Beware The Radio

22/11/2024

These Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble Radio Hours are great for anyone interested in the process of making music.

We're onto Part 2 of a fascinating interview with the badass Patrick Chan - on IG - who explores the limits of the mind even beyond description. Distrusting our human senses, he goes beyond, inspired by abstract patterns discovered in daily objects, as well as imaginary landscapes and human interactions, depicting the subjects from unexpected perspectives, allowing listeners to reimagine their surroundings.

Chan grew up in Hong Kong and came to the USA in 2003. He has been featured in events including Ars Electronica, IRCAM's ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days, UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, and Venice Art Biennale, among others. He has worked with ensembles such as City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble intercontemporain (France), Ensemble Metamorphosis (Serbia), eighth blackbird (U.S.), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Mivos Quartet (U.S.), and New York New Music Ensemble, with performances in more than thirty countries. His scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition. He is also an active performer and improviser of accordion, guqin, as well as live electronics using a Eurorack modular system and other custom interfaces on the computer. He is currently an Associate Professor of Music Composition at Ball State University.

Prepare to be inspired!

Check out Part 2 at these times:
Fri 1900 / Sun 0200 / Mon 1300 / Wed 0600 (UK)
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Part 1 is on our Mixcloud - along with all previous episodes!

17/11/2024

Start your day less wrong with four hours of incisive interviews courtesy of This is Hell!
Sunday & Monday 09:00 UK-time
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Legal scholar Karen Greenberg returns to the show to discuss her recent article at TomDispatch titled "It’s Not Just About the President It’s About the Presidency." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview. Check out Karen's article here: https://tomdispatch.com/its-not-just-about-the-president/

Returning to This is Hell! is listener favorite Sophie Lewis, author of
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, as well as Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. Sophie will be on to talk about her new writing at The Drift, "Lipstick on the Pigs: Kamala Harris and the Lineage of the Female Cop." Check out Sophie's article here: https://www.thedriftmag.com/lipstick-on-the-pigs/

Francis Northwood joins us to discuss his new Baffler article titles "Unsafe Bets - Polymarket’s great expectations". Check out Francis' article: https://thebaffler.com/latest/unsafe-bets-northwood

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15/11/2024

Issue 1 of Beware! The Zine is out now! Its 32 pages have articles, reviews, poetry & fluff by various station contributors. Art editor has worked wonders visualising & setting the whole thing.

Various ways to get a copy...

You can order a physical zine via Bandcamp:
https://keshco.bandcamp.com/merch/beware-the-zine-issue-1
(The 500 copies are at the printers)

You can read the digital zine via Magzter Inc.:
https://www.magzter.com/GB/Beware!-The-Radio/Beware!-The-Zine/Music/1895776
(6 pages available for free preview)

Perhaps the best way to get the quarterly zine & support the station is by joining our Patreon. It really makes a huge difference to have people onboard.

https://www.patreon.com/c/bewaretheradio/posts

Supporters on the £3 tier get the digital zine; there are also two physical tiers for UK/overseas.

Get the Beware! The Zine - Issue 01 - Magazine digital issue, and enjoy reading it anytime and anywhere on the Magzter website, iOS, Android, Amazon and Windows apps.

11/11/2024

Catch this week's Caneuon Cymraeg Heddiw again on Wednesday at 11:30, and tune in for a new episode every Monday at 21:00 on bewaretheradio.com. Always interesting sounds from Welsh artists, ably compiled by genial guide Ed Reid. Enjoy!

On this week's programme we feature tunes from the collection, mainly older tunes that we haven't played in a while or in some cases at all. We'll supplement these with a few more recent releases. Features artists include Yr Angen, Cerys Hafana, Sister Wives, Rhiannon Tomos, Terfysg, Hefin Huws and more. Listen via Mixcloud at mixcloud.com/edreid1 or via the WERA web site at wera.fm - Listen - On Demand. You can also catch us on selected affiliate stations, notably on KOPN 89.5 in Columbia, Missouri (kopn.org) (0500 Sunday local) and also on Beware! The Radio (bewaretheradio.com) where we air at 2100 Mondays or 1130 Wednesdays local time Mwynhwch!

11/11/2024

As part of Our Earth Week, we've got a Question of the Day - here's Monday's Q:

If you were given a magic wand and told you could make one change in the world to help solve the climate crisis, what would you do?

Feel free to reply in comments!

10/11/2024

We're taking part in Our Earth Week from Monday 11th to Sunday 17th November, along with a whole heap of community stations around the UK. This year's theme is "The Sound of the Wild".

Tune in for a live broadcast from 8-9pm on Monday; plenty of other shows through the week. Let's connect!

Community Radio Environment Network

06/11/2024

Each month we get a great new radio mix from the

The very interesting label

05/11/2024

On the US 2024 Election Night, we're joining the syndicated coverage provided by our Pacifica Network partner stations. Tune in from
1:00 AM UK GMT / 8:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM CDT / 6:00 PM MT / 5:00 PM PT
BewareTheRadio.com / smart speaker / / etc

Hosted at Pacifica’s Sister stations and reports from throughout our affiliate network. Guests and commenting experts will include leading figures in the American labor, social justice, and peace movements not usually featured on the corporate news media. Bringing presidential vote results, down ballot races, and important local initiatives and issues.

Spanning the country as results unfold, the special live broadcast will follow results, beginning on the East Coast and moving West as the night progresses.

We'll join for two more hours at 9:00 AM UK GMT - and then Democracy Now! will be in its usual 2:00 PM slot with more analysis.

04/11/2024

Tune in every week for half-hour documentaries from our fellow Pacifica Affiliate stations, in

SPROUTS: Radio From The Grassroots

Mon 2200, Wed 0830, Fri 0830 (UK GMT)

This week - US Election 2024: Looking Under The Hood of Democracy

We’re counting down to Election Day with a look at functional democracy ” including the nuts and bolts of congressional voting reforms passed in 2022 with Brian Biehl.

Then, Florida voters face a handful of crucial measures that would enshrine legal cannabis and abortion rights in the state constitution.

Another measure to add abortion rights to a state Constitution is on the ballot in Missouri, Spencer Graves speaks to Emily Wales, Great Plains Director for Planned Parenthood.

Next Briana Oakley of WOJB in Hayward, Wisconsin, files an oral history from a local resident about one election day in her Potawatomi family half a century ago;

Lastly, the American Democracy Minute is back with more on a recent report about potential election disruption scenarios and how we can prepare for them.

01/11/2024

The latest monthly Adventurous Music Radio Show is another delicious mix courtesy of Signalstoerung:

1 Manja Ristić - Dew (Okla)
2 Finlay Wright - Missing (Means)
3 Marlo De Lara formerly Marlo Eggplant - sundering (Scatter Archive)
4 Joshua Marquez - the words that fell out of my mouth (self released)
5 Stefan Christoff & Joseph Sannicandro - People gathered around a big window (Okla)
6 Wahn - No More Poison (Mahorka)
7 Andrew Burge - II (Human Geography)
8 Broken Shoulder - Launderette and Petrol Station (Moonside)
9 nocto vs. sonic area - abyss squad (Ant-Zen)

Stream it on-demand via our Mixcloud (link in bio)
or tune in
every Friday in November at 23:00
every Tuesday in November at 06:30 (UK GMT)

via bewaretheradio.com / smart speaker / Deezer / GetMeRadio etc

IG links: .veltemar

01/11/2024

These Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble Radio Hours are great for anyone interested in the process of making music.

This time: Part 1 of a fascinating interview with the badass Patrick Chin Ting Chan - Patrick Chan on here - whose art seeks expression of free minds that cannot be described, but imagined. Distrusting our human senses, he goes beyond, inspired by abstract patterns discovered in daily objects, as well as imaginary landscapes and human interactions, depicting the subjects from unexpected perspectives, allowing listeners to reimagine their surroundings.

Chan grew up in Hong Kong and came to the USA in 2003. He has been featured in events including Ars Electronica, IRCAM's ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days, UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, and Venice Art Biennale, among others. He has worked with ensembles such as City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble intercontemporain (France), Ensemble Metamorphosis (Serbia), eighth blackbird (U.S.), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Mivos Quartet (U.S.), and New York New Music Ensemble, with performances in more than thirty countries. His scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition. He is also an active performer and improviser of accordion, guqin, as well as live electronics using a Eurorack modular system and other custom interfaces on the computer. He is currently an Associate Professor of Music Composition at Ball State University.

Prepare to be inspired!

Check out Part 1 at these times:
Fri 1900 / Sun 0200 / Mon 1300 / Wed 0600 (UK)
bewaretheradio.com / smart speaker / Deezer / Get Me Radio! etc

Previous interviews are up on our !

31/10/2024

We love being able to share interesting shows from around the world, shows which might not otherwise get aired in the UK. One great series is Kopfkino, created & hosted by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka and originally airing on Radio Helsinki (a freeform station from the Austrian city of Graz). These shows are always curious, wonderfully experimental and thought-provoking.

This week, an episode called "Listening is Indispensable": a tribute to listening as a critical skill in times of crisis and conflict.

Text excerpts by Jean de Dieu Basabose from: Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane (eds.), "On Listening".

Music: Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka.

Tune in to Kopfkino every Thursday from 1900 UK-time.

27/10/2024

Start your day less wrong with four hours of incisive interviews courtesy of This is Hell!
Sunday & Monday 09:00 UK-time
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Attorney Flint Taylor reviews a half-century career fighting police violence in Chicago - from his work pursuing justice for assassinated Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, and his role uncovering the crimes of torture ring-leader Jon Burge, to winning financial and institutional reparations for the victims (and victimized communities) under the CPD's forceful regime. Flint is author of "The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago" from Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1642-the-torture-machine
Dorothy Roberts is an award-winning author and expert on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Chuck Mertz interviews Dorothy about her latest book, TORN APART: How the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world. TORN APART available Now at Basic Books www.basicbooks.com/titles/dorothy-…/9781541675445/
Award-winning investigative journalist and podcaster Cerise Castle returns to discuss her latest article at the Los Angeles Public Press, "How LASD surveilled me, a journalist, after I started reporting on deputy gangs: More than 50 LASD employees sent emails about me in the months after I published my reporting."
https://lapublicpress.org/2024/07/lasd-surveils-journalist-deputy-gang-reporter/
After the interview, Jeff Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" live from Second Story Studios!
Kimberlé Crenshaw joins This is Hell! to discuss her new book, : Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence (Haymarket Books):
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1632-sayhername

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24/10/2024

These handy ruffians are Thrift Bakery, back in 1985. Nowadays you can hear their latest Guest Mix on Beware! - looking back at early album, "Freshness Test" - and the hour is shared with their souped-up alter-egos, Loco Domingo. Enjoy an hour of great independent music and chat.

L-R: Bob Hair, Dlux, Terrie Cloth

Tune in Sun 1700, Wed 0500, Fri 0100 (UK-time)
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21/10/2024

For the greatest new sounds from Wales, tune into Caneuon Cymraeg Heddiw - Today's Welsh Music!
This week Ed Reid brings us bands who have performed under more than one name. Though some of these bands had line-up changes, the core of the band remained unchanged but the name change often resulted in a change in sound - and sometimes language as well. Selections include the excellent Y Reu (pictured).

Tune in via https://bewaretheradio.com / smart speaker / Deezer / Get Me Radio! etc
Mondays 2100 / Wednesdays 1130 (UK BST)
Catch up with the shows via mixcloud.com/edreid1 or via the WERA web site at wera.fm - Listen - On Demand. Seiniau hyfryd!

On this week's programme we feature bands who have performed under more than one name. Though some of these bands had lineup changes, the core of the band remained unchanged but the name change often resulted in a change in sound - and sometimes language as well. Check us out on Mixcloud at mixcloud.com/edreid1 (where you can catch the latest updated version) also via the WERA web site at wera.fm- Listen - On Demand. We're also airing on selected Pacifica Network stations including this week WHPW in Harpswell, Maine plus KOPN in Columbia, Missouri USA (kopn.org) as well as Beware! The Radio (https://bewaretheradio.com) out of London where you can listen at 2100 on Mondays or 1130 on Wednesdays. Mwynhwch!

18/10/2024

These Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble Radio Hours are great for anyone interested in the process of making music.

We're onto Part 2 of an illuminating interview with Don Haugen - on IG - a visual & sound artist based in the EDME's home of Eugene, Oregon.

Haugen's work explores location-specific sound and room dynamics, tightly-controlled. A vast arsenal of home-built electronics and re-purposed test instruments create sonic texture-scapes.

Haugen’s compositions range from dense drones, whispering noise to cacophony structures.

Part 1 is now up on our Mixcloud!
https://www.mixcloud.com/BewareTheRadio/the-edme-radio-hour-042-the-sound-of-curiosity-don-haugen-part-1-october-2024/

Check out Part 2 at these times:
Fri 1900 / Sun 0200 / Mon 1300 / Wed 0600 (UK)
bewaretheradio.com / smart speaker / Deezer / Get Me Radio! etc

More brainfood from the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble. The Sound of Curiosity! Sun 0200 / Mon 1300 / Wed 0600 / Fri 1900 (UK) www.bewaretheradio.com This time: Part 1 of an interview with Don Haugen - a visual & sound artist based in the EDME's home of Eugene, Oregon. Haugen's work explores locati...

13/10/2024

Those micropop magicians at Thrift Bakery are back with a new Guest Mix - and this time, it's shared with their souped-up alter-egos, Loco Domingo. Always interesting, they're the real deal. Enjoy an hour of great independent music.

Tune in Sun 1700, Wed 0500, Fri 0100 (UK-time)
bewaretheradio.com / smart speaker / Deezer / GetMeRadio etc

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