I’m ready for my close-up (video podcast): Malcolm McDowell and Lindsay Anderson
(partially broadcast as a clear spot on 14th Nov at 5.45pm)

Alex Fitch interviews the presenter / star (Malcolm McDowell) and the director (Mike Kaplan) of the new film Never Apologise – a personal visit with Lindsay Anderson currently showing at the London BFI Southbank. Alex discusses with Malcolm and Mike the experience of working with their mentor on a variety of projects on stage and screen, focussing on If… and O lucky man!.
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Clear spot: Art as play part 2

Alex Fitch is talking to three of the artists who have work displayed in the exhibition Play: Neil Zakiewicz whose piece is an electric guitar in the shape of a giant artist’s pallette and pain brush, with the amplifier disguised as an abstract painting, Natasha Kissell about her 3 dimensional painting that combines countryside painting with architects maquetts to create a fantasy landscape in a perspex box and Sarah Baker who has made a mixed media scultpture challenging the perception of fashion in art.
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Originally broadcast 06/11/07 at 1.30pm – Clear spot: Art as play part 1
The first of two micro clear spots looking at the exhibition ‘Play’ currently on at The Cello Factory near Waterloo. Alex Fitch interviews curator Julia Alvarez & art collector Sara Pierce about the exhibtion which celebrates ineractivity and playfulness in art, there’s an extract from Doug Fishbone’s conceptual video Footprints in the sand and some music by The Heard, a local community choir who performed at the opening night.
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Alex Fitch continues his investigation of the best science fiction heroine most people have never heard (of) – Professor Bernice Summerfield, Benny to her friends.
Starting off as a Doctor Who companion in the novels published after the original TV series was cancelled in 1989, Benny has since appeared in over a hundred books and 40 full cast ‘radio’ plays released on CD in specialist shops.
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Alex Fitch investigates the best science fiction heroine most people have never heard (of) – Professor Bernice Summerfield, Benny to her friends.
Starting off as a Doctor Who companion in the novels published after the original TV series was cancelled in 1989, Benny has since appeared in over a hundred books  and 40 full cast ‘radio’ plays released on CD in specialist shops.
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