Malcolm Vache from Housmans Bookshop in discussion with Ken Worpole, Laura Oldfield-Ford, John Rogers and Merlin Coverley discussing London’s social history, literary London, the occult, deep topography, psychogeography, radicalism and much else besides.
This programme exists in parallel to a series a walks, talks, discussions and screenings hosted by Housmans Bookshop throughout July and August.
Originally broadcast Monday July 13th 2009.
Produced by Nick Hamilton.
The sun was sinking when Tiny Enid arrived at a compound surrounded by a security fence. She smiled to herself at the thought that, though she may have neglected to bring mountaineer’s rope and clambering hooks, she never went anywhere without her razor sharp security fence slicing shears. Dipping into her pippy bag to get them, she read a sign affixed to the fence. Large Flat Windy Uninhabited Plains Municipal Hygienic Waste Disposal Chute Compound, it said. Tiny Enid stamped her club foot and let out a shrill cry. The dustbin of history was neither a dustbin nor an ash heap but a chute! This put an entirely new complexion on her adventure. To salvage those things that had been deemed historical irrelevancies, she would have to find where the chute terminated, somewhere subterranean, and she had not brought a spade. One option, of course, was to fling herself recklessly down the chute, but that would be like toppling over the edge of the dustbin. She put the shears back in her pippy bag and sat down to think. She wondered if the lesson to be learned from the answer to Father Tweakling’s moral conundrum could help her now. A burning tower, a starving puppy, the Devil incarnate, and now add a hygienic waste disposal chute…
This episode was recorded on the 26th Feb 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the three publications Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.
This is the fifth installment of a 5 part interview with Cory Doctorow conducted by Rachel Baker and George Beckett of Arts Council England. Doctorow discusses the bursting of the dot com bubble in the late 1990s, his forthcoming novel Makers and, rather generously, gives his advice to cultural funding bodies…
Cory Doctorow is a prize-winning science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and the Guardian.
Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England interviewed Cory in his Clerkenwell office. This programme was recorded and edited by Nick Hamilton and produced by Richard Thomas for Resonance 104.4 FM.
This is the fourth installment of a 5 part interview with Cory Doctorow conducted by Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England. Cory shares his thoughts on “mainstream cultural production”….
Cory Doctorow is a prize-winning science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and the Guardian.
Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England interviewed Cory in his Clerkenwell office. This programme was recorded and edited by Nick Hamilton and produced by Richard Thomas for Resonance 104.4 FM.
This is the third installment of a 5 part interview with Cory Doctorow conducted by Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England. Doctorow gives his views on the Digital Britain Report and his opinion of the “media distribution landscape”
Cory Doctorow is a prize-winning science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and the Guardian.
Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England interviewed Cory in his Clerkenwell office. This programme was recorded and edited by Nick Hamilton and produced by Richard Thomas for Resonance 104.4 FM.
This is the second installment of a 5 part interview with Cory Doctorow conducted by Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England. Here, Baker and Beckett get Cory’s opinion on anachronistic art practise, replication and the death of the “unique object” …
Cory Doctorow is a prize-winning science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and the Guardian.
Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England interviewed Cory in his Clerkenwell office. This programme was recorded and edited by Nick Hamilton and produced by Richard Thomas for Resonance 104.4 FM.
This is the first installment of a 5 part interview with Cory Doctorow conducted by Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England. Baker and Beckett quiz Cory on publishing, creative commons, e-book readers and the future of reading…
Cory Doctorow is a prize-winning science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and the Guardian.
Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England interviewed Cory in his Clerkenwell office. This programme was recorded and edited by Nick Hamilton and produced by Richard Thomas for Resonance 104.4 FM.
A tapestry of voices compiled from 15 individuals’ monologues. A touching portrait of the London Borough of Southwark.
This radio feature was produced to compliment and promote the recent One Southwark photoraphy and sound exhibition held at The Menier Gallery, SE1.
One Southwark comprised of carefully chosen subjects that reflected the diversity of Southwark’s 260,000 residents. The project was a collaboration between Southwark Council, the photographer Rehan Jamil, and Resonance FM.
Produced by Nick Hamilton.
Originally broadcast on Monday 15th June.
Episode 6/6.
In this, the final survey, Nick Hamilton reflects on decades of walking the streets of London and describes how he reached the point of no return. In an attempt to exorcise his demons he goes walking, talking and drinking with the artist, poet and magician Robin Bale. Together the pair encounter a trio of cockney doggers whilst searching for entrances to the underworld. Finally, in the Bicycle Graveyard a ritual is performed…
Robin Bale is a member of the Savage Messiah and We Are Bad collectives.
Originally broadcast during the week beginning 5th April 2009.
Nick Hamilton’s psychogeophonic investigation into Hackney with contributions from Iain Sinclair, Stewart Home, John Barker, We Are Bad/Savage Messiah, Charles Adegoke, Olga Panades, Xavier Zapata, Alan Hayday, Jonny Mugwump & Sally Mumby-Croft.
All sounds and conversations recorded on location in Hackney.
