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With Tom Dyckhoff in conversation

Lauren Laverne talks to historian and writer Tom Dyckhoff about his book The Age of Spectacle: Adventures in Architecture and the 21st-Century City.

Lauren talks to the historian, writer and broadcaster about his book 'The Age of Spectacle'. It tells the story of how architecture became obsessed with the flashy & monumental and Tom will explain how we all have to live with the consequences.

Lauren also plays out one listener's Biorhythms, there's more new music for our Just Added playlist, a Headphones Moment and all the usual unusual music.

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Last on

Tue 25 Apr 201710:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • David Bowie

    Fame

    • EMI.

  • Feist

    Century (feat. Jarvis Cocker)

    • Polydor.

  • Girlhood

    Say It

  • Queen Latifah & De La Soul

    Mamma Gave Birth To The Soul Children

    • All Hail the Queen.
    • Tommy Boy.
    • 2.

  • Sylvan Esso

    Die Young

    • Loma Vista Recordings.

  • North Downs

    Plastic Clouds

  • Soul II Soul

    Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (feat. Caron Wheeler)

  • Midlake

    Roscoe

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Bella Union.

  • alt‐J

    In Cold Blood

    • Infectious Music.

  • Extrawelt

    Soopertrack

  • Nick Drake

    River Man

    • ISLAND.

  • Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek

    End Titles (Sy's Theme)

  • LoneLady

    Groove It Out

    • Warp Records.

  • Maxïmo Park

    Get High (No I Don't)

    • Risk To Exist.
    • Daylighting/Cooking Vinyl.

  • Wesley Gonzalez

    I Am A Telescope

  • Jane Weaver

    Slow Motion

    • Fire Records.

  • Idris Muhammad

    Could Heaven Ever Be Like This

    • The Best Of.
    • Cherry Red.

  • Sonny & Cher

    The Beat Goes On

  • Ride

    Leave Them All Behind

    • Ignition Musik.

  • Loyle Carner

    Ain't Nothing Changed

    • AMF Records.

  • Tissø Lake

    The Mist On the Lake

    • Paths to the Foss.
    • itlan.

  • Gil Scott‐Heron

    New York is Killing Me

    • XL.

  • Songhoy Blues

    Bamako

    • Resistance.
    • Transgressive Records.

  • Steve Mason

    Lost and Found

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DOUBLE SIX.
    • 1.

  • She Drew the Gun

    No Hole In My Head

    • Skeleton Key Records.

  • Depeche Mode

    Just Can't Get Enough

    • Me Without You O.S.T. - Various.
    • Columbia.

  • Amber Arcades

    It Changes

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Guru

    Respect the Architect (feat. Bahamadia)

  • Joe Goddard

    Children

    • Electric Lines.
    • Greco-Roman/ Domino.

  • Amadou & Mariam

    Masiteladi

    • CD SINGLE.
    • BECAUSE MUSIC.
    • 1.

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Progress (feat. Tracyanne Campbell)

    • Play It Again Sam.

  • Radiohead

    Burn The Witch

    • XL Recordings.

  • Zola Blood

    Play Out

    • Infinite Games.
    • white.

  • Röyksopp

    Eple

    • WALL OF SOUND RECORDINGS.

  • The Districts

    Ordinary Day

    • Fat Possum.

  • DEVO

    Through Being Cool

    • The Best Of.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 25 Apr 201710:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music