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The Arts Desk Radio Show 7
Monday, 03 September 2012
The seventh radio show from theartsdesk features a wealth of eclectic music, from grime to Bach, while Joe Muggs and Peter Culshaw discuss everything from French café culture of... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 6
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Welcome to another show, in which Joe guides us around some of the weirder, smokier corners of the broad church of hip hop, and discussion returns to how far genre can stretch and where... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 5
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Peter has just come back from Lagos, so the first part of the show is a brief tour d’horizon of the dynamic Nigerian pop scene, featuring Asa, Tiwa Savage, 2Face, Flavour and D’Banj, the... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 4
Saturday, 16 June 2012
So here it is, our fourth show of new, rare, exclusive and peculiar music - as ever recorded at Red Bull Studios with Brendon Harding ably manning the machines. As ever, the show is vaguely... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 3
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
After a double set of live studio guests in our last show, it's just Joe and Peter this time, and thus a lot more music and discussion. Our intrepid explorers ponder whether there's anything new... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 2
Thursday, 03 May 2012
Welcome to our second show, brought to you again from the Red Bull Studio in London where it was recorded... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Welcome to theartsdesk's first radio show with Peter Culshaw and Joe Muggs, recorded with the extremely able help of Brendon Harding at Red Bull Studio London. In the course... Read more... |
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