Unknown Country is
a weekly radio series on
Resonance FM.
Every Thursday at 4:30pm (repeated Fridays at 7:30pm).
Scroll down and click on a picture to listen to an extract.
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
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
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
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
News
From Cuba
|
(30mins) | A sound portrait of Cuba
Nationality:
Wog
|
(30mins) | Kester
Aspden talks about his book Nationality: Wog - the Hounding of David
Oluwale
The
Tourist
|
(30mins) | The
reflections of a fictional
traveller
Featuring Ana Bonaldo, Haimo Li,
& Maike Zimmermann
Featured as part of the Third Coast Festival
Bumsters
and Bush Taxis
|
(30mins) | Field
recordings from
West Africa
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
Bernard
Kops's East End
|
(30mins) | In his
80th year Bernard
Kops remembers the east London of
his youth
Will
Gaines
| (30mins) | An interview with jazz hoofer Will Gaines
Two
Thousand and
Six
|
(60mins) | Three
hundred and sixty five days as banal bricolage
I
Can Remember It Very Well
|
(30mins) | Audio
collage: ablutions, Baudrillard and bagpipes
London
Esperanto Club
| (30mins) | A history
of Esperanto
and the London Esperanto Club
Featuring Dr. John Wells and members of the
London Esperanto Club
Frank
Howling
|
60mins | America,
jazz, communism
and cancer: an interview
with Frank Howling
Brown
Eyes Should Never Be Blue
|
(30mins)
| Audio
collage: fathers, antiques
& a long-ago storm remembered
Footfetish
|
(20mins) | Concrete
composition:
the sound of my feet on the ground
A
Tour of Toynbee Hall
|
(30mins) | Documentary
about
Toynbee Hall and the Settlement Movement
Words
Are Stones
|
(30mins) | Field
recordings:
Sicily in the footsteps of
Carlo Levi
Life
Gets Hold of You by the Bollocks
|
(30mins) | An interview with David
Marshall
Not
the Same
People Anymore
|
(30mins) | A history
of
the Jewish East End through the story of
three disused burial grounds
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
He's a Man
What Likes His Beer
|
(30mins) | Audio
collage
circling the theme of language
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
Going
Postal
|
(30mins) | An interview with Mark
Ames, author of Going
Postal (Snowbooks)
Preachers
|
(30mins) | Encounters with
street evangelists
Film
and
Reform
|
(30mins)
| A portrait
of John Grierson
and
the British documentary
film movement of the 1930s
Featuring Ian Aiken & Brian Winston
Why
Aren't We Marching?
|
(30mins) | Field
recordings from a
million-strong
march protesting the imminent invasion of Iraq
Manicured
Noise (co-produced
with
Vincent Luttman)
|
(60mins) | Steve
Walsh discusses
music, post-punk UK and Manicured
Noise
Interview by Vincent Luttman
They
Shall
Not Pass
|
(30mins) | Remembering
the Battle
of Cable Street 70 years on
Dictaphone
Travelogue 1
|
(30mins) | Lo-fi
travel
non-sequiters
Dictaphone
Travelogue 2
|
(30mins) | Bill
Aitchison's oblique
Frankfurt negotiations
Recordings by Bill Aitchison
Postman's
Park
|
(30mins) | Audio collage: memorials, shopping encounters
& an alarm in the distance
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
Vast
Shambles
|
(30mins) | Recounting
Jack
London’s People of the Abyss, alongside contemporary
East End stories
Happisburgh
|
(30mins) | This East Anglian
village is being eroded by the
sea
You're
Like
|
(30mins) | Squatter
& the Ant deconstructed
Sometimes
I Think That You're Too Sweet to
Die
|
(30mins) | Musicalised
hokum
The
Hitcher
|
(30mins) | An interview with photographer
Chris Coekin about his book The Hitcher
(Walkout Books)