Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
Strange, surprising Sunday evenings, the perfect journey to the Freakier Zone.
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 01/02/2009
Stuart's featured album is Cosmic Sounds - The Zodiac, a classic of 1960s psychedelic kitsch. Plus Live Freaks has more psychedelia from Animal Collective recorded at Maida Vale.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 01/03/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring music from Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle and Split Enz.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 01/06/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring a session from classical guitarist Tom James Scott.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 01/08/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. An archive set from The Diagram Brothers escapes outta the vaults and into Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 01/11/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring an unearthed set from Black Sabbath originally broadcast in 1970.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 02/01/2011
The first Zone of the New Year, starring The Incredible String Band and Pharoah Sanders.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 02/03/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, with live sessions and hidden treasures. Treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 02/05/2010
Modern classical Attica Riot-themed shenanigans are brought to the fore. It's gotta be the Freak Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 02/08/2009
Stuart is in conversation with original Fairport Convention singer Judy Dyble, plus Professor Justin Spear presents a symposium on Freaky Jazz.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 02/11/2008
The Freak Zone features live material from the North Sea Radio Orchestra.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 02/12/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 03/01/2010
You pay the licence fee, you pick the tunes. The Children of the Zone take over. Be afraid.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 03/02/2008
Stuart's special guest is Mike Always, the man behind the El record label. Plus there's live material from Aberdeen Music Hall 1970 courtesy of Pentangle.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 03/05/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music with Stuart, featuring a session from Julian Cope's Black Sheep recorded at Maida Vale. Expect lengthy ambient psych workouts.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 03/08/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 03/10/2010
Two hours of the far out, the freaky, the fabulous, and the forgotten with a featured LP from Tangerine Dream and rare live material from the George Russell Sextet.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 04/01/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, with a featured album from Art Bears.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 04/05/2008
Hear tracks from Supersilent, Furious Pig and Robert Wyatt. Plus a session from Toumani Diabate.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 04/07/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Step in to the cosmos with Stuart and a featured LP from Saturn's finest, Sun Ra.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 04/10/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring Julian Cope's Black Sheep in session at the Maida Vale studios in all their tribal-chanting, percussion-heavy glory.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 04/11/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 05/04/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring Professor Justin Spear and the usual mix of strange and beautiful tunes, including alternative folk from Joanna Newsom.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 05/07/2009
Stuart's featured album is a folk horror LP from Comus, plus he has sessions from Bill Wells and the National Jazz Trio of Scotland.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 05/09/2010
Stuart explores visionary English folk music with Electric Eden author Rob Young.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 05/10/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring a live session from Mancunian jazz trumpeter and composer Matthew Halsall.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 05/12/2010
More from the show that likes to soundtrack your Sunday evening with a skronk and a shindig.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 06/01/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 06/04/2008
Stuart plays tracks by Peter Hammill, Soft Machine and Donovan, plus a Jack Rose session recorded exclusively for 6 Music.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 06/06/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Gerald Short from Jazzman records discusses spiritual jazz.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 06/07/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the corners of the music world, featuring a session from virtuoso twelve-string violinist James Blackshaw and the Prof discussing French Cold Wave.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 06/09/2009
Normal service is suspended for a 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 06/12/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Miles Claret of Soundway Records talks Ghanaian blues and there's a session from Bristol's Beak.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 07/03/2010
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart featuring Black Sabbath's debut, art-rock in a Slapp Happy style and an archive set care of The Cravats.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 07/06/2009
Witty banter and more strange and beautiful tunes from Stuart.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 07/10/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 07/11/2010
From the cosmic to the avant-garde, via the wonderful, the weird and the wiggy - it's the Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 07/12/2008
The Freak Zone hits the road with live recordings from Birmingham's Glee Club, where the line-up included Misty's Big Adventure.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 08/02/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring the long-awaited second part of Professor Justin Spear's story of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 08/03/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring an archive session from Tim Buckley.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 08/06/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring a session from Pentangle and Johnny Trunk talking about the world of Trunk Records.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 08/11/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring an interview with LA mavericks Sparks and the premier of their radio musical The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 09/01/2011
An epic from Yes bags the featured LP slot, with the Electro Hippes in live freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 09/03/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring tracks from Adem, King Crimson and Fad Gadget, plus a session from Fairport Convention.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 09/05/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Medieval progsters Gryphon bag the featured album slot on this edition of the Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 09/08/2009
Normal service is suspended for a 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 09/11/2008
Stuart present Live Freaks, featuring an archive Peel session from Gentle Giant recorded in 1972.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 10/01/2010
A featured LP from COB, live material from Sun Ra, and Professor Justin Spear on post-punk.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 10/02/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 10/05/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music with Stuart, featuring an interview with prog/jazz drummer Bill Bruford ahead of the release of his autobiography.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 10/08/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, with featured album Tom Rundgren's Utopia played in its entirety. Plus music from Hawkwind.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 10/10/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Jean Cohen Solal bags the featured LP slot and Tubby Hayes provides the Live Freaks material.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 11/01/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring more Live Freaks from the BBC archives plus Professor Justin Spear and the usual mix of strange and beautiful tunes.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 11/05/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 11/07/2010
Far out and far-reaching sounds from the Freak Zone, including Terumasa Hino in Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 11/10/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart featuring classic modal jazz from John Coltrane, plus more gifts from Professor Justin Spear's record box.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 11/11/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 12/04/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring XTC's Andy Partridge joining Stuart to talk about the reissue of the band's Dukes of Stratosphear material.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 12/07/2009
Stuart is joined by author Jonathan Coe and musician Sean O'Hagan, who discuss their joint collaboration, plus there's a Kevin Ayers Top Gear session from 1970.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 12/09/2010
More far-out freakery including sheets of sound from 'Trane in Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 12/10/2008
Stuart goes back to the Roundhouse in 1975 for a set from The Pink Fairies.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 12/12/2010
TG get the featured LP spot and Lennon's Plastic Ono Band make a racket in Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 13/01/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 13/04/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 13/06/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, including a featured LP from Stereolab and live material from Don Cherry.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 13/07/2008
This week's featured album comes from Jan Dukes De Gray and the archive live freaks will be Neil Ardley Orchestra from 1970.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 13/09/2009
Stuart presents a live set from The Soundcarriers, plus there's weird Americana courtesy of his featured LP from Bardo Pond.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 13/12/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring Gentle Giant in conversation plus a session from the Stu Brown Sextet.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 14/02/2010
Stuart brings you a psychedelic Valentine from Love, plus Brit-jazz, Library Grooves and Davy Graham!
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 14/03/2010
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Roll up for Throbbing Gristle, Nigerian Afro-beat and art-rock. It can only be The Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 14/06/2009
Witty banter and more strange and beautiful tunes from Stuart, plus guest Richard Morton Jack. The competition mentioned in this show is now closed.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 14/09/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, and psychedelic innovator Kevin Ayers pops in for a chat.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 14/10/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 14/11/2010
Another dose of freakery featuring spiritual live fare from Pharoah Sanders.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 14/12/2008
Stuart presents Live Freaks, featuring a session from Mancunian trumpeter and composer Matthew Halsall.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 15/02/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring more Live Freaks from the BBC archives plus Professor Justin Spear and the usual mix of strange and beautiful tunes.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 15/03/2009
Stuart is joined by Steve Hillage of prog rock band Gong and presents archive tracks from King Crimson recorded in 1970. Plus Professor Justin Spear plays his usual mix.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 15/06/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 15/08/2010
Ash Ra Tempel's debut platter bags the featured LP slot, plus the The Pop Group feature in Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 15/11/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring a look at the career of Cornelius Cardew, which takes in avant garde and Maoist pop.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 16/01/2011
An epic from Yes bags the featured LP slot, plus the Electro Hippies in Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 16/03/2008
Stuart chats to Irmin Schmidt, founder member of Can, plus he plays tracks by Faust, Gentle Giant and Pierre Arvay.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 16/05/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Splurge out to the watery sounds of Egdar Froese's Aqua in the week's featured LP.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 16/08/2009
Normal service is suspended for a 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 16/09/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 16/11/2008
Stuart presents Live Freaks featuring modal jazz grooves from Yusef Lateef, recorded at Pep's Café in 1964.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 16/12/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 17/01/2010
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring Breton Harp, post-punk and German language Beatles covers.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 17/02/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 17/05/2009
Stuart is joined by prog rock veteran Bill Bruford for witty badinage and anecdotes, plus there's more strange and beautiful tunes from Professor Justin Spear.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 17/08/2008
Professor Spear investigates the world of Stomu Yamashta. Plus some far out atonal piano stylings, care of Cecil Taylor, on Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 18/01/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring more Live Freaks from the BBC archives plus Professor Justin Spear and the usual mix of strange and beautiful tunes.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 18/04/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come bag the featured LP slot and Tubby Hayes stars in Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 18/05/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 18/07/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. The Groundhogs bag the featured LP slot and Don Rendell blows hot in Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 18/10/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown, featuring musician and entrepreneur Jonny Trunk returning with a new album and The North Sea Radio Orchestra in session.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 18/11/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 19/04/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music with Stuart, featuring more strange and beautiful esoterica courtesy of Professor Justin Spear and a box of French 45s.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 19/07/2009
Normal service is suspended for a 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart Maconie, including a featured French LP and modal jazz from Salford.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 19/09/2010
More far-out freakery from the craziest radio show in broadcasting town featuring Matching Mole, new electronica from Jon Brooks, and Joe Henderson live.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 19/10/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring an archive session from Stereolab.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 19/12/2010
From the weird to the obscure, via the neglected. There's nothing out there like the Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 1969 Special
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. It's 1969 OK, and on the 'Zone there'll be some weirdness from the end of the decade.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 20/01/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 20/04/2008
Stuart plays tracks from The Blobs, Mellow Candle and Half Man Half Biscuit, plus an exclusive Freak Zone session from Peter Walker.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 20/07/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 20/09/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring Tony Engle of Topic Records discussing the 70th anniversary of the world's oldest record label.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 20/12/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. It's a kids' music special, because Christmas is all about children, isn't it?
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 21/02/2010
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring pick of the frankly weird pops care of Jack Barnett, frontman with These New Puritans.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 21/03/2010
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, including Cluster's new material, Aphex Twin and Spanish Psychedelia all in the zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 21/06/2009
Normal service is suspended for a 150 minute trip into the unknown with Stuart Maconie, featuring live music from jazz musician Prince Lasha.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 21/09/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring a two-hour audience with the rarely interviewed Phillip Glass.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 21/10/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 21/11/2010
From the weird to the obscure, there's nothing out there like the Zone. The featured LP comes from the laconic Lee Hazelwood and Charles Mingus provides the Live Freaks material.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 21/12/2008
Stuart welcomes Julian Cope into the studio for an hour of festive cheer and Yuletide tunes with a pagan twist.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 22/02/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music. Stuart's featured LP is by French cosmonauts Magma and his Live Freaks outing comes from the Harold McNair Quartet.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 22/03/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring more Live Freaks from the BBC archives plus Professor Justin Spear and the usual mix of strange and beautiful tunes.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 22/06/2008
Stuart is joined by Faust frontman and avant-garde pioneer Jean-Herve Peron and Tom Greenwood of Jackie O Motherf***** plays a session.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 22/08/2010
John Renbourn, jazzy stylings from Yusef Lateef and Elektra Records. It's gotta be the Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 22/11/2009
Stuart revisits the BBC's Jazz for Moderns via reissues of sets from Tubby Hayes and Joe Harriott.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 23/01/2011
A tribute to Trish Keenan of Broadcast, who passed away last week.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 23/03/2008
With tracks from The Fall, Ivor Cutler and Caravan, plus an exclusive session from Colleen.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 23/05/2010
The Freak Zone's featured album is The Third Ear's haunting soundtrack to the 1971 film of Macbeth, plus British blues band The Groundhogs are the week's Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 23/08/2009
Normal service is suspended for a 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 23/09/2007
Stuart has an interview with Robert Wyatt, recorded at the singer's home in Lincolnshire ahead of the release of his new album, Comicopera.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 23/11/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring a newly-recorded session from Euros Childs.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 23/12/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 24/01/2010
Delia Derbyshire's experimental electronica, avant-garde flute fare and Brit-jazz? You've come to the right place.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 24/02/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world with tracks from The Bevis Frond, The Mars Volta and Jet Harris, plus a session from To Rococo Rot.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 24/05/2009
Stuart presents a post-punk special featuring all the hits and more from the likes of Swell Maps, The Raincoats, Test Dept, Wire, The Pop Group and others.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 24/08/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 24/10/2010
From the cosmic to the avant-garde, via the wonderful, the weird and the wiggy - it's the Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 25/01/2009
Stuart's featured album is Cosmic Sounds - The Zodiac, plus Live Freaks includes Animal Collective recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 25/04/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown, hosted by 6 Music Celebrity Specialist Matthew Wright.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 25/05/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring tracks from Third Ear Band, Stereolab and Moondog, plus a session from Mary Hampton.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 25/07/2010
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Ludus score the featured LP slot with ATV in Live Freaks.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 25/10/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, during which Mr Fox seize the Featured Album slot with their eerie Northern folk stylings.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 25/11/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 26/04/2009
Stuart profiles cult band Psychedelic Texans with the help of biographer Paul Drummond, plus there's archive tracks from Hawkwind.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 26/07/2009
Normal service is suspended for a 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart Maconie, including a featured LP from National Health and a seminar from Professor Justin Spear.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 26/09/2010
Fifty Foot Hose, Fairport Convention, and gospel led by four-year-old twins. It's gotta be the Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 26/10/2008
The Freak Zone devotes itself to celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 27/01/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 27/04/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 27/07/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 27/09/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring a look at the work of Oriental jazz-meister Lloyd Miller and a session from Mercury nominees Led Bib.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 28/02/2010
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart featuring Captain Beefheart, Brazilian psychedelia and Martin Carthy. A freaky Sunday is guaranteed.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 28/09/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring a session from veteran jazz-punk outfit Blurt.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 28/10/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 28/11/2010
From the weird to the obscure, via the neglected. There's nothing out there like the Zone.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 28/12/2008
Music and entertainment in the Freak Zone with Stuart.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 29/03/2009
A walk on the unconventional side of music, featuring more Live Freaks from the BBC archives plus Professor Justin Spear and the usual mix of strange and beautiful tunes.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 29/06/2008
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world, featuring a session from London guitarist James Blackshaw.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 29/11/2009
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring Alisha Sufit of cult psych-folk act Magic Carpet.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 30/03/2008
Stuart presents tracks from Captain Beefheart, Mothlite and Volcano the Bear plus an exclusive session from John Redbourn.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 30/08/2009
Normal service is suspended for a 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring Young Marble Giants in conversation and outsider folk care of Ed Askew.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 30/09/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 30/11/2008
Stuart presents a newly-recorded session from Welsh singer-songwriter Sweet Baboo.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 30/12/2007
Stuart takes a stroll through the unconventional corners of the music world. With live sessions and hidden treasures, treat your ears to a taste of the weird and wonderful.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 31/01/2010
A 150-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart, featuring Gentle Giant, Pharoah Sanders and Spanish-Christian psychedelia. It's a prog-spritual-psychedelic caramba!
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 31/05/2009
More strange and beautiful tunes with Stuart, plus he hangs out with the guys from Shindig magazine and there's a session from the National Jazz Trio of Scotland.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 31/08/2008
Featuring Professor Justin Spear dipping his academic toe in to the waters of Swedish Jazz in the University of the Strange. Plus archive session material from The Soft Machine.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 31/10/2010
A spooky Halloween twist on freakery featuring Play School's Toni Arthur and many, many more.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - The Silver Apples
A 120-minute trip into the unknown with Stuart. Psych-electronica pioneers The Silver Apples guest on this episode of the Zone.
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