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Soul Queen Beverley Knight, Historian and Author Mary Beard, and one of Britain's greatest cyclists Alex Dowsett

A stunning live performance, pondering ancient Roman rulers, plus cycling adventures

Beverley Knight's released a new album, 'The Fifth Chapter', and is getting ready for her biggest ever UK headline tour. The British soul star joins Robert for a stunning live performance.
Best-selling author and historian Professor Mary Beard chats about her latest book, 'Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World' and explains what powers emperor's actually had, bursting many of our preconceived notions.
Alex Dowsett recounts his years as a pro-cyclist in his memoir, 'Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling'. His book title is a reference to the added challenge of being the only top sportsperson in the world with haemophilia A.
Also in the programme, experimental noise and sound artist, Dr Amit Dinesh Patel, talks about a major new project that explores the cultural impact of UK independent record stores that specialised in Black music from 1950 onwards. The Record Store Project is seeking personal stories that illuminate Black, African & Caribbean experiences.

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Fri 29 Sep 2023 10:00
大象传媒 Radio London

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Music Played

  • Bob James

    Westchester Lady

    • Street Sounds Presents Jazz Funk Classics, Vol. 1.
    • UMOD (Universal Music On Demand).
    • 7.

  • David Bowie

    Sound And Vision

    • BEST OF BOWIE.
    • EMI.
    • 01.

  • Squeeze

    Tempted

    • ESSENTIAL SQUEEZE.
    • UNIVERSAL.
    • 09.

  • Patsy Cline

    Walkin' After Midnight

    • Patsy Cline.
    • Archive of Folk & Jazz Music.
    • 1.

  • Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

    Don't Leave Me This Way

    • Sound Of Philadelphia.
    • ARCADE RECORDS.
    • 11.

  • Lukas Setto

    What Turns You On

    • Soul Togetherness 2019.
    • Expansion.
    • 01.

  • Merle Haggard & The Strangers

    Shelly's Winter Love

    • Hag / Someday We'll Look Back.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 2.

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

    • Duran Duran, Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 12.

  • The Weeknd

    Save Your Tears

    • REPUBLIC.

  • Tom Tom Club

    Wordy Rappinghood

    • ONE HIT WONDERS AND HARD TO FIND CLASSICS.
    • Now! Music.
    • 03.

  • bby

    hotline

  • JGrrey

    Drream (feat. Zombie Juice)

  • Quinn Oulton

    Throw Your Weight

  • Olympia Vitalis

    Curls

  • Emmeline & Kojey Radical

    Dust

  • Pretenders

    Stop Your Sobbing

    • Pretenders.
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 7.

  • Dionne Warwick

    You'll Never Get to Heaven

    • Simply The Best Classic Soul.
    • WARNER E.S.P..
    • 03.

  • The Stylistics

    You'll Never Get To Heaven

    • The Very Best Of The Stylistics.
    • H & L.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Angry

    • Polydor.

  • Alexander O鈥橬eal

    Criticize

    • SCHOOL REUNION: THE PARTY.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 10.

  • OutKast

    Hey Ya!

    • Outkast - Speakerboxxx.
    • ARISTA.
    • 01.

  • Beverley Knight

    Systematic Overload

    • Tag8/BMG.

  • Nina Simone

    Feeling Good

    • GLOBAL TELEVISION.

  • Gregg Allman

    These Days

    • Island Def Jam.

  • Maceo & the Macks

    Cross The Tracks (We Better Go Back)

    • Funky Good Time: The Anthology.
    • Polydor.
    • 11.

  • James Brown

    (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine

    • Collected.
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 8.

  • Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic

    Fly As Me

    • An Evening With Silk Sonic.
    • Aftermath Entertainment/Atlantic.
    • 3.

  • Boz Scaggs

    Lowdown

    • Silk Degrees.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
    • 6.

  • Tower of Power

    You Met Your Match

    • Great American Soulbook.
    • Artistry Music.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 29 Sep 2023 10:00
    大象传媒 Radio London