Radio Sunshine

Radio Sunshine arrives unadorned: a UK music station with enough bandwidth to stream cleanly and enough programming sense to avoid the trap of novelty-seeking that kills most commercial radio. The 192 kbps stream suggests investment in audio quality, which is rarer than it should be in an era of compressed podcasts. What separates Sunshine from a thousand other music stations is harder to pin down without weeks of listening, but the basics suggest competent curation: music selections avoid both the stale oldies-only format and the chart-chasing desperation of youth-angled outlets. Presenters w…