Opera singer and poet Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Dresden – an essay in six melodies. Richard travels to The Dresden Music Festival in an essay exploring the dramatically complex and baroque city of Dresden, alongside a Schubert piano duet, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Strauss’ rarely performed opera Feuersnot.
Originally broadcast on 12th June 2014
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The Fish Police and Lucy Claire perform live in session and Andrea Mason discusses the Literary Kitchen Festival on Resonance FM‘s Hello GoodBye on Saturday 14th June 2014.
PLAYLIST
The Fish Police – Coco Butter (LIVE SESSION)
The Fish Police – Chicken Nuggets For Me (LIVE SESSION)
The Fish Police – Fish Water (LIVE SESSION)
The Fish Police – Japanese Girl (LIVE SESSION)
ESG – Erase You
The Fish Police – ‘interview’
Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra – UFO
Flame Proof Moth – Jools Holland (Hello GoodBye Archive 06.04.13)
Literary Kitchen (Andrea Mason) – ‘interview’
Gerald Adams And The Variety Singers – After The Ball Is Over (1929)
Ichi – Go Gagambo
Olga Bell – Kamchatka
Lucy Claire – Fantasia On Mildew (LIVE SESSION)
Lucy Claire – Stille (LIVE SESSION)
Lucy Claire – Paelistin (LIVE SESSION)
Lucy Claire – ‘interview’
Presented by deXter Bentley
Live sound engineering: Tom Kemp and Lisa Geurts assisted by Beth Rogers
Panel Borders: Graphic Lives
Continuing a month looking at work of female comic book creators, Alex Fitch talks to writers Sarah Laing and Dr. Mary Talbot about their graphic novels which mix biography and autobiography in an extract from a panel discussion recorded at the Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts, Kings College. Laing discusses her autobiographical comic Let me be Frank and her novel The Fall of Light which separates the story of an architect recuperating after an accident into silent comics and traditional text; Dr. Talbot talks about her first graphic novel Dotter of her Father’s Eyes which juxtaposes her childhood with that of Lucia Joyce and her latest book Sally Heathcote: Suffragette. Originally broadcast Monday 9th June 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
Extracts from Let me be Frank, Dead People’s Music, and The fall of light by Sarah Laing / Dotter of her Father’s Eyes and Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary Talbot
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: Sarh Laing’s blog
Mary Talbot’s website
Recommended events:
ELCAF 2014
East London Comic Art Festival takes place at the Pickle Factory, 13-14 The Oval, London E2 9DT
Saturday 14th June 2014
Guests include Chris Ware, Anouk Ricard, Jesse Moynihan, Anne Simon, Mattias Adolfsson, Takayo Akiyama and Seth, with exhibiros including NoBrow, SelfMadeHero, Myriad Editions, Great Beast, It’s Nice That and many more.
Alex Fitch will be in conversation with Anne Simon about her collaborations with psychoanalyst Corinne Maier on two graphic biographies on Marx and Freud, plus other comics illustrations and children’s books at 2.30pm
Also Takayo Fukiyama’s Strange Worlds exhibition will be accompanying ELCAF at The Bishopsgate Building, London EC2M 3UG, from 27th May – 27th June
More info at http://www.elcaf.co.uk
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Soundtracks, library and television music, usually brought to you by Mr. Jonny Trunk. This week’s show (and the first podcast in ages, for which we are truly and humbly sorry) comes to you from the Science Museum in London’s South Kensington, and was broadcast both live on Resonance FM and down a 27 foot-long loudspeaker from 1929. Lovingly restored by Aleksander Kolkowski and his team from the original design by Roderick Denman, today’s hour-long special features a carefully curated horn-friendly playlist designed to show the biggest loudspeaker in Britain in it’s most flattering light- and is therefore choc-full of field recordings, radiophonic curiosities, and – of course – foghorns. Full track-listing and some nice photos to accompany your listening experience here. I suppose I could have included them on this posting, but frankly I could do with the extra web traffic.
Strap on your ear-goggles and let’s roll! Best wishes,
Robin The Fog
Feature and King Eider perform live on Resonance FM‘s Hello GoodBye Show.
*NB: Due to a family bereavement Viv Albertine was unable to be our guest today, we hope to re-schedule her appearance soon, watch this space!
PLAYLIST
Skinny Girl Diet – Nadine Hurley
Feature – Memory (LIVE SESSION)
Feature – Psalms (LIVE SESSION)
Feature – Twins (LIVE SESSION)
Feature – Realing (LIVE SESSION)
Pheromoans – Hearts Of Gold
Feature – ‘interview’
The Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The Fish Police – The Fish Police Theme
Journalist On Wheels Lilly Cook’s documentary on tour with The Fish Police for Heart and Soul Radio
Lucy Claire – Stille (ft: Alev Lenz)
Olga Bell – Primorsky
King Eider – The Deeper The Water (LIVE SESSION)
King Eider – Whisky (LIVE SESSION)
King Eider – Healthy Boy (LIVE SESSION)
King Eider – Frozen Air (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – Too Social (Hello GoodBye live session archive 02.03.13)
House Band – Clown In The Moon
King Eider – ‘interview’
ESG – Be Good To Me
Presented by deXter Bentley
Live sound engineers: Lisa Geurts + Tom Kemp
Panel Borders: European Female Voices
Starting a month of shows looking at the work of female comic creators, Alex Fitch talks to German scratch board artist Line Hoven, and Belgian cartoonist Judith Vanistendael about their family drama graphic novels Love looks away published by Blank Slate Books and When David lost his voice, published by Self Made Hero. Hoven discusses her meticulous technique used to render the biography of three generations of her family, including a member of the Hitler Youth, while Vanistendael explores how her various graphic novels have each used a different artistic style, depending on the subject matter she is bringing to the page, in this case about a grandfather who reconnects with his family when diagnosed with throat cancer. Recorded at the British Library exhibition ‘Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK’. Originally broadcast 2nd June 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Cover and interior art from Love looks away by Line Hoven / from When David lost his voice by Judith Vanistendael
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: Line Hoven’s website
Judith Vanistendael’s blog
Info about Comics Unmasked at the British Library
Listen to Paul Gravett’s interview with Judith Vanistendael about her previous book Dance by the light of the Moon
Listen to Robin Warren’s interview with Kid Koala about his scratchboard comic Space Cadet
Recommended events:
Comic book events at Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Cartoonist and comedienne Josie Long interviews Mark Kermode
Gala Opening Evening featuring Mark Kermode and an Arts Emergency showcase, hosted by one of our favourite comedians, Josie Long. Arts Emergency take to the stage at 7pm with performances by Joe Dunthorne (Submarine, Wild Abandon), Nikesh Shukla (Meatspace, Coconut Unlimited), Schmoovy and more. After an interval, at around 8:15pm, Mark will talk about his brilliant new book Hatchet Job: Hate Critics, Love Movies.
£10. Time – 19.00, Friday 4th June. Venue – Stoke Newington Town Hall
More info: www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/mark-kermode
Living and Loving in London: Oscar Zarate and Ilya
Broadcast journalist Alex Fitch talks to cartoonists Oscar Zarate and Ilya about their London set graphic novels The Park and Room for Love.
£6. Time – 14.30, Saturday. Venue – Stoke Newington Library Gallery
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Dobson was no stranger to controversy, but rarely did he create so tumultuous a brouhaha as was caused by his pamphlet Hints And Tips For Intrepid Explorers In The Polar Wastes (out of print). Dobson himself had of course never been anywhere near either the Arctic or the Antarctic, and one of the many puzzles he left behind for the unwary biographer is the question of why he ever thought he was qualified to address the subject. He was only too ready to admit to his ignorance of certain matters, made plain in pamphlets such as My Blithering Ignorance Of Vast Swathes Of Ornithology and When It Comes To Ice Hockey, I Have No Idea What I Am Talking About, both of which are tragically out of print.
Yet he felt able to compile a list of hints and tips for polar exploration, and ensured that Marigold Chew ran off more copies on the Gestetner machine in the potting shed than she did of almost any other pamphlet he ever wrote. Indeed, a number of their breakfasts were ruined during a period in the 1950s when the pamphleteer insisted that his inamorata gobble down her kedgeree in double quick time so she could hurry off to the shed to crank out another dozen copies. Oddly, he does seem to have actually had some success in selling them, though this may have been due to the breathtakingly gorgeous mezzotint of a polar bear, by the noted mezzotintist Rex Tint, which was used on the cover. There was a sort of polar bear fad at the time, occasioned by the popular radio serial The Adventures Of Martin The Polar Bear, starring Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert. The historian and cultural commentator Bevis Sebag has suggested, compellingly, that most of the people who bought Dobson’s pamphlet tore off the cover, placed the mezzotint in a frame and hung it on the wall of their parlour, and chucked the pamphlet itself into the bin.
This episode was recorded on the 5th 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.
Live music on Resonance FM‘s Hello GoodBye Show featuring Phobophobes and Dog Chocolate.
PLAYLIST
Spaceheads – Spooky Action (at a distance)
Phobophobes – Miniature World (LIVE SESSION)
Phobophobes – Advertise Your Life (LIVE SESSION)
Phobophobes – No Flavour (LIVE SESSION)
Phobophobes – Bite The Apple (LIVE SESSION)
Pheromoans – Dried Out Dreams
Phobophobes – ‘interview’
Viv Albertine – The Madness Of Clouds
Feature – Twins
King Eider – Reverse Cowgirl
Yo Zushi – Moonlight
Annette Berlin – Bubblegum
ESG – Six Pack
Dog Chocolate – Some Kinda Summer (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Jonno Filling Binbags (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Everyday’s The End Of The World For Someone (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Bookmarks (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Plastic Canoe (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Emotionally Buff (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Roundabout (LIVE SESSION)
AK/DK – Morning Dragpipe
Dog Chocolate – ‘interview’
Presented by: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp + Beth Rogers
Panel Borders: Banned Books
Concluding a month of shows about comics and controversy, Alex Fitch talks to Tony Bennett (Knockabout Books) and Rick Veitch about comic book censorship in a special exclusive podcast edition of Panel Borders. Tony discusses the various brushes with censorship law that he’s endured as a publisher of independent comics and Rick explores the titles he’s worked on that have attracted controversy from Miracleman to Swamp Thing. Recorded at Whitechapel Library Ideas Store as part of their Banned Books festival.
Knockabout Comics #4, Fresca Zizi by Melinda Gebbie, Miracleman #9, Swamp Thing sketch by Rick Veitch
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