This episode celebrates 3 years of marvin suicide.
It’s a bit rough around the edges and contains strong language throughout. I would guess anyone other than myself will find this extended edition childish and tiresome.
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Six Pillars – Persian Avant Garde Music 1960’s
Mashayekhi’s work is woefully unknown to us the in the west, despite his completely unique and innovative methods and career that spans back to a pre-Shah Iran. From score writing to painting Mashayekhhi’s work reflects the unique way he thinks. Many thanks to Sub-Rosa Records for allowing us to podcast these pieces.
We also hear a short interview with artist Anahita Rezvani on her work, recently shown here at the Paraava gallery. She is interviewed at our request by her friend, who remains unnamed.
This show was produced and presented by Fari Bradley and broadcast from the Resonancefm studios in 2007.
Reality Check: Escape pod
Alex Fitch talks to Steve Eley who runs the weekly sci-fi podcast Escape Pod, which features readings of new and classic SF stories written by the likes of Neal Asher, Cory Doctorow, Robert Silverberg and Isaac Asimov.
The Low Carbon Show – Transition Towns Conference
The Transition Towns concept is a grassroots, action model for making the
change to a low carbon future. It’s about designing the future and making it
positive rather than just waiting for it to happen. All the signs are that
it is a project that works and it’s spreading like a virus throughout the
UK. This programme features interviews with people involved in transition
towns projects recorded at the Transition Network inaugural conference. It
provides a snapshot of the many and diverse projects now underway.
Our pioneering interviewees include Naresh Giangrande – setting up community
owned, large-scale renewable energy resources and bulk buying of domestic
solar water heating; Nick Weir – pioneering community supported agriculture
projects, communal allotments, food co-ops and a new legal model – the
Community Farm Land Trust; Dr Pamela Gray – asking ‘what will healthcare
look like in a post-oil world?’; Jo Hamilton – connecting all the climate
change resources in Oxfordshire with a view to engaging all sections of the
local community.
http://www.transitiontowns.org
http://www.transitionculture.org
http://climateradio.co.uk
Panel Borders: The work of Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
Panel Borders: The work of Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
Originally broadcast 17/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch interviews writer Ian Edginton and artist Matt Brooker (who draws under the name D’Israeli) about their sci-fi comics from Matt’s early strips such as ‘Lazarus Churchyard’ and Ian’s work on ‘Aliens’ and ‘Predator’ comics. They also talk about their love of steampunk which features in such 2000AD / Judge Dredd Megazine strips as ‘Stickleback’ and their sequels to H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ and ‘War of the worlds’ Continue reading
Reality Check: M.R.James’ Ghost stories at Christmas
Almost podcast in time for Twelfth Night, Resonance FM podcasts bring you the first in a series of podcasts originally podcast at Sci-Fi London.
Alex Fitch talks to Dexter O’Neil, head of Fantom Films, a new company that have been producing cult CD and DVD releases over the last year or so, including a new range of M.R. James audio books featuring the best of his Tales of the Supernatural read by the likes of Geoffrey Bayldon. Continue reading
Panel Borders: Nevermore
Panel Borders: Nevermore
Originally broadcast 10/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Guest presenter Virginie Sélavy talks to Jamie Delano & Matt Brooker (a.k.a. D’Israeli) about their contributions to the Edgar Allan Poe collection Nevermore: adaptations of The Murders on the Rue Morgue and The Pit and the Pendulum
Visit the home of this episode at archive.org
Links: Info about Nevermore
Wikipedia pages on Matt Brooker (D’Israeli) and Jamie Delano
The Bike Show: Are cycling Waterloo sunsets under threat?
Southwark Council plans to ban cyclists from a key stretch of the Thames Path, which runs along the south bank of the Thames, alongside the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre. Jack Thurston canvases the (mixed) opinions of passersby and rapidly discovers that no one has been consulted about this proposed new byelaw. Koy Thomson, director of the London Cycling Campaign shares his perspective on the plans and argues for shared space. Amy Cooper reports on cycle training with Patrick Field and a new year’s wish list of cycle-friendly policies for the next Mayor of London.
For more on the draft byelaw banning cycling on the Thames Path, visit Southwark Cyclists’ website.
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Marvin Suicide : 142 – It’s stuck. I can’t budge it.
Echoed footsteps below, the soothing ceaseless hum of a large air-conditioning unit and light but steady rainfall. Oh, and the tippy-tap tap of my keyboard of course. These are the sounds being processed by my brain as I write this. I’m very tired too if that helps to paint your mental picture.
Here is the tracklisting for this weeks edition of marvin suicide. Remember kids, free and legal…
Six Pillars: Sufism for Islam Awareness Week
Leading Sufi spokesman Nihat Tsolak delivers a demystifying session on Sufism at host Fari Bradley’s request. As 2007 Islam Awareness Week falls on Sufi poet Rumi’s 800th Birthday, events around London stirred up renewed interest in this rebel mystic. The show contains excerpts of the play ‘Rumi, Unveil the Sun’ and an interview with a leading actor and the director. Fari discusses with Nihat whether one might be a Christian or gay Sufi and which historical figures display Sufi characteristics despite never having heard of this wayward branch of Islam.
With so much bad press recently, Sufism is Islam’s best PR. For while Islam is perceived as rigid and intolerant, Sufism is flexible and accepting. where Islam has a fixed set of rituals, Sufism is instinctive and driven by the individuals own relationship with the divine, a self- empowering concept for which many Sufis were originally martyred.