Another chance, as they say, to hear (the late) Humphrey Lyttleton’s appraisal of Louis Prima on BBC Radio 4. As Humphrey says, most people knew Prima only as the voice of King Louie in The Jungle Book, but there was much more to him than that one song. Prima and his band [...]
The forthright and wildly eccentric musings on food and its preparation written by an RAF bomber pilot who returned from prison camp after WW2 to his bleak homeland where rationing and a long tradition of terrible cuisine frustrated his yearning for a decent meal.
Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler’s definitive cookery manual for men. [...]
Tilt is a new topical comedy programme fom BBC Radio 7, and one of its first episodes deals with the question: Why does the government need to issue ID cards when we have Facebook?
This short sketch is called “StateBook”.
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One of my favourite radio programmes is Professor Laurie Taylor’s “Thinking Allowed“.
This week’s programme included an unusual invitation. (Click the button below and listen carefully.)
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I was listening to a repeat of the most amazing programme about an extremely ancient murder mystery - 2 million years old to be exact - that was part of a Radio 4 Science broadcast.
In the first minute of this fascinating piece, the scientists presenting the show completely threw away their credibility. Listen to [...]
From the “Adršpach” Mountains 1999
Winter Graphics 1983
Hoarfrost in the “Jizerské” Mountains 2004
Some thumbnails of his photographic work here, but the enlargements have disappeared from that auction site now. If you click the thumbnails above, they will reveal the enlargements, however.
If you google his name, you come across an amazing story of a man with [...]
If you are involved in long hours producing predominately image based work, and you like a bit of engaging radio to occupy your other hemisphere, you might be interested in this: A visual radio tuner, called Tun3r.com
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Every time I hear this man’s voice, I steel myself for a roller coaster ride of wild and surreal digessions.
He never disappoints. This clip shows how devastatingly funny he can be about something very serious and exposes the deep and strong sinews that exist between comedy and anger. Sock it to ‘em Mark.
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Another finely crafted sketch from Mitchell & Webb: This time on the subject of identification with football teams.
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The usual brilliance.
A couple of short clips from a recent radio programme - `Everyman Magnified´ - about Jacques Tati on Radio 4. (Where else!)
Sylvain Chomet discusses Tati’s (Foley) sound effects in the first clip, and, in the second clip we hear him talk about making an animated version of the 50 year old screenplay by Tati [...]
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