Adrian Shaughnessy
Resonance 104.4 fm (The Art of Listening) is the world’s first radio art station, established by the London Musicians’ Collective. It features programmes and blogs from musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scenes, with regular weekly contributions from nearly two hundred musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists and instigators. A major attraction is Graphic Design on the Radio hosted by 26 member Adrian Shaughnessy, who talks to graphic designers about their work and the music that inspires them.

A quick trawl through the schedules fishes up appearances from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Alemayehu Eshete, Morecambe & Wise, sounds of the Blackburn Monoplane and the 1928 Tram (with Pantograph), early electronic music, reports from the Durham Arts Festival, radiophonia, soundscapes and yarns, Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Signals, and live lunchtime broadcasts from The Foundry – Shoreditch’s most existential bar.   Tom Lynham

Al Green
Blue Note, £8.98 on Amazon

Unlike Stevie Wonder’s much-anticipated release last year, this is a fine return to form from the 63-year-old Reverend with the sweetest soul tonsils around. Age has certainly not withered the mighty Al. The production by ?uestlove gives 'Lay It Down' a contemporary edge, and the duets with Anthony Hamilton and Corrine Bailey Rae add a welcome twist, but as usual, Al steals the show with his dreamy, almost ethereal vocal. For chillin’ out after a hard day’s writing, it doesn’t get better than this.   Jim Davies

Buy from Amazon: 'Lay it Down'

Momus is a songwriter, blogger, former journalist and a truly post-modern artist heavily into otherness. Check out his website for the full Monty.

The London-as-Tokyo Tour is an action by Momus and his Japanese girlfriend Hisae Mizutani in which they'll ply up and down the pedestrian walkways of the South Bank dressed as tour guides, speaking through loudhailers about the buildings and sights as if they were places in Tokyo. Momus gave his first 'Unreliable Tour' in 2006, when he was invited to participate in the Whitney Biennial in New York, circulating daily through the galleries giving invented (and often absurd) accounts of the art on show. During Hide and Seek, Momus and Mizutani will transform London into Tokyo - a city they both know well - using nothing more than language and the collective power of imagination.   Tom Lynham

This month it appears that I haven’t been doing any reading. Instead I have been mostly dipping my toes into podcast waters, and there’s plenty to catch out there. I’ve become faintly unhinged by the consistently wry amusement offered by the Guardian’s Football podcast, especially now that it’s on tour for Euro 2008. Satirists Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver’s ‘The Bugle’, under the auspices of The Times, is ‘an audio newspaper for a visual world’. It is unhinged, and makes me faint with laughter.

Definitely not unhinged are the fine video podcasts from Monocle. These provide some behind the scenes colour and extended interviews from the magazine’s features, and cover a wide scope – from the future of news to trans-Persian railway journeys. And speaking of wide scope, the musical breadth covered in the podcasts from legendary London club Fabric is, well, breathtaking.

You can subscribe to all of these through iTunes Music Store. What are you waiting for?   Rishi Dastidar

David Smith
Profile Books, £8.99 or £5.39 on Amazon

Excellent overview of the growth of India and China by David Smith, Economics Editor of The Sunday Times, London. Balanced, engaging, insightful, often surprising; this is a helpful indication of what super-growth in Asia means  – for us in the UK, for China and India, and for the world. You can also read David Smith's blog  here.   Tim Rich

Buy from Amazon: Dragon and the Elephant

Austin Williams
Societas, £8.95 or £8.49 on Amazon

Brilliant riposte to unthinking environmentalism that suggests the sacred cow of sustainability produces bullshit as well as, er, milk. This is the sort of entertaining and illuminating polemic that makes you think again – sharper. As me-too sustainability 'commitments' spread through business, this is a hugely useful challenge to complacent and unprogressive thinking. You can read more articles by Austin Williams here.   Tim Rich

Buy from Amazon: Enemies of Progress

Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber & Faber, £7.99 or £4.99 on Amazon

Utterly lovely. So understated, tender and beautifully paced (although at times the pacing is almost too stately - it opens with a 40-page discussion of the finer points of butlering). The way Ishiguro handles the story and the sadness within it is masterly. Miles away from the punchy, masculine prose I normally like, but so well written I'm prepared to forgive the lack of swearing and shootouts.   Roger Horberry

Buy from Amazon: Remains of the Day

I’ve probably recommended this before, so humour me if I have, but you just have to check out Visual Thesaurus. It’s strangely wonderful watching the words rearrange themselves on the page as you click on different word nodes. The downside? You only get a limited number of free tries before you have to pay up. But by then, you might be hooked.   Martin Lee