Goalball at the Copper Box, track cycling at the Velodrome and reflections on the opening ceremony.
The Disabled List – Day 0
The day of the opening ceremony at the London 2012 Paralympics is “Day 0” in the organising committee’s terms. Non-rights holding journalists such as ours were only allowed in the Olympic Park at large until 4pm.
Before then, we secured our only athlete interview, New Zealand Para Equestrian rider Anthea Gunner.
Also, what does the *lympic Park sound like when there is no-one around?
Wavelength – Four tracks which seemed to have something in common but now I’m not sure…
Join the angry side by Stewart Home from the CD Stewart Home comes in your face, Motor City is burning by The MC5 from Kick out the Jams, Happy Jack by The Who Live at Leeds University 1970, and The Wolfman (1964) by Robert Ashley; tape, voice and feedback, produced at the University of California at Davis by Composer-Performer Editions. First performed at Charlotte Moorman’s “Festival of the Avant-Garde” New York, fall 1964, created, processed and mixed by Robert Ashley in his studio in Ann Arbor Michigan. The piece gained considerable reputation as a threat to the listener’s health
Laydeez do podcasts: Promoting comics
Laydeez do podcasts: Promoting comics
In two talks recorded at Laydeez do comics, the first in a new season of Laydeez do podcasts, Charles Hatfield talks about comics academia and Jay Eales and Selina Lock discuss publishing The Girly Comic. Hatfield is the author of ‘Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature’ and ‘Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby’ and discusses introducing comics to English literature students. Jay and Selina also talk about helming the Caption small press festival in Oxford for a number of years and producing their own small press comics.
(Recorded by Nicola Streeten, edited by Alex Fitch)
Charles Hatfield, photo by Reanna Delgadillo, Jay Eales and Selina Lock, photo by Andy Luke
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Profile of Charles Hatfield at California State University
Interview with Charles Hatfield at Daily Sundial
Info about Jay and Selina’s work at Factor Fiction Press
Info about Jay and Selina’s workshops at Writing School Leicester from 20 September 2012
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Six Pillars – SHARE, Belgrade
In this Six Pillars show we tap into the fine array of people at Share Conference, Belgrade for a short journey of discovery.
We discuss Iran’s move towards a closed, national intranet which they can then fully censor, with a leader in the global free-internet culture movement: Elizabeth Stark. Elizabeth presented a talk at Share and has previously worked with the Harvard Advocates for Human Rights to make better use of new media to promote human rights. Stark spent years researching for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and has taught courses ranging from Cyberlaw to Intellectual Property to Technology & Politics to Electronic Music.
We also discuss art, Lebanon and the fascinating story of the Lebanese community in Australia with Kamal Ackerie, himself a Lebanese Australian. At the time of interview Ackerie was Associate Director of the prolific arts and music production agency Forma Arts, UK.
Six Pillars – Cosmic Geometry
Monir with a relief piece, 1970s. Photo courtesy of artist
John Cage called her ‘that beautiful Persian girl‘, Jackson Pollock, though unfriendly, openly declared an admiration for her art. Born 1924 in Iran, Monir Farmanfarmaian later brought a flavour of Iran to New York’s avant garde, amongst whom she was circulating. It was often reported that one of her pieces had its place on Andy Warhol’s desk for example.
Her signature work has been since that time, fractal mirror sculpture, mirror mosaic and reverse-painted glass which overall embodies her lifelong fascination for natural beauty and light. And as any sprightly octogenarian still producing work should, Farmanfarmaian has just released a book: Cosmic Geometry ((Damiani Editore & The Third Line, Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist) with passages written by such artist friends as Frank Stella and Shirin Neshat.
In this frank interview the artist discusses her first moment’s of inspiration with mirrors, kills a money spider, reflects on her life and personal art collection and bemoans the proliferation of cheap Chinese products in Iran.
Six Pillars – BFI’s Iranian Director Season
Six Pillars podcast of the interview broadcast August 20th, with BFI-once-NFT head of programming Sheila Whittaker. In her role she visited in Iran yearly for 25 years. Now in protest over the treatment of film maker Jafar Panahi, Whittaker will no longer visit. She explains the season and why and how it was programmed.
Wavelength – Blue Blue Christmas… The Wavelength Annual Christmas Party
How will you spend Christmas by Reverend A.W. Nix; Fighter Pilot’s Christmas by Captain Richard Jonas; How I hate to see Christmas come around by Jimmy Witherspoon; Santa Claus goes modern by Rod Rogers, Teri Summers and The Librettos; Christmas Time by Black Ace; No Christmas in Kentucky by Phil Ochs; Did you spend Christmas Day in jail? by Reverend J.M. Gates; Blue Christmas by Low; Christmas Blues by Larry Darnell; One Special Gift by Low.
Electric Sheep Podcast: Philosophy and Murder
Electric Sheep Podcast: Philosophy and Murder
Alex Fitch talks to film critic and historian Kim Newman about The Edgar Wallace Mysteries, a series of British B movies made in the 1960s and subsequently rebranded as a TV series, based on novels by the co-creator of King Kong. Plus: in a Q and A recorded at the Raindance Film Festival, Alex talks to director M.A. Littler about his documentary The Kingdom of Survival, a road movie that explores the current state of scepticism and philosophy in modern America and features interviews with Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Kanaan and Joe Bageant.
Still from the opening credits of The Edgar Wallace Mysteries / Poster for The Kingdom of Survival
Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.
Links: Bloody Murder blog on The Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Wikipedia page on Edgar Wallace
Buy The Edgar Wallace Mysteries from Network DVD
Info about The Kingdom of Survival at showboatfilms.com
Watch clips from The Kingdom of Survival on youtube
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Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Philosophy and Murder [ 40:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadReality Check: Counter Measures
Reality Check: Counter Measures
In the second of a pair of podcasts about Doctor Who audio spin-offs, Alex Fitch talks to actor John Banks, producer David Richardson and director Ken Bentley about Counter Measures, a new Nigel Kneale influenced audio drama that continues the story of the supporting cast from Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks. Alex also talks to actress Pamela Salem about reprising her Daleks role for the new series as well as her history of appearing in British telefantasy such as Blake’s 7 and Into the Labyrinth plus her role of Miss Moneypenny in the Bond film Never Say Never Again.
Counter Measures poster and still from Remembrance of the Daleks featuring Pamela Salem and Simon Williams
(Expanded podcast of the second half of a ‘Clear Spot’, broadcast 17/08/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: More info on Counter Measures at bigfinish.com
Previous podcast on Doctor Who spin-offs The Minister of Chance and Kaldor City
Wikipedia pages on Doctor Who serials: Remembrance of the Daleks and Robots of Death featuring Pamela Salem
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