THE NEWS AGENTS ..... Jude Montague's creative news-arts show Saturday 3pm-4pm Resonance 104.4FM ...... EXPERIMENT AND JOURNEY 'On a rainy Saturday in cold old February it was a delight to be chatting about music and arty things and having a bit of a sing with Jude Montague' JUDY DYBLE She creates poetry which finds the humanity amid the horror of our times.' BILL NEELY 'Jude Montague has gone where I've never seen a jobbing journalist tread before.' JON SNOW
Poetry and music don't always come together but when they do interesting hybrid forms emerge. Looking at 'VERSUS' by Bettina Schroeder vs JCM out on Wormhole World, a 'weird Lancashire' label - the album is also a video project with contributions from filmmakers including Anne Savitie, Andrew Stys (UU) Mark Rathmell and Suzie Hanna. Thoughts on making this album and other interesting pop hybrids including 'Plague Songs' by Martin Rowson, Jon Tregenna and guest artist-performers.
Colonial Countryside. Professor Corinne Fowler in conversation on colonial connections in the country house, child-led creative projects on British history and empire and new writing on rurality. Chasing tales of rurality, slavery and material culture. Her book 'Green Unpleasant Land' is out on Peepal Tree Press.
The News Agents - Sat 13 March - Corinne Fowler, Colonial Countryside
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
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
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.
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
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
