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It’s Jonathan Mosen here to tell you about the wonderful songs and stories we have for you this week on Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family, only on Mushroom Escape.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to tell you about this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show here on Mushroom FM! I've got a great mix of music for you from artists such as The High Kings and Stan Rogers, as well as a new bit of Me Music. I've got a couple of strange question-and-answer ballads for us to puzzle over, and we'll hear a great song by Eric Bogle about the power of the past. All in all, it is sure to be a great three hours!

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Scent of a Woman from 1992 and Davy Crockett and the River Pirates from 1956.
Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irritable, blind, medically retired Army lieutenant colonel.

This week on deep dive we feature television and music stars, US band the monkeys. We open the door into summer, catch the last train to Clarksville, and become daydream believers.

You can hear deep dive at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 8 PM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, which is 10 PM in eastern Australia. Just tell your smart speaker of the choice to tune to 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.
This week, the “Juke In The Back” begins a four part feature on the early musical career of the great, Ray Charles, which will cover 1948-58.

It’s Jonathan Mosen here to tell you about the wonderful songs and stories we have for you this week on Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family, only on Mushroom Escape.

After you've enjoyed Sara Hillis's look at the latest Joni Mitchell archives release on Come By The Hills, 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.

Finally, the waiting is over! Volume 2 of the Joni Mitchell Archives has now been released, and as we did last year on Come by the Hills with Volume 1, we'll be dipping into this five-disk collection of live rarities, studio recordings and other bits and pieces which covers the years 1968-1971. We'll go to Le Hibou Coffeehouse in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on March 19, 1968, for a set recorded by none other than Jimi Hendrix himself, in an effort to test out his new reel-to-reel tape recorder.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described Movies The Bells of St. Mary's from 1945, The Waterboy from 1998 and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving from 1973.
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) is an American drama film, produced and directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.

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.
This week, the “Juke In The Back” begins a four part feature on the early musical career of the great, Ray Charles, which will cover 1948-58.