Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism
of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable,
magic, lust, comedy. Today: the myth of Helen and Paris,
how her beauty and his lust caused The Trojan War and a
whole lot of singing. We’ll be hearing from Eccles, Gluck
and Tippet; and Richard talks to the soprano Kat Beaty, who
is appearing in a new production of Offenbach’s La Belle
Helene, or The Beautiful Helen, with The Julian Light Opera
Society in West London. richardrmscott.tumblr.com
Continuing a month about comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch looks at Doctor Who comic strips in the 50th anniversary week of the TV show. In a panel discussion recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, artists Adrian Salmon and Mark Buckingham plus writers Scott Gray and Andrew Cartmel (also the TV script editor from 1987-1989) discuss the various adventures of the Doctor in sequential art, including the ‘wilderness years’ when the show was off air in the 1990s and comics were the only continuing visual adventures of the Time Lord. Recorded May 2013 in front of a live audience at SCI-FI-LONDON, Stratford Picture House.
Originally broadcast Monday 18th November 2013, on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
Doctor Who comics by artists Adrian Salmon, Mark Buckingham, and writers Andrew Cartmel and Scott Gray
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PLAYLIST
The Bara Bara Band – Escape Clinch Mountain (LIVE SESSION)
The Bara Bara Band – Not The Last Act (LIVE SESSION)
The Bara Bara Band – Girl With The Raven Hair (LIVE SESSION)
The Bara Bara Band – Cave Light (LIVE SESSION)
Purple Pilgrims – Druidic Dreamer
The Bara Bara Band – ‘Interview’
Madame Pamita – No Bad News
Stereocillia – Dawn Chorus
Sebastian Melmoth – Miet Mitzvah
Civil Civic – Sky Delay (PRE-RECORDED LIVE)
Civil Civic’s Aaron Cupples – ‘Interview’
Civil Civic – Street Trap (PRE-RECORDED LIVE)
Pit Ponies – The Madding Crowd (LIVE SESSION)
Pit Ponies – Furies (LIVE SESSION)
Pit Ponies – Deptford Love Song (LIVE SESSION)
Pit Ponies – Terminal Fool (LIVE SESSION)
The Leonard Cohen – In / Out
The Len Bright Combo – The House Burned Down
Pit Ponies – ‘Interview’
Live presenters: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineer: Tom Kemp assisted by Lisa Geurts and Beth Rogers
In tribute to Farideh Lashai (1944-2013), we podcast this phone interview with her daughter during an installation at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde in Dubai. Here Maneli describes the intricate videos and the ethos and methods behind her mother’s animations. Until she passed away, Lashai had been creating works for over 40 years transitioning between various mediums and becoming a heavyweight on the Middle Eastern arts scene. Even before exhibiting artwork she trained and worked in crystal manufacturing workshops in both Germany and Austria as a designer for years. She had also studied German literature, translating several plays by Berthold Brecht (1968-2008); before concentrating on fine art as a career. She was also a writer, her novel Shal Bamu, was a best seller and garnered the attention of Iranian literary circles. Lashai was also one of the founders of Neda Group which is a group of 12 Iranian female painters who reflected on themes such as identity.
Keep Your Interior Empty of Food that You Mayest Behold There in the Light of Interior (video) 2012
Six Pillars to Persia is a focus on Middle Eastern arts and culture, broadcasting weekly on Thursday evenings at 7.30-8pm, repeated Mondays 8.30-9pm GMT on 104.4FM across London, or www.resonancefm.com/listen www.sixpillars.org
The 2nd series of Six Pillars to Persia has run weekly since 2007, the first in 2005-6.
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Six Pillars has received a variety of acclaim including listings as ‘Critic’s Choice’ in The Independent newspaper and a write-up in the BBC R4 dramatised book ‘Radiohead’. Previous guests have been comic Omid Djalili, Abbas Kiarostami, Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi and galleries such as Saatchi Gallery.
The series is produced and presented by broadcaster Fari Bradley
Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Brian Yuzna and the horror of Society
Electric Sheep Magazine assistant editor Alex Fitch talks to film maker Brian Yuzna about his work, from his memorable debut as producer of Stuart Gordon’s Re-animator, his underrated satire of 1980s American preppy culture Society and later career making sequels to such franchises as Return of the Living Dead and Silent Night, Deadly Night. Recorded at the University of Brighton, Spring 2013, in conjunction with Cine-Excess Festival.
Four films by Brian Yuzna
Cine-Excess VII is taking place at Birmingham MAC from 15th-17th November with guests including French filmmaker Catherine Breillat (Romance / Anatomy of Hell) and Italian auteur Francesco Barilli (The Perfume of the Lady in Black / Pensione paura)
Continuing a month of shows looking at comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch talks to thirteen creators who contributed to Brighton: The Graphic Novel, a new anthology which tells vignettes from Brighton’s history over the last 300 years, published by QueenSpark Books; these include writers and illustrators Jim Holland, Maria Parra, Ottilie Hainsworth, Nye Wright, Rosanna Lowe, Jules Craig, Jonathan Stearn, Chris Hagan, Rob Simpson, Jaime Huxtable and Ian Buchanan, plus art mentor / letterer Paul Collicutt, and editor / writing coach Tim Pilcher.
Recorded in front of a live audience at Cartoon County, Brighton, Autumn 2013. Originally broadcast 11th November 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
Brighton – the graphic novel, cover by Bryan Talbot, interior art by Ottilie Hainsworth, Nye Wright and Jaime Huxtable
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PLAYLIST
The Leonard Cohen – In Out (LIVE SESSION)
The Leonard Cohen – Whether Man (LIVE SESSION)
The Leonard Cohen – Dogs (LIVE SESSION)
The Leonard Cohen – Woman At The Bar (LIVE SESSION)
The Leonard Cohen – I Saw Her (LIVE SESSION)
The Len Bright Combo – Someone Must’ve Nailed Us Together
The Leonard Cohen – ‘Interview’
The James Worse Public Address Method – Cherbs From The Huthergale (LIVE READING)
The Bara Bara Band – Medusa
Pit Ponies – Keep Calm And Carry A Gun
Civil Civic – Street Trap
Pere Ubu – Lampshade Man
Teeth Of The Sea – All Human Is Error
The James Worse Public Address Method – ‘Interview’
The James Worse Public Address Method – Lullufane (LIVE READING)
Yinka And Sabatta – I Don’t Exist (LIVE SESSION)
Yinka And Sabatta – No Permission (LIVE SESSION)
Yinka And Sabatta – Know My Name (LIVE SESSION)
Red Solar – The Lightning Of The Storm
Yinka And Sabatta – ‘Interview’
The James Worse Public Address Method – A Cluck Of Milk Bottom (LIVE READING)
Presenter: deXter Bentley
Live sound engineer: Mike Channon (assisted by Lisa Geurts + Beth Rogers)
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today he examines what it’s like being underground, walled-up, buried, laid in earth . . . composers as diverse as Monteverdi, Beethoven, Verdi, Debussy, Birtwistle and The Knife have all sonorously examined the horror of the undergrowth, the underworld, premature burial or death by entombment.
Starting a month of shows about comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch talks to two pairs of creators who come from outside the world of comics. In an interview recorded at the MCM Expo, London October 2013, actor turned writer Thomas Jane and illustrator Tim Bradstreet talk about their work on comics and graphic novels such as Bad Planet and The Lycan. Also, in an interview recorded at Daunt Books, Marylebone, children’s writers and illustrators Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve discuss swapping roles on various projects including The Phoenix comic and their latest book Oliver and the Seawigs, which is about moving, sentient islands and their headwear!
Originally broadcast Monday 4th November 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
Covers of Oliver and the Seawigs, Bad Planet volume one and The Lycan
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PLAYLIST
blurt – Midi dans le Midi
Astrakan – Comets and Monsters
The James Worse Public Address Method – The Moontangled Fellidary
Yinka / Sabatta – I Don’t Exist
The Leonard Cohen – In/Out
Lene Lovich Band – Angels (LIVE SESSION)
Cineplexx – What Goes On (Velvet Underground cover)
Lene Lovich + Jude Rawlins – ‘Interview’
Blindness – Last One Dies
Kirsten Morrison – Kubla Khan
Lene Lovich Band – You Can’t Kill Me (LIVE SESSION)
Council Tax Band – The Bigger the Budget
Lene Lovich + Jude Rawlins – ‘Interview’
Devices – Offshore
Lene Lovich Band – Details (LIVE SESSION)
Shopping – Hanover Cure
Lene Lovich + Jude Rawlins – ‘Interview’
Two Ton Boa – Cash Machine
Live presenters: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp assisted by Lisa Geurts + Beth Rogers
