“Who alive, for instance, knows all the moles of Sussex? I confess I got my first sight of one a few days ago, and, though I had seen dead moles hanging from trees and had read descriptions of moles, the living creature was as unexpected as if one had come on it silent upon a [...]
Archive for December, 2006
I’m ready for my close-up: The best films of 2006
Published by December 30th, 2006 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 0 CommentsIt’s the end of the year show… Alex Fitch asks various broadcasters and previous guests of I’m ready for my close-up to name their favourite film of the last 12 months. Guests include Emma Smart (BFI), Kim Morgan (Midnight Sex Talk), Kev. F. Sutherland (The Beano), Kai Clear (Film-maker), Grant Rogers (Artist / animator) and [...]
Hooting Yard: Absurd Mancunian Polymath
Published by December 24th, 2006 in Hooting Yard. 0 Comments“Now and again, it will do you a power of good to spend a Wednesday morning tramping along a high ridge, blowing a trumpet and waving a banner. If you can persuade others to join you, so much the better. It will not matter if you are tuneless and raggle-taggle – the experience itself can [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: Restoring The Battle of The Somme
Published by December 24th, 2006 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 0 CommentsHappy Christmas (War is over): To (belatedly) coincide with the 90th anniversary of ‘The Battle of the Somme’ (both the event and the film), Alex Fitch is discussing the silent movie and its recent restoration with Dr. Toby Haggith (Imperial War Museum) and Andrew Robertshaw (National Army Museum). To make the film more accessible to [...]
Marvin Suicide: 100 – Have a rubbish holiday.
Published by December 23rd, 2006 in Marvin Suicide. 0 CommentsHello. More music downloaded freely and legally on that there internet. ***This week with a cheesy new flavour*** Here is the tracklist with links to where all the songs and thingies were found: 1. WXRT – Xmas On The Moon by Gulag Picture Radio, Interplanetary Materials Compilation: www.comfortstand.com 2. 4-bit Christmas by Vim!, 4 Bit [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: The current state of Comics
Published by December 19th, 2006 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 0 CommentsAlex Fitch interviews Kev F Sutherland (comics writer and commentator) about such topics as: Hollywood and the media’s fascination with comic books which contrasts with diminishing sales in shops. From appreciation of writers like Alan Moore and Chris Ware in The Guardian to comics based on TV shows and by TV writers, there seems to [...]
Marvin Suicide: 99 – Create some steak up in this place.
Published by December 18th, 2006 in Marvin Suicide. 0 CommentsHello, Like music? Hate the capitalist overlords that control most of it? Got an internet connection? Then by golly, this is the show for you. All the music and sounds played on marvin suicide have been downloaded freely and legally from the internet. Woohoo. Sometimes normal, sometimes odd, but all times on a ragga tip. [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: The current state of Children’s Television
Published by December 18th, 2006 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 0 CommentsAlex Fitch presents an overview of this year’s Children’s television at Christmas with a special report on Sky’s live action adaptation of ‘The Hogfather’. Alex’s guest in the studio* is Ed Petrie, Children’s TV presenter / stand-up comedian and the show also includes short interviews with David Jason, Nigel Planer and Terry Pratchett. *actually Ed’s [...]
Hooting Yard: Pang Hill and Blister Lane.
Published by December 17th, 2006 in Hooting Yard. 0 CommentsThere is something very weird about this spinney, but I have a toothache, so I am oblivious to the weirdness. I have come to the spinney at the suggestion of my dentist. She is a so-called “new dentist”, one of a growing band of revolutionary tooth interventionists who have torn up the rule book. “Go [...]
nothing like a good late night / early morning wallowing in the empty house that at one time held a bit more than cacophonous banging slowed to speeds matched only by the accompanying loneliness of old, raw materials that form a shelter over desperation. this is where the heard world relationship special would have been.