The Resonance Audio Archive
Reality Check: Worlds of Wonder at the British Library In a panel discussion entitled “Worlds of Wonder?”, recorded at the British Library as part of their events season to support the exhibition ‘Out of this World’, authors Neil Gaiman and Peter F. Hamilton, scientist Rachel Armstrong and critics Kari Sperring and Farah Mendlesohn (chair) discuss [...]
Reality Check: Worlds of Wonder at the British Library [ 1:15:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (845)Reality Check: Doctor Who in comics and Superman on TV Some half term entertainment as Alex Fitch talks to writer Tony Lee about Doctor Who’s continuing adventures in comic strips and to Superman expert Brad Ricca about the adventures of Clark Kent in Smallville and on the big screen. Also, Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson introduces [...]
Reality Check: Doctor Who in comics and Superman on TV [ 31:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (457)Reality Check: Fringe Event In this edition, hosted by Chris Patmore, we really do take a reality check on two popular TV series that have just come out on DVD. For Fringe Season 3 we speak with Oxford University quantum physicist David Deutsch about the possible existence of parallel universes. For the release of The [...]
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 [...]
Reality Check: Autumn Sci-Fi - Source Code and Witch Mountain [ 37:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (579)Reality Check: Of ships and men In a pair of Q and As recorded at Sci-Fi London 10 (April 2011), Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two very different SF movies about the pilots of spaceships and their relationships with the craft and crew. Nydenion, directed by Jack Moik is a new German ‘Space [...]
Reality Check: Of ships and men - Atlantis Down and Nydenion [ 52:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (294)Reality Check: Apocalypse (cinema) now In a pair of on stage interviews recorded at this year’s Sci-Fi London festival, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of film makers about their recent takes on the apocalypse in film; Dekker Dreyer whose film The Arcadian stars Lance Henriksen and Brian Thompson, and mixes the iconography of shamanism [...]
Reality Check: Dan Dare in the 21st Century The second half of a Q and A recorded at last year’s Sci-Fi London Festival about the 40th anniversary of Britain’s most famous comic book character. John Freeman hosts a panel discussion on Dan Dare with Garry Leach, Rian Hughes, Gary Erskine and Rod Barzilay; with this [...]
Panel Borders: Dan Dare in the 20th Century Continuing our month of shows about collectives and anthologies, we have a recording of a panel discussion from Sci-Fi London in 2010, celebrating the continuing popularity of the iconic British Space Hero whose first appearance in The Eagle was published in April 1950. Comics editor and writer [...]
Reality Check: Virtual Worlds on film Virtual worlds on the big screen vary from the most escapist to the increasingly relevant and in this episode of Sci-Fi London’s podcast we look at two very different representations of these on screen. Alex Fitch talks to Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach, the directors of 8th Wonderland, a [...]
Reality Check: Twisted Tales Currently on stage at the Lyric, Hammersmith until 28th February is Jeremy Dyson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Twisted Tales”, combining five of his black comedy short stories into an eighty minute play about man’s inhumanity to man and the awkwardness of commuting… In a Q and A recorded after a performance [...]