Steve Parry’s Totally Biased – Election Special. As always Steve proudly pops on his red blinkers to bring us his apoplectic analysis of the final days of the campaign. David Tuck attempts to moderate and ‘Comedy Terrorist’ and Asylum Campaigner aka Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Whitney, Aaron Barschak, joins them to discuss his chances of beating David Cameron on Thursday. Plus music from Kevin Coyne, Bobby Conn. Will this be the last chance to hear ‘Totally Biased’ in a free Britain?
Hooting Yard: The Ballad Of Sopwith Tim.
He came in a Sopwith, his goggles were tight. He landed among us in dawn’s early light. O say can you see him in the airfield canteen, telling us of all the places he’s been? Widnes and Wivenhoe, a village called Splat – the latter’s in Cornwall but I’m sure you know that – Totnes and Topsham and Snodland and Looe, places without proper airfields too. His goggles are still fastened tight round his head as we hang on to every word he has said. We wonder how long he is going to stay in our pitiful village, so out of the way. He is chomping his breakfast with gusto and vim. He tells us that his name is Tim.
- The Ballad Of Sopwith Tim
- Songs My Mother Taught Me
- The Greatest Letter Ever Written
- When Ghouls Attack
- Important Sausage Information
- The King On His Crag
- Ask The Artificial Brain!
This episode was recorded on the 19th October 2009. 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.
Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts – October 1st 2009
Title: Courtyard Explorers
Participants: Melanie Clifford, Howard Jacques, Alisdair McGregor.
Description: Microphones strategically positioned outside the studio in the Resonance courtyard opening the larger, outside space of the car park for the performers to sonically and physically and mentally explore. Clues and queues coming from pre-discussed concepts including: Dichotomous is a sustaining exercise, memory exercise, the mythological, poetic, nebulous and gravitational influences of the moon, observational and imaginative description, leading sustaining exercises of observation of generated kinetic movement, ratio of outside to inside performers, incidental traffic and inevitable wind noise.
Web: http://www.myspace.com/notthebermudatriangle
Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts - October 1st 2009 [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHooting Yard: A Trip From Throm To Bosis
The town of Throm is perhaps best known for its gorgeous sewers, with their chandeliers, Rococo ironwork railings, and jewel-encrusted access ladders. In spite of the magnificence of their sewers, the Thrompersons fought hard to win that official designation as a town. It is, after all, the size of a village, with the atmosphere of a hamlet, and the public morals of a cluster of shabby huts.
This episode was recorded on the 12th October 2009. 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.
Jam Tomorrow – April 27th 2010
Pre-election analysis with Paul Richards, Joseph Kassman-Tod and Katharine Hibbert. Today: the campaign to date and the outsiders’ chances in the forthcoming election. Jeremy Drinkall (Anti-Capitalist, Vauxhall) is among those interviewed plus the team catch up with Anthony Barnett about his Hang ‘em campaign.
The Voice Of Americans With Lewis Schaffer Of Nunhead 19th April 2010
This week we welcome the return of co-host Lisa Moyle from vacation and ‘go native’ with Billy Chuquai.
The Voice Of Americans With Lewis Schaffer Of Nunhead 19th April 2010 [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: The art of The Losers
Panel Borders: The art of The Losers
Edited version broadcast 29/04/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Concluding our month long look at the crossover between comics and film, Alex Fitch interviews Jock, the main illustrator of The Losers, a 32 issue comic book series that has just been turned into an action film of the same name, based on the first half dozen issues of the comic. Alex also talks to Jock about his career so far, working on such characters as Lenny Zero and Green Arrow with writer Andy Diggle as well as illustrating the world of Judge Dredd, both in print and on the forthcoming movie written by Alex Garland.
The Losers - in print by Jock and Andy Diggle and on film
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: Jock’s website
Info about The Losers on wikipedia and the IMDb
Official website
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Sci-Fi London 9 – Life in 2050
Starting tonight at the Apollo Piccadilly on Lower Regent Street is Sci-Fi London, the twice yearly festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic film and there are a number of comics related events I’ve organised:
60 Years of Dan Dare
A panel on 60 years of the lantern jawed space pilot -Alex Fitch will be talking to:
Garry Leach, who drew Dan’s return to print in 2000AD, ten years after the end of the original Eagle, in the late 1970s and more recently covers for Virgin comics’ revival of the ‘Pilot of the future’ in 2008.
Rian Hughes who drew the Eagle inspired comic The Science Service in 1989 and then the Mekon’s final revenge in the Thatcherite satire Dare in the adult comics Revolver and Crisis a year later.
Gary Erskine who drew Dan Dare’s most recent official comic book adventures in the Virgin Comics periodical of the same name.
John Freeman, a comics historian and writer. He previous wrote The Science Service and now writes the strip Ex Astris in the 00s Dan Dare magazine Spaceship Away and
Rod Barzilay the editor and one of the writers of Spaceship Away,
10.30am Saturday 1st May
30 years of MARVEL UK
Alex Fitch hosts a panel on the British arm of the American Superhero publisher, featuring:
Dez Skinn, a pioneering Marvel UK editor who launched titles such as Hulk Comic and Doctor Who Magazine which featured early licensed work by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons.
Dan Abnett, who gave Captain Britain a new, darker spin in the 1990s by adding him to an Arthurian team of heroes with
Gary Erskine, co-creator of the Knights of Pendragon
John Freeman, who designed many of Marvel UK’s early 90s titles such as Death’s Head II, Warheads, Killpower and Motormouth, contributing strips to several issues as well.
Simon Furman, primary writer for Marvel’s Transformers, and a dozen issues of Doctor Who magazine. He created some of Marvel UK’s most memorable SF titles including Dragon Claws and Death’s Head.
11.45 am, Saturday 1st May
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The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – April 27th 2010
Writer and comedian Steve Parry reviews the week, looking at the laughable, lovable and lamentable events of the past seven days.
Also, live from LA, comedian, writer and self-help enthusiast Ed Craisnick presents a weekly LA diary and conducts a master class in how to do the perfect Woody Allen impersonation. (TV trivia fans may also be interested to know that Ed was the resident comedian at The Bada Bing Club in The Sopranos, and has also played a friend of Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm).
Ian Bone’s By-Election Special – April 28th 2010
The inimitable Ian Bone, veteran agitator and anarchist, gives the election some scrutiny. Today’s guests are Andy Meinke, editor of Freedom, the oldest British anarchist newspaper and Martin Wright of the Whitechapel Anarchist Group. http://ianbone.wordpress.com/
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Hollingsville: Episode 2, Media The Extensions of God
Welcome to the second episode of ‘Hollingville’. My studio guests are Russell Davies noted cultural commentator and and Resonance’s very own Richard Thomas, graciously filling in at the last minute for Gary Lachman, who is stuck in Florida, waiting for a flight back to London. Expect unscripted ruminations on the ecology of live and dead media, digital dematerialization, lo-tech art forms in a hi-tech world, on-air cricket commentary as an ambient radio event and the communications potential of village halls and four-minute podcasts.
McLuhan’s Understanding Media was subtitled ‘the Extensions of Man’; while Freud famously described man’s condition in the mechanical age as that of ‘a god with artificial limbs’. Does our newfound ubiquity in the digital regime come at a price – especially at a time when we can’t even get a plane off the ground? Specially commissioned commercial breaks are by the ‘Hollingsville’ composer in residence, Graham Massey, with ins, outs and moods by Indigo Octagon. Radio is a medium too, you know.
After visiting Mars, where next? Welcome to Hollingsville: the new twelve-part series from writer Ken Hollings. A World’s Fair of the airwaves, the shows focuses each week on a different aspect of our historical relationship with technology. From machines to monsters, spaces to dreams, this Radio Expo offers an unscripted tour through the chosen theme, utilising voices and sounds from special guests and presented by Ken Hollings with his usual idiosyncratic flair.
Ken Hollings is the author of Welcome To Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947-1959, available from Strange Attractor Press. For more information go to http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk or http://www.kenhollings.blogspot.com