“Fear not, nipper!†she cried, “I am Tiny Enid and I have alerted the Air Sea Rescue Station at St Bibblybibdib to your sorry plight by attaching a message to the leg of a cumulet. The bird is flying its little heart out even as we speak, and soon a lovely big lifeboat will scud across the waves to rescue you. Preserve your energy, and stop trying to prise that last whelk from the rock, for soon you will be sitting at my kitchen table wolfing down a slap-up hot dinner of non-seafood items!â€
Clear Spot: Mark Thomas
In conjunction with his new stand-up shows at The Venue, Leicester Place, London, James DC interviews comedian and campaigner Mark Thomas about his life, comedy and political campaigns. For more info go to www.markthomasinfo.com
Six Pillars – Minou Norouzi and Psychoanalytical Film
Some truths about Austria from film maker Minou Norouzi. With psychoanalytical elements to her films amongst her themes are misplaced femininity and incubated desire, within the context of a budding male sexual revolution that she sees happening.Some of her short films are viewable on her site, of which there is much to think about. Some contain minimal action and little text with the main character frozen in a moving landscape. What does she keep from us, what does the film refuse to offer up and by so doing, lay bare about our expectations as viewers?
A unique woman, she says she is neither Iranian nor Austrian, and so we nudge her on her way back to her grandfather’s point of origin; to the town where people are either mad, or genius.
Panel Borders: The art of Charlie Adlard
Panel Borders: The art of Charlie Adlard
Originally broadcast as part of Strip! on 06/12/07
Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to artist Charlie Adlard in a conversation recorded at the Birmingham International Comics Show. Charlie has found recent acclaim with the zombie comic The Walking Dead as well as for illustrating Judge Dredd and meeting the challenges of drawing Mulder and Scully in the comic book adaptation of the X-Files.
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The Bike Show: How to win at roller-racing
Reigning Rollapaluza champion and two-time ‘Raphapaluza’ winner Simon Jackson gives his tips on how to win at the frenzied sport of static bike racing. Plus a preview of the upcoming ITV comedy-drama series Bike Squad (aka “The Bill on bikes”) with Robert Collins of the Daily Telegraph.
Get down to the Bicycology film night on Thursday 13 December at the RampArt Social Centre, London E1 and of course to Rollapaluza IX-mas at the Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London SE1.
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Marvin Suicide : 139 – Comfortable Jumpers
The third weekly episode in a row. Could this regularity be caused by an increase in dietary fibre?
Find out in the next thrilling instalment of…
“Marvin suicide. Free internet music and hot celebrity gossip.”
The Low Carbon Show: Chris Goodall
Chris Goodall is the author of what the New Scientist calls “the definitive guide to reducing your carbon footprint.” Climate Radio takes a trip to Oxford to meet him and find out some of the book’s key messages on aviation, consumption, personal travel and food purchasing habits.
Chris’s website: http://www.lowcarbonlife.net
The Low Carbon Show focuses on the emerging green shoots of our post-fossil fuel future. The programme is produced by Phil England for Climate Radio.
Hooting Yard : Joie De Bogs
Regular readers know that my grasp of matters ornithological is second to none, so it is only fitting that I have been asked to compile an anthology of fictional works with the word “owl†in the title.
Tight Pudding – Exploring the Smoking Cabinet
Today’s Tight Pudding is guest presented by Alex Fitch who talks to Claire Cook, Simone Pyne and Kate Grove about the “Burlesque Cinema” weekend they’ve curated at the Curzon Soho Cinema and Volupte Lounge in London. The Smoking Cabinet mixes short films, features (The Blue Angel), live acts and talks to explore depictions of cabaret on film from the 1890s to the 1930s.
Marvin Suicide : 138 – Get Your Hands Off Of My Man
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Nope, can’t think of a single thing to say (something that is occurring with worrying frequency of late), so instead I’ll just divert your attention to the tracklist below – which by the way only contains songs that have been downloaded from the internet free of charge: