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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 08:55:13 EDT iona 🐝

   Normally I will toot about what radio I'm listening to, but I'm going to turn it around.

   What awesome, diverse, eclectic radio station is on the air where you live that I might not have heard of before? I want to increase my listening choice.

   I love things like Resonance FM (London), 6 Music (UK-wide), Radio Nova and Fip (France). Not so keen on pop or newstalk channels - I like diverse music, the arts, interesting non-news discussions from round the world. #radio 📻

   1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 09:01:39 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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      @iona

      Have you tried some of FIP's other stations? Scroll down to "Stations in Family": http://fip.radio.net

      And if you like Jazz, there's this one (sister station to Nova): http://www.tsfjazz.com/

      1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 09:02:44 EDT iona 🐝

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         @mayel I'm not so keen on jazz, I used to listen to our national station Jazz FM but only because it had a really nice chill-out and electronica show at night called the Late Lounge.

         The Late Lounge got axed in favour of a love songs show, so I don't really tune in anymore.

   2. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 09:04:56 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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      @iona I've been listening to this webradio for years, pretty randon but rarely disappoints! https://www.radioparadise.com/

   3. h (h@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 09:13:11 EDT h

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      @iona I like the Jazz Manouche channel on Jazz Radio (France),
      http://www.jazzradio.fr/radio/webradio/10/jazz-manouche

      That's just one of the 32 streams (they call them "les webradios") airing music around the clock. Not all of it strictly jazz, but variations of folk, soul, funk, etc. There's one for everyone.
      http://www.jazzradio.fr/radio/webradio

   4. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 05:03:42 EDT iona 🐝

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      One that I forgot to mention is ALL FM in Manchester (96.9 FM, http://allfm.org/)

      It's what I tend to have on in the car when I'm in earshot of Manchester. Can be a bit hit-and-miss presentation-wise and you can sometimes hit a slot where it is in Chinese or they're playing a backup minidisc from 2003, but the programming is eclectic, varied, often radical and community-minded.

      1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 05:11:08 EDT iona 🐝

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         There is also BCB Radio in Bradford (106.6 FM, http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/)

         It's positive, diverse, socially conscious, radical radio. Unlike a lot of community radio stations, they aren't scared to ask hard questions and debate difficult local issues on air.

         There are a lot of repeats but the fact that they manage to keep together a quality independent station with so much speech content in a place the size of Bradford is remarkable.