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Alex Fitch
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4.04 - 35 years of 2000AD

Posted by alex on Thu, 27/09/2012 - 22:08
In a companion podcast to a recent edition of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of iconic artists, responsible for illustrating many of 2000AD's most memorable characters to celebrate the title's 35th anniversary year. Kev Hopgood has drawn Judge Dredd, Future Shocks and Harlem Heroes, before going on to co-create War Machine in the American Iron Man comic; while Henry Flint has rendered memorable runs on Nemesis the Warlock, Rogue Trooper and ABC Warriors.(More info: http://henryflint.wordpress.com / www.kevhopgood.demon.co.uk / www.2000adonline.com)

4.03 - Home Invasions

Posted by alex on Wed, 19/09/2012 - 00:02
Alex Fitch interviews the directors of two new British horror films that deal with supernatural home invasions and their consequences. Oliver S. Milburn discusses his debut film The Harsh Light of Day which looks at a home owner’s Faustian deal with a vampire to get revenge on the thieves who murdered his wife, and Pat Holden talks about his new movie When the lights went out, starring Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead), produced by Bil Bungar (Moon), and dramatises the story of the 1966 haunting of a semi-detached house in Pontefract. (More info: whenthelightswentout.com / harshlightofday.com)

4.02 - Counter Measures

Posted by alex on Fri, 31/08/2012 - 13:09
Alex Fitch talks to actor John Banks, producer David Richardson and director Ken Bentley about Counter Measures, a new Nigel Kneale influenced audio drama that continues the story of the supporting cast from Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks. Alex also talks to actress Pamela Salem about reprising her Daleks role for the new series as well as her history of appearing in British telefantasy such as Blake's 7 and Into the Labyrinth plus her role of Miss Moneypenny in the Bond film Never Say Never Again. (More info: www.bigfinish.com / related podcasts - The Minister of Chance / Sylvester McCoy and Michael Jayston on playing Doctor Who)

4.01 - The Minister of Chance

Posted by alex on Mon, 20/08/2012 - 12:20
In the first of pair of podcasts about Doctor Who audio spin-offs, Alex Fitch talks to the writer / director, Dan Freeman, and one of the stars, Paul Darrow, of The Minister of Chance. The series is a crowd-funded, mp3 download serial which follows the SF / fantasy adventures of The Minister, a character who first appeared in the Doctor Who webcast, Death Comes to Time. Alex talks to Dan about the creation of DCtT and The Minister of Chance and to Paul about acting alongside Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy and reprising his iconic role of role of Avon in Blake's 7 and Kaldor City audio plays. (More info: www.ministerofchance.com / www.kaldorcity.com / www.bigfinish.com/blake-s-7)

Interlude: Unreliable Images

Posted by alex on Thu, 16/08/2012 - 23:14
In a pair of Q and As recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, Spring 2012, Alex Fitch talks to director John Simon about his adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Radio Free Albemuth and to director Berton Pierce and special effects expert Greg Aronowitz about the film Sense of Scale, a documentary on model making in the cinema. (More info at radiofreealbemuth.com / youtube.com/piercefilm)

Interlude: Modern Hauntings

Posted by alex on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 13:48
Alex Fitch talks to a pair of directors who made their first films on very low budgets and deal with subjects of hauntings that are to do as much with memory as anything supernatural. In an interview recorded at this Spring's SCI-FI-LONDON festival, Shawn Holmes talks about his micro-budget feature Memory Lane which sees an Afghanistan veteran cheating death repeatedly to revisit his memories of a dead girlfriend and solve the riddle of her death. Also, Eduardo Sánchez discusses his debut film The Blair Witch Project and his latest movie, Lovely Molly which follows a young woman’s mental breakdown while being tormented by the ghosts of her past. (More info: www.553am.com/Memory_Lane / www.lovelymolly.com)

3.25 - Documentary approaches to SF film

Posted by alex on Thu, 31/05/2012 - 13:49
Alex Fitch talks to a pair of film-makers whose experiences outside of cinema have given them unique approaches to the medium. Shezad Dawood is a fine artist who, following a short film about westerns called Feature, is now tackling the SF genre with his movie Piercing Brightness, an extract of which is currently showing at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Jim Monroe is a novelist and graphic novelist, whose excellent mockumentary Ghosts with shit jobs closed this year's SCI-FI-LONDON and presents the lives of poor North Americans after the economy of the West collapses. (For more info please visit www.shezaddawood.com / www.ghostswithshitjobs.com)

3.24 - Dystopian TV and film

Posted by alex on Fri, 04/05/2012 - 17:17
Alex Fitch talks to Ilana Rein (director: We are all Cylons), Andrew Mark Sewell (producer: Blake's 7 audio) and Ben Aaronovich (writer: Blake's 7 audio / Doctor Who) about dystopian TV from The Time Tunnel to Battlestar Galactica; and to Elizabeth Karr (producer) and John Alan Simon (writer / director) of Philip K. Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth. (More info: Blake's 7 audio plays / We are all cyclons / Radio Free Albemuth)

3.23 - The work of Warren Ellis

Posted by alex on Tue, 24/04/2012 - 14:16
Iyare Igiehon (BBC 6music) discusses the work of Warren Ellis with Matt Jones (BERG design), Matthew Sheret (We are words + pictures) and Kieron Gillen (X-Men). Jones talks about SVK, the new comic by Ellis and D'Israeli, commissioned by BERG, Sheret discusses how Ellis inspired him to become a writer and Gillen talks about his friendship with the writer and their Marvel collaborations.

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