Alex Fitch introduces and moderates a discussion with Guy Edmonds, film preserver and travel writer David Wenk about this year’s Home Movie Day which is being held at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. The annual Home Movie Day is designed to celebrate a populist art form which represents a cultural memory of the 20th century […]
Entries from October 2006
I’m ready for my close-up: Home movie day
October 30th, 2006 · No Comments
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Marvin Suicide: 92 - Black Gold 360 special.
October 30th, 2006 · No Comments
This episode is showcasing the self-titled LP by the artist Black Gold 360.
It is one of many free releases available at www.belugarecordings.com so why not go and have a goosy ganders. And if you like what you hear then please give them a shout, I’m sure it would be much appreciated.
Tracks played from the LP […]
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Hooting Yard: Detective Captain Unstrebnodtalb
October 29th, 2006 · No Comments
Trellis was mere figment, vapour. He appeared to different people at different times as a sort of phantom. He was a tabula rasa, on to which those who met him inscribed their dreams, their yearnings, their hallucinations.
All, that is, except Blodgett, in whose presence Trellis took on a terrifying reality. He would snivel, and Blodgett […]
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Harmon e. Phraisyar: From Spools Beyond
October 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment
It’s the time of year for spooks, spectres and things that go “ecky ecky ecky” in the night so in this supernatural episode, Dr. Buckhart Strangle invites you to ponder the existence of ghosts.
Reporting from glamourous Brixton, Ron Breful presents dictaphone recordings of empty rooms where aural manifestations are said to have taken place. If […]
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I’m ready for my close-up: London Film Societies
October 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment
On 25th October 1925, The original Film Society held its inaugural meeting at the New Gallery Kinema in Regent Street in London. Founder members of The Film Society included Anthony Asquith, H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Augustus John and Maynard Keynes. One of the primary objectives of the society was to screen more of […]
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Marvin Suicide: 91 - Stick it where the sun don’t shine.
October 23rd, 2006 · No Comments
I suppose you would call it aggressive comtemplation, if you were forced to give this weeks episode a deep and meaningful critique.
Here is the tracklisting with links for your pleasure.
1. 1984 by Coax, Blackened EP:
www.monotonik.com
2. Asfixia by Chemical Determinism, Transcending
The Organic Determinism LP:
www.n0-age.tk
3. Misty Morning Barefoot Rumble by Bjorn Linens & Pete Thompson,
Pigbone 3000 EP:
www.itsatrap.com
4. […]
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Hooting Yard: Potato Cyst Eelworm
October 22nd, 2006 · No Comments
Doctor Cack was the foremost potato scientist of his day. He rented a disused Leaking Building in the grounds of the House, together with a number of surrounding huts, in which he and his team of top flight tuberologists lived and worked. Most of their unbearably exciting scientific equipment was located in the Leaking Building, […]
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I’m ready for my close-up: Film censorship and the BBFC
October 18th, 2006 · No Comments
Alex Fitch interviews Sue Clark from the British Board of Film Classification. Alex and Sue discuss the BBFC’s strategies for classifying films aimed at children, the current status of previously banned movies and the attitude of the French to film ratings!
Links: The BBFC’s website
Wikipedia entry on the History of the BBFC
Originally broadcast 23rd March 2006 […]
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Marvin Suicide: 90 - Do the twist.
October 17th, 2006 · No Comments
This episode is a bit different from the usual type of thing that happens on marvin suicide. There is no tracklist and there are no mindless ramblings of Joe Average. In this show you will find only intelligent discussions dealing with serious issues that affect all our lives. Please take the time to listen, I […]
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Hooting Yard: Lactose-Intolerant Nitroglycerine Boffin
October 15th, 2006 · No Comments
Intensive and scrupulous new biographical research on Old Halob, the crusty and cantankerous sporting legend who was for many years the coach and mentor of fictional athlete Bobnit Tivol, has revealed an amazing fact. (I think that sentence really ought to have an exclamation mark at the end, to emphasise just how exciting it is.)
According […]
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