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‘Digging For Weldon Irvine’ is the new film turning its lens on the life of the eponymous composer, playwright, poet and pianist. Director Victorious De Costa joins Paul Bradshaw of Straight No Chaser ahead of its screening at London’s Doc N Roll festival.

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Monthly 2-hour show from Carlos Icaza of the Mexican group La Redada. On this edition, Carlos is joined by Mark Mcneill aka DJ Frosty, the founder of dublab, a freeform radio station and the artistic hub, based in Los Angeles.

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Belgian Ethio-jazz band Black Flower are live in session and conversation with broadcaster Haseeb Iqbal.

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Our Daily show, hosted by Papaoul (Gabriel Francis) on Mondays and Fridays and Erica McKoy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In one hour, catch up with the latest sessions, music, news and guests in our flagship WW Daily show.

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Mari* looks to the day ahead with upcoming shows and tunes. And on every Friday, special shipping forecast will be brought to you by Rob-san AKA General Rubbish AKA Earl Zinger.

Dom Peter, artistic Director of the brand new afriqelectroniq label Blanc Manioc delivers a musical puzzle with releases from the label and interviews from his last trip to West Africa. In Bamako, Mali they met Mc Waraba & Meleke, young DJ and Producer prodigy Gaspa, and in Joburg, Aero Manyelo – who explained his new project “Shujaa Bora”, as well as the amazing remix he did for in July. In the second hour, DJ and Producer Praktika delivers a one hour mix of his Malian electronic tribulation and friendly remixes.

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Monthly show from Kyoto, Japan’s original capital city, presented by Shuya Okino, music tastemaker and member of Kyoto Jazz Massive. Shuya is joined by traditional and modern jazz music’s well known DJ and Do it JAZZ!’s Masaki Tamura and the founder and creative director of Curated Kyoto, Sara Aiko. For this month’s show they are joined by Kyoto-local pianist Marihiko Hara at Venue is Kinse Inn, old Ryokan in Kyoto.

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South Korea’s DJ Soulscape aka Min June Park presents a new wave of music from East Asia and beyond.  

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Psychedelia, Hip Hop, Disco and more with our new Emerging residents, Dar Disku. As a DJ duo and label they celebrate music and creativity across Arabia.

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Exploring all corners of reggaeton with Perreo FM aka Venezuelan-American music journalist based in Berlin, DJ Rachel Grace Almeida.

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Our Daily show, hosted by Papaoul (Gabriel Francis) on Mondays and Fridays and Erica McKoy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In one hour, catch up with the latest sessions, music, news and guests in our flagship WW Daily show.

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An hour from one of the most respected personalities in music, Kenny Dixon Jr aka Moodymann is an elusive figure and proud ambassador of the D. He hosts an hour of Detroit anthems that have soundtracked his life growing up and living in Detroit.  

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Monthly show from journalist and broadcaster Emma Warren. For this month’s show Emma Warren explores the early years of Jungle and Drum ‘n Bass with Director Pete Costigan. His film ‘The Rest Is History‘ is showing at Doc’n Roll Festival is coming in to speak about the film and play some related music.

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Mari* is Worldwide FM’s Senior Producer and Gilles Peterson’s longtime radio collaborator, and every month presents a two hour show called ‘Oto Nova Japan’ introducing a new wave of artists and music coming out of Japan. For this month’s show, Mari* presents new music and a guest mix comes from Japanese artist and composer Noah. The mix includes variety of inspirational songs of her latest album ‘Thirty’. ‘Thirty’ is out on flau music was our album of the week, you can read more here. Mari* is also joined by Mark de Clive-Lowe as he wraps up his prolific year 2019 with his double albums “Heritage I+II”, Rōnin Arkestra, CHURCH Sessions, the GAMM remixes, Dwight Trible’s album, Lady Alma’s album.  

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Tune in for a three hour show from Waella’s Choice label boss and Stamp The Wax editor Aaron L. He is joined by American producer Dreamcast and Copenhagen-based songwriter Erika de Casier.  

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Our Daily show, hosted by Papaoul (Gabriel Francis) on Mondays and Fridays and Erica McKoy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In one hour, catch up with the latest sessions, music, news and guests in our flagship WW Daily show.

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Parisian label and DJ collective Mochi Men continue our French theme this Thursday with two hours of music. They are joined by Brooklyn Funk Essentials, made up of musicians, singers and poets from around the globe, the group famously mix styles like jazz, latin, r&b, house, drum & bass, reggae, afrobeat and Anatolian melodies all rolled into one.

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WW Daily presenter, DJ and music journalist Papaoul (aka Gabriel Francis) is in the studio exploring some new sounds from and inspired by Latin America. Expect everything from downtempo folktronica to future baile. Chilean DJ and producer DJ Raff joins Papaoul in the studio, hopping in the guest mix ahead of his EP launch party later this month.

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Our Daily show, hosted by Papaoul (Gabriel Francis) on Mondays and Fridays and Erica McKoy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In one hour, catch up with the latest sessions, music, news and guests in our flagship WW Daily show. Erica is joined by French-Algerian DJ and documentary filmmaker Paloma Colombe whose work aims to build bridges between the two cultures.

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International Tribe is a weekly mix series hosted by Thris Tian. This week’s International Tribe mix comes from Henry Greenleaf.  23-year-old Henry Greenleaf is one of the young leading lights in the UK’s bass-led Techno sphere. Relocating from his native London to Bristol after graduating Creative Music Technology at Bath Spa University he is carving a sound and reputation for himself that is rooted in rich, low-end, percussive sound. Releasing a sold out EP on Par Avion in 2019 (the emerging label run by long time friend Agrippa where Henry is the in house graphic designer) and with releases on Glasstalk, Wellstreet Records, Temple of Sound and Par Avion (again) all within the next 12 months, 2020 is looking up for the young producer. His new EP “Patent” will be out on vinyl this November 15th in all nice stores.

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Selector Anders Sicre broadcasts direct from Parisian cafe and radio institution Le Mellotron for their latest weekly transmission.

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Our Daily show, hosted by Papaoul (Gabriel Francis) on Mondays and Fridays and Erica McKoy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In one hour, catch up with the latest sessions, music, news and guests in our flagship WW Daily show. Erica is joined by award winning alto-saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch in the studio.

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Our weekly Earlybird show direct from Brussels returns with Lefto at the controls, spanning upfront music from hip hop to jazz to club sounds. New music from Toro Y Moi, Angel Bat Dawid, Junius Paul, Sam Tiba as well as Belgian talents like Chibi Ichigo and Zwangere Guy.

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Channel One is one of the most iconic dub crews in the world. They continue their monthly residency with two hours of dub and roots classics.

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Rhythm Section Affiliate and rising London DJ MLE presents her new monthly show, showcasing unconventional & off-kilter club music. MLE is joined by London electronic label Brokntoys for the November edition of her monthly show.

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Monthly show from Matthew Halsall, Manchester based composer, trumpeter and founder of Gondwana Records. For this month’s show, Gondwana Records’ trailblazing jazz and electronic ensemble Portico Quartet is taking over Halsall’s show.  

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Rob Gallagher of ThE DiAboLIcaL LibERTieS is joined by Worldwide FM family Emma Warren and Haseeb Iqbal as they share influential poetry on the theme of Places and Spaces. Three writers, readers and music lovers come together for an exploration and focus on books, poetry and spoken word ahead of their Places and Spaces event at the Social on Wednesday, 6th of November.    

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Louie Vega presents his monthly Open Air Sessions show. Two hours of the best in Louie’s seemingly infinite collection of soul, jazz, funk, and of course, house.

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Our Daily show, hosted by Papaoul (Gabriel Francis) on Mondays and Fridays and Erica McKoy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In one hour, catch up with the latest sessions, music, news and guests in our flagship WW Daily show.

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Worldwide FM Label Fair is a mix / mixtape series to introduce passionate record labels, who champion new releases and re-issues. For this episode, we have Time Capsule Records. Time Capsule is a reissue focused record label born out of a loose musical community based around the long running party Beauty & The Beat, and East London’s music venue brilliant corners. One of the founders of the label Kay Suzuki brings mixture of their precious time capsules from Italy, Japan, India, US and Brazil. Also, check their one-month pop up record shop out in Hidden Sounds, open now.  

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