The Shed: A Whole New World Of Music

Series produced by Mark Coles

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The best new music releases and demos from around the planet, presented weekly from his garden shed by the award winning former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles.

After 25 years at the BBC ("Today", "World Of Music","The Strand"), the award winning British broadcaster Mark Coles goes back to basics for his new weekly programme, bringing listeners the best new music from around the planet...presented in wonderful informality from the shed at the bottom of his garden.
A unique show packed full of anecdote and humour, each week, Mark brings you his personal pick of the best new music from all over the world: from Lebanese punk and Chinese folktronica to African rock n roll...even the occasional Japanese recorder quartet.
Dont just take our word for it. This is what the musician and producer Brian Eno had to say: "I always hear something surprising and new. His intelligent, unpatronising embrace of global modern culture is the sort of thing Britain should be proud of."


31 Pieces

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Award winning broadcaster Mark Coles (Today / The Strand) brings you his pick of the best new music from around the planet.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 54:19
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles (Today / The Strand) brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet. " A real ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 53:55
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 53:59
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles (Today/The Strand) brings you his weekly pick of the best new music releases from around the planet.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:55
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"This global and eclectic musical selection emanating from Mark Coles's garden shed is a real treat" (Elizabeth Mahoney, The Guardian). BBC broadca...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles (Today/The Strand) takes refuge in his garden shed as Britain celebrates the Queen's diamond jubilee. With...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 54:04
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From the shed at the bottom of his garden, the award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles (Today/The Strand) brings you his pick of the best new musi...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 53:56
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles ("Today","The Strand") brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the world. Recorded ...

  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
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In a rare interview, the singer and musician Peter Gabriel talks to former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles about Real World Gold - a major new re-releas...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles ("Today", "The Strand") brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet. This we...

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles ( "Today" / "The Strand") brings you his pick of the best new music from around the planet. This week, fo...

  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles ("The Strand" BBC World Service) brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
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Award winning British broadcaster Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet. This week, holed up in his ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
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Bagpipes to the fore on "The Shed" this week as Mark Coles brings you punk pipes from China and a bit of Scottish bagpipe rave. Plus...gong music f...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
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Award winning ex-BBC broadcaster Mark Coles brings you his pick of new music from around the world. This week; treacherous orchestras, songs about ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2012
  • Length: 53:56
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Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the world. Sat in the sub-zero temperature of his garden shed, he tries t...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 53:59
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Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the world. This week; French/Egyptian fusion, a four valve trumpet from ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
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The best new music from around the planet. This week we celebrate some of the music and voices we lost in 2011.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
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The best new music from around the planet. This week our look back at the best compilations and debuts of of 2011

  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 53:59
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The best new music from around the planet. This week our top 20 albums of 2011

  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 54:00