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The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – April 20th 2010

Steve Parry’s Totally Biased – Election Special 3. Steve bring’s us his apoplectic analysis of the campaigns so far. Helping him wade through the river of media dribble spewed up in the wake of Nick Clegg’s “bone calcifyingly mediocrity”, is fellow traveller and film maker David Tuck.

Steve also talks to prospective parliamentary candidate for Tottenham, Jenny Sutton. Sutton will be talking to Steve on the phone live from the campaign trail, fresh from a hustings debate with Labour Higher Education Minister David Lammy MP.

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Jam Tomorrow – Episode 5 – April 22nd 2010

Paul Richards, Katharine Hibbert, Joe Kassman-Tod and guests discuss politicians’ promises and the crucial issues driving the 2010 election campaigns. This week they look at arts and culture policy with critic J.J.Charlesworth and the artist Bob & Roberta Smith.  Hibbert, Kassman-Tod and Richards also reflect on the second electoral TV debate.

Ian Bone’s By-Election Special – April 21st 2010

Ian Bone’s By-Election Special

The inimitable Ian Bone aka Captain Swingometer, veteran agitator and anarchist, gives the election some scrutiny. Today, Ian discusses what a boring election it has thus far been and the Election Meltdown with Chris Knight – an agent of the Government of The Dead – and Yodet of the Whitechapel Anarchist Group.
http://meltdown.uk.net/election/Election.html
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http://whitechapelanarchistgroup.wordpress.com/
http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/C.Knight/
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/

Jam Tomorrow – Episode 4 – April 20th 2010

Paul Richards, Katharine Hibbert, Joe Kassman-Tod and guests discuss politicians’ promises and the crucial
issues driving the 2010 election campaigns.
Today the subject is housing – and the lack thereof. With 4.5 million people on waiting lists for social housing, house prices now around 7.5 times average earnings and almost a million empty homes, something seems to have gone more than a
bit wrong. The Green Party’s Jenny Jones, Labour’s Jon Cruddas and Katy John from PricedOut, the campaign for affordable housing, tell us how they’d sort it out.

The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – April 13th 2010

In the second of his totally biased election specials Steve takes his Tory bashing up a gear as he welcomes barrister turned high church Tory comedian Andrew Watts. As Steve says, “Andrew is very funny but his political opinions are vile filth that must be stamped out”. Steve did not give Watts a right to reply. Listen to them lock horns tonight at 21:00. Writer David Tuck will be taking the role of referee and Ed Crasnick will be taking the role of neurotic jewish comedian live on the phone.

Also, even though totally biased is the name of an american leftie blog I think I might use it too. what do you think? do you think it is out of bounds? should I just plough on?

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The Steve Parry Show – April 6th 2010

Writer and comedian Steve Parry reviews the week, looking at the laughable, lovable and lamentable events of the past seven days. This week, the first in a series of election specials with studio guest, film maker and writer, David Tuck. Also, live from LA, comedian, writer and self-help enthusiast Ed Craisnick presents a weekly LA diary and conducts a master class in how to do the perfect Woody Allen impersonation. (TV trivia fans may also be interested to know that Ed was the resident comedian at The Bada Bing Club in The Sopranos, and has also played a friend of Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm).

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Jam Tomorrow – Episode 3 – April 16th 2010

Jam Tomorrow

Joe Kassman-Tod, Paul Richards, Katharine Hibbert, K.Biswas, Rys Farthing and guests discuss politicians’ promises and the crucial issues driving the 2010 election campaigns.  Broadcasting three times a week: Tuesday 12:30pm, Thursday 10:30pm and Friday at 2:30pm. There is also a comedic take on the election in the form of The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – Tuesday 9:00 – 9:30pm. Forthcoming: veteran anarchist and agitator and the best political commentator in the U.K Ian Bone also has a run of programmes  – Ian Bone’s By-Election Special beginning on Wednesday April 21st at 1:00pm.

April 16th 2010

A dissection of what the upcoming general election means for Human Rights in the UK.

With the persistent focus on ‘fairness’, ‘efficiency’ and ‘helicopters’, this show applies a different lens. We will look at what this election means for a very real issue – what will the upcoming election mean for Human Rights in the UK?

With the major parties pledging to either strengthen, retain and repeal British human rights protections, this is our chance to discuss the real difference between conflicting viewpoints.

Joining us in the studio we have legendary political activist, Peter Tatchell, and Anita Coles from civil liberties organisation, Liberty. We also have contributions from leading human rights academic Professor Conor Gearty of the LSE and Matrix Chambers, and Katie Ghose, Director of the British Institute of Human Rights.

Presented by K. Biswas and Rys Farthing

Jam Tomorrow – Episode 2 – April 15th 2010

Jam Tomorrow

Joe Kassman-Tod, Paul Richards, Katharine Hibbert, K.Biswas, Rys Farthing and guests discuss politicians’ promises and the crucial issues driving the 2010 election campaigns.  Broadcasting three times a week: Tuesday 12:30pm, Thursday 10:30pm and Friday at 2:30pm. There is also a comedic take on the election in the form of The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – Tuesday 9:00 – 9:30pm. Forthcoming: veteran anarchist and agitator and the best political commentator in the U.K Ian Bone also has a run of programmes  – Ian Bone’s By-Election Special beginning on Wednesday April 21st at 1:00pm.

April 15th 2010

Paul Richards and Katharine Hibbert talk to Dagenham and Rainham MP John Cruddas. They discuss the threat of the BNP gaining dominance of Dagenham & Barking council. Further to this, in neighbouring constituency Barking, BNP leader Nick Griffin is standing against New Labour’s Margaret Hodge. Katherine Hibbert also talks to James Bethell of Nothing British About the BNP.

Jam Tomorrow – Episode 1 – April 13th 2010

Jam Tomorrow

Joe Kassman-Tod, Paul Richards, Katharine Hibbert, K.Biswas, Rys Farthing and guests discuss politicians’ promises and the crucial issues driving the 2010 election campaigns.  Broadcasting three times a week: Tuesday 12:30pm, Thursday 10:30pm and Friday at 2:30pm. There is also a comedic take on the election in the form of The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – Tuesday 9:00 – 9:30pm. Forthcoming: veteran anarchist and agitator and the best political commentator in the U.K Ian Bone also has a run of programmes  – Ian Bone’s By-Election Special beginning on Wednesday April 21st at 1:00pm.

April 13th 2010 Broadcast

Joe Kassman-Tod, Paul Richards, Katharine Hibbert and guests discuss politicians’ promises and the crucial issues driving the 2010 election campaigns. For this debut episode Hibbert and Richards talk to writer Anthony Barnett, the former director of Charter 88 and the founder of Open Democracy. Barnett launches the pro-hung parliament strategy Hang ‘Em! today.

http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/03/labour-brown-british-britain

Clear Spot – Maziar Bahari

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A Resonance FM ClearSpot show presented by Neil Denny of Little Atoms and Fari Bradley of Six Pillars to Persia.

The recent Iranian elections were mired in controversy and accusations of corruption. Early in August around 100 so called “opposition leaders” appeared in a Tehran courtroom, in what has been described as a Stalinist show trial. They had been accused of formenting a “Velvet Revolution”. This program focuses on one of those accused, the Canadian Journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari.

Joining Fari and Neil to discuss Maziar’s current plight, and his life and career as a journalist, are the film-maker Simon Ardizzone, who collaborated as editor on a number of Maziar’s films, writer Malu Halasa, co-editor with Maziar of the book Transit Tehran, and Little Atom’s own Padraig Reidy, news editor of ‘Index on Censorship’.