Morning (up early hoping to record a pre-office News Review) Last Nights' Chim with www.melissa-james.com James Melissa and Part 2 of Pamela Mounter with The Black Farmer Wilfred E-J , and customers , plus further developments in Snuggs Pieward, herewithwww.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

Morning - here's last nights' Chim with Pamela talking to Wilfred EJ , The Black Farmer, a nod to the changing of the guard and HRH's Birthday Honours, and Skillosophi and Brixton Chamber Orchestra groovitude around Wilfred's SW9. Back with Part 2 tonight at 9. @barcles2.bsky.social up at 11.

I've just finished prepping tonights' Chim on @thisisriverside.bsky.social which features Pamela Mounter talking to The Black Farmer, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones. He's also ws tomorrow as will be the wonderful Melisssa James who is in this years' Wandsworth Arts Fringe next weekend

Good Sunshiney Morning- Last Nights' Chim with Ben Grall of ptsdresolution.org is now up at www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay with new Streisand, unheard Prince and 16 Trombones (would that they were live in the studio) . More tonight at 9.

Just read an article that makes the common claim that the British campaigners against slavery were driven by salvation and the French by rationalism. Such false dichotomies are sunk by reading William Cowper’s poems. ‘ There is no flesh in man’s obdurate heart. It does not feel for man…’

Tonight on The Chim on Riverside Radio( and tomorrow) to echo the D-Day Commemoration ( my Dad was part of the prep) I talked earlier in the week to Ben(oit) Grall of PTSD Resolution who were at the Lords recently talking about the strides they are making in the field. Plus soulful new music

Edvard, Norm and Cliff substack.com/@andybungay/...

Afternoon Guys, the latest Chims with Thelma Ruby (Cooper) on her extraordinary performing career continuing on Wednesday at 100 years young & Kenny Wheeler (whose timbre infused the world of Mr Benn in Festive Road) recalled in a new book of writings and interviews . www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

An Airing open.substack.com/pub/andybung... New Substack piece about my friend and colleague Graham Stevens who spoke at the Barbican this week. He has been encouraging us to go (Blue) Green since at least 1965.

Last Nights' Chim with my new roving reporter Pamela Mounter on Prison Reform in Wandsworth (ft Dame Sheila Hancock) plus www.andyworthington.co.uk on this & UK Politics . Plus new Fiona Apple, Todd Sharpeville and more. More tonight at 9.

Jazz and the Zip Code Lottery substack.com/@andybungay/...

www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay/... Last Nights' Chim ft Nora and Steev Burgess, storytelling in the Joseph Campbell traditon & Paul Patterson with the Kings' Singers from 1973, a scattering of Time - themed songs ( which seems like an oxymoron as I type it) &Tanya Snuggs and Lustgarten on the case.

Last Nights' Chim with some rabbit holes from International Jazz Day this year , some new grooves and Rosie Reed Gold Misha Rees Gabi Garbutt Andrew Neil Carpenter Nat Norland with a guest appearance by Theodore Roethke. More tonight at 9. www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

Last Nights'Chim will be up shortly, but in moments it will be Mr.Ian @barcles2.bsky.social some very good stuff. @thisisriverside.bsky.social

On my way in a bit to record the wonderful Janet Oates in Richmond as previewed last Sunday - Tonight from 11 the Keep It Under Your Hat crew return with Rosie Reed Gold Misha Rees Gabi Garbutt Andrew Neil Carpenter Steev Burgess on Time itself. 9 minutes of Southern Railways en route...

www.mixcloud.com/upload/andy-... @leoniec.bsky.social , Mal and Graham on the A23 at the menders, the Eubanks/ Benn Junior fight, the local elections next week and more.

The Weekends' Chims withDee Anderson , daughter of the Thunderbirds team -plans for their 60th - with of course her own verve, Last night, the pitfalls & joys of backing with Geralsd Moore & Martin Taylor for classics & jazz, blended by Janet Oates next Saturday . www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

Tonight from 11pm on @thisisriverside.bsky.social my guest is Dee Anderson, singer/ actor daughter of the creators of Thunderbirds on some very special plans for the shows' 60th Anniversary. Plus some cool new grooves along the way.

Here's the first New Review in its Monday afternoon incarnation with Leonie Cooper AM on Pope Francis, Reform v Labour, the sale of The Observer and more www.mixcloud.com/.../easter-m...

... And here's Sundays' show with Evensong , on Joni. Bowie and more in conversation and in session in Studio 2 www.mixcloud.com/riversiderad...

Here's my chat with @lindsaywesker.bsky.social with music that he's revered , promoted and written over the years in the context of his new autobiography. www.mixcloud.com/riversiderad...

My guest tonight on The Chim is @lindsaywesker.bsky.social on his modestly-=titled 'The Mistakes I Made (And How to Avoid Making Them) . Some key musical moments in his illustrious doings on the playlist, and we talk about literary life too, @thisisriverside.bsky.social from 11 after Kent & Simon

Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺

Here's last nights' Chim with the marvellous Thelma Ruby , plus Caroline Goodwin with Peter Oswald and the children of Gaza and Andy Worthington on Mahmoud Khalil and British Steel, More from Thelma, her colleague Susan Cusack and Andy W tonight at 9. www.mixcloud.com/upload/river...

Tonight from 11 pm and tomorrow from 9pm on Riverside Radio in addition to regular conversation with Andy Worthington I have Thelma Frye with Susan Cusack on the fight to save Wimbledon Park and Caroline Goodwin meeting Peter Oswald and friends at the London end of his tecent Gaza pilgramage.

audioboom.com/posts/870362... @leoniec.bsky.social , Mal and Graham at 7am today on Wimbledon Park, Trump , Renting in London reported by @eveningstandard.bsky.social & Mal's By-Election Corner

My latest Substack waffle wearing my theraputic hat and signs of the times andybungayatthechim.substack.com/p/coach?r=ft...

Another message of hope- Emu lives! www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...

Good Morning- the Weekends' Chims with Poet Issa Kelly at Omnibus Clapham and Jazz musician Hugo Jennings (on this years' Battersea Festival and more) are now up at www.mixcloud.com/riversiderad...

The News Review is here *https://audioboom.com/posts/8700666-corey-booker-liberation-day-thames-water-immigration-gentrification Tonight from 11 on @thisisriverside.bsky.social Issa Kelly , Sun from 9 Hugo Jennings on Jazz ft South London JO at 25 & the 2025' Battersea Jazz Festival.

Saturday Nights' Chim with the excellent Jessica Lee Morgan on her ironically-titled new book You Know What You Should Do' and associated album plus new Emma-Jean Thackray, Joe-Armon Jones and Kaidi Tatham. www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

Thanks for tuning in last night if you were able to- the Mixcloud edit will be up tomorrow morning. After a battle getting in last night I'm sorry that I can't present this evening. but will be back next weekend. Happy Mothers' Day ( this my late great Mum and best friend Sue)

Tonight my after midnight guest is Jessica Kee Morgan , daughter if Mary Hopkin and Tony Visconti on her new book and album ironically entitled ' This Is What You Should Be Doing' . Plus new grooves, this and that from 11 @thisisriverside.bsky.social

At the weekend I played a bit of the convivial Donall Dempsey reading his poetry, with a basic summary of his health . This post by his wonderful co-adventurer Janice is surely one of the bravest things written in these circumstances. The Bottom Line open.substack.com/pub/dempseya...

The Weekends' Chims with Bad Boy Trouble (Mark West & Alex Peat) chatting & recorded live & new soul, jazz, folk & spoken word are now up at www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

At the suggestion of Maria Avgoulis, who manages the bespoke singer/ songwriter Ola Onabule, I've started a Substack Blog.I'd welcome your feedback if you have a mo & your subscription if you're thus inclined. andybungayatthechim.substack.com/p/2nd-movement

Coming home to the excellent buy grim reporting by @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social some light in Crystal Palace Park today- the best buttery blueberry muffin I've ever had in the bandstand, the heralded return of the Geese Orchestra and a black (lady)labrador who decided to play soccer with me.

Indigenous tribal Peoples are the world’s best forest guardians. They manage 33% of forests that hold 80% of the 🌏’s biodiversity. Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity. #WeAreIndigenous

The Weekends' Chims with my guest the wonderful Caroline Trettine on eclectic songwriting since the late 80s & futurology are now at www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay & newness from Ethel to Electro Deluxe via Michael Tippett & Pt 2 of Lustgarten's epic account of Pie in the present home counties foment.

The Weekend News Review is now up at www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay - Leonie, Mal & Graham on the weeks' antics in the Oval Office & Lambeth & Richmonds' plans to boost the Night-Time Economy. From 11 pm on @thisisriverside.bsky.social my guest is singer-songwriter, futurologist Caroline Trettine.

The Weekends' Chims are now up at www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay with Andy Worthington on the states we're in .Fab IWD feminine artistry in playlists from Saje to Lili Boulanger, RIP fab Disability Rights advocate Tuppy Owens & Lustgarten expedition is graced by one our esteemed lady newsreaders.

Gizmos ackling, the return of the weekly Chim News podcast with Leonie Cooper AM (Happy International Womens' Day Leonie and All) and Graham Stevens ( Mal hopefully back soon). Tonight from 11 I'm with Andy Worthington on some other deep dive concerns of the here & now. www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

Last Nights' Chim is now up with the Hat crew wellspringing from ee cummings on early Spring and flutters of encounter with Rosie Reed Gold Gabi Garbutt Andrew Neil Carpenter Gabriel Moreno -Music and Poetry- & new big bandery from Copenhagen and the NY of Igmar Thomas amidst much more. Pt2 9pm

Tonights' Chim has the February edition of Keep It Under Your Hat with Rosie Reed Gold Gabi Garbutt Andrew Neil Carpenter Steev Burgess riffing eloquently on some ee cummings plus some corking new big bandery and more. Riverside Radio DAB www.riversideradio.com

The Weekends' Chims with Fiona Fiona T Frank and Maggie Lorelli at St Gabriels' Pimlico highlighting wonderful but criminally underrated female composers, The Sixteen and James Perason from Ronnies;. plus new grooves from Ireland ,The Gambia, Toronto and That London www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

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Last Nights' show with Sahana Gero, James Wade-Sired ( to whom I hope to speak in 20 minutes or so) , Keith Bray and reconstructed on Lustgarten's distressed linoleumm as the studio gizmo is in hiatus. Back with more tonight at 9. www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

onight from 11, variegated new sounds and James Wade -Sired at World Heart Beat with his Sextet & Big Band, a word or two with WHB Director Sahana Gero ( James and I will have a chat for Sun from 9) and spoken word from Keith Bray via Hannah Stanislaus, Riverside Radio DAB and www.riversideradio,com

The weekends' monthly conversation about Geopolitics and Campaigning with www.andyworthington.co.uk plus soulful new sounds from Deptford to Tunis is now up in 2 instalments at www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay. Carl Chamberlain is on the folky night beat on www.riversideradio.com between 8 and 10,

Here's last nights' Part 1 with Andy Worthington on Trump, ICE etc- more this evening from 9. Music from Fiona Bevan , Gabriel Moreno(& a poem for the orangery),Vulfpeck , Secret Night Gang I've restored the Austrian swing track whence the studio computer had the 'ump. www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay