White Christmas by Ralph Rousseau on the viola da gamba from the CD “On Christmas Night”; Pari Intervallo with Christopher Bowers-Broadbent on the organ from Arbos by Arvo Part; If you were born today by Low from their Christmas CD; De Profundis by Arvo Part and The Hilliard Ensemble; Almost Christmas by Lester Bowie from All the Magic; Still, still, still by Ralph Rousseau on viola da gamba from “On Christmas Night”.
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Reality Check: Autumn Sci-Fi – Source Code and Witch Mountain
Reality Check: Autumn Sci-Fi – Source Code and Witch Mountain
As the Autumn nights start to draw in, we have a couple of recommendations of DVDs worth staying in for, as Alex Fitch interviews a pair of directors who have both earned cult followings for their work in the SF genre. Duncan Jones talks about his new film Source Code, a time travel thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and about how themes in his new movie consciously and unconsciously reflect some of his concerns of humanity dislocated by technology in his debut Moon. Alex also chats, alongside SCI-FI-LONDON’s newest interviewer Lily Savy-Gorman, to John Hough, director of the classic Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), starring Ray Milland and Donald Pleasance. Hough followed his first family film with a couple more for Disney – Return from Witch Mountain and The Watcher in the Woods – and talks about how the company’s approach to live-action filmmaking has changed over the years.
In a glass brightly - Source Code and Escape to Witch Mountain
For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: Read a transcript of Alex’s interview with Duncan Jones
Info about the Escape to Witch Mountain screening at SCI-FI-LONDON
Recommended events:
New Science Fiction Reading Group
In discussion: Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (we have some copies for loan).
1st meeting on Wednesday 21st September @ 7pm
Streatham Library
63 Streatham High Road
London SW16 1PL
For more info contact 020 7926 6768 and ask for Pat / e-mail: pdunne@lambeth.gov.uk
Reality Check: Autumn Sci-Fi - Source Code and Witch Mountain [ 37:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHello GoodBye Show 10 September 2011: Emily & The Faves and Sexton Ming
We have live performances this Saturday lunchtime from Sexton Ming and Emily & the Faves.
Renaissance man Sexton Ming is a painter, poet, musician and ‘keeper of the fire‘ for Outsider Music with his own Rim Records imprint. Sexton has been a regular guest on various programmes for Resonance FM over the years and is a particular favourite of the Hello GoodBye Show. He is about to celebrate his half century and has promised to drop by the studio with a handful of poems, a few exclusive tunes from his latest collaboration with Billy Childish plus all the details regarding his upcoming 50th Birthday Party!.
Emily & the Faves have been whipping up a lot of interest in their native Merseyside with their bright and breezy psychedelic pop songs and now hope to take London by storm as they embark upon a series of gigs here in the capital.
Track List:
Lumpen Noblemen – Scaling The Yablonois
Now – Monotone Plug Suggestion
Jason McNiff – Tombola
Lime Headed Dog – Labrador (HG archive)
Cleckhuddersfax – A Decree
Emily & the Faves – I Never Saw (LIVE SESSION)
Emily & the Faves – Lazy (LIVE SESSION)
Emily & the Faves – This Time (LIVE SESSION)
Sexton Ming – Evil David Bowie
Sexton Ming – Interview
Bird Radio – London The Forest
Scuzz Homo – Satan Is A Secret Nappy Fetishist
Sexton Ming – Feed The Bread To The Byrds (LIVE SESSION)
Sexton Ming – Goodbye Eric
Emily & the Faves – Is It Still Nighttime? (LIVE SESSION)
Emily & the Faves – Sometimes (LIVE SESSION)
Emily & the Faves – Golden Hair (LIVE SESSION)
Stealing Sheep – I Am The Rain
Emily & the Faves – Interview
Hello GoodBye 10 September 2011: Emily & The Faves and Sexton Ming [ 1:29:39 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: Exploring War in popular comics
Panel Borders: Exploring War in popular comics
Continuing our month of shows about war comics, Panel Borders is pleased to present a selection of interviews recorded at the launch of “Draw your Weapons – the art of Commando comics”, a new exhibition at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, as Alex Fitch talks to curator Robert Fleming, current Commando editor Calum Laird, and former editor George Low about the history of the comic and the art on display at the museum. Also in another recording taken from last month’s ‘Comics and conflicts’ festival at the Imperial War Museum, Roger Sabin and Martin Baker give a presentation about the depiction of the Iraq war and PTSD in the US comic strip Doonesbury.
Please note: Martin and Roger’s presentation contains strong language and challenging ideas, so we recommend younger listeners (or parents who share the podcast with younger listeners) stop playback of the podcast after the Commando interviews.
Doonesbury, Martin Baker and Roger Sabin at the Imperial War Museum / Commando livery outside the National Army museum
For more info and a variety of formats you can stream or listen to this podcast in, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Buy A ‘Toxic Genre’: The Iraq War Films by Martin Baker, Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art by Roger Sabin,
The Doonesbury trilogy: The Long Road Home, The War within and Signature Wound,
Commando: 50 Years – A Home for Heroes, Rogue Raiders, Achtung! and Scramble!: The Ten Best Battle of Britain Comic Books Ever! from amazon.co.uk
Commando website
More info about Draw your Weapons – 50 years of Commando comics at the National Army Museum
Comics and Conflicts at the Imperial War museum
Listen to last week’s War comics show: Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
Technical Difficulties 2:20
Discussing the integration of the Paralympics into the “Games period” next year in London with Organising Committee Integration Director (and former Paralympian) Chris Holmes
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Hello GoodBye Show 3 September 2011: Trogons and Benjamin Shaw
Hot, sweaty, burnt and blistered!
deXter Bentley peels himself off his clammy sun lounger to return to air with Hello GoodBye, midday every Saturday lunchtime from the 3rd September.
With live music stretching from the ominous, introverted alchemy of Benjamin Shaw, to the outer reaches of neo-psychedelic reverie with Trogons.
Trogons’ soaring vocals and chiming guitars recall the late ’80s psychedelia of Slowdive, The Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil. Both tuneful and droneful, the London-based four-piece are regulars on the capital’s live circuit and have notched up a number of prestigious slots. Today they make their Resonance live debut and, by rights, tomorrow they’ll be signed to 4AD!
Their forthcoming 7’’ single, ‘Awakenings’ will be released on X Ray Recordings.
Benjamin Shaw’s debut album, ‘There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet’ is due for release on November 21st on the Audio Anti-Hero imprint.. The album’s impenetrable Lo-Fi Megasoul will either propel him up into the stratosphere or deep down into the abyss. Either way, it’ll be great with dissonance and majesty smothering your principles.
If you’re not tuned in then you’re not listening!
Track Listing:
Eternal Tapestry – Galactic Dialect
Hong Kong in the 60s – When You were Dreaming
Trogons – Forge (LIVE SESSION)
Trogons – Awakenings (LIVE SESSION)
Trogons – Where’s My Sword? (LIVE SESSION)
The Honeycombs – I Can Tell Something’s Up
Poino – Code Brown
Trogons – Interview
Band of Holy Joy – Oh What a Thing this Heart of Man
The Plan – Call Me Spike if You Like
Sexton Ming – The Milk Goes in the Baby
Emily and the Faves – White Night
The Catcher Nine – Driving Overflow
Benjamin Shaw – How to Test the Depth of a Well (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Shaw – Home (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Shaw – Pig (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Shaw – I Got the Pox, the Pox is what I Got (LIVE SESSION)
Beards – Brick by Boulder
Benjamin Shaw – Interview
Terror Bird – Married Women
Bomber Jackets – Strange Sensation
Hello GoodBye 3 September 2011: Trogons and Benjamin Shaw [ 1:29:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWavelength – Rose Lowder
Edited recording of a conversation in 1989 with Rose Lowder; prolific maker of rigorous films and co-founder of The Archives of Experimental Film in Avignon with Alain Alcide-Sudre + Love is Strange, Tangiers fantasy with Jack Smith, Frances Francine and Tony Conrad (extract), recorded November 1962.
Electric Sheep Podcast: Infiltrating Secret Societies
Electric Sheep Podcast: Infiltrating Secret Societies
A companion piece to our May podcast on Secret Societies, a we have panel discussion on the subject recorded in the atmospheric confines of a Masonic Lodge on Liverpool Street in London as part of the East End Film Festival, including talks on Jack the Ripper, witches’ covens and religious cults in film. Speakers include Electric Sheep editor Virginie Selavy, assistant editor Alex Fitch, Nollywood scholar Nicola Woodham, filmmaker and horror specialist Jennifer Eiss, and Jim Harper, author of Flowers From Hell: The Modern Japanese Horror Film. Includes clips from Murder by Decree, Season of the Witch, The Wicker Man and Rosemary’s Baby.
Christopher Plummer and James Mason investigate Murder by Decree / the interior of the Masonic Lodge, Andaz Hotel, London / Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man
For more information and a variety of formats you can stream / download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
In association with 
Info about the original event, in the East End Film Festival
Listen to our May podcast on Secret Societies
If you’d like to buy a copy of the most recent dramatisation of Sherlock Holmes vs. the Ripper and the Masons, head to www.bigfinish.com
Electric Sheep Podcast: Infiltrating Secret Societies [ 1:01:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTechnical Difficulties 2:19
Anxiety explored with Anxiety UK‘s Catherine O’Neill. Their hotline is available at 08444 775 774
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Panel Borders: Garth Ennis – Battlefields
Panel Borders: Garth Ennis – Battlefields
Starting a month of shows about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to award winning writer Garth Ennis about his interest in the genre, from the backdrop of conflict in his debut strip Troubled Souls to his exploration of wars throughout the 20th Century and beyond in his series War Stories and Battlefields. Alex and Garth also discuss his past and forthcoming projects for Avatar, Dynamite and Marvel Comics and there are questions from the audience on the subjects of putting his stories into context for younger readers and the use of drones on the battlefield. This interview was recorded live at the Imperial War Museum, London as part of the ‘Comics and Conflicts Festival‘, August 2011.
Garth Ennis interviewed by Alex Fitch at the Imperial War Museum, London. Photo by Joe Shahabuddin
For more info and a variety of formats you can stream or listen to this podcast in, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Watch an interview with Garth recorded on the same day by Talk Comix
Read an interview with Garth transcribed on the day by The Irish Times
Wikipedia pages on War Stories and Battlefields
Listen to Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott’s previous interview with Garth Ennis – part one / part two / part three
Listen to Alex’s interviews with John McCrea – 2007 part one, featuring Glen Fabry / part two / 2011 interview featuring Jon Browne