Alex Fitch interviews Jonathan Gadsby, a psychiatric nurse from the West Country. Jonathan discusses the actual complaints the characters in One flew over the cuckoo’s nest probably suffered from, the probability of John Nash’s visual hallucinations as depicted in A Beautiful mind and the likelihood of the FBI asking a psychotic serial killer for advice in the Hannibal Lecter films.
Originally broadcast 27th April 2006 (mp3 format, 26.5 mb)
The start of August bank holiday weekend means the London FrightFest is in town, so why not download the companion piece to the show broadcast last night on horror film clubs… Adrian Winchester interviews Norman J. Warren, director of classic and infamous horror films from the 1970s, concentrating on his films Terror, Inseminoid, Satan’s Slave and Prey which were released by Anchor Bay on DVD earlier this year. The show is introduced, edited and recorded by Alex Fitch.
Link: Anchor Bay’s Norman Warren collection – www.anchorbay.co.uk
Originally broadcast 8th June 2006 (24.5mb)
Richard Thomas presents an interview and collaboration with film-makers William English & David Leister. For the first half of the show Richard works with the film-makers to create an aural performance mixing the live sounds produced by various cinema projectors as they unspool rolls of film and then interviews English and Leister about their work in the London Filmmakers’ co-operative.
Link: David Leister’s Armchair Cinema & Kino Club
Originally broadcast 4th May 2006 (28mb)
Alex Fitch interviews Tony Grisoni, writer of Michael Winterbottom’s In this world and Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The show will be concentrating on Tony’s latest two scripts: Tideland directed by Gilliam which is currently in the cinema and Brothers of the Head (from the directors of Lost in La Mancha) which is showing today in Edinburgh and goes on general release in October.
Links: Tideland / Brothers of the Head reviews
Wikipedia entries on: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / In this World
Originally broadcast 17th August 2006 (25.4mb)
For our second podcast: one of the most recent shows (to give listeners a chance to get to the exhibition before it closes)…
Alex Fitch interviews Chris Allen, founder member of the Light Surgeons, a company that produces films and multimedia events. Their current project is an exhibition called Domestic Archaeology which is at the Geffrye Museum in East London until the 28th of August. The show features video and photographic depictions of modern living rooms plus interviews with the inhabitants.
Links:The Light Surgeons
Domestic Archaeology
The Geffrye Museum
Originally broadcast 3rd August 2006 (27 mb)
Welcome to the first podcast of “I’m ready for my close-up”. The show goes out on Resonance every Thursday at 10.30pm and is presented alternately by Alex Fitch & Richard Thomas with occasional guest presenters. “I’m ready…” is about the world of film, TV and other broadcast media and comprises interviews, reviews and interaction with film-makers, artists, writers and critics.
In this installment: Alex Fitch talks to Richard Comline who works in digital post-production. Richard works at a ‘post house’ in Wardour Street and has worked on feature films, adverts, television and low budget shorts; they discusses the nature of his work and the world of modern digital manipulation.
Links: Wikipedia entry on compositing
Richard’s IMDb page / online gallery
Originally broadcast 23rd Febuary 2006 (24.4mb)