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Saint Etienne

Mark presents a feast of great music for breakfast and chats to dance-pop trio Saint Etienne about their latest album.

Mark Radcliffe presents solo, with a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast

Today鈥檚 guests are Sarah Cracknell, Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley of London-based dance-pop trio Saint Etienne. Thirty years on from their breakthrough debut album 鈥楩oxbase Alpha鈥 which included the hit single 鈥極nly Love Can Break Your Heart鈥, the band have released their tenth studio album. Titled 鈥業鈥檝e Been Trying To Tell You,鈥 the new record was made mostly from samples and sounds drawn from the years 1997-2001. The album also has an accompanying film directed by acclaimed photographer and film-make Alasdair McLellan.

Also on the show, catch up on the best music and entertainment stories of the past week in 鈥楾his Week In Music鈥 with Clare Crane.

Plus... regular features 'The Chain' - our world-famous list of over 8000 interconnected songs - and 'Sampled Underfoot' which explores the samples used in some of our favourite tracks.

With a selection of music old and new to get the weekend started.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Kraftwerk

    Computer World

    • COMPUTER WORLD.
    • Capitol.
  • Nation of Language

    This Fractured Mind

    • Nation Of Language.
  • Digable Planets

    Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)

    • PENDULUM.
  • Michael Price

    In Spite of the Weather (Bill Ryder-Jones Re-imagining)

    • The Hope of Better Weather.
    • The Control Room.
  • Danielle Lewis

    Slow, Sad and Real

    • Dreaming In Slow Motion.
  • The Orielles

    Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist)

    • Heavenly Recordings.
  • Hand Habits

    Aquamarine

    • Saddlecreek.
  • Charles Wright & Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

    Express Yourself

    • WSM.
  • N.W.A

    Express Yourself

    • Global Television.
  • Led Zeppelin

    Trampled Under Foot

    • Atlantic.
  • The Suncharms

    Distant Lights

    • Distant Lights.
    • Sunday Records.
  • Roy Davis Jr.

    Gabriel

    • Large Records.
  • Metronomy

    405 (feat. Biig Piig)

    • Because Music.
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

    There She Goes, My Beautiful World

    • Mute Records.
  • Barbara Lewis

    How Can I Tell

    • The Many Grooves Of Barbara Lewis.
    • Ace Records.
  • Penelope Isles

    Iced Gems

    • Bella Union.
  • Hayden Thorpe

    Metafeeling

    • Moondust For My Diamond.
  • Marshall Jefferson

    Move Your Body

    • Piano House Classics.
    • Ministry of Sound Recordings.
  • David Bowie

    YOU'VE GOT A HABIT OF LEAVING

    • parlophone.
  • Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine

    Back To Oz

    • Asthmatic Kitty Records.
  • X鈥怰ay Spex

    Germ-Free Adolescents

  • Justice vs Simian

    We Are Your Friends

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Ten Records.
  • Anz

    You Could Be (feat. George Riley)

    • Ninja Tune.
  • Super Furry Animals

    God! Show Me Magic

    • Creation Records.
  • Humanoid

    Stakker Humanoid (12" Original)

    • Westside Records.
  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Blue Heaven (feat. Andreya Casablanca)

    • PIAS.
  • Bobbie Gentry

    Sweet Peony

    • Bobbie Gentry - The Best Of The Capitol Years.
    • Zonophone.
    • 113.
  • De La Soul

    A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"

    • A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays.
    • Big Life.
  • Saint Etienne

    Pond House

  • Saint Etienne

    Fonteyn

  • TOKiMONSTA

    Naked (feat. Channel Tres)

    • Young Art Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 2 Oct 2021 07:00