To coincide with this year’s London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and the return of Doctor Who on Saturday, Alex Fitch interviews BFI librarian Emma Smart about whether there have been any significant developments in gay film-making and TV programme making since last year’s LLGFF. Also included in the show is an interview Alex recorded [...]

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I went to school this week. This is what I learned:
music + (internet + download + free) = good
Please see below for this weeks tracklisting with links to where all the songs were found:
1. Set You Free by The Black Keys, Thickfreakness:
www.fatpossum.com
2. Empty by D.A.F., Artificial Fibres:
www.laverna.net
3. Rat Water by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP:
www.catgutmusic.com
This weeks [...]

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Lightning flashed and thunder roared. Up in the playroom, still cowering behind the arras, the Infanta Gertrude was startled to receive a message on her metal tapping machine. It was from Professor Sigismundo, the wild-haired, wild-eyed boffin who had been banished from the princedom a year before, and who was now based at an important [...]

 

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Featured in this show is a homemade reverb pedal based on the PT2399 chip, a Roland Juno-60, a Yamaha AN200, and your’s trully drunk in a tub. There are laser pointer experiments, and more of the same ramblings of drunken misogyny scrawled in a little marble notebook, and poured over with the backup of totally [...]

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Fooling around in Didcot, Yaw found some bones. Those bones were Bong’s bones.

Belt’s matron ate his cheese. Yaw muttered. He fell about in fits. At the waterworks, Belt broke corks. His elk was in a tent. It looked like Bong. Bread rolls and snacks were stacked in crates. Yaw put them by his flask. He [...]

 

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As a belated follow up to his article on the subject, Alex Fitch talks to Times journalist John Clarke about the history of Black musicians on film from 1929’s Hallelujah to this year’s Dreamgirls. The show also features clips from Stormy Weather (1943), Shaft (1971) and The Blues Brothers (1980)…
Originally broadcast 15th March 2007 (mp3 [...]

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THE COMPETITION ENDS THIS SUNDAY 18TH MARCH. To win the entire back-catalogue of music played to date on the marvin suicide programme, and help save Resonance FM, please visit www.marvinsuicide.org and donate the money you were going to spend on your Mum’s crappy present to Resonance instead. She’ll love you no matter what you do [...]

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Bit Shifter - Particle Charge
Goto80 - Comsten
USK - Easty Boys
David E Sugar - Totally On
Josstintimberlake - 50cent v C64
Peter Liepa - Boulderdash
Crazy Q - Booty Call -
Jellica & Dr Dru - I Wld Di 4 U

Jake and Andrew present it straight from the chip. Expect to hear fresh joints from your favourite obsolete computers and [...]

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On the 11th February, a large group of people gathered outside a video shop in South East London to protest about its closure and replacement by a proposed betting shop.
Alex Fitch was there to interview locals and their representatives about why the demise aroused such passion.
In contrast, this is followed by an interview with both [...]

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Nick Luscombe interviews emerging artists and more established cutting edge musicians and producers.
http://www.myspace.com/nickluscombe
For the first Flomotion podcast Nick Luscombe is joined by Sideshow (aka Ninja Tune recording artist Fink) to check out tracks from the stunning download only album of the same name and to discover more about the new phenomenon of Dub House.

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