I'm ready for my podcast

Last post...

2007-12-31T16:20:00.000-01:00

Dear loyal blogger readers, spambots et al...

this is the last entry you will find on this blog. Please use www.panelborders.wordpress.com from now on (I'll be making it look more exciting soon)...

Thanks for all your support to occasionally make this the 50th most popular blog on the 'net, especially to Joe Gordon at Forbidden Planet International, Kinga P, Paul Cornell, Dirk Deppey, Shaun Pimlott, Paul Gravett and Rich Johnston for mentions on their blogs which have sent traffic in this direction...

Hope you all have a great New Year and 'see' you at the Panel Borders blog in 2008 and beyond.

best wishes,
Alex

A day of hot chat...

2007-12-27T07:47:00.000-01:00

Broadcast today on Resonance FM from noon is a variety of the best 'chat' shows from the last twelve months. This will include a selection of "I'm ready for my close-up" and "Panel Borders" / "Strip!" and will hopefully include some of the episodes which have been podcast but not yet broadcast on air. So if you're bored of Christmas TV and want to find out why The Observer thinks Resonance is one of the top five radio events of the year, why not tune in...

Podcast: The Art of Mark Buckingham

2007-12-25T17:38:00.000-01:00

Panel Borders: The art of Mark Buckingham

Alex's and Duncan's half hour interview with Mark Buckingham about his comic book career so far drawing such titles as Spider-man, Fables, Death and Miracleman and collaborating with Chris Bachalo on Generation X and Ghost Rider 2099- originally broadcast as the first half of last week's Strip! on Resonance FM...

Happy Christmas!

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 30 mins, 27.1mb)

Today's show: Classic Childrens’ characters in Comics

2007-12-20T14:01:00.000-01:00

Today at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM - Strip!: Classic Childrens’ characters in Comics

In the last Strip! of the year, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott are looking at the depiction of beloved children’s characters in comics. First we have our interview with Mark Buckingham about reinventing classic fairy tales in Fables and the challenge of bringing something new to the character in his two year run on Spider-man.

Later in the show we have the first on air broadcast of Alex & Duncan’s conversation with Geoff Senior and Simon Furman on 25 years of Transformers, which was first podcast last summer. This is a change to the show advertised at the end of last week’s episode (which was to be about adaptations of classic literature in comics and will be broadcast in a fortnight) mainly because I accidently left the CD at home this morning…

Links: Wikipedia pages on Mark Buckingham, Fables and the comic: Peter Parker, Spider-man
Download free Marvel Comics by Mark
Partial bibliography
Interview with Mark at Silver Bullet Comics

Panel Borders: The work of Simon Spurrier

2007-12-20T12:57:00.000-01:00

Panel Borders: The work of Simon Spurrier

Alex's and Duncan's half hour interview with Simon Spurrier about his comic book career so far and writing his first novel Contract - originally broadcast as the second half of last week's Strip! on Resonance FM...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 30 mins, 28.7mb)

Today's show: Tamara Drewe and the Angel Gang!*

2007-12-13T09:39:00.000-01:00

Today at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM - Strip!: Tamara Drewe and the Angel Gang!*

*(it amuses me, anyway, to suggest Tamara has adventures as exciting as her long lost cousin Nancy...)

The first half of today's show is continuing Resonance FM's coverage of the London ComICA festival - the second half of a discussion held at the Comica festival in which Lisa Appignanesi talks to Guardian cartoonist in residence Posy Simmonds about the collection of her strips from the newspaper which has just been published as a harback graphic novel Tamara Drewe by Jonathan Cape. The talk was recorded live at the ICA last month. Please note: this discussion will not be podcast, so please tune in if you want to catch it.

In the second half of the show you'll hear an interview that Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch conducted at the Birmingham International Comics Show with British novelist and comics writer - Simon Spurrier** - about his work from acclaimed strips in 2000AD and Judge Dredd megazine such as Lobster Random and The Simping Detective to his recent forays into the American market with Gutsville and The Silver Surfer.

**not to be confused with Simon Guerrier or Paul Spurrier (it's getting like that game where you keep changing one letter to make a new word!)

Links: More info about ComICA at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com
"Read yourself Raw" profile on Posy Simmonds
Reviews of Posy's Literary Life and Tamara Drewe
Wikipedia pages on Posy Simmonds and Simon Spurrier
Simon's profile at 2000AD online
Info about Simon's novel Contract
Simon's website and myspace page
Listen to Alex's interview with Simon's frequent collaborator, Frazer Irving

Podcast: The art of Charlie Adlard

2007-12-12T20:32:00.000-01:00

Panel Borders: The art of Charlie Adlard

Alex's and Duncan's half hour interview with Charlie Adlard about his comic book career so far - originally broadcast as the second half of last week's Strip! on Resonance FM...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 32 mins, 29.4mb)

Today's show: Exploring the Smoking Cabinet

2007-12-07T11:56:00.000-01:00

Today on Resonance FM at 3.30pm Alex Fitch is guest presenting Richard Thomas' show on Ephemera - Tight Pudding and is talking to Claire Cook, Simone Pyne and Kate Grove about the "Burlesque Cinema" weekend they've curated at the Curzon Soho Cinema and Volupte Lounge in London. The Smoking Cabinet mixes short films, features (The Blue Angel), live acts and talks to explore depictions of cabaret on film from the 1890s to the 1930s.

Today's show: Tamara Drewe and the Walking Dead!

2007-12-06T13:42:00.000-01:00

Today at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM - Strip!: Tamara Drewe and the Walking Dead!

The first half of today's show is continuing Resonance FM's coverage of the London ComICA festival - the first half of a discussion held at the Comica festival in which Lisa Appignanesi talks to Guardian cartoonist in residence Posy Simmonds about the collection of her strips from the newspaper which has just been published as a harback graphic novel Tamara Drewe by Jonathan Cape. The talk was recorded live at the ICA last month. Please note: this discussion will not be podcast, so please tune in if you want to catch it.

In the second half of the show you'll hear an interview that Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch conducted at the Birmingham International Comics Show with another British comics artist - Charlie Adlard - about his work from acclaimed zombie comic The Walking Dead to Judge Dredd and the challenges of drawing Mulder and Scully in the comic book adaptation of the X-Files.

Links: More info about ComICA at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com
"Read yourself Raw" profile on Posy Simmonds
Reviews of Posy's Literary Life and Tamara Drewe
Wikipedia pages on Posy Simmonds and Charlie Adlard
Lambiek.net pages on Posy Simmonds and Charlie Adlard
Interviews with Charlie at 2000AD review and G Wie Gorilla!
Article on Charlie joining The Walking Dead at Silver Bullet Comics
Read Kim Newman's vampire story Mildrew Manor, illustrated by Charlie

Podcast: The art of Sean Phillips and Duncan Fegredo

2007-11-30T15:31:00.000-01:00

Panel Borders: The art of Sean Phillips and Duncan Fegredo

Alex's half hour long interview with Sean Phillips and Duncan Fegredo about their work in comics and their art collaborations - originally broadcast as the second half of yesterday's Strip! on Resonance FM...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 30 mins, 28.6mb)

Tonight...

2007-11-29T21:57:00.000-01:00

...there's no episode of "I'm ready for my close-up" broadcast on Resonance FM, due to the station's live coverage of the London Music Collective's 16th Anniversary...
(in case you were wondering)

Today's show: Comics for girls and (Hell) boys part 2

2007-11-29T10:45:00.000-01:00

Today at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM - Strip!: Comics for girls and (Hell) boys part 2

The first half of today's show is continuing Resonance FM's coverage of the London ComICA festival - the second half of a discussion held at the Comica festival that we started broadcasting a couple of weeks ago - in which a variety of critics discuss their love of and the cultural impact of British Girls' comics, introduced by Paul Gravett. Writer and performer Stella Duffy; Jane Purcell, author of the Radio 4 play 43 Years in the Third Form; Unskinny cartoonist Lucy Sweet; Nina Myskow, former editor of Jackie and others relish the heydays of Girl, Bunty, My Guy and more and reflect on their lessons and legacies. Hosted by Dr Mel Gibson (not that one). Please note: this discussion will not be podcast, so please tune in if you want to catch it.

In the second half of the show Alex Fitch talks to artists Duncan Fegredo and Sean Phillips in a conversation recorded at the Birmingham International Comics Show. Duncan and Sean have recently collaborated on an art book in which they start and finish each other's drawings, which spills over into their conversation style! Duncan's work includes Jay and Silent Bob - Chasing Dogma, Enigma and (to justify the title of this week's show) Hellboy - Darkness Falls. Sean has worked on Hellblazer, WildCATS, Marvel Zombies and both artists worked on the offbeat superhero comic Kid Eternity.

N.B./ As featured on last week's show: Jim Mahfood and Bill Shag's exhibition is still on at Dreamspace Gallery 'til tomorrow...

Links: More info about ComICA at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com
Article on I love girls' comics at newsarama.com
Hellboy.com
Wikipedia pages on Kid Eternity, Enigma, WildCATS, Marvel Zombies and Hellblazer
Website promoting Duncan's art book "Stuff"
2000 interview with Duncan at Sequential Tart
Sean's website
Interview with Sean at Forbidden Planet International
Splash Page Art pages on Duncan and Sean

Podcast: Animation - Great British Cartoons

2007-11-23T09:07:00.000-01:00

I'm ready for my close-up -
[Animation month] Great British Cartoons
Partially broadcast 22/11/07

Yesterday's show is now available to download now...
(mp3 format, 28.5mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Another apology...

2007-11-22T23:20:00.000-01:00

This is starting to seem like a trend, I'm afraid...
Needless to say, Resonance failed to broadcast tonight's I'm ready for my close-up again (!) except for the first five mins at the end of the half hour slot (after I rang the studio and asked what was going on).
I'm grateful for the engineer putting on the short extract of my show, but not for claiming it had been delivered late. Here's my receipt from yousendit:

Sorry that the e-mail addresses have been redacted, but as angry as I am - no, angry isn't the word, livid is closer, in fact let's go for incandescent with rage - I don't want Chris or Richard to end up with spambots sending them pornomail.

That said, should anyone wish to send an old fashioned letter of complaint to:
Resonance FM,
144 Borough High Street,
London SE1 1LB
be my guest...

Anyway, tonight's IRFMCU featuring my interview with Grant Rogers will be podcast tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Alex

Podcast: The art of Jim Mahfood

2007-11-22T22:39:00.000-01:00

Panel Borders: The art of Jim Mahfood

Alex's half hour long interview with Jim Mahfood about his career in comics so far and imminent exhibition at Dreamspace gallery (+ Alex's short chat with gallery coordinator Chloe Brooks) - originally broadcast as the first half of today's Strip! on Resonance FM...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 29 mins, 28.0mb)

Tonight's show: Animation - Great British cartoons

2007-11-22T08:43:00.000-01:00

10.30pm Resonance 104.4FM: I'm ready for my close-up [Animation month] - Great British cartoons

Alex Fitch interviews former animator Grant Rogers about his work on classic childrens' cartoons such as Father Christmas, Grandpa and Tales of Beatrix Potter - made by legendary production company TVC - as well as his work on international shows such as DuckTales and Dogtanian and the three Muskehounds.

Links: Grant's website
Wikipedia pages on Dogtanian, DuckTales, Beatrix Potter and Raymond Briggs
Animation World Network articles on TVC and Disney investing in UK programming

Today's show: Comics in galleries

2007-11-22T08:13:00.000-01:00

5pm Resonance 104.4FM: Strip! - Comics in galleries

To coincide with Thanksgiving, Alex Fitch talks to two American 'indie' comics artists who have had work exhibited in galleries this year. A couple of days before Jim Mahfood and Bill Shag have their fine art collaborations displayed in Dreamspace Gallery in London, Alex talks to Jim about his comic book career so far, the cross-over between fine art and comics and his own artistic influences. Alex also has a brief chat with Dreamspace coordinator Chloe Brooks about the gallery.

In the second half of the show it's the first broadcast of an interview previously podcast as an episode of "I'm ready for my close-up", Alex talks to Jacob Ciocci from the art collective 'Paper Rad' about the exhibition of their video art displayed at Sketch gallery in August which combined sampled images, video games and comic book iconography.

The show you may have expected this week - Comics for girls and (Hell) boys part 2, featuring the second half of ComICA's panel on Girls comics plus Alex's interview with Duncan Fegredo and Sean Phillips - will be broadcast next week as Alex wanted to strike while the iron was hot regarding Jim's exhibition.

Special thanks to Joe Gordon @ FPI for the info about Jim & Bill's show...

Links: Information about Jim & Bill's exhibition and Dreamspace gallery
More info on Jim's comic book company 40oz comics

Video Podcast: Malcolm McDowell & Lindsay Anderson

2007-11-17T09:16:00.000-01:00

I'm ready for my close-up - Malcolm McDowell & Lindsay Anderson
(video podcast) Audio version partially broadcast on 14/11/07 on Resonance FM

You can download now the video of Alex Fitch's interview with Malcolm McDowell & Mike Kaplan about their film Never Apoloigise - a personal visit with Lindsay Anderson.
There are a variety of versions of the video available to download at archive.org including 256kb & 64kb streams and downloads as well as the original 3.8Gb video. For more info and to see jpg screen grabs and an animated gif of the video, please visit the home of this podcast (vodcast / vidcast?) at archive.org

Links: Book tickets for Never Apologise at the BFI
Info on Never Apologize (sic), Lindsay Anderson and Malcolm McDowell at the IMDb
Info on Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson and The Whales of August (produced by Mike Kaplan) at wikipedia.org
Official website: neverapologize.com

Podcast: Animation - Editing cartoons

2007-11-16T12:55:00.000-01:00

I'm ready for my close-up -
[Animation month] Post-production and editing of cartoons
Originally broadcast 15/11/07

Podcast: The work of Mike Mignola

2007-11-15T21:27:00.000-01:00

Panel Borders: The work of Mike Mignola

Alex's half hour long interview with Mike Mignola about Hellboy, Hollywood and Horror Comics (sorry, couldn't resist the illeratation) - originally broadcast as the second half of Strip! on Resonance FM 15/11/07...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 32 mins, 30.6mb)

Tonight's show: Animation - Editing cartoons

2007-11-15T15:27:00.000-01:00

Tonight at 10.30pm on Resonance 104.4FM: I'm ready for my close-up - [Animation month] Post-production and editing of cartoons

Continuing IMFRCU's look at animation, Alex Fitch talks to editor Carin Anne Strohmaier (Beowulf, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Salvador Dali's Destino) about editing cartoons and the variety of post-production work needed to finish aninimated movies. Carin Anne worked for Disney on such projects as Bambi II and Lilo & Stitch II and with Robert Zemeckis on half a dozen films including the Back to the Future sequels and Contact.

N.B./ If you're planning to see Beowulf because you're a fan of the co-writer Neil Gaiman, you can listen to my interview with him about Stardust now and if you tune into the World Service over the weekend you can hear the BBC Radio adaptation of his novel Anansi Boys on Saturday at 8pm & Sunday at 9pm.

Links: Official Beowulf movie site
IMDb pages on Beowulf and Carin Anne Strohmaier
Wikipedia pages on Beowulf (movie), the original epic poem, 'motion capture' (mocap), director Robert Zemeckis and Disney's Destino
My interview with Carin Anne's husband about Cinerama
Cartoon Brew - one of the most authorative blogs on animation on the 'net

Today's show: Comics for girls and (Hell)boys

2007-11-15T14:28:00.000-01:00

Today at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM - Strip!: Comics for girls and (Hell)boys

The first half of today's show is continuing Resonance FM's coverage of the London ComICA festival - the first half of a discussion held at the Comica festival last month in which a variety of critics discuss their love of and the cultural impact of British Girls' comics, introduced by Paul Gravett. Writer and performer Stella Duffy; Jane Purcell, author of the Radio 4 play 43 Years in the Third Form; Unskinny cartoonist Lucy Sweet; Nina Myskow, former editor of Jackie and others relish the heydays of Girl, Bunty, My Guy and more and reflect on their lessons and legacies. Hosted by Dr Mel Gibson (not that one).

In the second half of the show Alex Fitch talks to Mike Mignola about his career from his inauspicious start on comics such as Rocket Raccoon and the Chronicles of Corum to his work in Hollywood on Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula & Guillermo del Toro's Blade II and his popular Hellboy franchise that has spread into prose novels, movies, cartoons and video games.

Links: More info about ComICA at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com
Article on I love girls' comics at newsarama.com
Websites on Hellboy - comics, movies and cartoons
Wikipedia and IMDb pages on Mike Mignola

Podcast: Art as Play part 2

2007-11-14T15:10:00.000-01:00

Clear spot: Art as play part 2

The second of a two part look at the exhibition 'Play' which is currently on at the Cello factory near Waterloo. The exhibtion mixes established British artists like Jake & Dinos Chapman and Bob and Roberta smith with up and coming artists such as Natasha Kissell and Peter Harrop. The exhibtion is about the nature of play and playful activities and how gallery visitors interact with works of art on display.

In the second instalment, Alex Fitch is talking to three of the artists who have work displayed in the exhibition: Neil Zakiewicz whose piece is an electric guitar in the shape of a giant artist's pallette and pain brush, with the amplifier disguised as an abstract painting, Natasha Kissell about her 3 dimensional painting that combines countryside painting with architects maquetts to create a fantasy landscape in a perspex box and Sarah Baker who has made a mixed media scultpture challenging the perception of fashion in art. (mp3 format, 13.8mb)

N.B./ The exhibtion is appointment only - please phone 020 70340699 or e-mail cellofactory (at) aol.com

For more info and a variety of formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Listen to the preceding instalment
Info on Play at (contributing artist) Peter Harrap and Bear Space's websites
Map of The Cello Factory in Waterloo
Natasha's website
Info on Neil and Sarah at www.re-title.com

Today's show: Malcolm McDowell & Lindsay Anderson

2007-11-14T14:33:00.000-01:00

Wednesday 5.45pm - Micro Clear spot: Malcolm McDowell and Lindsay Anderson

Today's clear spot is Alex Fitch's interview with the presenter / star (Malcolm McDowell) and the director (Mike Kaplan) of the new film Never Apologise - a personal visit with Lindsay Anderson currently showing at the London BFI Southbank. Alex discusses with Malcolm and Mike the experience of working with their mentor on a variety of projects on stage and screen, focussing on If... and O lucky man!.

Links: Book tickets for Never Apologise at the BFI
Info on Never Apologize (sic), Lindsay Anderson and Malcolm McDowell at the IMDb
Info on Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson and The Whales of August (produced by Mike Kaplan) at wikipedia.org
Official website: neverapologize.com

Podcast: Animation - Creating great cartoon characters

2007-11-12T14:36:00.000-01:00

Last thursday's I'm ready for my close-up is now available for download...
(mp3 format, 28.6mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

An apology...

2007-11-10T00:01:00.000-01:00

If you're one of the visitors who come this or Joe's blog for info about the shows I co-produce on Resonance and then tune in to the station to listen to them, I apologise that Monday's Clear Spot went out on tuesday lunchtime and that Thursday's Clear Spot and Friday's I'm ready for my podcast repeat were replaced by entirely different shows.

I delivered my shows to Resonance on time this week (sorry about both of the previous thursday's shows being a couple of mins late) and expected them to be broadcast. I don't work at the station but have a full time job elsewhere, so other than tuning in to check that the show is actually being broadcast and then phoning the station to complain when it isn't, I have no control over what is or isn't broadcast on Resonance FM.
Hopefully this won't happen again. At least (with the exclusion of the ComICA talks) all the advertised shows are podcast, so at least you can listen to them at your leisure if not on your car radio...

Today's show: Larger than life part 1

2007-11-09T09:51:00.000-01:00

Today on Resonance 104.4 FM at 5pm I'm ready for my podcast - Larger than life part 1

The first of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinema. In part one, Alex Fitch interviews David Strohmaier, director of the documentary Cinerama Adventure which looks at the rise and fall of the seminal 1950s big screen format from its initial use as a military application, how the revolutionary three camera and projector format was used for nature documentaries and feature films to its disuse and legacy in other large screen formats.

The follow up to this episode which is Alex's interview with Dennis Laws, the technical and general manager of the BFI London IMAX cinema, about the eclectic mix of films shown at the IMAX cinema will be broadcast in two weeks time, following a special episode next week which I'm not going to jinx by mentioning just yet!

This show was originally podcast on 26th July 2007 during Resonance's summer hiatus...

Links: IMDb entry for Cinerama Adventure
David's website
Wikipedia page on Cinerama
Info about Bradford's Cinerama and 70mm cinema, the National Media Museum and the next screening of This is Cinerama

Tonight's show: Animation - Creating great cartoon characters

2007-11-08T09:33:00.000-01:00

10.30pm - I'm ready for my close-up [Animation month]: Creating great cartoon characters

In a show recorded 'live' in front of a studio audience, Alex Fitch interviews former Disney animator Vincent Woodcock about working on such films as The Tigger Movie and DuckTales: Treasure of the lost lamp as well as writing a book on creating cartoon characters. This is the start of animation month on IRFMCU and was recorded live at last month's Hectic Peelers event at the Roxy bar and screen...

Links: Buy Vincent's book from amazon.co.uk
Wikipedia pages on The Tigger Movie/, DuckTales the movie and Bimble's Bucket
Cartoon Brew - one of the most authorative blogs on animation on the 'net

Today's shows: ComICA coverage continues

2007-11-08T09:10:00.000-01:00

Today on Resonance 104.4 FM we have two more talks culled from the ComICA archives...

5pm Strip! - Achtung! Commando!; The Art of War Comics
Gung-ho but blood-free, the pocket-sized Commando has been winning the war for over 4,000 issues. Experts Steve Holland and David Roach consider the artistry and evolution of war comics with those who created them.

8pm Clear Spot - Posy Simmonds @ ComICA
Continuing Resonance FM’s coverage of the London ComICA festival: In a conversation with Lisa Appignanesi, Posy Simmonds discusses and draws characters from her very fine new graphic novel Tamara Drewe, serialised in The Guardian and reworked into a book from Jonathan Cape.

N.B./ these talks will not be podcast, so make sure you listen to them while they're being broadcast as I don't know when the repeat may be...

Links: More info about ComICA at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com
Buy Tamara Drewe and Commando Graphic Novels at Forbidden Planet International
Steve Holland's blog
Download Tamara Drewe from The Guardian website
Wikipedia pages on Posy Simmonds and Commando Comics

Tonight's event: Happiness of the Katakuris

2007-11-06T10:25:00.000-01:00

Screening at the Roxy Bar & Screen: The Happiness of the Katakuris 7.30pm

It's time for this month's Hectic Peelers Cinema Club, so why not come down to the Roxy Bar & Screen on Borough High Street and watch Miike Takashi's delirious horror musical The Happiness of the Katakuris which mixes The Sound of Music, Psycho & The Evil Dead to great aplomb. A remake of the Korean black comedy The Quiet Family, ...Katakuris is one of Miike's most popular films (after Audition) and there will be an introduction and post-screening Q&A by Electric Sheep Magazine critics Richard Thomas, Virginie Selavy & Alex Fitch...
Doors open at 6.30pm.

Links: Roxy Bar & Screen
Electric Sheep Magazine
IMDb and Wikipedia pages on The Happiness of the Katakuris
Listen to Joel Karamath & Virginie Selavy's presentation of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song at September's Hectic Peelers

N.B./ October's presentation of Belleville Rendezvous by Alex Fitch and Vincent Woodcock will be broadcast as this thursday's I'm ready for my close-up

Podcast: Art as play part 1

2007-11-05T16:22:00.000-01:00

Originally broadcast Monday 05/11/07 4.30pm -
Clear spot: Art as play part 1

Today's Clear Spot is now ready to download...
(mp3 format, 13.8mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Today's show: Art as Play part 1

2007-11-05T08:34:00.000-01:00

Monday 4.30pm - Clear spot: Art as play part 1
The first of two micro clear spots looking at the exhibition 'Play' currently on at The Cello Factory near Waterloo. Alex Fitch interviews curator Julia Alvarez & art collector Sara Pierce about the exhibtion which celebrates ineractivity and playfulness in art, there's an extract from Doug Fishbone's conceptual video Footprints in the sand and some music by The Heard, a local community choir who performed at the opening night.

(Next week - interviews with artists Natasha Kissell, Sarah Baker & Niel Zakiewicz)

N.B./ The exhibtion is appointment only - please phone 020 70340699 or e-mail cellofactory (at) aol.com

Links: Info on Play at (contributing artist) Peter Harrap and Bear Space's websites
Map of The Cello Factory in Waterloo
Article on The Heard from The Guardian
The Heard's myspace page

Forthcoming shows: ComICA & LFF

2007-11-01T15:02:00.000-01:00

Too much work means I can't do a proper blog update for the next couple of days - check out Joe's blog at FPI for info about Resonance's ComICA coverage (N.B./ tomorrow's Clear Spot is at 2pm) and I'm ready for my close-up continues it's look at the LFF today and tomorrow at 10.30pm & 5pm as per... with James DC, Mark Stafford and Tom Geens...
Normal service will be resumed next week!

Today's show: Pete Tombs' guide to horror

2007-10-31T11:30:00.000-01:00

In tonight's Clear Spot, Alex Fitch and horror film producer Pete Tombs talk about horror films from all around the world. Mr Tombs recently produced the Lollywood horror film Hell's Ground / Zibahkhana so Alex and Pete discuss the making of that, Pete's documentary series on international horror and which scary films both of them have enjoyed in recent years.

Resonance 104.4 FM, 8pm Samhain...

The first third of this interview was previously podcast as part of a programme specifically about Hell's Ground, which you can get more info about here...

Links: Reviews of Pete's books at The extraordinary movie and video guide
The Mondo Macabro DVD label
Wikipedia pages on Lollywood cinema and Hell's Ground

Podcast: Comics gossip and Flying friars part 2

2007-10-30T14:09:00.000-01:00

The second half of Alex and Duncan's hour long interview with Rich Johnston about Lying in the gutters and controversy in comics is available to download now...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 25th September as the second half of Strip!.

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 29 mins, 28.3mb)

Links: Rich's column Lying in the gutters
Wikipedia entry on Rich Johnston
Buy The Flying Friar from FPI

Podcast: Asif Kapadia's Far North

2007-10-30T09:40:00.000-01:00

To compliment the live review shows that take up I'm ready for my close-up during this year's London Film Festival, we have the second of a series of exclusive podcasts featuring interviews with filmmakers and programmers involved in this year's LFF. Virginie Selavy interviews Asif Kapadia, director of The Warrior, about his new film Far North which premieres at this year's LFF - download now... (edited by Alex Fitch)
(mp3 format, 28.6mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Round-up of what to see at the LFF at Electric Sheep Magazine
Book tickets to see Far North
IMDb page on Far North
Wikipedia page on Asif Kapadia

Podcast: Comics gossip and Flying friars part 1

2007-10-29T21:15:00.000-01:00

The first half of Alex and Duncan's hour long interview with Rich Johnston about The Flying Friar and Lying in the gutters is available to download now...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 25th September as the first half of Strip!.

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 26 mins, 25.6mb)

Links: Rich's column Lying in the gutters
Wikipedia entry on Rich Johnston
Buy The Flying Friar from FPI
More info on CSI: Dying in the Gutters

Podcast: 15 years of Professor Bernice Summerfield part 1

2007-10-28T16:49:00.000-01:00

As the hour long version of this show may not be something listeners want to download in one go (and to alleviate the strain on the server), Wednesday's Clear Spot is available to download - this is part 1 of 2...
(mp3 format, 28.8mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Podcast: 15 years of Professor Bernice Summerfield part 2

2007-10-28T16:43:00.000-01:00

As the hour long version of this show may not be something listeners want to download in one go (and to alleviate the strain on the server), Wednesday's Clear Spot is available to download - this is part 2 of 2...
(mp3 format, 27.9mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Tonight's show: The 51st London Film Festival part 3

2007-10-25T19:42:00.000Z

Tonight on I'm ready for my close-up at 10.30pm on Resonance FM, John Riley, James DeCarteret & Tom Geens begin the second week of discussion and preview of the films they've seen at this year's London Film Festival, tonight focussing on two films showing in the avant-garde strand of the LFF - Seven easy pieces and Milky way...

Links: The 51st London Film Festival
Our show on History on film which covers films shown at last year's festival
Alex's reviews of last year's festival

Today's show: Comics gossip and Flying Friars

2007-10-25T13:29:00.000Z

Today on Resonance 104.4FM at 5pm - Strip!: Comics gossip and Flying Friars

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview infamous comics gossip columnist Rich Johnston about Lying in the Gutters for over a decade, being murdered in an (illustrated comic book) episode of CSI and writing a graphic novel about a 17th century monk whose life is strangely similar to a certain boy from Smallville's...

Links: Rich's column Lying in the gutters
Wikipedia entry on Rich Johnston
Buy The Flying Friar from FPI

In comics news:

ComICA at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London is on now and continues until November 6th and sees performances, screenings and live talks with the likes of Jamie Delano, Posy Simmonds and Kevin O'Neil.

More info at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com

Podcast: Fifteen years of Professor Bernice Summerfield

2007-10-24T11:15:00.000Z

Last night's Clear Spot is now ready to download...
Please Note: THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.
(mp3 format, 60mins, 57.2mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Podcast: The Mark of Aeacus

2007-10-24T11:13:00.001Z

Alex Fitch's interview with Zan Christensen about The Mark of Aeacus is available to download now...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 18th September as a part of Strip!.

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 14.3mb)

Links - Zan's company, Northwest Comics
Article on Greek myths which influenced The Mark of Aeacus
Prisim Comics a company that supports LGBT comic creators, of which Zan was the founding President
Buy The Mark of Aeacus from 'Rabbit Valley comics'

Tonight's show: 15 years of Professor Bernice Summerfield

2007-10-23T16:43:00.001Z

Tonight at 8pm on Resonance 104.4FM in an hour long Clear Spot, Alex Fitch investigates the best science fiction heroine most people have never heard (of) - Professor Bernice Summerfield, Benny to her friends.
Starting off as a Doctor Who companion in the novels published by Virgin books after the original TV series was cancelled in 1989, Benny has since appeared in over a hundred books, over 60 without the Doctor and 40 full cast 'radio' plays released on CD in specialist shops. Alex talks to the actress who plays Benny - Lisa Bowerman - the actor who plays her fictional husband - Stephen Fewell - and outgoing producer of the series, Simon Guerrier. Simon in turn interviews actress Sophie Aldred who appeared alongside Lisa in a few of the dramas and Gareth Roberts (Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Code) who has written Benny adventures. Finally, Sci-Fi critic and writer Graham Sleight interviews the character's creator Paul Cornell plus there's even a preview of Benny's next adventure and a competition as well...

Links: Wikipedia entry on Bernice Summerfield
Read the Doctor Who novels: Human Nature and The Dying Days which feature Benny
Buy Benny books and audio CDs from Big Finish
Simon's blog
Graham's website
Paul's blog

Podcast: Neil Gaiman's Stardust

2007-10-21T22:39:00.000Z

Alex Fitch's interview with Neil Gaiman about Stardust and other adaptations of his work is available to download now...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Monday 15th September as a special 'Clear Spot'.

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 14.6mb)

In comics news:

ComICA at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London is on now and continues until November 6th and sees performances, screenings and live talks with the likes of Jamie Delano, Posy Simmonds and Kevin O'Neil.

More info at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com

Podcast: Short films at The London Film Festival

2007-10-20T21:26:00.000Z

To compliment the live review shows that take up I'm ready for my close-up during this year's London Film Festival, we have the first of a series of exclusive podcasts featuring interviews with filmmakers and programmers involved in this year's LFF. Virginie Selavy interviews curators Simon Young and Philip Ilson about the short films they've chosen for this year's festival - download now... (edited by Alex Fitch)
(mp3 format, 27.5mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Read a partial extract of Virginie's interview at Electric Sheep Magazine
More info about Halloween shorts curated by Philip
Philip's "Death to short film" manifesto as quoted at The Dawn Chorus
Info on short films curator by Simon at remotegoat.co.uk
Simon's Shorts International website

Podcast: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 3

2007-10-19T19:46:00.000Z

The final part of Alex & Duncan's interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing Witchblade: Shades of Grey, Leah's Christmas Stamps story and the kind of comics they'd like to do in the future. Unfortunately this interview was recorded using Skype on a noisy computer and is not the best quality, so we recommend you listen to it using speakers rather than headphones...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 27th September as part of Strip!. Panel Borders is Alex and Duncan's contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 16.3mb)

Links: Leah and John's website and blog
Interview with John & Leah about their recent work at Forbidden Planet International's blog
Interview with Leah at dragonskeep.com

In comics news:

ComICA at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London starts tomorrow and continues until November 6th and sees performances, screenings and live talks with the likes of Jamie Delano, Posy Simmonds and Kevin O'Neil.

More info at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com

Today's show: The 51st London Film Festival part 2

2007-10-19T15:41:00.000Z

Today on Friday's extra episode of I'm ready for my close-up at 5pm on Resonance FM, Mark Stafford, James DeCarteret & Tom Geens continue to discuss and preview the films they've seen at this year's London Film Festival.

Links: The 51st London Film Festival
Our show on History on film which covers films shown at last year's festival
Alex's reviews of last year's festival

Tonight's show: The 51st London Film Festival part 1

2007-10-18T15:17:00.001Z

Tonight on I'm ready for my close-up at 10.30pm on Resonance FM, Mark Stafford, James DeCarteret & Tom Geens discuss and preview the films they've seen at this year's London Film Festival.

Links: The 51st London Film Festival
Our show on History on film which covers films shown at last year's festival
Alex's reviews of last year's festival

Today's show: Comic book writers

2007-10-18T14:47:00.000Z

Today's Strip! at 5pm on Resonance FM is comprised of three interviews with comic book writers...

In a repeat of Monday's clear spot, Alex Fitch interviews renowned author Neil Gaiman about the big screen adaptation of his illustrated novel Stardust which was originally serialised by DC Comics.
Then, Alex interviews Zan Christensen about his homoerotic vigilante comic The Mark of Aeacus which looks to Greek Myths for its inspiration.
For the second half of the hour long show, we're broadcasting the previously podcast interview author Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, Xtnct) conducted with prolific comic book writer Peter David (The Incredible Hulk, Fallen Angel) about his career...

Links:

Neil Gaiman - Neil's website
Wikipedia entries on Neil, Stardust and Anansi Boys
Official movie website
Dreamhaven's online book shop

Zan Christensen - Zan's company, Northwest Comics
Article on Greek myths which influenced The Mark of Aeacus

Peter David - Wikipedia entries on:
Peter David, Paul Cornell, The Spectacular Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk and Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man
IDW page on Fallen Angel
Marvel pages on Peter's The Dark Tower and Paul's Wisdom

Podcast: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 2

2007-10-17T20:55:00.000Z

The second part of Alex & Duncan's interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing Wildgirl, moving to Dynamite Entertainment and John Reppion's Zombie Army. Unfortunately this interview was recorded using Skype on a noisy computer and is not the best quality, so we recommend you listen to it using speakers rather than headphones...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 27th September as part of Strip!. Panel Borders is Alex and Duncan's contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 14.4mb)

Links: Leah and John's website and blog
Buy a John Reppion's Zombie Army T-shirt
Interview with Leah about Wildgirl at www.thecomicfanatic.com
Dynamite Entertainment press release about John & Leah moving to their company

Podcast: Uncut interview - David Hine and Frazer Irving

2007-10-17T20:40:00.000Z

Continuing our occasional series of hour long uncut versions of the interviews that were recorded for I'm ready for my close-up and Panel Borders, we have Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott's complete interview with Frazer Irving & David Hine about their comics work such as Gutsville, Shaun of the dead, X-Men: The 198 and Spawn

This interview has been previous partially podcast in two halves and was broadcast in almost its entirety on 4th October

(mp3 format, 34.0mb / 37 mins)

Today's show: Neil Gaiman & Stardust

2007-10-15T09:03:00.000Z

An extra airing of Panel Borders this week (to be repeated on Friday at 5pm):

Alex Fitch interviews writer, producer and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman about the big screen version of his illustrated novel Stardust as well as other adaptations of his work such as Anansi Boys and Neverwhere.
A BBC radio adaptation of Ananzi Boys is to be broadcast on the World Service on the 17th November* and Stardust is released in cinemas throughout the UK on Friday.
*Ignore my proclamation at the end of the episode where I suggest it's to be broadcast on wednesday - I got the month wrong... (d'oh)

Links: Neil's website
WIkipedia entries on Neil, Stardust and Anansi Boys
Official movie website
Dreamhaven's online book shop

Podcast: The p0rnification of visual culture

2007-10-12T15:01:00.000Z

Last night's show is now ready to download...
(mp3 format, 57.2mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Podcast: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 1

2007-10-12T14:32:00.000Z

The first part of Alex & Duncan's interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing variously for the Fortean Times and Albion and the thorny issue of obtaining back issues of their work. Unfortunately this interview was recorded using Skype on a noisy computer and is not the best quality, so we recommend you listen to it using speakers rather than headphones...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 27th September as part of Strip!. Panel Borders is Alex and Duncan's contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 15.4mb)

Links: Leah and John's website and blog
Publishers Weekly article on Albion
John's article on The Childe of Hale

Tonight's show: The p0rnification of visual culture

2007-10-11T11:40:00.000Z

Tonight on "I'm ready for my close-up":

Alex Fitch talks to former presenter of Midnight S£x Talk - Tania Glyde - about the increasing p0rnification of visual media, from advertising to art, film to fromage. As both the ICA & Barbican in London have s£x based festivals on this month, it seems p0rn is being increasingly celebrated in our culture, so Alex and Tania look at some of the reasons why.
(Sorry to have to write the description in 'Leet' but I don't want dirty spam on my blog!)

10.30pm (BST) Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Info about Cleaning up, Tania's new book
Article on s£x by Tania in The Independant
Buy books by Ms. Glyde from amazon.com

Please note: some of the following links contain images and words that might upset the prudish!... (ask guidance from your parents / therapist etc. before visiting)

Visit midnights£xtalk.com
Download episodes of Midnight s£x talk at podcasts.resonancefm.com including shows about:
S£x in the movies, the fascination with Psychos and Censorship, which feature Alex (!)
Info about The Barbican's s£x exhibtion, - Seduced - and last week's Swedish £rotica season at the ICA

Podcast: Cult entertainment for Autumn

2007-10-08T12:42:00.000Z

Thursday night's show is now ready to download...
(mp3 format, 28.7mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Podcast: The art of Andrzej Klimowski part 2 (Putting silent movies on the page)

2007-10-08T11:47:00.000Z

Alex Fitch concludes his interview with artist, novelist and lecturer at The Royal College of Art, Andrzej Klimowski about his graphic novels 'The Depository', 'The Secret' and 'Horace Dorlan' plus his work on the 'Introducing...' / '...for beginners' books. Alex and Andrzej talk about the latter's artistic influences focussing in particular on his interest in silent movies.

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 4th October as part of Strip! (mp3 format, 15.1mb). Panel Borders is Alex's contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour...

To listen to the first half of the interview, please click here.

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Andrzej's biography as reported on his website
Review of Andrzej's exhibition catalogue and examples of his poster art
Interview conducted by Paul Gravett
Buy Andrzej's books at amazon.co.uk

Today's show: Running stumbled with Jonathan Maringouin

2007-10-05T16:03:00.000Z

Today's I'm ready for my podcast 'repeat' on Resonance FM at 5pm...

Virginie Sélavy interviews John Maringouin, director of the documentary Running Stumbled, whose film is a semi-improvised recreation and document of the self destructive relationship between the director's father and his partner.

Originally podcast on August 9th, click here for more info...

Tonight's show: Cult entertainment for Autumn

2007-10-04T14:32:00.000Z

Tonight on "I'm ready for my close-up" at 10.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM, Alex Fitch is talking to two programmers of very different kinds of cult entertainment.
Robert Rider is a programmer at the Barbican cinema in London which has gained reknown for a variety of different events and festivals throughout the year. Today sees the start of their Brazillian film festival and November the yearly Children's film festival not to mention regular screenings of Silent movies with live accompaniment and their regular Anime slot.
Alex Geairns is a director of the Cult TV festival taking place in Oxfordshire from the 19th to the 22nd of October which is a gathering of fans, creators and stars of Cult TV from the 1960s to the present day and features such guests as Sylvia Anderson (co-creator of Thunderbirds), Matthew Graham (creator of Life on Mars) and Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch)...

Links: Guide to the Cult TV weekend
Film homepage at The Barbican

Today's show: The art of Andrzej Klimowski and the work of Hine and Irving

2007-10-04T14:07:00.000Z

Tonight's Strip! at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM is comprised of two interviews previously partially podcast...
First we have the complete interview Alex Fitch conducted with Andrzej Klimowski about his half dozen Graphic Novels which range from silent movie surrealist Traumnovelles to "Beginner's guides to..." art and philosphy. Later we have Duncan Nott & Alex's interview with comics creators David Hine & Frazer Irving who have made super heroes comics with a twist, horror stories and graphic fantasies.

There are podcasts already available of the first half of the interview with Andrzej and a shorter version of the interview with David and Frazer...

Incidently, if you're waiting for a podcast of the interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion, I'm cleaning up the sound before it gets archived for posterity and cutting it into podcast sized pieces!

Today's show: Looking back at "Sweetback"

2007-09-28T11:35:00.000Z

On Friday afternoons on Resonance FM at 5pm, there's a new slot for repeats of I'm ready for my close-up. Rather than just repeat the show from the night before, we thought it might be nice to take the opportunity to broadcast some of the episodes that were podcast while Resonance was off-schedule during the summer for the benefit of luddites who don't go in for all this podcasting nonsense.

Today, we're airing a podcast from 3 weeks ago - Joel Karamath talking about the career of Melvin van Peebles and his seminal film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. This was recorded at the first Resonance FM / Electric Sheep film club at The Roxy bar and screen, so this seems a good time to air the repeat as the next film club is on Tuesday from 7.30pm where Alex Fitch will be talking to former Disney animator Vincent Woodcock about character design in animation alongside a screening of Sylvain Chomet's Belleville Rendezvous and his rarely seen short film The Old lady and the pigeons.

If you just can't wait 'til 5 o'clock, you can find the podcast here.

Tonight's show: Gypsy Caravan and the Raindance Festival

2007-09-27T12:58:00.001Z

Also, tonight at 10.30pm, I'm ready for my close-up is back on air, starting with a compliation of two interviews recorded for podcast. Alex Fitch talks to Gypsy Caravan director Jasmine Dellal and I for India director Sandhya Suri plus Virginie Sélavy interviews Suzanne Ballantyne, lead programmer of the Raindance Festival.

If you'd like to hear those interviews in their original context you can do so now and you can find links on each of the two pages:
Suzanne Ballantyne (Art-house cinema podcast) /
Jasmine Dellal and Sandhya Suri (IRFMCU 13/09/07)

Today's show: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion

2007-09-27T12:56:00.000Z

From this evening, Panel Borders moves to thursdays as part of an hour long magazine show about comics called "Strip!" at 5pm and to kick off, the whole of tonight's show is an interview conducted by Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott with writers Leah Moore and John Reppion.
Leah & John talk about writing comics such as Wild Girl, Albion, Raise the dead and Savage Tales for Wildstorm and Dynamite Entertainment... Leah also talks about her dad introducing her to the wonders of comics and writing last year's Christmas Stamps short story, while John talks about writing for The Fortean Times and gathering his zombie army!

Links: Leah and John's website and blog
comicon.con interview with Leah & John about Raise the dead
Publishers Weekly article on Albion

Podcast: Art House cinema podcast, September '07 - Raindance special

2007-09-26T17:36:00.000Z

It's Resonance FM's latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released this month at 'Art House' cinemas in London and also showing at the Raindance Film Festival... This show is presented by Alex Fitch with contributions from Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) and Michael Hall (video shop manager and lead singer of the band Nebraska... In this episode there's also an exclusive interview with Suzanne Ballantyne, lead programmer of the Raindance Festival.
You can stream the show by clicking here and pressing the play button or right click here to save the mp3 file direct to your computer...

Films reviewed include Disturbia, Syndromes and a century, Drawing Restraint 9, The Amazing Lives of the fast-food grifters, Exhibit A and The Boss of it all.

Links: You can read print versions of Virginie's reviews in Electric Sheep Magazine
Londonnet's guide to all the times and locations of all films currently showing in the Capital's cinemas
Alex's interview with Allan Moyle, director of festival opener Weirdsville

(mp3 format, 28mins / 26.9mb)

Podcast: The art of W. Heath Robinson and the work of The Cartoon Museum

2007-09-24T21:48:00.000Z

Today's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 13.9mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Today's show: W. Heath Robinson and the work of The Cartoon Museum

2007-09-24T14:30:00.000Z

Today's Panel Borders is at the earlier time of 4.30pm, but hey! we're back on Resonance FM, so listen to it on your radio for the full sensorial experience...

Alex Fitch interviews Anita O'Brien, curator at The Cartoon Museum in London about their current exhibition on W. Heath Robinson and the ongoing work of the gallery...

Please note: Heath Robinson’s Helpful Solutions ends on October 7th and the museum is closed on Mondays.

Tomorrow and next week there are talks in the museum as follows:

25 September 6.30 - 7.30 pm
The Englishness of Heath Robinson
Simon Heneage, co-curator of the exhibition and author of the catalogue Heath Robinson's Helpful Solutions, gives an illustrated talk on what makes William Heath Robinson one of the most English of all British cartoonists.

3 October 6.30 - 7.30 pm
Innovative space-making and architecture inspired by Heath Robinson's Inventive World.
CJ Lim, Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at UCL's Bartles School of Architecture, and Heath Robinson enthusiast, talks about his love of the artist's work and how it inspires his own designs.

Links: Wikipedia pages on The Cartoon Museum and W. Heath Robinson
The Cartoon Museum website
The William Heath Robinson Trust website
The BBC's Comics Britannia website

Podcast: The weird(sville) films of Allan Moyle

2007-09-20T22:18:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now ready to download...
(mp3 format, 27.7mb)

N.B./ Tonight's show's contains very strong language !

So, if you are offended by such phrases as c**k-s**k*r and mother-f****r (which crop up frequently in Allan's reenactment of dealings with one of the producers of his films!), you have been warned!

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Tonight's show: The Weird(sville) films of Allan Moyle

2007-09-20T11:08:00.000Z

Concluding I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...

Alex Fitch interviews Allan Moyle, the cult film director of such classic movies as Pump up the Volume and Empire Records about his career and his new film Weirdsville which opens next week's Raindance Film Festival.

Check back here around 10.30pm BST to download the show or click on one of the following links to download / stream the show from the Internet Archive, Feedburner or iTunes...

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... Normal service will be resumed on Monday.
The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Official Weirdsville site
IMDb pages on Weirdsville and Allan's films
Wikipedia page on Allan Moyle
Allan's website
Raindance Film Festival website

Podcast: The art of Andrzej Klimowski part 1 (Putting the novel into graphics)

2007-09-17T16:45:00.000Z

Alex Fitch interviews artist, novelist and lecturer at The Royal College of art, Andrzej Klimowski about his graphic novels 'The Depository', 'The Secret' and 'Horace Dorlan' plus his work on the 'Introducing...' / '...for beginners' books. Alex and Andrzej talk about the latter's literary and artistic influences as well as the evolution of his artistic style.

As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 14.3mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Andrzej's biography as reported on his website
Review of Andrzej's exhibition catalogue and examples of his poster art
Interview conducted by Paul Gravett
Buy Andrzej's books at amazon.co.uk

Podcast: New Female Directors

2007-09-13T22:08:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 26.4mb)

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...

In a show recorded live at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Alex Fitch talks to two new female directors who have made two very different debut feature films. In I for India Sandhya Suri has collated 40 years of home movie footage of her family in Britain and India that tells the poignant tale of loved ones separated by land and culture, while in Gypsy Caravan Jasmine Dellal has created an epic concert movie with the cinematographer of Monteray Pop that showcases Romany music that will hopefully prove to be this decade’s Buena vista social club...

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM later in the Autumn

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: IMDb pages on Gypsy Caravan and I for India
I for India official website
Gypsy Caravan official website
Wikipedia's list of female directors
What's on at the ICA cinema?

Podcast: Putting the graphics into novels

2007-09-10T16:25:00.000Z

Alex Fitch talks to David Brawn from Harper Collins about their range of graphic novels which include comic book adaptations of the works of J.R.R.Tolkein, Agatha Christie & C.S.Lewis as well as original fantasy and horror titles such as Abadazad and The Nightmare Factory.

As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 13.8mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: The fortunes of graphic novels in libraries in America
UK growth of Graphic novel sales
Wikipedia pages on Christie artist Solidor and Abadazad
Lambiek.net page on Solidor
Harper Collins' Graphic Novels and Agatha Christie titles

Podcast: Looking back at "Sweetback"

2007-09-06T21:34:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.5mb)

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...

In a show recorded live at the inaugural Resonance FM / Electric Sheep Magazine monthly film club at the Roxy Bar and Screen in London's Borough High Street, Virginie Sélavy introduces a talk and Q & A conducted by Joel Karamath.
Joel, host of the ICA's Uncut film night, looks at the career of Melvin van Peebles and his seminal film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
As the talk was performed in a surround sound theatre with Joel & Virginie standing close to both the speakers and the recording device, there is unfortunately a pronounced echo in the playback, however sit back and imagine Joel is performing his speech with a megaphone at a political rally in the 1970s and suddenly it might feel a lot more authentic! Tonight's show was recorded and edited by Alex Fitch.

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM later in the Autumn

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Electric Sheep Magazine
Virginie's review of the film
The Roxy Bar and Screen's website and page on yesterday's event
Wikipedia's page on the movie
Joel's notes on other black movies @ bfi.org.uk
Info on Joel's film night at the ICA

Podcast: Hine and Irving's Silent War(s) part 2

2007-09-03T16:55:00.000Z

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott conclude their interview with artist Frazer Irving and writer / artist David Hine, looking at politics in comics, artistic influences on pencillers and inkers, plus their recent collaboration on Marvel's Silent War.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 13.7mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia pages on David Hine and Frazer Irving
Frazer's website
More info on Spawn
Interview with Frazer about Silent War
Interview with David about X-Men: the 198 & Son of M

Podcast: 'Bolly Horror' and the making of "Hell's Ground"

2007-08-30T21:44:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now ready to download... (mp3 format, 28.4mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Tonight's show: 'Bolly Horror' and the making of "Hell's Ground"

2007-08-30T12:38:00.000Z

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...
Alex Fitch interviews Pete Tombs, producer of Zibahkhana (Hell's Ground)** and writer of Mondo Macabro plus Tejinder Jouhal, a film programmer at the ICA about their season of 'Bolly Horror' movies.

**technically this is 'Lolly Horror' as the film was made in Pakistan, but I'm going with the ICA's name for their season...

Check back here around 10.30pm BST to download the show or click on one of the following links to download / stream the show from the Internet Archive, Feedburner or iTunes...

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Info about the 'Bolly Horror' season at the ICA and tomorrow's screening of Zibahkhana
Reviews of Pete's books at The extraordinary movie and video guide
Info on the cross London India Now season
The Mondo Macabro DVD label
Wikipedia pages on Bollywood cinema, Lollywood cinema and Hell's Ground

Podcast: Hine and Irving's Silent War(s) part 1

2007-08-27T13:26:00.000Z

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Frazer Irving and writer / artist David Hine about their work in comics from early strips in 2000AD to their recent collaboration on Marvel's Silent War.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 14.2mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia pages on David Hine and Frazer Irving
Frazer's website
Articles by David on the 2006 Bristol Expo, continuity and adverts in comics
A vampire story and a Sherlock Holmes story illustrated by Frazer

Podcast: Art House cinema podcast, August '07

2007-08-24T16:13:00.000Z

Looking for something to do on a rainy August bank holiday? Why not listen to Resonance FM's latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released this month at 'Art House' cinemas in London for advice... This show is presented by Alex Fitch with contributions from Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) and Kim Morgan (former presenter of the Resonance FM show Midnight Sex Talk, whose birthday it is today)... In this episode there's also an exclusive interview with Sandhya Suri, director of I for India.

You can stream the show by clicking here and pressing the play button or right click here to save the mp3 file direct to your computer...

Films reviewed include I for India, Transylvania, 12:08 East of Bucharest, Born and Bred and Hallam Foe.

Links: You can read print versions of Virginie's reviews in Electric Sheep Magazine where you'll also find a transcript of Alex's interview with Sandhya.
More info about what's on at the ICA and the Renoir
Londonnet's guide to all the times and locations of all films currently showing in the Capital's cinemas

(mp3 format, 36mins / 34.1mb)

Podcast: London Frightfest 2007

2007-08-23T23:27:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.9mb)

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...

Alex Fitch interviews video shop manager Michael Hall about his thoughts on the horror genre and previews he's seen of this year's Frightfest horror film marathon in London, including reviews of Black Sheep, Daywatch and Disturbia. Also, in an interview conducted a year ago, Alex talks to film student Greta Mills about her perspective on last year's Frightfest including George Romero's (then) Zombie tetralogy and its unnecessary 'sidequel' Day of the Dead 2: Contagium!

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM later in the Autumn

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Official Frightfest homepage
Michael's band Nebraska's myspace page and website

We apologise for this disruption to the unusual schedule!

2007-08-22T20:42:00.000Z

Loyal fans, previous guests, friends and other members of my mailing list may be visiting this page right now looking for this month's second atypical wednesday I'm ready for my close-up... Unfortunately the show as advertised doesn't exist as the guests I intended to interview today stood me up when I went to meet them!
Therefore this week's IRFMCU may not even be ready by this time tomorrow... But, to try and keep the current tally of 5 weeks without a break in 'transmission' (allowing for Resonance's move), I'll try and have a show ready by Friday, honest!

(Also this month's art-house podcast is imminent, including an exclusive interview with I for India director Sandhya Suri, watch this space...)

Podcast: The art of John McCrea

2007-08-20T16:45:00.000Z

Alex Fitch interviews artist John McCrea about his work, his love of superhero comics which has now lead to work in Saudi Arabia and collaborating with writer Garth Ennis on such projects as Troubled Souls.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 14.4mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia pages on John McCrea, Garth Ennis and Fleetway publishing's Crisis comics anthology
John's Middle Eastern comic The 99
Lambiek page on John McCrea, showing examples of his artwork

Podcast: The art of Paper Rad

2007-08-15T16:30:00.000Z

As their exhibition closes Saturday evening and IRFMCU is being podcast only this month, in a break from tradition, this week's I'm ready for my close-up is available to download now (30 hours early) to give our listeners a chance to get down to Conduit Street and check out the installation...
Alex Fitch interviews Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman members of the band Extreme Animals. Jacob is also a member of the art collective Paper Rad (for whose videos David has supplied sountracks) and while they were in Europe touring with their band Alex spoke to them about the Paper Rad exhibition showing at Sketch Gallery in London which Jacob curated. Paper Rad are famous for their low-fi DIY videos, art and comics which mix fanzine indie aesthetics with the detritus of our generation's pop culture...
(mp3 format, 27.4mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia's page on Paper Rad
Sketch Gallery's press release about the show: PDF format / HTML format
Sketch Gallery's website
Paper Rad and Deitch Projects' Super Mario Movie

N.B./ The following links are not suitable for viewing if you suffer from epilepsy, if you choose to click on them, it is your responsibility!
Paper Rad's website
Paper Rad comics
Extreme Animals' myspace page

Podcast: The art of Glenn Fabry

2007-08-13T16:45:00.000Z

Alex Fitch interviews artists Glenn Fabry and John McCrea, two very different artists who have worked on comics in Britain and America and have both illustrated strips by writer Garth Ennis. The majority of today's show is concerned with Glenn's work from his seminal run on Sláine in 2000AD to his epic run of painted covers for DC comics' Preacher which are available in a coffee table book.

Towards the end of the show Alex talks to John McCrea about the 60 issues he drew of Ennis' superhero satire Hitman (and their interview continues next week).
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 18mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia pages on Glenn Fabry , John McCrea, Sláine, Preacher and Hitman
Glenn's website

Podcast: Running Stumbled with John Maringouin

2007-08-09T22:30:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 42.4mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Tonight's show: Running Stumbled with John Maringouin

2007-08-09T10:54:00.000Z

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...
Virginie Sélavy interviews John Maringouin, director of the documentary Running Stumbled, whose film is a semi-improvised recreation and document of the self destructive relationship between the director's father and his partner. The first part of the interview was included in last month's Art-House Podcast and tonight's show is edited by Alex Fitch.
Check back here around 10.30pm BST to download the show or click on one of the following links to download / stream the show from the Internet Archive, Feedburner or iTunes...

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Official movie homepage
Read a partial transcription of Virginie's interview in Electric Sheep Magazine
Info about the remaining screenings of the film at the ICA

Podcast: The art of Steve Yeowell

2007-08-06T16:45:00.000Z

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Steve Yeowell, a 2000AD veteran who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Yeowell achieved early fame collaborating with Grant Morrison on the superhero epic Zenith and the first storyline in The Invisibles plus more esoteric titles such as The new adventures of Hitler, Sebastian O & Skrull Kill Krew. More recently Yeowell has returned to 2000AD working with Ian Edgington on such scripts as Detonator X and The Red Seas...

In comics news: This weekend it's Caption Fest 2007 in Oxford where small press artists and writers present their work and there're workshops presented by awawrd winning graphic novelist Al Davidson (The Spiral Cage).

Also: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House's Graphic Novels website for more details.

As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 12.3mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia entry on Steve Yeowell
Interview with Steve at 2000adreview.co.uk
Excerpts from The new adventures of Hitler at Scans Daily
Tashkeel Comics' website

Podcast: Larger than life part 2

2007-08-02T22:24:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 27.4mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Tonight's show: Larger than life part 2

2007-08-02T10:48:00.000Z

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*, it's the second of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinemas. In part two, Alex Fitch interviews Dennis Laws, the technical and general manager of the BFI London IMAX cinema, about the eclectic mix of films shown at the IMAX cinema, from 'after dark' presentations of classic and cult movies, the current interest in IMAX prints of Warner Bros. (comic book) movies and the possible future of the format..
Check back here around 10.30pm BST to download the show or click on one of the following links to download / stream the show from the Internet Archive, Feedburner or iTunes...

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Wikipedia page on IMAX
What's on at the BFI London IMAX?
The official IMAX homepage
Article from The Observer about how American creationists are objecting to IMAX science documentaries
Article on the closure of the @Bristol IMAX cinema
Giant Screen Cinemas Association website
Article on recent films converted to the IMAX format

Podcast: Art House cinema podcast, July '07

2007-07-31T21:09:00.000Z

Yes, we know it's really late again, but you can now hear Resonance FM's latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released this month at 'Art House' cinemas in London and is presented by Alex Fitch, Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) and Jessica Fostekew (a member of the comedy improv group The Institute, who is in a variety of shows at the Edinburgh festival)...

You can stream the show by clicking here and pressing the play button or right click here to save the mp3 file direct to your computer...

Films reviewed include Edmond, Taxidermia, Buy it now and Running Stumbled.

Links: You can read print versions of Jess and Alex's reviews at www.backprojection.com and Virginie's in Electric Sheep Magazine
More info about what's on at the ICA

(mp3 format, 30mins / 29.3mb)

Podcast: Transformers - ...and now

2007-07-30T16:45:00.000Z

With the new Transformers movie currently in cinemas, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott conclude their interview with the writer (Simon Furman) and one of the most acclaimed artists (Geoff Senior) of the seminal British Transformers comic from the 1980s looking at Furman's continuation of the mythos for a variety of publishers, Senior's new career as a graphic designer and what they think of the live action movie...

Panel Borders is currently podcast only and you can download this episode now... (mp3 format, 13.5mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links - Wikipedia entries on: Transformers comics, cartoon, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior
Simon's blog
Geoff's website
Titan Publishing's new UK Transformers comic by Simon & Geoff
Dynamite Entertainment's new Terminator 2 comic by Simon
Underground Online's guide to Transformers
Monzo and Jhiaxus' guide to obscure Transformers comics

Podcast: Larger than life part 1

2007-07-26T22:30:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 29.9mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Tonight's show: Larger than life part 1

2007-07-26T12:35:00.000Z

Tonight, as I'm ready for my close-up goes podcast only for the next four weeks*, it's the first of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinema. In part one, Alex Fitch interviews David Strohmaier, director of the documentary Cinerama Adventure which looks at the rise and fall of the seminal 1950s big screen format from its initial use as a military application, how the revolutionary three camera and projector format was used for nature documentaries and feature films to its disuse and legacy in other large screen formats.
Check back here around 10.30pm BST to download the show or click on one of the following links to download / stream the show from the Internet Archive, Feedburner or iTunes...

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: IMDb entry for Cinerama Adventure
David's website
Wikipedia page on Cinerama
Info about Bradford's Cinerama and 70mm cinema, the National Media Museum and the next screening of This is Cinerama

Podcast: Transformers - then...

2007-07-23T16:45:00.000Z

This afternoon's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 13.8mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Today's show: Transformers - then...

2007-07-23T11:23:00.000Z

With a week to go until the release of the new Transformers movie, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview the writer (Simon Furman) and one of the most acclaimed artists (Geoff Senior) of the seminal British Transformers comic from the 1980s which helped cement a love of the robots in disguise for our generation as much as the cartoons and toys the franchise was based on.

In other comics news: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House's Graphic Novels website for more details

4.45pm BST, Resonance 104.4 FM (London)* / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

*In case there are problems with the show being transmitted on Resonance, the podcast will go online at the same time...

Links: Wikipedia entries on:
Transformers comics, cartoon, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior
Simon's blog
Geoff's website
Titan Publishing's new UK Transformers comic by Simon & Geoff
Dynamite Entertainment's new Terminator 2 comic by Simon
Underground Online's guide to Transformers
Monzo and Jhiaxus' guide to obscure Transformers comics

We apologise for this distruption to the usual schedule... (redux)

2007-07-19T10:41:00.000Z

No show this week, I'm afraid. As Resonance is in the middle of moving to a new studio, it's become too difficult to arrange scheduled programming. Hopefully regular transmissions will resume next week...
In the meantime, why not tune in and listen to a selection of choice repeats from the archive - there's every chance Richard or Alex will be on one of them!

Uncut interview: Peter David part 2

2007-07-17T11:17:00.000Z

Continuing our occasional series of hour long uncut versions of the interviews that were recorded for I'm ready for my close-up and Panel Borders, we have the second half of Paul Cornell's complete interview with Peter David regarding his career in comics, sci-fi novels and the small screen.

This selection (which is in the chronological order it was recorded) represents the second half of yesterday's PB plus three quarters of an hour of additional material.

Paul and Peter talk about writing Doctor Who and Star Trek: The next generation novels respectively, Americans doing British accents (and vice versa) on TV, Babylon 5 and the shock of having written 1000 comics (with interjections by Alex Fitch).
(mp3 format, 48.5mb / 53 mins)

Uncut interview: Peter David part 1

2007-07-17T10:01:00.000Z

Reviving our occasional series of hour long uncut versions of the interviews that were recorded for I'm ready for my close-up and now Panel Borders, we have the first half of Paul Cornell's complete interview with Peter David regarding his career in comics, sci-fi novels and the small screen.

This selection (which is in the chronological order it was recorded) represents the first half of last week's IRFMCU followed by the whole of last week's PB, the first half of yesterday's PB and then the second half of IRFMCU as well as additional material.

Paul and Peter talk about writing Doctor Who and Star Trek: The next generation novels respectively and Peter's run on comics such as Spider-man, The Hulk, Captain Marvel and The Dark Tower.
(mp3 format, 45.9mb / 50 mins)

Podcast: 1001 comics by Peter David pt.2

2007-07-16T20:06:00.000Z

Today's show: 1001 comics by Peter David part 2

2007-07-16T10:12:00.000Z

Paul Cornell concludes his interview with comic book writer Peter David about his thirty years working in the medium. Today, Peter talks about continuing Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga in comics, how to get around issues of continuity in comics and what it's like having written over 1000 comics.
Today's show is edited by Alex Fitch with digital noise reduction by Steve Clark...

4.45pm BST, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links - Wikipedia entries on:
Peter David, Paul Cornell and The Dark Tower
IDW page on Fallen Angel
Marvel pages on Peter's The Dark Tower and Paul's Wisdom

Podcast: Novelizing the small screen

2007-07-12T23:26:00.000Z

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 29.7mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com