Live & Upcoming Programmes

Paul Simon

Paul Simon

During the first leg of Paul Simon's triumphant, 2011 U.S. tour, he thrilled hometown fans with a special club performance at New York City's historic Webster Hall. The show presents this iconic artist working at the peak of his artistic and creative powers in an unusually intimate setting. The 20-song, 90-minute set list was drawn from his legendary career and includes several songs that haven't been performed live in many years. "Kodachrome," "Mother and Child Reunion," "Gone At Last" and "The Obvious Child" are just some of the highlights as well as songs from Simon's most recent album, 2011's So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music/Concord Music Group) including "Dazzling Blue," "Rewrite," "The Afterlife" and the album's propulsive title track.

2025-12-12 05:00:00 +0000 UTC2025-12-12 06:52:18 +0000 UTC (1h52m)
Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

PETER GABRIEL n English singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career, with “Solsbury Hill” his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The album's biggest hit, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and it remains the most played music video in the history of MTV. Using interviews, news archive and performance this episode reveals the unique aspect of this iconic artist.

2025-12-11 23:14:27 +0000 UTC2025-12-12 00:07:05 +0000 UTC (52m)
Songs for the People

Songs for the People

Protest songs about the conditions experienced in the 1920s and 1930s were written using traditional folk hillbilly/bluegrass traditions. Acts such as The Freedom Singers overthrowing 50s attitudes, bringing issues such as the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s into focus. This gave folk music a tremendous strength in the US creating such legends as Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

2025-12-11 22:40:12 +0000 UTC2025-12-11 23:07:25 +0000 UTC (27m)
Protest Songs

Protest Songs

Protest songs were a union between the emerging Folk music of the late 50s and early 60s, and the Civil Rights movement. They needed songs, which could be sung on marches, at causes, and could be anthems for the Civil Rights cause. And when Civil Rights wasn't so much achieved, but when it merged into the anti-war protest movement, then those Protest songs were also the soundtrack of that. The Vietnam War was seen as something, which was highly questionable. The new generation was thinking about that. So it was very much defining themselves against what had come before, against what was seen as an oppressive, hierarchical, patriarchal system, which had worked essentially during the war years, but didn't work anymore in the post-war years.

2025-12-11 22:14:30 +0000 UTC2025-12-11 22:40:12 +0000 UTC (25m)
Paul Simon

Paul Simon

During the first leg of Paul Simon's triumphant, 2011 U.S. tour, he thrilled hometown fans with a special club performance at New York City's historic Webster Hall. The show presents this iconic artist working at the peak of his artistic and creative powers in an unusually intimate setting. The 20-song, 90-minute set list was drawn from his legendary career and includes several songs that haven't been performed live in many years. "Kodachrome," "Mother and Child Reunion," "Gone At Last" and "The Obvious Child" are just some of the highlights as well as songs from Simon's most recent album, 2011's So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music/Concord Music Group) including "Dazzling Blue," "Rewrite," "The Afterlife" and the album's propulsive title track.

2025-12-11 19:14:37 +0000 UTC2025-12-11 21:06:56 +0000 UTC (1h52m)