Iain Anderson Show

11/10/2025

Another week, another Mystery Song Lyric!

Degree of Difficulty: 3.6
Clue: Weary traveller

“If it weren't for the alligators I'd sleep out in the wood”

Can you name the song?

11/10/2025

For this week's Featured Songwriter, we take a closer listen to work of US singer, songwriter, producer, collaborator and activist, Brandi Carlile.

11/10/2025

The Featured Archive Album this week is 'Man @ Work' by Colin Hay. The album is a 2003 career retrospective from the Scottish/Australian singer-songwriter, Colin Hay… Man @ Work reimagines his most iconic songs from Men at Work alongside newer solo material from that era. Colin's Man @ Work Vol.2 was released earlier this Summer.

11/10/2025

Join us as usual this Sunday and Monday evening, where this week's Featured Album is 'Cuckoos' by Martin Stephenson & The Daintees. 'Cuckoos' was released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s musical beginnings and their debut album, 'Boat to Bolivia'. Available to purchase on Bandcamp, the album features 10 heartfelt tracks blending folk, acoustic, and poetic storytelling.

07/10/2025

Last night's Monday show and playlist!

Oh Light, Oh Light - James Yorkston & Johanna Söderberg
Travelin' Band - John Fogerty
Johnny 99 - Bruce Springsteen
Headed Our Way - Salt House
Mist - Heidi Talbot
Broken Stones - Paul Weller
Piw a'n Deur - Annie Baylis
Sip The Wine - Julie Covington
Highway 40 Blues - Jaywalkers
Monday Morning - Sara Evans
Second Hand News - Fleetwood Mac
A Mháire - Aoife Ní Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion - The Kinks
Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward
Horizon - Salt House
In The Garden - Michael McGovern
Meet Me In Jena - Calum Baird
Break The Pattern - Jess Silk
The Chain - The Highwomen
Holiday Road - Lindsey Buckingham
Sula's Song - Paultaskermusic & Simon Kempston
By The Time It Gets Dark - Julie Covington
Far Away - Joe McMahon
The Tree That Bends - Norman Paterson
Doing All I Can Not to Get Too Blue - Sheila K Cameron

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

06/10/2025

Here is last night's show and playlist. Available on BBC Sounds for those able to listen again.

Wrong Road Again - Waylon Jennings
Hold Me In The Sunshine - Martin Stephenson Daintees
In His Eyes - Michael McMillan
Take This Day - Salt House
All You Do - The Swaps
Nicer Part Of Town - Joshua Burnside
I Can't Dance - Julie Covington
A Clown's Heart - Oysterband
Go Your Own Way - Lissie
Down On Rodeo - Lindsey Buckingham
(Poem: The Pipes At Lucknow:
Intro & Stuart Ballatyne's - Alice Allen
Lord Lovat's Lament - The 78th Fraser Highlanders)
Lament Of McCrimmon/Song Of The Banshee - Sheila Chandra
Wonderful - Kinnaris Q
Geronimo's Cadillac - Dick Gaughan
Black Bird - Salt House
Volcano - Wave Of The Flood
Crying in the Rain - The Everly Brothers
Don't Let Me Down - Shirley Eikhard
Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham
The Lido Cafe - Ronnie Costley
Hidden In The Stars - Tom Cleary
Dead Weight - Julie Covington
Home - Jennifer Stewart
Cold In Ohio - Jamie Lawson
Early Rising Moon - Stephen Simmons
Last Meadow - Susy Wall

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

04/10/2025

Another week, another Mystery Song Lyric!

Degree of Difficulty: 3.8
Clue: Keep on Falling

“A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes”

Can you name the song?

04/10/2025

For Featured Songwriter this week, we turn to the work of Lindsey Buckingham. US singer, songwriter and guitarist best known for shaping the sound of the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac.

04/10/2025

Our Featured Archive Album this week is 'Julie Covington', the eponymous second album by the English singer, Julie Covington. Released in 1978 on Virgin Records, the album blends folk/rock instrumentation with Julie’s emotive vocal delivery and includes covers of artists such as John Lennon, Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny.

04/10/2025

With you as usual this Sunday and Monday evening and the Featured Album for this week is 'Scarrow' by Salt House. Released on the 3rd of October, folk trio Salt House returned with a 5th studio album, a collection of twelve songs about reflection, renewal, and connection in a world craving all three. Following the departure of Lauren MacColl, musician, composer and collaborator, Anna Hughes joins Ewan MacPherson and Jenny Sturgeon to complete their lineup.

30/09/2025

Last night's Monday mix if you missed it or just want to listen again!

Million Dollar Bash - Fairport Convention
No Pasarán! - The Bluebells
Draw The Line - Brògeal
Sweetheart - The Swaps
Broken Lens (Live) - Liz Jones & Broken Windows
Beaujolais - BoDeans
Different Kind Of Gone - Mary Gauthier
To Love Is To Bury - Cowboy Junkies
Three Chords And The Truth - The Poozies
Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & The Chieftains
Cutting Corners - Van Morrison
Puirt-Chruinn - TEUD: The Hebridean Fiddle Project
Oor Hamlet - Adam McNaughtan
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - BJ Thomas
Wolf - The Swaps
Over Here - The General Store
If I Should Find Myself - Cua
The Lovers Of St Kilda - Wave Of The Flood
Sweet Thing - The Waterboys
Linden Arden Stole The Highlights - Van Morrison
Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) - Cowboy Junkies
I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen - Heidi Talbot
Clò nan Gillean - Kim Carnie feat. Jerry Douglas
Where I'll Find You - Joan Shelley

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

29/09/2025

This was last night's Sunday show aboard The Hesperus for anyone who missed it...

Like The Piper - Amble
Horizon - Salt House
Parachutes - Merlyn Driver
Spain - The Swaps
For When You Can't Sleep - Joan Shelley
Shot Myself In The Leg - Leon Majcen
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
Seven Spanish - Ray Charles & Willie Nelson
Crazy Love - Rita Coolidge
Moondance - Van Morrison
How Shall I Love Thee - Rose Polenzani
The Silver Voyage - Skipinnish & Malcolm Jones
Farewell Angelina - Joan Baez
All Night - The Magpies
Fast Train - The Swaps
Tail End O' The Year - Cheery Odin
A Kiss From Wishaw Cross - Terry Neason
Into The Mystic - Gretchen Wilson
Domino - Van Morrison
His Friends Are More Than Fond Of Robin - Carly Simon
Misguided Angel - Cowboy Junkies
Marchtown - Emma Po***ck
Queen Among The Heather - Finn Anderson Beth Malcolm Siobhan Miller & Kim Carnie
It's A Beautiful Day Today - Robert Plant feat. Suzi Dian

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.