Reality Check: Phoenix Gamers
Alex Fitch talks to Hugh and Matt, members of The Phoenix Games Club, a group who meet at least once every week at the Black Lion pub in Plaistow to play board games, strategy games and RPGs together. The Phoenix Club is one of many up and down the country who also [...]

 

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Reality Check: Genre (crossing) directors - Kaufman and Vigalondo
Charlie Kaufman interview originally broadcast 21/05/09 on Resonance FM as part of I’m ready for my close-up
Continuing our series of twice annual looks at pairs of directors who combine genres on screen to beguiling effect, Alex Fitch talks to Academy Award winning screenwriter turned director Charlie Kaufman [...]

 

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Reality Check: The Arthur C. Clarke awards 2009
In the first of our podcasts recorded at this year’s Sci-Fi London Festival, guest presenter Graham Sleight talks to a nominee and two former judges of the Arthur C. Clarke awards. In case you don’t know who won, why not listen to the podcast and hear the opening [...]

 

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Reality Check: Gentlemen in Flight
In a special episode looking at two of the great gentlemen of the sky, who first found fame in the 1960s with their piloting of classic Sci-Fi air/spacecraft, Chris Patmore talks to George Takei about being the helmsman of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek in both the classic TV series [...]

 

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Reality Check: Red Dwarf / Robot Zoo
In a special Easter episode looking at ways you can entertain kids and adults alike over the Bank Holiday, Alex Fitch talks to Craig Charles about playing Dave Lister again after a ten year hiatus in the new Red Dwarf mini-series Back to Earth. Alex also talks to Jo [...]

 

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Reality Check: Have you heard the one about the vampire, the ghost and the werewolf…?
Alex Fitch talks to Toby Whithouse, writer of BBC3’s excellent horror / dramedy series Being Human about his writing and acting career, the slow process of turning an ordinary series about a flatshare into a supernatural drama and writing the episode [...]

 

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Reality Check: The Invisible art of acting for radio

Alex Fitch talks to actor Rupert Degas about his various roles in genre radio and audio dramas such as playing David Warner’s sidekick “Rizla” in the BBC7 adaptation of Robert Rankin’s The Brightonomicon and playing the father of a cyrogenically preserved child in Kim Newman’s Cry-Babies which [...]

 

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State of the Art adaptation
To be broadcast 03/03/09 on Resonance FM as a “Micro Clear Spot”
Alex Fitch talks to writer Paul Cornell about dramatising Iain M Banks’ novella “The State of the Art” for the afternoon play on Radio 4 (to be broadcast 2.15pm 05/03/09) with a cast including such luminaries as Anthony Sher [...]

 

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Reality Check: Being Bruce Campbell
Originally broadcast 19/02/09 on Resonance FM as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up
Alex Fitch talks to legendary ‘B’-movie actor Bruce Campbell about his new film My name is Bruce which sees the actor directing, producing and playing a fictionalised version of himself on screen. My name is Bruce sees [...]

 

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Reality Check: Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46
During a special Architecture foundation screening of Code 46 at the Barbican centre, Alex Fitch caught up with director Michael Winterbottom in the foyer of the cinema and discussed issues of British Science Fiction, unreliable narrators and the importance of location in Sci-Fi films. Alex and Michael also look at [...]

 

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