Music Discovery · Big Ear Radio · South Wales
A husband and wife from South Wales discovering brilliant music together, classic albums, hidden gems, listener picks and the tracks neither of them have ever heard before.
The Raynor & Cari Show is exactly what great radio sounds like, warm, curious, funny and completely in love with music. Raynor and Cari are a husband and wife duo from South Wales who bring their genuine enthusiasm, personal chemistry and years of listening straight to the microphone. Music here isn't background; it's the whole point.
The premise is beautifully simple: find great music, old and new, famous and forgotten, expected and completely surprising, and share it. Every week the show is built around six carefully crafted segments, each one designed to produce something neither host saw coming. Raynor surprises Cari. Cari surprises Raynor. Listeners surprise them both. Nobody quite knows what track is coming next, and that's exactly the magic of it.
From side one, track one of an all-time classic album, to a debut single from a band on the cusp of breaking through, to a listener discovery from somewhere nobody expected, The Raynor & Cari Show finds music worth hearing and makes sure you hear it. One hours, six segments, zero playlists written in advance.
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Every show is built around six carefully crafted sections, each one a different angle on the same mission: find the best music you've never heard, and play it.
A classic album placed under the spotlight, Raynor and Cari choose two tracks that best represent it, then talk about why the record matters and what makes it stand the test of time.
Cari goes digging, and comes back with something Raynor has never heard. It might be obscure, it might be huge elsewhere, it might be completely left-field. Raynor's reaction is always worth tuning in for.
Now it's Raynor's turn. He hunts down a track Cari has never encountered, and brings it to the show with all the enthusiasm of someone who has clearly been saving this one for a while.
A listener picks a track that neither Raynor nor Cari has ever heard, and both of them go in completely blind. Genuinely unpredictable every single week, and one of the most loved parts of the show.
Every superstar started somewhere. Raynor and Cari go back to the very beginning, the early recordings, the first bands, the debut singles, and explore the music an artist made before the world knew their name.
A look at the UK Singles Top Ten, either this week's current chart on the first show of every month, or a dive back into a Top Ten from a bygone year. Either way, there are always surprises.
Five times a week, all times UK (GMT/BST).
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