This is the episode that marks the 4th year of marvin suicide ‘s existence in the form of this music programme.
These anniversary episodes tend to be quite self indulgent and quite possibly rather dull for everyone except it’s creators. But fingers crossed you do like the music. Forget the rambling and listen to tunes, man. It’s all about the groovy tunes.
Plus a special thank-you to Resonance for being lovely.
Panel Borders: The art of Ken Reid
Originally broadcast 29/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Excerpt from Jonah by Ken Reid, The Beano, November 7, 1959
In the last of January’s quartet of shows about four generations of British Cartoonists, Alex Fitch talks to writers Alan Moore and Pat Mills about their favourite cartoonist, the late Ken Reid who drew Roger the Dodger in the 1950s Beano and a variety of underrated strips in children’s comics such as Wham! and Whoopee! including the creepy classics Faceache and Frankie Stein, up to the 1980s…
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Electric Sheep podcast: Hitchcock, Hyde and Houdini – the Magic of Classics
Image from Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock
In an interview / Q and A recorded live at the Roxy Bar and Screen, Alex Fitch talks to magician Granville Markland about depictions of magic and magicians on the big screen, focussing on the work of Harry Houdini in such films as The Man from Beyond (1922) and the more recent blurring of fact and fiction in movies like The Prestige and The Illusionist. Also, Alex talks to musician and comedy writer Robin Warren from the band Liberation Jumpsuit about the recent BFI cinema rereleases of Hitchcock’s Notorious and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1931) which combine suspense and eroticism to beguiling effect.
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Electric Sheep podcast: Hitchcock, Hyde and Houdini - the Magic of Classics [ 49:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: The work of Peter Doherty
Originally broadcast 22/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Art from Grendel Tales by Peter Doherty
In the third of last month’s shows about four generations of British cartoonists, Alex Fitch is talking to an artist who started work in the early 90s on Judge Dredd megazine, illustrating the acclaimed serial Young Death – Boyhood of a superfiend, has worked on a variety of titles in America such as Batman / Superman, The Dreaming and Grendel Tales, before returning to the world of Dredd again more recently. Peter Doherty has worked as a penciller, a fully rendered artist and as a colourist on off beat titles such as Shaolin Cowboy and Grant Morrison’s absurdist Sea Guy. This interview was recorded last November at the Leeds sequential art festival, Thought Bubble…
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Telephone interview with Captain Maurice Seddon who describes his unique telephone apparatus and his ongoing legal battle with his local council and neighbour to retain his dogs. Maurice lives in humble circumstances in Datchet at the end of the Heathrow flight path.
Planes fly directly overhead every 90 seconds. The large garden, surrounded by a high but dilapidated wooden fence contains all manner of unwanted and outdated electrical goods, motorcycles, refrigerators, tarpaulins, a small caravan and a pack of 18 mongrels which live wild and occasionally start to bark in unison. Maurice has lived here for 50 years.
A neighbour who moved in a few years ago has complained consistently about the noise of the dogs resulting in a series of eccentric court cases. At time of writing the dogs remain in situ.
Riding the Northumberland coast from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Newcastle-upon-Tyne with Daniel Start, author of the best-selling Wild Swimming, a guide to natural swimming spots in Britain. Wild Swimming Coast (the salt-water version) will be published in the late spring. To enter the competition to win a signed copy, send an email detailing your favourite wild swimming spot to bikeshow@resonancefm.com.
Andrew Stevenson’s account of his Ed Ruscha-inspired 12 Bakeries ride from London to Paris is available to download (PDF).
Some excellent photographs of the LFGSS’s Tweed Run available here and here. For more information about the Tweed Cycling Club, there is a website.
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Prince Fulgencio had a heart of stone and his palace was a palace exceeding glum. No, no, it was not a palace, it was a castle, turreted and towered, with many flags and banners flying, every one of them showing blasphemous heraldic devices.
Rileyâ’s iconoclastic Persian Surgery Dervishes (played in full when broadcasting live but for podcast we can only play less than a minute). Plus the audio from a documentary about skiing in Iran in the 1970s by film maker Spooly.
This programme was originally broadcast 2nd June 2008 from Resonancefm studios
