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Matinee Idle

with Simon Morris & Phil O'Brien

Thursday 19 January 2012

12.35pm - 1pm

Title: Ten Degrees and Getting Colder
Artist: Nanci Griffith

Title: Darkness, Darkness
Artist: Robert Plant

Title: Valleri
Artist: The Monkees 

Title: Just Like A Woman
Artist: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Calexico

 

1pm - 2pm

Title: I'm Leaving it All Up to You
Artist: Donny and Marie Osmond

Title: Scream
Artist: Michael and Janet Jackson

Title: Deep Purple
Artist: Nino Tempo & April Stevens

Title: Anyone Else
Artist; Bart and Lisa Simpson

Title: Island of Dreams
Artist: The Springfields

Title: Goodbye To Love
Artist: The Carpenters

Title: Mockingbird
Artist: Charles and Inez Foxx

Title: Rock Lobster
Artist: The B52s

Title: I Want to Take You Higher
Artist: Sly and the Family Stone

Title: Everybody Hurts
Artist: The Corrs

Title: Coca Cola Commercial
Artist: Gladys Knight and the Pips

TItle: I've Got to Use My Imagination
Artist: Gladys Knight and the Pips

 

2pm - 3pm

Title: King Rocker
Aritst: Generation X

Title: Moonlight Shadow
Artist: Mike & Maggie Rielly

Title: Framed
Artist: Burton Cummings

Title: Fortunate Son
Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Title: Baby, It's You
Artist: Promises

Title: California Sun
Artist: Joe Jones

Title: Ship of Fools
Artist: World Party

Title: Caravan of Love
Artist: The Isley Brothers

Title: Theme From Harry's Game
Artist: Clannad

Title: All Along the Watchtower
Artist: The Fratellis

 

3pm - 4pm

Feature: Alison Krauss and Union Station Live at the Mermaid Theatre in London, produced by BBC Radio Two

Title: Fiesta
Artist: The Pogues

TItle: Never Say Never
Artist: Romeo Void

Title: Going Up The Country
Artist: Kitty, Daisy and Lewis

Title 1, 2, 3
Arits: Len Barry

Title: The Big Sky
Artist: Kate Bush

 

4pm - 5pm

Title: Agnes (The Teenaged Russian Spy)
Artist: MAD Magazine

Title: Mannish Boy
Artist: Muddy Waters

Title: There She Goes
Artist: Babyshambles

Title: Love Cats
Artist: The Cure

TItle: Don't Talk to Strangers
Artist: The Beau Brummels

Title: Funny How Love Can Be
Artist: Three Dog Night

Title: Emma
Artist: Hot Chocolate

Title: The Power of Love
Artist: The Pigeon Detectives

Title: Foteringay
Artist: Fairport Convention

Title: Wo Sind Die Clowns
Artist: Zarah Leander

Title: Summertime
Artist: Angelique Kidjo

 

 


 

The Team

Presenters:

Production assistant: Rosie Batt

Email: phil@radionz.co.nz

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'Matinee Idle is Radio New Zealand's Mufti Day. They let me and Simon "loose in the asylum". We get to be the guys testing the outer limits of listener patience and we benignly abuse this privilege.' says O'Brien. 'They let us play whatever we want! It's every radio presenter's dream.'

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