Originally podcast at Sci-Fi London
What links Douglas Adams, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst? To try and answer this question, Alex Fitch talks to Lydia Yee, one of the curators of The Martian Museum of Terrestrial art. The Martian Museum… is an exhibtion of modern art which is currently on display at The Barbican in London and presents esoteric examples of fine art from the last 50 years in an anthropological style with a sci-fi twist.
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Julia Davis and Jessica Hynes return for another (slightly shorter than usual) episode of Peppatits. This episode was recorded on the 4th March 2008.
Very long but very good.
This episode will make you forget your troubles and realise there’s always someone more stupid and irritating than yourself.
Animation can often do what film cannot. Maryam has found her metier in animation and even though she only graduated a short while ago, she has already been shown in several international galleries and completed a residency in Austria.Maryam’s films touch on, amongst other things, the innocence of youth, the trivia of everyday life in an Iranian setting of peaceful times at war. She seems to use animation to blot out landscapes or surrounding distractions to the action that goes on between her characters. She also using a technique that keeps roughly drawn lines in constant agitation, as if the mind was up there on screen also and her simple style both in text and drawing contrasts with the complexity of the situations depicted.
We listen to music by Abjeez (slang for sister in Persian), discuss living away from your home town, animation as a trade, films in general, “The Girl With the Short Hair” Maryam’s film and more.
Originally broadcast 13/03/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
This is the first of two podcasts looking at the Manhua! China comics now exhibition at the London College of Communication in the Elephant and Castle. Manhua! China comics now is a month long exhibition featuring the best of recent Chinese comic book art. In this episode Alex Fitch is talking to artist Yishan Li, about her art, her love of the comics medium and her influences. Also: this podcast includes a recording of Paul Gravett’s introduction and tour of the opening room of the exhibition… Continue reading
Julia Davies and Jessica Hynes present an hour of comedy improvisation. This episode was recorded on the 26th February 2008.
What an old slowcoach I was! – so busy rooting around in my haversack that I did not use my eyes. Mopsa was right. I followed her pointing finger and saw a tremendous brickish portal, ornamented with lozenged carvings of quicklime, bilberry and glunt. I had reached my destination. Somewhere behind those gates lurked Burble, and I was coming for him. Mopsa’s wheelchair was soon knocked back into shape, and she rattled off towards the outskirts of Hoon. Before she left, and despite my protestations, she insisted that I take half of her biscuits. As soon as her back was turned, I ground them into the muck beneath my boot. I could not bear the distractions of shortbread: my mush-bags would suffice.
…and this is what you’ll hear.
Reality Check: Brent Spiner’s Dreamland – originally podcast at Sci-Fi London
Alex Fitch talks to popular Star Trek actor Brent Spiner about his new album ‘Dreamland’ which mixes performances of classic musical numbers with dramatised scenes that take place in a film noir dreamland Continue reading
Originally broadcast 06/03/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In the first of this month’s 40 min specials, Alex Fitch talks to webcomics pioneer Daniel Merlin Goodbrey whose comics work includes everything from Far Side style gag strips, to semi-photographic science-fiction and interactive ‘hypercomics’ and ‘hyperfiction’ on his website which mix elements of computer games, animation and comic strips to beguiling effect. Continue reading
