Radio Free D'ni

Quite a niche topic this week, and we peaked at 16, which was very encouraging. Keeping with the French theme, the preshow was all by Gong, that mostly-French group composed mostly of people that mostly hit things, and the postshow was all by the suvlime violinist Jean-Luc Ponty.   Not Picard.

Our annual look back at the musicians who left us in the previous year had a lot to cover, with many big names passing on in 2025.  We did our best to cover the most well-known ones while balancing the flow from one to another.   Seems to have worked..  23 listeners max and over 20…

A remastered show to start the New Year aa Ed is not available this week.  Some mildly avant-garde (whatever happened to post-garde?) jazz fusion from a master of his craft, Chick Corea and his band Return to Forever.  Peaked at 20 listeners, so not bad for a holiday season show.

A Christmas Story for 2025, Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising, a personal favourite and one that I could fit music to.  Being a full novel, it went on for rather longer than our usual show, but kept within the normal postshow cutoff, so I thought we’d be OK.  Up to 22 listener connections, so…

A show featuring the music of film and TV composer Jerry Goldsmith, concetrating on his SF, Fantasy and horor film soundtracks,  assembled by Hugh who is very much into that sort of thing.    Very popular with up to 22 connections.  It’s good to know we can entertain you.

A band with a distinctive sound and an original choice of material from many genres, which perhaps did not help them to build a following.  Family were a band that made some good friends but could be hard to follow, while still producing some great music. Up to 20 listener connections for this one, a…

A look at the career of mainly prog but also Christian rock star Neal Morse.  His career is so extensive that we could only scratch the surface, but we did our best to cover it well.

A remastered anniversary show taking the advertising businesses themes for the date, hence the slightly random combination.   It Worked well though, and gave us a good combination of tracks for a varied and interesting evening.

Polished up with better words and ending, this Remastered show from Martin did suffer from tech problems, necessitating a change in broadcast source, which seems to have been achieved successfully as we had up to 25 listeners with 24 staying with us over the latter half of the show.     Hopefully we spread the word…

Inspired by an earworm, that is, a song that got stuck in my head, the show took four themes from the Lovin’ Spoonful hit Summer in the City and illustrated them with well-chosen tracks.  Seems to have worked out all right, with a high of 20 listeners, good numbers.  Glad you liked it 🙂