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Wavelength World of Music - September 18, 2025

These programs may contain occasional adult content.  Opinions expressed are Wavelength's alone, and do not reflect any collective Sapphire FM position. 
 
Playlist

(00.15) Nation Of Language/Inept Apollo   (05.50) Sally Oldfield/Morning Of My Life   (10.55) Arturo Benavenides/Desiderata   (17.26) Angélique Kidjo & Yo Yo Ma/Summertime (live, Hollywood Bowl, sung in Swahili)   (20.45) David & Romany Gilmour/Between Two Points   (26.10) Manfred Mann/Pretty Flamingo   (30.13) Bill Bailey/The Typewriter (Last Night Of The Proms, 2025)   (33.24) Mary Chapin Carpenter/Goodnight America   (38.57) Radical Face/Welcome Home   (44.53) Ocie Elliott/Like A River   (48.19) Angélique Kidjo/Afirika (live, The Proms)   (57.16) Ozark Mountain Daredevils/It'll Shine When It Shines   (01.00.41) Charlotte Cardin/Main Girl   (01.05.48) Queen & the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus & Singers/Bohemian Rhapsody (at the Last Night Of The Proms, Sept 13, 2025)     

Program Links

David Gilmour’s Astoria Houseboat Studio  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria_(houseboat)
Short films of Arturo Benavenides   https://www.youtube.com/@artbenavides
The Proms (all available concerts)    www.bbc.co.uk/proms
50th Anniversary of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (news story)  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyn7lq1q1ro
Watch Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Last Night Of The Proms  https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/play/m002k6dr
Watch Bill Bailey’s The Typewriter, Last Night Of The Proms (at approx. 35.00 mins)   https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/play/m002jm3q   
The Typewriter, by Leroy Anderson   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typewriter 
Watch Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Mahler’s 5th Symphony, The Proms, August 29  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002hqxz/bbc-proms-2025-mahlers-fifth-at-the-proms 
Listen to the full Last Night Of The Proms’ (4 hours)  https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/play/m002j624 
Listen to St Vincent’s full concert, Sept 3 (2 hours)  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002hlh7

nb: concerts are posted for a limited time, although the BBC indicates Mahler’s 5th is available for 11 months.  Use of a VPN, connected to a UK server, is recommended. 

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