Archive for March, 2011

Panel Borders: Social realism and magical realism in comics

Panel Borders: Social realism and magical realism in comics Concluding this month’s theme of shows about newspaper comics, Alex Fitch introduces a talk recorded at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in which Ian Rakoff discusses social realism and magical realism in the newspaper strip Little Orphan Annie and the international comic books Corto Maltese and [...]

Wavelength – Russian avant-garde sound experiments

BAKU: Symphony of Sirens, Sound Experiments in the Russian Avant-Garde, Original Documents and reconstructions of 72 key works of music, poetry and agitprop from the Russian avantgardes 1908-1942. The book is released and distributed by ReR… I bought this copy from the Tate Modern bookshop and it can also be ordered through Sub Rosa for [...]

Hooting Yard: On Sawdust Bridge, Harangued.

I tore up the few puny pages of prose I had written about hay in nosebags, and instead submitted to the magazine a piece about swill for pigs. Alas, later that day, listening to the news on the wireless in the clinic’s rumpus room, I learned that the skyscraper housing the offices of Beasts Of [...]

Monstrous perversions of political geometry – March 26: 12-1pm

Monstrous perversions of the laws of political geometry – throughout the day of protest on March 26th Resonance FM broadcast live reportage from the streets of London covering the gargantuan anti-cuts march and other exciting feeder action. Presented by Will Luscombe. Studio engineer : Tim Abbott. Executive Producer: Richard Thomas

Sine of the the Times 26/03/2011

For the last show of the series we decided to cut the chat to a bare minimum, step up to the decks and fill your ears with dope new stuff. One mix from each of the residents book-ended with brand new Burial material for those of you too slow to grab one of the seven [...]

Voice on Record: Episode 46 (Shetland with Christine De Luca )

We welcome our very first studio guest to Voice On Record, the Shetland poet Christine De Luca. Christine reads some poems from North End Of Eden in English and in the Shetland dialect, and talks to me about a record I found in Orkney, a copy of which she hasn’t seen since she was a [...]

Technical Difficulties: Huge Explosion of Class Hatred and Anger / March 26 Special

Technical Difficulties talks to disability activist  and #spoonie Helly Copeland about Broken of Britain, disabled people and protest during the March 26 March.  

Six Pillars – Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Shirin Ebadi

Dr Shirin Ebadi, the First Iranian woman, indeed Middle Eastern woman, to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, spoke at SOAS on 2 February 2011 on ‘The Role of Women in Promoting Peace in the Middle East’. Here she discusses the women’s movement in Iran and the difficulties she herself has faced in standing [...]

Panel Borders: British Strip Heroes – Garth, Wallace and Gromit

Panel Borders: British Strip Heroes – Garth, Wallace and Gromit Continuing this month’s theme of shows about newspaper comics, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of creators working on newspaper strips featuring popular British science-fiction characters. Richy K Chandler is a member of a writing team penning new adventures of Wallace and Gromit for The [...]

Wavelength – Richard Thomas part 2

Continuing last week’s conversation with Richard Thomas, content manager of Resonance 104.4FM.