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I’m ready for my close-up: History in Film

History and film have been inextricably linked since movie pioneers first shot footage of workers leaving factory gates and trains entering stations. In tonight’s show Alex Fitch explores the nature of history as a topic for film and the use of historical footage in films. The first half of the show is a discussion with James DeCarteret, Mark Stafford and Alison Goldie about recent films that depict and / or include historical events such as Hollywoodland and Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts and then Alex discusses the genre with Dr. Toby Haggith, the head of cinema programming at The Imperial War Museum in London.
[Sorry for the poor audio quality at the beginning and end – I was using unfamiliar equiptment in my lunch break at work!]

Links: The Third Australian History and Film Conference
www.historyonfilm.com
Imperial War Museum
Originally broadcast 30th Novemebr 2006 (mp3 format, 26mb)

I’m ready for my close-up: Whatever happened to Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future?

Alex Fitch talks to historian Duncan Nott and Kev F. Sutherland, a comics artist and writer about Dare’s continuing appeal and cultural legacy…

Links: The official Dan Dare website
Unofficial fan sites – dan-dare.net & dan-dare.org where you can hear the clips featured in the show in full…
Spaceship Away – the home of new Dan Dare adventures

Originally transmitted on September 14th 2006 (mp3 format, 27.3 mb)

Marvin Suicide: 97 – Don’t Mess With My Face.

Marvin suicide is a funny little programme that plays music and sounds which have been found freely and legally on the internet. The idea is to make people aware that there is an alternative source of music found on the world wide web – or something like that. Maybe not a very good source for people that like Busted, Wee Papa Girl Rappers or Christina Spears, but there is usually something for everyone.

Here is the tracklisting for this weeks episode and it includes links to where all the songs were downloaded:

1. Drew Harm Round by My Oh My!:
www.taurotragusoryx.org.uk

2. Untrue by All The Living And The Dead And Virginie Lamy, In The Moon EP:
www.another-record.com

3. Silver Highways by Mujuice, Still:
www.fragmentmusic.net

4. Bradbury Dub by Flextronic:
www.myspace.com

5. Barequai by Joel Knight Chevalier And Unexpected Social Images, 450:
www.comfortstand.com

6. Ktrp by Adachi Tomomi:
www.ubu.com

7. Sjomannen by FAP, Malekasino Dondolo:
www.stupiddreamrecords.com

This episode was broadcast on 30th November 2006. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send me an e-mail.

Hooting Yard: Lineated Tiger Heron.

A special edition of Hooting Yard this week. This is a kind of list programme, as in lists; L I S T, and it’s dedicated to Jed Fadhley and to other little tinies that need to be lulled to sleep.

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  • A list of 5 film directors, 2 jazzmen, 1 astronomer, 1 newsreader, 34 stars of stage, screen and television, and 601 birds.

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 12th July 2006. More information can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Photo by Great grey owl.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Audible pictures

Alex Fitch talks to Matt Hulse, curator of and contributor to ‘The Audible Picture Show’, a touring collection of short films without pictures, which features such film-makers as Andrew Kotting and the Brothers Quay. Alex and Matt talk about the art of foley work, the under-appreciation of sound in modern society, the joy of found footage and the use of sampled soundtracks to create evocative soundscapes.
There will be a retrospective of Matt’s work and a ‘showing’ of ‘The Audible Picture Show’ on Sunday 14th January 2007 as part of The Halloween Society’s 4th Short Film Festival at the ICA. Please visit the sites below for more info.

Links: www.audiblepictureshow.org.uk
The Halloween Society
Institute of Contemporary Arts  

Originally broadcast 19th October 2006 (mp3 format, 27mb)

Marvin Suicide: 96 – The Newest of New Shoes.

Hello and good evening. Tonight in the news: Bobby gets some new shoes that make it on the news, which shoes should you choose when holidaying in Honalulu and Lulu tells us which shoes she uses whilst on the loo.

Please find below the tracklisting for this episode of marvin suicide. ALL the music and sounds played have been found freely and legally on the internet. Check it one time:

1. Ghost In The Shell by Ecoform, Ghost In The Shell:
www.fragmentmusic.net

2. British Bulldog by Mark Henning, The Dogs Bollocks:
www.foundsoundrecords.com

3. Tale From Black by Tunng:
www.tunng.co.uk

4. Hanna-bi by Biomekanikal, Furesha No Hana:
www.clubotaku.org/mimi

5. Fjarskanistan by Amiina:
www.myspace.com

This episode was broadcast on 23rd November 2006. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send me an e-mail.

Hooting Yard: Inexplicable Barn Collapses.

There is great disparity in the fiendishness of farmyard fiends, and some diabolists have argued that Beelzebub treated the whole matter with an uncharacteristic lack of diabolic concentration. For every farmyard that is stricken by an energetic fiend, there are many more that can pass for years, even decades, in untroubled bucolic peace. But of course it is the former that gain attention. Who can forget the ruination visited upon Scroonhoonpooge Farmyard in the 1930s, all those crop failures, diseases, fires, murders, contaminations and inexplicable barn collapses, which ceased only when a marauding night-time squirrel was captured in a net by Father Dermot Boggis and subjected to the full rigour of his holy wrath? It took six months for the exorcist to expel every last vestige of fiendishness from the squirrel, leaving the poor bushy-tailed mammal thin and shrivelled and exhausted and close to death. And yet, as it was slowly revived by the coddling of Old Ma Purgative at her verdant squirrel sanctuary, so too did the farmyard flourish anew, with majestic fields of golden wheat, gleaming new buckets replacing the old rusty pails, and happy, happy pigs.

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  • Fiends Of The Farmyard
  • The Big Metal Fence
  • A Few Rules to be Observed in Cooking for Invalids, from the Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton; 1861

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 14th June 2006. More information can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Photo by ThroughWaters.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Structualist Cinema

Richard Thomas talks to Ed Pinsent about the history of structuralist cinema from its beginnings in America in the 1960s to its development in Britain a decade later and beyond. Ed is the editor of Sound Projector magazine and hosts a related show on Resonance (Fridays 5.30-7pm) on the subject of ecclectic music.

Links: Ed’s show – www.thesoundprojector.com/radioshow.html
Ways of seeing article on Structuralist cinema – www.waysofseeing.org/struct.html

Originally broadcast 16th March 2006 (mp3 format, 28mb)

Hooting Yard: A guide to Orbin Linseed’s great novel.

For those of you interested in such things, this story was first published many years ago in an addition of 8 copies. Each of the copies was in a ring-binder, it was hand-written – and its an alphabetical story – and each of the letters was hand-illuminated in watercolour.

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  • The Brink of Cramp

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 7th June 2006. More information can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Photo by dmealiffe.

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Marvin Suicide: 95 – The Gland Band.

Pretty please with sugar on top, and a cherry, and cream, and hundreds and thousands, could you take just one minute to fill in the Resonance Listener Survey. Oh go on, I’ll be your best friend…

And in other news, the tracklisting for this weeks programme including links to where all the songs were freely downloaded, can be found beneath:

1. Surface by Fridge:
www.brainwashed.com

2. Wobat by Kutchi:
www.adverse-camber.net

3. Dirty Magazines by Jonas Crenshaw, Jonas Crenshaw’s Colossal Failure:
mymeanmagpie.com

4. QWERTY Waltz by The Boston Typewriter Orchestra, The Revolution Will Be Typewritten:
www.bostontypewriterorchestra.com

5. Zu Weit by Chenard Walcker, Zyne:
www.freesamplezone.org

6. Heroin Is A Vitamin by Alex Pearson, WSB:
www.polygonnetwork.org

7. Especially Magnum by Magnum Vagina:
www.myspace.com

8. In Loving Memory To A Grandma by Bacanal Intruder, Herramientas Para Abrir Un Libro:
www.monocromatica.com

9. Pure Me (Gamma Sennin Remix by Vizion) by Kakan:
www.camomille.genshimedia.com

This episode was broadcast on 16th November 2006. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send me an e-mail.