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6 Music

July 2024

  • Craig Charles wearing a black suit and tie, glasses and a black scarf with white spots, against a pink background

    The Q&A
    Craig Charles: ‘I have kicked all sorts of mood-altering substances. The only vice I’ve not been able to kick is smoking’

    The actor and DJ on vodka kisses, giving up drugs, and why it’s not good to pretend you own a Rolls-Royce

April 2024

  • Courtney Love in 2018.

    The week in audio: Courtney Love’s Women; Kicking Back With the Cardiffians; The Belgrano Diary; Word in Your Ear – review

    The grunge grand dame tells her anarchic life story through the music she loves, while Charlotte Church has a tender chat with her ‘dada’. Plus, a deep dive into the Falklands war and Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits days

September 2023

  • Cillian Murphy

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Cillian Murphy’s Limited Edition; Short Cuts; Beyond the Bathroom; Crypto Kingpins – review

    The actor lets his mind-expanding music do the talking; aural hallucinations are par for the course on one of UK radio’s most important shows; and Candice Brathwaite brings beauty to life

August 2023

  • Gideon Coe and Marc Riley, a new duo as part of the recent reshuffle at 6 Music.

    From weird nostalgia to weak formats, 6 Music is having an identity crisis

    Daniel Dylan Wray
    In trying to shake off the ‘6 Music Dad’ tag and not be thought of as an indie rock hub, the BBC radio station isn’t sure what it wants to be any more

April 2023

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Britain is a dying nation in need of new curators

    Stewart Lee
    The Tories’ scorched earth policy has wrecked our rivers, our NHS, our freedom of movement. Now even 6 Music is at risk

March 2022

  • From left: Sherelle; Little Simz; Lizzo; Dry Cleaning; Wet Leg

    ‘It was a Lazarus story’: how BBC 6 Music rose from the dead to become the home of new music

    As the indie station celebrates its 20th anniversary, key players explain its humble roots, how it survived the threat of cancellation, and how they see its future

December 2021

  • Huey Morgan

    The person who got me through 2021
    The person who got me through 2021: Huey Morgan comforted me amid a deluge of human waste

    I had plumbing problems and his radio show transported me from the faecal hellscape in my garden. It became the ideal soundtrack for my pandemic reality

September 2021

  • Dua Lipa at the 2021 Grammy awards, Los Angeles.

    Gender disparity in UK radio report shows minor improvements on 2020

  • The towers of the World Trade Center pour smoke shortly after being struck by hijacked commercial airplanes in New York on September 11, 2001.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: 9/12; StoryCast 21: 9/11 Janice Brooks: Inside the South Tower and more

March 2021

  • 6Music’s Lauren Laverne is one of the breakfast show hosts spared from having to relocate, but other programme hosts will be expected to move

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    Radio roadshow: the Beeb's big move away from London

  • Simon Mayo

    The week in audio: Boom Radio; The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show; Penny Smith

January 2021

  • John Lennon and David Bowie at the 1975 Grammy awards.

    'David was terrified': the inside story of how Bowie met John Lennon

    A new BBC interview with producer Tony Visconti retells the awkward encounter that led to the creation of David Bowie and John Lennon’s US No 1 Fame

November 2020

  • Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan, circa 1987.

    Radio 1 to air censored version of Pogues' Fairytale of New York

    Offensive words in the Christmas song to be removed or altered for Radio 1, but remain unchanged on Radio 2

August 2020

  • British-Kosovar pop star Dua Lipa is one of the most-played female acts on UK radio.

    Female British artists underrepresented on UK radio, survey finds

    Fewer than one in five songs in top 100 airplay chart so far this year were by British female acts

January 2020

  • Ecologist Timothy Morton

    The week in radio and podcasts: The End of the World Has Already Happened, Wild Music and more

    Philosopher Timothy Morton and Greta Thunberg ushered in the new year with practical and engaging takes on the climate crisis

November 2019

  • Lunch With Cerys Matthews

    Lunch with...
    Cerys Matthews: ‘Come Brexit, I’ll be scrumping nettles’

    The BBC Radio 6 Music presenter and author of Where the Wild Cooks Go on flamenco, foraging and south Indian food

September 2019

  • ‘Soon to be legendary’ … Paul Langley, left, and Radcliffe, who call themselves UNE.

    Mark Radcliffe, electronica god: 'I'm not just some radio bloke having a dabble'

  • Mark Radcliffe

    Mark Radcliffe ‘surprised’ to lose BBC show during cancer

January 2019

  • Lauren Laverne in the 6 Music studio

    The week in radio and podcasts: Lauren Laverne; Mary Anne Hobbs; Shaun Keaveny

    With Laverne moving to the indie music station’s breakfast slot, it’s all change, and all for the better

August 2018

  • Kirsty Young

    Kirsty Young to take Desert Island Discs break because of illness

    Lauren Laverne will cover BBC Radio 4 show while host is away due to fibromyalgia
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