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Protest Songs

Tom Robinson curates the listening choices of the 6 Music listeners.

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Sun 21 Oct 201818:00
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Music Played

  • Rage Against the Machine

    Killing In The Name

    • Epic.

  • Patti Smith

    People Have the Power

    • Arista.

  • Stiff Little Fingers

    Alternative Ulster

    • Castle.

  • Kendrick Lamar

    Alright

    • POLYDOR.

  • Robert Wyatt

    Shipbuilding

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • She Drew the Gun

    Poem

    • Skeleton Key Records.

  • Buffalo Springfield

    For What It's Worth

    • Buffalo Springfield.
    • Atlantic.

  • Nina Simone

    Mississippi Goddam

  • The Jam

    Going Underground

    • Polydor.

  • Kae Tempest

    Europe Is Lost

  • Billy Bragg

    Between the Wars

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Billie Holiday

    Strange Fruit

  • IDLES

    Divide And Conquer

  • The Specials

    Free Nelson Mandela

    • Now That's What I Call Music 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • Sinéad O’Connor

    Black Boys On Mopeds

  • Saul Williams

    List of Demands (Reparations)

  • ANOHNI

    4 Degrees

    • HOPELESSNESS.
    • Rough Trade.

  • Ezra Furman

    Body Was Made

    • Bella Union.

  • Tom Robinson

    Glad To Be Gay (Live at The 100 Club 2018)

  • John Lennon

    Gimme Some Truth

    • Parlophone.

  • Nadine Shah

    Out The Way

    • 1965 Records.

  • Marvin Gaye

    What's Going On

    • Tamla Motown.

  • Nena

    99 Red Balloons

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Willy Mason

    Oxygen (6 Music Session, 17 May 2007)

  • The Monks

    Monk Time

  • Sam Cooke

    A Change Is Gonna Come

    • Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music.
    • RCA.

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Oct 201818:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music

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