Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Sat 6 March - London Animation Club - Perils of Perestroika

London Animation Club and Perestroika film. Talking to Martin Pickles from the LAC about the club and its events. With extracts from recent special show The Perils of Perestroika (1) with Soviet Child (aka Riitta Hakkarainen and Jude Cowan Montague) presenting animated films from the Soviet Union in the 1990s including work by Ivan Maximov and Igor Kovalyov.

 

Listen Again - Sat 6 March - London Animation Club, Martin Pickles 

Sat 27 Feb - Heather Tweed - Victorian performance

Animal rights, stage and trans-theatre. Heather Tweed on lost characters of Victorian performance. Tales of the difficulties behind the brilliant bright acts that thrilled nineteenth-century audiences. Meet the bird-lady who directed scenes with her avian actors and who travelled the world with her feathered menagerie and many more poignant characters, researched through archives of the stage with enthusiasm and expertise.

 

Listen Again - Heather Tweed - Victorian performance - 27 February 2021 


Sunday, 21 February 2021

Sat 20 February 2021 - Pollock's Toy Theatre - Jack Forgery Latham

Pollock's Toy Museum, one of London's interesting independent museums. Jack Fawdry Latham talks about what makes the Victorian collection and toy shop so unique and valuable as part of the heritage of the capital for children and adults now and in the future. An introduction to the practice and culture of toy theatre and an insight into the lasting enthusiasm for Victorian entrepreneurship and play. 

Listen Again - Pollock's Toy Theatre - Sat 20 February 2021 

Sunday, 14 February 2021

Sat 13 Feb 2021 - Arfoud Brothers - Morocco, Sahrawi Music - 1/North Africa Series

The first in an occasional series on Moroccan art for 2021. Abdelillah Ouahbi from the Arfoud Brothers talks about his music and his oasis town in the beautiful Sahara desert, Erfoud. His fusion sounds produced with his brothers and sisters draw on his hometown, stories from the past, the everyday and the natural world - water, sky, the desert and the slippery fierce rhythms of Sahrawi music. With musical tracks celebrating our lives together and apart before and during the pandemic.

Listen Again - Sat 13 Feb 2021 - Arfoud Brothers; Morocco - The News Agents, Resonance FM


Sat 6 Feb 2021, Julian Hoffman, Irreplaceable, the Fight to Save our Wild Places

 Irreplaceable, the Fight to Save our Wild Places is Julian Hoffman's new book. He talks about the urgent resistance to loss and the local yet international struggle to save and value nature in our lives. From a small wood north of Sheffield to a small fishing island in Indonesia he brings us voices of hope and dissent that appreciate and wish to preserve the small enormous diversity of our planet for our wildlife and for ourselves. 

 

Listen Again - Sat 6 Feb 2021 - Julian Hoffman, Irreplaceable - The News Agents on Resonance FM 

Saturday, 30 January 2021

Sat 30 Jan 2020 - Bulgarian Folk Story with Moni Sheehan

Bulgarian folklore and history with storyteller Moni Sheehan who has spent her life translating and interpreting the stories of her native Bulgarian culture for British audiences. With musician Ivor Davies she presents mythological story from Bulgaria with their performing arts group, A Spell in Time.  

Sat 30 January 2021 - Bulgarian Folk Story with Moni Sheehan

Monday, 25 January 2021

Sat 23 Jan 2021- Egyptian Magick - Mogg Morgan

 

Egyptian Magick. Mogg Morgan on the magical everyday life of ancient Egypt, the family of gods, the spells, festivities, rituals and prayers of the far past in North Africa. Speculating on how a revival of interest in ancient belief has continued, how it might be relevant to human psychology today and how it might play a part in new narratives of decolonisation. Plus the aesthetic of Egyptian sound and desertlore in terms of the ancient traditions.

Sat 23 Jan 2021- The News Agents - Egyptian Magick and Mogg Morgan