Category Archives: I’m Ready for my Closeup

Clear Spot: Fifteen years of Professor Bernice Summerfield part 2

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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I’m ready for my close-up: The 51st London Film Festival – reviews part 3

John Riley, James DeCarteret & Tom Geens begin the second week of discussion and preview of the films they’ve seen at this year’s London Film Festival, tonight focussing on two films showing in the avant-garde strand of the LFF – Seven easy pieces and Milky way… More info at archive.org

Originally broadcast 25/10/07 on Resonance FM (mp3 format, 28.8mb)

Clear Spot: Fifteen years of Professor Bernice Summerfield part 1

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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I’m ready for my podcast: Short films at The London Film Festival

To compliment the live review shows that take up I’m ready for my close-up during this year’s London Film Festival, we have the first of a series of exclusive podcast featuring interviews with filmmakers and programmers involved in this year’s LFF. Virginie Selavy interviews curators Simon Young and Philip Ilson about the short films they’ve chosen for this year’s festival…
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I’m ready for my close-up: The Pornification of visual culture

Alex Fitch talks to former presenter of Midnight Sex Talk – Tania Glyde – about the increasing pornification of visual media, from advertising to art, film to fromage. As both the ICA & Barbican in London have sex based festivals on this month, it seems porn is being increasingly celebrated in our culture, so Alex and Tania look at some of the reasons why.
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I’m ready for my close-up: Cult entertainment for Autumn

Alex Fitch interviews two curators of very different kinds of cult entertainment.
Robert Rider is a programmer at the Barbican cinema in London which has gained reknown for a variety of different events and festivals throughout the year. 4th October saw the start of their Brazillian film festival and November the yearly Children’s film festival not to mention regular screenings of Silent movies with live accompaniment and their regular Anime slot.
Alex Geairns is a director of the Cult TV festival taking place in Oxfordshire from the 19th to the 22nd of October which is a gathering of fans, creators and stars of Cult TV from the 1960s to the present day and features such guests as Sylvia Anderson (co-creator of Thunderbirds), Matthew Graham (creator of Life on Mars) and Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch)…

Originally broadcast 04/10/07 (mp3 format, 28.7 mb)

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I’m ready for my close-up: New female directors

In a show recorded at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Alex Fitch talks to two new female directors who have made two very different debut feature films. In I for India Sandhya Suri has collated 40 years of home movie footage of her family in Britain and India that tells the poignant tale of loved ones separated by land and culture, while in Gypsy Caravan Jasmine Dellal has created an epic concert movie with the cinematographer of Monteray Pop that showcases Romany music that will hopefully prove to be this decade’s Buena vista social club… (mp3 format, 26.4mb)

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