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BBC World Service - World of Music
A town called Addis; a duo from Sardinia; a pop song from South Africa; and two classics from a bygone age.
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:41 pm Papa M  |
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BBC Radio 3 - World on 3
Mondays Nights at 11.15pm
Three DJs in a rota, with CG, Mary Ann Kennedy and Lopa Kothari taking two consecutive weeks each
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:58 am Charlie  |
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Links to other Radio and Websites, Downloading, Streaming, etc
It's a riot of podcasts and radio on the net with The Musical Map of the Middle East, Gondwana Sound and African Essence
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:34 pm Joe Cushley  |
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YouTube Recommendations
Happy birthdays to Linton Kwesi J, Salif K and Kenny R
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:23 pm Papa M  |
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MySpace Discoveries
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:59 am Tom McPhillips  |
| The Music Room |
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Sound of the World Forum
Questions, comments, criticisms and conundrums raised by listeners
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:12 pm nikki akinjinmi  |
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Gigs, Festivals, Club nights - news & reviews
Live in London, inc Chilli Fried and St Ethelberga's
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Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:46 pm Seb Merrick  |
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New releases - CD, DVD
albums of the year so far, according the forum contributors' star system
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:33 pm Jonathan E.  |
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Obituaries & Birthdays
birthdays in September:
Art Rupe (91), B.B.King (83), Cachao (80), Maurice el Médioni (80), Horace Silver (80), Lata Mangeshkar (79) Sonny Rollins (78), George Jones (77), Asha Bhosle (75), Leonard Cohen (74), Jerry Lee Lewis (73), Johnny Mathis (73), Ben E King (70), Bonga (66), U-Roy (66), Julio Iglesias (65), King Sunny Ade (64), Bryan Ferry (63), Gal Costa (63), Helen Shapiro (62), Loudon Wainwright III (62), Meat Loaf (61), Gloria Gaynor (59), Bruce Springsteen (59), Chrissie Hynde (57), Oliver Mtukudzi (56), Jocelyne Béroard (54), Cesar Rosas (54), Gloria Estafan (52), Arnaldo Antunes (48), Kazim Al Saher (47), Tracey Thorn (46), Jarvis Cocker (45), Moby (43), Lila Downs (40), Chango Spasiuk (40), Beyonce (27), Amy Winehouse (25), Katie Melua (24)
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Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:24 am Rob Hall  |
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Looking for an Echo
enquiries about half-remembered songs, records, etc
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:48 am Jarlath  |
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Singing in English
Allen Toussaint, Dylan, Damon Albarn
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:41 pm Gordon Moore  |
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Best of Everything and Anything
Who recommends what, for the perfect record collection, including best guitar solos, African records and singers with gravelly voices
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Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:14 pm CantSleepClownsWillGetMe  |
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Charlie's Compilation CDs
Sound of the World 2007
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:28 pm Gordon Moore  |
| Everything Else |
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Books
Rumba Rules - The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire by Bob W. White
Bringing It All Back Home, by Ian Daley
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Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:26 am Dayna  |
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Films
Summer Hours (L'Heure d'été) [yes]
Man on Wire [yes]
The Visitor [yes]
Couscous [some say no] + [some say yes]
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:38 pm David Flower  |
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Art, TV & anything else you can think of
The Seven Ages of Rock, BBC4/BBC1
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:55 pm pirkko  |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Exclusive, unprecedented: Gordon Neill asks the questions you were afraid even to think of, in The Sound of the World Interviews
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Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:18 pm Dayna  |
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This Sporting Life
On TV, in Films or Books, or the real thing
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Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:17 am joel  |
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Offshore Accounts (inc Travel)
Thoughts and reports from abroad
requests for travel advice
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:45 pm Hugh Weldon  |
| Website Procedures and Archive |
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Forum Decorum
Who are we, why are we here?
What's OK and what is not?
Moderators Charlie, Alan, Philip |
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:13 pm Charlie  |
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Archive of Discussion Topics
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:09 pm Jamie Renton  |
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BBC London - Saturday Night (and Sunday morning)
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:32 pm Dayna  |
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Radio 2: Without Frontiers
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Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:35 am Charlie  |
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Membership Registration & Questions about This Website
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Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:03 am Outerglobe Debbie Golt  |
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Howard's World Views
controversial commentary from our one-time regular columnist
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:42 pm howard male  |