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Radio 6 Music,22 Feb 2026,120 mins

Robert Wyatt - Ruth is Stranger than Richard

Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone

Available for 29 days

The train now leaving platform 13 is the Freak Zone Express to the weird and wonderful. All aboard for avant-pop from Bergen, Leodensian sound art, Brazillian ballads about Emily Dickinson, Nordic jazz classical crossover, English acid folk rock, Terry Riley played on signal generators, Terry Riley played by Terry Riley, and tunes by Jethro Tull, Motorpsycho, Sun Ra, and Colin Stetson. Plus friendly engine driver Stuart's featured album is Robert Wyatt's 1975 solo album Ruth is Stranger than Richard.

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