Podcast: The Magic of Alan Moore part three
The second half of tonight's show is now available for download...
(mp3 format, 27mb)
Labels: 2000AD, Alan Moore, Alex Fitch, Animation, Clear Spot, Comics, Film, Podcast, TV, Writers
This blog is to provide a home for podcasts, information and feedback on the Resonance FM weekly radio shows "I'm ready for my close up" & "Panel Borders" which cover the varied worlds of film, TV, comic books and related media. The shows are broadcast live in London on 104.4 FM and streamed over the internet at www.resonancefm.com
The second half of tonight's show is now available for download...
Labels: 2000AD, Alan Moore, Alex Fitch, Animation, Clear Spot, Comics, Film, Podcast, TV, Writers
The first half of tonight's show is now available for download...
Labels: Alan Moore, Alex Fitch, Clear Spot, Comics, Film, Podcast, Writers
Alex Fitch concludes his 'feature length' interview with Alan Moore, talking tonight about magic, Swamp Thing, Lost Girls, movies and saving the comics industry. The second half of tonight's show also includes clips from the Justice League cartoon: 'For the man who has everything' and 'Snakes & Ladders', Alan's meditation on history and DNA...

Labels: 2000AD, Alan Moore, Alex Fitch, Broadcast Info, Clear Spot, Comics, Doctor Who, Emma Smart, Film, TV, Writers
Last night's show is now available for download...
Labels: Alan Moore, Alex Fitch, Comics, Film, Podcast, Writers
Alex Fitch interviews Alan Moore, writer of stuff about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the highs (Kev O'Neill) and lows (Rob Liefeld) of collaborating with comic book artists, his notions of magic and ideaspace and just what giant bald men in nappies had to do with American paranoia in 1950s movies!

Labels: Alan Moore, Alex Fitch, Broadcast Info, Comics, Film, Writers
Last night's show is now ready to download...
Labels: Alex Fitch, Comics, Duncan Nott, Paul Gravett, Podcast
Duncan Nott & Alex Fitch conclude their interview with Paul Gravett, talking about such topics as 'the graphic novels of Chris Ware & Raymond Briggs', 'the future of British sequential art' and 'things to hate about comics'!
Labels: Alex Fitch, Broadcast Info, Comics, Duncan Nott, Paul Gravett
Last night's show is now ready to download...
Labels: Alex Fitch, Comics, Duncan Nott, Paul Gravett, Podcast
Continuing Comic Book Month on "I'm ready for my close-up", we have the first half of Alex Fitch & Duncan Nott's interview with Paul Gravett, author of "Manga: 60 years of Japanese Comics", "Graphic Novels - Stories to change your life" and "Great British Comics". Alex and Duncan will be discussing with Paul the continuing appeal of British Comics, the evolving market for Graphic Novels and monthly 'pamplets' plus the changing censorship of the medium in general.
Labels: Alex Fitch, Broadcast Info, Comics, Duncan Nott, Paul Gravett
Originally broadcast 16th November 2006: As a companion piece to our show on Norman J. Warren Alex Fitch talks 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...
Labels: Alex Fitch, Film, Filmmakers, Horror, Podcast, Short films, Writers
Thursday night's show is now ready to download...
Labels: Alex Fitch, Comics, Duncan Nott, Podcast, Politics
It's the start of comic book month on I'm ready for my close-up, so in the first of a series of shows on four colour periodicals, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott are talking to Charles Brownstein, the director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Labels: Alex Fitch, Broadcast Info, Comics, Duncan Nott, Politics
Originally broadcast 5th October 2006: Alex Fitch interviews Joe Lawlor, who with Christine Molloy make up the film-making duo 'Desperate Optimists': a couple who make short films in a single take. Alex and Joe discuss the new film 'Daydream', which premiered at the Liverpool biennial last year plus Joe and Christine's award winning series 'Civic Life' and also mention their favourite examples of the long take in other people's films...
Links: Desperate Optimists' website
'Daydream' screening details
Buy 'Civic Life' on DVD
Civic Life review at backprojection.com
Download (mp3 format, 27mb)
Labels: Alex Fitch, Experimenta, Film, Film directors, Filmmakers, Podcast, Short films