Echoed footsteps below, the soothing ceaseless hum of a large air-conditioning unit and light but steady rainfall. Oh, and the tippy-tap tap of my keyboard of course. These are the sounds being processed by my brain as I write this. I’m very tired too if that helps to paint your mental picture.
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Leading Sufi spokesman Nihat Tsolak delivers a demystifying session on Sufism at host Fari Bradley’s request. As 2007 Islam Awareness Week falls on Sufi poet Rumi’s 800th Birthday, events around London stirred up renewed interest in this rebel mystic. The show contains excerpts of the play ‘Rumi, Unveil the Sun’ and an interview with a leading actor and the director. Fari discusses with Nihat whether one might be a Christian or gay Sufi and which historical figures display Sufi characteristics despite never having heard of this wayward branch of Islam.
With so much bad press recently, Sufism is Islam’s best PR. For while Islam is perceived as rigid and intolerant, Sufism is flexible and accepting. where Islam has a fixed set of rituals, Sufism is instinctive and driven by the individuals own relationship with the divine, a self- empowering concept for which many Sufis were originally martyred.
The closing of one year and start of another is the time where many of us resolve to turn over a new leaf, change our life or otherwise embark on a virtuous but most probably doomed attempt at self-improvement. London cyclist and underground bicycle advocate Amy Cooper joins Jack Thurston in the studio for a look at many and varied two wheeled new year’s resolutions. Also in this week’s show is a look at the Sustrans Connect2 ‘rails to trails’ project in South Bermondsey with Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists.
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If you like things what are different and like things that are musical and like things that have not got many of the boom booms in, then you may very well enjoy this episode. It complies with the above statement.
As an added bonus, if you like anything you hear in this episode (or any previous episodes) you can download it for free off of that world wide websites place on your computer.
Panel Borders: Classical Comics
To be broadcast 10/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In the first Panel Borders of the new year, Duncan Nott conducts an interview with Karen Wenborn about her company’s adaptations of classic literature in comics format.
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The UK is writing carbon dioxide targets into law. But the draft Climate Change Bill is insufficiently strong to ensure the UK plays a fair role in avoiding dangerous climate change. We interviewed the then Environment Secretary, David Miliband, and put his responses to Dr Alice Bows (Tyndall Centre) and Martyn Williams (senior parliamentary campaigner, Friends of the Earth). – Why is the government using a target that is based on outdated science? – Is it right that the Bill would allow the government to meet 50% of its targets by buying up emissions credits from abroad? – Why aren’t emissions from aviation and shipping included in the Bill?
Related Links:
Ask your MP to support a strong Climate Bill
Tyndall Centre Briefing
Tearfund Briefing
Draft Climate Change Bill
I have never been a fan of comic books, nor have I developed a taste for graphic novels. I can admire the skill and inventiveness, but somehow I can’t drum up genuine enthusiasm.
A lot of my time is spent walking through commercial buildings and peering down long aluminium shafts. For the most part my mind has some spare capacity whilst doing this, so it tends to wander, and one of the most common subjects my brain occupies itself with is “What the gosh-darn heck is this all about?”. If you have any suggestions in answer to this question then please get in touch at the e-mail address below.
Marvin suicide is a music programme that only plays sounds and noises that have been freely and legally downloaded from the internet. Here is the tracklist for this episode:
Jubilate Agno is a long poem by Christopher Smart. It was written between 1758 and 1763, during which time Smart was incarcerated in Mr Potter’s private madhouse in Bethnal Green. He had been admitted there after a stay in St Luke’s Hospital for the Insane, where he had been sent due to a religious mania the chief symptom of which was a compulsion to pray in public.
Smart had long been thought one of the minor religious poets of the 18th century, best known for the Song To David. Jubilate Agno itself was unknown until an edition was published in 1939 under the title Rejoice In The Lamb : A Song From Bedlam. But it was the 1954 edition edited by W H Bond which gave us the poem in its accepted form, and which has led to Smart being hailed as a great original, and his poem much more than simply the ravings of a lunatic.Jubilate Agno is divided into four fragments, the second of which is subdivided again in the edition from which this reading is taken. It is, in the words of one writer, a vast hymn of praise, glorifying God and his creation. So, with that in mind, listen carefully to what may be the first complete reading of the entire poem on the radio – if anyone knows of any other broadcasts, please let us know,
Jubilate Agno is read by Frank Key and Germander Speedwell. It will be broadcast at mid-day on the 27th December 2007.
Panel Borders: The art of Mark Buckingham
Originally broadcast 20/12/07 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In the last Panel Borders of the year, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott are looking at the depiction of beloved children’s characters in comics, talking to Mark Buckingham about reinventing classic fairy tales in Fables and the challenge of bringing something new to the character in his two year run on Spider-man.
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