Podcast: 15 years of Professor Bernice Summerfield part 1

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

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

Podcast: Fifteen years of Professor Bernice Summerfield

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

Tonight's show: 15 years of Professor Bernice Summerfield

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

Uncut interview: Peter David part 2

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

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: Novelizing the small screen

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

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Tonight's show: Novelizing the small screen

Continuing his discussion from Monday's episode of Panel Borders, author Paul Cornell interviews prolific and beloved comic book writer Peter David about his Star Trek novels and episodes of Babylon 5. Today's show is edited by Alex Fitch with digital noise reduction by Steve Clark...

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

Links: Peter and Paul's blogs
Wikipedia pages on Paul Cornell, Peter David and Babylon 5

Podcast: Paul Cornell - 'Human nature' and the BSFA

Last night's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.0mb)

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: Paul Cornell - 'Human nature' and the BSFA

There're 2 interviews with Paul Cornell on Resonance FM tonight in "I'm ready for my close-up" - the first conducted by Graham Sleight at the British Science Fiction Association meeting in January about Paul's history as a writer, the 1990s Doctor Who novels and Marvel comics... The second (by me) recorded yesterday concerns Paul adaptaing Human Nature for the small screen and also writing for the second series of ITV's Primaeval... Plus an interview with Hugo award winning critic and writer Farah Mendlesohn about the work of the BSFA...

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

Links: Download / read the original novel online
Paul's blog
Graham's website
Farah's blog
Wikipedia pages on Paul Cornell, the novel Human Nature and the BSFA
The BSFA's website
The BBC's Doctor Who website
Pre-order Paul's graphic novel Wisdom from Forbidden Planet international
Download the trailer for / buy Paul's most recent Doctor Who audio CD - Circular Time
Buy the Elgar music heard in this show

Podcast: The Worlds of Bryan Talbot

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.6mb)

N.B./ as I have received 5 correct entries (3pm 30/05/07), the competition is now closed...

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 Worlds of Bryan Talbot

On this week's "I'm ready for my close-up", Alex Fitch's guests are Bryan Talbot & Mark Wright, creator and adaptor respectively of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright... Alex will be talking to Bryan about his career in comics, focusing on Luther and Alice in Sunderland and asking Mark about the challenges of converting a graphic novel to the audio medium...
There's also a competition to win one of 5 signed copies of the Big Finish audio adaptation of Luther Arkwright CDs at the end of the show...

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

Links: Find details about Bryan's Alice in Sunderland signing tour
Read a review of Alice in Sunderland in comic strip form
Wikipedia pages on The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
and Bryan Talbot
More info on Bryan's exhibition at The Cartoon Museum which runs to the beginning of July
Buy / sample The Adventures of Luther Arkwright web comic
Buy / download the trailer for The Adventures of Luther Arkwright audio adaptation
More info on Bryan's next project Cherubs
...which is drawn by former close-up guest Mark Stafford

Podcast: Blake's 7 redux

Last night's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.3mb)

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

Tonight's show: Blake's 7 redux

Recorded at this year's Bristol international Comic Expo - Alex Fitch interviews the makers of the new Blake's 7 internet radio series - writer Ben Aaronovitch, actor Owen Aaronovitch who plays 'Gan', sound designer / actor Alistair Lock who plays 'Zen' and producer Andrew Sewell.


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

Links: Listen to the new Blake's 7 at www.blakes7.com
Wikipedia pages on Blake's 7 and Ben Aaronovich
IMDb page on Owen Aaronovich
Outpost Gallifrey page on Alistair Lock
Interview with Andrew Sewell at www.blakes-7.co.uk

Podcast: Imbolc Day

Last night's show is now available for download...
(mp3 format, 27mb)

Links: Out of the shadows - 50 cinematic masterpieces @ the NFT
Geoff Andrew's favourite films of last year
Watch Tom Purcell's The Long Weekend on youtube
Info about events in the IWM cinema this month
Buy Doctor Who: Year of The Pig from Big Finish
Matthew's episode of Back Row on Radio 4
More info on Imbolc and Groundhog Day at Wikipedia

Tonight's show: Imbolc Day

It's Imbolc day (Groundhog Eve if you're American) which means we're half way to Spring... To celebrate this minor event, Alex Fitch is sticking his head out of his metaphorical burrow and looking forward to various events in the cinema and home entertainment. Tonight's show includes interviews with Matthew Sweet (Silent Britain) about his Doctor Who audio plays, Tom Purcell (animator) about winning "Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War" at the IWM student film festival and Geoff Andrew (BFI) about forthcoming screenings at the NFT.

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

Tonight's Clear Spot: The Magic of Alan Moore parts two and three

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...

Links: Wikipedia entry on Alan Moore
Download comics by Alan for free from fourcolorheroes.com

7pm GMT Resonance 104.4FM / www.resonancefm.com

Podcast: Doctor Who - The Two Garys

In the last of our shows on Doctor Who, we explore the world of Doctor Who fandom. Each month at a certain bar in central London, Doctor Who fans and professionals meet to talk about their favourite show. So back in February, Richard Thomas, Alex Fitch and James De Carteret went down to the pub to record some interviews and encountered the likes of Clayton Hickman - the editor of Doctor Who magazine, Paul - a theatre director who had travelled 50 miles to come to the gathering and Gary - a member of the Greenwich Doctor Who fan club...
Originally broadcast 27th July 2006 (mp3 format, 25.4mb)

Links:
Type 40 owners club of Great Britain
Outpost Gallifrey
Wikipedia entry on Doctor Who Magazine

Tonight's show: Doctor Who - The Two Garys

In the last of our shows on Doctor Who, we explore the world of Doctor Who fandom. Each month at a certain bar in central London, Doctor Who fans and professionals meet to talk about their favourite show. So back in February, Richard Thomas, Alex Fitch and James De Carteret went down to the pub to record some interviews and encountered the likes of Clayton Hickman - the editor of Doctor Who magazine, Paul - a theatre director who had travelled 50 miles to come to the gathering and Gary - a member of the Greenwich Doctor Who fan club...
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...

Podcast: Doctor Who - Dimensions in Space

Tonight's show is now available to download. See below for more details...
(mp3 format, 26.4mb)

links: Wikipedia entry on Kim Newman
BFI TV Classics: Doctor Who
Buy "Doctor Who: Time and relative" second hand from Amazon...
Wikipedia entry on 'jumping the shark'