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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Six Pillars – The Shahnameh Exhibition, Cambridge
The Shahnameh or Persian Book of Kings, is an enormous poetic opus written by Ferdowsi a Persian poet, around 1000 AD. Despite it’s age the book is still the national epic of the cultural sphere of Greater Persia. Consisting of around 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells a mythical and historical tale of Greater Iran, from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.
The work is of central importance in Persian culture, we had a look at it on our show about the book Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah’s Beard. While regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of ethno-national cultural identity of Iran the book is still quoted today by everyone from the illiterate to members of the government, and is the topic of many a puppet show and street theatre. It is also important to the contemporary followers of Zoroastrianism and deals with central themes of good and evil. It’s a real treasure.
Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History at University of Cambridge discusses the show and it surrounding events.
The interview is interspersed with extracts from a talk given by Charles Melville at the Fitzwilliam Museum gallery where the illuminations and pieces are on show.
If you are interested in the book and its wider influence outside of Iran there is currently a show at Prince’s Galleries Charlotte Street (nearest tube Old Street). Amongst others Russian, Pakistani and Iranian artists respond to the Shahnameh (or Shahnama as it’s known in India) as part of their own cultural painting traditions. Six Pillars host Fari Bradley also has a sound piece on display there until mid December.
Six Pillars – Leeds Diasporic Film Series
Sanaz Raj discusses her interest in Iranian film and a week of full length film screenings running in conjunction with the Leeds International Film Festival. The week, called the Iranian Diasporic Film Series presents a variety of film: from a documentary about the Shah’s widow to a fiction about a lesbian refugee from Iran who takes on the identity of a dead male acquaintance.
Sanaz and Fari discuss the screenings and accompanying talks, as we well as ‘Certified Copy‘ Abbas Kiarostami’s latest film set in Italy, starring Juliette Binoche.
Voice on Record: Episode 28 (Spring)
“Seasons greetings brought to you from William Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, E.E.Cummings, Ogden Nash, T.S.Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, by way of Alec Guinness, E.E.Cummings, Alan Howard, and others.”
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 23rd March 2010
Yummy Mummy: Series 2, episode 2
Resonance FM’s high-octane, low-concept children’s light entertainment bonanza for forward-thinking little people and backward-thinking big people. This week everyone at the station is very excited to be receiving a visit from HRH The Prince of Radio, especially despotic station commander Thomas-Weaver-Baxter, who is planning to desperately beg for an increase in funding. Unfortunately he just happens to be passing underneath the ladder where Yummy Mummy is making some last-minute repairs to the Resonance FM escutcheon and receives a spanner to the cranium, thereby drastically impairing his begging abilities. Will jazz-physician Dr. Gillespie’s experimental hard-bop technique work its remedy before the princely motorcade graces the car-park? Will Resonance receive its much needed cash injection? What exactly is an escutcheon? And is anybody actually listening? Find out inside!
Originally broadcast 11/10/2010
Hooting Yard: The Bats Of Remorse
To attract monkeys to create divertisements among the cakes and tea-strainers at your tea party, you will have to create the right conditions for them, and this is where a qualified monkey feng shui consultant proves a boon. They tend to charge quite high fees, and rarely accept payment in nuts, so be warned that your tea party overheads will be steep. By “overheads” I do not mean the string affixed to the ceiling, because you have already deposited that in a bin or drawer, along with the massive sugarlump dangling from it.
- The Bats Of Remorse
- The Piddingtons
- The Bodger’s Spinney Variety Theatre
- No Monkey Divertisements
- Monkey Divertisements
- The Neurasthenic And His Inner Concrete Lining
- Tales From The Riverbank
This episode was recorded on the 20th May 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 Two
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.
LUCKY 13 / PROGRAMME 2
(aired 19 Nov 2010)
Theme music
CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA
CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061
The Bo Diddley Beat
WOMPE MASEM / AFRICAN BROTHERS
CD: Ghana Special / Soundway SNDW CD016
CADILLAC / BO DIDDLEY
CD: Essential / Spectrum 544 348 2
YOU CAN’T CATCH ME / CHUCK BERRY
CD: Not Fade Away / Uncut 2008 04
Male – Female Harmony Duets
SACCO E VANZETTI / GIOVANNA MARINI / FRANCESCO DE GREGORIO
CD: Il Fischio Del Vapore / Caravan COL510218 2
RUMELAJ / KALYI JAG
LP: Black Fire / Hungaroton SLPX 18132
LOVE HURTS / GRAM PARSONS
LP: Grievous Angel / Reprise MS 2171
Prince After-party
MAYBE YOUR BABY / STEVIE WONDER
LP: Talking Book / Tamla T319L
FOREVER IN MY LIFE / PRINCE
CD: Live In Rotterdam 1988
THANK YOU ETC / SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
LP: There’s A Riot Goin’ On / Epic KE 30986
CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA
CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061
Technical Difficulties 1:9 – 12th November 2010
British Sign Language interpreter, music producer and director of Walthamstow Deaf Club, Tim Bonham Carter talks about the Technical Difficulties of Deafness.
The full transcript is available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51100524. Any sign language interpretations of the show are welcome.
Join the discussion on Google + , Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.
Technical Difficulties 1:7+ 1:8 – 5 November 2010
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The 7th episode was stories from www.thebrokenofbritain.blogspot.com and music from attitude is everything.
The 8th was music:
Heart Knock Schule by Caro Snatch. Nicholas Ray by Bug Prentice, Basement Scene by Deerhunter Lied der Doofen by Station 17.
Stranger by Marlo Donato. Broken Things by Laurence Amery
Technical Difficulties 1:6 (22 October 2010)
The sixth installment of Technical Difficulties. Music with the Awkward Bitch, Marlo Donato. The transcript is available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51100374
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