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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6IIIs to Persia on Resonance104.4fm

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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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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Mithras - temple fresco, Marino, Italy. 2nd Century A.D.

All too often the English language refers to pagans as an insult, or a primitive people. Yet some of our most common roots are deep within these complex and highly telling belief systems, one of which: Mithraism Nabarz upholds as Persia’s greatest export to date.
Sufi-mystic Payam Nabarz [...]

 

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Hooting Yard’s Frank key narrates “How Lonesome a Life Without Nerve Gas” by James A. Trimarco for Escape Pod. It’s a story of artificial intelligence gone badly wrong in a distant future imperialist war.
EP is the only weekly Science Fiction and Fantasy audio-magazine. If you like this funny story you can find 89 more of [...]

 

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We are proud to present a montage of some of the shows you can hear on Resonance FM. The shows we publish on our podcast feeds are only a tiny selection of the audio broadcast on our FM service on 104.4 FM. If you live outside London you can pick up exactly the same sounds [...]

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A Promo for Dan Wilson’s first series for Resonance FM: The Exciting Hellebore Shew. To subscribe to this series, visit the Hellebore Archive or pick up the highlights from the Resonance FM podcast collection.

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A promo for Epistaxis Time. If you would like to subscribe to Epistaxis Time, head over to http://epistaxis.aa.stodge.org (for the complete archive and RSS feed), or the Resonance web-site for highlights.

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