Resonance FM Podcasts

Panel Borders: Typography and Teaching comics illustration
Originally broadcast 24/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch is talking to Dan Berry, a lecturer from North Wales School of art and design about the new Illustration for Graphic Novels course he’s going to be teaching from this autumn, about introducing a new generation to [...]

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Panel Borders: The art of Dan Lester
Originally broadcast 24/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch is talking to cartoonist Dan Lester about his humour comics such as Monkeys might puke and use of satire and reoccurring characters in gag strips. Dan is also writing a new murder mystery comic that’s being drawn [...]

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Hi there,
There is a lot of bad language in this episode, so if you’re not 100% groovy with that then please do not listen.
But apart from the profanity it really is an absolutely wizard time. Oh my gosh, I’m feeling quite thrilled just at the thought of it, so I am.

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More than twenty years ago, I wrote a short piece in which I described being hunched among shimmerings. Looking back, it occurs to me that I didn’t really know what I was talking about. I was just blathering. I often blathered in those days, both vocally and when doing my scribblings. I think I was [...]

 

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Looking back at this year’s Tour De France, with Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur magazine and author and broadcaster Graeme Fife. As well as discussing the racing, we go into what it means for a small towns when it plays host to a stage of Le Tour de France. You can listen to an hour-long [...]

 

 28 July 2008: Looking back at Le Tour [30:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (422)

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Alan Bridges (alias Hugh de la Cruz) attempts to describe his perpetual motion machine. Hugh is an inventor of unfinished projects including a motorcycle that doesn’t fall over and a trousercoat illustrated in “What did you eat today? Number One; Hugh de la Cruz” 16mm film by William English and Sandra Cross.
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One has only to consider the records broken by Bobnit Tivol to recognise him for the superb sprinter he was. Leafing through old athletics almanacks, his name appears again and again and again, invariably in capital letters, annotated by one, two, or even three stars, at the top of every list. They say he had [...]

 

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This year’s Dunwich Dynamo was perfect: a dry, moonlit night, a tail wind and a hot sunny morning on the beach. Around 500 people enjoyed the sixteenth edition of the classic British night ride that covers some 120 miles (190 kilometres) through north east London, Essex and Suffolk. But you don’t have to wait until [...]

 

 21 July 2008: Sublime overnights: Dunwich Dynamo 16 and S24O with Grant Peterson: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (379)

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Panel Borders: The art of Tom Humberstone
Originally broadcast 17/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Tom Humberstone about the various illustrated endeavours he’s been involved with such as comics which range from Art school scum to Everything you never wanted to know about Crohn’s disease and the Eagle award winning [...]

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