Schedule

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On Air

BCB Music Showcase

8:00

BCB Breakfast

Wake up with BCB radio!

9:00

Pick of the Podcasts

A look at Bradford and West Yorkshire podcasts

Presented by: Mike Kelly

10:00

Democracy Now!

The daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists.

Presented by: Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez

11:00

About Bradford

Slices of Bradford life

Presented by Tony Painter, Jenny Painter

12:00

JD's Showbiz Razzle Dazzle

Jacqui Drake talks people connected with Theatre. She chats to them about their involvement, their love of the arts, how they got started and plays their favourite show tunes. Join Jacqui on this musical "Toe Tapping" ride!

Presented by Jacqui Drake

13:00

Grow Your Own Way

How to grow anything and everything, indoors and outdoors in Bradford. Recorded on their allotments, or in the greenhouse if it's raining.

Growing in backyards, pots and indoors too, including 'Plant of the week', what's to be done throughout the week and answering listeners' questions.

Presented by: Martin Bijl, Sarah White

13:30

The Scribes' Show

Chats with local authors about their works and life

Presented by: Tina Watkin

14:00

10 Today

Tune in to 10 minutes of physical activity everyday. It's good for you and fun to do!

14:13

Whittaker's World

Each week Clive Whittaker delves into a topic.

15:00

Afternoon Stretch

Music and chat

Presented by: Alan Keeling, Tina Watkin

16:00

Bradford & Beyond

Slices of Bradford Life

Presented by: Peg Alexander

18:00

The Autism Team

The Autism Team is the result of a workshop partnership with Specialist Autism Services (SAS): a Social Enterprise that provides a wide range of workshops for autistic adults to develop their social skills at their centres in Bradford, Leeds and Calderdale.

18:30

BCB Xtra

The voice of Bradford's young people

19:00

Bollywood Hits

The best selection of Bollywood bangers! 

Presented by Saj Hussain

20:00

Lullabies For Roads and Miles

An hour of ace new music

Presented by Jem

21:00

Selection Box

Sounds for music lovers

Presented by: Patrick Thornton

22:00

Griff's Magic Theatre

Where the price of entry is your mind!

Presented by: Griff

23:00

Dream Machine Radio

A soothing mix of tempered jazz, ambient piano, soulful electronica, tension busting punk, dreamy pop, fractured folk, spoken word and many other assorted nuggets of owl nourishment.

1.Wooden Shjips – Back to Land
2. Tony Allen featuring Ben Okri and Skepta – Cosmosis
3. Benjamin Zephaniah and Rodney P – Slow Motion
4. Hania Rani and Patrick Watson - Dancing with Ghosts
5. Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit (Rashad Becker remix) – The Sticks
6. Monique Rhodes (feat Pema Chodron) - Being Present
7. Nikolai Rimsky – Korsakov , Sebastian Comberti and Miriam Keogh 2002 – Chanson Indoue
8. Laura Veirs – Raven Marching Band
9. Lambchop – Up with people
10. Julie London – When I grow too old to dream
11. Frank Ocean – Moon River
12. Carla Bley and Steve Swallow  –  Utviklingssang
13. Olafur Arnalds - Spiral Presented by Mark Haslam

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BCB Music Showcase

About the BCB Schedule

BCB broadcasts a wide range of speech based and specialist music programmes, as well as local sports and live events. Our weekday daytime programming is speech led, moving into community programming at 6pm, the BCB Extra Youth strand at 6.30, Asian language programming at 7pm and finishing with an eclectic range of specialist music from 8pm onwards.

The weekend schedule reflects the local sports scene, community language programmes as well as outside broadcasts and the chance to catch up with the programmes you’ve missed during the week.

The programme schedule changes daily with over 80 new programmes broadcast throughout the week.

Radio Venus 2024

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Radio Venus 2024 BCB celebrations International Women's Day 2024. Find out more!

Windrush75

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A celebration of the 75th anniverary of Windrush across the Bradford District. Listen Here

Refugee Week 2023

Tune in for a unique range of distinctly Bradford shows and interviews on Refugee Week 2023.

Black History Month

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Listen again to a selection of our Black History Month shows celebrating Bradford’s African & African Caribbean communities.

10 Today project

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Let's do 10 mins exercise on the radio! Join us 2pm every day on BCB Radio 106.6fm Read more

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