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This Lives In Us - Friday’s Clear Spot, 21/11/2008

Chris Weaver — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:21:09 +0000

Oscillatorial Binnage broadcast live from artist Toby Clarkson’s electro-mechanically altered Hackney flat, as part of the “Show Flat” series of open studio performances. Expect harmonically-related vegetable strainers, amplified partition walls and more processed domesticity.

Friday November 22nd to Friday November 30th 2008 10AM-6PM
8 The Mount, Mount Pleasant Lane, Clapton E5 9PD

Web: http://showflat.org/toby_clarkson.php

Wendy & Will

RT — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:00:23 +0000

This Thursday (November 20th 2008) between 4:30 and 5:00pm, Wendy Jones talks to Will Self. Using a gargantuan vocabulary, Will discusses his latest novels The Butt , Liver and his intumescent back catalogue.

Interesting Conversations interviews quality writers. Each week, Wendy Jones talks to a different author about their latest work and their writing in general. It’s usually a wide-ranging and entertaining conversation. Previous guests have included Jacqueline Wilson. Will Self, Marina Warner, Grayson Perry, Nick Hornby, Blake Morrison, Posy Simmons and Max Arthur, among others.

http://www.britishlivertrust.org.uk/home/the-liver.aspx

Rockfort, 19.11.08 at 7pm

Ed Baxter — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:50:27 +0000

This evening’s Rockfort (19.11.08 at 7pm) welcomes another great band into the studio for live music and conversation: ANORAAK (http://www.myspace.com/anoraak), who balance poised, contemporary production techniques with retro-80s glamour.
http://www.myspace.com/rockfortshow

Clear Spot 19.11.08 at 8pm - Lucky Cat Special

Ed Baxter — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:55:01 +0000

Presented by Zoë Baxter.
Zoë pays tribute to the recently departed Reggae & Soca legend Byron Lee. The Dim Sum Lunch Box contains Jerk Chicken Fried Rice and there is a review of the Thai martial arts DVD Chocolate.
Info: http://luckykitty.blogspot.com
Email: luckycatzoe@gmail.com

The Naked Short Club, 17.11.08 at 9pm

Ed Baxter — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:10:06 +0000

The Naked Short Club (consenting adults only) is hosted by Dr. Stu and features the Emergency Hedge Fund Helpline - with special guests from the hedge fund industry, heady music and poetry. Nothing to do with anyone’s day job, no promotional agenda, just a bit of light relief- in these “interesting” times - to help to get you back in touch with your Inner Arbitrageur… Feedback to: doctorstu@resonancefm.com
Tonight, Monday 17 November at 9pm for an hour.

Mr.Jonas Mekas

RT — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:59:28 +0000

Tomorrow’s edition of Wavelength - Friday November 14th, 3:00 - 3:30pm - features edited extracts of an interview with Jonas Mekas conducted by William English and Richard Thomas in July 2008.

Jonas Mekas was driving force behind The New American Cinema Group, editor of Film Culture, founder of the New York Filmmakers’ Co-operative, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and the New York Cinematheque, prolific filmmaker, polemicist for independent cinema in Movie Journal in The Village Voice.

Wavelength is also repeated every Tuesday between 7:30 and 8:00pm

Quinary @ Foundry Has Late, Late Breakfast

RT — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:03:32 +0000

A quintet of counter cultural figures and self-styled mavericks join Tracey Moberly at the blast furnaces of The Foundry on Friday at noon.

Detroit poet, former MC5 manager and founder of the White Panther’s, John Sinclair chews the fat with author and artist Bill Drummond, author and former drug runner Howard Marks, political activist and comic Mark Thomas and ergonomic design pioneer John Chris Jones.

Music is vended by Little Boots….

The Late, Late, Breakfast Show, November 12th 2008, 12:00 - 01:00pm.

Clear Spot Tonight - Edge of Arabia

Chris Weaver — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:00:35 +0000

This Friday, 14 November, 8pm on Resonance 104.4 FM, on-line at resonancefm.com

Edge of Arabia is the first comprehensive group exhibition of contemporary Saudi art to be shown in London. Featuring 17 working artists, the exhibition explores themes of identity and place, spiritual and material realities and the media’s influence on perceptions of the self and culture.

In this programme Ananda Pellerin interviews two of the featured artists, Abdulnasser Gharem and Reem Al-Faisal, who speak candidly about their art, their country and their extraordinary lives. Also, Ananda finds out about the exhibition’s genesis from its curator Stephen Stapleton and its wider context within Middle Eastern art from Venetia Porter, curator of the Islamic collections at the British Museum.

Tune in to Resonance 104.4FM this Friday for a personal insight into the stories behind these works of art from the East that are causing a stir internationally.

Producer: Michael Garrad

Edge of Arabia runs at the Brunei Gallery until 13 December

For more information:

www.edgeofarabia.com

Written interviews with Abdulnasser Gharem and Reem Al-Faisal will be available in Wheel Me Out, the online interview magazine from 20 November

www.wheelmeout.com

Turkish Jazz Funk

RT — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:00:36 +0000

Wednesday’s Clear Spot is a Turkish funk special, encompassing Turkish funk re-releases from giants of the Turkish underground. Names such as Baris Manço, jazz legend Erol Pekcan, Mustafa Özkent, and the psychedlic Rock/Jazz band Ersen. Also tracks from modern Turkish jazz artist from Istanbul’s pioneering Double Moon label. Clear Spot 8 - 9pm.

In The London Ear Today

RT — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:07:00 +0000

Ben Thompson welcomes a very special guest to this week’s London Ear. In the course of her three albums for Rephlex, X-L and Warp, maverick North London writer-producer Leila Arab has redefined the possibilities of British electronic pop. Today she’ll be talking about her collaborations with the likes of Bjork, Terry Hall and Martina Topley-Bird, playing some of her favourite tunes (including an Aphex Twin number at the wrong speed), and letting us hear an exclusive 15 minute mixdown of surrealist soundbites. The London Ear - Tuesday 2 - 3pm.