Marvin Suicide : 160 – Let The Meat Control Your Body

Dear One and All,

Having a wicked time here. Weather is mostly hot and the pool is always full :-( Haven’t done much exploring although I’m determined to have a look around before we leave. You won’t believe how cheap the booze is though, I’ve bought out the local shop’s supply of paracetamol!!! LOL.

The tan is coming on pretty well although I fell asleep after a few too many sambukas at lunch time and burnt my front, never mind. Going out to another club tonight so won’t notice the sunburn after a couple of hours 😉 If you know what I mean.

Catch you when we’re back.

Rob Lobster

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Wavelength 2005 November 20th – Canadian Artist Bill Burns

Interview with Canadian Artist Bill Burns, director of the Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals.

William English

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Wavelength 2005 November 6th – Regent’s Park Tennis club

Several tennis games superimposed. Recorded by William English on a Sony ‘Professional’ Walkman cassette recorder. One of the tennis players caught sight of the microphone which was fixed to a wire fence and commented on being spied upon. Whenever a tennis ball struck the fence an interesting reverberation resulted.

William English

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Hooting Yard : Executive Seating Pod

In a thicket, with a compass, I am thinking about blubber. I use blubber for my candles. I’m the captain of a whaler. Some use tallow, I use blubber. It gets smoky in my cabin. I’m not in my cabin now. As I said, I’m in a thicket. I’m on shore leave for a fortnight. I’ve been hiking with the devil. Satan left me in a thicket on the wild and windy moors. But I’ve got my trusty compass and my pipe clamped in my jaws. I am smoking in the thicket. I hope to see my whaler soon. Don’t go hiking with the devil. Keep your compass in your pocket. I am thinking about blubber. Blubber is my candle light. It’s a comfort in this thicket on the wild and windy moors to think of blubber candle light, for the devil trapped me in this thicket and it is a pitch black night.

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Marvin Suicide : 159 – Can anyone smell burning meat?

For the last few months it has been a struggle to come up with any words to put here, so I think I’ll take the easy way out and type this instead.

Marvin suicide is a programme (of sorts) that plays music which has been found on the internet.

If you would like to present an episode or submit music for consideration (it has to be freely available on the internet remember) then please get in touch via the e-mail address provided at the bottom of this post.

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The Bike Show: Cycling, politics and ideology

On this week’s show we ask whether the bicycle and cycling are inherently left-wing or right-wing. Featuring Ruth Beale and Karen Breneman, two artists who recently rode together from London to the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home in Liverpool in search of cycling’s socialist and non-conformist past, present and future. Putting the case for the libertarian right is the leading political blogger and cyclist Guido Fawkes who explains why leading members of the British Conservative Party are so keen to advertise their taste for two wheeled transport.

This weekend get on down to Rollapaluza XI “Kingspin” on Friday night at the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes and Tour De Play, ‘a five mile cycle tour looking at playscapes as a form of outsider architecture’ starting at the South London Gallery at 12 noon on Saturday.

Play on links below. Other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) over here.

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Reality Check: The Truth is (still) out there

Reality Check: The Truth is (still) out there
(partially broadcast as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up , 31/07/08 & 01/08/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Alex Fitch talks to the creators of two new science-fiction dramas that deal with issues of body augmentation, morality, religion and new technology.

First we have an interview with writer / director Chris Carter and producer Frank Spotnitz about their new film The X-Files: I want to believe, which reunites iconic 90s TV characters Mulder and Scully on the big screen. The interview was recorded by Oli Smith.

We also have an interview with Rachel Welch, the writer of the new play Involution, which is set in the near future and deals with human rights and themes of identity in a world where genome mapping dictates people’s lifestyles as well as featuring shadowy government agents and robot pleasure companions.
Involution is on at Involution is on at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh every day at noon from 31/07/08 to 25/08/08…

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Panel Borders: Typography and Teaching comics illustration

Panel Borders: Typography and Teaching comics illustration
Originally broadcast 24/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch is talking to Dan Berry, a lecturer from North Wales School of art and design about the new Illustration for Graphic Novels course he’s going to be teaching from this autumn, about introducing a new generation to the craft of making comics and also about Dan’s interest in typography and how it’s one of the most under appreciated aspects of comic books.

For more info please visit the home of this episode at archive.org
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Panel Borders: The art of Dan Lester

Panel Borders: The art of Dan Lester
Originally broadcast 24/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch is talking to cartoonist Dan Lester about his humour comics such as Monkeys might puke and use of satire and reoccurring characters in gag strips. Dan is also writing a new murder mystery comic that’s being drawn by Oliver Lambden, so Alex & Dan talk about the similarities between humour and crime fiction and solving the problems of both on the page.
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