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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

The complete recording will be given its world premiere along with an interview with Neil, Chris and Alan Turing biographer Andrew Hodges during Stuart Maconie’s "Freak Zone" show on BBC Radio 6Music on Sunday, 4th October at 8pm UK time.

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Last Night Of The Proms talking Prog and Northern Soul Proms, Lennox Berkeley, Dolly and maybe more!!

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thanks Joe! You should have said hello xx

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So I’m around the Adelphi all day for International Beatle Week talking to @marklewisohn.bsky.social and Freda Kelly. I don’t know if they’ll have my Beatle book so nip to a bookshop and bring it and I’ll sign it!!!

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We only ever play an excerpt of the guests ‘First’ and ‘Last’. Otherwise the feature would take way too long.

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hello. Matt Berry’s brilliant Television Themes album featured on Freak Zone right now as well as Forest, Julia Holter, France Gal, Mike Oldfield, Ash Ra Tempel, devotional stoner rock, Nordic prog, Turkish psych…..

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Stupidly late to alert you to this absolute Kindle bargain. While stocks last (end August)

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'm at Belfast City Airport and they're playing Starry Eyes by The Records and 'proustian rush' doesn't even come close...

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m not sure what’s happened here. It’s nothing to do with me and I do apologise. I will find out. Thank you for listening !

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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Banger after banger on #RadMac right now, thank you @stuartmaconie.bsky.social sir

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Alison Cotton @alisoncotton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Only 6 days left to listen to my @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social #freakzone playlist! Dorothy Carter, Mr Fox, Kali Malone & Drew McDowall, Cluster & Brian Eno, Amon Duul II, Glide (Will Sergeant), Veronique Chalot, Dawn Terry & more. @stuartmaconie.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I once went to a regatta in Salcombe and it was utterly unfathomable

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Let’s hope so, sinister mandarins!

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

…. also a selection from The Snow Goose was in my original thinking (see also Caravan etc) But in the end, it came down to getting the right mix of famous, obscure ‘immediate’ and deep cut, the voices, and the fact that there was no way I was not including some Gentle Giant!

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thanks for your thoughtful review. I did ask several of the people that you mentioned and received many gracious enthusiastic replies and apologies from the likes of Ian Anderson Peter Gabriel et cetera who were either away on holiday or hearteningly playing gigs elsewhere that night in Europe…..

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The prom was two hours long and the TV edit was always going to have to lose something to fit the slot

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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And I’ll be at @waterstoneskids.bsky.social Piccadilly on Sunday if your kids fancy a drawing session! You can get tix here: www.waterstones.com/events/comic...

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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If the summer holiday boredom has already hit, I am on telly tmoz doing a drawalong. So that’ll be five mins accounted for at least

I’ll be on Go Get Arty on CBBC this Friday. So this is a pic of me holding up a drawing

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 19/07/2026

#OtD 19 Jul 1984 the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland when Mary Manning was suspended for refusing to check out South African fruit. She and 11 others went on strike for three years until the govt banned SA goods stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9108...

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The on site barber is having a nightmare

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

You can make this horror stop by putting the Freak Zone on in 9 mins.

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This track from the new #Squarepusher album (which is absolutely fantastic) gave me real Gentle Giant vibes....The Prog Prom this Saturday live on @radio3.bsky.social with TV and more radio to come open.spotify.com/track/5IzMnm...

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Any chance of mentioning Morgan Rogers?

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As a prescriptive linguist, I refuse to accept this semantic shift

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I know the Clacton poll is a serious matter (🙄)but I am becoming increasingly concerned about the inaccurate use of the “dogs dinner” idiom. It means ‘dressed up fancy’ not ‘ a mess’. That’s a dog’s breakfast.

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you’re in Ledbury, Herefordshire this afternoon and looking for poetry related kicks, I’m talking about some of my favourite poems at the festival at 4 pm

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Rob @covers.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

@stuartmaconie.bsky.social It has returned…

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Love this guys writing, but ‘fear not’ bit arch. Anyway the books great.

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’ve loved the Brazilian national anthem since hearing it tons as a football mad primary school kid during Mexico 70. It’s a total banger

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thank you doc! That’s exactly how I wanted people to listen. But whatever space you can find these next few evenings…it is good honest…listen again at @bbcsounds.bsky.social

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This ITV analysis reminds me…must play the theme from Farmhouse Kitchen as an interstitial this weekend

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Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I so have to know what this whisky was

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