Monthly Archives: December 2005

Audio Adventures: VLF

Very low frequency or VLF refers to radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 3 to 30 kHz. Many natural electrical phenomena such as storms and lightning produce VLF emissions, and these can be recorded and enhanced using simple radio receiving equipmment.

The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Rambling Special

Pilfering through the voices of today’s logicians… First Broadcast on October 23, 2003.

  • Begins with nose-picking complaint, instructing listeners not to listen to the Hellebore Shew.
  • ‘Bring me a hail of slow-motion on a plate please (followed by the aerial bombardment of your head)’ – Ray Stispozeille, an atempt to subvert the ‘think before you talk’ ethic. Unintentionally tedious.
  • Commentary: The rights and wrongs of tape-dropping fodder.
  • Ripe, Ripe Vegetable
  • Intermission by poet and musician Mr Legge, in which he interrupts his own performance with an ad-hoc poetry one-man convention.
  • Makeover – recorded betwixt the 20th and 21st centuries in Hertfordshire.

Epistaxis Time: Overdose Pie

This episode begins with an exciting yet depressing techno number about alienation, arrest and imprisonment. Our host bakes and eats a pie containing miscellaneous prescription drugs. First broadcast on September 14th 2005.

Hooting Yard: Curd

Back in the days of Stalin, it was a brave soul who mocked the Comintern. Uncle Joe and his myrmidons tended to get attacks of the vapours when ridiculed. Svetlana B was not particularly brave, however. For one thing, she mocked the Comintern from the comparative safety of a radio shack hidden in a village in the English fens, which she pronounced “fence”.

This fun-packed episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 26th January 2004.

  • A letter of complaint from an Aztec Fundamentalist.
  • Five Tiny Birds
  • Crime of the Century
  • Blodgett’s Fiendish X-Ray Plot
  • Bilingual Comintern Mocker
  • Quotation from Ignatius Donnelly, “Atlantis : The Antedeluvian World”
  • Mrs Gubbins’ New Publish Venture
  • Curd