Stuart is joined by Ellie and Theo of Wolf Alice ahead of their gig at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. The Mercury Prize winners speak of their genuine love of Showaddywaddy which in turn inspires listeners to share their stories of the band. Paul Heaton chats about his new collection of greatest hits. Northern Soul DJ Richard Searing brings some classic tunes to the 6 Music airwaves. And Friday was the last ever daytime afternoon show for RadMac. Join us for a Christmas party where a...

Stuart decamps to Maida Vale for 6 Music’s All Day Christmas Party to mark Shaun Keaveny’s last breakfast show, and speaks to The Staves and a slightly worse for wear Shaun. Astronaut Tim Peake talks about the yearlong selection process that he went through to work on the International Space Station.

Comedian Bill Bailey talks about about travel and his love of nature. Our Chainee Helen has some serious beef with moving to the very end of the Northern Line, and we hear ways your hometown has bigged itself up. Mat Osman and Brett Anderson of Suede talk about their new album The Blue Hour, and their feature length documentary by Mike Christie Suede: The Insatiable Ones.

Hello there, Stuart Maconie presents another batch of highlights to listen to on the BBC Sounds app. In this episode you'll hear Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley speak about their final Ladybird books for grownups. There's Sid Griffin enthusing about 60s mod group The Action, they've got a new boxset. Tamsin Grieg talks about Pinter at The Pinter, a series of all twenty short Pinter plays at the Harold Pinter theatre, which led Stuart to ask for your Am Dram and school play stories. And...

Hello there, and wow, what a week of guests in this podcast. It's of course, best listened to on BBC Sounds. Other podcast apps are available, but quite frankly, why would you bother with them when there is so much good content here on BBC Sounds? Here's a run down of all those amazing guests: Johnny Marr on why he loves playing live more now than being in the studio. Montreal duo Chromeo, that's David Macklovitch (Dave 1) and Patrick Gemayel (P-Thugg), talk about their album Head Over...

Here are more podcast highlights than you can shake a stick at. In fact, put that stick down and if you haven't already, download the BBC Sounds App and listen on there. Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk of Low chat about their magnificent album Double Negative. There's Eleanor Friedberger on the music she enjoyed as a kid and how she ended up in a Pavement video. Hear the brilliant Khruangbin, that's Laura Lee, Mark Speer and Donald "DJ" Johnson. If you don't know them, the clip in this...

In this podcast you'll hear Stuart's chat with former athlete Tommie Smith on his Black Salute at the 1968 Olympics. Bobbie Gillespie joins him to talk about Give Out But Don't Give Up: The Original Memphis Sessions by Primal Scream. You'll hear a tale about Stu's breakfast at a local hotel which he shared with quite a few famous names. Plus there's defense lawyer David Rudolf on the Netflix series The Staircase.

It's the Radcliffe and Maconie podcast. This will be the last edition with Mark for a little while, as he'll explain towards the end of this episode. Don't worry, he'll be back soon enough. Within this audio compilation you'll hear a chat with author John Niven who's just bought out a novel called 'Kill 'Em All' Jez Kerr and Martin Moscrop of A Certain Ratio have a career spanning compilation 'acr:set' and you'll hear about their early years and how Tony Wilson helped them. Annelotte de...

Welcome once more to our weekly roundup of Radcliffe and Maconie highlights. Hear the best bits from our show which was live School of Fine Arts in the University of Leeds. The event was part of 6 Music's Road to BBC Music Day, where the station decamped and went to four different Art Schools around the country. Stuart was joined by all sorts of Leeds-music related guests including Green Gartside and Neil Howson of Age Of Chance. He also spoke to recent Leeds graduate La Rissa who let him...

This week Albert Hammond Jr talks about the genesis of his album 'Francis Trouble'. Find out what pseudonym Cate Blanchett went under as a child. She chats with Jack Black about their new film 'The House with a Clock in Its Walls'. The Beta Band's classic 1998 compilation album The Three EP's has turned 20. An anniversary edition is out and founder member John Mclean speaks about the group's genesis. Budget Crisp Friday rounds off the week, the day after Young Tom left the fold to find his...

Hear Albert Hammond Jr talking about the genesis of his album 'Francis Trouble'. Found out what Cate Blanchett's childhood pseudonym was. She's with Jack Black talking about their new film 'The House with a Clock in Its Walls'. The Beta Band's classic 1998 compilation album 'The Three E.P.'s' has turned 20. An anniversary edition is out and founder member John Mclean speaks about the group's genesis. The week ends with Budget Crisp Friday, also the day after Young Tom left the fold to find...

Susan Cadogan, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, Orbital, and Adrian Edmondson

Dave Gorman speaks about his stand-up show With Great PowerPoint Comes Great Responsibility. LA singer Julia Holter has an exclusive announcement. Shirley Manson of Garbage drops by to talk about their world tour. Plus there are musings upon finding cash and the boys ask two burning questions: when is someone no longer young? And should the opinions of David Crosby be taken seriously?

Mark and Stuart talk to filmmaker Eugene Jarecki about his new feature length documentary The King, a star-studded musical road trip across America which draws parallels between the life of Elvis Presley and present day USA. Kamasi Washington talks to Stuart about his love of computer games and DJ Marshall Jefferson drops in as part of 6 Music’s All Day Rave, celebrating 30 years since the second summer of love.

This week hear Mark and Stu chat to Jamie, Austin and Ned from Liverpool group The Fernweh. They explain the origin of their unusual name and enthuse about Fairport Convention. Stuart speaks to Stephen Mangan about his new Channel 4 series, Hang Ups. IT Crowd's Katherine Parkinson joins them to talk about her role as Judy in the mildly unsettling 50's themed comedic play 'Home, I'm Darling' which is on at the National Theatre. The chaps chat to Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins and...

Mark, he's one half of Radcliffe and Maconie, is joined by Lucy Porter who painfully reminisced about her worst Edinburgh Fringe gig ever. Former Sex Pistols bass player Glen Matlock mused on his musical influences and the time he was once in The Faces. Gwenno explores the nature of language as she speaks Cornish, Welsh and English. Her album 'Le Kov' is all in Cornish and the title translates as 'A Place of Memory'. Plus you'll hear about some strange and confusing signage that...

Stuart Maconie presents the show solo this week and chats to a couple of really cheery Chain callers. Actor, comedian and musician Matt Berry talks about his love of albums. Stewart Lee joins in on the phone to talk about his stage persona, and the difficulties in separating on-stage from off-stage Stewart Lee. Actress Gemma Aterton should be chatting about her film The Escape, however she's much more interested in talking about how many times she's seen Radiohead in a week. And...

It's a week of Mark Radcliffe and he's joined by former Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas who talks about his film The Festival. Joe explains why he's happy to humiliate himself in the name of film and television. Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub chats down the line from Glasgow. The band have released vinyl reissues of five of their albums and he speaks about their recording archive and how they've kept songwriting within the band democratic. There's a new film about James Lavelle called The...

Stuart Maconie presents an ear full of highlights from a week of the Radcliffe and Maconie show. David Dewaele, Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax chat about their recent career reinvigoration and their Deewee studio. Hear some of his choices for 6 Music Recommends Day, a whole day on the station where DJs play their favourite tracks of 2018 so far. Patrick Campbell of Nirvana, the London group from the 1960s, speaks how they resolved the issue of having the same name as Seattle's famous...

Stuart chats to Alex Neilson and Lavinia Blackwall of Trembling Bells. Their album Dungeness is named after an area of desolate headland on the coast of Kent which houses a nuclear power station. Hear Mark with Mattiel Brown of Mattiel chatting about their self-titled album. Both Mark and Stuart explore the possibilities of a Retro World Cup. And resident musicologist Sid Griffin enthuses about influential 1960s group, Moby Grape.

It was just Mark on the show this week. He was joined by Alex Paterson and Youth of The Orb who talked about the early days of the group. Wayne Kramer of MC5 popped into the show and talked about the difficulties of being part of such a creative force. Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale spoke about their love of masks. And there was a brand new feature... Radcliffe and Maconie (minus Maconie) sing the great instrumentals.

Mark and Stuart speak to Caitlin Moran about her new book How To Be Famous. She laments about a lack of positive role models for both men and women. Later on she reveals the killer question she asked Paul McCartney... unfortunately, it didn't go down very well. Comedian Rob Brydon stars in a new movie Swimming With Men which is about a middle-aged all-male synchronised swimming team. He talks about the difficulties of filming in water all day. James Skelly of The Coral chats about how...

David Byrne on American Utopia, Gaz Coombes, and Will Gregory & Adrian Utley.

Mark and Stu chat to Sarah Nixey and Luke Haines of Black Box Recorder about how the band originally got together. Tanya Donelly and Gail Greenwood of Belly let the chaps know that they've never really been away. The second series of wrestling comedy Glow is up online and star Kate Nash joined them to talk about how wrestling training has changed the way she's thought about herself. And then there's this stuff: Chats about communal baths, The Smurfs, The Groundhogs opening a coffee...