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Hooting Yard: O! To Be In Pepinstow!

Later, back in Pepinstow, I saw the Tundist fires burning. The Adepts were silent now, and ominous. I crept in shadows past my chalet, all the way past it until I reached the kiosk of the night soil man. It was empty, save for a coathanger on which hung a bright new uniform. I tried it on. It was a perfect fit. Night would fall, soon, soon, and I would be ready.

This episode was recorded on the 3rd June 2010. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the five publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants and Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories are available for purchase

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Joe Boyd’s Lucky 13 – Episode Three

An hour of revelation, anecdote and music. Each week legendary record producer Joe Boyd selects tracks from his extensive and judiciously ordered record collection, using the number 13 as his lode-star.

Theme music
CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA
CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061
Costello & Covers
BIRDS WILL BE SINGING / NORMA WATERSON
CD: Norma Waterson / Hannibal HNCD 1393
CLOWNTIME MEDLEY / ELVIS COSTELLO
CD: Costello & Nieve in New York / Warner Bros 9 46469-2
SHIPBUILDING / ROBERT WYATT
LP: 1982-1984 / Rough Trade RTSP 25
Afro Cubism
NANA SERE / ARSENIO RODRIGUEZ
CD: Grabaciones Completas / Tumi TCD316
MBAOUDE / MANGALA CAMARA
CD: Minye Minye / Syllart
AL VAIVEN DE MI CARRETA / ELIADES OCHOA / KASSE MADY
CD: Afrocubism / World Circuit WCD 085
Rota’s Ripples
SYCAMORE TREES / JIMMY SCOTT
CD: Twin Peaks / 4AD 9 45019-2
8 1/2 / CARLA BLEY
LP: Amarcord Nino Rota / Hannibal HNBL 9301
I’LL SHOOT THE MOON / TOM WAITS
CD: The Black Rider / Island CID 8021
Originally broadcast on 26th November 2010
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Ventures and Adventures in Topography 

Episode 1 - Brent Cross

Ventures & Adventures in Topography presented 
by John Rogers and Nick Papadimitriou,
is a show taking you on a series of 
lop-sided rambles around the margins 
of London,exploring zones and areas 
of the city drawing on an eclectic 
range of references,influenced by old 
\topographical books, psychogeography, 
deep topography,
and the hopeless mis-reading of maps.

This week we’ll be taking you on a drift 
from Golders Green to Brent Cross,
exploring the liminal zones in-between, 
land on the cusp of redevelopment
and a derive through the Regional Shopping Centre 
during late-night midweek shopping.
Includes field recordings, reading by 
Heidi Lapaine from Walter Benjamin's
Arcade Project and music from Europa 51.
http://boomkat.com/cds/11785-europa-51-abstractions
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Reality Check: Future Publishing? part 1

Reality Check: Future Publishing? part 1

Tom Hunter (Award Administrator for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature) chairs a panel on the future of publishing in the digital age:

The publishing industry is coming under assault from all sides. Are Kindles, iPads and smartphones signalling the end of traditional paper publishing? How will the publishing industry re-shape itself for 2050?
Panelists include: Paul Graham-Raven, a freelance writer, editor and webgeek, genre fiction reviewer and editor-in-chief of the near-future science fiction webzine Futurismic; Paul Rainey, a cartoonist, illustrator and creator of serialised web and print comics The Book of Lists and There’s No Time Like The Present; novelist Gary Gibson, Nova War is his fourth book and his second Dakota Merrick title, following 2007’s Stealing Light; Dave Bradley, Editor-in-Chief of SFX magazine, Europe’s best-selling sci-fi and fantasy periodical. With questions addressed to the panel by John Freeman (Doctor Who Magazine) and Alex Fitch (Panel Borders). (part 1 of 2)

Clockwise from top left: comics by Paul Rainey, Futurismic blog by Paul Graham-Raven, SFX magazine cover, various novels by Gary Gibson

Clockwise from top left: comics by Paul Rainey, Futurismic blog by Paul Graham-Raven, SFX magazine cover, various novels by Gary Gibson

Recorded live at the Apollo Piccadilly cinema, Spring 2010 (recorded and edited by Alex Fitch)

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com

Links: Paul Rainey’s website
Gary Gibson’s blog
SFX magazine website
Paul Raven’s Futurismic website
Arthur C. Clark awards website

Listen to Alex’s interview with Paul Rainey about his work

Recommended events:

Demons screening

Prior to its DVD re-release from Arrow Video, Midnight Movies presents a special screening of Dario Argento’s classic gory 80s horror Demons on Friday 26 November 2010 at Curzon Soho. One fateful night in a Berlin cinema, art imitates life as one by one the audience are possessed by blood-hungry, puss-filled demons. More details on Curzon Cinemas’ website.

Erika Moen – Signing and Exhibition

Erika Moen (Dar Comics) will be in London for the opening of her show at Orbital Comics! Come see her paintings in real life and maybe get a book signed or something!

Orbital Comics, 8 Gt Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA, United Kingdom
Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:00

Comica, London week four

Paul Gravett: From Escape To Now
Paul Gravett gives an illustrated talk about his lifelong passion for comics, from the 80s Escape Magazine to now.
The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1
Monday, 29 November – 6.30pm to 9.30pm
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Panel Borders: Spandex!

Panel Borders: Spandex!

Continuing our month of shows looking at unusual depictions of superheroes, in an interview recorded at the Thought Bubble festival in Leeds, Alex Fitch talks to writer / artist Martin Eden about his small press comics The O Men and Spandex, the latter featuring the world’s only all gay superhero team. Alex and Martin talk about distribution of small press comics, his experiences with the media’s interest in his new comic when it launched last year and representations of gay characters in sequential art.

Spandex group shot by Martin Eden

Spandex group shot by Martin Eden

This show was recorded live at Thought Bubble, Leeds

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Martin’s blog – spandexcomic.wordpress.com
The O Men website and blog

Listen to Alex’s interview with Tommy Roddy about his gay themed Superhero comic Pride High

Recommended events:


Alternative Press Fair: Sunday 28th November 2010

Comix, zines, self published art books, poetry workshop, illustration photo booth and over 100 titles from the world of small press. A chance for newcomers to sell their work on a communal table and for those interested to find out what the scene has to offer. Alternative Press will also be announcing details of next year’s Alternative Press Festival.

St. Aloysius’ Social Centre (Corner of Eversholt Street and Phoenix Road) London NW1 1TA Nearest Tube: Euston
Sunday 28th November 2010, 12pm to 6pm

ALSO: There are some flyer designs up on the comicsandzines blog. We want you to recreate the flyers in your own style!

More info: comicsandzines.wordpress.com

Erika Moen – Signing and Exhibition

Erika Moen (Dar Comics) will be in London for the opening of her show at Orbital Comics! Come see herpaintings in real life and maybe get a book signed or something!

Orbital Comics, 8 Gt Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA, United Kingdom
Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:00

Comica, London week four

Sarah Ardizzone and Ros Schwartz: The Little Prince
A dialogue between two translators looking back at the biggest selling French language book.
Institut Francais, 17 Queensberry Place, London
Thursday, 25 November – 7.30pm

Paul Gravett: From Escape To Now
Paul Gravett gives an illustrated talk about his lifelong passion for comics, from the 80s Escape Magazine to now.
The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1
Monday, 29 November – 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Continue reading →

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Wavelength – 2008 December 19th

Christmas greetings from Wavelength spoken by Maurice Seddon who goes on to talk about heated clothing, windmills and his time spent living in Elgar’s house in Hampstead. Charles Matthews plays Giacinto Scelsi: In Nomine Lucis, Live in St. Michel and St. Gudula Cathedral Brussels, from the double LP Spire Live: Fundamentalis (FACT12 Touch Tone 28) 2008.

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50/50 Soundsystem – November 24th 2010

50-50 Soundsystem bring 17 years of DJing experience to ResonanceFM with 60âs, 70âs & 80âs old skool reggae with a touch of the new, plucked from the 50-50 vaults. Come listen to a flavour of the real old school, instrumental dub classics, and original soul breaks.
This week brought to you by Chris, Frost and Roots Ran.
Email: admin@5050soundsystem.com

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Six Pillars – The Shahnameh Exhibition, Cambridge

The Shahnameh or Persian Book of Kings, is an enormous poetic opus written by Ferdowsi a Persian poet, around 1000 AD. Despite it’s age  the book is still the national epic of the cultural sphere of Greater Persia.  Consisting of around 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells a mythical and historical tale of Greater Iran, from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.

The work is of central importance in Persian culture, we had a look at it on our show about the book Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah’s Beard. While regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of ethno-national cultural identity of Iran the book is still quoted today by everyone from the illiterate to members of the government, and is the topic of many a puppet show and street theatre.  It is also important to the contemporary followers of Zoroastrianism and deals with central themes of good and evil. It’s a real treasure.

Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History at University of Cambridge discusses the show and it surrounding events.

The interview is interspersed with extracts from a talk given by Charles Melville at the Fitzwilliam Museum gallery where the illuminations and pieces are on show.

If you are interested in the book and its wider influence outside of Iran there is currently a show at Prince’s Galleries Charlotte Street (nearest tube Old Street). Amongst others Russian, Pakistani and Iranian artists respond to the Shahnameh (or Shahnama as it’s known in India) as part of their own cultural painting traditions. Six Pillars host Fari Bradley also has a sound piece on display there until mid December.

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Six Pillars – Leeds Diasporic Film Series

Sanaz Raj discusses her interest in Iranian film and a week of full length film screenings running in conjunction with the Leeds International Film Festival.  The week, called the Iranian Diasporic Film Series presents a variety of film: from a documentary about the Shah’s widow to a fiction about a lesbian refugee from Iran who takes on the identity of a dead male acquaintance.

Sanaz and Fari discuss the screenings and accompanying talks, as we well as ‘Certified Copy‘ Abbas Kiarostami’s latest film set in Italy, starring Juliette Binoche.

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Voice on Record: Episode 28 (Spring)

“Seasons greetings brought to you from William Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, E.E.Cummings, Ogden Nash, T.S.Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, by way of Alec Guinness, E.E.Cummings, Alan Howard, and others.”

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds.
http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php
Originally broadcast on 23rd March 2010

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