Originally broadcast 07/02/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to Dirk Maggs about his comic book adaptations Superman – Death & Beyond, Superman on Trial and Batman: Knightfall, how the shows got commissioned and the challenges of bringing a visual art form to a visuals free medium.
Reality Check: Nostalgia and Cult TV -Â
originally podcast at www.sci-fi-london.com/audio
Coinciding with the launch of the new TV series Ashes to Ashes which looks a lot like this…
 … we have two interviews recorded at last summer’s Cult TV Weekender: Alex Fitch talks to actor Philip Glenister (DCI Gene Hunt) and writer Matthew Graham about Life on Mars / Ashes to ashes and to Alan Shubrook, writer of the coffee table book 21 Century FX about his time working on Thunderbirds in the 1960s.
Panel Borders: Manga Jiman
Originally broadcast 31/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In a trio of interviews recorded at the Japanese Embassy, Alex Fitch talks to Michael Kacar, Asia Alfasi and Gillian Sein Ying Ha – the winners of the Manga Jiman (Pride in Manga) competition to find new British Manga creators (the accompanying exhibition is on at the Embassy until the end of March).
A recent UN report reveals that livestock are responsible for 18% of global emissions – more than the entire transport sector. We visit the largest vegan fayre in the world to find out why eating less meat and dairy is likely to be the single most significant thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint. We interview:
Private companies and revenue-hungry government agencies have always had a stranglehold on the world’s best maps, until the arrival of Open Street Map, a volunteer-driven effort akin to Wikipedia for mapping and cartography. OSM offers endless customisation possibilities, is entirely open source and in many parts of the world is rivaling the best online and paper maps. OSM’er Andy Allan explains how he’s been adding information relevant to cyclists and explains how anyone can contribute to the project. George Coulouris and Jean Dollimore give a guided tour of Camden Cyclists’ collaborative online cycle route planning tool.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be happy and content? I haven’t.
In this episode you can expect to hear music that has been found freely and legally from the world wide websites conglomeration.
Trawling through the various biographical documents which survive, I have found no indication that Tiny Enid ever professed any religious impulses whatsoever, nor, for that matter, any more broadly spiritual leanings. Indeed, all accounts agree that she was a severely practical type of heroic infant, never more essentially herself than when solving very concrete problems, usually involving the rescue of persons imperilled. One thinks, for example, of Tiny Enid abseiling down a crevasse to deliver a life-saving polythene bag of nutritious bread pudding to the half-starved, half-frozen polar explorer Sir Blinky Cheeselip, or digging a tunnel under the Vindervandersee to reach a trio of extras from a Werner Herzog film trapped in a subterranean pool rife with blind albino aquatic tentacled beings each with thousands of razor sharp fangs and unassuageable appetites. One pictures Tiny Enid kicking a git in the head with her big black boot.
A studio visit by Director of the film company Storm Creation Ltd: Clive Collier. Grandson and great-grandson of two Iranian poet laureates under the Shah, Clive discusses his milestone work where he single-handedly put together Sanctuary the only documentary on Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance and his present project the release Eureka: The Mind of Edgar Allen Poe.
The show features some early work on the soundtracks to the Poe project, which capture both the Gothic complexities of Poe’s mind and the era in which he lived.
Clive is also technical editor of Showreel magazine, which we did not have time to cover. We hope he will return with translations of his forefather’s poetry, more stories and more work on Allen Poe which knowing Clive, will be insightful, intuitive and inspiring.
This show was recorded live at Resonancefm studios, London on Dec 10th 2008, and was produced and presented by Fari Bradley.
Panel Borders: The London Underground Comics Stall
Originally broadcast 31/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Oli (Hazy Thursday) Smith and Oliver (Tales from the Flat) Lambden about their self published comics and the London Underground Comics stall they run every Saturday at Camden Market.
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Alex talks to Lisa Bowerman about playing a popular space and time travelling archaeologist in radio style dramas for the best part of a decade. Professor Benny Summerfield started off as a Doctor Who character in the novels published by Virgin in the 90s and then became the first human companion* to get her own solo series, first in print and then on CDs sold in specialist shops.
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