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From E.T. and Avatar to Independence Day and Men in Black, late-night music that’s out of this world - as Steven Spielberg’s new summer blockbuster Disclosure Day inspires a journey through cinema’s most memorable alien encounters.

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Music Played

  • John Williams

    End Credits [Soundtrack Reissue / 2002 / E.T. The Extra Terrestrial]

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Accidents Will Happen

  • Neil Young

    Harvest Moon

  • Leona Lewis

    I See You [Theme from Avatar]

  • Paolo Nutini

    Let Me Down Easy

  • Commodores

    Easy

  • Elvis Presley

    Can't Help Falling in Love

  • Tony Bennett

    If I Ruled the World

  • Dean Martin

    Almost Like Being in Love

  • Taylor Swift

    I Knew It I Knew You

  • Calum Baird

    Discovery

  • Styx

    Babe

  • John Williams

    Wild Signals [Close Encounters Of The Third Kind]

  • Johnny Mathis & Ray Conniff

    Chances Are

  • Tom T. Hall

    I Love

  • Sophie Zelmani

    Stand By

  • Roy Rogers

    I'm An Old Cowhand

  • Dan Fogelberg

    Longer

  • Sarah McLachlan

    Answer

  • Lucy Ellis

    Just the Two of Us

  • Nat King Cole

    Stardust

  • Oscar Peterson

    Jumpin' At The Woodside

  • Blind Willie Johnson

    The Soul of a Man

  • Bob Dylan

    In My Time of Dyin'

  • Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Philip Sheppard & Chris Worsey

    On the Nature of Daylight

Broadcast

  • Monday22:15
    BBC Radio Ulster & BBC Radio Foyle