Monthly Archives: December 2009

Panel Borders: Tales of Diversity

Panel Borders: Tales of Diversity

Broadcast 17/12/09 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Excerpts from Blood in Stones by Nickita Patterson, Benefit Fraud by Chantelle Beckford and Rosalee Noel and The Dollhouse by Leke Adekanbi and Shantel Cherebin

Excerpts from Blood in Stones by Nickita Patterson, Benefit Fraud by Chantelle Beckford and Rosalee Noel and The Dollhouse by Leke Adekanbi and Shantel Cherebin

In the last of this month’s shows looking at the use of comics in education, Sarah Lightman visits the Eastside Educational Trust in Hackney and talks to two of the tutors / mentors from the organisation – Rakhee Jasani and Truly Johnston – who have set up a project called ‘Graphic Truths’ as a way of engaging young people with comic book creation to tell stories that are personal to them. Sarah also talks to four of the young creators – Chantelle, Shantel, Leke and Nickita – who have worked on the project and are seeing their comics printed in an anthology called ‘Tales of Diversity’ being launched next month.

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Eastside Educational Trust – info about the Graphic Truths project on their website
Download Tales of Diversity as a PDF
Graphic Truths blog
Rag Factory website where the magazine is being launched on 16/01/10

Sarah Lightman – website
Info about Sarah’s monthly comics discussion group – Laydeez do Comics
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Encyclopodia – W – Mike Wells

26 interviews by William English

Mike Wells on tape gun.

Encyclopodia. 26 interviews, 1 for each letter of the alphabet, on and around the subject of books, intended to accompany the London Art Book Fair 2009 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
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Electric Sheep podcast: Living in Harmony with Ian Rakoff

Electric Sheep podcast: Living in Harmony with Ian Rakoff

Patrick McGoohan filming Living in Harmony / Ian Rakoff at Comica 2003

Patrick McGoohan filming Living in Harmony / Ian Rakoff at Comica 2003

To coincide with the 42nd anniversary of the broadcast of the episode he wrote the original script for, Alex Fitch talks to writer, editor and raconteur Ian Rakoff about his experiences working on The Prisoner and being an observer of British Film culture in the 1970s and beyond. Alex and Ian talk about the bowdlerisation of his script for ‘Living in Harmony’, the latter’s experiences with Lindsay Anderson on such films as If…. and O lucky man!, working with Nicolas Roeg, Stephen Frears and John Boorman and his lifetime interest in comic books.

For more info about the variety of formats you can download this podcast in / stream, please visit www.archive.org

Links: (Limited) info about Ian Rakoff at www.imdb.com
Interview with Ian at www.paulgravett.com
Info about the Victoria and Albert Museum‘s comic book collections
Buy The Prisoner on blu-ray from Network DVD
Buy Ian’s book Inside the “Prisoner”: Radical Television and Film in the 1960s from amazon.co.uk
Last month’s appreciation of The Prisoner at wired.com

Listen to / watch Alex’s interview with Malcolm McDowell and Mike Kaplan about working with Lindsay Anderson
Photo credits – Ian Rakoff courtesy of “Jinty” and Patrick McGoohan courtesy of www.amctv.com

For info on the latest issue of Electric Sheep magazine, please click here / read Prisoner inspired rock group Do not forsake me oh my darling‘s list of favourite films in Electric Sheep Magazine online

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Encyclopodia – V – Paul de Vree

26 interviews by William English

Paul de Vree, recordings by the Belgian sound poet.

Encyclopodia. 26 interviews, 1 for each letter of the alphabet, on and around the subject of books, intended to accompany the London Art Book Fair 2009 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
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Encyclopodia – U – Lawrence Upton

26 interviews by William English

Lawrence Upton, sound poet and collaborator with Bob Cobbing for many
years.

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Encyclopodia – T – Tim Byers

26 interviews by William English

Tim Byers from Sims Reed Rare Books describes valuable artist’s books
by Richard Long and Matisse.

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Encyclopodia – S – Gerry Smith

26 interviews by William English

Seekers of Lice interviewed and Gerry Smith.

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Encyclopodia – R – Ron Heisler

26 interviews by William English

Ron Heisler and his collection of 30,000 political pamphlets donated to
Senate House Library.

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Encyclopodia – Q – Quot

26 interviews by William English

Quot: Extract from an artist’s book by Seekers of Lice.

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Reality Check: Christmas ghosts and skeletons with Ray Harryhausen and Michael Punter

Reality Check: Christmas ghosts and skeletons with Ray Harryhausen and Michael Punter

Ray Harryhausen makes a monster while Julian Rhind-Tutt and Pamela Miles have a ghostly encounter in Darker Shores. Ray Harryhausen photo courtesy of Hulton Archive / Getty Images. Darker Shore photo courtesy of Hampstead Theatre.

Ray Harryhausen makes a monster while Julian Rhind-Tutt and Pamela Miles have a ghostly encounter in Darker Shores

Alex Fitch talks to two creators of excellent Christmas entertainment. Oscar winning animator Ray Harryhausen has long been associated with Bank Holiday TV programming and Christmas wouldn’t be the same without an appearance of Jason and the Argonauts or Sinbad facing off mythological creatures. Elsewhere, the Hampstead Theatre in Swiss Cottage is the home of Michael Punter’s ‘Darker Shores’, a new play in the style of M.R. James’ Ghost stories for Christmas, which stars Julian Rhind-Tutt as a spiritualist escaping the traumas of the American Civil War. Alex talks to Ray about his career and meeting a new generation of fans at the launch of his coffee-table book “Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life” and to Michael about using stage magic and cathartic laughter to haunt theatre-goers in the gentility of West London.

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London (originally broadcast in an edited form as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM).

Links: Info about Darker Shores at The Hampstead Theatre
Review of the play in the Camden New Journal
Aurum Press website, publishers of Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life
Ray’s official website
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