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After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 to 05:00, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac or smart speaker and join me in The Early Years where and when you'll hear the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.
That's what I say in 2021 but that's not what I said five years ago tomorrow, Sept. 25, 2016. Then, I said this.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Sleepers from 1996 and Sixteen Candles from 1984.
Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 book of the same name.

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
Dinah Washington was more than just the “Queen of The Jukeboxes,” “Queen Of The Blues” and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on her.
Dinah was the real deal. As one of the best selling artists of the 20th Century, Dinah was no pop sensation or flash in the pan. She was a consummate artist, who developed a playful, yet serious style of phrasing all her own.

This week on Deep Dive we discover which fun guy loves Judy Collins. We look from both sides now, here about when I go, and learn when to send in the clowns. Judy Collins is a wonderful talent with a long career so there is much to choose from.

Join me, and the other fun guy, at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 6 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, which is 8 PM in Eastern Australia. Just walk up to your SmartSpeaker of choice and say commandingly, play Mushroom FM and you will be there.

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.

It’s Jonathan Mosen back with another edition of Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family. I’ve delved into our huge Small World…or is it small huge world??? No, no, it’s definitely huge Small World collection, and I have another two great hours of family entertainment for you.

You’ll hear the classics fiddled with like you’ve never heard them fiddled with before.

I’ll play you a couple of bedtime stories, but you have to promise me to try not to fall asleep or I’ll get lonely!

We meet a whale who has some big and unusual dreams.

After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 to 05:00, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac or smart speaker and join me in The Early Years where and when you'll hear the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know that your folkish fix is back for another week with Come by the Hills! Yes, once again, I've got three hours of the best in Folk and Celtic music, a couple of songs to usher in the impending Autumnal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, and another teaser from the as-yet-unreleased second volume of the Joni Mitchell Archives.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described Movies Bohemian Rhapsody from 2018 and the Art of Racing in the Rain from 2019.
Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 biographical musical drama film directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay by Anthony McCarten, and produced by Graham King and Queen manager Jim Beach.

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.