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The Beat

Dean Jackson and the team with music and more for your Saturday. Interviews and sessions with established, and often big name, artists as great local music from BBC Introducing.

Dean Jackson and the team with music and more for your Saturday night. Interviews and sessions with established, and often big name, artists as well as those just starting out. Great local music from BBC Introducing. There's plenty of opportunity for you to be part of it by ing your own music or interacting by phone and text or by emailing beat@bbc.co.uk.

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Available now

31/05/2025

All available episodes (4 total)

Coming Up

07/06/2025

Tomorrow 18:00

BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Leicester & BBC Radio Derby

episodes (4 new)

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Alessi Rose in conversation with Dean Jackson. Alessi is in Léon, ing Dua Lipa.
Divorce : Preparing for the Drive to Goldenhammer

Divorce speak to Dean Jackson about their debut album, ‘Drive to Goldenhammer.’
Marti Luke Brown : Man Oh Man

Martin Like Brown talks to Dean Jackson about his second album ‘Man Oh Man.’
Introducing Welly

Welly in conversation with Dean Jackson.

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Myles Smith returns to headline Rock City
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Inhaler - Robert and Josh
Everyone Says Hi

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Welcome to The Beat with Dean Jackson and the team

Saturday night : 6pm until 10pm.

Though we play new local material throughout the programme, the final two hours are given over entirely to BBC Introducing; new unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar music. You can jump straight to this content using the link here.

It is stored separately on the iPlayer and you can jump straight to it by using the link below.

* Jump straight to the BBC Introducing hours
your music to The Beat/BBC Music Introducing

If you're in a band, a solo artist or a bedroom producer and you want to get the music you're making played on BBC radio, your tracks to BBC Music Introducing.

If you enter an East Midlands postcode when you , your songs go straight into Dean Jackson's inbox.

You'll be notified automatically when your tracks are listened to by someone at the BBC or if they're going to be broadcast. If we like what we hear, you might even bag yourself a session or a slot on the BBC Introducing festival stage.
your music at BBC Music Introducing
Where to find The Beat

From 6pm every Saturday night
Online at - bbc.co.uk/beat

On app - BBC Sounds

On radio / TV...
BBC Radio Nottingham
·         DAB digital radio
·         FM 103.8 (Nottingham)
·         FM 95.5 (Mansfield)
·         FM 95.1 (Newark)
·         FREEVIEW TV Ch 712

BBC Radio Derby

·         DAB digital radio

·         FM 104.5 (Derby)

·         FM 95.3 (Bakewell)

·         FM 96.0 (Buxton)

·         FREEVIEW TV - Ch 717

BBC Radio Leicester

·         DAB digital radio

·         FM 104.9 (everywhere!)

·         FREEVIEW TV Ch 713
BBC Radio Lincolnshire (until 8pm)

·         FM 94.9 (countywide)

·         FM 104.7 (Grantham)

·         FREEVIEW TV Ch 714
BBC Introducing East Midlands
An important part of The Beat is our role in BBC Introducing. We cover the East Midlands region. This part of the programme airs from 8pm to 10pm every Saturday. If you are a musician and would like to submit music for airplay, please post it to us sing the BBC Introducing er.