Chris Goodall is the author of what the New Scientist calls “the definitive guide to reducing your carbon footprint.” Climate Radio takes a trip to Oxford to meet him and find out some of the book’s key messages on aviation, consumption, personal travel and food purchasing habits.
Chris’s website: http://www.lowcarbonlife.net
The Low Carbon Show focuses on the emerging green shoots of our post-fossil fuel future. The programme is produced by Phil England for Climate Radio.
Regular readers know that my grasp of matters ornithological is second to none, so it is only fitting that I have been asked to compile an anthology of fictional works with the word “owl†in the title.
Today’s Tight Pudding is guest presented by Alex Fitch who talks to Claire Cook, Simone Pyne and Kate Grove about the “Burlesque Cinema” weekend they’ve curated at the Curzon Soho Cinema and Volupte Lounge in London. The Smoking Cabinet mixes short films, features (The Blue Angel), live acts and talks to explore depictions of cabaret on film from the 1890s to the 1930s.
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Nope, can’t think of a single thing to say (something that is occurring with worrying frequency of late), so instead I’ll just divert your attention to the tracklist below – which by the way only contains songs that have been downloaded from the internet free of charge:
Over the past five years a craze for riding bicycles with only one gear and no freewheel has taken off, in New York, London, Sydney and cities all around the world. We take a long hard look at the merits and excesses of the scene. Featuring an extended interview with the mystery man behind the Bike Snob NYC blog, Roxy Erickson of London’s Trixie Chix and Gabriel Nogueira, one of the prime movers in the small but growing fixed wheel crowd in Curitiba, southern Brazil.
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How we conjured an American we spotted on a clip on Youtube USA, into the London studio. The Merchant of Mirth, the Fakir of Middle Eastern Ridicule…. Maz Jobrani, arrives in UK, swings by the studio and announces live on air what he’s just found out: he’s going to be a dad for the first time. Between anecdotes about Iranian family, the US comedy circuit and what Americans don’t know, we hear what it’s like being an Iranian on the west coast.
This programme was recorded at the Resonance104.4fm studios on November 5th 2007. Produced and presented by Fari Bradley, Six Pillars to Persia is on Mondays at 1.30pm
This was not the first time I had been given a pancake hint at a seaside resort, and as I headed off towards the steep steps up to a lawn and a crazy golf facility, I cast my mind back to an earlier occasion.
Shervin Shaeri, aka Mutant Jukebox, was a student who engineered at Resonancefm. Now he is a sound artist with his own sound design company, a major string of affiliations with a show-reel to match.
His experiences coming to UK in the 90’s throws another small light on the Six Pillars map of the Iranian diaspora. Defying convention and embracing logic, he was singled out at school for using a spoon to eat his rice with and after a childhood spent in an impoverished country, his account of his first Tescos experience makes for great listening. At a time when the UK caters for Asian (Indian) culture above others, especially in the media, MutantJ has ridden the brown tiger and had his tracks played on BBC Asian Network.
Also, out of love we play more of Sote’s Dastgaah, and Mastom by Roshi.
This programme was recorded at Resonancefm studios, London. It was engineered and presented by Fari Bradley on 22nd October 2007. Six Pillars to Persia is on Resonancefm Mondays at 1.30pm
Nick Luscombe hooks up with new Warp Records signing Flying Lotus. Also
features three exclusive Flying Lotus tracks.
Panel Borders: The art of Sean Phillips and Duncan Fegredo
Originally broadcast as part of Strip! on 29/11/07
Alex Fitch talks to artists Duncan Fegredo and Sean Phillips in a conversation recorded at the Birmingham International Comics Show. Duncan and Sean have recently collaborated on an art book in which they start and finish each other’s drawings, which spills over into their conversation style! Duncan’s work includes Jay and Silent Bob – Chasing Dogma, Enigma and Hellboy – Darkness Falls. Sean has worked on Hellblazer, WildCATS, Marvel Zombies and both artists worked on the offbeat superhero comic Kid Eternity.
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