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Next week’s show: Genre and Inspiration
October 31, 2019
On Wednesday, November 6th at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Genre and Inspiration
Esther McManus, Danny Noble, Jess Taylor, Zara Slattery talking at The Cartoon Museum / Garth Ennis interviewed by Alex Fitch at LICAF, and examples of their work
In a pair of recordings looking at how comic creators are inspired by genre and inspiration, guest presenter and comics laureate Hannah Berry talks to Arts Foundation comics prize finalists Esther McManus, Danny Noble, Jess Taylor, and Zara Slattery in a panel discussion at The Cartoon Museum, London, plus Alex Fitch talks to Garth Ennis about writing Preacher, The Boys and more recent work in an interview recorded at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival.
5.30pm Wednesday November 6th 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 8th November, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / Resonance Replay stream on mixcloud.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
Next week’s show: Locating Design in Fantasy Films
October 9, 2019
On Wednesday October 16th at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Architecture Culture: Locating Design in Fantasy Films
Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright in THX 1138 and Gattaca / Mackintosh Chair in Blade Runner / Unicorn Tapestry in Harry Potter
In a new monthly show looking at how Architecture is represented in Culture, Alex Fitch presents talks by artists, curators, film-makers and writers about unique representations of architecture in different media. This month, in a panel discussion chaired by Natural Trust Head Curator Sally-Anne Huxtable, Robyne Calvert (Glasgow School of Art), Ersi Ioannidou (Kingston University) and Xavier Dectot (Keeper of Art and Design, National Museums Scotland) discuss how architecture and interior design by the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Rennie Mackintosh help suggest science-fiction and fantasy worlds in genre films including Blade Runner, THX 1138, Gattaca and the Harry Potter film saga. Recorded at the Art History Association conference, University of Brighton, April 2019. (more…)
Next week’s show: European Comics
September 25, 2019
On Wednesday, October 2nd at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: European Comics
FOI diary comic by Myf Tristram / cover and interior art from Last Words by Siiri Viljakka and Lauri Tuomi-Nikula / web comic by Boulet / sketchbook page by Mattias Adolfsson
In the first of a new series of Panel Borders, we have British, Finnish, French and Swedish comic creators talking about their work. Alex Fitch talks to artists Boulet and Mattias Adolfsson about their drawing techniques and styles in an interview recorded at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, and guest presenter and cartoonist Myfanwy Tristram discusses the Freedom of Information graphic novel – Last Words – with its creators Siiri Viljakka and Lauri Tuomi-Nikula in a Q and A recorded at Cartoon County, Brighton.
5.30pm Wednesday October 2nd 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 4th October, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com (more…)
Next week’s show: Anise Gallery / Amiens Cathedral
September 11, 2019
On Wednesday September 18th at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Architecture Culture: Anise Gallery / Amiens Cathedral
Photo of Anise Gallery / Kiosk zine by Owen D. Pomery / Bleecker Art by Alison Samson / Amiens BD festival posters by Marc-Antoine Mathieu, Bouzard, and Manara
In a new monthly show looking at how Architecture is represented in Culture, Alex Fitch talks to artists, curators, film-makers and writers who have contributed to unique representations of architecture in different media. This month Jacquelyn Jubert and Joe Robson (founders of Anise Gallery, Shad Thames) and artists Owen D. Pomery and Alison Samson discuss the representation of architecture in graphic arts, and academic Justin Wadlow (University of Picardy Jules Verne) talks about the posters he’s helped curate for Amiens BD festival, which include representations of the city’s Cathedral and other architectural landmarks (recorded at Graphic Brighton, May 2019).
5.30pm, Wednesday 18th September 2019, repeat broadcast 2.30am Friday 20th September, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) (more…)
This week’s show: Comic Collaborators
September 3, 2019
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On Saturday, September 7th at 4.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Comic Collaborators
Interior art from Bizarre Romance / Guantanamo Kid / The Bad, Bad Place
In the second of two special 90 min episodes, this month’s programme looks at pairs of creators who collaborate together. Alex Fitch talks to Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell about their illustrated short story collection Bizarre Romance.
Also, David Hine and Mark Stafford discuss their graphic novels The Bad, Bad Place and Lip Hook in a Q and A recorded at Cartoon County, Brighton, and Jérôme Tubiana and Alexandre Franc explore their bande dessinée biography Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani in a discussion recorded at London Book Fair.
4.30pm Saturday 7th September 2019, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com (more…)
Next week’s show: Nineteenth Century Comics
August 19, 2019
On Saturday, August 31st at 4.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Nineteenth Century Comics
Cover of Marie Duval by Grennan, Sabin and Waite / Christina Meyer talks about The Yellow Kid / cover of The Goat Getters by Eddie Campbell
In the first of two special 90 min episodes, this month’s programme looks at Nineteenth Century Comics. Alex Fitch talks to artist turned historian Eddie Campbell about The Goat Getters, which covers innovative American sports cartoonists such as Goldberg, Tad, and Herriman at the turn of the century. And, in a Q and A recorded at Materialities of Comics (Aarhus University, 2019), Christina Meyer discusses the classic 1890s strips Hogan’s Alley and McFadden’s Row of Flats by rival creators Outcault and Luks.
Also, Roger Sabin and Simon Grennan explore the establishment of the online Marie Duval Archive at the University of Chester, which offers a high resolution resource of work of Ally Sloper‘s co-creator from the 1870s and 1880s (more…)
Next week’s show: Star Gazing
July 13, 2019
On Wednesday 17th July at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Electric Sheep Film Show: Star Gazing
Alex Fitch talks to Marcel Barion after a screening of The Last Land / posters for Astronaut / Fonotune / After We Leave
In this month’s Electric Sheep Film Show, Alex Fitch talks to four directors about their films on rockets and space exploration. Shelagh McLeod discusses Astronaut starring Richard Dreyfuss, Fint talks about his eclectic musical drama Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale, and Aleem Hossain explores his revenge and redemption saga After We Leave. Also director Marcel Barion, production designer Johannes Bade and Assistant director Carolin Utsch discuss surrealistic sci-fi movie The Last Land, in an interview recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON. Plus classic tracks by Iron Horse, Rilo Kiley and Commander Chris Hatfield.
5.30pm Wednesday 17th July 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 19th July, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / Resonance Replay stream on mixcloud.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
Next week’s show: Inspired by autobiography
June 24, 2019
On Wednesday, July 3rd at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Inspired by autobiography
Excerpts from The Book of Sarah by Sarah Lightman and The Lady Doctor by Ian Williams
In an episode looking at how personal experience can inform the content of graphic novels, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Ian Williams about his books The Bad Doctor and The Lady Doctor which are inspired by his parallel career as a GP, in a Q and A recorded at Cartoon County, Brighton; guest presenter Philippa Perry discusses The Book of Sarah with its author, artist Sarah Lightman, and how the book’s mix of fine art drawings and diary entries tell a tell of faith, motherhood and upbringing, in an interview recorded at Waterstones, Hampstead.
5.30pm Wednesday 3rd July 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 5th July, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / Resonance Replay stream on mixcloud.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
This week’s show: Groundbreaking Podcasts
June 17, 2019
This week on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Audio Dramatics: Groundbreaking Podcasts
Promotional Images for Wooden Overcoats and Forest 404
In this episode of the bimonthly show about radio and audio drama, Alex Fitch talks to the writers of two drama podcasts which dig beneath two very different landscapes. Timothy X Atack discusses the sci-fi saga Forest 404, a dystopian series about an aural archivist discovering sounds of nature which could change her society forever – available on BBC Sounds, and starring Pearl Mackie, Pippa Heywood and Tanya Moodie, with accompanying documentaries and soundscapes. David K Barnes talks about his award winning comedy drama Wooden Overcoats which concerns the misadventures of a funeral director and his team of misfits on a small island in the North Sea, and his Doctor Who serial, The Dalek Occupation of Winter starring Peter Purves and Maureen O’Brien.
5.30pm Wednesday 19th June 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 21st June, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
This week’s show: Apollo and other Space Adventures
June 3, 2019
On Wednesday, June 5th at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Apollo and other Space Adventures
Interior art and cover from Apollo by Fitch, Baker and Collins / Interiors of Tim Ginger and Cloud Hotel by Julian Hanshaw
In an episode looking at depictions of astronauts and close encounters on the comic book page to coincide with the imminent 50th anniversary of the first American Moon Landing, Alex Fitch talks to writers Matt Fitch and Chris Baker about their graphic novel adaptation of Armstrong and Aldrin’s adventures – Apollo – and to graphic novelist Julian Hanshaw regarding his books Tim Ginger and Cloud Hotel about alien encounters in remote locations. Interviews recorded at Portsmouth Comic Con and Cartoon County in front of a live audience.
5.30pm Wednesday 5th June 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 7th June, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / Resonance Replay stream on mixcloud.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: info about Apollo on SelfMadeHero’s website
Fitch and Baker’s website about their comics work
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Chris Baker and Shaky Kane about their collaboration
Julian Hanshaw’s blog and books published by Top Shelf
Experience the interactive version of The Art of Pho
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Julian Hanshaw about The Art of Pho
Tomorrow’s show: The Name’s Bond…
April 30, 2019
On Wednesday, May 1st at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: The Name’s Bond…
Excerpt from Ghost Walk with Me by Trini Howard and Philip Bond / Philip Bond reads Bob Bond / Carl Puttnam, Will Potter and Shelly Bond / Extract from Both Legs Down One Knicker by Bob Bond
Alex Fitch talks to three members of the same family who are involved with making comics. In an interview recorded at the Portsmouth Comic Con, Shelly and Philip Bond discuss editing and drawing comics published by Vertigo and IDW, their love of Deadline Magazine, and collaborating with Cüd’s Will Potter and Carl Puttnam on stories for Black Crown Quarterly. In a Q and A recorded at Cartoon County, Bob Bond talks about his six decades as a sports cartoonist, collected in such anthologies as 1966 and All That! and Both Legs Down One Knicker.
5.30pm Wednesday 1st May 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 3rd May, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / Resonance Replay stream on mixcloud.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: More info about Black Crown Quarterly
Bob Bond’s website
This week’s show: Female Time Travellers
April 15, 2019
This week on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Audio Dramatics: Female Time Travellers
Promotional image for Dilation by Max Hochrad / Doctor Who audio CDs featuring Jessica Martin
In this episode, Alex Fitch talks to the writer / director, and star respectively of audio dramas about female time travellers. Max Hochrad discusses his play Dilation about a female physicist from the 1970s who travels to a dystopian 21st century with knowledge of a revolutionary new energy process, in a story that shares the malevolent Forman corporation featured in the director’s short films. Also, actress Jessica Martin talks about the various Doctor Who audio dramas featuring Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy that she’s appeared in, and the joy of reprising her role of Mags, an alien werewolf, from the TV show for a new trilogy of releases.
5.30pm Wednesday 17th April 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 19th April, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
Tomorrow’s show: Inspired by Music
April 2, 2019
On Wednesday, April 3rd at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Inspired by Music
Various publications by Holly Casio / Covers and interior art from Metroland by Ricky Miller and Julia Scheele
Alex Fitch talks to two comic creators whose publications are inspired by music. Zine creator Holly Casio discusses her various Bruce Springsteen inspired titles including Queers on the edge of town in a Q and A recorded at Graphic Brighton 2018, and writer / publisher Ricky Miller talks about Metroland his comic about British pop music and time travel, mainly illustrated by Julia Scheele, and the various titles he’s overseen as co-publisher of Avery Hill, in an interview recorded at Cartoon County.
5.30pm Wednesday 3rd April 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 5th April, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / Resonance Replay stream on mixcloud.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: More info about Holly Casio’s Zines and Comics / her bigcartel webstore
More info about the academic book Holly contributed to (more…)
Tomorrow’s show: Documentary / Art
March 19, 2019
On Wednesday 20th March at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Electric Sheep Film Show: Documentary / Art
Photo of The Tent as displayed in University of Brighton gallery / stills from promotional video for Frames of Representation at the ICA
In this month’s Electric Sheep Film Show, Alex Fitch looks at the presentation of documentaries in art galleries. Director Kannan Arunasalam discusses his films The Tent, Kerosene and Paper being displayed in the Grand Parade Galleries, University of Brighton and at The Tetley Gallery, Leeds, which depict the effect of the Civil War on everyday life in Sri Lanka in the years that followed; ICA Cinema and Film Programme Manager Nico Marzano talks about this year’s Frames of Representation festival, which focuses on political and aesthetic approaches to documentary film. With music curated by Kieron Gillen, including tracks by Imarhan, La Luz, and Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks.
5.30pm Wednesday 20th March 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 22nd March, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / Resonance Replay stream on mixcloud.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Info about The Tent at the University of Brighton and Tetley Gallery
Info about Frames of Representation and Morag Keil’s solo exhibition at the ICA (more…)
Tomorrow’s show: Inking and Painting Women
March 5, 2019
On Wednesday, March 6th at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Inking and Painting Women
Astrid Schmetterling discusses the work of Charlotte Salomon at the Jewish Museum, London / Cover of The Inking Woman / Selection of Cath Tate Cards
Celebrating International Women’s Day, guest presenter Corinne Pearlman introduces three talks about female comic creators, recorded at Laydeez Do Comics. Visual Cultures lecturer Astrid Schmetterling (Goldsmiths, University of London) explores the life and work of painter Charlotte Salomon, whose series “Life? or Theatre?” is now being reconsidered as the first graphic novel by a woman, Cath Tate talks about how her card company commissions greeting cards by female cartoonists, and Corinne discusses the creation of her strip “Playing the Jewish Card” and publishing the anthology “The Inking Women: 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain”.
5.30pm Wednesday 6th March 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 8th March, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / (more…)
Next week’s show: Classic Characters, New Adventures
February 14, 2019
Next week on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Audio Dramatics: Classic Characters, New Adventures
Promotional images for Tales Of A Timelord episodes 2 and 1 / Covers of Shilling and Sixpence Investigate and Doctor Who: The Catalyst by Nigel Fairs
In this episode, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of audio dramas that bring classic characters back to life in new adventures: actor / director ‘Invokal’ and writer R.R. Molyneux discuss their fan produced Doctor Who audio serial Tales of a Timelord, a series of nine stories spread over 22 episodes which tell the tale of an incarnation of the Doctor around their 20th regeneration, returning to adventures after a millennium in solitary confinement.
Plus: writer, actor and director Nigel Fairs discusses his series Shilling and Sixpence Investigate, a pastiche of Agatha Christie with David Warner and Celia Imrie, spun off from his long running saga ‘The Morlington Mysteries’, which is performed live at various venues around the country. Alex and Nigel also look at the latter’s scripts for new audio episodes of Sapphire and Steel, The Tomorrow People and Doctor Who for Big Finish Productions.
5.30pm Wednesday 20th February 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 22nd February, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) (more…)
Tomorrow’s show: Comics / Activism
February 5, 2019
On Wednesday, February 6th at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Comics / Activism
Collection of pages from Draw the Line / work in progress by Myfanwy Tristram / Interior art from Footnotes in Gaza and Palestine by Joe Sacco
This month’s show looks at comics activism, projects that encourage and highlight activism through graphic novels and strips. Alex Fitch talks to Myfanwy Tristram about her crowdfunded anthology Draw the Line, her promotion of Finnish comics on Freedom of Information and their shared interest in raising money for Resonance FM, with info about gigs and auction items in the station fundraiser. Also, guest presenter and cartoonist Aimée de Jongh talks to comics journalist Joe Sacco about his award winning graphic novels such as Palestine and Safe Area Goražde in an interview recorded on stage at the Free University in Amsterdam.
5.30pm Wednesday 6th February 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 8th February, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / (more…)
Next week’s show: Dystopias and Parallel Worlds
January 12, 2019
On Wednesday 16th January at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Electric Sheep Film Show: Dystopias and Parallel Worlds
Posters for Hidden Reserves, Nothing Really Happens and Alpha Gateway
In this month’s Electric Sheep Film Show, Alex Fitch looks at dystopias and parallel worlds on film in three interviews recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, the London International Science Fiction and Fantastic Film Festival. On stage, Alex talks to directors Valentin Hitz and John V. Soto about their films Hidden Reserves (Stille Reserven) and Alpha Gateway which depict worlds where corporations have subjugated humanity and travel between parallels is possible, and in a chat with actor / producer Joseph Graham, the latter discusses the surrealist suburban comedy Nothing Really Happens and his webcomic Monomania. With music selected by Kieron Gillen (The Wicked and the Divine) including future classics by Madge, Hayley Heynderickx, Sylan Esso and Jonathan Bree.
5.30pm Wednesday 16th January 2019, repeated 2.30am Friday 18th January, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com (more…)
Tomorrow’s Show: Wolf Tales
January 1, 2019
On Wednesday, January 2nd at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Wolf Tales
excerpt from Fiends… by Edginton and Dave Taylor / Alex Fitch interviews Rachael Ball / Performance of The Wolf of Baghdad – photos by Patrick Walsh and Sam Humphrey
In a 90 minute mid-winter special, Alex Fitch talks a trio of creators of comics who involve wolves in their narratives. At the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Alex talks to cartoonist The Surreal McCoy about her multimedia project The Wolf of Baghdad and upcoming graphic novel The Collaborator, at Cartoon County, Rachael Ball discusses her book Wolf which mixes time travel, fantastical beasts and mysterious neighbours in 1970s suburbia, and Ian Edginton describes his research for penning a prequel to 2000AD‘s vampire strip “Fiends of the Eastern Front”, plus the next instalment of “Scarlet Traces”, his sequel to The War of the Worlds.
The next Wolf of Baghdad performance will take place on February 18th
5.30pm Wednesday 2nd January 2019, repeat 12 noon Sunday 6th January, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / (more…)
Tomorrow’s show: Carols and Zombies
December 18, 2018
Tomorrow on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Audio Dramatics: Carols and Zombies
Cover for Doctor Who: Jonah and promotional art for The Morpeth Carol and Zombies, Run!
Continuing the new hour-long series on Resonance FM in which Alex Fitch talks to creators of audio dramas that have been broadcast on radio or released on CD and mp3 download, in a bimonthly slot alternating with the Electric Sheep Film Show.
In this episode, playwright Timothy X Atack and author Naomi Alderman talk about their genre bending work. Fitch and Atack explore the latter’s BBC Radio plays The Morpeth Carol, Phonophone and The Stroma Sessions, plus his Doctor Who audio dramas Jonah and The Wreck of the World. At a conference on Zombie fiction at the University of Brighton, guest presenter Ewan Kirkland talks to Alderman about her scripts for the immersive fitness app Zombies, Run!, which adds an aural survival horror narrative to a runner’s soundtrack as they travel across the landscape.
5.30pm Wednesday 19th December 2018, repeated 2.30am Friday 21st December, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
