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On the show this coming Monday - March 31st 2008

Fari Bradley talks to Payam Nabarz PhD esoteric author, mystic and practicing Dervish. Payam visits the studio to discuss one of his many specialist topics and two of his books: “The Mysteries of Mithras” and “The Persian ‘Mar Nameh’: The Zoroastrian ‘Book of the Snake’ Omens and Calendar & The Old Persian Calendar“

Payam Nabarz, a Persian-born Sufi and practicing Dervish, holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University and is carrying out postdoctoral research there on genetics and cancer. He is a Druid in the Grove of the Order of the Bards, Ovates, and Druids; a member of the Golden Dawn Occult Society; and a revivalist of the Temple of Mithras. He lives in England.

Tue, 25 Mar, 17:00 – 18:00 Diggers with Alfreda BengeThe second part of our conversation with artist and songwriter Alfreda (Alfie) Benge, who has been collaborating with husband , musician Robert Wyatt for over 30 years. In this show Alfie talks about her favourite flamenco music , the craft of songwriting, her artwork and her ongoing collaboration with Robert Wyatt. Presented by Sharon Gal & Edwin Pouncey

Sonic horticulturalist Mark Aitken presents I Can Hear The Grass Grow every Wednesday between 5 and 5:30pm. This week Mark is talking stinkhorn fungus, catclaw acacia, cheese bush, sandpaper plant, phallus impudicus and much else as Lindsay Wright leads us along the freakish path of plant nomenclature and biodiversity whilst pondering the case of the man whose head was a cabbage.

We are delighted to broadcast the first part of a conversation with artist and songwriter Alfreda (Alfie) Benge, who has been collaborating with husband , musician Robert Wyatt for over 30 years.

In this show Alfie is talking about her artistic training ,the music she likes and London in the late 1960’s/ early 1970’s.

Presented by Sharon Gal & Edwin Pouncey

Diggers, every Tuesday at 17:00.

On the show this Monday - March 17th 2008

Babak Emamian discusses BIBA (the British Iranian Business Assoc). British-Iranian Police balls, Calvinism and the commercialisation of space are just some of the plethora of areas of work that Babak covers.

Six Pillars to Persia is an English language program focusing on Persian heritage and modern Iranian culture. From rebel artists and exiled writers to social entrepreneurs the multifarious guest list builds a picture of the hotchpotch that is the Iranian diaspora in the arts now.

Contact the producer via http://sixpillarstopersia.wordpress.com

In tonight’s Strip! we’re looking at one of the 800 (!) China Now! events that will be on between now and the Olympics - Manhua! China Comics Now at the London College of Communications.  Alex Fitch interviews a trio of artists exhibiting at the Manhua! China Comics Now exhibition at the London College of Communications - Yishan Li, Mr. Clement and Tim Yu discusses their art, their love of the comics medium and their influences. The show also includes excerpts from Paul Gravett’s introduction to the show, some of the live Chinese fusion music played live at the opening and an interview with China Now’s Jessica Potter about the importance of promoting comics as part of London’s 2008 festival of Chinese culture. 5pm Resonance 104.4FM 13/02/08

This Tuesday (March 11th, 2 - 3pm), in the run-up to the South Bank’s forthcoming Folk Roots, New Routes season the London Ear presents a one-hour Shirley Collins special, in which the doyenne of English folk-singers talks to Ben Thompson about boll-weavils, “the MacColl lobby” and the dangers of being kissed by water-sprites.

The London Ear is Ben Thompson’s weekly tickle of the metropolitan cochlea.

Saturday 8 March is the final day of Resonance FM broadcasts from mima in Middlesbrough (87.7FM locally, on-line at the AV08 website ) comprises fourteen hours of greatest hits, with performances by Preslav Literary School (noon), Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington (1pm), Resonance Radio Orchestra (11.15pm) and more. Plus Steve Keeley’s Guide to Northern Soul (12.30pm), Radio Routes’ apocalyptic drama Abandoned (3pm), Michael Edgerton’s A Marriage of Shadows (4pm), Geoff Spence’s overview of Middlesbrough punk and post-punk (8pm), John Cage’s Variations VII (9pm) and more. To tune in live, visit http://www.avfestival.co.uk/onair. For today’s full Resonance FM AV08 schedule today see: www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/resonance-fm

Resonance FM broadcasts live from AV08: Broadcast, a festival dedicated to sound and image experimentation and debate. Tonight at 8pm in the Clear Spot, broadcasting in Middlesbrough and London, we present: Found! Durham University stand-ups present a veritable shipwreck of comedy. Recorded at Middlesbrough’s Institute of Digital Innovation. With Naz Osmanoglu, Michael Umney, Mark Cooper-Jones, Neil Wates and Donnachadh O’Conaill. Produced by Tom Besley.

Tonight from AV08 in Middlesbrough, at 8pm, we present a performance of Antonin Artaud’s notorious 1948 radio drama Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu, performed by Christophe Alix and the Resonance Radio Orchestra, comprising Rhodri Davies, Tom Besley, Chris Weaver and Ed Baxter. Recorded live at the Institute of Digital Innovation, Middlesbrough, 4 March 2008 on the 60th anniversary of Artaud’s death, for AV08: Braodcast. Preceded by a lunchtime chat in which Christophe Alix talks about the text (which listeners should be aware is in French).