4th August 2025

Geoff chats with Dave McCabe of The Zutons and Simon Fowler of Ocean Colour Scene. There are classic albums from Primal Scream in 1994, and Argent in 1973. Our ‘Best of British’ feature is nominating Arctic Monkeys and The Zombies. The Rock Almanac features Bob Seger, The Police, Kiss, Nickelback, The Small Faces, and Queen. …

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28th July 2025

Geoff chats to Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues, and Pete Ellard of ScoutingFor Girls. The classic album is by Bad Company from 1974. In ‘Best of British’, we have The Kinks and Brinsley Schwarz. Hot new songs include Wolf Alice, Tom Odell, The Charlatans, Maddox Jones, The Speaker Wars, and Garbage. In the Rock …

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21st July 2025

Geoff chats to Hamish Hawk about Franz Ferdinand. Our classic album is by Queen from 1974. There is a ton of new music including Richard Ashcroft, The Lottery Winners feat. Chad Kroeger, Mark Ronson feat. Raye, the new album by Wet Leg: ‘Moisturizer’, and Amy MacDonald. In the Rock Almanac we have stories and music …

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14th July 2025

Geoff celebrates the 40th anniversary of Live Aid by chatting to artists who were performing on the day. These include: Midge Ure, Queen, Tony Hadley, The Who, Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, Thomas Dolby, Francis Rossi of Status Quo, Howard Jones, Dire Straits, Paul Young, and David Paton of Pilot. Plus we have an in-depth chat …

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7th July 2025

Repeat of show originally broadcast week commencing 8th July 2024.

23rd June 2025

Geoff chats to Dave McCabe of The Zutons and Stephen Holt of Inspiral Carpets. There are new tracks from Alison Goldfrapp, The Stereophonics (from the new album), Elbow (from the new EP), Suede, Myles Smith, Robbie Williams feat. Tony Iommi, and Ed Sheeran (from his new album ‘Play’). The classic album is INXS from 1987. …

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16th June 2025

Geoff chats with ‘Hall of Fame’ songwriter John Bettis, who wrote Michael Jackson’s ‘Human Nature’. In the Rock Almanac, there are stories on Bob Dylan, The Verve, Santana, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, and Elvis Presley. Our classic album is The Steve Miller Band from 1976. There are hot new songs from Alex Warren feat. Jelly …

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