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A RadMac Nature Special (Escape with 6 Music)

Mark and Stuart celebrate the natural world with nature-themed music and guests including film composer Nainita Desai and nature writer Melissa Harrison.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast.

Today’s show is all about nature: from plants and wildlife to landscapes. Mark and Stuart play a selection of their favourite nature-inspired music and talk to special guests including film composer Nainita Desai and nature writer Melissa Harrison.

Today’s nature-themed playlist includes tracks from Minnie Ripperton, Pulp, Sparks, Bjork, Nick Cave and Gil-Scott Heron.

Also on the show, catch up on the best music and entertainment stories of the past week in ‘This Week In Music’.

Plus... regular features 'The Chain' - our world-famous list of over 8000 interconnected songs - and 'Sampled Underfoot' which explores the samples used in some of our favourite tracks.

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Last on

Sat 30 Jan 202107:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

    Nature Boy

    • Mute Records.

  • Fleet Foxes

    Sunblind

    • Anti- / Epitaph.

  • Friends Of Distinction

    Grazing In The Grass

    • ARIOLA.

  • Brian Eno

    Dunwich Beach

  • White Flowers

    You Caught Me

  • Björk

    Crystalline

    • One Little Indian.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

    • Virgin.

  • Kelsey Lu & Yves Tumor

    let all the poisons that lurk in the mud seep out (feat. Moses Boyd & Kelly Moran)

    • Hydroharmonia/No Tricks.

  • Gentle Giant

    Knots

    • Octopus.

  • Run The Jewels

    Legend Has It

    • Run The Jewels Inc.

  • Bow Wow Wow

    Go Wild In The Country

    • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
    • Global Television.

  • Burning Spear

    Man In The Hills

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    River Deep - Mountain High

    • The Best Of The Rock'n'Roll Years Vo.
    • BBC.

  • Pa Salieu

    Energy (feat. Mahalia)

    • Warner Records.

  • Pulp

    The Trees

    • Island.

  • Goldfrapp

    Hairy Trees

    • Black Cherry.

  • Peter Broderick

    Wild Food

    • ERASED TAPES.

  • William Orbit

    Water From A Vine Leaf

    • Water From A Vine Leaf.
    • Virgin Records.
    • 1.

  • Arlo Parks

    Caroline

    • Transgressive.

  • Julia Holter

    Sea Calls Me Home

    • DOMINO RECORDING CO LTD.

  • Martha and the Muffins

    Echo Beach

  • Doves

    Winter Hill

    • CD SINGLE.
    • HEAVENLY.
    • 1.

  • Hen Ogledd

    Space Golf

    • Domino Record Co.

  • Nainita Desai

    Beauty In The Detail

  • The Staves

    Satisfied

    • Atlantic.

  • Sparks

    Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth

    • Propaganda.
    • Island Masters.
    • 007.

  • Minnie Riperton

    Les Fleurs

    • Distinctive.

  • Grasscut

    Red Kite

  • Technicolour

    Goldfinch

  • Rosie Lowe

    Birdsong

    • Wolf Tone.

Broadcast

  • Sat 30 Jan 202107:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music