Monthly Archives: December 2008

Reality Check: Life during Wartime

Reality Check: Life during Wartime

Continuing our new series of Sci-Fi London podcasts, we have a pair of interviews about modern Science-Fiction takes on warfare which have a classical, yet prescient feel to them: Duncan Nott talks to Garth Ennis about working on the new Virgin Comics version of the classic British sci-fi comic strip Dan Dare which sees Dare called out of retirement as Britain and Earth enter new hostilities with the Mekon due to a corrupt Prime Minister running the country. Also, Tripwire Magazine editor Joel Meadows presents and takes part in a brief press conference with actor Michael Hogan about playing the long suffering character Colonel Tigh in the 21st century reimagining of Battlestar Galactica, which is about to return to our screens shortly for the second half of its final season. Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch (with thanks to the MCM Expo for their invite to the Michael Hogan junket).
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VENUS RISING with collector Valeria Napoleone

VENUS RISING with collector Valeria Napoleone

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 Valeria Napoleone
who collects and supports work exclusively by female artists. She is
also involved in the work of Studio Voltaire, an artist-led gallery
and studio complex in South-West London.

Originally broadcast on Wed, 22 Oct, 17:00 â€“ 17:30

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Wavelength – 2007 June 8th Clive Graham

Clive Graham host of the long standing Resonance104.4fm programme Sound Poets Exposed brings in a new release on the Paradigm label:
I.D. ART 2 (PD23) Paradigm Discs 2007.

William English

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Marvin Suicide : 173 – Bran Face

Dut dut d-deeeeeeerrrrrr…BRAN FACE to the rescue…[whoosh]

Stomach cramps, constipation or just feeling a bit under the weather? Some scientists recommend increasing your intake of bran to aid bad digestion and combat the signs of dreadful horrible disgusting old age.

BRAN FACE has been nutritionally trained to military standards, and will kick your guts into fully functioning tubes of polished stainless steel-like beauty. Plus, BRAN FACE guarantees to remove those unsightly ghastly vomit-inducing wrinkles and make your hair shiny and soft and nice.

BRAN FACE – HE’S TOTALLY WICKED MATE

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Le Menu Gastrophonique ep.11

EPISODE 11 : A recording of the experience of eating in the pitch darkness at the restaurant Dans le noir ? in London. Does food tastes better in the dark ?

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

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Hooting Yard : Foppish Lassitude

It was long believed that Preen wrote the Four Last Songs in his deathbed, out on a balcony in the mountains, while in the final ravages of tuberculosis. New research shows that in fact he composed these towering pieces on horseback, while riding along various clifftop paths, and it was his horse that was tubercular.