Soundtracks, library music and other agreeable delights with Jonny Trunk.
This week – David Cain! WOW! In the mid 1960s the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was home to three important figures: Delia Derbyshire, John Baker and today’s very special guest. Coming all the way from Poland on his way to a Maths conference, David pops in to talk Radiophonics with our man Trunk.
Set course for two hours in the company of a radiophonic legend.
The Graham Penthouse Show
“It’s just political correctness, gone mad!” Mono Loco presents The Graham Penthouse Show, a surreal political comedy show featuring Wendi Mcarthur, Ricky Lorrio and Wendy Solomon.
With guests Rayyah Maccaul, and Sebastian Shallcross.
Written by Ricky Lorrio and produced by Matthew Manns.
The Gilded Vectors of Disease
The series is now available to listen on-line. Tune in at 7:30pm on World Malaria Day (April 25th) for a live edition of the programme.
From the 1929 central London landmark building, the School’s current home, intrepid pioneers of public health research and disease control continue the School’s historic tradition as a global institution whose work has helped to change and save lives on a far-reaching scale. It is active in almost every country in Africa and its work has spanned all continents.
A golden MOSQUITO adorns the front of the School, wih seven other gilded vectors of disease. These have slithered, scurried, flown and bitten into the lives of humans down the ages and into our modern life, often viewed with horror or disgust, even with surprising love. Each 30-minute programme takes one of these potent symbols of pestilence as its theme to explore how the RAT, the LOUSE, the SNAKE, the FLEA and more, have plagued us through history and how science is winning the war today.
Series Producer & Presenter REBECCA TREMAIN
Series Co-producer & Editor ROB FALCONER
Script Consultant GARY MERRY
Panel Borders: The art of Tom Gauld
Panel Borders: The art of Tom Gauld
Continuing our month of shows all about British Comics, Alex Fitch interviews cartoonist Tom Gauld about his work, from magazine and newspaper strips such as Move to the City and Hunter and Painter, to small press comics and his new graphic novel, Goliath. Alex and Tom also talk about the latter’s illustration work such as producing a cover for The Three Musketeers and interior art for The Iron Man which led to his oversized picture book, The Gigantic Robot.
Excerpts from Goliath, Hunter and Painter, and Move to the City (French edition) by Tom Gauld
Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.
Links: Tom Gauld’s website and publishing imprint
Reviews of Move to the city and Hunter and Painter at madinkbeard.com
Excerpt from and recommended musical accompaniment to Goliath Continue reading
Art Saves Lives: Series 2 (Episode 10)
In this week’s episode, Dean Stalham introduces five new plays:
Priceless, by Carl Chetty, read by Keith Barron with music by Rupert Embleton-Smith
I Get a Little Bit Closer, written and performed by Jenny Strawson
The Eye Monologue, written and performed by Daisey Martley
My Journey on the Tube, written and performed by Michelene Phillipe Heine
The Mixer, by Laura Stevens – read by Helen Millar
Produced and Presented by Dean Stalham
artsaveslives.co.uk
Originally broadcast on 8th April 2012
Wavelength – Maurice Seddon’s Injunction
Captain Maurice Seddon in telephonic conversation. He was faced with an injunction at the Royal Courts of Justice to silence his numberless pack of dogs but thanks in no small part to his Mackenzie friend (me) the case has been adjourned for 3 months. Interpretations of the music for two Adolf Wolfli paintings by Baudouin de Jaer.
Hooting Yard: The Lobster’s Tune (Conclusion).
When first this desire consumed me, I did not bother myself with such niceties. I might be at an elegant and sophisticated cocktail party, and I would take someone aside, steer them to a corner where we would not be overheard, and say:
“Can I have your head? I want to take it across the sea, and drop it like an apple of discord.”
There would then follow a discussion in the course of which the familiar objections, of criminal intent and physical harm, would be raised. I blustered my way through these by wearing a fixed grin and waving my arms a lot, but the difficulties would not go away.
The Lobster’s Tune (Conclusion)
Variation On A Theme Of Gerard Manley Hopkins
This episode was recorded on the 30th June 2011. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the six publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants , Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories and Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase
Free Lab Radio – Patrick Forge
Illegal Daze – Patrick Forge by Fari
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Reality Check: Modern children’s comics
Reality Check: Modern children’s comics
In a panel discussion recorded at last year’s SCI-FI-LONDON festival, CBBC presenter Chris Johnson talks to Paul Collicutt (Robot City adventures), Alex Milway (The Mythical 9th Division) and Eddie Robson (Doctor Who adventures) about creating Science-Fiction and Fantasy comics for kids and having interested children in the format, how to keep their love of comics going.
The Mythical 9th Division by Alex Milway, Robot City adventures by Paul Collicutt, Doctor Who Adventures by Eddie Robson
Listen to Alex Fitch’s interviews with Alex Milway and Paul Collicutt
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 Continue reading
Terry Smith – Artist
Artist Terry Smith who since 1978, has produced major projects for the Tate Modern, the British Museum and galleries the world over, particularly in South America. Known for his signature sculptures cut directly into the plaster of walls, mainly of derelict buildings – some with no public access – Smith is constantly experimenting with medium and has used film, audio and varied materials for his work.
Winner of the Paul Hamlyn Award, Smith with his communist upbringing is at times renegade about his work. His wide choice of mediums have in common the resonances of the London streets he grew up in, his love of music, spontaneity and the challenges that come with constant questioning and experimentation. At Frieze this year Adam Curtis implored the artists of today to shock him with kindness, empathy and such-like qualities. Perhaps he is one of those who still haven’t heard of Smith, the artist’s artist.
Recorded and produced by Fari Bradley.