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The Finest Funk & Soul Tune of 2025

It’s been another big year for funk and soul, and Craig Charles is wrapping it up in style with ‘The Finest Funk & Soul Tunes of 2025’.

It’s been another big year for funk and soul, and Craig Charles is wrapping it up in style with ‘The Finest Funk & Soul Tunes of 2025’.
Across three hours, Craig handpicks the tracks that defined his year, the ones that brought the groove, the soul and the energy to Saturday nights.
Expect standout moments from rising stars and familiar favourites, from deep funk to modern soul, disco, and beyond.
There’ll be floor-fillers, slow burners, and a few tunes that stopped him in his tracks, all celebrating the sound of 2025 in true Funk and Soul Show style.

Produced by Audio Always in Salford for BBC Radio 6 Music

3 hours

Last on

Sat 13 Dec 202518:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Milk

    I Need Your Love

    • Self Released.

  • Eva Lazarus

    Wish I Didn't Miss You

    • Nice Up Records.

  • The James Taylor Quartet

    Guiding Light

    • Acid Jazz Records.

  • Maceo Parker

    Homeboy (Skeewiff Remix)

    • Dial MacEo.
    • Esc Records.
    • 1.

  • Steely Dan

    Peg (Smoove Multitrack Rework)

    • Multitrack Reworks.

  • Lack of Afro

    Make It Shine (feat. Greg Blackman)

    • Bastion Music Group.

  • The Flying Hats

    Autumn Sun

    • ATA Records.

  • Ben l’Oncle Soul

    I Got Home

    • Enchanté.

  • BDQ

    Beggin'

    • BDQ Records.

  • Say She She

    Under The Sun

    • drink sum wtr.

  • Night Owls

    Hercules (feat. Alex Désert & The Lions)

    • F Spot Records.

  • Body And Soul

    In The Beginning

    • Rocafort Records.

  • Joseph Malik

    Trouble With A Capital T (Shaka Loves You Remix)

    • Ramrock Red.

  • Original Gravity All Stars

    Get Ready To Rumble

    • Original Gravity.

  • Roslyn & Charles

    God Is

    • Miles Away Records.

  • The Allergies

    Coming On Strong

    • Jalapeno Records.

  • Voodoocuts

    Yes You Can

    • Juice On Wax.

  • Brian Jackson

    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (feat. Black Thought)

    • BBE Music.

  • Romero Brothers

    Cravo E Canela

    • RB Records.

  • Durand Jones & The Indications

    Flower Moon

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Joe Williams

    Get Out Of My Life' (DJ Tron Remix)

    • Self Released.

  • Lance Ferguson

    Could Heaven Ever Be Like This

    • Tru Thoughts.

  • Fatback Band

    Night Fever (Kenny Dope Radio Edit Remix)

    • Cosmos/Acid Jazz.

  • Jon Cleary

    Zulu Coconuts

    • FHQ Records/ Well Kept Secret.

  • Wikstrom & Lewen

    Time To Make A Change (feat. Tommy Blaize)

    • Home Of The Good Groove.

  • The 7:45s

    Too Little Too Late (feat. Martin Connor)

    • LRK Records.

  • Michelle David & The True-tones

    Running

    • Record Kicks.

  • WILSN

    The Way

    • MUSHROOM MUSIC.

  • The Beat Cracker

    Learned To Dance Longer

    • Echo Edits.

  • The Olympians

    California

    • Daptone Records.

  • Georgia Cécile

    Communion

    • Mahogany.

  • Raz & Afla

    Going Back To My Roots

    • Wah Wah 45s.

  • Dames Brown

    You're The One For Me

    • Defected.

  • Charles Earland

    Let The Music Play (Aroop Roy Rework)

    • If It Ain’t Jazz Records.

  • Johnny Burgos

    Sure

    • LRK Records.

  • The Valentines

    Breakaway

    • Seventy-Seven Records.

  • Mungo's Hi Fi x Eva Lazarus

    Uptown Top Ranking

    • Scotch Bonnet Records.

  • Hollie Cook

    Shy Girl

    • Shy Girl.
    • Mr. Bongo.
    • 1.

  • MBO

    Philly Mann

    • Katakana Edits.

  • Curtis Harding

    The Power

    • Anti/Epitaph.

  • The Jade

    Being Seen

    • Lovemonk Records.

  • Rahaan

    Reach (feat. Chip Wickham)

    • Gospel One Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 13 Dec 202518:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music