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Last 20 Shows 2010-02-07 A trouser amongst blue jeans #1 + Highway In 1979 radio producer Barry Mortlock Anthony was at a loose end. He was well into his 30s and uncertain about his future but strangely attracted to some `maverick´ broadcasts emanating from youth station, 2JJ. He had heard the series Watching The Radio with the TV Off made by Tony Barrell and was fascinated enough to get in touch.
And in Part 2 of the show, a little trip out on the highway, taking in the Silk Road and going to Perth via San Francisco.
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2010-01-31 Wood and hair A fibre-rich edition taking us first into the forest to see the trees and right up to the close-grain wood. Later - going blonde, going grey, considering the plight of the redhead, pony tails and a hair bank.
It's all as fibrous as when we go shuffling around the forest floor, then combing through downy coverings, thinking about our full (or sometimes not-so-full) head of hair and its impact on our lives.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2010-01-24 Glass Glass is noticeable but not quite visible ... the great membrane, full of mystery, delicate yet tough. - Arthur Korn, Glas im Bau (1929).
We pass through the `great membrane´ to explore the many facets of glass: we drink from it, gaze through it, make it sing and shatter. It reflects emotions and memories but glass remains fragile and maleable. We hear from those who work with it and we listen to the sounds of glass itself - from creation to awful, ecstatic destruction.
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2010-01-17 Best of A selection of the best: a mix of stories, performance, music, movies, mayhem and montage. As well as faces, habits, traffic and, of course, sounds. We include tips on how to breathe it all in, grapple with the worst addiction of them all and ask that most profound of silly questions: why was Frida Kahlo famous?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2010-01-10 Capital The undulating rise and fall effects of capital: balancing books, laying waste to financial institutions and punishing crimes.
It´s murder, greed and maybe the end of civilization as we know it. Come on out Reaganites, let´s party like it´s 1984 - light as a feather, heavy as a banker.
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2010-01-03 Whale `Thar she blows´. Was Captain Ahab carrying out `scientific research´ when he sought out the great white whale?
In this show we have an acoustic herd; a whale taking on the President of the United States; the killer whales of Eden; and one big fish story. We take to the sea in search of cetaceans and their mysterious songs.
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2009-12-27 Suggestive Getting a little suggestive - not too much - but our slip´s showing just a touch.
As the father of modern advertising, Goebbels, knew all too well, a nudge really is as a good as a wink. And nothing can beat music in the art of being suggestive, which Mildred Jones knew when she sang Mr Thrill: My daddy´s got a long long Cadillac.
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2009-12-20 Electropical Barcelona This evening we´re visiting Barcelona, taking in one of Europe's biggest electronic music and art festivals, Sonar.
You'll meet musical robot designers, dance with the queen of dub-step, Mary Anne Hobbs, and play on a giant game boy computer console as Sonar´s Catalonian Electropical fever starts to bite.
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2009-12-13 Typesetting In this edition we´re getting down among the serifs, fiddling about with fonts and dabbling in Qwerty as well as trying to make sense of the Myers Briggs test and where it´s usefully employed. How has the idea of the book and the mechanical printing press fared since Gutenberg´s great idea?
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2009-12-06 Buried Alive/Pacific Roots What do the words `buried alive´ mean to you? Do they evoke images of old horror movies or the feeling of suffocation in a boring job or an unhappy relationship? We take a look at both the real and the metaphorical fear of being buried alive, the history of taphophobia and some of the precautions that might be taken against premature burial.
And as seas get higher and the world crashes in, Pacific people are using contemporary music (particularly reggae and hip hop) to negotiate the unce ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-11-29 Two-wheel fever Get on yer bike and prepare for the future of transport. Tonight we celebrate the cycling revolution that´s taking hold of our roads and altering our culture – with material from the annual Bicycle Film Festival, tales of bike couriers, cycling activists, psychogeographers and unnamed chain-turners everywhere, prepare for a two wheeled wonderland edition.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-11-22 Mud brick A trip to the brickworks and you´d be amazed at the variety. Plus, digging in the mud to try and grasp the shifting terrain that we sometimes call history and later, a classic building re-discovered through a study of the Australian dunny.
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2009-11-15 Dust If you´re going to collect anything you can be sure it´ll collect dust. In our show dedicated to the humble mote we get down the back of a sofa, sing along with Dustys – Slim and Springfield – dish the dirt on ochre and asbestos and take a trip with John Steinbeck.
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2009-11-08 Nine A lot of big things happened in years ending with the number 9 - like the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989); the Iranian revolution and invasion of Afghanistan (1979); the moon landing and bombing of Cambodia (1969); Luna 3 orbits the moon (1959); communist victory in China and first Soviet A-bomb (1949); the outbreak of WW2(1939). Join veteran producers, Tony Barrell and Tom Morton on a nonagonal adventure.
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2009-11-01 Body music Your hip bone´s connected to your thigh bone – true – and even if it´s not the word of the Lord you hear, perhaps it´s an instinctive sense of rhythm.
That tingling, harmonic minor-scale sensation down your spine, the boom-boody-boom as your heart beats and the clanging in your head all add up to a great concert of music made on, around and within the body.
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2009-10-25 Love crazy The crazy pursuit of love with the help of a taxi driver-cum-matchmaker, together with love that kills – modern romance with the experience of dating USA-style, relationship experts and common-or-garden assignations – everyone keen for action without losing sight of proper etiquette.
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2009-10-18 City nights The stars may not be so bright in the sky but in the city, at night, there are other lights to guide your way.
Tonight we´re stepping on to the bitumen, pacing down the concrete footpaths and committing ourselves to the big smoke, through documentaries uploaded to our media sharing site Pool, as part of the City Nights project.
The City Nights project called for tales of the city at night, in any media, including photography, video, documentary, text and spoken word poetry. Over 360 p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-09-13 Spooky Spooky is a word saying more than it means perhaps: skulduggery on the part of MI5, strange apparitions, shivery music and the barefaced dread of the unknown. Some people think they have the answers – from Frankenstein to Albert Einstein – Dracula to Arch Obler.
Obler was a 1940s radio scaremonger who loved the sound of echoing footsteps and creaking doors, in the days when radio could be really scary. It couldn´t happen now, could it? Then too, there´s Erik von Daniken´s spe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-08-30 Shakin' From the hip-swivlin´ Elvis to the undulating belly dance — not to mention the milk shake experience of childhood memories in 1950s Sydney, especially when those `milk-bar´ memories are combined with the Greek island of Kythera. The world turns, turns and we get a little shook up.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-07-26 Visual In a world of the ocular and photopic we go eye-spying on visual perception in art and arcana: realms of the unseen, the partly-perceived and the imagined.
With eyes open it looks as though our experience of vision and consciousness are continuous, complex, rich and colourful - thanks to some hard work put in by the brain. But, some researchers believe that we don't see the world as it actually is at all, rather it could all be a grand illusion.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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