Splat is a tiny, stricken village in Cornwall, and it was here, on a muggy summer’s day in 19–, that a peasant pushing his barrow of countryside filth along a lane was astonished to encounter a small child roaring and spitting and growling and scrabbling in the muck. Its gender was indeterminate, but its savagery was unquestionable.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Marvin Suicide : 180 – 4th Year Anniversary
This is the episode that marks the 4th year of marvin suicide ‘s existence in the form of this music programme.
These anniversary episodes tend to be quite self indulgent and quite possibly rather dull for everyone except it’s creators. But fingers crossed you do like the music. Forget the rambling and listen to tunes, man. It’s all about the groovy tunes.
Plus a special thank-you to Resonance for being lovely.
Panel Borders: The art of Ken Reid
Panel Borders: The art of Ken Reid
Originally broadcast 29/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Excerpt from Jonah by Ken Reid, The Beano, November 7, 1959
In the last of January’s quartet of shows about four generations of British Cartoonists, Alex Fitch talks to writers Alan Moore and Pat Mills about their favourite cartoonist, the late Ken Reid who drew Roger the Dodger in the 1950s Beano and a variety of underrated strips in children’s comics such as Wham! and Whoopee! including the creepy classics Faceache and Frankie Stein, up to the 1980s…
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Electric Sheep podcast: Hitchcock, Hyde and Houdini – the Magic of Classics
Electric Sheep podcast: Hitchcock, Hyde and Houdini – the Magic of Classics
Image from Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock
In an interview / Q and A recorded live at the Roxy Bar and Screen, Alex Fitch talks to magician Granville Markland about depictions of magic and magicians on the big screen, focussing on the work of Harry Houdini in such films as The Man from Beyond (1922) and the more recent blurring of fact and fiction in movies like The Prestige and The Illusionist. Also, Alex talks to musician and comedy writer Robin Warren from the band Liberation Jumpsuit about the recent BFI cinema rereleases of Hitchcock’s Notorious and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1931) which combine suspense and eroticism to beguiling effect.
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Electric Sheep podcast: Hitchcock, Hyde and Houdini - the Magic of Classics [ 49:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: The work of Peter Doherty
Panel Borders: The work of Peter Doherty
Originally broadcast 22/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Art from Grendel Tales by Peter Doherty
In the third of last month’s shows about four generations of British cartoonists, Alex Fitch is talking to an artist who started work in the early 90s on Judge Dredd megazine, illustrating the acclaimed serial Young Death – Boyhood of a superfiend, has worked on a variety of titles in America such as Batman / Superman, The Dreaming and Grendel Tales, before returning to the world of Dredd again more recently. Peter Doherty has worked as a penciller, a fully rendered artist and as a colourist on off beat titles such as Shaolin Cowboy and Grant Morrison’s absurdist Sea Guy. This interview was recorded last November at the Leeds sequential art festival, Thought Bubble…
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Le Menu Gastrophonique Ep.15
EPISODE 15 : Does the quality of the first meal ever had in any human life can affect the perception of taste in the futur ? Who remember his first meal ? Breast feeding or bottle feeding ? Le Menu Gastrophonique doesn’t have to make the choice !
-Food art, Sound art : the sounds of food, digestion, excretion. Produced by Coraline Janvier- http://papier.brouillon.free.fr