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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Technical Difficulties 1:10 – 19th November 2010
Tim Abbott hosts this weekly look at issues relating to the notion of disability. This week, Marlo Donato makes her return to the show as the two discuss beauty and disability through the prism of Marlo’s experience as a manager for high end fashion labels before and during her experiences of Multiple Sclerosis.
The show is transcribed at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51100602
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Voice on Record: 29 (Dougal and the Blue Cat)
Dougal and the Blue Cat. Eric Thompson’s masterful 1972 performance of Dougal and the Blue Cat features all the characters from the Serge Danot’s Magic Roundabout plus Buxton the blue cat.
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 to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds.
http://sbkw.net/voiceonrecord.php
Originally broadcast on 30th March 2010
Yummy Mummy: Series 2, episode 3
Resonance FM’s high-octane, low-concept children’s light entertainment bonanza for forward-thinking little people and backward-thinking big people. This week, following yet another ball-bursting incident with the primary school next door, the YMSR team find themselves barricaded in the studio by an army of angry young tear-aways. Reasoning that they never had this kind of problem at the old studio in Denmark Street, evil Station-Commander Thomas Weaver-Baxter decides that the only sensible solution is to tunnel their way back there at once. Unfortunately they don’t realise they’ve taken a wrong turn until they hear the distant sound of yodelling. Slight confusing fun for children of all ages.
Originally broadcast 18/10/2010
Hooting Yard: O! To Be In Pepinstow!
Later, back in Pepinstow, I saw the Tundist fires burning. The Adepts were silent now, and ominous. I crept in shadows past my chalet, all the way past it until I reached the kiosk of the night soil man. It was empty, save for a coathanger on which hung a bright new uniform. I tried it on. It was a perfect fit. Night would fall, soon, soon, and I would be ready.
- O! To Be In Pepinstow!
- The Old Fart At Play
- Flight Patterns Of The Common Shrike
This episode was recorded on the 3rd June 2010. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the five publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants and Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories are available for purchase
Joe Boyd’s Lucky 13 – Episode Three
An hour of revelation, anecdote and music. Each week legendary record producer Joe Boyd selects tracks from his extensive and judiciously ordered record collection, using the number 13 as his lode-star.
Theme music
CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA
CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061
Costello & Covers
BIRDS WILL BE SINGING / NORMA WATERSON
CD: Norma Waterson / Hannibal HNCD 1393
CLOWNTIME MEDLEY / ELVIS COSTELLO
CD: Costello & Nieve in New York / Warner Bros 9 46469-2
SHIPBUILDING / ROBERT WYATT
LP: 1982-1984 / Rough Trade RTSP 25
Afro Cubism
NANA SERE / ARSENIO RODRIGUEZ
CD: Grabaciones Completas / Tumi TCD316
MBAOUDE / MANGALA CAMARA
CD: Minye Minye / Syllart
AL VAIVEN DE MI CARRETA / ELIADES OCHOA / KASSE MADY
CD: Afrocubism / World Circuit WCD 085
Rota’s Ripples
SYCAMORE TREES / JIMMY SCOTT
CD: Twin Peaks / 4AD 9 45019-2
8 1/2 / CARLA BLEY
LP: Amarcord Nino Rota / Hannibal HNBL 9301
I’LL SHOOT THE MOON / TOM WAITS
CD: The Black Rider / Island CID 8021
Originally broadcast on 26th November 2010
Ventures and Adventures in Topography
Episode 1 - Brent Cross Ventures & Adventures in Topography presented by John Rogers and Nick Papadimitriou, is a show taking you on a series of lop-sided rambles around the margins of London,exploring zones and areas of the city drawing on an eclectic range of references,influenced by old \topographical books, psychogeography, deep topography, and the hopeless mis-reading of maps. This week we’ll be taking you on a drift from Golders Green to Brent Cross, exploring the liminal zones in-between, land on the cusp of redevelopment and a derive through the Regional Shopping Centre during late-night midweek shopping. Includes field recordings, reading by Heidi Lapaine from Walter Benjamin's Arcade Project and music from Europa 51. http://boomkat.com/cds/11785-europa-51-abstractions
Reality Check: Future Publishing? part 1
Reality Check: Future Publishing? part 1
Tom Hunter (Award Administrator for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature) chairs a panel on the future of publishing in the digital age:
The publishing industry is coming under assault from all sides. Are Kindles, iPads and smartphones signalling the end of traditional paper publishing? How will the publishing industry re-shape itself for 2050?
Panelists include: Paul Graham-Raven, a freelance writer, editor and webgeek, genre fiction reviewer and editor-in-chief of the near-future science fiction webzine Futurismic; Paul Rainey, a cartoonist, illustrator and creator of serialised web and print comics The Book of Lists and There’s No Time Like The Present; novelist Gary Gibson, Nova War is his fourth book and his second Dakota Merrick title, following 2007’s Stealing Light; Dave Bradley, Editor-in-Chief of SFX magazine, Europe’s best-selling sci-fi and fantasy periodical. With questions addressed to the panel by John Freeman (Doctor Who Magazine) and Alex Fitch (Panel Borders). (part 1 of 2)
Clockwise from top left: comics by Paul Rainey, Futurismic blog by Paul Graham-Raven, SFX magazine cover, various novels by Gary Gibson
Recorded live at the Apollo Piccadilly cinema, Spring 2010 (recorded and edited by Alex Fitch)
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: Paul Rainey’s website
Gary Gibson’s blog
SFX magazine website
Paul Raven’s Futurismic website
Arthur C. Clark awards website
Listen to Alex’s interview with Paul Rainey about his work
Recommended events:
Demons screening
Prior to its DVD re-release from Arrow Video, Midnight Movies presents a special screening of Dario Argento’s classic gory 80s horror Demons on Friday 26 November 2010 at Curzon Soho. One fateful night in a Berlin cinema, art imitates life as one by one the audience are possessed by blood-hungry, puss-filled demons. More details on Curzon Cinemas’ website.
Erika Moen – Signing and Exhibition
Erika Moen (Dar Comics) will be in London for the opening of her show at Orbital Comics! Come see her paintings in real life and maybe get a book signed or something!
Orbital Comics, 8 Gt Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA, United Kingdom
Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:00
Comica, London week four
Paul Gravett: From Escape To Now
Paul Gravett gives an illustrated talk about his lifelong passion for comics, from the 80s Escape Magazine to now.
The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1
Monday, 29 November – 6.30pm to 9.30pm
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Panel Borders: Spandex!
Panel Borders: Spandex!
Continuing our month of shows looking at unusual depictions of superheroes, in an interview recorded at the Thought Bubble festival in Leeds, Alex Fitch talks to writer / artist Martin Eden about his small press comics The O Men and Spandex, the latter featuring the world’s only all gay superhero team. Alex and Martin talk about distribution of small press comics, his experiences with the media’s interest in his new comic when it launched last year and representations of gay characters in sequential art.
Spandex group shot by Martin Eden
This show was recorded live at Thought Bubble, Leeds
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: Martin’s blog – spandexcomic.wordpress.com
The O Men website and blog
Listen to Alex’s interview with Tommy Roddy about his gay themed Superhero comic Pride High
Recommended events:
Alternative Press Fair: Sunday 28th November 2010
Comix, zines, self published art books, poetry workshop, illustration photo booth and over 100 titles from the world of small press. A chance for newcomers to sell their work on a communal table and for those interested to find out what the scene has to offer. Alternative Press will also be announcing details of next year’s Alternative Press Festival.
St. Aloysius’ Social Centre (Corner of Eversholt Street and Phoenix Road) London NW1 1TA Nearest Tube: Euston
Sunday 28th November 2010, 12pm to 6pm
ALSO: There are some flyer designs up on the comicsandzines blog. We want you to recreate the flyers in your own style!
More info: comicsandzines.wordpress.com
Erika Moen – Signing and Exhibition
Erika Moen (Dar Comics) will be in London for the opening of her show at Orbital Comics! Come see herpaintings in real life and maybe get a book signed or something!
Orbital Comics, 8 Gt Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA, United Kingdom
Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:00
Comica, London week four
Sarah Ardizzone and Ros Schwartz: The Little Prince
A dialogue between two translators looking back at the biggest selling French language book.
Institut Francais, 17 Queensberry Place, London
Thursday, 25 November – 7.30pm
Paul Gravett: From Escape To Now
Paul Gravett gives an illustrated talk about his lifelong passion for comics, from the 80s Escape Magazine to now.
The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1
Monday, 29 November – 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Continue reading
Wavelength – 2008 December 19th
Christmas greetings from Wavelength spoken by Maurice Seddon who goes on to talk about heated clothing, windmills and his time spent living in Elgar’s house in Hampstead. Charles Matthews plays Giacinto Scelsi: In Nomine Lucis, Live in St. Michel and St. Gudula Cathedral Brussels, from the double LP Spire Live: Fundamentalis (FACT12 Touch Tone 28) 2008.