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Author Zadie Smith joins around her new essay collection, Dead and Alive

Author Zadie Smith joins around her new essay collection, Dead and Alive

Lauren gives you the finest blend of fantastic music for your Tuesday morning, we take a moment to reflect something beautiful happening with our 6 Music listeners in the Beauty Spot, and look forward to the day ahead in A View From The Afternoon

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Tue 4 Nov 2025 10:00
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Music Played

  • The Slits

    Typical Girls

    • CUT.
    • Island.

  • Dry Cleaning

    Hit My Head All Day

    • 4AD.

  • Girl Ray

    Trouble

    • Moshi Moshi Singles Club.

  • Yndling

    Time Time Time (I'm In The Palm Of Your Hand)

    • Spirit Goth Records.

  • NewDad

    Everything I Wanted

    • Fair Youth.

  • Doves

    Spirit Of Your Friend

    • EMI North.

  • The Chambers Brothers

    Time Has Come Today

    • Milan.

  • Sleaford Mods

    The Good Life (feat. Big Special & Gwendoline Christie)

    • Rough Trade.

  • Massive Attack

    Protection (feat. Tracey Thorn)

    • Wild Bunch.

  • Nas

    Get Down

    • God's Son.
    • Columbia.

  • En Vogue

    My Lovin

    • MY LOVIN.
    • EastWest.

  • Coldcut

    Beats + Pieces

    • Ahead Of Our Time.

  • Boogie Down Productions

    South Bronx

    • South Bronx.
    • B-Boy Records.
    • 1.

  • Public Enemy

    Fight The Power

    • The No.1 Rap Album.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 7.

  • Laura Marling

    Devil's Spoke

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Chanel Beads

    The Coward Forgets His Nightmare

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover

    Fluorescent Light

    • What of Our Nature.
    • FAT POSSUM RECORDS.
    • 7.

  • Miriam Makeba

    Pata Pata

    • Buried Treasure: Lost Gems From Deep In The '60s Vaults CD2.
    • Reprise Records.
    • 8.

  • Thundercat

    Children of the Baked Potato (feat. Remi Wolf)

    • Brainfeeder.

  • Falle Nioke

    Heaviness

    • Eat Your Own Ears Recordings.

  • José González

    Pajarito

    • City Slang.

  • Geese

    Cobra

    • Partisan.

  • Young Disciples

    Apparently Nothin'

    • TALKIN' LOUD.

  • boygenius

    Cool About It

    • Polydor.

  • Joshua Idehen

    It Always Was

    • Heavenly.

  • Father John Misty

    I Guess Time Just Makes Fools Of Us All

    • Bella Union.

  • Florence + the Machine

    Sympathy Magic

    • Polydor.

  • Jacob Alon

    Of Amber

    • Island.

  • Jacob Alon

    Liquid Gold 25

    • Universal.

  • Jacob Alon

    Don't Fall Asleep

    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..

  • Jacob Alon

    Don't Fall Asleep

    • Island Records.

  • Ethel Cain

    Dust Bowl

    • Daughters Of Cain.

  • Mac DeMarco

    On The Level

  • The Dead Weather

    Treat Me Like Your Mother

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Turnstile

    I CARE

    • Roadrunner Records.

  • W.I.T.C.H

    Once In A lifetime

  • Mobb Deep

    Against The World

    • Mass Appeal.

  • Albertine Sarges

    Free Today

    • Moshi Moshi.

  • Idris Muhammad

    Could Heaven Ever Be Like This

    • The Best Of.
    • Cherry Red.

Broadcast

  • Tue 4 Nov 2025 10:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music