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Documentaries... interviews... soundscapes... yarns...
by Martin Williams.
Every Thursday at 4:30pm on Resonance FM.




                                                                                           

    SOUTHALL AND BLAIR PEACH
   
    | (90mins) | Revisiting events surrounding the death of Blair Peach
    Featuring Tariq Ali, Hardeep Dhura, Suresh Grover, Jo Lang, Amanda Leon, Annie Nehmad, Balwinder Rana, David Renton, Celia Stubbs, Anna Sullivan
& John Witzenfeld
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NOT THE SAME PEOPLE ANYMORE
   
| (30mins) | A history of the Jewish East End through the story of three disused burial grounds
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    LIFE GETS HOLD OF YOU BY THE BOLLOCKS

    | (30mins) | An interview with David Marshall
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THE TOURIST
   
| (30mins) | The reflections of a fictional traveller
Featuring Ana Bonaldo, Haimo Li, & Maike Zimmermann
Featured on the Third Coast Festival website
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SOMETIMES I THINK THAT YOU'RE TOO SWEET TO DIE
   
| (30mins) Musicalised hokum
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ON GUARD - THE 43 GROUP
   
| (90mins) | Telling the story of the 43 Group - militant anti-fascists in post-war London
Featuring Morris Beckman, David Renton, Len Rolnick, Steve Silver & Wolf Wayne
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NEWS FROM CUBA
   
    | (30mins) | A sound portrait of Cuba
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NATIONALITY: WOG
   
| (30mins) | Kester Aspden talks about his book Nationality: Wog - the Hounding of David Oluwale
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BUMSTERS AND BUSH TAXIS

| (30mins) | Field recordings from West Africa
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WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP

| (30mins) | Radio rendition of Michael Lesy's eponymous book
Featuring Catherine Dyson and Polly Frame
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CUT-UP CLOSE UP
   
| (30mins) | Cut-up representation of Cut-Up Close Up at Lorem Ipsum Gallery, London, 18/11/07
Featuring members of Apocryphal Theatre Company
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LYNSEY HANLEY
   
| (30mins) | An interview with Lynsey Hanley, author of Estates: An Intimate History (Granta)
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REAL THINGS HAPPEN HERE [co-produced with Daniel Beban]

| (60mins) | One day in the life of a fictional east London flaneur
Commissioned by the Radia Network
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BILLY, PACK IT UP WILL YOU?
   
| (30mins) | A found photograph... a taxi journey... false memories
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THE EXPLANATION
   
| (23mins) | Radio rendition of Donald Barthelme's short story
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YOU CAME ON HERE WITH TEN LOVELY TOES
   
| (30mins) | A journey by train across America, with readings from Michel de Certeau
Readings by Bill Aitchison
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THE KING AND I

| (45mins) | Dramatised imagining of Graceland life
Written by a smith | Performed by Catherine Dyson
Originally staged at Battersea Arts Centre, London
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IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW
   
| (30mins) | Radio rendering of Bill Aitchison's gamebook for the Brunswick Centre in London
Featuring Catherine Dyson and a smith's recordings of their own meanderings
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BERNARD KOPS'S EAST END
   
    | (30mins) | In his 80th year Bernard Kops remembers the east London of his youth
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WILL GAINES: HOOFER
   
| (30mins) | An interview with jazz hoofer Will Gaines
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TWO THOUSAND AND SIX
   
    | (60mins) | Three hundred and sixty five days as banal bricolage
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I CAN REMEMBER IT VERY WELL
   
| (30mins) | Audio collage: ablutions, Baudrillard and bagpipes
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    LONDON ESPERANTO CLUB

    | (30mins) | A history of Esperanto and the London Esperanto Club
    Featuring Dr. John Wells and members of the London Esperanto Club
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FRANK HOWLING
   
| 60mins | America, jazz, communism and cancer: an interview with Frank Howling
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    BROWN EYES SHOULD NEVER BE BLUE

    | (30mins) | Audio collage: fathers, antiques & a long-ago storm remembered
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FOOTFETISH
   
| (20mins) | Concrete composition: the sound of my feet on the ground
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    A TOUR OF TOYNBEE HALL

    | (30mins) | Documentary about Toynbee Hall and the Settlement Movement
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WORDS ARE STONES

| (30mins) | Field recordings: Sicily in the footsteps of Carlo Levi
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    WHY DON'T THEY WANT US TO VISIT?
   
    | (30mins) | Implying an overlap between anthropology and the search for ETs
    Made in conjunction with the Space Soon season at the Roundhouse, London
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HE'S A MAN WHAT LIKES HIS BEER
   
| (30mins) | Audio collage circling the theme of language
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    BOOKSHOP ISLINGTON GREEN

    | (30mins) | An independent bookshop closes as another branch of a chain opens nearby
    Featuring staff and customers of the Bookshop Islington Green
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GOING POSTAL
   
| (30mins) | An interview with Mark Ames, author of Going Postal (Snowbooks)
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  PREACHERS
   
    | (30mins) | Encounters with street evangelists
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FILM AND REFORM

| (30mins) | A portrait of John Grierson and the British documentary film movement of the 1930s
Featuring Ian Aiken & Brian Winston
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    WHY AREN'T WE MARCHING?

    | (30mins) | Field recordings from a million-strong march protesting the imminent invasion of Iraq
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MANICURED NOISE  (co-produced with Vincent Luttman)

| (60mins) | Steve Walsh discusses music, post-punk UK and Manicured Noise
Interview by Vincent Luttman
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THEY SHALL NOT PASS
   
    | (30mins) | Remembering the Battle of Cable Street 70 years on
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DICTAPHONE TRAVELOGUE 1

| (30mins) | Lo-fi travel non-sequiters
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    DICTAPHONE TRAVELOGUE 2

    | (30mins) | Bill Aitchison's oblique Frankfurt negotiations
    Recordings by Bill Aitchison
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POSTMAN'S PARK
   
| (30mins) | Audio collage: memorials, shopping encounters & an alarm in the distance
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    SPEAKERS CORNER WITH A ROOF
   
    | (15mins) | Documenting the history of Conway Hall and the South Place Ethical Society
    Featuring Peter Vlachos and members of the South Place Ethical Society
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VAST SHAMBLES

| (30mins) | Recounting Jack London’s People of the Abyss, alongside contemporary East End stories
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    SHOOT THE FREAK
   
    | (30mins) | Snapshots of New York
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HAPPISBURGH

| (30mins) | Portrait of an East Anglian village under threat from coastal erosion
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    YOU'RE LIKE...
   
    | (30mins) | Squatter & the Ant deconstructed
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WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF, ERIC?
   
| (90mins) | Charting the history of Rock Against Racism, its origins, activities and oppositions
Featuring Paul Gilroy, Ian Golding, Roger Huddle, Vincent Luttman, Wayne Minter, Tom Robinson, Red Saunders, Syd Shelton & a smith
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HE ALWAYS DID, HE ALWAYS WILL

| (30mins) | Melancholy dada: more nonsense made musical
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THE HITCHER
   
| (30mins) | An interview with photographer Chris Coekin about his book The Hitcher (Walkout Books)
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WELCOME TO OUR FLAT
   
| (30mins) | A personal introduction to the city of Oslo
Words by a smith
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MEMORIES OF SPAIN
   
| (90mins) | International Brigade veterans remember the Spanish Civil War
Featuring Bob Doyle, Sol Frankel, Jack Jones, Lou Kenton, Sam Lesser, David Marshall, Sir Alfred Sherman & George Wheeler
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