Monthly Archives: November 2008

I’m ready for my close-up: OSS-117, Licence to kill

I’m ready for my close-up – OSS-117, Licence to kill
originally broadcast 06/11/08 on Resonance FM

Massively popular in France but fairly unknown in the UK are the adventures of OSS-117, a cold war secret agent who has appeared in 40 books over the last half century and half a dozen movies. With a new (spoof) version of the Gallic James Bond about to hit our screens, Alex Fitch talks to the director – Michel Hazanavicius – and Bonisseur girl – Bérénice Bejo – of Cairo: Nest of Spies / Le Caire nid d’espions. Although his code number and name seem strangely familiar, apparently 117 predates 007…

The home of this audio podcast which includes a variety of formats to download or stream can be found at www.archive.org…

Links: Wikipedia pages on the literary life of OSS-117 and Cairo: Nest of Spies
IMDb page on Cairo: Nest of Spies / Official movie website
Buy tickets to see Cairo: Nest of Spiesat the ICA

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Panel Borders: Incredibly Strange Comics

Panel Borders: Incredibly Strange Comics
An uncut version of a pair of interviews originally broadcast 06/11/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

In the first of two belated Halloween specials, Alex Fitch talks to sequential art expert Paul Gravett about his new book “The Leather Nun And Other Incredibly Strange Comics” (sold in America with the even subtler title “Holy Sh*t! The World’s Weirdest Comic Books”) which looks at the weirder and more lurid examples of the genre and to Australian artist Ben Templesmith about his career so far, drawing comics such as the neo-noir title “Fell”, the Matrix inspired “Singularity 7” and the popular vampire serial “30 days of night” which was adapted as a movie last year.

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VENUS RISING with writer Marsha Rowe

VENUS RISING with writer Marsha Rowe

A series of 8 conversations about women and art, presented by Sharon
Gal. Each program presents a different conversation with a woman who
has direct involvement in the field and guests include artists,
curators, writers and collectors. The series explores the wide
perspective of women’s experience and investigates the role of women
in shaping art and influencing the art world.

In this episode Sharon Gal is in conversation with Marsha Rowe
co-founders of seminal feminist magazine, SPARE RIB, and first women
publishing house VIRAGO.

Originally broadcast on Wed, 17 Sep, 17:00 – 17:30

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Wavelength – 2006 December 8th Train to Kettering

Train to Kettering, adjusting a clock in Syston. Sten Hanson from the LP The Sonosopher Retrospective (Alga Marghen). Train to Leicester, broke down in Kettering, various announcements and then changed trains after some confusion. The clock in Syston was a prize for long distance running awarded to William Cross, Sandra’s grandfather, in Corby some time in the 1930s. The clock is now in a house in Syston, Leicestershire and needs rewinding frequently as we all do. This clock’s chiming has been the occasional signature tune for Wavelength.

William English

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Marvin Suicide : 169 – Like an angel giving birth

Hello.

I found myself watching a television programme the other morning where trendy hipsters were turning doing tricks on “snowboards”. Accompanying the filming of these athletic groovsters was a typically annoying commentator informing the audience of the numerous tricks and stunts being performed.

“Oh my gosh. A half-scratch-rail-grind…with a nose twist! Unbelievable.”

The commentator was one of those types where it’s hard to tell if they actually know anything about what they’re watching, or are just reading random phrases from a printed sheet of paper placed in front of them.

As I was pondering this, I heard a phrase that (for me at least) seemed to sum up the idiotic presenting style currently preferred by most media outlets:

“Ooooooooooooh, like an angel giving birth…that was beautiful.”

I don’t wish to repeat my response to this commentator’s description of a person contorting their body mid-air with their feet strapped to an oversized ski, but let’s just say the majority of  words spat from my mouth are not likely to appear in the television programme Countdown.

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Le Menu Gastrophonique Ep.7


EPISODE 7 : I have suddently woke up this week with the need of an horse meat tartare. I then hang around London, desesperatly seeking horse meat !… Am I going to die of starvation or find the subject of my quest ?

-Food art, Sound art : the sounds of food, digestion, excretion. Produced by Coraline Janvier- http://papier.brouillon.free.fr

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