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Alex Fitch
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1.9 - Brent Spiner's Dreamland

Posted by alex on Sun, 23/03/2008 - 12:00
Alex Fitch talks to popular Star Trek actor Brent Spiner about his new album 'Dreamland' which mixes performances of classic musical numbers with dramatised scenes that take place in a film noir dreamland. (more info at http://www.therealbrentspiner.com)

1.8 - Manufacturing Cloverfield

Posted by alex on Sat, 22/03/2008 - 12:00
Alex Fitch presents an edited version of the Cloverfield press conference - director Matt Reeves talks about bringing the giant monster movie genre up to date, the challenges of shooting an entire movie on 'handycam' and the pressures of living up to the hype generated by the ambiguous teaser trailer. (More info at http://www.cloverfieldmovie.com)

1.7 - Producing genre shows on the radio

Posted by alex on Fri, 21/03/2008 - 12:00
Alex talks to Dirk Maggs about his various genre and science fiction programmes on BBC radio from the recent revival of Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency, An American Werewolf in London & Independence Day UK. (More info at www.dirkmaggs.dswilliams.co.uk)

1.6 - Lisa Bowerman is Professor Bernice Summerfield

Posted by alex on Thu, 20/03/2008 - 12:00
Alex talks to Lisa Bowerman about playing a popular space and time travelling archaeologist in radio style dramas for the best part of a decade. Professor Benny Summerfield started off as a Doctor Who character in the novels published by Virgin in the 90s and then became the first human companion to get her own solo series, first in print and then on CDs sold in specialist shops. (More info at www.bigfinish.com)

1.5 - Escape Pod

Posted by alex on Wed, 19/03/2008 - 12:00
Alex talks to Steve Eley who runs the weekly sci-fi podcast Escape Pod, which features readings of new and classic SF stories written by the likes of Neal Asher, Cory Doctorow, Robert Silverberg and Isaac Asimov. (More info at www.escapepod.org)

1.4 - M. R. James' Ghost stories at Christmas

Posted by alex on Tue, 18/03/2008 - 12:00
Alex talks to Dexter O'Neil, head of Fantom Films, a new company that have been producing cult CD and DVD releases over the last year or so, including a new range of M.R. James audio books featuring the best of his "Tales of the Supernatural" read by the likes of Geoffrey Bayldon. Includes an extract from "There was a man dwelt by a churchyard" read by Gareth David Lloyd (Torchwood). (More info at http://www.fantomfilms.co.uk)

1.3 - Other Cinema

Posted by alex on Mon, 17/03/2008 - 12:00
Alex talks to Noel Lawrence, founder of the "Other Cinema" DVD label about their range of esoteric / underground movies and collections of short films such as " The Net - The Unabomber, LSD and the internet", "Experiments in Terror", "Decasia" and "Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y"... (More info at http://www.othercinemadvd.com)

1.2 - Cult TV

Posted by alex on Sun, 16/03/2008 - 12:00
Two interviews recorded at last summer's Cult TV Weekender: Alex talks to actor Philip Glenister (DCI Gene Hunt) and writer Matthew Graham about "Life on Mars" / "Ashes to ashes" and to Alan Shubrook, writer of the coffee table book "21 Century FX" about his time working on "Thunderbirds" in the 1960s. (More info at http://www.cult.tv)

1.1 - The Smoking Cabinet

Posted by alex on Sun, 09/03/2008 - 10:00
Alex Fitch talks to curators Claire Cook, Simone Pyne and Kate Grove about the Curzon's Burlesque season of silent cinema, live acts and talks which featured an eclectic mix of Edwardian titillation, melodrama (The Blue Angel) and circus performers. (More info at http://thesmokingcabinet.com)

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