Panel Borders: Remembering Jack Kirby part 1
Originally broadcast live 01/05/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Barry Forshaw, contributor to Jack Kirby Collector magazine and Mark Evanier author of Jack Kirby – King of comics. The show is looking at the work of Jack Kirby on the eve of the release of the Iron Man movie, a character he drew and co-created.
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Like a species growing ever closer to extinction, marvin suicide plods doggedly along dropping new episodes with increasing rarity.
Reality Check: 2008 Arthur C. Clarke awards
Originally podcast on Sci-Fi London
In the first of our podcasts recorded at this year’s Sci-Fi London Film Festival, guest presenter Graham Sleight talks to two nominees and the winner of this year’s Arthur C. Clarke awards. In case you don’t know who won, why not listen to the podcast and hear the opening of the envelope and the winner’s reaction! Authors interviewed include Stephen Baxter, Ken MacLeod and Richard Morgan, with commentary by web critic Paul Raven and one of last year’s nominees, Adam Roberts.
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Captain Cake had gone to sea in a battered and leaking ship. He drank his grog from a bakelite cup. When he walked upon the orlop deck he sang in vulgar Latin, and every morning he made the sailors pray at Matins. The bo’sun had a voodoo doll pierced with many pins.
What will holidays be like in a low carbon world? Will we feel the need to escape so much if we are living less stressful, more community-focussed, local lives that give us greater well-being? We speak to Laura Burgess, editor of a new directory called Ecoescape which brings together sustainable accomodation, eateries, and environmentally-focused places to visit in the UK. We also speak to artist Lottie Child who has been developing the practice of “street training” with people of all ages and exploring creative approaches for interacting with, and feeling at home in, our own localities. Continue reading
Reality Check: Ian Fleming and James Bond
Originally podcast on Sci-Fi London
Alex Fitch talks to James Taylor, head researcher at the Imperial War Museum about the museum’s new exhibition For your eyes only: Ian Fleming and James Bond. The exhibition puts Fleming’s writing into a historic perspective, from his days working for Naval Intelligence to his later life living the life of Bond in far flung locations from Las Vegas to Jamaica. Alex & James talk about Fleming’s career and legacy plus the public’s fascination with the glam and the gadgets of the Bond movies, some of which are represented in the exhibition such as beloved mini-copter Little Nellie and props from Thunderball.
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Panel Borders: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Broadcast 24/04/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Guest presenter Virginie Selavy’s interview with cartoonist and film maker Marjane Satrapi whose film and graphic novel Persepolis breaks new ground in terms of depictions of the Middle East, comic book adaptations and autobiography.
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Strip! – Bryan Talbot and Mark Stafford’s Cherubs
Originally broadcast at 5pm, 10/04/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM
James DeCarteret talks to Bryan Talbot and Mark Stafford about their graphic novel Cherubs.
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In the time honoured tradition of dance music compilations, hold on to your hats for half an hour of mainstream bangin’ choonz and middle of the road unimaginative beat mixing.
This is the most work we’ve ever had to do for a show: collating the sparse and little known threads of modern Persian music. Mostly Persian music is tripe, with little but the language or a few musical notes to differentiate it from other trash music. In fact so abundant are the cheap imitations by Middle Easterners, that Middle Eastern pop, hip hop, house and dance have developed into their own sub genres and even spawned a stereotpye anti-appreciation movement (Kill Iranian Kitsch)...
Happily however, we do not linger on that here, instead we leap from Jew’s harp to percussive experiments to nu-fusion jazz: we’ve searched far and wide to bring you some of the best sounds in alternative Iranian modern music. Listen out for the distinct Iranian vocal technique employed by Mamak Khadem. Also listen out for the throat sound experiments with a Jew’s harp (Morteza Esmaili pictured) and the wonderful Sitar piece by Omid, (but he should have called it Se tar).
Thanks to all the artists, who gave permission for this podcast.
