Archive for November, 2010

Technical Difficulties 1:11 – 26 November 2010

Playlist: Watercolour – Baluji Shrivastav Senseability – Caro Snatch Suitcase – Laurence Amery Viva Belice – Daddy Antogna y Los de Helio Don’t Cry (uncut) – Seal

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]