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Souad Massi session and “Indiana Stones”

Cerys hosts your Sunday sonic and cultural adventure, with a session from Algerian-French singer Souad Massi and a look at the folk tradition of stone lifting with David Keohan.

Cerys hosts your Sunday sonic and cultural adventure, with a session from Algerian-French singer Souad Massi and a look at the folk tradition of stone lifting with author David Keohan, known online as “Indiana Stones”.
Souad Massi is an Algerian-French singer-songwriter from Algiers, known for blending North African folk traditions with acoustic folk, chaâbi, rock and chanson. She recently released her latest album Zagate. The album is described as one of her most direct and politically charged works to date, responding to conflict, instability and the wider state of the world.
David Keohan is an Irish author, stone-lifter and world kettlebell lifting champion. He joins us to talk about his debut book The Wind Beneath the Stone: My Quest to Unearth a Piece of Ireland’s Folklore. The book documents Keohan’s journey across Ireland and parts of Scotland to rediscover the nearly forgotten folk tradition of stone lifting. What begins as a personal fitness challenge gradually becomes a wider exploration of Irish folklore, masculinity, community, landscape and cultural memory.

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Music Played

  • Spinal Tap

    Stonehenge

    • This Is Spinal Tap (2025 Remaster).
    • Polydor.
    • 9.

  • Brian Jones & The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Like A Rolling Stone (Live At Monterey)

    • Live At Monterey.
    • Legacy Recordings.
    • 4.

  • B.B. King

    Rock Me Baby

    • The Best of the Early Years.
    • Ace Records.
    • 21.

  • Laura Misch

    Kairos

    • Kairos / Scrolls.
    • One Little Independent Records.
    • 1.

  • Sulaf

    Naada

    • Naada.
    • Real World Records.
    • 1.

  • Bob Dylan

    Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

    • Columbia.

  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    Rock Daniel (VD129)

    • Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol. 2 1942-1944.
    • Document Records.
    • 12.

  • Kate Carr

    Flicker Mooring Chains

    • I Had Myself a Nuclear Spring.
    • Rivertones.
    • 5.

  • Charli xcx

    Rock Music

    • Rock Music.
    • Atlantic Records.
    • 1.

  • The Rolling Stones

    It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Alison Krauss & Union Station

    I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Live From The Louisville Palace, Kentucky / 2002)

    • Live.
    • Rounder Records.
    • 4.

  • The SteelDrivers

    Midnight On The Mountain

    • Reckless.
    • Rounder Records.
    • 8.

  • Roy Ayers

    Papa Was A Rolling Stone

    • Red, Black & Green.
    • Hip-O Select.
    • 7.

  • Ibrahim Maalouf

    Las Trompetas De Nael

    • Mister Ibé.

  • Tamikrest

    Imanin (6 Music Session, 10 May 2026)

  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy

    They Keep Trying To Find You

    • Domino Records.

  • Souad Massi

    Sawt (session 100526)

  • Souad Massi

    Ana Inssan (session 100526)

  • Assad Khoury

    Al Ghaba

    • ELECTRONIC TOUCHES BELLY DANCE.
    • wewantsounds.

  • The Wombles

    The Wombling Song

    • NOW - Yearbook 1974 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 12.

  • Lata Mangeshkar

    Ajib Dastan Hai Yeh

    • Saregama Limited.

  • Duo Ruut & Erki Pärnoja

    Interlude

    • Ilmateade.
    • Duo Ruut Music.
    • 06.

  • Gorillaz

    Rock The House

    • Gorillaz.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • COLUMBIA.

  • The Chieftains

    Away We Go Again

    • The Chieftains 7.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Aaron Dolan

    Caoineadh Cú Chulainn

    • Farewell to Tir Na n​Ó​g.
    • self release.

  • Noriel Vilela

    16 Toneladas

    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.

  • Jack O'Connell, Brian Dunphy, Darren Holden, Lola Kirke, Brian Kilgore, Jeffery Broussard, Ross Garren, Peter Dawson, Ludwig Göransson, Tony Davoren, Niamh Fahy, Charlie Bisharat & DC6 Singers Collective

    Rocky Road to Dublin

    • Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Masterworks.
    • 14.

  • Alewya

    Selah

    • Because London.

  • Baby Rose & Leon Thomas

    Friends Again

    • secretly canadian.

  • The Supremes

    Stoned Love

    • Hitsville USA (CD 4).
    • Hitsville.

  • Cibo Matto

    Stone

    • Stereotype A.
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 13.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Stone Free

    • MCA.

  • Michael Jackson

    Rock With You

    • Michael Jackson - History.
    • Epic.

  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    Rock Me

    • The Decca Singles, Vol. 1.
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 17 May 2026 10:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music