“Maybe the world’s best film podcast” David Cairns, shadowplay blog.

The Underground film podcast, exploring the music, films and music for films which have shaped people’s lives.

Music for Films podcast

Part two of an exploration of Stockwell, David Bowie's boyhood home in South London and the music in his 1976 film 'The Man Who Fell To Earth', with film historian Dr Shruti Narayanswamy, and author Roz Kaveney. 

We're joined by Andy Oppenheimer, Jane Moloney, and Gabrielle Balfe, faces of South London’s collective act of remembrance of David Bowie in 2016. To round it off we have a very special interview reflecting on the changing nature of Fitzrovia and London, with author Geoff Ryman.

2 hours. Not safe for work. Language, some sexual themes, drug references.

* https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-the-man-who-fell-to-earth/

London Underground Films

Music For Films - Stockwell - The Man Who Fell to Earth - part two

Part one of a two-part exploration of Stockwell, David Bowie's boyhood home in South London and the music in his 1976 film 'The Man Who Fell To Earth', with film historian Dr Shruti Narayanswamy and author Roz Kaveney.

53 minutes. Not safe for work. Language, some sexual themes, drug references.

* https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-the-man-who-fell-to-earth/

Scala Underground Films

Music For Films - Stockwell - The Man Who Fell to Earth - part one

2 hour version, first broadcast 8pm, 20th June 2016  on Resonance FM in London. 

The music, films and music for films which have shaped people’s lives. Roz and Tim visit the plaque to London Underground map designer Harry Beck at Finchley Central station, and discuss the British Transport film 'Under Night Streets' in light of Beck's imagining of London's underworlds.

We discuss historical memory and the counter culture with Alex Niven, poet, academic and author of 'Folk Opposition'.

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* Original broadcast, 1 hour version of the show
https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/music-for-films-finchely-central-under-night-streets

* Under Night Streets
www.imdb.com/title/tt0991286/

* Harry Beck
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Beck

* Harry Beck plaque, southbound platform, Finchley Central Underground Station
openplaques.org/plaques/11724

* Folk Opposition by Alex Niven
http://www.zero-books.net/books/folk-opposition

On our three year mission to explore the subterranean sources of London’s culture we’ve created the Scala Underground Film Map, which imagines the Tube as a film festival programmed by the legendary cinema at Kings Cross.

* The Scala London Underground Film Map 1916 – 2016
www.thebeekeepers.com/scalaunderground/

London’s radicals, underworlds and counter-cultures over a century of cinema, through a Tube map re-imagined as a film festival programmed by the legendary Scala cinema at Kings Cross.

More Music for Films

More Music For Films - Finchley Central - Under Night Streets, with Alex Niven

2 hour version, first broadcast 8pm, 18th July 2016 on Resonance FM in London.

Every month, interesting people talk about the music, films and music for films which have shaped their lives.

Roz and Tim loiter on Clapham Common, near to the home of Angela Carter, the late novelist, poet and screen-writer with director Neil Jordan of 'The Company of Wolves'. (Which is at Clapham Common on our Scala map of London underground films).

Our guest in the studio is Rosemary Hill, Augustus Pugin's biographer and contributing editor to the London Review of Books, who's edited a collection of Carter's published verse from 1963-1971, 'Unicorn'. We talk to Rosemary about Angela, architecture, cinema, "gimcrack, the fantastic, the free play of the imagination" and the wild woods.

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* Original broadcast, 1 hour version of the show
https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/music-for-films-clapham-common-company-of-wolves

* Rosemary Hill's blog 'Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter'
www.rosemaryhill.co.uk/2015/10/15/th…-romanticism/

* On one of their infrequent walks around the magical spaces of London’s underground cinema, Roz and Tim visit Angela Carter’s favourite cinema as a child, the Tooting Granada (now the Gala Bingo Hall).
https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/the-granada-tooting-angela-carter-and-the-company-of-wolves

* The Scala London Underground Film Map 1916 – 2016
www.thebeekeepers.com/scalaunderground/

London’s radicals, underworlds and counter-cultures over a century of cinema, through a Tube map re-imagined as a film festival programmed by the legendary Scala cinema at Kings Cross.

More Music for Films - Clapham Common - The Company of Wolves, with Rosemary Hill

1 hour, 53 minute version, first broadcast 6am, 24th September 2016 on Resonance FM in London.

Every month, interesting people talk about the music, films and music for films which have shaped their lives.

Tim Concannon, Roz Kaveney and Shruti Narayanswamy visit Chester Mews, Regent's Park, where a Nazi marching band from a parallel universe once walked past the door of Defence Minister John Profumo.

Over eight years, directors Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo made 'It Happened Here', a chillingly believable depiction of a Nazi dominated England and of the brutality of partisan resistance. Incredibly, given the nuance and sophistication of the film, they began it as teenagers, shooting on 16mm with volunteer extras, some of whom were real Blackshirts. The American trailer cost more than the entire budget of the actual movie.

One of the favourite films of our guest Pat Mills, legendary comics author and editor of 'Battle' and '2000AD', the film's discussed in light of the clear and present dangers of national myths about two world wars.

We ask the questions, and the question is: has it happened here?

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* Original broadcast, 1 hour version of the show
https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/music-for-films-it-happened-here-regents-park-with-pat-mills

In the show, we give shout outs to our comrades in arms in radio and podcasting:

* James DC, Atomic Bark
https://atomicbark.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/pat-mills-mike-lake-interview-on-judge-dredd-2000ad-and-forbidden-planet/

* State of Theory podcast
https://soundcloud.com/stateofthetheorypodcast/episode-4-fascism-in-the-21st-century-part-1

* The Scala London Underground Film Map 1916 – 2016
www.thebeekeepers.com/scalaunderground/

London’s radicals, underworlds and counter-cultures over a century of cinema, through a Tube map re-imagined as a film festival programmed by the legendary Scala cinema at Kings Cross.

More Music for Films - Regent's Park - It Happened Here, with Pat Mills

Not safe for work (it's got some profanity in).

Roz Kaveney and Tim Concannon revisit the Cinema Museum in Kennington and interview broadcaster Neil Brand about the need to save the building from developers.

There's a preview of a show for 2018 talking to Peter Howden, the programmer of the Electric Cinema Club in Notting Hill, arguably the most influential counter cultural film theatre in Sixties London. 

Roz and Tim also revisit a 2016 stroll from the Cinema Museum to one of Chaplin's childhood homes in Kennington, and a 2012 walk round a corner of Greenwich Village, New York and the magic space where revolutionaries in jazz, the rights of man, and the rights of the LGBT community worldwide, all cross paths.

More Music for Films - For Future Viewing - Saving the Cinema Museum

“Maybe the world’s best film podcast” David Cairns, shadowplay blog.

'Music for Films' the underground cinema podcast.

Made in Scotland, 'Music for Films' is about the music, films and the music for films which have shaped people’s lives.

On our mission to explore the subterranean sources of London’s culture we created the Scala Underground Film Map, which imagines the Tube as a film festival programmed by the legendary cinema at Kings Cross.

The BeeKeepers are interested in connecting the past, the present and the future, and in people choosing their own adventures.

More Music for Films - For Future Viewing - Saving the Cinema Museum

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