Monthly Archives: November 2005

Hooting Yard: The Private Memoirs & Confessions of an Ignorant Ornithologist

“Saw a worm being dragged from the soil by something much bigger than it, possibly with wings. Rang Dennis to tell him about it. He said he’d come and check, but by the time he arrived, puffed out, ten minutes later, the thing was gone, and there was no sign of the worm. Dennis said it was probably a cassowary.”

* 44 Curlews, an account of Dobson’s birdwatching outing.
* Inconsequential Trivia (about the Kennedy Assasination)
* When I was interrogated
* Stress, Distress, Tristesse
* The Private Memoirs & Confessions of an Ignorant Ornithologist
* Erst Spruce, Now Rusty and Squalid
* The Mincing Corsair (A letter of complaint)
* Meldrum Fonseca : Ãœber-Trombonist
* Preamble to a report on the 26 lighthouses of Hoon.

Hooting Yard: When Blodgett met Dobson

“Four kinds of wild pigs are found. The most numerous, or at least the most often seen, as it lies about our enclosures, is the common thorn-hog. It is the largest of the wild pigs, long-bodied and flat-sided, in colour much the hue of the mud in which it wallows.” – Richard Jefferies, After London

The first Hooting Yard of 2005 brings more revelations into the literary life of Dobson, plus advice on keeping a wild-pig.

* Tsunami Apeal
* Introduction (Belshazar’s Feast)
* Me and my Thorn-Hog
* In a Cabin, On a Ship (When Blodgett met Dobson)
* Phantasmal Quest Thing (Dobson’s Tolkienesque Fantasy)
* Belshazar’s Feast (A story about Abba)
* Hengist Pod Asks a Question
* Quotation from Robert Burton, “The Anatomy Of Melancholy”
* Has he taken leave of his senses? (An invistigation into the detective methods of Confidential Agent Blott)
* The Cabinet of Doctor Calicagcag

London Revisited – episode 6

Episode 6: Featuring an interview with London salvage magnate, Adrian Amos (of ‘Lasco’). Plus the regular serial, ‘Crimes and Damned Crimes’, which dissects Peter Ackroyd’s distorted mythologising of the city; On The Barrow; Roger Dobson’s Lost Writers of London; Reading London; and Tim Mars’s audio cartoon, Meeting with Remarkable Men.

Midnight Sex Talk – Dirty Old Town

Midnight Sex Talk delves deep into London’s seamy past: stews, molly houses and the clap. It was just like today, really, but with different clothing, and without the latex condoms and antibiotics.

You can hear presenter and Voiceover King Piers Gibbon reading out some historical sleaze; Matthew Glamorre talking about Polari, the the gay slang that grew out of C18 thieves-and-theatre culture; and, by coincidence, our first interview with John Constable about Cross Bones in Southwark.

If that wasn’t enough, we’ve got Hallie Rubenhold talking about her book on Harris’s List, the gentleman consumer’s guide to the prostitutes of eighteenth century London.

Midnight Sex Talk is broadcast on alternate Sunday nights, from 11.30pm-12.30am, on Resonance 104.4 FM. More info about us
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Six Pillars To Persia: November 10th 2005

Six Pillars to Persia is an English Language programme that looks at Persian heritage and modern Iranian culture. From artists and exiled writers to the major exhibitions at the British Museum.

World renowned film maker Abbas Kiarotsami gives a talk at the V & A museum on realism in film. This talk follows a viewing of director Abbas Kiarostami’s film Taa’ziyeh about the Islamic ceremony particular to Iran, in which men and women in the audience sit separately and chanting, lamenting and often crying or even beating their chests over the terrible death of Imam Hussein.

This programme was recorded in the Resonancefm studios and features a recording made by Fari Bradley at the V & A Museum.  Translating for Kiarostami is Vali Mahlouji. Many thanks to the Victoria & Albert Museum and Sussan Deyhim for their permission to broadcast the audio.

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Slow Small Peasants: November 11th 2005

The Slow Small Peasants complete their series on codes with a show about ‘codes and population’. The show discusses the implications of ID cards and the databasing of human identities, citizenship in the UK and France, and the coding of the human genome. Guests include Gareth Crossman, Directy of Policy at Liberty, Naima Bouteldja, a French journalist and activist who wrote on the French riots for The Guardian, and Dr David King from Human Genetics Alert.

http://www.slowsmallpeasants.org.uk/

You Are Hear Sessions: Jean Herve Peron

The Jean-Herve Peron session you are about to hear was first broadcast live on November 7th 2005 on the You Are Hear show.

Jean-Hervé Peron is best known as the de facto front man for Faust, his onstage antics with chainsaws, explosives and naked painting sessions have inspired several generations.

You Are Hear is produced by Magz Hall and Jim Backhouse and live sessions are engineered by Will Searl. More information about this show can be found at www.youarehear.co.uk.

You Are Hear Sessions: Ninki V

The Ninki V session you are about to hear was first aired on October 31st
2005 on the You Are Hear show.

Ninki V is a lightning force a one woman band playing theremin, synths, 80’s keyboards, toy instruments and vocals. She regularly duets with a theremin playing skeleton marionette.

www.ninki-v.com

You Are Hear is produced by Magz Hall and Jim Backhouse and live sessions are engineered by Will Searl. More information about this show can be found at www.youarehear.co.uk.