It had been two years since one of Dobson’s communiques had uprooted me from my rut and catapulted me into frantic adventure; three years before that I had been sent on a mission, ranging over four continents; the year before that embroiled in a world-shattering plot; and there had been at least half a dozen [...]

 

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I chat here, I chat there. I’m just one of those sociable types that loves to interact with people on all levels.
Plus I love to have a good old natter about all the useless rubbish that surrounds your life and pick through all the pointless details of it all.

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Kieron Yates and Matt Tempest report from Paris on the Vélib bike hire system that has brough 20,000 bicycles to the streets and transformed the French capital overnight into a cycling metropolis. Can it work in London?
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I’m ready for my close-up: Looking for Sweeney Todd, Originally broadcast 21/02/08
Recently brought to the attention of a new generation of media consumers through Tim Burton’s adaptation of the musical “Sweeney Todd: The demon barber of Fleet Street“, Todd has been terrifying Londoners for over 160 years. In a monologue written by Alex Fitch, comedienne [...]

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Originally broadcast 14/02/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
The second half of Alex Fitch’s 2008 interview with Alan Moore - originally broadcast on Valentine’s day. Alex and Alan discuss Alan’s epic graphic novels Lost Girls and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier and look at Alan’s depictions of procreation in Swamp Thing [...]

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Reality Check: ‘Other’ Cinema on DVD - Originally podcast at Sci-Fi London
Alex Fitch talks to Noel Lawrence, founder of the Other Cinema DVD label about their range of esoteric / underground movies and collections of short films such as The Net - The Unabomber, LSD and the internet, Experiments in Terror, Decasia and Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y…

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Jack Thurston is away and in his place Amy Cooper presents a show devoted to the swashbuckling Trixie Chix, London’s female fixed wheel freestylers. Will Amy and her sit-up-and-beg town bike cut the mustard with the trackstanding, bike polo playing, long skidding, backwards circling Trixies? Find out…
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Clever boy Lekonik (Amir Heshmati) has his finger in several musical pies. He can make beats as well as the next man but uses his film background to create truly singular tracks that make your ears prick up as soon as you hear them.
One of those tracks is played here: “Kitchen” where each screen shot [...]

 

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Originally broadcast 14/02/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
The first half of Alex Fitch’s 2008 interview with Alan Moore - originally broadcast on Valentine’s day.  Alex and Alan discuss Alan’s epic graphic novel Lost Girls, from its beginnings - serialised in the horror anthology Taboo - to its final printing 16 years later [...]

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I was waiting to pay for some petrol at the local service station when for no reason became tense with the anticipation that something exciting and unexpected was going to happen.
Nothing exciting or unexpected happened but it was the highlight of my week. So the moment wasn’t completely wasted.

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