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Welcome to your midweek pick-me-up!

Craig celebrates your midweek wins for Wednesday, I’m In Love, and we hear another of your left-field music suggestions as we turn Left At The Lights.

Craig celebrates your midweek wins for Wednesday, I’m In Love, and we hear another of your left-field music suggestions as we turn Left At The Lights.

Plus, author Alex Newman discusses his book 'Greensleeves: The First 100 Covers', and YOU might end up picking the last song of the show... But it's got to be a belter!

Fancy getting involved? Email craig@bbc.co.uk.

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BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Yasiin Bey

    Quiet Dog

    • Downtown.

  • Little Simz

    Game On (feat. JT)

    • AWAL.

  • Toots & The Maytals

    Reggae Got Soul

    • Mango.

  • The Runaways

    Cherry Bomb

    • The Best Glam Rock Album In The World...Ever!.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 14.

  • Ramones

    Blitzkrieg Bop

    • Sire.

  • Boards of Canada

    Prophecy At 1420 MHz

    • Warp.

  • Daft Punk

    Da Funk

    • Virgin.

  • Roy Davis Jr.

    Gabriel (feat. Peven Everett)

    • Large Records.

  • Olof Dreijer

    Makwande (feat. Toya Delazy)

    • DH2.

  • Getdown Services

    I Can't Die Like That

    • Breakfast Records.

  • English Teacher

    Song About Love

    • Speedy Wunderground.

  • Little Grandad

    Sleepwalking

    • Communion Group Limited.

  • Dermot Henry

    My Favourite Book is One I've Read a Bunch (The Great Escape Festival 2026)

  • Suzanne Vega

    Left Of Center

    • A&M.

  • Lou Reed

    I'm So Free

    • Transformer.
    • RCA VICTOR.

  • Aldous Harding

    Venus in the Zinnia (feat. H. Hawkline)

    • 4AD.

  • Wailing Souls

    Firehouse Rock

    • The Very Best of The Wailing Souls.
    • Greensleeves Records.
    • 6.

  • Opus Kink

    Come Over Do Me Wrong

    • SO Recordings.

  • Mogwai

    Helicon 1

    • Ten Rapid.
    • Rock Action Records.

  • Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul

    Ceci n'est pas un cliché

    • DEEWEE.

  • Kim Gordon

    PLAY ME

    • Matador.

  • 2 in a Tank

    Shoes

    • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (Don't Stop).
    • Bald Cat & Shoo Records.

  • The Fall

    Hey! Luciani

    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Genesis Owusu

    LIFE KEEPS GOING

    • Ourness.

  • Gurriers

    Nobody's Coming to Save You

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Darts Of Pleasure

    • Domino.

  • Björk

    Human Behaviour

    • One Little Indian.

  • Mike D

    Switch Up

    • Capitol Records.

  • Brooke Combe

    Tears Won't Lie

    • Fontana.

  • Angelic Upstarts

    The Sun Never Shines

    • 2,000,000 Voices.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 16.

  • 999

    I'm Alive

    • The Early Stuff (The UA Years).
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 21.

  • The Adverts

    Gary Gilmore's Eyes

    • Telstar.

  • IZCO

    Wonderluv

    • Brownswood Recordings.

  • Erykah Badu

    Love Of My Life Worldwide (feat. Queen Latifah, Angie Stone & Bahamadia)

    • World Wide Underground.
    • Motown.
    • 9.

  • Wolf Alice

    White Horses

    • Columbia.

  • Father John Misty

    The Payoff

    • Sub Pop.

  • Kevin Morby

    100,000

    • Little Wide Open.
    • Dead Oceans.

  • BBG & Dina Richardson

    Snappiness (Sweet Inspiration Edit)

    • (Single).
    • Urban.
    • 2.

  • Bleachers

    the van

    • Dirty Hit.

  • Junior Murvin

    Police And Thieves

    • Mango.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 May 202613:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music