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Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: All the President's Men and Aces High.

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 All the President's Men from 1976 and Aces High from 1976.
All the President's Men is a 1976 American Political biographical drama film about the Watergate scandal, which brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.

Sun Records and R&B, Part 1 this week on The Juke In The Back!

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.

Intermittent Mushroom Escape Outages

The Internet is a strange and not-always-wonderful thing. We here at Mushroom Escape have been blessed with rock-solid Internet access for over a decade. With that in mind, we recently, as many of you may know, changed the way we run Mushroom Escape so that it is not being completely run out of the station manager's living room using his personal Internet. It has been wonderful.

Deep Dive discovers spicks and specks

This week on Deep Dive we enjoy the talent of Australian band the Bee Gee's, although the claim to their heritage may be a little thin. We ask how deep is your love, here somejive talkin, and hear how I started a joke.

Join me at 4 PM Eastern Monday, 6 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia, or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, 8 PM in Eastern Australia. Just ask your SmartThing for Mushroom FM and you will be there.

It's all about radio this week on Toews On The Waves!

Toews On The Waves is a music and comedy show that has enjoyed a long run on internet radio. It's currently enjoying a limited revival on Mushroom FM Sunday evenings at 07:00 replaying Thursday mornings at 08:00. Usually hosted by Bruce Toews, it presents a theme that can be about anything.
Hi, I'm Steve Cutway, and I have the distinct pleasure of sitting in for Bruce for the next two weeks as he is unavailable through no fault of his own for reasons that are completely beyond his control. (That's his story and he's sticking to it.)

Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns today on The Juke In The Back!

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.

The Folkies are Coming, this Week on Come by the Hills!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to invite you to join me for another three hours of awesome Folk and Celtic music on Come by the Hills! I've got a wide range of music for you as usual from traditional to modern and back again, and of course there's the banter!

Coming up on Small World for 15 August, only on Mushroom Escape

It will soon be time to sit back, relax and enjoy two wonderful hours of the theatre of the mind at its best. It’s kids’ songs and stories on Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family.

Have you heard of a churkendoose? You haven’t? Well, it is really complicated to create one, that I can tell you. All will be revealed this week.

If you miss the audio described movie version or just love the story so much you’d like to hear a radio adaptation, we’re going 20,000 leagues under the sea. 20,000? Jiminy Cricket! That’s a lotta leagues!

The top 100 of 1961 concludes this week on The Early Years!

Affter 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 enjoy the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.

Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Moby Dick

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 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea from 1954 and Moby Dick from 1956.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 American Technicolour science fiction-adventure film and one of the first features shot in CinemaScope.
It was personally produced by Walt Disney through Walt Disney Productions, directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre.

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