Resonance FM Podcasts

Reality Check: Christmas ghosts and skeletons with Ray Harryhausen and Michael Punter
Alex Fitch talks to two creators of excellent Christmas entertainment. Oscar winning animator Ray Harryhausen has long been associated with Bank Holiday TV programming and Christmas wouldn’t be the same without an appearance of Jason and the Argonauts or Sinbad facing off mythological creatures. [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: The films of Joseph Strick
Also broadcast 20/11/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM
To coincide with the ‘Directorspective’ of the work of Joseph Strick, currently at The Barbican centre in London, Alex Fitch talks to the Oscar winning director about his career from working as [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: New approaches to Zombie cinema
Originally broadcast 16/10/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM
In a special early Halloween edition, Alex Fitch talks to Jeffrey Coghlan, the producer of the innovative Canadian Horror film Pontypool and Marc Price, director of the excellent British living dead film [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: The Films of Sally Potter
In an hour long talk / Q and A recorded at Cinephila West in Westbourne Grove, London, Sophie Mayer interviews director Sally Potter about her career with additional questions from the audience. Sally talks about getting advice from Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell while raising funding for her [...]

 

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Reality Check: Man vs. the Eyeborgs
Continuing our podcasts of talks and Q & As recorded live at this year’s Spring Sci-Fi London festival, Alex Fitch talks to the cast and crew of the new Science Fiction thriller Eyeborgs which sees surveillance cameras combined with miniature robots to create deadly machines that give Critters and Gremlins [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: Dario Argento and Goblin
Dario Argento interview originally broadcast 26/06/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on www.resonancefm.com
In an interview recorded at the Cine-Excess cult film festival in London, Alex Fitch talks to Italian cult film maker Dario Argento about his career from writing ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ in the 1960s such [...]

 

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Reality Check: Supermarionation special
Gerry Anderson interview originally broadcast 16/07/09 /
Francis Matthews interview originally broadcast 13/08/09 as episodes of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM

Francis Matthews, Captain Scarlet and Gerry Anderson

In a special episode looking at two of the people most closely associated with classic Supermarionation TV shows, Alex Fitch and Robin Warren [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: The current state of Gay cinema part 2 (Monika Treut / Paul Morrison)
Monika Treut interview originally broadcast 08/05/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up www.resonancefm.com
In the second of two podcasts looking at the current state of gay cinema, Virginie Sélavy interviews experimental film maker Monika Treut about her work [...]

 

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Reality Check: Genre (crossing) directors – Kaufman and Vigalondo
Charlie Kaufman interview originally broadcast 21/05/09 on Resonance FM as part of I’m ready for my close-up
Continuing our series of twice annual looks at pairs of directors who combine genres on screen to beguiling effect, Alex Fitch talks to Academy Award winning screenwriter turned director Charlie Kaufman [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: Figures in a landscape
Interviews originally broadcast 01/05/09 in an edited version as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on www.resonancefm.com

Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two new films which take the starting point of a character walking through a landscape and twist it into unexpected directions. Alex talks to [...]

 

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