Category Archives: Shows

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The Bike Show: Hidden Treasure

Treasure Chest 2Paul Wonnacott has been buying, repairing and selling on used bicycles in the English countryside for almost thirty years. In an extended interview he looks back at the changes he’s observed in the bicycle manufacturing industry (most of them bad) and grapples with a hoarder’s inner demon as he watches his huge stock literally pile up and up. Also mentioned in the show is the Waterfront London exhibition and series of breakfast talks at New London Architecture on Store Street, the Italian writer Ugo Riccarelli in conversation with journalist Richard Williams on the occasion of the publication of the English edition of Coppi’s Angel on 30 January at the Italian Cultural Institute. And the deadline for submissions to the 2008 Bicycle Film Festival is looming: 19 February.

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Hooting Yard : The Helmet of a Conquistador

Munching a whelk, I turned my attentions to the diagrams themselves. They were fearfully complicated. I am no architect, and at first all I could make out were miriad lines meeting at angles and criss-crossing each other seemingly at random. Most of the diagrams had been subjected to revision, and there was much evidence of erasure, overprinting and churlish emendation. My studies were interrupted by a sudden and ferocious thunderstorm.

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Six Pillars – Persian Avant Garde Music 1960’s

Mashayekhi’s work is woefully unknown to us the in the west, despite his completely unique and innovative methods and career that spans back to a pre-Shah Iran. From score writing to painting Mashayekhhi’s work reflects the unique way he thinks. Many thanks to Sub-Rosa Records for allowing us to podcast these pieces.

We also hear a short interview with artist Anahita Rezvani on her work, recently shown here at the Paraava gallery. She is interviewed at our request by her friend, who remains unnamed.
This show was produced and presented by Fari Bradley and broadcast from the Resonancefm studios in 2007.

The Low Carbon Show – Transition Towns Conference

Ruskin Mill

The Transition Towns concept is a grassroots, action model for making the
change to a low carbon future. It’s about designing the future and making it
positive rather than just waiting for it to happen. All the signs are that
it is a project that works and it’s spreading like a virus throughout the
UK. This programme features interviews with people involved in transition
towns projects recorded at the Transition Network inaugural conference. It
provides a snapshot of the many and diverse projects now underway.

Our pioneering interviewees include Naresh Giangrande – setting up community
owned, large-scale renewable energy resources and bulk buying of domestic
solar water heating; Nick Weir – pioneering community supported agriculture
projects, communal allotments, food co-ops and a new legal model – the
Community Farm Land Trust; Dr Pamela Gray – asking ‘what will healthcare
look like in a post-oil world?’; Jo Hamilton – connecting all the climate
change resources in Oxfordshire with a view to engaging all sections of the
local community.

http://www.transitiontowns.org
http://www.transitionculture.org
http://climateradio.co.uk

Panel Borders: The work of Ian Edginton and D’Israeli

Panel Borders: The work of Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
Originally broadcast 17/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch interviews writer Ian Edginton and artist Matt Brooker (who draws under the name D’Israeli) about their sci-fi comics from Matt’s early strips such as ‘Lazarus Churchyard’ and Ian’s work on ‘Aliens’ and ‘Predator’ comics. They also talk about their love of steampunk which features in such 2000AD / Judge Dredd Megazine strips as ‘Stickleback’ and their sequels to H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ and ‘War of the worlds’ Continue reading

Reality Check: M.R.James’ Ghost stories at Christmas

Almost podcast in time for Twelfth Night, Resonance FM podcasts bring you the first in a series of podcasts originally podcast at Sci-Fi London.
Alex Fitch talks to Dexter O’Neil, head of Fantom Films, a new company that have been producing cult CD and DVD releases over the last year or so, including a new range of M.R. James audio books featuring the best of his Tales of the Supernatural read by the likes of Geoffrey Bayldon. Continue reading

Panel Borders: Nevermore

Panel Borders: Nevermore
Originally broadcast 10/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Guest presenter Virginie Sélavy talks to Jamie Delano & Matt Brooker (a.k.a. D’Israeli) about their contributions to the Edgar Allan Poe collection Nevermore: adaptations of The Murders on the Rue Morgue and The Pit and the Pendulum
Visit the home of this episode at archive.org

Links: Info about Nevermore
Wikipedia pages on Matt Brooker (D’Israeli) and Jamie Delano

The Bike Show: Are cycling Waterloo sunsets under threat?

Thames at nightSouthwark Council plans to ban cyclists from a key stretch of the Thames Path, which runs along the south bank of the Thames, alongside the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre. Jack Thurston canvases the (mixed) opinions of passersby and rapidly discovers that no one has been consulted about this proposed new byelaw. Koy Thomson, director of the London Cycling Campaign shares his perspective on the plans and argues for shared space. Amy Cooper reports on cycle training with Patrick Field and a new year’s wish list of cycle-friendly policies for the next Mayor of London.

For more on the draft byelaw banning cycling on the Thames Path, visit Southwark Cyclists’ website.

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