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Canada Reads American StyleBook Chat #20Rebecca and Tara close out September with what they are currently reading and what they've read since their last book chat.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of The Kingdom of Redonda by Michael Hingston
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Little Moons by Jen Storm
Not Cancelled: Canadian Caremongering in the Face of Covid-19; Life After Loss: Reflections on Moments of Grace and Courage in Grief by Catherine Kenwell
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell
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The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and MeThe Best of The Paul Ryder Tapes Part ThreeThe final part of a three part "best of" series - featuring choice cuts from The Paul Ryder Tapes series with late Happy Mondays bassist and founding member Paul Ryder and his ex-wife Angela Smith along with special guests Alan Howard, Rosemary Barratt, Sonny Ryder, Chico Ryder, Rowetta, Paul Popplewell, Jeanette Jackson, Daz Gilkinson, Danny Short, Pete Smith, Linda Ryder, Sandra Whelan, Gaz Whelan, Dolph Taylor, Alison Taylor, Steven Marcus, Sarah Nelson, Latch, Paul Davis, John Robb, Phil Saxe, Jason Godwin, Mara Gordon, Mani, Bez, Mark Day, Anthony "Muzzer" Murray, Dave Brettell, Clint Boon and Peter Hook. Hear about Happy...2024-07-221h 45
Last WordSir Oliver Popplewell, Lynn Conway, Tony Bramwell, Francoise HardyKirsty Lang on the Judge and cricketer Sir Oliver Popplewell. His godson Stephen Fry pays tribute.The computer pioneer and transgender advocate Lynn Conway.The music mogul and friend to the Fab Four Tony Bramwell. One of France’s best loved singer song-writers Francoise Hardy.Interviewee: Stephen Fry
Interviewee: Charles Rogers
Interviewee: Roag Best
Interviewee: Laura BartonProducer: Catherine PowellArchive used:
Get Carman: The Trials of George Carman QC BBC 2 5th April 2002; The Today Programme BBC 15th May 1985; Michigan Engineering, University of Michigan 8 Oct 2014 uploaded from Yo...2024-06-2127 min
UK Film Review PodcastChallengers - The Fall Guy - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - UK Film Club Ep 15On this top film reviews podcast, film critics Brian Penn and Chris Olson provide insights into the latest movie releases, streaming films, and independent cinema for the UK Film Review Podcast community. UK Film Club covers all manner of movies and in this May episode, listeners can enjoy film reviews of the following new movies: Challengers film review: a tennis film starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor. Zendaya stars as Tashi, a skilled tennis player with a hold on two other tennis players – portrayed by Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor. The piece consists of a...2024-05-231h 12
Cult ConnectionsThe Reel Diana DorsDiana Dors was a unique figure in British film as her blend of glamour, personality and acting talent woved both the tabloids and cinemagoing public alike. Ian is joined by Dors biographer Anna Cale to discuss her life, legacy and, of course, three of her best films. Tread Softly Stranger (1958). Directed by Gordon Parry. Written by George Minter and Denis O'Dell from the play by Jack Popplewell. Starring Diana Dors, George Baker and Terence MorganValue for Money (1955). Directed by Ken Annakin. Written by R.F. Delderfield and William Fairchild from the book by Derrick Boothroyd. Sta...2024-03-311h 03
Future of Film Podcast65. Paul Raschid and Ru Howe: Branching Narrative FilmmakingThis episode explores the evolution in interactive filmmaking with filmmaker Paul Raschid and Ru Howe, the Founder of Stornaway.io the development tool for interactive video.
Paul is the director of a number of branching narrative feature film/FMV games including 2022's THE GALLERY - comprising of over four and a half hours of video content.
In this conversation, Paul and Ru share insights of how they took a 450 scene 'FMV Game' script into the finished feature film utilising Stornaway’s bespoke platform.
We also talk distribution and audiences and how releasing the film on gaming platforms has provided Paul wi...2022-08-3046 min
The Goblin ChroniclesTGC The Final ChapterWe sat silently in the balloon, floating gently this way and that - slaves to the mercies of the wind. Mother sat silently with tears rolling down her cheeks. I sat silently – desperate to comfort my mother but not having the faintest idea of how to do so. My father sat silently – unrepentant, and the balloon floated this way and that.I looked at my mother and thought of all that she had done. She had raised me as a child. She had loved me as a child. She had protected me, when our home was gone. She...2022-08-1901 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 26 In which Manquer makes another sacrifice“When the elves came, Father Leiter, Brother Dezent, and Sister Gutig came to protect us. We left the house at night and-” but that was as far as I got in telling the story to my father as he started to shake. I was scared to look at him. His face was contorted and he was shaking uncontrollably. His shoulders were heaving up and down. “What is it?” I asked, concerned for him in spite of his behaviour since our arrival. Tears were rolling down his red face as he sobbed – but no he wasn’t sobbing. He was laughing!2022-08-1909 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 25 In which we meet Betrüger“Send for!” The voice was disbelieving. It came from behind me. It was my mother’s voice. “You did not send for our child!” She emerged from behind the curtain. “You’ve been away all these years!” Her voice had cracked a little and had a faint madness to it now. “Away from us! Away from your child! Living here as some elven prince! All this time you send for things! And you never once ‘sent for us’! Your family! How dare you Lehre!”My father did not seemed in the slightest troubled by my mother’s accusation. Nor did he see...2022-08-1906 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 24 In which we reach NirvaasanIn the tunnel, an eerie chill seeped into my bones with every step and though it could not have been possible, it seemed as though the pitch black darkness grew darker still. I shivered.“This isn’t right,” Handeln was moaning, “I’ve been down many a tunnel - but never one like this.”I felt a dull ache - starting in my toes and travelling up my legs - spreading into my knees. The ache grew quickly until it had spread through my entire body so that my every step was a labour.“Be quiet...2022-08-1905 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 23 In which I overhear a conversationI woke early the next morning, long before the sun had risen. I was cold. I was cold, confused and lonely. And Hinweisgeber’s words from the night before still chased themselves around my head, “He’s changed. He’s different.” How had my father changed? How was he different? Would he look the same? Would he sound the same? Suddenly, another question – a particularly unwelcome question - lodged itself in my mind. Would he remember me?It was too much for me; I couldn’t bear the prospect that I may see my father again only to have him no...2022-08-1905 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 22 In which an elf tells a storyWe ate a feast that night. Entering the room, we were greeted by a plate full of warm strangely-shaped pastries filled with crushed mushrooms - richer than anything I’d ever eaten before. Next, the elf served us a parsnip and potato soup that warmed my toes, my fingers and my soul. And last but not least, we ate an apple pie so delicious that I lost count of how many portions Handeln ate.As he finished one of his many helpings, my mother addressed the elf. “Thank you, most sincerely for your incredible kindness, but may I as...2022-08-1908 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 21 In which we receive the hospitality of an elfSeveral thing happened at once. In a flash, Handeln had drawn his club from his belt and launched it violently at the elf. Simultaneous to this, Manquer had drawn her knife and sent it gliding through the air. As these two objects flew across the clearing, time seemed to slow down. Stepping away from me the elf plucked first the club then the knife from the air as easily as one might pluck a plum from a tree.Laying both at my feet, the elf spoke to my mother again, “I mean you no harm. I am,” the...2022-08-1905 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 20 In which we meet an ElfFinally after what felt like a lifetime, we landed. Or to put it more accurately, I found myself crashing through increasingly thick and firm branches until finally I reached branches that were so thick that I stopped smashing through them and instead bounced from branch to branch to branch to the ground below.I looked this way and that, searching for my mother. My heart started to thump; my breath started to quicken; she was nowhere to be seen. I felt a snake wind itself around my neck and opened my mouth to shriek.“Shh…” The sn...2022-08-1905 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 19 In which Manquer makes a sacrificeManquer pulled at a rope fiercely, watched the sails fall, and nodded awkwardly as the ship lifted ever so slightly out of the water. Turning, I saw a ship, a huge ship, a colossal ship – the size of which I could never have even imagined - appear on the horizon. Even at a distance, one could tell that this was a truly tremendous ship. All one had to do was count the number of sails. There were scores of them; scores upon scores of white sheets billowing as the ship of the elves flew down the river towards us....2022-08-1904 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 18 In which we travel further up the SchwerAs I sat with my line in the water, my mind drifted. My mind drifted back into the fogs of my memory to a time long long ago. I remembered fishing – fishing with my father. I remembered his arms around me, helping me to hold the line. I remembered feeling the rumble of his chest as he spoke: guiding me as I baited the line, guiding me as I cast it out, guiding me as I reeled it in. I remembered all of the fish we caught that day. I remembered how my father had placed his hand on mi...2022-08-1907 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 17 In which I talk to ManquerI barely slept that night. I couldn’t. My mind wouldn’t let me. Every time I closed my eyes, I was transported back to the gangway in Hafen. Every time I closed my eyes, I heard the elf’s soft chanting and the lapping of the water against the bollards of the walkway. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the strange ominous clouds that the elves had summoned. But most of all, every time I closed my eyes I felt a strange fear grip me - a fear and a terror at the words the elf had sp...2022-08-1907 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 16 In which we encounter orcsI woke to find Handeln and my mother shaking me frantically. Terrified that the Elves had found us, I jumped up at once. It was not elves though that terrified my mother; looking across the water I saw something as different from the elves as could be.I had never seen such a horror. A horror that sent a shiver racing down my back. I suppose to best describe it is to say to imagine a ship – a normal ship, but rather than wooden planks, there were bones! Bones upon bones upon bones. Fused together by some da...2022-08-1907 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 15 In which we begin our (second) journeyI slept not a wink that night. The smell of burning timber seemed to engulf the entire lake. Its bitterness filled my nostrils as I wriggled and writhed on the floor of the ship. The edges of the planks seemed to push into me no matter how I positioned myself. Eventually, I gave up and watched the moon float across the star-filled sky. I was surprised by how steady the ship was; it cut through the water as effortlessly as a knife through butter.Silently, we carved through the water – black under the night sky. Manquer stood – hood...2022-08-1906 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 14 In which elves come to HafenI was still lying, staring at the ceiling, when Flussmann burst through the door of our room – wide-eyed and panicked.“Elves,” he gasped, “here in Hafen, looking for Goblins.”Mother was already upright – fully alert. In a moment, she was looming over me. “Come,” she said.“I-I’ve been told t-to t-take you to Manquer,” Flussmann stammered nervously. He looked so nervous that I wondered - as I lifted myself from my bed of sawdust - whether he’d overheard the raised voices of the night before.To my relief however, Mother seemed to have no...2022-08-1908 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 13 In which we meet the mysterious ManquerUnremarkable - that was how I would describe Manquer, now that she stood hoodless before me. She was a goblin. A plain and simple goblin and I could not fathom for the life of me, why she was spoken of in such hushed tones throughout Hafen. In fact, as I looked at Manquer stood there, illuminated by the flickering flames of the dwindling fire I thought she even looked weak. There was nothing of the danger that I’d imagined, when I had heard her name whispered on every pier of Hafen.“Hello Scheren,” she spoke again with t...2022-08-1905 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 12 In which I learn the name of a dwarfMother stormed away ahead of me. Practically jogging to keep up, I pulled at her sleeve, but alas she would not be slowed. Over the uneven boards, she stormed. Past the huddled groups of dwarves, she marched, all the way back to the inn with her hands balled into fists. All the while, I jogged behind her. I could barely recognise my mother; she was so angry. A strange power seemed to radiate from her – a power so fierce that I saw several dwarves we passed visibly back away into doorways.Once we made it back to th...2022-08-1909 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 11 In which mother searches – and fails to find – a passage to NirvaasanMother was standing by the window, looking out at the floating village of Hafen, when I awoke. Yawning, I stretched, jumped to my feet and shook myself free of the sawdust.“What will we do today mother?”“Today, my darling, we will find a passage to Nirvaasan,” Mother said determinedly.I followed her down the spiralling staircase, through the curtain and into the dingy room we’d sat in the night before. The two dwarves, who had been sat in the armchairs when we had arrived were back in them now – both smoking their pipes...2022-08-1907 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 10 In which we find lodgings with a new friendMother wouldn’t answer me, when I asked who this mysterious Manquer was. She didn’t even acknowledge that I’d spoken, she just dragged me behind her, moving nimbly across the planks of boardwalks that gently rose and fell with the water they floated upon. She approached an inn and pulled me in after her.It was as quiet as the grave in there. Two old dwarves sat in armchairs that were bursting at the seams, pushed against yellowing walls, their faces illuminated only by a solitary candle resting on the barrel between them.Quickl...2022-08-1907 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 09 In which we reach the town of HafenI woke with a start the next morning. Confused at seeing the sun blazing down at me. Unnerved by the sound of water lapping at the sand. It took me a while to realise where we were.We had done it - I reminded myself.We had escaped the mine.Naturally, mother was already wide-awake. Cooking a freshly-caught fish on a resurrected fire.Once we’d eaten and I’d got all of the fish bones out of my teeth (which took substantially longer than the eating) mother threw some water over...2022-08-1904 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 08 In which we sleep beneath the starsThat night, my mother made a fire and we sat there on the edge of the water. We ate fish and we were warm. For the first time since we left the house, I wasn’t hungry and I wasn’t cold. We talked, while we ate. We talked about home; we talked about my friends; we even talked about her friends. I thought about telling her about how I’d dreamt of father but I thought it might upset her - so I decided against it.Instead, I looked out at the water and saw on the ot...2022-08-1904 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 07 In which I am rudely awoken – with a fish“Slowly,” his voice was deep, calming and soothing.I pulled at the string with a nervous energy – frantically.“Slowly,” he said again, more loudly this time with a tinge of frustration and a hint of laughter in his voice.It was pulling against me; I pulled harder – quicker. Then suddenly, the line went slack and without the resistance, the rod flew back thwacking me in the face. I sank to my knees, and let out a growl of frustration, rolling in the pebbles and shells.He was laughing – guttural rasping laughter that seemed to...2022-08-1906 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 06 In which we learn to swim – after a fashion“I don’t know if this is a wise decision,” mother murmured anxiously, rolling the golden chain between her fingers. It was fair to say that she hadn’t leapt at the idea when I suggested it to her. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that she had thought it an appalling idea and much preferred the alternative of simply living in this eerie cave for the remainders of our lives. “Merpeople are dangerous creatures, darling. They’ve been known to even betray their own flesh. I’d sooner trust an elf than the merpeople. At least the elve...2022-08-1906 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 05 In which we encounter a mermaidI awoke with a shiver. Opening my eyes, I was astonished to see that I could – well – see! I could see I was in a huge cave, comfortably one hundred times the size of our small home that we had left far behind us. Hundreds of stalactites hung threateningly from the roof of the cave. They were so numerous, that they hid the roof entirely. They looked like a huge upside-down hedgehog. And a flickering blue light made them look as though they were swaying ominously, waiting to fall on those foolish enough to rest in their cave.Lo...2022-08-1907 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 04 In which we navigate the minesWe stopped. I don’t know when. I didn’t know how long we’d been moving. I’d walked; I’d cried; I’d dragged at mother; I’d been dragged by mother; I’d been carried by mother. Through the caves, we’d travelled, coughing, retching, sneezing, crying until finally we stopped – or more accurately collapsed in a heap. Alone, in the depths of the mine we lay in a heap. My legs were aching; my arms were aching; my soul was aching. It was so dark that I could see nothing; I held my hand right in front of my eyes...2022-08-1907 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 03 In which a sacrifice is madeIt was a strange noise: a cross between a bark and a hiss that seemed to come from behind us and rush around us into the depths of the mines, where it reverberated back up, slithering along the floor, enveloping the tunnel entirely. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up as one. Our marching, so purposefully drum-like mere moments before disintegrated into a chaotic pitter-patter of panic. Raised voices rang out, bouncing from wall to wall. There was pushing now; the whole seething mass of bodies began to thrust and shove in a frenzied confusion.2022-08-1905 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 02 In which we enter the minesMy mother was on me in an instant, crouched in front of me and pulled me close to her. “Listen to me now. Father Leiter is going to take us through the mines. Hold my hand and whatever you do, don’t let go.”I nodded. I tried to speak but there was a lump in my throat. I could feel hot tears running down my face. Father Leiter threw his hands at the wonky old door of our home. With a bang, it cracked into a thousand splinters that exploded out into the street. Crouching, he steppe...2022-08-1906 minThe Goblin ChroniclesTGC 01 In which elves come to RurauxI was eating a bowl of mashed potato when my life changed forever. I can remember how it was ever so slightly saltier than I was used to. As I spooned another scoop into my mouth, there was an urgent knocking at the kitchen door. It was so loud that I almost fell off my rickety old chair with only three legs – the fourth being a makeshift pile of books. I looked nervously to my mother. She must have seen the fear in my eyes for she spoke to me as she crossed the room to the door....2022-08-1903 min
Total Movie RecallTMR 047 – Return to Oz This week on Total Movie Recall, we acknowledge that The Wizard of Oz is, yes, a classic. However, it’s missing a certain je ne sais quoi, and we try to put our fingers on exactly what it needed. We conclude that classic, whimsical children’s film needed more childhood lobotomy, forced imprisonment, Queens pulling their own heads off, and Veruca Salt. Or Fairuza Balk? Potato potato. Return to Oz (1985) d. Walter Murch Based on books by L. Frank Baum Starring: Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Nicol Williamson as the N...2020-11-161h 34
The Leg UpXtreme Race DayThad and Stephen are joined by Trackside's Brendan Popplewell to look at Saturday's big races, while NZTR Senior Handicapper George Strickland joins the show to talk about the art of handicapping.2019-09-2753 min
Escuchando PeliculasPeter Pan, La Gran Aventura (Aventuras. Fantástico. Infantil. Piratas #audesc 2003)País
Estados Unidos
Director
P.J. Hogan
Guión
P.J. Hogan, Michael Goldenberg (Historia: J. M. Barrie)
Música
James Newton Howard
Fotografía
Donald McAlpine
Reparto
Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Olivia Williams, Richard Briers, Harry Newell, Freddie Popplewell, Ludivine Sagnier, Lynn Redgrave, Carsen Gray, George MacKay, Harry Eden, Bruce Spence
Sinopsis
Una fría noche londinense, Wendy Darling lee a sus hermanos menores cuentos sobre el Capitán Garfio, el legendario pirata que no teme a nada excepto el paso del tiempo. En cuanto a Wendy, su padre ha decidido que le ha llegado el moment...2016-10-241h 38