Live from Coventry: Celebrating the City of Culture
Stuart hosts a special show from Coventry, celebrating this year's city of culture. With poets John Bernard, Amanda Dalton, Jane Commane and City of Culture's Chenine Bhathena
Stuart Maconie presents solo, live from Coventry for a special show of music and guests, celebrating the city of culture.
Coventry is UK City of Culture 2021 and the location for the 91Èȱ¬ Arts’ annual poetry and spoken word festival ‘Contains Strong Language’ this year.
Ahead of his special Freak Zone show at Contains Strong Language Festival in Coventry later today, Stuart hosts a Coventry breakfast show special.
As well as playing a selection of music from city, Stuart is joined by special guests to talk about the festival, life in Coventry and how the city has shaped them. He is joined by poet and rapper John Bernard who is part of Contains Strong Language’s ‘Youthful Cities Programme’ – a cultural exhange between Coventry and four international cities; Nairobi, Bogotá, Detroit, and Beirut, culminating in the creation of new artworks. He also talks to poet Amanda Dalton about growing up in Coventry and poet Jane Commane about the festival. Plus City of Culture Creative Director Chenine Bhathena tells Stuart more about the events happening in the city over the next year.
Plus a finely balanced blend of new and old music, setting you up for a Sunday, including tracks from The Specials, Pa Salieu, The Primitives and The Selecter.
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Music Played
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The Selecter
Missing Words
- Two-Tone Records ‎.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra
That Life
- Jagjaguwar.
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Loyle Carner
The Isle Of Arran
- AMF/Virgin EMI.
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The Human League
Toyota City
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Mumble Tide
On My Deathbed There's A Full Page (You Don't Get To Read It)
- Everything Ugly.
- NOTHING FANCY.
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Belle and Sebastian
Write About Love
- ROUGH TRADE.
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Don Fardon
Belfast Boy
- Indian Reservation.
- Piccadilly.
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Fana Hues
Icarus
- Bright Antenna Records.
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Pop Will Eat Itself
Can U Dig It
- RCA.
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Gorillaz
Meanwhile (feat. Jelani Blackman & Barrington Levy)
- Parlophone.
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Beck
The Golden Age
- Geffen Records.
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Bobby Lee & Mia Doi Todd
Walking With Trees
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Brian Protheroe
Pinball
- Acoustic Moods (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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Sudan Archives
Confessions
- Stones Throw.
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Danniella Dee & Alesia Aird
Ladybird
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Depeche Mode
New Life
- Mute Records.
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Nation of Language
This Fractured Mind
- Nation Of Language.
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The Primitives
Spacehead
- LOVELY.
- Chess Records.
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LYR
Winter Solstice
- UMG.
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Cid Rim
Purgatory
- Songs of Vienna.
- LuckyMe.
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Roni Size
Heroes
- Talkin' Loud ‎.
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Park Hye-Jin
Lets Sing Lets Dance
- Ninja Tune.
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King
Love & Pride
- The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
- Hit Records.
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Bessie Turner
Rushing
- Luna Sky.
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PINS
All Hail (6 Music Session, 25 Jan 2017)
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The Specials
Ghost Town
- NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 1981 (VARIOUS).
- Two-Tone.
- 5.
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Radiohead
If You Say The Word
- KID A MNESIA.
- XL Recordings.
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John Bernard
Isolation Days
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Gotts Street Park
Diego
- Blue Flowers.
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Delia Derbyshire & Ron Grainer
Doctor Who Theme (1963-1969)
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Panjabi MC
Mundian To Bach Ke
- (CD Single).
- Digidance.
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Johnny Marr
Spirit, Power & Soul
- New Voodoo Records.
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Gwen McCrae
All This Love That I'm Giving
- CAT RECORDS.
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Pa Salieu
Energy (feat. Mahalia)
- Warner Records.
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Candid
Numbers Game
- single.
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Maya Jane Coles
Night Creature
- I/AM/ME.
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Stock Aitken Waterman
Roadblock
- The Greatest Hits Of 1987, Pt.2 (Var).
- Telstar.
Broadcast
- Sun 26 Sep 2021 07:0091Èȱ¬ Radio 6 Music