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Reality Check: Gentlemen in Flight

Illustration of Little Nellie by Edgar Aromin

George Takei is Captain Hikaru Sulu

In a special episode looking at two of the great gentlemen of the sky, who first found fame in the 1960s with their piloting of classic Sci-Fi air/spacecraft, Chris Patmore talks to George Takei about being the helmsman of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek in both the classic TV series and beyond while Alex Fitch talks to Wing Commander Ken Wallis about building and flying the gyrocopter ‘Little Nellie’ in You only live twice and its stablemate in The Martian Chronicles…

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Reality Check: Red Dwarf / Robot Zoo

Reality Check: Red Dwarf / Robot Zoo

The cast of Red Dwarf, Easter 2009

In a special Easter episode looking at ways you can entertain kids and adults alike over the Bank Holiday, Alex Fitch talks to Craig Charles about playing Dave Lister again after a ten year hiatus in the new Red Dwarf mini-series Back to Earth. Alex also talks to Jo Hatton, keeper of the Robot Zoo at the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill which presents a collection of robotic and animatronic animals to the public and mixes education with the feel of a traveling carnival.

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Reality Check: State of the Art adaptation

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State of the Art adaptation

To be broadcast 03/03/09 on Resonance FM as a “Micro Clear Spot”

Iain Banks and Paul Cornell at Newcon 4

Alex Fitch talks to writer Paul Cornell about dramatising Iain M Banks’ novella “The State of the Art” for the afternoon play on Radio 4 (to be broadcast 2.15pm 05/03/09) with a cast including such luminaries as Anthony Sher and Patterson Joseph… Alex and Paul also discuss the author’s adaptations of his own work – novelising the internet cartoon Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka and conversely dramatising his novel Doctor Who: Human Nature for TV.

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Wikipedia pages on Paul Cornell, Iain Banks and The Culture

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Electric Sheep podcast: Experimental film as performance art

Electric Sheep podcast: Experimental film as performance art

Interviews originally broadcast as a Clear Spot, 30/10/08 and I’m ready for my close-up, 12/02/09 on www.resonancefm.com

A Home Movie by Jeff Keen

Alex Fitch talks to Tania Glyde and Kim Morgan about the films of Jeff Keen and to Wajid Yaseen about Ear Cinema and Late Noon Sun…
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I’m ready for my close-up: Silent horror and cinematic opera

Iâ€™m ready for my close-up – Silent horror and cinematic opera
to be broadcast on 30/10/08 as part of the 8pm Clear Spot on Resonance FM

A special podcast episode of I’m ready for my close-up: Alex Fitch talks to Robert Rider, cinema programmer at the Barbican centre in London about their season of silent horror films which includes such films as Der Golem and The Man who laughs with scores that range from classic piano accompaniment to DJ mixing. Alex and Richard also talk about the centre’s presentations of New York Met. operas such as “Doctor Atomic” and Robert Lapage’s production of “The Damnation of Faust”.

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Links: Info on screenings of Barbican screenings of silent horror films and New York Met. operas
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Robert Rider and previous podcasts on silent movies

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Panel Borders: The manga of Osamu Tezuka

Panel Borders: The manga of Osamu Tezuka
To be broadcast 18/09/08 as part of a special “Clear Spot” at 8pm on Resonance FM

Alex Fitch talks to manga expert Helen McCarthy in front of an audience of comic book readers at Streatham Library about the work of manga and animÃ© pioneer Osamu Tezuka who is the subject of a season now on at The Barbican. In this episode Alex and Helen look at Tezuka’s manga work from New Treasure Island to MW…

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An episode of The Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast – Alex Fitch talks to animÃ© expert Helen McCarthy in front of an audience of manga fans at Streatham Library about the work of manga and anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka who is the subject of a season now on at The Barbican. Alex and Helen talk about Tezuka’s career in animÃ© from early experimental shorts to the big budget adaptation of his classic manga comic Metropolis. Also comedienne and actress Jessica Fostekew reviews the cinema release of Eden Lake and the DVD release of Annie Leibovitz – Life Through a Lens…

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Airwaves – Chicken El Diablo

With 10 years spent conquering the roads and 3 of them also trying to piece together an album, Stockholm legends, Chicken El Diablo have finally seen the Swedish release of their hugely anticipated masterpiece “Love It Or Level it”. This show features an interview with band member William Carlstedt and 6 tracks culled from the album which is now out on Airwaves Music.

Recorded and produced by Fredrik MÃ¥nsson.

Interview by Gavin Maycroft.

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An Introduction to Airwaves

Specializing in post rock, updated krautrock, psychedelia and general weirdness there is no label quite like Stockholmâ€™s Airwaves. Born from the frustrations of watching a series of great bands vanish into oblivion in the mid to late nineties, Airwaves has become a unique home for alternative musical talents. This show as our introduction to its genius residents; Chicken El Diablo, Tender Souveniers, RÃ¶kmorsa, Elias Krantz, Clark Nova, Mackaper, Currents, Fuglesang and Help Elp Elp Lp

Strip! – The strange world of Steve Ditko

Strip! (Clear Spot) – The strange world of Steve Ditko
Originally broadcast at 8pm, 14/08/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM

James DC hosts a 1 hour special round-table discussion about the recent book Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, released by Fantagraphics books. James is in discussion with comic book artists and Ditko experts Steve Marchant, Mark Stafford and the author of the book, Blake Bell.

Ditko is best known as the co-creator, with Stan Lee, of Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and other classic Marvel and DC characters. But, in the context of Steve Ditko’s 50-year career in comics, his creative involvement with Spider-Man is merely the tip of the iceberg. Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is a lavish coffee table art book tracing Ditko’s life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, and his strict adherence to his Ayn Rand inspired philosophical principles, along with illustrations – some rarely printed – of some of the obscure artwork from Ditko’s ouevre.

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