| Date | Host | Highlight | On Demand |
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| Feb. 27, 2026 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month spotlight on Rebop Kwaku Baah (Part 2) |
available 
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| Feb. 13, 2026 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month spotlight on Rebop Kwaku Baah (Part 1) |
available
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| Jan. 30, 2026 | Heavy Ben | Philip Glass Performed By Dedalus Ensemble |
available
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| Jan. 16, 2026 | Heavy Ben | John Carpenter |
available
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| Jan. 2, 2026 | Heavy Ben | 2025 Under The Radar: Ambient, Electronic, Fourth World |
available
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| Dec. 19, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Mulatu Astatke ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ |
available
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| Dec. 5, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Ottawa live performance!) |
available
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| Nov. 21, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Steve Reich: Music For 18 Musicians |
available
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| Nov. 7, 2025 | Heavy Ben & Rachel Weldon (Debaser) | A Sonic Bridge (show preview), Radio Art to support CKCU |
available
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| Oct. 24, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Canadian, Independent, New... where CKCU is at! |
available
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| Oct. 10, 2025 | Heavy Ben | From the Library: Tele Music |
available
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| Sep. 26, 2025 | Heavy Ben | DJ Food's "O Is For Orange" Boards of Canada mix |
available
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| Sep. 12, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Coversions XVIII: Dave Allen (Gang Of Four, Shriekback) |
available
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| Aug. 29, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Jim O'Rourke's Happy Days and Bad Timing |
available
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| Aug. 15, 2025 | Heavy Ben | The Fugs |
available
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| Aug. 1, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Annea Lockwood |
available
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| Jul. 18, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Brian Auger |
available
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| Jul. 4, 2025 | Heavy Ben | American Dreams |
available
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| Jun. 20, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Peter Gordon & Love Of Life Orchestra |
available
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| Jun. 6, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Psych-Fi's, Del-Fi's, Bop Fi's: Jerry Leger's Spontaneous Side Dishes |
available
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| May. 23, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Coversions XVII: The Fela Kuti Edition |
available
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| May. 9, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Coversions XVI: The African Edition |
available
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| Apr. 25, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Arv & Miljö |
available
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| Apr. 11, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Ilaiyaraaja: Tamil film scores from the 1970s and 80s |
available
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| Mar. 28, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Water Part V: Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies: Swiss Water Trilogy |
available
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| Mar. 14, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Les Baxter |
available
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| Feb. 28, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month spotlight on Actress |
available
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| Feb. 14, 2025 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month profile on Nikki Giovanni |
available
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| Jan. 31, 2025 | Heavy Ben | The Revenge of 2024 Under The Radar |
available
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| Jan. 17, 2025 | Heavy Ben | The Return of the Son of 2024 Under The Radar |
available
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| Jan. 3, 2025 | Heavy Ben | 2024 Under The Radar |
available
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| Dec. 20, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Ultraääni Records (rock, dub reggae, electronic, folk, hip hop, funk) |
available
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| Dec. 6, 2024 | Heavy Ben | 14 songs for 14 murdered women |
available
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| Nov. 22, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Post Funding Drive Chillout Room |
available
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| Nov. 8, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Support CKCU with Bollywood, Shalabi Effect, Minnie Riperton, The Move, UI and Bruce Haack |
available
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| Oct. 25, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Roedelius: music therapy and the importance of Nazis not controlling your radio station |
available
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| Oct. 11, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Tom Zé |
available
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| Sep. 27, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Coversions XV: Robbie Shakespeare and the Roots of Dub in 1975 |
available
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| Sep. 13, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Water Part IV: Electronic Sounds From France 1962-1984 |
available
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| Aug. 30, 2024 | Heavy Ben | John Peel Sessions |
available
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| Aug. 16, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Coversions XIV: Madonna / Italians Do It Better |
available
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| Aug. 2, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Coversions XIII: The Summer Sunshine Edition |
available
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| Jul. 19, 2024 | Heavy Ben | After The Heat |
available
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| Jul. 5, 2024 | Heavy Ben | environments: cicadas, crickets, katydids |
available
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| Jun. 21, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Summer Solstice, National Indigenous Peoples Day |
available
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| Jun. 7, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Coversions XII: The Building Blocks of Hip Hop - David Axelrod productions |
available
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| May. 24, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Chong, Shepp & Russell + new releases |
available
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| May. 10, 2024 | Heavy Ben | 16 Musicians born on the 10th of May |
available
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| Apr. 26, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Coversions XI: The Building Blocks of Hip Hop - David Axelrod recordings |
available
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| Apr. 12, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Herbie Hancock |
available
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| Mar. 29, 2024 | Heavy Ben | From the Library: John Cameron |
available
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| Mar. 15, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Everywhere you go you can be sure of Shell |
available
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| Mar. 1, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Elongated Arrangements Disposed to Speculate |
available
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| Feb. 16, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month: Psychedelic Rock in 1970s Nigeria |
available
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| Feb. 2, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month: the return of the wayback machine to early hip hop, electro and disco rap |
available
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| Jan. 19, 2024 | Heavy Ben | Water Part III: Listen To The Fish |
available
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| Jan. 5, 2024 | Heavy Ben | From The Archives 1: Mort Garson, Dream Dolphin, Dub Specialist |
available
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| Dec. 22, 2023 | Heavy Ben | 2023 Under the Radar |
available
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| Dec. 8, 2023 | Bruce Walton | the present day composer refuses to die! |
available
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| Nov. 24, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Coversions X: Dub Time |
available
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| Nov. 10, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Ennio Morricone, Carl Stalling, and Billy May soundtrack our funding drive |
available
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| Oct. 27, 2023 | Heavy Ben | You had me at Library. CKCU's Funding Drive begins. |
available
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| Oct. 13, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Sarah Davachi, Bernard Parmegiani |
available
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| Sep. 29, 2023 | Heavy Ben | 추석을 기념하는 현대국악 Modern Korean music to celebrate Chuseok |
available
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| Sep. 1, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Water Part II: Rüdiger Lorenz, Yu Su |
available
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| Aug. 18, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Water Part I: Michael Hoenig & Manuel Göttsching, Annea Lockwood |
available
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| Aug. 4, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Sonic Adventures in Spiritual Music |
available
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| Jul. 21, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Khotin, Jon Hassell, Finis Africae |
available
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| Jul. 7, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Whatitdo Archive Group, Braids, Androo, Brown Spirits |
available
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| Jun. 23, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Georges and Russells |
available
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| Jun. 9, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Happy Cycling |
available
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| May. 26, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Moondog |
available
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| May. 12, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Coversions VIII: Gordon Lightfoot, Wayfaring Stranger, Ed Sheeran, and chord ownership |
available
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| Apr. 28, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Mark Stewart (The Pop Group, The Maffia, New Age Steppers) |
available
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| Apr. 14, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Coversions VII: covers | versions | edits | dubs | remixes : The Bacharach Edition |
available
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| Mar. 31, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Jam Can: Canadian Reggae from the 70s and 80s |
available
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| Mar. 17, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Irish Not Irish |
available
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| Mar. 3, 2023 | Heavy Ben | A Glitchy Immersive |
available
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| Feb. 17, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month: Julius Eastman's "Femenine" |
available
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| Feb. 3, 2023 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe |
available
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| Jan. 20, 2023 | Heavy Ben | David Lynch |
available
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| Jan. 6, 2023 | Heavy Ben | 2023, Retrofuturism, and the Inevitable Re-Ron |
available
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| Dec. 23, 2022 | Heavy Ben | 1990s Ambient |
available
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| Dec. 9, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Beak>, Anika, sci-fi soundtracks) |
available
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| Nov. 25, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Ambient 22 |
available
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| Nov. 11, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Birthdays, connections, and funding drive |
available
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| Oct. 28, 2022 | Heavy Ben | October is "Library Month" and CKCU's Funding Drive begins |
available
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| Oct. 14, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Interactive Music Systems |
available
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| Sep. 30, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Geronimo Inutiq (aka. DJ Madeskimo) and an empty apology |
available
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| Sep. 16, 2022 | Heavy Ben | No Future: The Legacy of The Royals |
available
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| Sep. 2, 2022 | Heavy Ben | It's a Re-Ron of... Truth, a metaphor and 90s rock |
available
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| Aug. 19, 2022 | Heavy Ben | It's a Re-Ron of... Coversions I: covers | versions | edits | dubs | remixes |
available
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| Aug. 5, 2022 | Heavy Ben | It's a Re-Ron (it's like Geritol) of... Côte d'Ivoire, James Randi, the calculator |
available
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| Jul. 22, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Coversions VI: covers | versions | edits | dubs | remixes : The Repetition Edition |
available
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| Jul. 8, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Tones, Drones, and Moans |
available
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| Jun. 24, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Cerumen Surplus: Losing Touch With My Ears |
available
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| Jun. 10, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Radio, Live Transmission... Songs for Dr. Ian |
available
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| May. 27, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Coversions V: covers | versions | edits | dubs | remixes |
available
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| May. 13, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Yasiin Bey (f.n.a. Mos Def) & Talib Kweli are Black Star |
available
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| Apr. 29, 2022 | Heavy Ben | From the Library: Klaus Netzle (Claude Larson) |
available
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| Apr. 15, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Eden Ahbez |
available
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| Apr. 1, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Connect the musical dots... encore |
available
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| Mar. 18, 2022 | Heavy Ben | From the Library: Alessandro Alessandroni |
available
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| Mar. 4, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Garrett List, Frederic Rzewski, Jon Gibson |
available
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| Feb. 18, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month: Betty Davis, Geraldine Hunt, Kamasi Washington |
available
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| Feb. 4, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month wayback machine to early hip hop, electro and disco rap |
available
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| Jan. 21, 2022 | Heavy Ben | Coversions IV: covers | versions | edits | dubs | remixes |
available
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| Jan. 7, 2022 | Heavy Ben | The jazzy progressive side of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina |
available
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| Dec. 24, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Winter Solstice, Saturnalia & Snow |
available
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| Dec. 10, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Hardcastle, Danko, Mascis & Messiaen |
available
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| Nov. 26, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Connect the musical dots... |
available
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| Nov. 12, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Digital Dice in the Drive |
available
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| Oct. 29, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Weldon Irvine, Madlib, Parry Music Library |
available
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| Oct. 15, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Melodic and Rhythmic Patterns from Africa and South-East Asia |
available
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| Oct. 1, 2021 | Heavy Ben | We don't need no education: Music for our National Day for Truth and Reconciliation |
available
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| Sep. 17, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Damn Good Coffee: guitar-based instrumentals to soundtrack my own private Twin Peaks |
available
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| Sep. 3, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Pandit Subhankar Banerjee |
available
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| Aug. 20, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Coversions III: covers | versions | edits | dubs | remixes : The Bowie Edition |
available
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| Aug. 6, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Psych Folk from Canada 1967-73 |
available
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| Jul. 23, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Martin Gore, Logan's Run, (askew) Classic Rock '74 |
available
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| Jul. 9, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Save The Whales |
available
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| Jun. 25, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Terry Riley |
available
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| Jun. 11, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Hazel Scott and an empty apology |
available
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| May. 28, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Upon a Moody, Moon-Dark Moor |
available
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| May. 14, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Coversions II: covers | versions | edits | dubs | remixes |
available
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| Apr. 30, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus, Nathan Micay, MinaeMinae |
available
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| Apr. 16, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Music mostly from Brazil, Jamaica, Japan, Canada... mostly |
available
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| Apr. 2, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Electric Theatre |
available
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| Mar. 19, 2021 | Heavy Ben | AIDS, Abortion, Baseball |
available
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| Mar. 5, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Birthdays, electronic sounds, farewell robots |
available
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| Feb. 19, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Black History Month spotlight on Creation Rebel |
available
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| Feb. 5, 2021 | Heavy Ben | William S. Burroughs |
available
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| Jan. 22, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Apple Macintosh and Computing in the 1980s |
available
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| Jan. 8, 2021 | Heavy Ben | Watergate Blues and being doomed to repeat history |
available
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| Dec. 25, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Free Radicals |
available
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| Dec. 11, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Mountains are Heavy |
available
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| Nov. 27, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Community focused Experimental-Ambient-Electronic sounds from Canada |
available
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| Nov. 13, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Timmy Thomas and Aldo Nova: Why Can't We Fantasy Together? |
available
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| Oct. 30, 2020 | Heavy Ben | 1980s Exercises for Funding Drive! |
available
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| Oct. 16, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Bunny "Striker" Lee |
available
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| Oct. 2, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Sounds from summer 2020 |
available
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| Sep. 18, 2020 | Heavy Ben | The Diefenbunker |
available
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| Sep. 4, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Truth, a metaphor and 90s rock |
available
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| Aug. 21, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Coversions I: covers | versions | edits | dubs | remixes |
available
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| Aug. 7, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Côte d'Ivoire, James Randi, the calculator |
available
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| Jul. 24, 2020 | Heavy Ben | Amelia Earhart |
available
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Earlier playlists (if any) pre-date online listings
