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6 Music Fight Club: Simon Armitage vs Jackie Kay

Ahead of National Poetry Day, poets Simon Armitage and Jackie Kay battle it out in a 6 Music Fight Club. Who wins? YOU decide!

Ahead of National Poetry Day, poets Simon Armitage and Jackie Kay battle it out in a 6 Music Fight Club. Who wins? YOU decide!

Plus, Craig introduces us to the next member of his Class of 2025, celebrating the best in up-and-coming spoken-word talent.

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Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Wed 1 Oct 202513:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Jurassic 5

    Concrete Schoolyard

    • Pias.

  • Princess Nokia

    Blue Velvet

    • Artist House.

  • Wu-Tang Clan

    Gravel Pit

    • LOUD.

  • Fatboy Slim

    Weapon Of Choice (feat. Bootsy Collins)

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Skint Records.
    • 6.

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

    • Capitol.

  • The Last Dinner Party

    The Scythe

    • Island.

  • E-Dancer

    Detroit (feat. DJ Minx)

    • KMS Records.

  • Bob Dylan

    Subterranean Homesick Blues

    • CBS.

  • Michael Marra

    Beefhearts and Bones (Live at the Bonner Hall)

    • High Sobriety (Live at the Bonner Hall).
    • Inner City Sound Records.

  • Upchuck

    Tired

    • Domino.

  • Poliça

    Dark Star

    • Memphis Industries.

  • shame

    Spartak

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Peggy Seeger

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    • Teleology.
    • Red Grape Records Ltd.
    • 04.

  • Kathryn Joseph

    From When I Wake The Want Is

    • from when i wake the want is.
    • Rock Action Records.
    • 1.

  • NewDad

    Everything I Wanted

    • Fair Youth.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

  • Run‐D.M.C.

    Run's House

    • Tougher Than Leather.
    • Profile Records.

  • Little Simz

    Don't Leave Too Soon

    • Netflix.

  • Peggy Lee

    Is That All There Is?

    • Is That All There Is? (Expanded Edition).
    • CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92).
    • 1.

  • Robert Wyatt

    Pigs...(in There)

    • EPs.
    • Domino Recording Co.
    • 9.

  • Saint Etienne

    Take Me To The Pilot

    • Heavenly.

  • Kings of Leon

    Molly's Chambers

    • Handmedownrecords.

  • Alabama Shakes

    Another Life

    • Island.

  • Skullcrusher

    Living

    • And Your Song Is Like A Circle.
    • Dirty Hit.

  • The Damned

    Love Song

    • Big Beat.

  • The Heartbreakers

    Chinese Rocks

    • Jungle Records.

  • Sex Pistols

    EMI

    • VIRGIN.

  • Gurriers

    Erasure

    • No Filter.

  • Linda Thompson

    Sometimes It Happens

    • FLEDG'LING RECORDS.

  • Gloria Jones

    Tainted Love

    • Rude Boy Arrival.
    • TELSTAR.

  • Geese

    100 Horses

    • Partisan.

  • James Young

    You've Really Caught The Sun

  • Idlewild

    Like I Had Before

    • V2 Records Benelux.

  • Joy Crookes

    Forever

    • Juniper.
    • Insanity.

  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

    American Girl

    • MCA.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Oct 202513:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music