This week on Deep Fried Planet the subject of discussion is water scarcity. Guests are Jacob Tompkins Director of charity Waterwise and Peter Guthrie head of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Cambridge University, who was a co author of the report Global Water Security: an engineering perspective which was published earlier this year.
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Yummy Mummy: Series 2, episode 1
Resonance FM’s high-octane, low-concept children’s light entertainment bonanza for forward-thinking little people and backward-thinking big people. Everyone is very happy this week that Resonance FM is being forced to air another series of it’s reasonably popular children’s entertainment show YMSR. And with good reason, because in a first show packed to the very gills with top-drawer radio fodder, a troop of Girl Guides will be visiting the studio to regale us with a camp-fire classic. And if that doesn’t sound like enough of a roller-coaster ride of excitement and intrigue, how about the mysterious threats the show has been receiving from a disenfranchised former presenter? Or the ominous ticking noise coming from the base of the Resonance FM antennae? Slightly confusing fun for children of all ages.
Originally Broadcast on 04/10/2010
Joe Boyd’s Lucky 13 – Episode One
An hour of revelation, anecdote and music. Each week legendary record producer Joe Boyd selects tracks from every 13th record in his extensive and judiciously ordered record collection.
Theme music
CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA
CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061
Soul Ballad Goes To Africa
STEAL AWAY / JIMMY HUGHES
CD: Take Me To The River / Kent Kentbox 10
FETSUM DINK LIJ NESH / MAHMOUD AHMED
LP: Ere Mela Mela / Hannibal HNBL 1354
SERBI SERBI / KHALED – Error Alert: Khaled’s original producer Rachid Ahmed was assassinated in 1995, not 1955!
CD: N’ssi N’ssi / Barclay 51989
Folk Piano
A SQUIRREL IS A PRETTY THING / SONYA COHEN & PEGGY SEEGER
CD: Animal Folk Songs / Rounder CD 8023
BRUDMARSCH AFTER LARSHOGA JONKE / JAN JOHANSSON
CD: Jazz Pa Svenska / Megafon MFCD 0410
SWEDISH DANCE / DANNY THOMPSON
LP: Whatever / Hannibal HNLP 1326
Levon Helm On Drums
JOHN THE BAPTIST / JOHN & BEVERLY MARTYN
CD: Stormbrigner / Island IMCD 317
TEARS OF RAGE / THE BAND
CD: Musical History Disc 2 / Capitol 72534
SANTA FE / BOB DYLAN
CD: Bootleg Series Vol 2 / Columbia CK 65304
Economic Migrations
ASA BRANCA / LUIS GONZAGA
K7: O Rei de Baiao /
NE MINJ SZIVEM / MARTA SEBESTYEN
LP: Emigration / Hungaroton SLPX 18153
DO-RE-MI / WOODY GUTHRIE
LP: Library of Congress Recordings / Elektra EKL 271
Six Pillars – Iran Children’s Charity
To mark Children in Need Week Dr Helen Nejad from the NGO Iran Children’s Charity visits the studio to discuss their drive to raise money for kids in Iran. Focusing mainly on orphans, those without national status or on the streets, the charity aims to supply two university hospitals in Iran that treat children specifically.
‘In Search of Simorgh‘ is Iran Children’s Charity’s first fund-raising event, a Persian Heritage music and contemporary and traditional dance theatrical performance. The performance is based on 12th Century Sufi classic Conference of the Birds by Farid Uddi Attar, and also loosely on the stage adaptation by Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carriere. Musicians from Europe play cello, kamanche, tar, santoor, daf and percussion and 7 dancers interpret the text so that there is no language barrier to enjoying the performance.
If you would like to help children in need by simply being entertained, then please complete and return the attached form, or book your ticket online through their event website www.insearchofsimorgh.com The event is hosted by Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh.
Logan Hall, 20 Bedford Way , London WC1H 0AL
Sunday 21st November
18:00 to 22:00 (programme starts at 19:00)
All funds raised from donations, ticket and raffle sales will be used to purchase Keyhole surgical and other operating theatre equipment for Mofid and Ali Asghar Children Hospitals. Their target over the years is a minimum of £30,000 per hospital for the equipment. Your contribution can really help to save lives of children who undergo operations, facilitate quicker recovery for many more, as well as bringing relief and a smile to their siblings and families.
Feel free to contact them by visiting www.iran-children-charity.org
Panel Borders: Becky Cloonan – Demo Graphics
Panel Borders: Becky Cloonan – Demo Graphics
Continuing our month long look at unusual takes on superheroes, Alex Fitch talks to artist Becky Cloonan about her work, focusing on the series Demo, written by Brian Wood which is a more down to earth look at the problems teenagers with superpowers might face in the real world. Alex and Becky also talk about her horror collaboration project Pixu with Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon and Vasilis Lolos and her foray into manga with East Coast Rising.
Panels from East Coast Rising vol. 1 and Demo vol. 2 #6
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: Wikipedia page on Becky Cloonan
Becky’s website and blog
Articles on Becky at the Vertigo blog
Info about Becky’s next collaboration with Brian: Northlanders: The girl in the ice
Buy East Coast Rising Volume 1
Recommended events:
One dot zero festival, London Nov 10-14
Pioneering festival onedotzero_adventures in motion returns this year to London’s BFI Southbank from 10 – 14 November 2010, presenting the most exciting international moving image work, from the offbeat to the radical, aiming to push the boundaries of creativity, innovation and technological wonder.
Highlights include:
Superhero Me + Steve Sale Q and A
UK 2010. Dir Steve Sale. 84min
This entertaining and warm-hearted fly on the wall documentary follows film maker Steve Sale on his journey to becoming the real life superhero known as SOS. With unique cinematography shot on any available format, from a digital handheld to a mobile phone.
Thu 11 Nov | 20:30 | NFT3
Chico & Rita
Spain-UK 2010. 94 min. Courtesy of CinemaNX
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. This animated ballad from Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba and designer Javier Mariscal will play alongside a making of short film.
Sat 13 Nov | 15:50 | NFT3
Short film programme includes:
wow + flutter: Innovative and experimental shorts forecasting the future of moving image.
Thurs 11 Nov | 18:30 | NFT1 / Sat 13 Nov | 20:30 | NFT3 / Sun 14 Nov | 18:30 | NFT1
wavelength: Visually progressive, radical and offbeat new directions in music video.
Thu 11 Nov | 20:50 | Studio / Fri 12 Nov | 18:30 | NFT1 / Sun 14 Nov | 20:45 | NFT1
j-star: An audiovisual blast from japan’s finest moving image-makers.
Fri 12 Nov | 20:50 | Studio / Sat 13 Nov | 10:00 | NFT3
robotica: Diverse visions of a future dominated by robots and androids.
Fri 12 Nov | 20:30 | NFT3 / Sat 13 Nov | 18:30 | NFT1 / Sun 14 Nov | 18:40 | Studio
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Wavelength – 2008 December 5th “Horselength”
Captain Maurice Seddon delivers a short address on the subject of “Horselength”.
Tracks from A Breeze of Time, The Auricle Archive: Volume XV, and Electric Junk, The Auricle Archive: Volume IX.
Six Pillars to Persia – A Mystic’s War on Terror….
At the Omar Khayyam Society’s event A Mystic’s War on Terror, Autumn 2010, we caught up with the main Sufi speaker Ammat Un Nur.
Read her speech from the night on the above link, a speech that contained the quote by Jimi Hendrix who said, “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”.
Her Sufi website.
Here is some of the event write-up:
Ammat un Nur belongs to a lineage named Chishti-Inayati. (We are supposed to know automatically what that lineage is, I guessed it had something to do with renowned Sufi school rather than an individual). She has also been influenced by the Mevlevi tradition originating from Mevlana Rumi (you’re supposed to know that is the same Rumi, the Sufi poet). Her work involves researching, writing on the Inayatian legacy of the Sufi Orders. (I had no idea what that was).
The debate took the form of a panel, mostly of women, who put forward a speech or an intro and then took questions. One aspect of the write-up that really caught my eye was the promise of a look at the neglect of the feminine in Islam. there is a feminist branch or movement in Islam. I wanted to know what a woman’s role was considered to be in Sufism, as in Iran, in the mountains, some all female Sufi orders do exist….
If the title of the podcast has aroused your curiosity and you are interested in this kind of study, here a SOAS course that could be for you.
You will have to pay a lot mind, to study. If you go to stay with Ammat, your studies will be free. There’s food for thought.
This podcast was made for the ResonanceFM series Six Pillars to Persia by Fari Bradley – the show is a weekly look at the Iranian diaspora, the culture of Iran, Persian heritage and related topics.
Deep Fried Planet – Preserving Biodiversity
Hot on the heels of the global biodiversity conference in Nagoya, Japan we will be talking about biodiversity and how to stem the global tide of species loss. My guests are Dr Andrew Mitchell from the Global Canopy Programme whose new publication the Little Biodiversity Finance Book suggests that we need to understand the value of nature in pounds and pence before we can understand how best to preserve it. Also with me will be Juliette Jowit, environment editor at the Observer to talk about the paper’s Piece by Piece project which brings together a diversity of local campaigns throughout the UK aimed at preserving local habitats
Hooting Yard: Bobnit Tivol: The Lost Interview.
The peasant tramped about looking for his shears. He found them leaning against the side of the barn, rusty, rusty. “These will never do for clipping,” he muttered, and spat, but his goblin goaded him on. It whispered rustic lore into his ear.
“The sun is boiling in the sky, clip your hedge while it is dry. If your shears are caked in rust, fool you are but clip you must!”
- The Kaffee Kantata
- Bobnit Tivol: The Lost Interview
- The Hen House
- Rubarb
- A Wispe, A Wispe, Rippe, Rippe
- The Man Who Ate His Own Head
- Hidden Cake
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 four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.
Voice on Record: Episode 26 (Gold and Guinness)
Lost and Found Treasure The second half of “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre” and a sparkling collection of poems and verse chosen and read by Alec Guinness with a special appearance by Richard Burton.
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 9th March 2010