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Lost Horizon (1937), based on James Hilton’s 1933 novel
Heaven can wait, so they say, but there’s no longer a need, but a musical utopia is here in a fabulous collection of playlists picked by guest of the week Nicko, taking us to a better place and inspired by last week’s topic
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One man’s personal paradise … what is yours?
What is yours? From Arcadia to Utopia, how can we create or find it? Where is it, and what does it look like? This week, after previously doing the impossible, we find the unfindable in the form of song, inspired my many books, art and films …
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Flash, brash and bulging with talent: Grandmaster Melle Mel with the Furious Five
Bombastic braggadocio to self-applauding swagger, sexual prowess and stamina to super-clever slick, non-stop self-description, guest playlister ShivSidecar picks supremely sharp and entertaining sets of songs from early rock’n’roll to soul, hip hop and beyond
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Halloween theme? No, it's artist Yahoi Kusama's pumpkins
Sunlight to stars, ribbons to rivers, animals, birds, to flowers and vehicles, from the firey to the sickly, have a look into the musical and other cultural associations of this sublime colour
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