"Mid 1960s and in the heat of an African night a teenage boy fiddles with the dial on his father’s short-wave radio in a desperate bid to find the sound of home. Through the crackle of reception he picks up the UK chart run down and is amazed that even in the middle of the night, in the middle of Africa he is receiving radio form Britain. This was Joe Strummer’s introduction to BBC World Service radio. He had been visiting his father who was working in Malawi and as he recalls:‘It was fantastic to be undeniably receiving radio from Britain. Ever since then I've always wanted to spin records on the World Service’"
Playlists and links to the archived shows here.
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