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This Is RadMac Calling: A phone special

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present a feast of great music and chat, and celebrate a couple of telephone anniversaries with a top selection of phone related tunes.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast.

Today, they celebrate two telephone anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of the first handheld mobile phone call and 40 years since the first cordless telephone went on sale in Britain. Mark and Stuart spin some of their favourite phone related tracks, from artists including Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Saint Etienne, Blondie and Arctic Monkeys.

Plus long-running feature ‘The Chain’, which gives listeners the chance to pick a track that links in some way to the last. The list now contains over 8000 songs.

2 hours

Music Played

  • De La Soul

    Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)

    • De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead.
    • Tommy Boy Music.
  • Jungle

    Candle Flame (feat. Erick the Architect)

    • Caiola Records.
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Can't Keep Checking My Phone

    • Jagjaguwar.
  • Wazmo Nariz

    Tele-Tele-Telephone

  • Lavinia Blackwall

    The Damage We Have Done

  • Fun Boy Three

    The Telephone Always Rings

    • Chrysalis.
  • Saint Etienne

    He's On The Phone

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.
  • Sofia Kourtesis

    Madres

    • Ninja Tune.
  • The Long Ryders

    Seasons Change

    • September November.
    • Cherry Red Records.
  • The Byrds

    My Back Pages

    • Columbia.
  • Hak Baker

    Telephones 4 Eyes

    • Hak Attack Records.
  • Pete Shelley

    Telephone Operator

  • Blondie

    Hanging On The Telephone

    • Chrysalis.
  • Feist

    In Lightning

    • Virgin.
  • Missy Elliott

    Beep Me 911 (feat. 702 & Magoo)

    • EastWest.
  • The Supremes

    Someday We'll Be Together

    • Cream Of The Crop.
    • UNI/MOTOWN.
    • 1.
  • Belle and Sebastian

    When You're Not With Me

    • Matador Records.
  • Department S

    Is Vic There

  • Sinkane

    Telephone

    • Objectif 2017.
    • City Slang.
    • 002.
  • Jockstrap

    Debra

    • Rough Trade.
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Red Frame/White Light

    • Virgin.
  • Wilson Pickett

    634-5789 (Soulsville USA)

    • Wilson Pickett - A Man And A Half.
    • Rhino.
  • Baby Rose

    Ι Won't Tell (feat. Smino)

    • Secretly Canadian.
  • Lizzo

    Phone

    • Coconut Oil.
    • Nice Life/Atlantic.
    • 2.
  • Arctic Monkeys

    Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

    • DOMINO RECORD CO LTD.
  • The Fall

    Telephone Thing

    • Extricate.
    • Cog Sinister.

Broadcast

  • Sat 29 Apr 2023 08:00