Stuart and Prof Justin Spear hang loose and dig the strange world of Saturn's finest, Sun Ra. Show more

Professor Spear and Stuart take a late-night look at the work of Krystof Komeda. Show more

Jazzy 45s with Prof Justin Spear and Stuart. Dig it, kids. Show more

Stuart Maconie and Prof Spear look at early Dutch electronic music, including examples from Kid Baltan and Top Dissevelt. Show more

Noodling Hammond organs, thumping double basses, sweeping drum brushes over soft snares - it's all here courtesy of Justin Spear's module on library music. Show more

The greatest musical failures in the history of recorded chorus and verse, in the humble opinion of poet, artist and songwriter Edward Barton. You can't miss this. Show more

Stuart's friend Jonny Trunk explains that there's more to surf music than the Beach Boys. Grab your board and ride the wave! Show more

A 60-minute compendium of audio gloop hosted by King of Freaks, Stuart Maconie, who continues 6 Music's Pink Floyd evening with a look at Ummagumma. Show more

A 60-minute compendium of audio gloop hosted by King of Freaks, Stuart Maconie, plus this week Stuart is joined by the unique Professor Justin Spear. Show more

Anne Hilde Neset, co-editor of avant-garde music magazine Wire, joins Stuart Maconie for a late night chat about versatile composer Jim O'Rourke. Show more

Graham Massey, founding member of 808 State, talks about his journey into the obscure world of Japanese-influenced Hawaiian music. Show more

Dweezil Zappa talks to Stuart about his current Zappa Plays Zappa tour which, as the name suggests, is Dweezil playing the music of his father Frank Zappa. Show more

Stuart is joined by comedic actor Matt Berry of Mighty Boosh and IT Crowd fame. Matt shares his favourite tracks with Stuart, from acid folk to music for insomniacs. Show more

Stuart presents his favourite progressive rock concept albums with tracks from Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, Rick Wakeman and Gong. Show more

Stuart Maconie is joined by musician Nick Currie (aka Momus) who shares his love of John Cage's music. Show more

Geoff Barrow, best known for his work with Portishead, joins Stuart in the studio to talk about his solo project BEAK> and his new Judge Dredd-inspired record, Drokk. Show more

Andy Votel talks about the music of Vangelis, Greek God of the synthesizer, featuring tracks from his first band The Forminx, Aphrodite's Child and his later film soundtrack work. Show more

As part of BBC 6 Music Celebrates The Written Word, Stuart is joined by Ian McMillan, poet and presenter of The Verb, to discuss music and poetry. Show more

Andy Votel joins Stuart with a selection of broken spoken-word and treated-vox pop records, featuring tracks by Maxine Peake, Annette Peacock, Trevor Dunn and Malcolm Mooney.

Jonny Trunk joins Stuart with tracks under the heading Refined Lard, suffice to say the music is as good as the packaging i.e. very good.