The changeover hour, written for two audiences in the same room: people coming off a night shift and people whose day is about to start. Mid tempo, short links, and the volume kept where it will not wake anybody who is still asleep.
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Daily, 04:00Pahar Badal Nightly, 18:00Birha Sanjh Chhath season, mornings and eveningsChhath Geet
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Sukh Bhojpuri
New releases before the shift, folk across the afternoon, nirgun once the house goes quiet.
Bhojpurichart Bhojpuri popnirgun devotional folkkajri and jhoomar monsoon songsbirha balladsstage and orchestra repertoire
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Sukh Bhojpuri
New releases before the shift, folk across the afternoon, nirgun once the house goes quiet.
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About this station
Sukh Bhojpuri gives the language a whole station instead of a novelty slot, and the day is laid out around the hours its listeners actually work rather than around an ordinary breakfast to drive arc. The station turns over at four in the morning, when one shift is finishing and another is about to start, so the busiest part of this schedule is the early part. New releases run before most people leave the house rather than after dinner. The stage and orchestra repertoire holds the middle of the morning at full volume, and then the afternoon is handed to one long unbroken stretch of kajri and the other monsoon forms instead of being cut into short segments. Birha, the ballads about leaving home, sits in the early evening while there is still somebody in the room willing to hear a long song out, and nirgun runs late, plain and close to unaccompanied, through the dark hours and into the changeover. Full voiced and warm and completely unapologetic about being both, for Purvanchali households working Australian shifts.
Through the day
All times Australian Eastern.
Pahar BadalThe turn of the watch. One shift finishing, another about to start, and an hour written for both at once: mid tempo Bhojpuri, nothing announced at length and nothing loud enough to wake the rest of the house.
Top LineNew Bhojpuri releases, chart material first, placed here rather than at night so the newest song of the week is heard on the way to work.
Naach GharStage and orchestra songs, the repertoire written for a live crowd, played at full volume through the middle of the morning.
Kajri DupahriyaOne unbroken stretch of kajri, jhoomar and the other monsoon folk forms, running the whole flat middle of the day rather than being cut into segments.
Birha SanjhBirha ballads early in the evening, while the house is full and a long song can be heard right through.
NirgunDevotional nirgun once the room has gone quiet, plain and close to unaccompanied, running through the dark hours to the changeover.
Programmes
Birha ballads: separation songs made by people who left home for work, played in the early evening rather than at midnight, because they ask to be listened to rather than slept through.
Chhath songs across the festival, timed to the sunrise and sunset rituals rather than to the clock.