringes and a publicly respected middle aged punk rocker, latterly a punk poet, who lives in the middle of nowhere and records in his non soundproofed bar between thunderstorms as he hasn't the money for a studio and would now be imprisoned if he did anything more. I don't know if the programme will be repeated but it should be available on the C4 version of I-player.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I don't know if the programme will be repeated but it should be available on the C4 version of I-player.

It is (though you need to register, sign in etc):

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/on-demand/65524-009

[zola]

Worth catching this World Service programme on the history of the guitar. Far from comprehensive of course in 40 minutes but .....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0rw

[Lat-Literal]

It is (though you need to register, sign in etc):

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/u...mand/65524-009

Thanks ferney.

I think I did once but this new computer.....not good.......and there's so little on that channel ordinarily.

But then it does take commercials.

[Lat-Literal]

Worth catching this World Service programme on the history of the guitar. Far from comprehensive of course in 40 minutes but .....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0rw

Thank you - looks interesting.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think I did once but this new computer.....not good.......and there's so little on that channel ordinarily.

On Channel 4 itself, yes - but the various online "offshoots" can be a lot more interesting (Film 4, and the "Walter Presents" series, for example).

[johncorrigan]

Delighted to hear Mali's excellent Trio Da Kali introduced by Lucy Duran with Sean on 'In Tune' yesterday...and in the process I see Furrow Collective are on today...neat!

[johncorrigan]

Radio 6's DJ, recently heard on Songhoy Blues 'Sahara', Iggy Pop is having a couple of weeks away from the wheels of steel. So who to get in to sit in the Friday night seat in Iggy's place but The Unthanks. Nice looking playlist - some board faves in there - and they sound like they mean it, unlike a certain Friday night R3 presenter that I could mention.
Anyway, here's the link to them...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09h82dm

[Globaltruth]

Redemption Song by Bob Marley - latest Soul Music.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jvlnk

A whole programme could be made about this version :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZBaklS79Wc

[DracoM]

Delighted to hear Mali's excellent Trio Da Kali introduced by Lucy Duran with Sean on 'In Tune' yesterday...and in the process I see Furrow Collective are on today...neat!

[johncorrigan]

One of my all-time favourite short cartoons is Tom and Jerry's 'Zoot Cat'. I was thinking of it today while listening to a rather excellent programme on 4extra about Cab Calloway and his Hepster's Dictionary. Really interesting as poet Lemn Sissay interviewed relatives of Cab's, and gave a bit of insight into the language of 30s Harlem.
Dr Hepcat and the Hepster's Dictionary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mcmnl

[Globaltruth]

Thanks JC. Not listened yet, always loved Cab Calloway and to me the good Lord Buckley always seemed to have some evolutionary connection:

So knock me your lobes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksevaIflRnI

(bet W H Auden loved this next one...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSbR1cuTaHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0x5x8lyON8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d74DGKdIw5M

[johncorrigan]

Thanks JC. Not listened yet, always loved Cab Calloway and to me the good Lord Buckley always seemed to have some evolutionary connection:

So knock me your lobes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksevaIflRnI

(bet W H Auden loved this next one...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSbR1cuTaHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0x5x8lyON8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d74DGKdIw5M

Hadn't heard 'The Train' before, GT. Wild! Was it LB who came up with the expression 'Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger-poppin' Daddios', do you know?

On a totally different subject, since I mentioned Mark Coles somewhere, I was wondering what he was up to and he's got a programme on World Service celebrating 75th Birthday of Aretha Franklyn. It's in 'The Documentary' strand.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswd4w

[Globaltruth]

Hadn't heard 'The Train' before, GT. Wild! Was it LB who came up with the expression 'Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger-poppin' Daddios', do you know?

On a totally different subject, since I mentioned Mark Coles somewhere, I was wondering what he was up to and he's got a programme on World Service celebrating 75th Birthday of Aretha Franklyn. It's in 'The Documentary' strand.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswd4w

Yes, Lord B reworked Willie the Shake (as he called him) thus:
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
"Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes"



Mark Coles has done the odd serious bit of work on r4 too. Good to hear he's doing some work that he's well qualified for.

[Lat-Literal]

Quiz question:

Which seven languages did Slim Gaillard speak?

Answer - English, Spanish, German, Greek, Arabic, Armenian and Vout-O-Reenee.

(But he only wrote a dictionary for one of them)