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It's time to put your arm-rests down, stow your tray-table and make sure your seat back is upright as we prepare to take you on a journey into the stratosphere. We have a most stimulating program of in-flight entertainment planned for you this week, dear listener, taking in music from Finland, Pakistan, Brazil, South Africa, Italy, the US and Blackburn, Lancashire.

It's time for one of our hard-hiting shows, dear listener, where we explore a serious topic of the day by means of a selection of easy listening music. This week we're exploring the very limited confines of incarceration. So please don't try to escape.

It's time to take a stroll in the woods, dear listener, as we try to identify the Oak, the Sycamore, the Chestnut, the Willow and even the, er, swaying Palm. We also have an exclusive guided arborial visualisation in the form of a musical mashup between Laura Huxley and Russ Garcia.

It’s time for our third trip back to the fake 80s this week dear listener. Some, all or none of this week’s music may or may not originate from the 80s. But those tracks which aren’t really 30 years old are all heavily inspired by that golden age of popular music.

Having previously wrestled with snakes and amphibians, we thought it time to complete the trilogy with a show all about the rest of the cold-blooded family. We have giant lizards, crocodiles, alligators, turtles, an iguana, a chameleon and even something about the antipodean tuatara.

This week we present a selection of some our favourite new releases, reissues and discoveries, many of which have been brought to our attention by you, dear listener! You'll hear tracks from: a new compilation of work by Italian soundtrack supremo Stelvio Cipriani, the first ever retrospective of work by Moondog, two brand new radiophonic releases from Melbourne and London, music from three musicians in their 80s, something from the 80s and a track from a new documentary about the godfather of home recording.

Get the sand between your toes, dear listener as we take you for a musical stroll along the shore on our seaside special. We start with the oldest track we’ve ever played on the show, being the original version(!) of Beside the Seaside. We also have shimmering radiophonic electronics, a musical sea shell, two shore-like slices of library music and one of the strangest versions of Ebb Tide you’ll ever hear.

Having recently brought you a show all about root vegetables, we thought it wise to present a show dedicated to the altogether sweeter, zingier world of fruit. You'll hear easy listening mangos, electronic apples, spaghetti oranges, Harry limes, bitter lemons, Norwegian sultanas, laid back strawberries, Hawaiian pineapples and prog peaches.

With the next general election only a matter of weeks away, we felt it was time to set out our stall to you, dear voters, by presenting a series of what we hope will be compelling musical arguments. By the end of the show we feel sure you will want to rush out and tell everyone in your neighbourhood to ... VOTE MOONBASE!

It's time to catch up with some of our favourite recent releases and reissues to reach us here on the Moon. We've got business funk from an extraordinary new collection from datassette, some German space disco from an associate of The Herb, French library music, tracks from the latest two releases from Ghost Box and the show reaches a truly portentous pinnacle of horror with music from Disasterpeace and the debut album from up-and-coming talent John Carpenter.

This week's show celebrates simple human friendship, whether that be expressed with a firm shake of the hand, a slap on the back or perhaps even, perish the thought, a hug. We have some borderline terrifying children singing about Jesus, two (yes two!) French chanteuses confusing friendship for love, some very laid back exotica, even more laid back saxhorn and positively catatonic tubas.

Due to commitments elsewhere in the galaxy, we are not able to bring you the scheduled show this week, dear listener. Instead, we take a trip back in time to the days we were doing the show on local radio. For this particular show, originally broadcast in November 2008, we embraced our feminine side and paid tribute to the Peruvian songbird, Yma Sumac. We also took the opportunity to wish maestro Ennio Morricone a very happy 80th birthday.

This show is one of the shows in our series themed around minerals and precious gems. We hope to eventually cover all the minerals and gems known to science. Look forward to our all-quartzite show in a few weeks' time. For our look at the world of diamonds, we have some German brass, some microtonal marimba and some of the most terrifying easy listening harmonica you are ever likely to hear. We're also delighted to announce the return of steel drums!

We thought it was about time we took a good long look at, well, time here at the Moonbase. We were prompted to do so by the work of film-making duo Don't Hug Me I'm Scared who produce short films which look as though they belong on children's TV until you look a little closer and start noticing an accumulation of disturbing detail.

Thursday sees the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Goat. We had thought of doing an all-goat show but there's a disappointing lack of good goat-based music out there. So instead we take you on a journey around the whole Chinese lunar calendar, with a track for each of its 12 animals, including a bonus goat track for good measure.