Archive for September, 2009

Voice On Record

Episode 4: Thinkers Part 2. More from Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, and a very ambient recording of the measured and stately tones of Krishnamurti complete with crows and traffic in the great outdoors. Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which [...]

Wavelength – 2008 January 25th Bill Burns part 2

Bill Burns Bird Radio part 2.

Tunnel Vision

Episode 6 of 10: Ben Campkin. This week architectural historian, author, and Urban Laboratory member Ben Campkin attempts a sonic endoscopy. Tunnel Vision is a ten part series which sees Bruno Rinvolucri dupe a collection of writers, musicians, activists and academics into wading knee deep through the swollen rivers of sewage and miles of forgotten [...]

Panel Borders: Emma Vieceli, promoting new British Manga

Panel Borders: Emma Vieceli, promoting new British Manga Originally broadcast 24/09/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Continuing ‘women in comics’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to Emma Vieceli, illustrator of the Manga Shakespeare adaptations of Hamlet and Much ado about nothing who has also contributed to the graphic anthology [...]

Hooting Yard: Confessions Of A Door-To-Door Monkey Salesman

My adoptive parents perished in the Munich air disaster. They had won a raffle to attend the second leg of the European Cup quarter-final between Manchester United and Red Star Belgrade. It was the first time they had left me in sole charge of the pig farm. When the postie came up the lane with [...]

Voice On Record

Episode 3: Thinkers This episode features the voices of Buckminster Fuller, Aldous Huxley, Krishnamurti, Edward Teller, Marshall McLuhan, and William S Burroughs. Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides [...]

Tunnel Vision

Episode 5 of 10: Gabriel Humberstone. This week Gabriel Humberstone, a percussionist from Eddie Prevost’s improvised music workshop, takes part in two duets in south London’s sewers. The first with saxophonist Laurence Williams, the second with cellist Ute Kanngiesser. The programme starts with the Ute’s attempts to fit her cello into a manhole and lower [...]

Panel Borders: In the company of women

Panel Borders: In the company of women Originally broadcast 17/09/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Continuing “women in comics” month on the show – we have two interviews with creators whose comics are set in worlds featuring primarily female characters. Alex Fitch talks to Pam Harrison, the Queer Press Award winning [...]

Reality Check: Predicting the present with Cory Doctorow

Reality Check: Predicting the present with Cory Doctorow In the latest episode of Reality Check, Sci-Fi London’s fortnightly podcast, Alex Fitch talks to writer Cory Doctorow about his work, focussing on his novel Little Brother and short story collection Over Clocked. Alex and Cory also talk about the latter’s interest in technology and disseminating information [...]

Voice On Record

Episode 2: American Modernists This edition of Voice On Record includes clips of Gertrude Stein and E.E. Cummings reciting poetry and prose. William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech resonates remarkably strongly today, and Robert Frost’s poetry provides a welcome rural counterbalance. Additionally, the programme contains sounds from a New York Carnival circa 1955. Presenter: Sean [...]