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Thursday Theme: Mercury Prize icons!

Jo's Thursday Theme is Mercury Prize nominees from across the over-three-decades of the prize's existence as we wait to hear who will win this year's prize.

Send in your favourite Mercury Prize song suggestions - email jo.whiley@bbc.co.uk

Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 2.

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1 hour, 30 minutes

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Thursday 19:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Angèle

    Love Triangle (feat. Caroline Polachek & SebastiAn)

    • RCA.

  • Florence + the Machine

    Buckle

    • Everybody Scream.
    • Florence + The Machine.
    • 6.

  • Dermot Henry

    I Love You, That's All

    • Island.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Where Is Gone? (feat. ROSALÍA)

    • Dopamine Chamber.
    • XL Recordings.

  • Wet Leg & Various Artists

    Obvious

    • HELP(2).
    • War Child Records.
    • 19.

  • Donna Summer

    Love to Love You Baby

    • Donna Summer - Endless Summer.
    • Mercury.

  • Heaven 17

    Let Me Go

    • The Best Of.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Willie J Healey

    Benjamin

    • Lucky.
    • V2.

  • Lola Young

    From Down Here

    • (CD Single).
    • Island Records.

  • Antony Szmierek & Ellur

    Bookie's Favourite

    • Decoding Birdsong.
    • Mushroom Music.
    • 3.

  • The Cure

    In Between Days [VINYL]

  • Michael Kiwanuka

    California

  • Suede

    Dancing With The Europeans

    • BMG.

  • Ms. Dynamite

    Dy-Na-Mi-Tee

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 53 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    A Certain Romance

  • Portishead

    Glory Box

    • (CD Single).
    • Go Beat.

  • PJ Harvey

    This Is Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Gomez

    Whippin' Piccadilly

    • Hut Music.

  • ANOHNI and the Johnsons

    Hope There's Someone

    • Hope There's Someone.
    • Rough Trade.

Broadcast

  • Thursday 19:30
    BBC Radio 2