We learn, for example, about the lives of the threesome before their retirement. There is Bim, at the random grim forge, fettling for a great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal! And there is Bam, also at a random grim forge, also fettling. And Nat, too, at the next forge along the lane, and [...]
Archive for August, 2011
A round trip ticket as we listen to tracks from Dubai, Netherlands, Egypt, NYC, UK, Spain and more. Electronic dance, garage bands, dadaism and distortion. Let’s Start a Riot by Fari on Mixcloud
John Kameel Farah draws on his various electronic, classical and Middle Eastern influences to create a music which is intensely personal, political and often downright groovy. Based variously in Toronto and Berlin, he toured the UK this summer, and on 23 July Free Lab Radio was delighted to welcome him to Borough High Street to [...]
Panel Borders: Gosh! It’s Electric Man!
Published by August 25th, 2011 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Panel Borders. 0 CommentsPanel Borders: Gosh! It’s Electric Man! Concluding our month of shows looking at comic book shops, Alex Fitch talks to Andrew Salmond and Josh Palmano, the proprietors of Gosh! Comics in London which, after 25 years, has relocated from Great Russell Street to the heart of Soho and to Dave Barras, director, and Scott Mackay, [...]
Sitting With Gianluca with Coventry band Pint Shot Riot
Published by August 25th, 2011 in Sitting With Gianluca. 0 CommentsSitting With Gianluca is Coventry band Pint Shot Riot. The band were busking in New York when Gianluca saw them and dragged them back to his flat to find out more about them. Originally broadcast on April 6th. Since the original broadcast, one of the band’s songs has been picked by the BBC TV’s Final [...]
Drum Soup: Little Drummer Boy by Low from Low Christmas, The Little Drummer Boy by Jonathan Kane, The Kroumata Percussion Ensemble play Pulse (1939) by Henry Cowell, Tobi Ilu by Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble from The African Beat, Adventures in Anatomy from Badges; the fifth album by the Vitamin B12, Toad by Cream [...]
On this week’s show, we consulted Glaswegian GP Margaret McCartney about the growing and sustained disquiet around the role of doctors in the assessment of disability benefit. The General Medical Council is concerned enough to be investigating the practice. Dr. McCartney helps us cast some light on Atos, doctors and the work capacity assessment. You [...]
Wavelength – Encyclopodia, Nicky Hamlyn and Tony Gross
Published by August 18th, 2011 in Shows and Wavelength. 0 CommentsEncyclopodia continued: Nicky Hamlyn describes recovering his copy of The Whole Earth Catalogue after 20 years, driving over a philosophy book on Essex Road and paying to have an index included in his own book published by The British Film Institute. Optician and collector Tony Gross listens as I describe finding an album of photographs [...]
Panel Borders: War (comic), what is it good for?
Published by August 17th, 2011 in Clear Spot and Panel Borders. 0 CommentsPanel Borders: War (comic), what is it good for? In an episode of Panel Borders previously broadcast as a live ‘Clear Spot’, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Gravett, Ariel Kahn, Eileen Cassavetti, Francesca Cassavetti, and David Blandy about about the importance of war comics in culture and bringing the experience of war and conflict to [...]
The last time I saw R Stevie Moore was in September 2007. After many emails and phone calls, getting lost on my cumbersome police motorcycle on the highways of New Jersey, I arrived 4 hours late but was still given a warm welcome – we chatted into the evening, Kris, his parter made me some [...]