Thursday, February 15, 2007

Tonight's show: The current state of silent movies

Continuing our spurious anniversary month, tonight’s show coincidently coincides with the 8oth anniversary of the release of Hitchcock’s film 'The Lodger', so, to celebrate: having teased you with excerpts of our interview with Matthew Sweet – the writer and presenter of Silent Britain and Shepperton Babylon – for the past two weeks, tonight "I'm ready for my close-up" is proud to have Alex Fitch's full interview with him on the subject of silent movies.
If you're wondering whether the title of tonight's show is a contradiction in terms... Well, you'll just have to tune in to find out!

Regarding the podcast of last week's (and probably this week's) show... I'm having server problems at the moment, so there may be a bit of a delay. Sorry!

10.30pm GMT Resonance 104.4FM / www.resonancefm.com

Links: BFI page on 'Silent Britain'
Matthew's episode of Back Row on Radio 4
Article by Matthew on the late Ernest Dudley
Transcript of BBC Four interview with Matthew
Wikipedia page on Hitchcock's 'The Lodger'

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the notice about the delay. Looking forward to hearing both of these shows.

Alex said...

No worries, sorry for the delay! As you can see, the 1st of Feb show is now up and last week's one should be available in a day or two...

Anonymous said...

Great! I will take a listen very soon! Looking forward to other one, as well!

Alex said...

Have found a solution to the server problem: use a public one! Assuming it's reliable, podcasts will now be housed at www.archive.org

Anonymous said...

Thanks very much for the update. I will bookmark that information. And again, enjoyed the shows!

Alex said...

Cool, glad to have another fan! Feel free to sign in with your name next time! ;)