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Thursday Theme: Mr Burns

Jo’s Thursday Theme is songs related to Mr Burns, the Simpsons character, to mark 25 years since the episode that revealed who had shot him.

Jo’s Thursday Theme is songs related to Mr Burns, the Simpsons character, to mark 25 years since the episode that revealed who had shot him.

Mr Monty Burns is, of course, Springfield's powerful nuclear power plant owner. He’s astonishingly old and incredibly rich - the American business magazine Forbes estimates he’s worth $1.3 billion.

His catchphrase is the word ‘excellent’. He also occasionally orders his long suffering assistant Smithers to "release the hounds", so his vicious guard dogs can attack intruders, enemies or even guests he’s invited to his home.

The main suspects in the shooting were Waylon Smithers and Homer Simpson, but - spoiler alert - it was actually Maggie Simpson, the baby of the family.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Music Played

  • Grace Jones

    Pull Up To The Bumper

    • The Divas Of Dance (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Declan McKenna

    Rapture

  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo

    • Creation Records.
  • slowthai & James Blake

    Feel Away

  • Jo Harrop and Jamie McCredie

    Guilty

    • Weathering the Storm.
    • Lateralize Records.
    • 5.
  • Biffy Clyro

    Space

  • TLC

    Unpretty

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.
  • Rex Orange County

    Loving Is Easy

  • Everything Everything

    Violent Sun

    • Infinity Industries/AWAL.
  • Laura Marling

    Alexandra

    • PARTISAN RECORDS.
  • Robert Wyatt

    Shipbuilding

    • Storytellers (Various Artists).
    • Grapevine.
    • 16.
  • Mae Muller

    So Annoying

  • Baha Men

    Who Let The Dogs Out

    • (CD Single).
    • Edel Records.
  • Nancy Sinatra

    Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.
  • Ellie Goulding

    Burn

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 86 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • The Futureheads

    Hounds Of Love

    • 679 Recordings.
  • Mr Burns & Smithers

    Look At All Those Idiots

    • The Simpsons Sing The Blues.
    • 9.
  • The O’Jays

    For the Love of Money

    • Philadelphia Years: Volume 1 1971-1976 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.
    • 10.
  • Rod Stewart

    Maggie May

    • The Best Of Rod Stewart.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Arab Strap

    The Turning Of Our Bones

    • The Turning Of Our Bones.
    • Rock Action Records.
    • 1.
  • Poppy Ajudha

    BLACK JOY. BLACK PEACE. BLACK JUSTICE

  • George Ezra

    Hold My Girl

    • Staying At Tamara's.
    • Columbia.
    • 8.
  • k.d. lang

    Constant Craving

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • U2

    The Electric Co.

    • Boy.
    • Island.
    • 5.
  • Bill Withers

    Grandma's Hands

    • Sampled (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

Broadcast

  • Thu 17 Sep 2020 19:00