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with Rave Poet Kirk Field

It's 6 Music's Way With Words and to celebrate National Poetry Day Chris chats to Rave Poet Kirk Field.

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Plus, there's a fourth pick from this week's 5 Before 6 DJ.

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Music Played

  • The Cure

    High

    • Fiction.

  • beabadoobee

    Memories

    • Dirty Hit.

  • Avalon Emerson

    Jupiter and Mars

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Django Django

    Feel Alright (feat. Max Pope)

    • Clouds Hill.

  • OutKast

    Roses

    • BMG.

  • JGrrey

    bedbug (feat. Erick the Architect)

    • Ditto.

  • Mark William Lewis

    Silver Moon (6 Music Session, 16 Dec 2025)

  • @

    Bird

    • 4AD.

  • Flying Lotus

    Do The Astral Plane

    • Cosmogramma.
    • Warp Records.

  • Bicep

    Air (feat. SOARR)

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Interpol

    Wings On Fire

    • Partisan.

  • Hole

    Malibu

    • DGC.

  • Mannequin P

    Sometimes

    • Epitaph.

  • Westside Cowboy

    Well Done Kid, You Did It

    • Island.

  • The Charlatans

    Don't Need a Gun

    • North Country Boy.
    • Beggars Banquet.
    • 003.

  • Al Barry & The Cimarons

    Morning Sun

    • Trojan.

  • corto.alto

    Noblehill (feat. Jacob Alon)

    • Ninja Tune.

  • The White Stripes

    Icky Thump

    • CD Single.
    • XL Recordings.

  • Death From Above 1979

    Private Lives

  • The War on Drugs

    Who's That

    • Super High Quality Records.

  • Confidence Man

    Boyfriend

    • Boyfriend.
    • Heavenly Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Fat Dog

    Call It What You Want

    • Domino.

  • Sorry

    Today Might Be The Hit

    • Domino.

  • SILVERWINGKILLER

    WORLDSTAR

    • 1000% TRIAD FUNDED.

  • McGrath

    The Parrot

  • Arctic Monkeys

    I Wanna Be Yours

    • AM.
    • Domino Recording.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 05:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music