Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Sat 11 Feb - The British Romantic Attitude to Crime: DUNCAN CAMPBELL

A discursive investigation into British attitudes to crime, and the ideal of the romantic villain. Concentrating on 20th and 21st century felonry in London we consider attitudes towards law-breakers in real life and fiction.

LISTEN AGAIN - Duncan Campbell - British Romantic Attitude to Crime

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Sat 4 Feb - CHINESE OPEN: Underground art in the State of the Rooster

 
Artists Alina Gavrietalos and Andrew Stys discuss the current  exhibition featuring over hundred underground artists in the Q-Park beneath Leicester Square, and discuss how we are making art at the beginning of the Rooster era. Plus a live experimental composition echoing the world wake-up call of the cockerel.

LISTEN AGAIN - Alina Gavrietalos and Andrew Stys - Chinese Open 

Sat 28 Jan - YOUNG ALFRED HITCHCOCK: Discussing Bio-Fiction


Author Deborah Lawrenson discusses the rise in biofiction and 'The Adventures of Young Alfred Hitchcock'. Looking at historical fiction and the current developments in prequel and series writing. Casting an eye on how London, particularly the East End, appears in TV, film and novels.

LISTEN AGAIN - Deborah Lawrenson - Young Hitchcock / Biofiction

Sunday, 8 January 2017

Thursday, 5 January 2017

Sat 7 Jan - BIRD NEWS #2 with Catherine Clover

Birds as messengers in science and meta-narrativesPlus a brief selected review of outdoor writing now and thenThe show features an impromptu composition created live on air.

LISTEN AGAIN - Catherine Clover - Bird News 

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Christmas Show 2016 - LOOKING BACK: Writers Read their Own Work



The NEWS AGENTS CHRISTMAS SHOW

Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague.

A selection of literature read by writers on the show during 2016. With contributions from Paul Burston, Emma Roper-Evans, Deborah Lawrenson, George Szirtes and Duncan Campbell.


Thursday, 15 December 2016

Sat 17 Dec - The Pre-history of Ealing Studios and the Topical Newsfilm: W G BARKER

John Leman Riley talks to Jude Cowan Montague about her work on W G Barker who set up the first film studios at Ealing. Will Barker was also one of the foremost pioneers of topical and news pictures in early cinema in Britain. 

LISTEN AGAIN - Jude Cowan Montague talks to John Leman Riley - W G Barker and Ealing Studios