Best BBC 6 Music

[BeeGrylls]

Can anyone recommend good shows to listen to on BBC Radio 6 Music? Breakfast shows before work on weekdays; weekday evening shows, or weekend shows would suit me.

[I realise I could just look up the schedule, but there's nothing like a personal recommendation!]

Thanks very much.

I love 6Music, my fav shows are Jarvis Cocker, 4pm Sunday (I think, I always have to miss a but if it) and Liz Kershaw Sat at 1pm. I always have Steve Lamaq on too, fab cooking the dinner show!

Gideon Coe and Marc Riley on weekday evenings are excellent - great presenters, and they play a wide range of rarely- heard and new music.

Daytime DJs are limited by the music policy, there's a lot of playlist and "core music" (think Blondie song of the day, and somebody high up in music selection worships at the altar of sodding Florence and the Machine -of whom my favourite description is 'a Banshee convention in a wind turbine'). However, there's still loads of brilliant music you wouldn't hear elsewhere. I love Radcliffe and Maconie in the afternoons, and Lauren Laverne is an excellent broadcaster.

Tom Ravenscroft and the Freak Zone are slightly more off-piste musically. I do like to listen to Tom Robinson then Tom Ravenscroft on a Friday evening .

Weekends- I like Jon Holmes on a Saturday afternoon despite the increasing levels of heavy metal slipping in. I used to absolutely adore Adam and Joe but they are not on at the moment - I have podcasted as many of their old programmes as I can get and still cry laughing at them after several listens.

Cerys is good on a Sunday, bit more of an Americana/ bluesy sort of feel, and Jarvis is brilliant.

I'm also very fond of an Andrew Collins stand-in stint ( and Bethan Elfyn too actually, though she is on much less frequently - keep meaning to get around to listening to BBC Wales).

Shaun Keaveney is very funny but TBH once it's on I don;t turn it off :)

Jarvis, Jarvis and thrice Jarvis.

The spiritual air to John Peel, it astonishes me how much work and thought he puts into his show.

It is a delight to listen to from start to finish.