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Whooo!
History of music on ABC Classic FM at present, focusing on medieval music. Just moved from Gregorian chant to Organum (they've started embelishing with different pitches together). 12-14th C at present.
ABC Classic FM (Today and therefore only accurate today) Go half way down page...

KEYS TO MUSIC: The Beginner's Guide to Music History 1: Before the Renaissance
In this program Graham commences an eight-part series giving an overview of western music history. The first instalment focuses on the Medieval period and includes music by Leonin, Perotin, Machaut and Landini.

Don't you hate it when a piece of music is familiar (you possibly danced to it), but you can't quite name it. Bransle maybe...?[Edit after looking at listings, must have been a salterello, and no, haven't danced to it]

Additional edit: For those of you with good connections, the episodes can be downloaded for the next 4 weeks from here:
Keys to Music under The Beginner's Guide to Music History

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And for the embroiderarily inclined... (and for drooling over at HOME)
The West Kingdom Needleworkers Guild: Articles about embroidery
[Pause for a brief walk around the mountain]
Time for brain to stop working on dinner for the next few days (large batch of beef or kangaroo curry and possibly tandoori chicken for a weekend of leftovers/reheats) and embroidery projects (haven't done anything insanely detailed in a while and I wonder what I did with it - nasty suspicion there may be a correlation of fine detail blackwork with less sex - now there's one for the psychiatrists out there. Or that may be finishing the projects... oops). There is a galaxy out there awaiting analysis... well ok, a couple stars in nearby galaxies that need poking.
Friday. Concentration. Naaaaah.