Tonight's show: History in Film

History and film have been inextricably linked since movie pioneers first shot footage of workers leaving factory gates and trains entering stations. In tonight's show Alex Fitch explores the nature of history as a topic for film and the use of historical footage in films. The first half of the show is a discussion with James DeCarteret, Mark Stafford and Alison Goldie about recent films that depict and / or include historical events such as Hollywoodland and Nick Broomfield's Ghosts and then Alex discusses the genre with Dr. Toby Haggith, the head of cinema programming at the Imperial War Museum, London.

10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Links: The Third Australian History and Film Conference
www.historyonfilm.com
Imperial War Museum

Tonight's show: The (Horror) films of Stephen King

In the second of our belated Halloween shows, Alex Fitch talks to Emma Smart from the BFI about film adaptations of Stephen King's novels and short stories. Featuring excerpts from his talk in Battersea earlier in the month and trailers from his earliest and most recent films...
(This show is dedicated to Grace, a King fan from Timsbury, near Bath, with thanks to The Times for getting me tickets to the Battersea event)

10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Links: The Times Online podcasts of Stephen King's talk in Battersea 7th November 2006
Stephen King's entry on Wikipedia

Tonight's show: The Horror films of David McGillivray

In the first of two belated Halloween specials, we're looking at horror movies... Tonight it's the companion piece to our show on Norman J. Warren as Alex Fitch speaks to Norman's contemporary and collaborator David McGillivray about the horror film scripts he wrote in the 1970s such as Satan's Slave and Frightmare plus his new series of short films, Worst Fears.

10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Links: 'Worst Fears' website
David's page on the IMDb

Tonight's show: The 50th London Film Festival (part four - the beginning and the end)

In our fourth and final show on the London Film Festival, Alex Fitch introduces and moderates a discussion between James DeCarteret, cartoonist Mark Stafford and presenter / actress Alison Goldie about this year's opening (The Last King of Scotland) and closing (Babel) films as well as the festival's impact on London as a whole...
10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Links: LFF website
Alex's reviews of the Festival so far
Mark Stafford's website
Alison Goldie's website

Tonight's show: The 50th London Film Festival (part three* - Chris & Dave's podcasts)

In our third* show on the London Film Festival, Alex Fitch introduces and moderates a discussion between James DeCarteret, cartoonist Mark Stafford and presenter / actress Alison Goldie about this year's LFF. Also, Alex interviews Christian Hayes and Dave Gibson, makers of the LFF video podcasts...

10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Links: LFF website
Alex's reviews of the Festival so far
Christian & Dave's podcasts / Also available as an itunes download
Mark Stafford's website
Alison Goldie's website

*the second of our shows on the LFF was broadcast on Monday afternoon at 4.30 pm... Sorry for the late notice, nobody told me!