I paid a visit to my friend Becke Beiderbix in her fortress in the mountains. We had known each other since childhood, growing up on a postwar housing estate, a workaday world of compactness and convention. But Becke was always a singleminded girl who followed her own strange star, and while the rest of us [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Hooting Yard: Boiled Black Broth and Cornets
Published by July 31st, 2009 in Hooting Yard. 0 CommentsPanel Borders: The art of Kevin O’Neill Originally broadcast 30/07/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Concluding Sci-Fi comics month on Strip!, Alex Fitch talks to artist Kevin O’Neill about his work with writer Pat Mills from his early days working on Nemesis the Warlock and A.B.C. Warriors in 2000AD to the [...]
We travelled to Hoon by hot air balloon. I took my harpoon, and impaled a wolf that was roaming the woodland below us. We hauled the wolf into the basket of our balloon, by a long and sturdy rope that was tied to the end of the harpoon. We arrived in Hoon, two balloonists and [...]
Panel Borders: Doctor Who comics by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons
Published by July 24th, 2009 in Panel Borders. 0 CommentsPanel Borders: Doctor Who comics then Originally broadcast 23/07/09 in an edited version as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Alex Fitch talks to two of the creators of Marvel UK’s seminal Who comic strip printed in Doctor Who Weekly. Pat Mills co-wrote the first 43 instalments of the weekly Doctor Who strip [...]
Panel Borders: Doctor Who comics by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons [ 42:42 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1)Electric Sheep podcast: The current state of Gay cinema part 2 (Monika Treut / Paul Morrison)
Published by July 24th, 2009 in Electric Sheep Magazine podcast and I'm Ready for my Closeup. 0 CommentsElectric Sheep podcast: The current state of Gay cinema part 2 (Monika Treut / Paul Morrison) Monika Treut interview originally broadcast 08/05/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up www.resonancefm.com In the second of two podcasts looking at the current state of gay cinema, Virginie Sélavy interviews experimental film maker Monika Treut about [...]
Electric Sheep podcast: The current state of Gay cinema part 2 (Monika Treut / Paul Morrison) [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1)Reality Check: Torchwood Novelists In a panel discussion recorded live at a meeting of the British Fantasy Society, late 1980s Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel talks to a quartet of Torchwood novelists – Mark Morris, Sarah Pinborough, Guy Adams and Joe Lidster – about bringing the show to the printed page and expanding the [...]
Panel Borders: Doctor Who comics now… Originally broadcast 16/07/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Alex Fitch talks to the creators of a couple of recent innovative Doctor Who comics about bringing a new angle to the popular franchise. Leah Moore and John Reppion wrote the recent one off comic "The Whispering [...]
Electric Sheep podcast: The current state of Gay cinema part 1 (Kenneth Anger / LLGFF)
Published by July 16th, 2009 in Electric Sheep Magazine podcast. 0 CommentsElectric Sheep podcast: The current state of Gay cinema part 1 (Kenneth Anger / LLGFF) Interview originally broadcast 03/07/09 in an edited version on www.resonancefm.com Following London Gay Pride weekend, in the first of two podcasts looking at the current state of gay cinema, Alex Fitch looks at this year’s London Lesbian and Gay Film [...]
Electric Sheep podcast: The current state of Gay cinema part 1 (Kenneth Anger / LLGFF) [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: Small Press Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Published by July 16th, 2009 in Panel Borders. 0 CommentsPanel Borders: Small Press Sci-Fi and Fantasy Continuing Sci-Fi comics month on the show, we have a couple of interviews recorded at comic book conventions with small press creators who are working in the SF and Fantasy genres. In an interview recorded at this year’s Bristol Comics Expo, Dickon Harris talks to comic book creator [...]
Reality Check: Female action heroes With new versions of the Terminator and Blood: The Last Vampire franchises currently in UK cinemas, Alex Fitch talks to experts on the previous instalments. In an extract from a press conference at the ‘MCM Expo’, Alex talks to Linda Hamilton about playing Sarah Connor in The Terminator / Terminator [...]