Ron’s Speakeasy – 5th July 2014

Presented by Ron Chisholm, Leanne Bower and Colin Bodiam.
With live music from Dave Sutherland of The Rude Vandals.

Playlist for the show:

Diz and The Doorman – Blue Coat Man
Ras Keith – I Love Life
Dave Sutherland – From the Vauxhall Tavern to Deptford Broadway (Live Session)
Dave Sutherland – Ghosts (Live Session)
Alternative TV – Fun City
Men With Ven – Deptford Market
Jason McNiff – Shadow Ships of Deptford
Dave Sutherland – Ballad of Annie Cable
Marilyn Gentle and Dave Burrluck – I Can’t Stand The Rain (Acoustic)
Taurus Trakker – Motormouth
Dirty Viv – Get To Be Good Looking (Only At Night)

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The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 23

Opera singer Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Handel Redux. Richard examines the continued influence of Handel on opera composers and talks to composer Tim Benjamin about his new opera Madame X.

Originally broadcast on 3rd July 2014

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Panel Borders: What makes a good graphic novel?

Concluding a month of shows looking at the work of female cartoonists, Alex Fitch hosts a panel discussion with cartoonists Hannah Berry, Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Eaton and Nicola Streeten to try and answer the question: “What makes a good graphic novel?”, with reference to their own work as writers, artists and commissioning editors and to other publications that have inspired them. Recorded at ‘Graphic Brighton’, University of Brighton, May 2014; broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM, London on 30th June 2014.

Excerpts from work by Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Berry, Hannah Eaton and Nicola Streeten

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Hannah Berry’s website
Cartoons by Corinne Pearlman
Hannah Eaton’s profile at Myriad Editions
Nicola Streeten’s website Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Vampire Academy comic Breaks

Continuing a Q and A recorded at Gosh! Comics, as part of SCI-FI-LONDON 14, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Emma Vieceli about illustrating the comic book adaptations of the first three Vampire Academy books by Richelle Mead. Emma also discusses her new webcomic Breaks and forthcoming work on the Alex Rider graphic novel range.

Cover of Dragon Age / interior art from Vampire Academy and Breaks, illustrated by Emma Vieceli

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: Penguin website on Vampire Academy graphic novels
Breaks webcomic
Emma Vieceli’s website
Listen to Alex’s previous interviews with Emma Vieceli: in 2009 and the first half of the Gosh! / SCI-FI-LONDON Q and A Continue reading →

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The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 22

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: The Aviary. Richard talks to the emerging LSO Soundhub composer Maxim Boon about his new ballet, Flock, inspired by the complex murmurations of flocks of starlings; and we’ll also be exploring other extraordinary works which feature the feathered and the flocking by Messiaen, Mozart, Stravinsky and Henze.

Originally broadcast on 26th June 2014

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Podcast and playlist: Hello GoodBye – 28.06.14 – Ft: Spaceheads + Parvaz Ensemble

This was the final Hello GoodBye Show of the current season and featured live music from Spaceheads and Parvaz Ensemble.

NB* The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show will return to air on Resonance FM at midday on Saturday 13th September 2014.

PLAYLIST
The Fish Police – People Skills
Spaceheads – Hello Goodbye / improvised (LIVE SESSION)
Spaceheads – Spooky Action (At A Distance) (LIVE SESSION)
Spaceheads – ‘interview’
Teeth Of The Sea – Hovis Coil
Eddie Henderson – Say You Will
Technology + Teamwork – Small Victory
Olga Bell – Khabarovsk
Lucy Claire – Paelestin – (Hello GoodBye archive)
Dead Rat Orchestra – Pigeon, Goose and Storks
Parvaz Ensemble – Untitled 1 (LIVE SESSION)
Parvaz Ensemble – Untitled 2 (LIVE SESSION)
Parvaz Ensemble – Untitled 3 (LIVE SESSION)
Parvaz Ensemble – ‘interview’ (LIVE SESSION)

Presented by: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp + Lisa Geurts

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Panel Borders: Freud, Shakespeare and Marx

Continuing a month of shows looking at the work of female cartoonists, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of artists whose graphic novels have covered the work of masters of theatre, philosophy and psychoanalysis. In a Q and A recorded at Gosh! Comics as part of the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival, Emma Vieceli discusses her work on SelfMadeHero’s Manga Shakespeare line, drawing adaptations of a post-apocalyptic Hamlet, and 19th Century Much ado about nothing. Also, in an interview (translated by Alex Spiro) recorded at ELCAF French cartoonist Anne Simon discusses her graphic novel biographies of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, published in English by Nobrow. Originally broadcast 23rd June 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Much ado about nothing and Hamlet, drawn by Emma Vieceli / Freud and Marx by Anne Simon

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Emma Vieceli’s website and new webcomic Breaks
Manga Shakespeare website
Nobrow and Grand Papier pages on Anne Simon
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Emma Vieceli and Dickon Harris’ interview with Alex Spiro about Nobrow Continue reading →

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The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 21 – David Lang

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Crowds and Choruses. Richard talks to the dynamic and passionate composer David Lang about his new work for 1,000 voices, Crowd Out, inspired by being in a crowd watching Arsenal F. C. play; and we’ll also be hearing other riotous, bombastic and extraordinary opera choruses and choral pieces from Bach, Gluck, Britten and John Adams.

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Hooting Yard: King Jasper’s Castle, Its Electrical Wiring System, Its Janitor, And Its Chatelaine

The plot of King Jasper’s Castle, Etcetera is so convoluted that I am not going to attempt to summarise it here. What you need to know is that the setting is a castle, belonging to King Jasper, situated on a bleak promontory overlooking a bleaker sea. The castle’s electrical wiring system is as complicated as the plot of the play, if not more so. Its maintenance and seemingly endless tweaking and repair is the responsibility of the janitor, who is employed by the castle’s chatelaine. Neither the janitor nor the chatelaine has a given name, though whether this is an oversight on Pickles’ part, or an oh so clever literary device, is moot. Arguments have been thrashed out on both sides. There are other Pickles plays with nameless characters, some where characters swap their names around between acts, and several where, though every character has a name, those names are unpronounceable in any human tongue, or indeed in bestial grunts, howls, or birdsong. Not for nothing is Pickles labelled a “difficult” playwright, just as he was called a “difficult” child by those paid to watch over him in his infancy.

This episode was recorded on the 12th April 2012. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Frank’s new eBook By Aerostat to Hooting Yard is now available for purchase.

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Panel Borders: Comedies and tragedies

Continuing a month of shows looking at the work of female comic book creators, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of cartoonists whose work occurs at the opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. Small press cartoonist Rachael Smith discusses her first graphic novel – House Party – just released by Great Beast Comics, and her back list of humorous self published comics which deal with disenfranchised British teenagers, in an interview recorded at ELCAF (East London Comic Art Festival).
Also, American artist Maureen Burdock talks about the latest installment of her F Word Project, a series of comics about violence against women around the world; Mumbi and the long run tackles the subject of Female Genital Mutilation and the original artwork is on display at Space Station 65 gallery, Kennington until July 7th.

Cover and interior art from House Party, interior art from I am Fire by Rachael Smith / art from photos from the launch of and art from Mumbi and the Long Run and cover of Marta and the missing by Maureen Burdock

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org Continue reading →

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