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A Joyous Exploration with Mackenzie Crook

Detectorists & Pirates of the Caribbean's Mackenzie Crook joins Cerys with his new book If Nick Drake Came To My House. Plus we open the next door on the musical advent calendar.

Detectorists and Pirates of the Caribbean actor Mackenzie Crook joins Cerys with his new book If Nick Drake Came To My House.

Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates drop by with facts from their latest book: A Year of Living Curiously: 365 Things Really Worth Knowing. Plus Cerys opens the second door on her musical advent calendar with jazz bandleader Giacomo Smith.

All alongside Cerys' unique musical selection, hand picked by raiding her record collection and unearthing new treasures. This week her selection includes Johnny Flynn, Tim Buckley, Rhianna, Frazey Ford and Elliott Smith.

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Music Played

  • Johnny Flynn

    Detectorists

    • Live at the Roundhouse.
    • Transgressive Records.
    • 24.

  • Nick Drake

    One of These Things First

    • Bryter Layter.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 4.

  • John-Paul Muir

    Balm (feat. George Crowley, Jakub Cywinski & Eric Ford)

    • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Now.
    • Ubuntu Music.
    • 4.

  • Muireann Bradley

    Police Dog Blues

    • I Kept These Old Blues.
    • Tompkins Square.
    • 03.

  • TimothΓ©e Chalamet

    Like A Rolling Stone

    • Columbia Records.

  • Victoria Port

    Cigarette

  • The Bongo Hop

    La Pata Coja (feat. Nidia GΓ³ngora)

  • Melin Melyn

    Promised Land

    • Blomonj Ltd..

  • Merle Haggard

    Today I Started Loving You Again

    • Greatest Hits - Finest Performances.
    • Sun Records.
    • 1.

  • Fred Neil

    Green Rocky Road

    • Fred Neil.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 9.

  • Tim Buckley

    Dolphins

    • Sefronia (Remastered).
    • Manifesto Records.
    • 1.

  • Jupiter & Okwess

    Les Bons Comptes (feat. Flavia Coelho)

    • Airfono.

  • Chris Brain

    Steady Away

    • Big Sun Records.

  • TimothΓ©e Chalamet & Monica Barbaro

    Girl From The North Country

    • Columbia Records.

  • dodie

    Old Devil Moon

    • Decca Records.

  • Hazel Scott And The Braza Brasi

    Ye-Me-Le

    • Mr Bongo Worldwide Ltd.

  • Rihanna

    Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z)

    • Now That's What I Call Music 67.
    • NOW.

  • Jake Xerxes Fussell

    What Did the Hen Duck Say to the Drake?

    • Good and Green Again.
    • Paradise of Bachelors.
    • 6.

  • Miles Davis

    Bags' Groove (Take 1)

    • Miles Davis And The Jazz Giants.
    • Prestige.
    • 6.

  • The Soul Santas

    Winter Wonderland

    • Cracker Records.

  • Otis Redding

    (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • LaVern Baker

    Soul on Fire

    • LaVern Baker.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 12.

  • Los Wembler’s de Iquitos

    Un Silbido Amoroso

    • Cumbia Beat, Vol. 1.
    • Vampisoul.
    • 3.

  • Frazey Ford

    Done

    • Indian Ocean.
    • Nettwerk Music Group.
    • 4.

  • Ray Brown & Barney Kessel

    It Ain't Necessarily So

    • My Old Flame Vol 2.
    • Documents.
    • 5.

  • Rory Gallagher

    Just The Smile

    • Rory Gallagher (Remastered 2017).
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 2.

  • Gjermund Larsen Trio

    Det hev ei rose sprunge

    • BIS.

  • Nick Drake

    Saturday Sun

    • Five Leaves Left.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 10.

  • Tiny Leaves

    Portway

    • Mynd.
    • Horus Music Limited.

  • Nick Drake

    Place To Be

    • Pink Moon.
    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Nick Drake

    River Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Elliott Smith

    Ballad Of Big Nothing

    • Either/Or.
    • Universal Music.
    • 3.

  • Amanda Whiting

    Christmas Is Coming

    • A Christmas Cwtch.
    • First Word Records.
    • 03.

  • Los Mirlos

    La Danza de los Mirlos (Cumbia de los Pajaritos)

    • Cumbia Amazonica.
    • Infopesa.
    • 5.

  • anaiis, Grupo Cosmo & Luedgi Luna

    Toda Cor

    • Dream Sequence Recordings.

  • Sofie Royer

    Indoor Sport

    • Stones Throw Records.

  • Sidney Bechet

    Blue Horizon

    • The Ultimate Collection.
    • Stardust.
    • 7.

  • Jessica Lauren

    A Pearl For Iona

    • film.
    • BBE Music / Impressive Collective.
    • 8.

  • Adrian Crowley

    Measure Of Joy

    • Valley of Eyes Records.

  • Yannis & the Yaw

    Night Green, Heavy Love

    • Lagos Paris London.
    • Transgressive.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Dec 2024 10:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music