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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 大象传媒 Arts鈥� annual poetry and spoken word festival 鈥楥ontains Strong Language鈥� 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鈥檚 鈥榊outhful Cities Programme鈥� 鈥� a cultural exhange between Coventry and four international cities; Nairobi, Bogot谩, 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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Sun 26 Sep 2021 07:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Selecter

    Missing Words

    • Two-Tone Records 鈥�.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    That Life

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Loyle Carner

    The Isle Of Arran

    • AMF/Virgin EMI.

  • The Human League

    Toyota City

  • Mumble Tide

    On My Deathbed There's A Full Page (You Don't Get To Read It)

    • Everything Ugly.
    • NOTHING FANCY.

  • Belle and Sebastian

    Write About Love

    • ROUGH TRADE.

  • Don Fardon

    Belfast Boy

    • Indian Reservation.
    • Piccadilly.

  • Fana Hues

    Icarus

    • Bright Antenna Records.

  • Pop Will Eat Itself

    Can U Dig It

    • RCA.

  • Gorillaz

    Meanwhile (feat. Jelani Blackman & Barrington Levy)

    • Parlophone.

  • Beck

    The Golden Age

    • Geffen Records.

  • Bobby Lee & Mia Doi Todd

    Walking With Trees

  • Brian Protheroe

    Pinball

    • Acoustic Moods (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Sudan Archives

    Confessions

    • Stones Throw.

  • Danniella Dee & Alesia Aird

    Ladybird

  • Depeche Mode

    New Life

    • Mute Records.

  • Nation of Language

    This Fractured Mind

    • Nation Of Language.

  • The Primitives

    Spacehead

    • LOVELY.
    • Chess Records.

  • LYR

    Winter Solstice

    • UMG.

  • Cid Rim

    Purgatory

    • Songs of Vienna.
    • LuckyMe.

  • Roni Size

    Heroes

    • Talkin' Loud 鈥�.

  • Park Hye-Jin

    Lets Sing Lets Dance

    • Ninja Tune.

  • King

    Love & Pride

    • The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
    • Hit Records.

  • Bessie Turner

    Rushing

    • Luna Sky.

  • PINS

    All Hail (6 Music Session, 25 Jan 2017)

  • The Specials

    Ghost Town

    • NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 1981 (VARIOUS).
    • Two-Tone.
    • 5.

  • Radiohead

    If You Say The Word

    • KID A MNESIA.
    • XL Recordings.

  • John Bernard

    Isolation Days

  • Gotts Street Park

    Diego

    • Blue Flowers.

  • Delia Derbyshire & Ron Grainer

    Doctor Who Theme (1963-1969)

  • Panjabi MC

    Mundian To Bach Ke

    • (CD Single).
    • Digidance.

  • Johnny Marr

    Spirit, Power & Soul

    • New Voodoo Records.

  • Gwen McCrae

    All This Love That I'm Giving

    • CAT RECORDS.

  • Pa Salieu

    Energy (feat. Mahalia)

    • Warner Records.

  • Candid

    Numbers Game

    • single.

  • Maya Jane Coles

    Night Creature

    • I/AM/ME.

  • Stock Aitken Waterman

    Roadblock

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1987, Pt.2 (Var).
    • Telstar.

Broadcast

  • Sun 26 Sep 2021 07:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music