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Fresh new music and amazing classics for Friday

All this week Chris celebrates Roald Dahl's stories by creating soundtracks to five of his most famous books.

There'll also be the 5.15 request, another pick from this week's 5 Before 6 DJ and Friday's Awesome Segue at 6.30.

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Fri 15 Sep 201705:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Fall

    Totally Wired

    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Björk

    The Gate

    • One Little Indian Ltd.

  • The Horrors

    Something To Remember Me By

    • Wolftone.

  • Hüsker Dü

    Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely

  • Bicep

    Glue

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Paul Smith

    North Atlantic Drift

  • Tiny Leaves

    You'll Be Okay (Equador Reworked)

  • LCD Soundsystem

    Emotional Haircut

    • Columbia.

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain

    Sidewalking

    • 21 SINGLES 1984-1998.
    • Reprise.

  • Gorillaz

    Strobelite (feat. Peven Everett)

    • Humanz.
    • Parlaphone.

  • Leftfield

    Head And Shoulders (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2015)

  • The Stone Roses

    I Am the Resurrection

    • Silvertone.

  • Lionrock

    Rude Boy Rock

    • Concrete.

  • Moses Sumney

    Quarrel

    • Single.
    • Jagjaguwar.

  • MJ Cole

    Sincere

    • TALKIN' LOUD.

  • Cold Specks

    Wild Card

    • Arts & Crafts.

  • Sampha

    (No One Knows Me) Like The Piano (Mercury Music Prize 2017)

  • Pretty Robotic

    Who We Are

  • ANOHNI and the Johnsons

    Hope There's Someone

    • I Am a Bird Now.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 001.

  • M People

    One Night In Heaven

    • The Best Of M People.
    • BMG.

  • Placebo

    Pure Morning

    • Columbia.

  • Self Esteem

    Your Wife

    • Kick & Clap.

  • The National

    Nobody Else Will Be There

    • 4AD.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Marvellous

    • Columbia.

Chris asked his Early Show listeners to create a 6 Music soundtrack for Roald Dahl's 'George's Marvellous Medicine':

1. Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine

2. Bob Marley – Stir It Up

3. Cream – Strange Brew

4. Public Service Broadcasting – Waltz For George

5. Supergrass – Mansize Rooster

6. The Wonder Stuff – Size Of A Cow

7. Salad – Drink The Elixir

8. Elbow - The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver

9. Radiohead – How To Disappear Completely

10. The Lightning Seeds – Marvellous

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Sep 201705:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music