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Panel Borders is hosted by Alex Fitch and is a new series of the UK’s only weekly radio show about comics. Today Alex begins a month of shows looking at the ‘British Invasion’ of UK creators who have worked on American and American-style superhero titles. He talks to Chris Claremont, a veteran comics writer born in London who became one of the most prolific and popular American comic book writers of the 20th century, most famous for a 16 year sojourn writing the Uncanny X-Men from 1975 – 1991, with his last few issues selling in the region of 8 million copies each.
The interview focuses on a superhero Chris created for the UK market – Captain Britain – in 1976 and his more experimental X-Men spin off – New Mutants – which he created in 1982 and returned to writing last month.
Also, in a 60 second (!) interview recorded at the premiere of Scott Pilgrim vs. the world in London, Alex talks to British director Edgar Wright about bringing a different kind of superhero to the screen.
Panel Borders, Thursday 2 September, 5pm.

This week on 2020 Visions, K Biswas and James Knight explore the changing nature of the Media and how the landscape will look in a decade’s time. Guest contributors include Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow; Andy Capper Editor of Vice Magazine; BBC Radio 5Live’s Dotun Adebayo; Euan Ferguson of the Observer; Sunday Times columnist Minette Marrin; Rowenna Davis who contributes to the Economist, Guardian and Sky News; media author and academic Adrian Monck; and Labour leadership candidate Diane Abbott.
Each week on 2020 Visions, Rys Farthing and K. Biswas speculate on politics and culture circa 2020. Other shows in the series explore inequality and welfare in the UK, work, culture and identity.
2020 Visions, Wednesday 1 September, 10pm – 11pm.

This week our Autumn Season kicks in after the summer holidays. Most of the staff are in Austria for the Future of Old Media conference but they have not been idle in the last couple of weeks. In the next few days listen out for special guest appearances by such diverse figures as Mauricio Velasierra, Stewart Home, Harvey Cohen, Clive Bell and Sylvia Hallett, David Studdert and Nigel Planer, plus a host of new shows and some favourites returning after a well-deserved break. We now also have a piano, courtesy of Markson Pianos to whom many thanks. Expect to hear a lot of it from now on.