The Bike Show

podcast, programme notes and audio archives from Resonance FM\’s bicycle radio show

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About the Bike Show

Bike Show presenter Jack ThurstonThe Bike Show is a weekly radio show about cycling. It is broadcast in central London on radio art station Resonance 104.4fm. 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 - there are currently around four thousand subscribers to the podcast. You can email The Bike Show: bikeshow {at} gmail {dot} com.

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 and Resonance FM:

“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’

“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

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

Guardian

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

“Less a radio station than a living art installation”
- Harpers & Queen

“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

“The best radio station in London”
- The Guardian

“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.

Features and profiles:

Cycling Plus

Cycling Plus, December 2007

Momentum

Momentum, June 2007

City Cycling

City Cycling, Issue 4