Clara Amfo and Jordan Stephens return with more bespoke celebrity playlists; a new space shuttle podcast goes into orbit; Radio 3’s spin-off station takes unwinding to the next level. Plus, the ins and outs of Holst’s Planets

Make Me a Mixtape (Radio 1) | BBC Sounds
16 Sunsets (Antica and Telltale Studios) | Global Player
Radio 3 Unwind | BBC Sounds
How to Play: Holst’s The Planets with the Royal College of Music and Sibelius Academy Orchestra (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds

Ooh, a new season of one of the jolliest music podcasts out there. On Make Me a Mixtape, a celebrity invents a reason why they need a curated selection of songs, and hosts Clara Amfo and Jordan Stephens come up with a playlist of six tracks each. We hear a little bit of each song, along with Amfo and Stephens’s justifications, before the celeb chooses their winning tape. It’s a sort of soundclash.

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