Six Pillars – Tangiers to Tehran and Patrick Monahan


Fari Bradley talks to Irish-Iranian-Jordie comedian Patrick Monahan live in the studio. The very spontaneously funny Patrick also muses on comedy as an art form and what it was in his upbringing that made him a comedian. Patrick proves that some comedians are full of repeated anecdotes, and others are just naturally funny.
This week’s show also features short interviews from the Tangiers to Tehran festival, celebrating women in cinema from the Middle East and Northern Africa. An amazing array of films were pulled together for the event, held at several venues across London. This unusual festival took palce mostly due to the hard work of Suzy Gillet from the French Institute and James Neil from Parallax Media. We interview them both, with a comment from Dr Kay Dickinson, one of the key speakers at the film symposium.

Reality Check: Terrance Dicks’ 40 years of Doctor Who part 1

Reality Check: Terrance Dicks’ 40 years of Doctor Who part 1
Originally podcast on www.sci-fi-london.com
The first half of a two part ‘feature length’ podcast in which former Doctor Who producer and script editor Terrance Dicks talks about his career in conversation with Tim Phipps (Strange Horizons) at a meeting of The British Science Fiction Association. Tim and Terrance talk about the latter’s sojourn on Doctor Who from The War Games to The Five Doctors, introduced by Tony Keen.
Edited by Alex Fitch.
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The Bike Show: Vive Le Tour // Civilised Streets

Celebrating Bastille Day and the first week of Le Tour De France plus a discussion of civilised streets with Louise Duggan, streets advisor at the UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Just six days until this year’s Dunwich Dynamo….

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Panel Borders: The art of David Lloyd (Being Dave… part 2)

Panel Borders: The art of David Lloyd
Orignally broadcast 10/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Click here to watch videoIn the second of two podcasts about artists called Dave who worked with writer Alan Moore, Alex Fitch talks to artist David Lloyd about his career, about working with Alan on V for Vendetta and about the challenges of illustrating graphic novels such as The Horrorist and Kickback.
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Panel Borders: The art of Dave Gibbons (Being Dave… part 1)

Panel Borders: The art of Dave Gibbons
Orignally broadcast 10/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Click here to watch videoIn the first of two podcasts about artists called Dave who worked with writer Alan Moore, Alex Fitch talks to artist Dave Gibbons about his career from humour strips to 2000AD, Dan Dare to Green Lantern. Alex talks to Dave about his career so far, working on more personal projects such as The Originals and his thoughts on the current Hollywood adaptation of Watchmen.

Read an abridged transcript of the interview in Wheel Me Out magazine
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Electric Sheep podcast: Guy Maddin and My Winnipeg

Electric Sheep podcast: Guy Maddin and My Winnipeg
(Kinga P interview to be also broadcast as a micro clear spot on Resonance FM on 11/07/08)

An episode of The Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast – Alex Fitch talks to Guy Maddin about his new film “My Winnipeg” and about his career so far from Tales of the Gimli Hospital to The Saddest music in the world. Alex also talks to former Winnipeg resident Kinga P about her experience of growing up in the city when she moved there as a 12 year old from Warsaw.

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org (mp3 format, 41mins / 39.1mb)
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The Bike Show: 50 Quirky Bike Rides

A ride along the splendid London end of the Grand Union Canal with Rob Ainsley, London cyclist and author of 50 Quirky Bike Rides, a new book about weird and wonderful places to go on bicycles in England and Wales. We visit a canal that passes over a motorway and take advantage of a little known rule that allows bicycles on certain parts of the London tube network.

This week’s show was broadcast from the excellent Southwark Lido (pictured below – more pics here). Get there while it’s still open.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Cine-Excess 2008

I’m ready for my close-up: Cine-Excess 2008
Originally broadcast 18/04/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Virginie Selavy talks to Xavier Mendik about Cine-Excess II…
Launched last year as part of Sci-Fi London, the Cine-Excess festival was so successful that it returns this year as an independent festival hosted by the ICA (London) from May 1-3. Over three days, this cult extravaganza offers academic papers alongside film screenings and talks by leading genre filmmakers and critics. The guest of honour this year is Roger Corman, who will be presented with a lifetime achievement award. We talked to Xavier Mendik, director of the Cult Film Archive at Brunel University, author of a number of books on cult cinema and organiser of Cine-Excess.
Read a transcript of this interview at www.electricsheepmagazine.com
(mp3 format, 27min 40sec / 39.8mb)
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Hooting Yard : Danny Blanchfowler, A Life In Football – Part One

Part One of a reading from Danny Blanchfowler, A Life In Football – a pamphlet (out of print) published in 1991 by the Malice Aforethought Press.

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Panel Borders: Reading Graphic Novels part two

Panel Borders: Reading Graphic Novels part two …
Orignally broadcast 26/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

This episode is the second of two looking at the Streatham Library graphic novels readers group and is the second part of the group’s discussion about Charles Burns’ lurid graphic novel Black Hole which mixes 1950s horror comics with more up to date concerns about sexuality, STDs and social exclusion. (part two of two)
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