Schedule
Early
00:00
Freak Zone Playlist—By Keeley Forsyth
Actor and musician Keeley Forsyth chooses her favourite underground and experimental music
01:00
Sound and Vision—Steve McQueen Small Axe special
Film director Steve McQueen speaks to Miranda Sawyer about his new BBC series Small Axe
02:00
New Music Fix—The New Music Playlist
6 Music Recommends... the New Music Playlist in one handy bite size programme.
03:00
New Music Fix—6 Music Album of the Year: Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Voted 6 Music’s AOTY, hear the Bristol band in session and conversation with Steve Lamacq.
04:00
6 Music Stories—From Mento to Lovers' Rock - Episode 9
Documentary series about Jamaican popular music with Linton Kwesi Johnson.
05:00
Chris Hawkins—Uria or Cepphus? A Guillemot dilemma...
Great music for the weekend, including more tracks from Guillemots' Through The Windowpane
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Morning
07:00
Mary Anne Hobbs—With Maggi Hambling CBE and Charlotte Prodger
Mary Anne speaks to painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling CBE at her studio in London.
10:00
Cerys Matthews—Tom Robinson sits in
James Mackintosh from Celtic band Shooglenifty drops by for a chat.
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Afternoon
13:00
Sound and Vision—Sound and Vision: Maxine Peake
Miranda Sawyer interviews Maxine Peake.
14:00
Guy Garvey's Finest Hour—Bjork Is Guy's Artist of The Week
The Berlin Wall, Band Aid and The Mousetrap - all enclosed.
16:00
Amy Lamé—EPs of the year
Amy Lamé looks at her EPs of the year before we get onto the thorny subject of albums.
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Evening
18:00
Now Playing @6Music—Listeners' Albums of the Year
Tom Robinson curates the listening choices of the 6 Music listeners.
20:00
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone—A Tribute to Hardy Fox of The Residents
Stuart celebrates the unmistakable sound of The Residents and their co-founder Hardy Fox
22:00
Don Letts' Culture Clash Radio—Crucial James Taylor
Don's selections cross time and space and include Crucial Vinyl from James Taylor.
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Late
00:00
Guy Garvey's Finest Hour—Bjork Is Guy's Artist of The Week
The Berlin Wall, Band Aid and The Mousetrap - all enclosed.
02:00
The BBC Introducing Mixtape—26/11/2018
Tom Robinson presents a mixtape of his personal selection of tracks from BBC Introducing.
03:00
6 Music Live Hour—The Hollywood Killers, Emma Pollock and the Cherry Boys
The Hollywood Killers in concert in London in 1982, plus Emma Pollock and the Cherry Boys.
04:00
6 Music Stories—From Mento to Lovers' Rock - Episode 10
Linton Kwesi Johnson concludes his 10-part history of Jamaican music.
05:00
Chris Hawkins—The best music to start the week
Chris introduces a brand new ‘5 Before 6’ DJ.















