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Wake up to new music and forgotten classics

Chris Hawkins fires up Thursday with the biggest tunes and future classics.

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Music Played

  • Michael Kiwanuka

    Black Man In A White World

    • Polydor Records.

  • Gorillaz

    Orange County (feat. Bizarrap, Anoushka Shankar & Kara Jackson)

    • Kong.

  • Groove Armada

    At The River

    • Pepper.

  • TVAM

    Powder Blue

    • Ruins.
    • Invada.

  • HAIM

    Lost Track

    • Polydor.

  • This Is Lorelei

    SF & GG

    • Double Double Whammy.

  • Greentea Peng

    Your Mind (6 Music Session, 15 Jun 2022)

  • Father John Misty

    The Old Law

    • Sub Pop.

  • David Bowie

    Starman

    • EMI.

  • Tony Bontana

    Battered Chips

    • Everything Is Perfect Records.

  • Leila

    Won't You Be My Baby, Baby (feat. Luca Santucci)

    • Like Weather (Remastered Edition).
    • Modern Love.
    • 12.

  • Daniel Avery

    The Ghost of Her Smile (feat. Julie Dawson)

    • Domino.

  • The S.O.S. Band

    Just Be Good To Me

    • CBS.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • Deltasonic.

  • Snooper

    Guard Dog

    • Third Man.

  • Two Door Cinema Club

    Undercover Martyn

    • CD SINGLE.
    • KITSUNE.
    • 1.

  • Blondie

    Call Me

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Mitski

    Where's My Phone

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Kim Deal

    Big Ben Beat

    • 4AD.

  • Inspiral Carpets

    Saturn 5

    • Cow Records.

  • The Itch

    Aux Romanticiser

  • Wesley Joseph

    Peace Of Mind (feat. Danny Brown)

    • Secretly Canadian.

  • little grandad

    Sleepwalking (6 Music Session, 19th Jan 2026)

  • Janet Kay

    Silly Games

    • Columbia.

  • Nas & DJ Premier

    My Life is Real

    • Mass Appeal.

  • Cocteau Twins

    Heaven Or Las Vegas

    • HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS.
    • 4 A.D..

  • Chet Faker

    Over You

  • Cornershop

    Natch (feat. Bubbley Kaur)

    • Rough Trade.

  • Arlo Parks

    2SIDED

    • Transgressive Records.

  • Hans Zimmer

    You're So Cool

Broadcast

  • Thursday05:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music