Stuart is joined by Ellie and Theo of Wolf Alice ahead of their gig at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. The Mercury Prize winners speak of their genuine love of Showaddywaddy which in turn inspires listeners to share their stories of the band.

Bring Some Serious Chops

Dec 18th, 2018 27m 1s

Stuart decamps to Maida Vale for 6 Music’s All Day Christmas Party to mark Shaun Keaveny’s last breakfast show, and speaks to The Staves and a slightly worse for wear Shaun. Astronaut Tim Peake talks about the yearlong selection process that

All Roads Lead to Buxton

Dec 4th, 2018 20m 52s

Comedian Bill Bailey talks about about travel and his love of nature.Our Chainee Helen has some serious beef with moving to the very end of the Northern Line, and we hear ways your hometown has bigged itself up.Mat Osman and Brett Anderson

Purple briefs like a beacon at sunset

Nov 20th, 2018 20m 29s

Hello there, Stuart Maconie presents another batch of highlights to listen to on the BBC Sounds app. In this episode you'll hear Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley speak about their final Ladybird books for grownups. There's Sid Griffin enthusin

Interruptions

Nov 6th, 2018 26m 51s

Hello there, and wow, what a week of guests in this podcast. It's of course, best listened to on BBC Sounds. Other podcast apps are available, but quite frankly, why would you bother with them when there is so much good content here on BBC Soun

Everybody loves Queen?

Oct 30th, 2018 19m 30s

Here are more podcast highlights than you can shake a stick at. In fact, put that stick down and if you haven't already, download the BBC Sounds App and listen on there.Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk of Low chat about their magnificent album D

Autographing A Poppadom

Oct 23rd, 2018 16m 28s

In this podcast you'll hear Stuart's chat with former athlete Tommie Smith on his Black Salute at the 1968 Olympics.Bobbie Gillespie joins him to talk about Give Out But Don't Give Up: The Original Memphis Sessions by Primal Scream.You'll h

The Haunted Studio

Oct 16th, 2018 27m 53s

It's the Radcliffe and Maconie podcast. This will be the last edition with Mark for a little while, as he'll explain towards the end of this episode. Don't worry, he'll be back soon enough.Within this audio compilation you'll hear a chat wit

Road To BBC Music Day

Oct 2nd, 2018 32m 28s

Welcome once more to our weekly roundup of Radcliffe and Maconie highlights.Hear the best bits from our show which was live School of Fine Arts in the University of Leeds. The event was part of 6 Music's Road to BBC Music Day, where the stati

Budget Crisp Friday

Sep 18th, 2018 30m 32s

This week Albert Hammond Jr talks about the genesis of his album 'Francis Trouble'.Find out what pseudonym Cate Blanchett went under as a child. She chats with Jack Black about their new film 'The House with a Clock in Its Walls'.The Beta B

Detective Ted Snudge

Sep 10th, 2018 29m 37s

Susan Cadogan, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, Orbital, and Adrian Edmondson

Finding Tenners

Sep 4th, 2018 25m 9s

Dave Gorman speaks about his stand-up show With Great PowerPoint Comes Great Responsibility. LA singer Julia Holter has an exclusive announcement. Shirley Manson of Garbage drops by to talk about their world tour. Plus there are musings upon fi

Pizza in a Tennis Racket Case

Sep 3rd, 2018 37m 15s

Mark and Stuart talk to filmmaker Eugene Jarecki about his new feature length documentary The King, a star-studded musical road trip across America which draws parallels between the life of Elvis Presley and present day USA. Kamasi Washington t

Alright Nickname!

Aug 8th, 2018 27m 46s

This week hear Mark and Stu chat to Jamie, Austin and Ned from Liverpool group The Fernweh. They explain the origin of their unusual name and enthuse about Fairport Convention.Stuart speaks to Stephen Mangan about his new Channel 4 series,

4am Pizza Delivery

Aug 7th, 2018 18m 34s

Mark, he's one half of Radcliffe and Maconie, is joined by Lucy Porter who painfully reminisced about her worst Edinburgh Fringe gig ever.Former Sex Pistols bass player Glen Matlock mused on his musical influences and the time he was once i

The most contented Chain caller ever

Aug 2nd, 2018 21m 13s

Stuart Maconie presents the show solo this week and chats to a couple of really cheery Chain callers. Actor, comedian and musician Matt Berry talks about his love of albums.Stewart Lee joins in on the phone to talk about his stage perso

"I'd see the pants and think, oh good Lord" Joe Thomas on The Festival film

Jul 31st, 2018 21m 10s

It's a week of Mark Radcliffe and he's joined by former Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas who talks about his film The Festival. Joe explains why he's happy to humiliate himself in the name of film and television.Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub

Steer-rio

Jul 27th, 2018 17m 11s

Stuart Maconie presents an ear full of highlights from a week of the Radcliffe and Maconie show. David Dewaele, Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax chat about their recent career reinvigoration and their Deewee studio. Hear some of his choices f

There's Never Been A Better Time To Be Bald

Jul 24th, 2018 21m 51s

Stuart chats to Alex Neilson and Lavinia Blackwall of Trembling Bells. Their album Dungeness is named after an area of desolate headland on the coast of Kent which houses a nuclear power station. Hear Mark with Mattiel Brown of Mattiel chatting

The Sweeney

Jul 17th, 2018 12m 12s

It was just Mark on the show this week. He was joined by Alex Paterson and Youth of The Orb who talked about the early days of the group.Wayne Kramer of MC5 popped into the show and talked about the difficulties of being part of such a crea

Social Media, Yeah!

Jul 17th, 2018 33m 25s

Mark and Stuart speak to Caitlin Moran about her new book How To Be Famous. She laments about a lack of positive role models for both men and women. Later on she reveals the killer question she asked Paul McCartney... unfortunately, it didn't

Underpant X-Files

Jul 5th, 2018 32m 11s

David Byrne on American Utopia, Gaz Coombes, and Will Gregory & Adrian Utley.

Assessing whether you're a Smurf

Jun 27th, 2018 31m 1s

Mark and Stu chat to Sarah Nixey and Luke Haines of Black Box Recorder about how the band originally got together. Tanya Donelly and Gail Greenwood of Belly let the chaps know that they've never really been away. The second series of wrestling

What is Mock Turtle?

Jun 27th, 2018 18m 28s

Mark chats to Emily Cross and Jonathan Meiburg of Loma, Wilko Johnson about his new album Blow Your Mind and St. Vincent tells him about the changing face of New York. Plus hear a fascinating chat with a Chain caller who researches and makes fo

2018 #22 - Lydiard Millicent

Jun 19th, 2018 35m 30s

Kenney Jones of The Small Faces, The Faces and The Who talks to Mark and Stuart about when Rod Stewart went solo. John Foxx joins them to chat about the deluxe reissue of his 1980 classic Metamatic. Angelique Kidjo enthuses about her version of