Dream Symphony - from 'Songlines', Short Cuts Series 7 (BBC Radio 4)

Have we lost control of housing in the UK and how do we really take control of the places we live? With Seb Klier and Alice Martin.

Part of a special six-part series asking how we can create a new economy where people can really take control of their lives.

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Stephen K Amos investigates the incredible true story of Ras Prince Monolulu, the first black man ever to appear on British TV screens.

Standing tall in his billowing robes, lions paws swing from his neck andostrich feathers adorn his hair. He shouts his catch phrase to an eager crowd, "I gotta 'Orse, I gotta 'Orse to beat the favourite." His smile is wide, his eyes full of spark and secrets, and the crowd is captivated.

Monolulu made his fame on the race courses of England in the 1920s but soon became a national treasure enchanting the nation until his death in the 1960s. But today his story has fallen through the cracks of history. There's no blue plaque and no museum. So who was this man? Where did he come from? What drove him to fame and how did he charm the nation for over forty years?

Comedian Stephen K Amos sets out to discover the incredible truth behind this mystical character, meeting people who remember the Prince and the vigilant detectives striving to get to the bottom of his story. The tale takes us from Ethiopia to Honolulu, from Germany to Soho.

Lifting the gossamer webs of Monolulu's carefully woven stories, Stephen reveals the truth of this man and finds than it's even stranger than fiction. It's a story of invented exotic identities and the struggle for survival.

The Producer is Claire Crofton

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Who is Monolulu? BBC Radio 4

A story about how flowers and romance blossomed in a garden in Afghanistan. Music courtesy of Calais Sessions

26. My Garden

With the London marathon coming up, I've now fully learned how to run and feel  I've got to teach those who can't. Your legs will refuse to make a running motion unless you explain to them what the point of it all is: with that in mind, this first part of my guide is all about finding a reason to run!

Joe Bates Explains How To Run

Since the dawn of time, humans have wanted to make walking metal versions of themselves. Now, the wait is over and robots are about to enter all parts of our life, and Joe Bates Explains Robots is the podcast you need to make sense of it. 

How can I protect my job from a robot? What type of sex robot should I marry? How do I stop my robot from turning on me? The answer to all these questions is yes, but for more detailed answers, download Joe Bates Explains Robots, the first episode of series 3 of Joe Bates Explains It All.

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Joe Bates Explains Robots

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the politics of collective joy.

Edited and produced by Olivia Humphreys, Matt Huxley and Matt Phull.

PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481

Tracks featured:

Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing in the streets
MFSB - Love is the message
Orbital - Halcyon
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Sun Ra - UFO

Books referenced:

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics
Lynne Segal - Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy.
Barbara Ehrenreich - Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.
Jeremy Gilbert - Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism.
John Protevi - Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic.
E. P. Thompson - Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.
Sigmund Freud - Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.

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#ACFM – Trip 2: Collective Joy

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss love and hate. 
Edited and produced by Olivia Humphreys, Matt Huxley and Matt Phull. 
PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481 
http://novaramedia.com/?p=13988

Tracks featured: I Hate Hippies - The Skinflics / Love is All You Need -  The Beatles / Hate and War – The Clash / Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins / You Got the Love – The Source (featuring Candi Staton) / I’ll Take You There - Staple Singers / Socialism is Love - Max Romeo / Revolution – Nina Simone 
Texts referred to: Empire – Hardt and Negri / Ethics - Spinoza / Turn the Beat Around - Peter Shapiro Other Links:
This is Not a Love Song – The Free Association - http://www.freelyassociating.org/this-is-not-a-love-song/
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast – The Free Association http://www.freelyassociating.org/six-impossible-things-before-breakfast/

#ACFM – Trip 4: Love and Hate

Obituary for My Mother (Alive)

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss consciousness raising. 
Edited and produced by Olivia Humphreys, Matt Huxley and Matt Phull. 
PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481 

Tracks featured: Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Johnny Osbourne - Truth and Rights / Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - This Land is Your Land / Arrested Development - Give a Man a Fish / Childish Gambino - This is America / Gregory Porter - 1960 What? / Bernie Sanders - This Land is Your Land 

Texts referred to: Mark Fisher — Acid Communism (unfinished introduction) / Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism / Mark Fisher and Jeremy Gilbert – Capitalist Realism and Neoliberal Hegemony: A Dialogue / William H. Hinton - Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village / Keir Milburn - Generation Left 

Other links:
Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn - Building Acid Communism - https://transmediale.de/content/building-acid-communism 
A description of the Acid Communism Consciousness Raising groups we have been running. 

Kathie Sarachild - Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon. - https://womenwhatistobedone.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/1973-consciousness-raising-radical-weapon-k-sarachild-redstockings.pdf 
The classic early text on Consciousness Raising from the Women’s Liberation Movement. 

Institute for Precarious Consciousness – We Are All Very Anxious https://www.weareplanc.org/blog/we-are-all-very-anxious/
An influential text that proposes anti-precarity consciousness raising groups as the precondition for political action under contemporary conditions.


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#ACFM – Trip 5: Consciousness Raising

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