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Best Foot Forward

Cerys is joined by pioneer of romantic funk Harriet Brown and neuroscientist Shane O'Mara.

Cerys is joined by California based producer, writer and self-proclaimed pioneer of romantic funk Harriet Brown. He stops by ahead of his first ever UK dates.

Neuroscientist Shane O'Mara stops by to chat about his new book In Praise of Walking (Random House)

β€It enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. It freed our hands and freed our minds. We put one foot in front of the other without thinking – yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantages it gives us?β€

There is also music from Phil Stroud, Kacy & Clayton and Prince. Plus archive from Abdullah Ibrahaim ,Art Blakey, Thom Yorke and Kirsty MacColl.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 13 Oct 2019 10:00

Music Played

  • Badlabecques

    Tandi Que Bouon Mathinnyi Bait

  • Al Massrieen

    Asef Gedan

  • Luri Andrade

    Foila No Vento (edit)

  • Aretha Franklin

    Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)

  • The Casimir Connection

    A Lonely Child

  • Bob Dylan

    Tell Me That It Isn't True (Take 2)

  • Jimmy Smith

    One O'Clock Jump

  • Digable Planets

    Where I'm From

  • Al Green

    I'm Glad You're Mine

  • Harriet Brown

    Bag Away (edit)

  • Prince

    Dreamin' About U

  • Donny Hathaway

    Someday Well All Be Free

  • Emmylou Harris

    All My Tears

  • Harriet Brown

    Paper (radio edit)

  • Johnny Nash

    Five Hundred Miles

  • Marcel Zanini

    Un Scotch, Un Bourbon, Una Biere

  • Blick Bassy

    Ngui Yi

  • Paul Kelly

    The Day After Forever

  • Felice Taylor

    Honey

  • Kacy & Clayton

    In A Time Of Doubt

  • Howlin’ Wolf

    Down In The Bottom

  • The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

    The Mountain Dew

  • Modern Nature

    Footsteps

  • Aziza Brahim

    Julud

  • Ivor Cutler

    Singing To My Foot

  • Ginger Baker

    Footprints

  • Jonathan Jeremiah

    Foot Track Magic (edit)

  • Cliff Carlisle

    Footprints In The Snow

  • Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra

    Sugar Foot Stomp

  • Phil Stroud

    Banksia

  • Soundwalk Collective

    Una Nota Sobre El Peyote (feat. Gael GarcΓ­a Bernal)

  • Emerson Ensamble

    El Gato Montes

  • Gabi Garbutt

    Lady Matador

  • George Benson

    Sunny

  • Abdullah Ibrahim

    Jabula

  • Art Blakey

    Sortie

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Undecided (feat. Chick Webb and His Orchestra)

  • Radiohead

    No Surprises

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Oct 2019 10:00