Panel Borders: Inhumanity and darkness in literature

Panel Borders: Inhumanity and darkness in literature

Continuing our month of shows about comics and literature, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of graphic novelists about adapting classic 19th century novels as sequential art. In a panel discussion recorded at Comica Comiket in 2011, David Hine and Mark Stafford discuss their adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Man who Laughs, a tale that has already cast a long shadow over comics, as the lead character Gwynplaine was supposedly an influence on the creation of The Joker. Also, fine artist Catherine Anyango discusses her visual approach to her 2010 adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, best known as the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, which sees her intricate pencilling style married with both text from the original novel and also Conrad’s The Congo Diary. (Originally broadcast 17/02/13 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Cover of The Man who Laughs / sketch of Gwynplaine by Mark Stafford / interior art and cover of Heart of Darkness by Catherine Anyango

Cover of The Man who Laughs / sketch of Gwynplaine by Mark Stafford / interior art and cover of Heart of Darkness by Catherine Anyango

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness adapted by David Zane Mairowitz and Catherine Anyango is available now from SelfMadeHero / Victor Hugo’s The Man who Laughs adapted by David Hine and Mark Stafford is released in April 2013.

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: SelfMadeHero’s website, including pages on Heart of Darkness and The Man who Laughs

Websites: David Hine / Mark Stafford / Catherine Anyango

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The Hulk, sketched by David Lloyd

The Hulk by David Lloyd

Resonance FM fundraiser

Resonance FM is currently running its annual fundraiser to help pay for the station’s continuing programme of refurbishments. As well as variety of film and music related items in the auction, comic books and graphic novels include a hardcover omnibus of Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars which includes a unique sketch of The Hulk by David Lloyd, a 1st edition UK TPB of Watchmen including a sketch by John Higgins and framed signed comics by Gail Simone, Dave Gibbons, Jonathan Ross, Frazer Irving and many more. Please visit resonancefm.com for more info.

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Hello GoodBye – 16.02.13 – Pay-As-You-Go Resonance FM fundraiser

Resonance FM’s fundraising drive continued this afternoon with The Pay-As-You-Go Hello GoodBye Show, where contributors purchased prime-time FM airtime at the rate of £10 per minute, helping to raise over £900 for the greatest radio station in the world.

deXter Bentley would like to thank everyone involved for their generous support!

PLAYLIST:

Dog Chocolate – Hello Goodbye Show (x 2)

St. Just Vigilantes – Cola Noir

Hendrik Huthoff – Evil Baby

J. Temperance – Go Away

J. Temperance – Tell You What

Teta Mona – Love

Ross Blake – House of Miracles

Settles Street Band – New Life

Alex Hamilton – Arches and Seizures

Steve Rushton aka The Excremental Poet – Toilet Collector

Skinjobs – Cargo Cult Parade (Triple Condensed Version)

Roguish Stranger – Sophie Sunshine

Being 747 – Make Things Happen

Jail – I Got You

Rob Cryer – Paddy McGee

Blindside – Femme Fatale

Chris Wallbank and the Cowards – The Living Daylights

Bradbury’s Breme Egg – Pipex Dream

Ace Face – Something About You

Milk Kan – Bedders Stop Drinking White Ace

Corporal Machine And The Bombers – The Days Of White Lightning

Lucy’s Diary – The Party Line

David Cronenbergs Wife – You Should Have Closed The Curtains

Polly McClean – Missing

Dirty Viv – 60ft Snake

Unit – Resonance Rocks Out

Robin The Fog – All Cow No Poke

Presenters: deXter Bentley & Dan Frost

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Wavelength – Ravelength from Raven Row

Dieter Roth: Die R adio Sonate, The R adio Sonata. The original LP was published in 1978 by Lebeer-Hossmann, Brussels and Hamburg and edition Hansjorg Mayer in a signed edition of 300. In 1995 Diter Roth produced a signed and numbered CD edition of 100 which vanished in mysterious circumstances. For this he rewrote two texts added a few words and fitted them to the CD format.

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Polish Deli 10 2 2013

More Polish art and music presented by Kacper Ziemianin.

In this episode:

11 Kinoteka Polish Film Festival

Andrzej Korzynski

Dr Pytor

Konrad Geca

The link seems to be broken so here is the original link if the player doesn’t work:

http://ia701503.us.archive.org/28/items/PolishDeli1022013/Polish%20Deli%2010%202%202013.mp3

 

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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 17

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.

Today, since it’s Valentine’s Day, Richard plays some of the most romantic and heartfelt music ever written for the operatic stage. We’ll hear from Puccini and Verdi’s scandalous courtesans, Schoenberg’s desperate Woman as she searches for the body of her lover in a dark forest, Milhaud’s tragic Orpheus, Tchaikovsky’s over-zealous letter-writing teenager and some sublime duets from the Handel’s and Monteverdi’s war-weary heroes and heroines.

http://richardrmscott.tumblr.com/

Originally Broadcast on 14th February 2013

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OST 26.02.2011 Andy Partridge of XTC

Film soundtracks, library music and tank top appreciation with Jonny Trunk.
Back in 2011 the OST Show travelled to Swindon to meet the great Andy Partridge. Here’s how it went.

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Panel Borders: The Amazing Adventures of Fraction and Chabon

Panel Borders: The Amazing Adventures of Fraction and Chabon

Continuing a month of shows looking at the connections between sequential art and literature, Alex Fitch talks to writers Matt Fraction and Michael Chabon about their friendship, reading experiences outside of graphic novels and mutual love of comics. Matt Fraction is an award winning writer who has become one of the most important contributors to Marvel’s range of superhero comics, with runs on Iron Fist, Thor and Iron Man under his belt, his new assignment is the continuing adventures of The Fantastic Four and their extended family. Fraction also has indie credentials from his ongoing European style spy series Casanova. Michael Chabon is the Pulitizer Prize winning author of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, a chronicle of the comic book industry in the middle decades of the 20th Century, which he continued in the pages of the comic book series The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, that saw the author write his first comic book script, plus the publication of Will Eisner’s final story to feature The Spirit.
(Originally broadcast in an edited form on Resonance 104.4 FM (London), 10/02/13

Covers of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay / ...of The Escapist by Michael Chabon, Casanova / Fantastic Four / FF by Matt Fraction et al.

Covers of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay / …of The Escapist by Michael Chabon, Casanova / Fantastic Four / FF by Matt Fraction et al.

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Michael Chabon‘s website
Info about The Escapist on www.darkhorse.com
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Michael Chabon about his novel Telegraph Avenue

Matt Fraction‘s website
Info about Matt Fraction’s work on comicvine.com
Kieron Gillen’s podcast interview with Fraction Continue reading →

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Hello GoodBye – 09.02.13 – Ft: Pepe Belmonte + The Balloons

Live music on Hello GoodBye; with absurdest-rock trio The Balloons and folk-blues troubador Pepe Belmonte.

CJ Proud, Dave Swift and Rik Irvine have been breathing new life into The Balloons for the best part of last four decades.. Slapped senseful by Beefheart, Devo, Henry Cow and Led Zeppelin, The Balloons remain dark and cheery purveyors of juddery, shuddery, jittery, jottery, abstract rockery!

Having grown up in rural south west Ireland, it is hardly surprising to find that Pepe Belmonte has a taste for Irish folk music as well as for old blues and traditional folk. With his distinctive vocal, guitar and harmonica style Pepe’s sensitive songwriting has a strong sense of imagery, melody, rhythm and rhyme.

PLAYLIST
Olivia Chaney – Swimming In The Longest River
Pepe Belmonte – Blues Before Sunrise (LIVE SESSION)
Pepe Belmonte – Mountain With A Moving Peak (LIVE SESSION)
Pepe Belmonte – Foolish (LIVE SESSION)
Pepe Belmonte – America (LIVE SESSION)
Declan Q. Kelly – Eat Them Hawk
Brigid Power Ryce – She Moved Through The Fair
Pepe Belmonte – ‘interview’
Jack Cheshire – Copenhagen
Fireworks Night – The Gold Leaves
Serafina Steer – Machine Room
Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters – The Tackro
Sleaford Mods – Right Back To You
The Balloons – Virus Morality (LIVE SESSION)
The Balloons – Where’s Willey Flatts? (LIVE SESSION)
The Balloons – ‘improvised piece’ (LIVE SESSION)
Toys – Tally Ho
The Balloons – ‘interview’

Presenter: deXter Bentley
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin & Tom Kemp

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Wavelength – Nicky Hamlyn and Conor Kelly

Filmmaker and author of Film Art Phenomena Nicky Hamlyn and artist Conor Kelly talk about the disjunction between sound and image, displaced sound and their collaboration at Wilton’s Music Hall. Recorded at Raven Row for Gone with the Wind.

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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 16

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
Today opera singers Jean Rigby and Joanna Songi discuss their roles in Glyndebourne’s latest community opera, Imago by Orlando Gough, an opera set in the world of online gaming, where Joanna plays Jean’s younger avatar, in an attempt to bring comfort, friendship and love into the lives of the residents of a care home for the elderly.
http://richardrmscott.tumblr.com/

http://glyndebourne.com/production/imago
Originally broadcast on 7th February 2013

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