The whole catalogue
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Series 01
The long way homeNew
Ines RoaTwo hours of slow records and long talk, recorded after the late show and cut into chapters the next morning.
Thursdays
1 h 58
86 h
Series 02
Kitchen sessions
Otis LaneSoul and funk records pulled apart with the people who made them, always with something on the stove.
Fortnightly
56 min
24 h
Series 03
Room for jazz
Bram de VriesLive sessions from Studio One, recorded straight to tape and released unedited.
Monthly
2 h 02
44 h
Series 04
Hall notes
Nadia FeldOne classical work per episode, taken apart bar by bar without a single degree in musicology.
Monthly
43 min
13 h
Series 05
City talk
Pim HartogAmsterdam conversations — venue owners, night workers, people who keep the city awake.
Weekly
38 min
9 h
Series 06
First hours
Mira BakkerThe station’s own history, told by the people who were in the room in 2019.
Irregular
1 h 11
8 h
EP 42
Studio One · 11 Aug
1 h 58
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MP3 320
Letters we never read on air
with Ines RoaThree years of envelopes that arrived at the studio and never made it into a broadcast — read at last, with the records the senders asked for. Some came with a return address, most did not; a few were written on the back of concert tickets, one on a hospital menu.
Ines Roa reads them in the order they were opened, without editing the parts that were meant for one person only. Between the letters, the records their senders asked for play in full — no talking over the endings, no fade-outs, and a long unannounced stretch once the last envelope is closed.
“Play it at three in the morning, he will be driving home by then.”
“No dedication. Just the long version, please, the one with the false ending.”
“We listen in the kitchen. The radio is older than both of us.”
One hundred
and twenty-eight
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Where you
left off
How the episode
is built
This one came in a brown envelope with no return address, only a record number written on the back.
I kept it on the desk for three years because I could not decide whether it was meant to be read out.
“My father listened to your station in the hospital. He asked for the long version, the one with the false ending.”
So tonight we play the record he asked for, in full, and nobody talks over the end of it.
There is something honest about a request that arrives on paper. You cannot delete it, and you cannot pretend it was never sent.
The station gets maybe forty letters a month. Most of them are not for broadcast at all — they are just for us.
“Do not read this out. I just wanted somebody at the station to know the record still works.”
“You either honour a request nobody expects you to honour, or you don’t.”
“Most letters are two lines. Those are the ones that stay.”
“Do not read this out. I just wanted someone at the radio to know.”
What we talk about
Follow it anywhere same feed everywhere, no account needed
What should we
record next?
Night workers of the harbour The night post Kojo Vale, part two What happened to Studio Zero Records nobody requests
the chapter marks on ep 42 are a gift, thank you
any chance of a full episode on the night post?
already recording it, Otis — out next month
transcripts made me start listening at work
Kojo Vale again please, that one was too short
would love an episode about the first studio
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