LONG
PLAY

The notes behind the records

One album a week, side A to side B, recorded in the back room of a record shop. New episode every Thursday.

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More than
a playlist

We believe an album is a whole thing, made to be heard in order. Longplay takes one record a week and listens to all of it, with someone who knows why it matters.

Our latest
long plays

All 214 episodes

Three from this month. Every episode is free, an hour long, and has no adverts in the middle of a song.

A crowded record shop with bins of records, posters and shelves up to the ceiling.

The shop that sold one record 400 times, with its owner

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Hands flipping quickly through a long row of records in a crate.

Crate digging: why side B is always better

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A pink and a yellow coloured vinyl record lying on top of record sleeves.

Coloured vinyl: does it really sound worse?

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A man in a grey sweatshirt wearing headphones, seen from behind, looking out over misty hills.

Your guide through the grooves

Hosted by Femi Adeyemi, who has run a record shop on Kelvin Street for nineteen years and still plays every second-hand record before he prices it.

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What listeners
say about us

A smiling woman with her eyes closed holding white headphones to her ears.

"I bought a turntable because of this podcast. Then a second one."

Ada, Glasgow

A young woman lying on the grass with white headphones on, eyes closed.

"The perfect length for my walk to work and back."

Jun, Leeds

A woman with red hair wearing white headphones on a city street at dusk.

"Femi talks about records like old friends. I came for one album and stayed for two hundred."

Rosa, Bristol

From the
shop journal

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A blue vinyl record spinning under a silver tonearm, close up.

How to clean a record with what is in your kitchen

Washing-up liquid, distilled water and patience.

A sepia close-up of a turntable tonearm resting on a record.

The turntable I would buy with £150

And why it is not the one with the most buttons.

Long wooden bins of records running down an aisle in a narrow record shop.

Nineteen years behind the counter

What people buy now, and what they ask for.

Before you send us an album

A hand holding up a black vinyl record with a red label against a lilac wall.

What we play

Whole albums, any genre, any decade. The only rule is that someone has to love it enough to talk for an hour.

A small recording studio with two softbox lights, microphones on arms and a laptop on a table.

What we never play

Singles, greatest hits and anything we would have to cut halfway through a song.

Two people at a white table with a black microphone, a laptop and a vase of tulips.

How to send it

Post the record, or bring it to the shop counter with a note: who you are and which song we should play first.