Famous for serving six balls at once on a professional court, under arm serves, and speciality shots including the ‘power shot through the legs’, ‘the lob through the legs’ and ‘the drop shot’ which bounces back over the net due to excessive backspin tennis impresario Mansour Bahrami is not to be matched. At the launch [...]

 

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Author Rudi Mathee discusses his study of Persian uses for narcotics and other more mundane stimulants throughout history.  Mathee’s book “The Pursuit of Pleasure” has just been released in Iran, and Fari Bradley asks him about Sherry, Shiraz wine and stimulants and opiates in ancient Persia from coffee to opium.
Mathee focusses on the Safavid period [...]

 

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When five young men who are a typical modern concoction of traditional Iranian values and MTV play music together what will it sound like?

Simorgh is the name of a mystical bird in Sufi folklore. As a band of young urbanites however, their music incorporates group chanting and a lyrical poetry that is folk-rap, accompanied by [...]

 

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Two small travel companies explain the ins and outs of travelling to Iran.  From dry sand skiing to Zoroastrian tours, there is a lot on offer!
Persian Voyages and Magic Carpet Travel share anecdotes and histories, as well as tips for those considering leaving.
This programme was originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm in London, on July 14th [...]

 

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Photographer Jamshid Bayrami shows his works in ‘Haj’, the opening exhibition at Xerxes Fine Arts Gallery in London, the only permanent gallery dedicated to Iranian art.
Bayrami has worked successfully as a photo journalist and is known for his picture of a bloodied hand print on a T-shirt during student protests that [...]

 

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Fari Bradley reports from the Contemporary Iranian Music event at the Camden Underworld and interviews artist Maria Kheirkhah live in the studio about her career choice to become an artist, collecting air in the Iranian desert and her current exhibition the Psychology of Fear. Featured are Farinaz Entegham, Ali Charmi on hip hop and faith, [...]

 

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Nima Tehranchi, singer from Hush the Many Heed the Few visits the studio and talks to Fari Bradley about his success with Hush the Many and with his own solo project “Sliding Rule“.

Nima plays live in the studio.
Hush the Many are known for their finely balanced vocal interplays and innovative songwriting and have appeared [...]

 

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When you hear this stuff you are transported.  So much energy and such a fine example of a perfect east-west balance in dance music.  On hearing some of these tracks the mind is drawn down images of side streets throbbing with nightclubs and bright fashion, in a setting of affluence and passionate youth.  The 70’s [...]

 

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Riley’s iconoclastic Persian Surgery Dervishes (played in full when broadcasting live but for podcast we can only play less than a minute). Plus the audio from a documentary about skiing in Iran in the 1970s by film maker Spooly.
This programme was originally broadcast 2nd June 2008 from Resonancefm studios

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The Association of Iranian Researchers (ACI) is here represented by Roya Kashefi, on the art-music radio programme Six Pillars to Persia on Resonance 104.4fm
Discussing everything from facts to figures and holes in the news, Roya explains to Fari what the ACI does and why, while demystifying some facts about Iran today. One subject close [...]

 

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