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Matthew Hughes is a Spec-Fic (and crime) author living in Courtenay, British Columbia. A few weeks ago, he was interviewed by Sheryl McKay for CBC Radio One’s “North By Northwest” program. Here’s the |MP3| courtesy of Hughes’ own website. About the interview Matt sez: “I blather on for about twelve minutes. They had me do it at 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning, when I’m usually unconscious, so I ended up saying a few things I probably shouldn’t have.”
[via SFSignal]
P.S. FREE Apocalypse Al!
The Words At Large podcast, an amalgam of book related tidbits from CBC radio programs, has an in-depth interview with William Gibson about his latest novel Spook Country. This originally aired in the NXNW Studio One Book Club slot on Saturday September 15th. You can download the |MP3| direct or get the file by subscribing to the podcast feed:
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/wordsatlarge.xml
Also, there was a great interview with William Gibson on NPR’s “On Point” program, in which Gibson speaks about Spook Country. From the introduction…
“Now the man who coined the term cyberspace is writing wild fiction set in the here and now”
Gibson’s recent writing (starting with Pattern Recognition) is a swing away from futuristic science fiction – about this, Gibson later remarks, “One of the conclusions that I’ve come to is that science fiction is never about the future, really . . . it’s always about the day in which it was written.” Gibson also predicts “within a decade from now cyberspace with be a nostalgic term”; much in the same way that the use of “electric” as a prefixed adjective in the 19th century went away when electric devices became commonplace, so will the term “digital” be subsumed.
Here’s the direct link to the |MP3| file for the interview.
[Special thanks to Moriond]
And of course, this post mentioning CBC means I must mention that… Apocalypse Al must be freed!
The Words At Large podcast has an episode they are calling “Science And Science Fiction” this week. It features interviews with Daniel H. Wilson, Dava Sobel.
Download the |MP3| direct, or subscribe to the podcast:
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/wordsatlarge.xml
And of course, Apocalypse Al must be freed!
The “Inside The CBC” Blog (the official blog for the English language Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has a frightening news story about a new CBC policy. It states:
“any CBC employee who wants to start a personal blog which ‘clearly associates them with CBC/Radio-Canada’ now requires their supervisor’s permission”
This really stinks! The whole idea is draconian, unconscionable and stupid. We must stop this.
The article also cites the same CBC document as saying:
“Further, the blog cannot advocate for a group or a cause, or express partisan political opinion. It should also avoid controversial subjects or contain material that could bring CBC/Radio-Canada into disrepute. To start and maintain a blog of this kind, you need your supervisor’s approval.”
Let’s see… does advocating that CBC should air The Adventures Of Apocalypse Al, a show that it commissioned, hired actors for, recorded and completed only to shelve count as ‘bringing CBC into disrepute’? Who’s going to make that call? The very thought of this irks me to no end. This will hurt us, the listeners (and viewers) of CBC.
I hardly think it likely that our own little FREE APOCALYPSE AL campaign is the primary target of this new CBC brass policy, but it still sucks for us anyway. We can’t let CBC start standing for “Coverup and Banning Committee.”
Please consider adding your comments to the original post – let us not allow CBC to become something less than the greatness it has always been. Long live the CBC as a great communicator.
Cameron Archer of BlogCritics.org has a text interview with CBC Radio dramatist and voice actor Matt Watts (he’s the guy who wrote and stared in Canadia: 2056 season one). The interview talks about the creation of Steve The First, Second and Canadia 2056 and a few other of Matt’s projects. You can read the entire interview HERE.
P.S. FREE Apocalypse Al!
Mike O’Brien, of the CBC Radio Comedy Factory podcast has a funny series of six audio skitlettes right at the beginning of the latest show. All of them are inspired by the ending of the final Harry Potter novel – they’ve got some alternate endings for us (and don’t worry there are no spoilers for the real deal):
-the “funny misunderstanding” ending
-the Scooby Doo ending
-the Conrad Black ending
-the M. Night Shyamalan ending
-the Star Wars ending
Download the |MP3| direct, or subscribe to the podcast and stay funny weekly:
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/cf.xml