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theartsdesk Radio Show 15
Saturday, 02 July 2016
Another splendidly eclectic globalist radio show hosted by Peter Culshaw. The show's featured album of the month is the impeccable The Woman at The End Of The World by... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 14
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Another of Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic global radio shows. Star of this month's show is the Trinidadian Calypso Queen Calypso Rose, whose new album Far From Home, to be... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 13
Friday, 25 March 2016
Another peripatetic mix of the latest global sounds and reissues from theartsdesk’s resident world music fanatic Peter Culshaw. The... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show: Bowie Tribute
Saturday, 16 January 2016
That purveyor of everything from crazy cosmic jive and plastic soul to epic disco and elegant Berlin ambient gloom made a hell of an exit last week. His last release,... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 11
Saturday, 07 November 2015
Peter Culshaw’s latest global round-up of new music and reissues features the usual spendidly earbending eclectic selection. There’s 1960s Indian lounge, 1970s Senegalese music unearthed by the... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 10
Saturday, 12 September 2015
Listen to the latest edition of Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic round-up of some recent hot global music releases, including some re-releases of old classics and yet-to-be unleashed tracks including a... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 9
Saturday, 23 May 2015
Been a while since you checked out the best and latest world music releases? theartsdesk’s global music expert Peter Culshaw's selects the best music released in the last month or so.... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: Schumann Quartet
Sunday, 22 February 2015
The brothers Erik, Ken, and Mark Schumann founded the Schumann Quartet in 2007 and it might well have been an all-family affair had the cellist’s twin sister chosen to switch from violin to viola... Read more... |
The New Arts Desk Radio Show 8
Friday, 14 November 2014
Peter and Joe are back on MeatTransmission, and as ever their selection goes "Beyond Global" with quite a few voyages out of the world into territories cosmic, ambient and generally out there -... Read more... |
The New Arts Desk Radio Show 7
Saturday, 04 October 2014
After something of a schedule disruption due to the summer festival season (although watch out for some specials recorded over that period), Peter and Joe are back refreshed, renewed and ready to... Read more... |
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