The Bike Show: Cycling Troubadours

Last show in the current season featuring an extended interview with Jimmy and Triin aka Too Dumb To Die, cycling jazz troubadours, back from a year and a half touring South East Asia with the Cyclowns Circus. The show also features Martin Low of Westminster City Council describing the Sustrans Connect2 project to build a cycle-friendly bridge across the railway in north Bayswater.

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Peppatits: Episode 1

Julia Davies and Jessica Hynes return to Resonance FM for another series of comedy improvisation. Episode 1 of this new series was recorded on the 19th February 2008.

Reality Check: Manufacturing Cloverfield

Reality Check: Manufacturing Cloverfield – Originally podcast at Sci-Fi London

Alex Fitch presents an edited version of the Cloverfield press conference – director Matt Reeves talks about bringing the giant monster movie genre up to date, the challenges of shooting an entire movie on ‘handycam’ and the pressures of living up to the hype generated by the ambiguous teaser trailer. Continue reading

Hooting Yard : By Aerostat to Hooting Yard – Part 1

It had been two years since one of Dobson’s communiques had uprooted me from my rut and catapulted me into frantic adventure; three years before that I had been sent on a mission, ranging over four continents; the year before that embroiled in a world-shattering plot; and there had been at least half a dozen earlier escapades. No doubt these Dobson-inspired excitements were meant to be wild and life-enhancing, yet I yearned for tedium and futility. Trudging out of the boiler room, I began to sob. It would be weeks, perhaps months, before I could once again wallow in monotony and ennui.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Looking for Sweeney Todd

I’m ready for my close-up: Looking for Sweeney Todd, Originally broadcast 21/02/08

Recently brought to the attention of a new generation of media consumers through Tim Burton’s adaptation of the musical “Sweeney Todd: The demon barber of Fleet Street“, Todd has been terrifying Londoners for over 160 years. In a monologue written by Alex Fitch, comedienne Jessica Fostekew takes us on a tour of Sweeney’s haunts both actual and real from his birth in folklore and “penny dreadfuls” to his reincarnation as the star of biographies reprinted in the Daily Mail and a grand guignol avatar in the form of Johnny Depp. Jess and Alex try to sort out the facts of Sweeney’s “life” from the fiction through a literary landscape littered with comic strips, tabloid preoccupations and rivers running red with blood…
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Panel Borders: Looking for Lost Girls part 2

Originally broadcast 14/02/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

The second half of Alex Fitch’s 2008 interview with Alan Moore – originally broadcast on Valentine’s day. Alex and Alan discuss Alan’s epic graphic novels Lost Girls and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier and look at Alan’s depictions of procreation in Swamp Thing and Miracleman

Excerpt from Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie

Excerpt from Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie

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