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Wavelength – Maurice Seddon’s injunction

Captain Maurice Seddon in telephonic conversation. He was faced with an injunction at the Royal Courts of Justice to silence his numberless pack of dogs but thanks in no small part to his Mackenzie friend (me) the case has been adjourned for 3 months. Interpretations of the music for two Adolf Wolfli paintings by Baudouin [...]

Polish Deli 15 1 2012

Introduction to Polish Deli for 2012. My only New Year Resolution was to improve the programme, which I failed to do very soon… (next week I was down with a flu) But I played you some nice music by Polish artists including: Arszyn, Nucleon, Bajkoczytacz, Aloes and  Zbigniew Karkowski Language in this episode: Polish

Comics and conflicts: Pat Mills on Charleys War

Comics and conflicts: Pat Mills on Charleys War Imperial War Museum educator Grant Rogers talks to Pat Mills about his seminal wartime strip Charley’s War, serialised in Battle Action comic in the 1970s and 80s. Grant and Pat Mills discuss the history of the strip, working with Joe Colquhoun and the real life events that [...]

Panel Borders: DJ Food’s Search Engine Splatter

Starting a month of shows about non practitioners’ love for comics, guest presenter Robin The Fog talks to graphic designer and music producer Strictly Kev, better known as DJ Food. A lifelong comics fan, Kev tells us about engaging legendary 2000AD artist Henry Flint to make the artwork for his new LP ‘The Search Engine’ [...]

Wavelength – 2010 May 21st Beatlemania

Beatlemania. Klaus Beyer sings The Beatles (out of tune and in German), Rodney Graham’s version of Blue Jay Way, Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin/Paul McCartney/Apple single) from Ground Zero plays Standards with Otomo Yoshihide and Vanilla Fudge’s rendition of Ticket to Ride.

OST 21.01.2012 – Fred Judd, Ian Helliwell & Public Information

Soundtracks, library and television music with Jonny Trunk. Today Ian Helliwell is coming onto the OST Show. Ian lives in Brighton, is somewhat of an archivist and dare we say it, a polymath. He has spent the last few years, investigating (amongst many other things) the life and work of a certain F.C. Judd. Frederick [...]

Hello GoodBye Show 28 January 2012: Alexander Tucker and Paper Dollhouse

A bit of a Radiophonic theme on the show today with live music on the show today from both Alexander Tucker and Paper Dollhouse. Alexander Tucker began his musical career as singer in punk and post-hardcore bands and since the early part of this century his solo music has channelled widely varied influences from folk [...]

Book List: Childrens book illustrators

Book List: Children’s book illustrators In an hour long show about children’s book illustration, Alex Fitch talks to three generations of illustrators: David McKee, creator of Mr Benn, King Rollo and Elmer the Patchwork Elephant; Dave McKean, artist of of young adult books by David Almond, graphic novels and picture books by Neil Gaiman and [...]

Hello GoodBye Show 21 January 2012: Temperatures and Tiger Walking Downhill

We have a good and wholesome, double dosage of pure and unadulterated noise planned for this lunchtime with live performance’s from Temperatures and Tiger Walking Downhill. Jetting in from up the Kingsland Road we have Dalston’s Temperatures, the improvised avant rock duo comprised of Peter Blundell (bass) and James Dunn (drums/synth). Temperatures’ sound (no ‘The’) [...]

Panel Borders: Habibi Blankets

Panel Borders: Habibi Blankets Concluding our month of shows looking at biography and autobiography in comics, Alex Fitch talks to the multiple award winning (and Grammy nominated) cartoonist Craig Thompson about his epic new graphic novel Habibi (My beloved). Alex and Craig discuss the 672 page book’s reworking of themes from ‘One Thousand and One [...]