Funky House Radio

The shows

Twenty-eight shows, four hours each, every one of them once a week. No repeats inside the week. When a new episode is ready, it takes its show's slot.

Hank Morrison

Twelve shows. History every day at noon, and four evenings. Meet Hank

  • Saturdays, 8pm Chicago · 2am Sun UK

    The Warehouse Files

    Every record has a Chicago connection. Some are obvious. Some you'd never guess until Hank tells you.

    The flagship, and the show that opens the station.

  • Mondays, 12pm Chicago · 6pm UK

    70s Timewarp

    Disco didn't die in 1979. It moved to Chicago and changed its name.

  • Tuesdays, 12pm Chicago · 6pm UK

    80s Timewarp

    The decade the music got its name. Hank was in the room for most of it, and he still has the cassette.

  • Wednesdays, 12pm Chicago · 6pm UK

    90s Timewarp

    The decade house left Chicago, went round the world, and came back with an accent.

  • Thursdays, 12pm Chicago · 6pm UK

    2000s Timewarp

    Hank thinks 2000 was the best year for this music since 1983. He spends four hours proving it.

  • Fridays, 12pm Chicago · 6pm UK

    2010s Timewarp

    The last of the Timewarps. After this, Hank says, history ends and the argument starts.

  • Saturdays, 12pm Chicago · 6pm UK

    Recent History

    The last twelve months, judged. Which new records will still be played when Hank's long gone, and four times he admits he got it wrong.

  • Sundays, 12pm Chicago · 6pm UK

    Deep Cuts

    Nothing here is rare. Every record was ordinary once, until a bankruptcy, a nervous label or a singer twenty minutes late got in the way.

  • Wednesdays, 8pm Chicago · 2am Thu UK

    The Imprint

    One label an hour. Who started it, who it broke, and the chemical engineer who quit graduate school to make The Percolator.

  • Thursdays, 8pm Chicago · 2am Fri UK

    Gramaphone Sessions

    What came through the shop this week. Some of it is a week old. Some of it is nearly older than Hank. If it's good, it stays in the crate.

  • Fridays, 8pm Chicago · 2am Sat UK

    Balearic Bliss

    There's a light that shows up right before the sun goes down. Everybody's seen it. This show is for the ones who stop.

  • Mondays, 8pm Chicago · 2am Tue UK

    The Vault Reopened

    Hank opens his own shelves: white labels, a cassette in a shoebox, and a record that spent forty years with a hole in the middle.

Lisa Hayes

Eight shows. Weekdays, and Sunday night. Meet Lisa

  • Mondays, 4pm Chicago · 10pm UK

    The Residency

    If a record's good, it stays on Lisa's USB stick for three, four, five years. That's the whole test. These are the ones that passed.

    Straight from her weekend behind the decks.

  • Tuesdays, 8pm Chicago · 2am Wed UK

    House DNA

    Where this music came from, in ten episodes, from the 70s to now. It starts in Chicago, every time.

  • Thursdays, 8am Chicago · 2pm UK

    The Diva Show

    The women who built this music. Some are legends. Some you've danced to for decades without ever knowing their name, and that was no accident.

  • Tuesdays, 8am Chicago · 2pm UK

    Same Song, Different Skin

    A great song is a body, and every new version is a new skin. The original first, then the skin, and a quiz question before every break.

  • Wednesdays, 4pm Chicago · 10pm UK

    The Signature

    One producer an hour. Starting with a sixteen-minute record no French label wanted, and the wrong box that made it a hit in New York.

  • Fridays, 4pm Chicago · 10pm UK

    Ibiza Peak Hour

    The big records from the last ten years. Ibiza didn't invent house music. It just gave it the most beautiful stage in the world.

  • Fridays, 8am Chicago · 2pm UK

    Off Duty

    What Lisa listens to when nobody's paying her to. Slow, odd, soulful. Nothing here would survive a club, and that's the point.

  • Sundays, 8pm Chicago · 2am Mon UK

    Green Mill Late Set

    Sunday night, slow. Jazz house and deep house to close the weekend, the way Lisa closes hers.

Mike Reynolds

Eight shows. Mornings, afternoons and both weekend days. Meet Mike

  • Sundays, 8am Chicago · 2pm UK

    The Main Event

    Feelgood nu-disco and funky house, mostly new, called like a cup final.

    Where it started for Mike on this station.

  • Saturdays, 4pm Chicago · 10pm UK

    Your Floor, Your Choice

    Your requests, any decade. Tell Mike what your mum danced to in the kitchen on a Sunday.

  • Mondays, 8am Chicago · 2pm UK

    The Import Hour

    Mike moved to Chicago thinking he'd left UK garage behind. Turns out the whole genre's a small town.

  • Tuesdays, 4pm Chicago · 10pm UK

    The Discovery Hour

    One genre a week. Mike went through his own shelves and found Rod Temperton hiding on a record he barely remembered owning.

  • Thursdays, 4pm Chicago · 10pm UK

    Rookie Season

    Mike doesn't own a turntable. Lisa is teaching him what he missed, one genre at a time, and every lesson ends on a record most people have never heard.

  • Wednesdays, 8am Chicago · 2pm UK

    Two Thousand CDs

    Two thousand CDs and no turntable. Hank calls it a pile of plastic. Mike calls it an education.

  • Saturdays, 8am Chicago · 2pm UK

    Matchday Mix

    What landed in Mike's crate this week. Saturday morning in Chicago, three o'clock kick-off in Britain.

  • Sundays, 4pm Chicago · 10pm UK

    Full Time

    The great male voices of soul and house, old and new. The other half of Lisa's Diva Show, after the final whistle.

After midnight

From midnight to 8am Chicago time, the Night Mix: hour-long mixes, back to back, until the morning show. The city sleeps. The records don't. See the full week.