U N K N O W N C O U N T R Y
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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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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WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP
|
(30mins) | Radio
rendition of Michael Lesy's eponymous book
Featuring Catherine Dyson and
Polly Frame
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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