Sean Carroll

They hosted a Lowlife album playback with Miranda Sawyer (courtesy of @rnrbook-club.bsky.social) when it was reissued a few years ago and it was an absolutely charming way to spend an evening. Two very funny people with a lot of stories to tell.

An army of labradors would have significantly improved that show.

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

I know you’re hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try., by Joshua Idehen 17 track album

Happy release day to @joshuaidehen.bsky.social! He and Ludvig have poured their entire selves into this music and it’s brilliant that world gets to hear it.

Very honoured to contribute some playing to the track ‘Brother’.

joshuaidehen.bandcamp.com/album/i-know...

I wasn't quite ready for "do dogs have souls" on Thought for the Day.

A few years ago Yard Sale in London did a jerk pork with caramelised pineapple pizza and it was exceptional. Any kind of flatbread topped with a bunch of stuff and I'm pretty happy.

I think I wrote my best essays before I turned 13 tbh

That sounds like an exceptionally twelve year old piece of essay writing.

King Lear is my favourite to watch - I've seen Derek Jacobi and Glenda Jackson play the lead but when he reaches the right age you know that Kenneth Branagh will give the performance of his life.

I studied Measure for Measure at A-level and it's one I have a real fondness for.

Dub wasn’t just a sound, it was a revolution.

DUB REVOLUTION: Jamaica’s Sonic Innovators and the Birth of Remix Culture by David Katz, coming 2 July 2026

geni.us/DubRevolution

On air now - come get weird with me.

That does sound pretty fit to be honest.

I forgot about the shapist purists. Will make sure the next one is circular!

A large naan bread covered in a tomato sauce which is tinned tomato, crushed garlic, salt and garam masala, then leftover keema goat, mozzarella, red onion and fresh coriander.

To the people who are absolute purists about authenticity in food I offer you keema goat naan pizza.

I am 100% in favour of great regulations on all AI/LLMs, and definitely yesterday and not next year when they've regulated something that has long stopped existing.

By clinician oversight what I think is important is that someone with the correct skillset/training owns the clinical risk and we don't just have a digital panic button that absolves responsibility.

I think ethical non-human therapy is key, but with clinical oversight (this is my job). I do think that there is a space for LLMs to offer something for some people, but specifically developed and tested, not using an off-shelf-GPT with no guardrails as that's a huge concern for all your reasons.

I work in digital mental health (VR) and there's definitely a place for well designed, regulated AI-led talking therapies. One thing we've seen anecdotally in our work is that there are people who don't want a human involved in their therapy for various reasons so we need to be open-minded.

Anthology Of Persian Experimental Music, by Various Artists 15 track album

There is an extraordinarily rich experimental music scene in Iran, and this is one of the best compilations featuring many of the key artists (who I hope are safe)

unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthol...

Yeah they were my preferred format for a while. Mainly because they were less than a quid in Woolies.

sticker designs for our SXSW counter-programming this year — “war profiteers out of music” now also in Spotify green. come find us in Austin and get free stickers and some UMAW literature 💪 more information soon on where we’ll be and when!

I still have Can You Dig It on cassingle somewhere.

Basically a day of shoegaze. And the Mock Turtles. It was everything 15yr old me could have wanted.

After Reform calls over the weekend to disenfranchise voters I ended up in a conversation where it was politely pointed out there were also calls to do this to the Irish in the 80s. But yes, whenever I visited my grandparents in the Irish/West Indian social experiment of NW10 there was no racism.

Maybe best not mention they went on before Ride at the first gig I ever saw (Slough Festival 1991 to be precise) and wheeled out JC001 to finish their set with this.

Story time, y'all, about the time I witnessed nearly this exact scenario play out in real time.

It's 2003 or 2004. Serena, Venus, Anna Kournikova, and Brenda Shultz-McCarthy played an indoor exhibition event at Rupp Arena.

Both Williams sisters had won majors at this point. 🧵/x

Shoegaze guitars, industrial drums, the fastest MC in the world given two verses and not eight bars, and one of indie-pop's finest front women. A ridiculous debut single.

Just need Oliver North to pop up during the ad break to tell you war matters more when there's money on it.

£25 for a cookie? What the baffling luxury bakery boom tells us about Britain Amid a cost of living crisis, pricey patisserie is all the rage – and not just in London. Our reporter goes on a crawl to find out if a tart can really be worth £45

The near-£10 pastry shop that's first up in this is round the corner from my office and it does the best pastry I've had in the UK. Is it worth it? If you can afford it, then yes it absolutely is.