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
Wisconsin
Death Trip| (30mins) | Radio rendition of Michael Lesy's eponymous book
Featuring Catherine Dyson and Polly Frame
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
Lynsey
Hanley| (30mins) | An interview with Lynsey Hanley, author of Estates: An Intimate History (Granta)
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
Billy,
Pack
it
Up Will You?| (30mins) | A found photograph... a taxi journey... false memories
Selected for the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, Minnesota, 2006
The
Explanation| (23mins) | Radio rendition of Donald Barthelme's short story
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
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
| (30mins) | Melancholy dada: more nonsense made musical
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)
