Panel Borders: Drawn Together – Aline and Robert Crumb

Panel Borders: Drawn Together – Aline and Robert Crumb

Starting a month of shows about ‘lives on the page’, Panel Borders looks at graphic novels which depict the travails of human existence with books that straddle the divide between autobiography and fiction. This week, we’re proud to present Alex Fitch’s interview with Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb about their collection Drawn Together, published by Knockabout, which collects 40 years of their collaborative autobiographical comics, including guest art by their daughter Sophie and other luminaries of the American indie comics scene including Art Spiegelman and Charles Burns.
Alex talks to Robert and Aline about the history of the project, how it displays the intersection of her feminism and his sex obsession and aspects of truth and fiction in autobiographical comics.

Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, interior and cover art from Drawn Together

Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, interior and cover art from Drawn Together

(Originally broadcast 2nd December 2012 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
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Wavelength – Studies for an Exhibition

Curator Mathieu Copeland in the studio to talk about his exhibition at the David Roberts Arts Foundation: which includes works by Gustav Metzger, Cally Spooner, Elena Bajo, David Medalla and others.

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Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Michael Apted and Cory McAbee – From cradle to…

Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Michael Apted and Cory McAbee – From cradle to…

Alex Fitch talks to two directors about their projects which capture visions of childhood and how that progresses into adulthood. In a Q & A recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON: EAST, Alex chats to Cory McAbee, creator of SF musicals The American Astronaut and Stingray Sam, about his latest film Crazy and Thief – a semi improvised drama which documents the director’s children as they journey across New York looking for stars and come across characters inspired by The Odyssey – again scored by his band, ‘The Billy Nayer Show’. Cory discusses his change in direction for this project, the difficulties of directing children and performs a song from the soundtrack.

Also, Alex discusses 56Up with Michael Apted, the latest instalment of his 7Up series which has charted the lives of 14 children from diverse socio-economic backgrounds since the age of 7, with new episodes every 7 years; as well as exploring the history of this series, Alex and Michael discuss the latter’s involvement with another serial that’s reached its 50th anniversary as the director recalls his experience of directing the Bond movie, The World is not Enough.

DVD cover for 7-49Up, posters for 56Up, The world is not enough, Crazy and Thief, The American Astronaut

DVD cover for 7-49Up, posters for 56Up, The world is not enough, Crazy and Thief, The American Astronaut

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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 9

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

On today’s show he is joined by the soprano Allison Bell who’ll be taking about her upcoming performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the BBC Concert Orchestra on Monday and about some of her critically acclaimed roles, including singing Ravel in Russia and Eotvos at Glyndebourne.

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Originally broadcast on 29th November 2012

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Technical Difficulties from Alex’s Place… again

This week’s show covers adjusting to receiving help when you are used to giving it (and vice versa) and ways to relax, including the increased usage of legalised medicinal marijuana.

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Wavelength – Plundered Classics

Plundered Classics mixed and mashed with Broken Music by Milan Knizak who started to destroy records in 1965, scratching, breaking, punching holes, destroying the needle and often the record player. Broken Music was curated and assembled by Walter Marchetti and released as a record in 1979. John Oswald: Plunderphonics; Beethoven, Glenn Gould and Stravinsky’s “Spring” from the EP issued in 1985. Alfred 23 Harth “Anything Goes” 1986 which mixes John Oswald, John Zorn and Heiner Goebbels just to compound the mixture. Strauss and Chopin from More Encores by Christian Marclay, Satie versus Wagner by Fuckintosh and Fragments by John Wall from Alterstill.

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Technical Difficulties 4 – from Alex’s Place

Tim Abbott and Sonja K Peterson broadcast from Alex’s Place in Moorhead, Minnesota.

On the fourth anniversary of her hysterectomy, we talk about the loss afterward, especially on the anniversary.

The day after Thanksgiving, we also look at coping with family occasions as a spoonie and managing medication when you want to still have fun.

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Hello GoodBye – 24.11.12 – Sexton Ming, Hand of Stabs & Broken Banjo

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Performance artist, painter, poet, musician, author, singer, songwriter, independent record label impresario… the list goes on, Sexton Ming is truly a 21st Century renaissance man and this afternoon on Resonance FM he curates the entire 90 minutes of The Hello GoodBye Show. 
 
Featuring live input from Sexton Ming, Hand of Stabs and Broken Banjo.
 
Sexton will also playing the 10 tunes that he would choose to take with him if locked up in solitary confinement.

Playlist:
Buddy Holly & the Crickets – Not Fade Away
Hand of Stabs – ‘untitled improvisation’ (LIVE SESSION)
Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf
Hand of Stabs – ‘interview’
Frank Zappa – G -Spot Tornado
David Bowie – There is a Happy Land
Sexton Ming – Chalk Farm Rugby Pitch (LIVE POEM)
Sexton Ming – Obese Young Mothers (LIVE POEM)
Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy
Janis Joplin – Work Me Lord
H.P. Lovecraft – Let’s Get Together
Sexton Ming – The Rain (LIVE POEM)?
Low – Over the Ocean
Sigur Ros – Von
Broken Banjo – Regretamin and the Horse (LIVE SESSION)
Broken Banjo – Le Barry (LIVE SESSION)
Broken Banjo – ‘interview’
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band – Magic Be

Presenters: Sexton Ming & deXter Bentley?
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield

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Panel Borders: Writing Misfits

Panel Borders: Writing Misfits

Concluding a month of shows about writing superhero stories, Panel Borders moves its attention from the comic book page to the small screen as Alex Fitch talks to Howard Overman about Misfits, the E4 award winning drama about teenagers with superpowers doing community service. Alex and Howard talk about the genesis of the show, writing episodes that engage with other genres such as time travel and ‘zombie noir’, his experiences on other shows such as Dirk Gently and Vexed, the travails of having to write certain characters out and introduce new ones, and the latest news on the Misfits movie.

Misfits logo

Misfits logo

(Originally broadcast 25th November 2012 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
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Wavelength – Break Through in Grey Room.

Opening statement about radio as therapy from a slightly confused Captain Maurice Seddon from his hospital bed in Slough. “Present Time Exercises” by William Burroughs from Break Through in Grey Room. At the beginning of this track made on cassette in London in 1971 using radio, television and several tape recorders we hear the distinctive growl of Burroughs reference a certain Mr. Peter Gidal (“Mister Peeder Geedaal…”); the eminent avant-garde filmmaker. “I am Strange” and “I am an Instrument” by Sun Ra, previously unissued early recordings issued by Norton Records as a single vinyl 45rpm record in 2009. “Burroughs called the Law” and “Sound Piece” both also from Break Through in Grey Room. Three tracks by Felix Kubin from “Psykoscifipoppia” 2003 and “Automato idee 2” also by Kubin from the CD id/cd. Four short tracks by Yakatsuma Eye and Otomo Yoshihide from a white label vinyl EP.

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