About

The Bike Show is a weekly radio show about cycling. It has been broadcast in central London on radio art station Resonance 104.4fm since 2004. A complete archive is available here. The Bike Show won a London Cycling Award in the ‘best media’ category in 2005. Through the internet it reaches listeners all around the world. Each podcast episode is typically downloaded by 5,000 to 8,000 listeners.

Resonance 104.4 fm is London’s first radio art station and is run by the London Musicians’ Collective. It started broadcasting on May 1st 2002. Its brief? To provide a radical alternative to the universal formulas of mainstream broadcasting. Resonance 104.4 fm features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scenes, with regular weekly contributions from nearly two hundred musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists and instigators; plus numerous unique broadcasts by artists on the weekday “Clear Spot”. View broadcast schedule.

What people are saying about The Bike Show:

“I love the passion of this show”
- Camilla Redmond, The Guardian.

“Very on the ball unlike some of those personality-crisis tossers at the BBC”
- Johnny Green, author of ‘Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More: Backstage at Le Tour De France’

“One wonders how he puts together a more engaging, more evocative production than the best-funded public radio shows around can manage.”
- Colin Marshall, MaximumFun.org

“By far the best”
The Sunday Times, 9 May 2010.

“A very welcome addition to London’s bike culture that’s building a loyal following and, yes, doing its own quirky bit to get people on bikes”
- Southwark Cyclists

“I wouldn’t have dreamt of cycling along Oxford street butt-naked if it hadn’t been for a feature on your show.”
- Kieron Yates, London

“Critics Choice”
- The Independent, 3 July 2006.

“A gem on the airwaves”
- Zoe Willams, The Guardian, August 2007.

“Whether it’s cyclesport or transport, Thurston’s enthusiasm for cycling is impressive and admirable.”
- The Inner Ring (Monaco), June 2010.

“I plan to listen to another episode tonight as I wash the dishes.”
- Jonathan Winston, Bikescape, San Francisco, California

What listeners are saying about The Bike Show, via Podcast Alley.

Press mugshot of Jack Thurston: Print version (TIFF / 4MB); Web version (JPG / 264 kb)

Features and profiles:

Cycling Plus, December 2007

Momentum, June 2007

City Cycling, Issue 4