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Technical Difficulties – 1:2 + 1:3 (September 24, 2010)

The second instalment of Technical Difficulties was a showcase of the music of Anya Ustashewski, more at www.anyasmusic.co.uk

The third instalment is the attached audio, transcript available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51100058

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Technical Difficulties 1:1 (September 10, 2010)

The debut of Technical Difficulties on Resonance 104.4fm, with Stephen Lee Hodgkins of Disability LIB. Originally broadcast between 3.30pm and 4pm.

Transcript is available here .

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Deep Fried Planet Special – Ecocide

Presenter of Deep Fried Planet Pat Thomas discusses the concept of “ecocide” with Polly Higgins, whose recent book “Eradicating Ecocide” highlights the need for enforceable, legally binding mechanisms in national and international law to hold account perpetrators of long term severe damage to the environment.

Deep Fried Planet – Creative Activism

This week on Deep Fried Planet the subject of discussion is creative activism.

Guests this week are Emily James of Just Do It films and John Jordan of Liberate Tate.

Deep Fried Planet – Water Scarcity

This week on Deep Fried Planet the subject of discussion is water scarcity. Guests are Jacob Tompkins Director of charity Waterwise and Peter Guthrie head of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Cambridge University, who was a co author of the report Global Water Security: an engineering perspective which was published earlier this year.

Joe Boyd’s Lucky 13 – Episode One

An hour of revelation, anecdote and music. Each week legendary record producer Joe Boyd selects tracks from every 13th record in his extensive and judiciously ordered record collection.

Theme music

CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA

CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061

Soul Ballad Goes To Africa

STEAL AWAY / JIMMY HUGHES

CD: Take Me To The River / Kent Kentbox 10

FETSUM DINK LIJ NESH / MAHMOUD AHMED

LP: Ere Mela Mela / Hannibal HNBL 1354

SERBI SERBI / KHALED Error Alert: Khaled’s original producer Rachid Ahmed was assassinated in 1995, not 1955!

CD: N’ssi N’ssi / Barclay 51989

Folk Piano

A SQUIRREL IS A PRETTY THING / SONYA COHEN & PEGGY SEEGER

CD: Animal Folk Songs / Rounder CD 8023

BRUDMARSCH AFTER LARSHOGA JONKE / JAN JOHANSSON

CD: Jazz Pa Svenska / Megafon MFCD 0410

SWEDISH DANCE / DANNY THOMPSON

LP: Whatever / Hannibal HNLP 1326

Levon Helm On Drums

JOHN THE BAPTIST / JOHN & BEVERLY MARTYN

CD: Stormbrigner / Island IMCD 317

TEARS OF RAGE / THE BAND

CD: Musical History Disc 2 / Capitol 72534

SANTA FE / BOB DYLAN

CD: Bootleg Series Vol 2 / Columbia CK 65304

Economic Migrations

ASA BRANCA / LUIS GONZAGA

K7: O Rei de Baiao /

NE MINJ SZIVEM / MARTA SEBESTYEN

LP: Emigration / Hungaroton SLPX 18153

DO-RE-MI / WOODY GUTHRIE

LP: Library of Congress Recordings / Elektra EKL 271

Deep Fried Planet – Preserving Biodiversity

Hot on the heels of the global biodiversity conference in Nagoya, Japan we will be talking about biodiversity and how to stem the global tide of species loss. My guests are Dr Andrew Mitchell from the Global Canopy Programme whose new publication the Little Biodiversity Finance Book suggests that we need to understand the value of nature in pounds and pence before we can understand how best to preserve it. Also with me will be Juliette Jowit, environment editor at the Observer to talk about the paper’s Piece by Piece project which brings together a diversity of local campaigns throughout the UK aimed at preserving local habitats

Deep Fried Planet Episode Seven

Pat Thomas discusses urban foraging and they changing ways in which we use urban space.

Deep Fried Planet Episode Six

Pat Thomas discusses micro energy.

Pan Fried Planet – Ecocide and the Law

In a micro edition of the ongoing environmental series Deep Fried Planet, Patricia Thomas, Polly Higgins and James Thornton discuss the need to recgonise Ecocide as a crime against humanity, environmental law and how to persevere in the midst of compassion fatigue.