Archive for the ‘2007’ Category

The 2007 Team

Back L-R: Maisa Van Onselen, Murray Freeman, Matti Magnusson, Dave Dodd,
Paul Mann, John Traynor, Alex Leam, Alan Brown, Jackie Curthoys, Mags Reinig.
Front: Vicky Sherwin, Jamie MitchellHanah Edney, Yi-Tong Guo.

Walls Have Ears

A programme that poses the question – where does sound go?
If sound can make impressions in tin foil or a wax cylinder, then why not in a wall, however infinitesimal that may be? And what would happen if someone made an apparatus that could extract these sounds from say, a wall?
Well the result might sound a bit like this:

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Won 2nd Prize at the BEA Festival of Media Arts, Las Vegas, 2008

Kwik Classics Presents… Wuthering Heights!

How can today’s ADHD-ridden, i-Pod toting youth be expected to read anything longer than a text message? Here’s the answer – all you ever need to know about Emily Bronte’s romantic masterpiece in just five minutes.
Kwik Classics – Great Literature in the time it takes to make a Pot Noodle…
Written and produced by Jackie Curthoys. Alex Leam: Announcer, Heathcliff, Cathy, Derek Acorah and too many others to mention… Dave Dodd: Narrator, Barry Norman, lead Kate Bush impersonator.

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Won Gold for Best Comedy at the Student Radio Awards, 2007

The ABC of Relativity

Everything you need to know about relativity in a nut shell.

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Modern Day Fairytale

Fairytale of a swan with a modern day twist.

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Letter from a Terminus

A piece reflecting back on the first man on the moon and the effect thirty years later.

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Knitting – The New Rock ‘n’ Roll?

Hardly a day seems to go by without something or other being described as the new rock ‘n’ roll. With the recent resurgence of knitting as a ‘cool’ hobby, and its apparent popularity amongst celebs, Alan Brown asseses its rock ‘n’ roll credentials!

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Pocillovists on Parade

A playful look at the world of egg cup collecting. With Michelle Farley and Kristin Lindsay.

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Fortean World Intro

A mock introduction to a new series on radio which investigates paranormal, supernatural and unexplained phenomena from real cases in Britain today.

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ALE!

‘ALE!’ is a fun little piece made as a tribute to a national treasure. It’s meant to give an introduction to those who perhaps aren’t sure what real ale is or what it’s all about, and to have a little laugh at those of us who hold it dear.

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