Panel Borders: Manga Jiman
Originally broadcast 31/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In a trio of interviews recorded at the Japanese Embassy, Alex Fitch talks to Michael Kacar, Asia Alfasi and Gillian Sein Ying Ha – the winners of the Manga Jiman (Pride in Manga) competition to find new British Manga creators (the accompanying exhibition is on at the Embassy until the end of March).
Panel Borders: The London Underground Comics Stall
Originally broadcast 31/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Oli (Hazy Thursday) Smith and Oliver (Tales from the Flat) Lambden about their self published comics and the London Underground Comics stall they run every Saturday at Camden Market.
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Alex talks to Lisa Bowerman about playing a popular space and time travelling archaeologist in radio style dramas for the best part of a decade. Professor Benny Summerfield started off as a Doctor Who character in the novels published by Virgin in the 90s and then became the first human companion* to get her own solo series, first in print and then on CDs sold in specialist shops.
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Finally, it’s Electric Sheep Magazine & Resonance FM‘s latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released last autumn at ‘Art House’ cinemas in London… This show is presented by Alex Fitch with contributions from Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) , comedienne Jessica Fostekew and Sean Price… Featuring reviews of Daywatch, Control, The Counterfeiters, Princess, Blame it on Fidel, 30 Days of night, Never Apologise, Planet Terror and Weirdsville. In this episode there’re also exclusive interviews with Anders Morgenthaler (Princess), Malcolm McDowell & Mike Kaplan (Never Apologise – a personal visit with Lindsay Anderson). This is a hour long special edition.
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Panel Borders: The work of Gary Russell
Originally broadcast 24/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who story editor Gary Russell about his new Who comic for the American market as well as the history of Doctor Who in strip format from TV Comic to the Radio Times.
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Alex Fitch talks to Steve Eley who runs the weekly sci-fi podcast Escape Pod, which features readings of new and classic SF stories written by the likes of Neal Asher, Cory Doctorow, Robert Silverberg and Isaac Asimov.
Panel Borders: The work of Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
Originally broadcast 17/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch interviews writer Ian Edginton and artist Matt Brooker (who draws under the name D’Israeli) about their sci-fi comics from Matt’s early strips such as ‘Lazarus Churchyard’ and Ian’s work on ‘Aliens’ and ‘Predator’ comics. They also talk about their love of steampunk which features in such 2000AD / Judge Dredd Megazine strips as ‘Stickleback’ and their sequels to H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ and ‘War of the worlds’ Continue reading
Almost podcast in time for Twelfth Night, Resonance FM podcasts bring you the first in a series of podcasts originally podcast at Sci-Fi London.
Alex Fitch talks to Dexter O’Neil, head of Fantom Films, a new company that have been producing cult CD and DVD releases over the last year or so, including a new range of M.R. James audio books featuring the best of his Tales of the Supernatural read by the likes of Geoffrey Bayldon. Continue reading
Panel Borders: Nevermore
Originally broadcast 10/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Guest presenter Virginie Sélavy talks to Jamie Delano & Matt Brooker (a.k.a. D’Israeli) about their contributions to the Edgar Allan Poe collection Nevermore: adaptations of The Murders on the Rue Morgue and The Pit and the Pendulum
Visit the home of this episode at archive.org
Links: Info about Nevermore
Wikipedia pages on Matt Brooker (D’Israeli) and Jamie Delano
Panel Borders: Classical Comics
To be broadcast 10/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In the first Panel Borders of the new year, Duncan Nott conducts an interview with Karen Wenborn about her company’s adaptations of classic literature in comics format.
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