Monthly Archives: April 2010

Hooting Yard: Groovy

Boffins in a groovelab high in the Swiss mountains have spent years – or is it mere days? – trying to isolate the Hooting Yard Groove, for the betterment of humanity, while Mrs Gubbins has been indefatigable in her attempts to express the essence of the groove in the form of knitted tea-cosies. Every single time she picks up her needles she fails, fails better, but she goes on, she must go on, she can’t go on, she goes on. We will soon have to build a new depot for all those groovy tea-cosies, unless we can find a charitable foundation prepared to accept them.

This episode was recorded on the 1st October 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were VapidGravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy BagsUnspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.

Reality Check: Cynical love songs and Tiny Daleks

Reality Check: Cynical love songs and Tiny Daleks

Alex Fitch discusses the cruelty of Daleks, short stories in the style of Roald Dahl and the disappearance of Luxembourg with Doctor Who writer and World Fantasy Award winner Rob Shearman! Alex and Rob talk about his various scripts such as Jubilee which was adapted for TV as ‘Dalek’ starring Christopher Eccleston, his short story collections ‘Tiny Deaths’ and ‘Love songs for the shy and cynical’, why there’s no such thing as ‘radical’ Doctor Who and his love of the series from the 1960s to the present day.

Rob Shearman and his World Fantasy Award for Tiny Deaths

Rob Shearman and his World Fantasy Award for Tiny Deaths

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com

Links: Rob’s website: www.robertshearman.net
Buy Love songs for the shy and cynical at www.bigfinish.com
Wikipedia page on Rob
Doctor Who audio trailer archive
Listen to Alex’s first interview with Rob, recorded shortly after the first broadcast of Dalek

Recommended events:

Sci-Fi London 9: Life in 2050 from Wednesday 28th April – Monday 3rd May features a variety of comics panels, on topics such as 60 years of Dan Dare, British Female Manga creators, Comics and film and Marvel UK with guests including Kate Brown, Rian Hughes, Gary Erskine, Emma Viecelli, Dez Skinn, Woodrow Phoenix, Garry Leach, Karen Rubins, Dan Abnett, Cyriak Harris and many more. More info at www.sci-fi-london.com

Sci-Fi London 9: Life in 2050, April 28th - May 3rd, 2010

Sci-Fi London 9: Life in 2050, April 28th - May 3rd, 2010

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Jam Tomorrow – Episode 6 – April 23rd 2010

For today’s edition of Jam Tomorrow – 2:30pm – K.Biswas and Rys Farthing  dissect another overlooked issue – what the election means for women.

With a decidedly male body politic and women’s issues marginalised to ‘women’s hour’, we explore what the upcoming election could mean for women. Joining Biz and Rys in the studio are Bronwyn McKenna from Unison, Caroline Lucas Leader of the Green Party, with comments from Kate Bell from Gingerbread, Lynne Featherstone of the Liberal Democrats, Pauline Lucas Chair of the Conservative Women’s Organisation, and long-time Labour supporter Gemma Tumelty.

The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – April 20th 2010

Steve Parry’s Totally Biased – Election Special 3. Steve bring’s us his apoplectic analysis of the campaigns so far. Helping him wade through the river of media dribble spewed up in the wake of Nick Clegg’s “bone calcifyingly mediocrity”, is fellow traveller and film maker David Tuck.

Steve also talks to prospective parliamentary candidate for Tottenham, Jenny Sutton. Sutton will be talking to Steve on the phone live from the campaign trail, fresh from a hustings debate with Labour Higher Education Minister David Lammy MP.

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Jam Tomorrow – Episode 5 – April 22nd 2010

Paul Richards, Katharine Hibbert, Joe Kassman-Tod and guests discuss politicians’ promises and the crucial issues driving the 2010 election campaigns. This week they look at arts and culture policy with critic J.J.Charlesworth and the artist Bob & Roberta Smith.  Hibbert, Kassman-Tod and Richards also reflect on the second electoral TV debate.

Ian Bone’s By-Election Special – April 21st 2010

Ian Bone’s By-Election Special

The inimitable Ian Bone aka Captain Swingometer, veteran agitator and anarchist, gives the election some scrutiny. Today, Ian discusses what a boring election it has thus far been and the Election Meltdown with Chris Knight – an agent of the Government of The Dead – and Yodet of the Whitechapel Anarchist Group.
http://meltdown.uk.net/election/Election.html
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=288264051071&ref=share
http://whitechapelanarchistgroup.wordpress.com/
http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/C.Knight/
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/

Pédilüv ep.5 – SREVER

Pedilüv lutte activement contre les auditeurs passifs et propose aujourd’hui une émission à l’envers dont le contenu ne peut être accessible qu’en inversant l’enregistrement !!!
Pendant une semaine, à parti de lundi, l’émission sera disponible au téléchargement. Celles et ceux qui feront l’effort d’exécuter cet exercice radiophonique et qui m’enverront par mail (pediluv@radiocampusparis.org) le message caché, recevront un cadeau !

Yippi Yah !

Nous vous conseillons de téléchargez le logiciel d’édition sonore gratuit Audacity pour faire cette opération.

Hollingsville: After visiting Mars, where next?

Welcome to Hollingsville: the new twelve-part series from writer Ken Hollings. A World’s Fair of the airwaves, the shows focuses each week on a different aspect of our historical relationship with technology. From machines to monsters, spaces to dreams, this Radio Expo offers an unscripted tour through the chosen theme, utilising voices and sounds from special guests and presented by Ken Hollings with his usual idiosyncratic flair.

For this episode (the first of 12) Ken Hollings and guests Steve Beard and Matt Jones discuss voodoo science parks, cities as battle suits, pods, capsules and world expos. Specially commissioned musical interludes are by the Hollingsville composer in residence, Graham Massey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Beard

http://www.mappalujo.com/

http://magicalnihilism.com/

Ken Hollings is the author of Welcome To Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947-1959, available from Strange Attractor Press.

For more information go to http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk or http://www.kenhollings.blogspot.com

Six Pillars – Gender, Wars and Chadores…Art Basel Miami with Canvas Magazine

This interview with Canvas founder and director Ali Khadra looks at a series of talks curated by Canvas hosted at Art Basel by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co- Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London.

Ali Khadra explains why and how Canvas intends to turn the talks into a book and documentary, and examines our preconceived notions regarding art, the middle east and sexuality with this series.

The interview is interspersed with extracts from the third of the talks: Gender, Wars and Chadors talk on Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, organised by Canvas magazine at Art Salon, 6 December 2009.

Artists taking part in the third talk were Ghada Amer, Kader Attia and Akram Zaatari while Hans Ulrich Obrist chaired. Watch the video here.

Six Pillars to Persia is produced and presented by Fari Bradley, a journalist living in London, for Resonance 104.4FM

Hooting Yard: Googie ‘N’ Bee.

The two most consistently popular search terms leading interweb hikers to swing open the gates of Hooting Yard, far ahead of all rivals, are bees and ectoplasm. Occasionally, some befuddled soul gets here after searching for bee ectoplasm. Another favourite, much to my delight, is Googie Withers, though the 92-year-old screen siren gets misspelled as Google Withers in some searches, which makes one wonder what is going on inside some people’s cranial integuments.

This episode was recorded on the 17th September 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were VapidGravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy BagsUnspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.