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A Special Bowie Musicology and new music from The Twilight Sad

Professor Sophie Daniels looks at David Bowie's musical family tree, plus Huw presses play on brand new music from The Twilight Sad.

Professor Sophie Daniels looks at David Bowie's musical family tree, plus Huw presses play on brand new music from The Twilight Sad.

Plus we test your music knowledge in another edition of the Music Quiz Generator, where one of you might win a Music Sounds Better With Huw pin badge. And Huw declares that your evening has begun with the Home Run playlist at 5 o'clock.

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Music Played

  • EELS

    Fresh Feeling

    • Souljacker.
    • DreamWorks.
    • 3.

  • Girls at Our Best!

    Getting Nowhere Fast

    • Pleasure.
    • Happy Birthday.

  • The Cribs

    Never The Same

    • Play It Again Sam.

  • Charli xcx

    I think about it all the time (feat. Bon Iver)

    • Atlantic.

  • Azari & III

    Reckless (With Your Love)

    • Azari And III.
    • Loose Lips Records.
    • 2.

  • Skinshape x Horus

    Bettina

  • Broadcast

    Come On Let's Go

    • The Noise Made By People.
    • Warp.

  • Olan Monk

    10 Days

    • AD93.

  • Tweet

    Oops (Oh My) (feat. Missy Elliott)

    • Goldmind.

  • Greentea Peng

    Prisoners Round

    • AWAL.

  • Noah and the Whale

    L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • TTSSFU

    Upstairs

    • Partisan.

  • The Creatures

    Right Now

    • Polydor.

  • The Twilight Sad

    Designed To Lose

  • The Prodigy

    Firestarter

    • XL.

  • DJ Shadow

    Rocket Fuel (feat. De La Soul)

    • Mass Appeal / Reconstruction Productions Inc..

  • Foals

    Wake Me Up

    • Warner.

  • Nina Simone

    I'm Going Back Home

    • High Priestess Of Soul.
    • Philips.
    • 18.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Columbia.

  • The Last Dinner Party

    Count The Ways

    • Island.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Darts Of Pleasure

    • Domino.

  • I. JORDAN

    Worth It

    • Ninja Tune.

  • PJ Harvey

    You Said Something

    • Island.

  • Cameron Winter

    Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed)

    • Partisan.

  • Dry Cleaning

    Cruise Ship Designer (6 Music Session, 05 Jan 2026)

  • Jordan Rakei & Jalen Ngonda

    What It Gave Me

    • Fontana.

  • Joshua Burnside

    Something Else

    • It’s Not Going to be Okay.
    • Nettwerk.

  • Catatonia

    Mulder And Scully

    • Blanco Y Negro.

  • Emma‐Jean Thackray

    Black Hole (feat. Reggie Watts)

    • Brownswood Recordings.

  • This Is Lorelei

    SF & GG

    • Double Double Whammy.

  • David Bowie

    Fame

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Elvis Presley

    Hound Dog

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

  • Anthony Newley

    What Kind Of Fool Am I?

    • I've Waited so Long.
    • Music Today Records.
    • 5.

  • Syd Barrett

    Terrapin (Peel Session 1970)

  • Little Richard

    Tutti Frutti

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    This Train

    • The Authorized Sister Rosetta Tharpe Collection.
    • Airline Records.
    • 1.

  • Death Grips

    Black Paint

    • Black Paint.
    • Death Grips.
    • 1.

  • David Bowie

    Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)

    • Atlantic.

  • PVA

    Enough

    • It’s All For Fun.

  • O.D.B.

    Shimmy Shimmy Ya

    • The Dirty Story: The Best Of ODB.
    • Elektra.

  • SBTRKT

    Pharaohs (feat. Roses Gabor)

    • Young Turks.

  • Blood Orange

    Vivid Light

    • RCA.

  • The Futureheads

    Coldest Winter For One Hundred Years

  • T. Rex

    Ride a White Swan

    • Telstar.

  • Mark William Lewis

    Skeletons Coupling

    • A24 Music.

  • The Orb

    Aftermath (feat. Soom T)

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Boards of Canada

    Dayvan Cowboy

    • Trans Canada Highway.
    • Warp Records Limited.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tuesday16:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music