Monthly Archives: December 2007

Six Pillars – Minou Norouzi and Psychoanalytical Film

Some truths about Austria from film maker Minou Norouzi. With psychoanalytical elements to her films amongst her themes are misplaced femininity and incubated desire, within the context of a budding male sexual revolution that she sees happening.Some of her short films are viewable on her site, of which there is much to think about. Some contain minimal action and little text with the main character frozen in a moving landscape. What does she keep from us, what does the film refuse to offer up and by so doing, lay bare about our expectations as viewers?

A unique woman, she says she is neither Iranian nor Austrian, and so we nudge her on her way back to her grandfather’s point of origin; to the town where people are either mad, or genius.

Panel Borders: The art of Charlie Adlard

Panel Borders: The art of Charlie Adlard
Originally broadcast as part of Strip! on 06/12/07

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to artist Charlie Adlard in a conversation recorded at the Birmingham International Comics Show. Charlie has found recent acclaim with the zombie comic The Walking Dead as well as for illustrating Judge Dredd and meeting the challenges of drawing Mulder and Scully in the comic book adaptation of the X-Files.
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The Bike Show: How to win at roller-racing

Roller racingReigning Rollapaluza champion and two-time ‘Raphapaluza’ winner Simon Jackson gives his tips on how to win at the frenzied sport of static bike racing. Plus a preview of the upcoming ITV comedy-drama series Bike Squad (aka “The Bill on bikes”) with Robert Collins of the Daily Telegraph.

Get down to the Bicycology film night on Thursday 13 December at the RampArt Social Centre, London E1 and of course to Rollapaluza IX-mas at the Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London SE1.

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The Low Carbon Show: Chris Goodall

Chris Goodall

Chris Goodall is the author of what the New Scientist calls “the definitive guide to reducing your carbon footprint.” Climate Radio takes a trip to Oxford to meet him and find out some of the book’s key messages on aviation, consumption, personal travel and food purchasing habits.

Chris’s website: http://www.lowcarbonlife.net

The Low Carbon Show focuses on the emerging green shoots of our post-fossil fuel future. The programme is produced by Phil England for Climate Radio.

Hooting Yard : Joie De Bogs

Regular readers know that my grasp of matters ornithological is second to none, so it is only fitting that I have been asked to compile an anthology of fictional works with the word “owl” in the title.

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Tight Pudding – Exploring the Smoking Cabinet

Today’s Tight Pudding is guest presented by Alex Fitch who talks to Claire Cook, Simone Pyne and Kate Grove about the “Burlesque Cinema” weekend they’ve curated at the Curzon Soho Cinema and Volupte Lounge in London. The Smoking Cabinet mixes short films, features (The Blue Angel), live acts and talks to explore depictions of cabaret on film from the 1890s to the 1930s.

The Bike Show: Fixed Fever

Insane fixed wheel bicycleOver the past five years a craze for riding bicycles with only one gear and no freewheel has taken off, in New York, London, Sydney and cities all around the world. We take a long hard look at the merits and excesses of the scene. Featuring an extended interview with the mystery man behind the Bike Snob NYC blog, Roxy Erickson of London’s Trixie Chix and Gabriel Nogueira, one of the prime movers in the small but growing fixed wheel crowd in Curitiba, southern Brazil.

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Six Pillars: Maz Jobrani’s “Axis of Evil Comedy Tour”

How we conjured an American we spotted on a clip on Youtube USA, into the London studio. The Merchant of Mirth, the Fakir of Middle Eastern Ridicule…. Maz Jobrani, arrives in UK, swings by the studio and announces live on air what he’s just found out: he’s going to be a dad for the first time. Between anecdotes about Iranian family, the US comedy circuit and what Americans don’t know, we hear what it’s like being an Iranian on the west coast.

This programme was recorded at the Resonance104.4fm studios on November 5th 2007. Produced and presented by Fari Bradley, Six Pillars to Persia is on Mondays at 1.30pm