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Many listeners will have wondered why last week's all-motorway show singularly failed to play a version of that krautrock classic, Autobahn. Well now the secret machinations at work here behind the scenes at the Moonbase can be unveiled to reveal an entire show dedicated to this modern musical masterpiece! We've tried to find as many different approaches to this tune as we could, dear listener, but we won't spoilt the surprise by telling you whether there are any steel drum or chiptune versions in this week's show (there aren't). But there are plenty of other extraordinary arrangements we hope you will enjoy.

It's time to take to the open road, dear listener, as we celebrate the thrill of endless miles of tarmac, green verges and service stations unfolding before you on the motorway. And in case you're wondering, "why no version of Autobahn?" well let's just say that the motorway theme continues next week...

It's time to stretch the legs and embark on a journey out of town into the country - and back again - on this week's show, dear listener. Inspired by the imminent release of Vic Mars bucolic new LP, The Land and the Garden, we've put together a series of tracks which take alternating views of the town versus the country.

Join us, dear listener, on a long-overdue journey through some of the brightest stars in the night sky and discover just how easy-going this whole astronomy thing really is. You can also look forward to a future show complementing this one which will be all about the inky blackness between the stars...

It's time to explore the ambivalent world of the left and the right on the show this week, dear listener. We were considering doing a show of left tracks -vs- right tracks but, strangely enough, most song-writers out there seem to want to cover both hands at once. However, we have still managed to a cajole a few nursery rhymes to do battle with each other. We also have not one but two yé-yé takes on the left and the right and there's even an academic discussion about Indo-European linguistics to look forward to.

Time to catalog and file away some of the new releases which have arrived via the inter-space vacuum tubes over the last few weeks, dear listener. We hear from some mysterious Austrians, there are a couple of tracks resulting from Alan Gubby's deep dive into the John Baker archives, a track from Bob Stanley's latest collection of lost film soundtracks as well as brand new music from Concretism and Hong Kong in the 60s. We also have a brief excerpt from Hull-based visionary Alan Jefferson and a Stereolab which has been lying dormant on a mini-disc recorder for nearly 20 years. We close with an almighty new tune from fake 80s specialist Occam's Laser.

Ten anniversary gifts for the price of one this week, dear listener, as we bring you a selection of musical anniversary gifts from paper to tin. As there are gifts going up to the 90th anniversary, you can look forward to another 8 volumes of this musical odyssey.

It's time to pop the jim jams on, dear listener, for a thoroughly deserved lie-down after last week's frenetic show. Yes, it's all about snoozing this week - but please do try to stay awake until the end of the show. This week's theme was largely inspired by a singularly odd piece of recording by none other than Jeff Bridges. We'll say no more about it, other than that you should prepare for quite a strange evening in.

It's time for possibly the sweetest show we've ever put together up here at the Moonbase, with an hour of some of the cutest pop we've ever clapped our ears on. Inevitably, most of the tracks this week hail from home of cuteness, Japan, but we do also have a celebration(?) of the selfie from London and a cover of a French ye-ye classic by a Spanish teenager.

There has been another deluge of terrific new releases and reissues reaching us here at the Moonbase over the last couple of weeks, dear listener, so this week's show is a chance to catch up. We book-end the show with a couple of tracks from the latest release from former Winchester Hospital Radio supremo Steven Wills, a slightly sinister morsel from the latest edition of Ghost Box's Other Voices series coupled with a track from Ghost Box stalwart Jon Brooks and not one but two tracks with an origami theme: one from Japanese duo Lullatone and one from Bristolian duo the Twelve Hour Foundation. And that's just some of what you can look forward to.

Following on from our DIY special a couple of years ago, this week's show takes a closer look into the paint bucket with a selection of tunes that we hope will make your decorating projects a little easier to bear.

A globe-trotting edition of the show this week, dear listener, as we bring you a selection of lesser-known national anthems as well as some eyebrow-raising versions of better-known anthems.

After far far too long, dear listener, it's time for a long-awaited return trip to the archives of EMI Pakistan and their huge vault of cheesy space disco, electronic folk tunes and great 80s-style music from the mid 90s.

No new show this week, dear listener, as your hosts have been summoned by the Galactic Space Council to explain why there hasn't been much steel drum music on the show recently. To keep you amused in the meantime, we're taking a trip back in time to August 2007 and a show originally broadcast on a local community radio station. For this edition of the show we had special guest Space Disco Jeff in the studio to delight us with some Swedish space disco. We also have two Elvis covers by Ananda Shankar, a track from the then new High Llamas album, a Stereolab rarity, two tracks from Daniel Pemberton's compilation of his own TV theme tunes, tracks from WFMU's 365 Day Project and lots more besides.

Time to catch up with some new releases, reissues and recent arrivals here at the Moonbase. We have another track from the new album by patron saint of the show Jean-Jacques Perrey, two examples of twanging guitar, the sound of German missionaries in Nairobi, two new takes on library music, some Henry Mancini (Lollywood style), a miniature from the sensational new album by Dolly Dolly and we close the show with a stupendous piece of fairground music.