In the third of our shows on Doctor Who, Alex Fitch interviews Kim Newman, renowned film critic for Empire and Sight & Sound. Kim has written two books on Who - an overview of the series for the British Film Institute and a novella set before the first episode called ‘Time and relative’ - and [...]

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Meet Ottakar and his girlfriend Walushka. Ottakar would like to tell you about the fun times he and Walushka have in London’s happening art scene, except he can’t, because he doesn’t enjoy any of it. Not for Ottakar modern art exhibitions of piles of felt, or the radio programme where “the lady with the baby [...]

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Hello. Marvin suicide plays music on the internet, and its free, and its good, and its trendy. Wear the music about you like a really fash pair of shoes and scarf and be the envy of your not-so-fash buddies.
Here is the tracklisting for show 87.
1. Thursday by Databoy78, 5 Days EP:
www.adapter-netlabel.org
2. The Blues Of A [...]

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It was not night-time, sultry or otherwise, when Bucephalus arrived at his destination. It was day, bleak, grey, and wretched, and the majestic horse stood still at the river’s edge, snorting. Alexander the Great did not expect him back in Macedonia for a week. Remember this is the Ancient World, so such landmarks as line [...]

 

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In the first half of this episode of I’m ready for my close-up, Alex Fitch concludes his interview with Nicholas Briggs focusing on Nick’s history as an interviewer of Doctor Who stars such as Jon Pertwee and Elizabeth Sladen and then talks to Robert Shearman, the writer of last year’s TV episode Dalek.
This is the [...]

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Alex Fitch interviews Nicholas Briggs, the actor who provides the voices of the Daleks & the Cybermen in Doctor Who and even the Timelord himself on a number of occasions… Nick is also the Executive Producer of Big Finish productions, the company which produces the majority of Doctor Who radio dramas.
This is the first show [...]

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sorry for the lack of shows lately. i’ve moved my address as well as been over the pond. more will follow.
Enjoy this show, broadcast over FM radio to my kitchen. if you don’t like it, think of it as filler until the next installment. special thanks to toby and ami.

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This episode has nothing whatsoever to do with Manic Minor, but does have a lot to do with music and silly-ness. Please find below the tracklist and links to where the songs were found.
1. Davon by [in]anace:
www.metempsychosis.com
2. Legend Of Bill by Big City Orchestra, Boom Crash Crash:
www.comfortstand.com
3. The Snake Who Watched by Liquid Concept, Concentric [...]

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Authors: Sally Booth, Maria Oshodi, Julia Schauerman and Steve Webber
www.radiogallery.org
The increasing desire of visually impaired people to fully participate in cultural life and the implementation of disability rights legislation has focused the minds of galleries and arts professionals. This has led to a discourse that has gone beyond the bounds of access and is contributing [...]

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Were you lucky enough, when you were a tiny tot, to receive an Ogsby’s Steering Panel as a birthday gift? I was. I still remember with absolute clarity waking on the icy cold morning of my tenth birthday, and finding at the foot of my bed a rectangular object wrapped in old newspaper, on which [...]

 

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