BBC Radio 6 Music - Dream Time, Songs of Love... with Zakia

16-2-2026

Songs of Love... with Zakia

Zakia marks Valentine’s Day with a show dedicated to love, in all its forms.

DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams - playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

Zakia marks Valentine’s Day with a show dedicated to love, in all its forms…

Unrequited, romantic, familial love, love for a furry friend, platonic, and more. It’s a show jam-packed full of listener suggestions. Whether you’re feeling loved up, perhaps practicing self love across this Valentine’s weekend - or even, feeling a bit grumpy about all of this adulation, Zakia has the tune for you.

There’ll be a steamy love song, denounced back in the day by the Vatican, a chemistry-infused duet from a 1980s Hindi romance film, Parinda, a beautiful dedication to a mother’s love, and a favoured John Lennon song one listener likes to sing lovingly to their pet. Plus, a beautiful guitar melody that emerged out of a poem that was written by a long-lost friend.

Music Played

• 

  Steve Kuhn

  The Meaning of Love

  • Late Night Tales: BADBADNOTGOOD.
  • Late Night Tales.

• 

  Tomin

  Love

  • A Willed and Conscious Balance.
  • International Anthem.

• 

  Simon Dupree & the Big Sound

  Kites

  • Kites.
  • Parlophone.

• 

  Shira Small

  In An Open Field

  • The Line of Time and the Plane of Now.
  • Numero Group.

• 

  Labi Siffre

  Talkabout

  • The Singer and the Song.
  • Pye International Recs.

• 

  SAULT

  Love Does Not Equal Pain

  • Chapter 1.
  • Forever Living Originals.

• 

  Kyeremateng

  I Go Die for You

  • I Go Die for You.
  • Sacodis Records.

• 

  Asha Bhosle & Suresh Wadkar

  Pyar Kid Mod Pe

  • Parinda.
  • Weston.

• 

  Mazzy Star

  Give You My Lovin'

  • She Hangs Brightly.
  • Rough Trade Records.

• 

  John Lennon

  Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

  • Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy).
  • Geffen Records.

• 

  Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg

  Je t'aime...moi non plus

  • Je T'aime… Moi Non Plus.
  • Fontana Records.

• 

  Resavoir

  Memories of Dreams

  • Themes for Dreams.
  • L'Univers.

• 

  Illa J & Debi Nova

  Sounds Like Love

  • Sounds Like Love.
  • Delicious Vinyl.

• 

  Pat Kelly

  Talk About Love

  • Talk About Love / Love Music.
  • Camel Records.

• 

  Steve Hillage

  Palm Trees (Love Guitar)

  • Green.
  • Virgin Records.

• 

  Mark de Clive‐Lowe

  embrace

  • past present.
  • BBE.

• 

  WOOM

  Prototype

  • Into the Rest.

• 

  Woo

  It's Love

  • Into the Heart of Love.
  • Palto Flats Records.

• 

  Unknown Artists

  Love Duet

  • Folk Music of Kashmir.
  • Folkways Records.

• 

  Beverly Glenn‐Copeland

  Ever New - At Hotel2Tango

  • Laughter in Summer,.
  • Transgressive Records.

• 

  The Vernon Spring

  Mother's Love

  • Mother’s Love.
  • Limo Lima Records.

• 

  Romance

  Endless Love

  • Endless Love.
  • ECSTATIC.

• 

  Blues Control & Laraaji

  City of Love

  • FRKWYS Vol. 8.
  • RVNG Intl..

• 

  Ennio Morricone

  Intervallo I & II

• 

  Masahiro Takahashi

  Dreamies

  • In Another.
  • television explosion records.

• 

  Green-House

  Under the Oak

• 

  David August

  Hymn IV

  • HYMNS.
  • 99CHANTS.

• 

  Jesse Belvin

  Goodnight my love

  • Goodnight my love.
  • Modern Records.