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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.
I'll finish the top 10 of the top 100 of 1971 this week along with a tribute to Jay Black of Jay And The Americans who passed away October 22 at the age of 82, 11 days shy of his 83rd birthday.

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.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 5pm Saturday in NZ, 3pm in Sydney and 4am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Mary Poppins from 1964 and Planes, Trains and Automobiles from 1987.
Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.
The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on P. L. Travers's book series Mary Poppins.

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” celebrates show #600 with a unique program designed to put the listener in a front row seat for a live rhythm review performance.

We thought it would never happen, but ABBA came and rescued 2021 with their first new album in 40 years. Naturally, Mushroom FM is celebrating, just as we did when we brought you ABBA's big announcement live.

This week on Deep dive we enjoy the talents of Celine Dion. We learn that my heart will go on, hear about the first time ever I saw your face, and about beauty and the beast.

Join me at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 7 AM in Eastern Australia for another week. Or at 6 AM Wednesday Eastern, which is 9 PM in Eastern Australia for just another week. Just instruct your SmartThing of choice to 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.

Sara Hillis here with some haunting news! Yes, I'm afraid that you're regularly-scheduled Folk and Celtic music show has been taken over this week by uncanny creatures, scary tales and atmospheric selections guaranteed to put you in a Hallowe'en mood. Perhaps fittingly, the show isn't live this week, but neither is it undead. So, enjoy the frightening fun, and I'll be back live with you next week I'm sure.

Once again, we have reached one of those exciting parts of the year where clocks are changing at different times around the world. If you live in a country where clocks are reverting to Standard Time this weekend, please note that you are doing this one week before North America. Since Mushroom FM observes North American Eastern time for our schedules, all the programming on Mushroom FM and Mushroom Escape will air an hour earlier than you are used to for one week until the clocks go back in North America.

Boo! Oh did I scare you? I hope so, because it’s Jonathan Mosen here to tell you about our scary Halloween Small World special.

We’ll once again meet a witch who turns bananas into mice, policemen into apple trees, and eats children for breakfast with peanut butter.

We find out what it's like to be a witch's cat.

They say the gold mine is haunted, but is it really?

We meet Little Spook at Spook Hall, which is definitely haunted. Oh someone hold my hand!.

Sometimes the things we think are scary aren't so scary after all, which is good.