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Offers the totallyradio
listener groundbreaking spoken word shows. Its
high impact productions are renowned for their
innovative, directional audio that crashes through
barriers and stereotypes. From challenging contemporary
drama to experimental documentary, totallyword
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*recent programmes
Space Music: Things Seen in the Skies
Written and read by Ken Hollings and produced by Simon
James. The full article can be read in issue 233 of The
Wire magazine. Innovations in easy listening
and electronic pop music mean that we don't have to leave
home to explore outer space anymore. The experience can
be brought directly to us here on Earth. From Les Baxter
and the Saturnine piano of alien contactée Howard
Menger to Joe Meek's new worlds and the Voyager II 1000
rpm disc, the weightless grandeur of the entire universe
comes to totallyword.
Welcome To Mars (version 0.2)
Scientists recover bodies from a crashed flying
saucer in the New Mexican desert while two women relax
on a country club terrace. The American suburbs spread
themselves out beneath a threatening alien sky, while
the president plans for war with Iraq. Written and presented
by novelist Ken Hollings, Welcome To Mars (Version 0.2)
explores projected fantasies of exploration and invasion
from the 1950s to today.
The Death of Nelson
Written & performed by Robert
Cohen, directed by Emma Gustafsson. A tragicomedy about
people and politics set over 18 years, between the high
tide of Thatcherism and the brief hopeful dawn of the
Blair age. The play documents the turbulent relationship
between Richie, his godson Nelson, and Nelson’s
parents – student radicals who name their son after
Nelson Mandela, but whose radicalism is eroded on the
long journey to employment in the Blair government. Meanwhile,
as Nelson’s parents are losing their idealism, the
once-conservative Richie is developing some idealism of
his own.
Night Air - Botanical
From Australia's ABC network
comes Night Air. Presented by Brent Clough, the first
show looks at the world of plants, from Bill and Ben to
John Wydhams 'Day of the Triffids'. This is experimental
feature making at its best.
www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/nightair
For more spoken word check the totallyword
archive.
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 Ken
Hollings
Author of Destroy All Monsters and
regular contributor to The
Wire magazine, London-based
Ken Hollings draws on trash culture, weird science and
political intrigue in work that embraces text, spoken
word, music and multimedia performances to explore new
ideas and images for the 21st century.
Ken has written for a wide range of magazines and periodicals
including Sight & Sound,
Bizarre,
Frieze,
Gargoyle
and CTHEORY
as well as the anthologies Digital
Delirium and
The Last Sex from St. Martin's
Press and Undercurrents
from Continuum. Hid novel Destroy all Monsters is publiched
by Marion Boyers.
 Simon
James
A one time resident producer
at totallyradio now sound designer.
He has worked on many of totallyradio's groundbreaking
totallyword productions as well as numerous radio programmes
for the BBC, including The
Long Farewell for BBC Radio
4. Simon's use of sound and
music aids the delivery of a range of powerful emotions
to the listener in a range of pieces that entertain, engage
listeners emotionally and make audiences look afresh at
the way we live.
 Robert
Cohen (writer/performer)
Robert Cohen’s stage roles (apart from the ones
he’s written for himself) have included Ged Murray
in Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians, Lee Harvey Oswald
in the Stephen Sondheim musical Assassins, Mr Pink in
the stage adaptation of Reservoir Dogs, and the title
role in the tragi-comic karaoke musical Dirty Sanchez’
Late-Night Love-In. There’s also been a bit of filmic
activity, most recently in Full On Films’ You’re
Gonna Wake Up One Morning, and Sami Abusamra’s The
Story of Peter Tripp. Robert lives in Brighton, on the
south coast of England. He likes dogs and food.
bobbycohen@yahoo.com
More info: web.ukonline.co.uk/robert.cohen/contents.html
Emma Gustaffson (director)
In addition to her directing work, Emma has been Resident
Dramatist for the Brighton-based Volte-Face company, a
collaboration resulting in four productions: Dirty Sanchez’
Late-Night Love-In, Bedtime Stories, Quality Time and
Carpe Diem. Chicken, the play with which she made her
playwriting debut, has recently enjoyed a sell-out run
at Länsteatern i Örebro (the regional theatre
in her Swedish home town). Emma likes cats and swearing.
contact: emmagee@stafsson.freeserve.co.uk
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