Socio-political commentary in this edition, in which we find Harmon in the Global Village, playing with the Resonance Radio computer. Dictator Creator is a “sim game” in which you can build your own despot. Sound like fun? Then why not join Harmon in sampling the results?
We hear from a ghostly voice emitting unintelligible, half-composed sentences [...]
Entries from May 2006
Harmon e. Phraisyar: Dictator Creator
May 31st, 2006 · No Comments
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Mind The Gap…every Sunday at Six
May 29th, 2006 · No Comments
Everything you need to surf the zeitgeist, with a wry smile playing about your lips
You can listen via iTunes or via our website: http://www.mindthegapradio.com
email: mindthegap@mindthegapradio.com
Last night we ate biltong, and chewed the fat..
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Hooting Yard: Billy Parallelogram
May 26th, 2006 · No Comments
Hands up those of you who remember the cartoon character Billy Parallelogram. For decades in the last century he appeared weekly in The Pabulum, a comic which also featured Magnet Boy! The Boy Magnet. Whereas all Magnet Boy! The Boy Magnet’s adventures followed a strict, unchanging formula, you could never guess what might happen in [...]
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Harmon e. Phraisyar: If You can, Dig It
May 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
For various hellishly complex reasons, Harmon is obliged to murder and impersonate a famous female archaeologist. Will our hero accomplish the deed in time to catch to the next flight to Iraq from Croydon Rocket-Port?
Warning: This episode features sinister nocturnal activities and bogus archaeology.
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Last nights Mind The Gap…
May 22nd, 2006 · No Comments
Everything you need to surf the zeitgeist, with a wry smile playing about your lips
You can listen via iTunes or via our website: http://www.mindthegapradio.com
email: mindthegap@mindthegapradio.com
This week you can hear the Prime Minister described as an Ageing Pussy Hound and find out where to get tea, cakes, fighting and vodka in one venue in Bethnal Green…plus [...]
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Hooting Yard: Smashed Gods
May 21st, 2006 · No Comments
In those days we had many gods in Gaar, but only one was authentic, the one whose name could not be uttered. In addition, we had fifteen green-eyed weasel gods, a pair of plastic marchmont gods, the hideous centipede god of Tuesday evenings, Bosh the crumpled god, eighty squirrel gods, numberless gods with two or [...]
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Audio Adventures: Ice Cream Van Music
May 21st, 2006 · 6 Comments
Tim Pickup explores the low-fi world of Ice-Cream van chimes; the crudely synthesized ditties that herald the arival of the van full of frozen treats. Today’s show features a wide variety of anoying tunes, plus the perplexing legalities of the use of ice-cream chimes in public.
You might also be interested in this history of ice-cream [...]
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Hooting Yard: An Important Appeal
May 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment
UPDATE: The auction is now open. You can bid on eBay until 8pm next Sunday. In the meantime you can discuss this auction on the Resonance Forums.
My name is fictional athlete Bobnit Tivol and I’d like to speak to you today on behalf of the Hooting Yard Benevolent Fund For Distressed Out Of [...]
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Harmon e. Phraysier: Universal Signifier Sucks!
May 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Harman e Phrayser has just entered a time portal disguised as the notorious female archaeologist, Professor Bronte Twiblett-Jones.
Now he’s popped out the other end “like toothpaste from a tube”… but which of the multitude of infinite paralell universes has he ended up in? This question and many others will be answered in this week’s fun-packed [...]
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Mind The Gap: Every Sunday at Six
May 17th, 2006 · No Comments
A weekly round up of all the best bits, funny-smelling stuff and outright lies from the Sunday Papers – from the Financial Times to The Morning Star via The Mail on Sunday.
We’ve already read ‘em all so you don’t have to!
Plus theatre, gigs, cinema and tv to beware of – with a soundtrack of [...]
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