Panel Borders: The London Underground Comics Stall
Originally broadcast 31/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Oli (Hazy Thursday) Smith and Oliver (Tales from the Flat) Lambden about their self published comics and the London Underground Comics stall they run every Saturday at Camden Market.

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Alex talks to Lisa Bowerman about playing a popular space and time travelling archaeologist in radio style dramas for the best part of a decade. Professor Benny Summerfield started off as a Doctor Who character in the novels published by Virgin in the 90s and then became the first human companion* to get her own [...]

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Rags, pumps, the sea, and crime. Those are my areas of hard-earned expertise. I learned what little I know in the school of rags and pumps and the sea and crime, that is to say, in everyday, unlettered learning, in the town square of a foul and vinegary seaside resort, under torrential rain, listening, rapt, [...]

 

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Six Pillars producer Fari Bradley interviews Dr Pari Esfandiari, the Editor-in-Chief of Irandokht. Entrepreneur business woman, Dr Esfandiari PhD, has built up a massive readership and a vital forum for Iranian women all over the world (dokhtar means daughter in Farsi). The site is an independent, non-partisan but politically engaged site that [...]

 

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This weeks episode of marvin suicide is dedicated to the website Audio Aubergine.
All the songs were downloaded from Audio Aubergine, so please visit Audio Aubergine for further information. That’s Audio Aubergine.

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Totnes in South Devon is where the rapidly growing ‘transition town’ movement all began. Transition towns are a response to the problem of resource depletion, peak oil and climate change and embrace the practical and more esoteric aspects of changing lifestyles and mindsets. Totnes and the surrounding countryside - like many rural areas - remain [...]

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Finally, it’s Electric Sheep Magazine & Resonance FM’s latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released last autumn at ‘Art House’ cinemas in London… This show is presented by Alex Fitch with contributions from Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) , comedienne Jessica Fostekew and Sean Price… Featuring reviews of Daywatch, Control, [...]

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Panel Borders: The work of Gary Russell
Originally broadcast 24/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who story editor Gary Russell about his new Who comic for the American market as well as the history of Doctor Who in strip format from TV Comic to the Radio Times.

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Paul Wonnacott has been buying, repairing and selling on used bicycles in the English countryside for almost thirty years. In an extended interview he looks back at the changes he’s observed in the bicycle manufacturing industry (most of them bad) and grapples with a hoarder’s inner demon as he watches his huge stock literally pile [...]

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Munching a whelk, I turned my attentions to the diagrams themselves. They were fearfully complicated. I am no architect, and at first all I could make out were miriad lines meeting at angles and criss-crossing each other seemingly at random. Most of the diagrams had been subjected to revision, and there was much evidence of [...]

 

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