At the end of 1967 I met my penfriend Doris, who I had been writing to for three years. We fell in love, and were engaged on November 1st. Eight days later, from a bus in her home town of Blackburn, Doris saw a silvery UFO.
Category Archives: Shows
Panel Borders: The work of Simon Spurrier
Panel Borders: The work of Simon Spurrier
Originally broadcast as part of Strip! on 13/12/07
An interview that Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch conducted at the Birmingham International Comics Show with British novelist and comics writer – Simon Spurrier – about his work from acclaimed strips in 2000AD and Judge Dredd megazine such as Lobster Random and The Simping Detective to his recent forays into the American market with Gutsville and The Silver Surfer.
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The Bike Show: London Olympics 2012
Does the coming of Olympics in 2012 spell disaster for cycle sport in London or will it bring much needed regeneration of a neglected part of the city? A ride with Patrick Field around the perimeter fence of the construction site in north east London and an interview with Michael Humphreys, chair of the Eastway Users Group, on the destruction of the popular Eastway road, mountain bike and cyclo-cross circuits, the interim facilities and plans for the legacy Velopark on the Olympics site.
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The Low Carbon Show: Mukti Mitchell
The Low Carbon Show catches up with Mukti Mitchell on his zero-carbon
journey around the coast of Britain in his self-built, micro-yacht. Mukti is
the creator of what is widely regarded as the best online calculator for
measuring your carbon footprint. He is stopping at 40 ports en route to give
talks about the benefits of low carbon living and to promote his new
downloadable publication “The Guide to Low Carbon Lifestyles”. PLUS: We
manage to squeeze in some expert advice on carbon offsetting and green
electricity from last week’s guest, Chris Goodall.
Related Links:
Download Mukti’s “Guide to Low Carbon Lifestyles” at: http://www.lowcarbonlifestyle.org/downloadables.html
Calculate your own carbon footprint at what is widely regarded as the best
carbon calculator on the web: http://www.resurgence.org/carboncalculator/index.htm
For Climate Radio’s top tips on what you can do, go to the Resonance FM
Climate Action page: http://resonancefm.com/climate-action
Hooting Yard : Frizzy-haired Minstrel
“Fear not, nipper!†she cried, “I am Tiny Enid and I have alerted the Air Sea Rescue Station at St Bibblybibdib to your sorry plight by attaching a message to the leg of a cumulet. The bird is flying its little heart out even as we speak, and soon a lovely big lifeboat will scud across the waves to rescue you. Preserve your energy, and stop trying to prise that last whelk from the rock, for soon you will be sitting at my kitchen table wolfing down a slap-up hot dinner of non-seafood items!â€
Clear Spot: Mark Thomas
In conjunction with his new stand-up shows at The Venue, Leicester Place, London, James DC interviews comedian and campaigner Mark Thomas about his life, comedy and political campaigns. For more info go to www.markthomasinfo.com
Six Pillars – Minou Norouzi and Psychoanalytical Film
Some truths about Austria from film maker Minou Norouzi. With psychoanalytical elements to her films amongst her themes are misplaced femininity and incubated desire, within the context of a budding male sexual revolution that she sees happening.Some of her short films are viewable on her site, of which there is much to think about. Some contain minimal action and little text with the main character frozen in a moving landscape. What does she keep from us, what does the film refuse to offer up and by so doing, lay bare about our expectations as viewers?
A unique woman, she says she is neither Iranian nor Austrian, and so we nudge her on her way back to her grandfather’s point of origin; to the town where people are either mad, or genius.
Panel Borders: The art of Charlie Adlard
Panel Borders: The art of Charlie Adlard
Originally broadcast as part of Strip! on 06/12/07
Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to artist Charlie Adlard in a conversation recorded at the Birmingham International Comics Show. Charlie has found recent acclaim with the zombie comic The Walking Dead as well as for illustrating Judge Dredd and meeting the challenges of drawing Mulder and Scully in the comic book adaptation of the X-Files.
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The Bike Show: How to win at roller-racing
Reigning Rollapaluza champion and two-time ‘Raphapaluza’ winner Simon Jackson gives his tips on how to win at the frenzied sport of static bike racing. Plus a preview of the upcoming ITV comedy-drama series Bike Squad (aka “The Bill on bikes”) with Robert Collins of the Daily Telegraph.
Get down to the Bicycology film night on Thursday 13 December at the RampArt Social Centre, London E1 and of course to Rollapaluza IX-mas at the Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London SE1.
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Marvin Suicide : 139 – Comfortable Jumpers
The third weekly episode in a row. Could this regularity be caused by an increase in dietary fibre?
Find out in the next thrilling instalment of…
“Marvin suicide. Free internet music and hot celebrity gossip.”