Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1959 version of 'The Bat Whispers', an inspiration for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman, starring Vincent Price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1959_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1HaOM9LiE

The Snoop Sisters 'Black Day For Bluebeard' (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSw-5TjQCs

More on the Beekeepers website...

https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-shadow-of-the-bat

Box Set

Music for Films, Box Set - The Shadow of the Bat - part two

Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1959 version of 'The Bat Whispers', an inspiration for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman, starring Vincent Price

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1959_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1HaOM9LiE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Hour_of_Great_Mysteries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mClkknsvC4


More on the Beekeepers website...

https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-shadow-of-the-bat/

Music for Films, Box Set - The Shadow of the Bat - part three

A two-part journey through the psychedelic cinema of Joe Masott. In part one, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1968 oddity 'Wonderwall' which inspired the Oasis song, and the original film score by George Harrison and some of India's finest classical musicians.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderwall_Music

* https://www.georgeharrison.com/releases/wonderwall-music/

Music for Films, Box Set - Wonderwall & Zachariah - Part One

Beef Ban Busters of the Bombay Board Walk

Vincent Price's elegant dinners

A two-part journey through the psychedelic cinema of Joe Masott. In part two, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1971 metaphysical Western 'Zachariah' based on Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel 'Siddhartha'.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachariah_(film)

Music for Films, Box Set - Wonderwall & Zachariah - Part Two

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

In a three-part discussion, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) view all six 'Arthur' films. NSFW (swears, sex references).

Music for Films, Box Set - Arthurs - Part One

In a three-part discussion, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy & Tim Concannon view all six 'Arthur' films. NSFW (swears, sex references).

Music for Films, Box Set - Arthurs - Part Two

Music for Films, Box Set - Arthurs - Part Three

A history walk with a difference... Church Entry EC4, London.

London's first covered theatre stood on the site of the former Dominican priory at Blackfriars. From 1576 it was in use as a theatre, and from 1596 was owned by William Shakespeare's acting company. Shakespeare also owned a London home in the east gate of the old priory. In 1613 The Tempest may have been performed at what's now Playhouse Yard. There are no signs on the site to reveal this history... only this walking tour from The BeeKeepers. You can also look at the walk on a map at Beespoken.com http://www.beespoken.com/wp/walks/blackfriars-theatre/

Lost Theatres of London - Blackfriars Theatre - Church Entry

Update 4/3/18: This was P K Nair's last interview about cinema. We are humbled to have met Mr Nair and will miss him very much. Chin Chin Chu is an irregular trip to India, looking at its culture from some unusual angles. In the first episode we travelled to see water harvesting in the Thar desert, hipster hell-raising in Delhi, and to Pune to discuss twenty missing film classics with the father of Indian film preservation, and the subject of the recent documentary 'Celluloid Man', Mr P K Nair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPcHAKk4bo

For more on 'Hunterwali' and the list of 20 missing lost classics, see Shruti's site:

http://www.mahalmovies.com/film/the-great-indian-film-hunt/

Chin Chin Chu -  Episode One

1 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.

It's July so 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.

More...

* Podcast, 2 hour version of the show, 'More Music for Films'
https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/more-music-for-films-clapham-common-the-company-of-wolves-with-rosemary-hill

* Rosemary Hill's blog 'Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter'
http://www.rosemaryhill.co.uk/2015/10/15/the-antiquary-in-the-age-of-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.

Music for Films  - Clapham Common - The Company Of Wolves

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

1 hour 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?

More...

* Podcast, 2 hour version of the show, 'More Music for Films'
https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/more-music-for-films-regents-park-it-happened-here-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.

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

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.

More...

* 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

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

1 hour version, first broadcast 5pm, 21st November 2016 on Resonance FM in London.

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

In November, Roz and Tim revisit the locations of 1970s 'Nightbirds' on Commercial Street, Whitechapel, in East London. Made by gay American underground playwright, costumiere, screenwriter, actor, film producer, editor and director Andy Milligan, the horror critic Stephen King described another of Milligan's films as "the work of morons with cameras."

An erotic drama filmed in black and white, 'Nightbirds' is about two young people who meet by chance and fall into like and into bed with one another, played by Julie Shaw in her only screen role and Berwick Kaler (now one of North England's leading panto dames). 

'Nightbirds' depicts a vanished London of grubby lofts and peeling paint. Bringing a queer eye to a destructive straight liaison, Milligan's film is a meditation on the abject, the wretched but - unusually for underground cinema of the period, dominated by the likes of Kenneth Anger - in the heterosexual rather than LGBT realm.

Unscreened at the time that it was completed, the only print of it was bought by Nicolas ('The Neon Demon') Winding Refn on eBay for $25,000, who worked with the BFI to restore it for DVD release. Critic and author Kim Newman discusses this and Milligan's other exploitation films made in England with us, and BFI's  Vic Pratt and Will Fowler chat about BFI's Flipside DVD title.

More...


* Nicolas Winding Refn: My obsession with Andy Milligan's cult horror movies 
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/jun/14/obsession-andy-milligan-cult-movies

* Flipside: the Art of Andy Milligan
http://www.cageyfilms.com/2012/07/flipside-the-art-of-andy-milligan/

* BFI Flipside 'Nightbirds' Bluray 
http://shop.bfi.org.uk/nightbirds-dvd-bluray.html#.V7HUwqL-58E

* Sex-Gore Netherworld: Nightbirds & The Body Beneath Disinterred
http://thequietus.com/articles/09006-nightbirds-body-beneath-andy-milligan-bfi-dvd

* Anatomy of a Flipside: Part Two, How Do You Make a Flipside?
http://film.thedigitalfix.com/content/id/75443/anatomy-offlipside-part-two-how-do-you-makeflipside.html

* Review of Jimmy  McDonough's ‘The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan’
http://variety.com/2002/more/reviews/the-ghastly-one-the-sex-gore-netherworld-of-filmmaker-andy-milligan-1200550832/

* 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.

Music for Films - Whitechapel - Nightbirds, with Kim Newman

2 hour podcast version, first broadcast 5pm, 20th March 2017 on Resonance FM in London. NSFW (some swearing, explicit discussions about exploitation films).

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

Tim Concannon, Roz Kaveney and film-maker Cem Kaya visit Umit and Son.

We explore Umit Mesut's astonishing shop, a treasure house of every film format imaginable: from 8 and 16mm film, to rare Turkish VHS tapes. With Umit, we discuss the legacy of Turkish action star and radical film director Yılmaz Güney. 

On our Scala map of London's underground cinema we've put Cem's documentary about Turkish "Yeşilçam" cinema, 'Remake, Remix, Rip-Off' at Dalston Junction. 

We talk about Cem's film with scholar Iain Robert Smith, whose book 'The Hollywood Meme' discusses transnational remakes of everything from 'The Godfather' and 'The Exorcist' to the Turkish 'Wizard of Oz' and the Indian Superman. 

Roz and Tim ponder the legacy of "films so bad they're good", Susan Sontag's 'Notes on Camp', as well as trans pioneer and the acclaimed "Worst Film-maker of All Time", the legendary Edward D Wood Jnr.

More...

* Remake, Remix, Rip-off
http://www.remakeremixripoff.com/

* Umit and Son
http://cine-real.com/about/

* Iain Robert Smith, The Hollywood Meme
http://kcl.academia.edu/IainRobertSmith

* Our video essay 'Rip-off or dual evolution?' on films "so bad they're good"
https://youtu.be/mbNLQhPLPkY

* Susan Sontag's 'Notes on Camp'
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Sontag-NotesOnCamp-1964.html

* Supermen of Malegaon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRq7ZpjF0I

* 3 Dev Adam (3 Giant-Men a.k.a. Turkish Spiderman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlUYTqCqc0

* Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves The World a.k.a.Turkish Star Wars)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahawhXzUV8Q

*Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (a.k.a.Turkish Wizard of Oz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJDlFOKtiu0

* 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 - Dalston Kingsland - Motör, with Cem Kaya

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

In May, Roz Kaveney and Tim visit Charing Cross Road to ponder the 1961 Dirk Bogarde starrer 'Victim', a film which played a role in changing public attitudes to LGBTQ visibility. In the studio, they discuss queer and women's film festivals with scholar Theresa Heath - producer and founder of the Wotever DIY Film Festival - and with Brian Robinson, outgoing programmer of BFI Flare.

More...

*WoteverFilmFest
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdiyff-summer-filmmaking-workshop-tickets-34652218719

* BFI Flare
http://www.bfi.org.uk/flare

Music for Films - Charing Cross - Victim, with Brian Robinson and Theresa Heath

2 and a half hour version, first broadcast 6am, 22nd October 2016 on Resonance FM in London. Not safe for work.

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

Tim and Roz Kaveney are joined by DJ and film scholar Lexi Turner at Sloane Square, where the original production of the Rocky Horror Show was staged at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs to 63 people in June 1973. A remake, starring Laverne Cox from 'Orange Is The New Black' as Frank-N-Furter was broadcast on the US Fox TV network in October 2016. How does the original hold up, more than forty years later?

In the podcast, Tim and  Roz discuss 'Rocky Horror' in light of some  trans history and Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary 'Paris is Burning' about New York drag queens.  Savaş Arslan and Cem Kaya give us some insights into Turkish cinema's take on Dracula. Tim and Shruti count down their top ten of 'Yanksploitation' films,  remakes and ripoffs of American movies in other cultures which subvert the original material. 

More...

* Lexi Turner's film blog
https://lexiwatchesfilms.wordpress.com/

* Yanksploitation! Top 10
http://www.thebeekeepers.com/yanksploitation/

* Anyab (Fangs) (1981)
https://archive.org/details/1FangsEnglishSubs

* Egypt’s cinematic gems: Fangs
https://www.madamasr.com/sections/culture/egypt%E2%80%99s-cinematic-gems-fangs

* Mohammed Shebl 1949 - 1996 The Last Reel
www.egy.com/people/96-10-10.php

* 'L'Immortelle'  (1963)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Immortelle

* ‘Paris is Burning‘  (1990)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Is_Burning_(film)

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

More Music For Films - Sloan Square - The Rocky Horror Picture Show

2 hour version, first broadcast 5pm, 19th December 2016 on Resonance FM in London. Not safe for work.

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

2016 Christmas special. Tim Concannon and Roz Kaveney visit the Cinema Museum in Oval, South London - the former Lambeth workhouse, where Charles Chaplin spent Christmas one year as a small boy - and one of his homes in Kennington, where Chaplin grew up.

Recorded in September as part of the annual Scalarama film festival - when we screened Chaplin's film 'The Immigrant', which has its centenary in 2017, near to his childhood home at 39 Methley Street - we also talk to cast and crew of the play about Chaplin that was on at the Cinema Museum, 'The Little Tramp'.

More...

* Original broadcast, 1 hour version of the show
https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/music-for-films-kennington-chaplins-the-immigrant

* Chaplin's 'The immigrant'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPOxhecgb7I

* 39 Methley Street, Kennington
www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/charlie-cha…WFJs3X1oFBk

* The Little Tramp
www.thelittletramp.org.uk

* Cinema Museum, Oval
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk

* Scalarama film festival
https://scalarama.com/

The second half of our extended podcast version of the show is a discussion of the state of Britain a century  after Chaplin lived in poverty in South London, how there's too much great television (like 'Twin Peaks' and 'iZombie') but not enough time to watch all of it.

This is followed by 'What Is Crouching And Why Does it End?' (The title of this essay is inspired by a Stephen King's Lovecraftian short story).

*Stephen King's 'Crouch End' 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End_(short_story)

A love letter to cinema and cinema buildings, this audio essay is the first half of an overview of our 'Scala Map' linking every station on the Underground to  film made, or associated with it.

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

* The essay, on its own, is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKb0uX-dCdU

If you enjoy this show, you can listen to our regular film music programme 'Music for Films' on London's ResonanceFM.com,  on the 3rd Monday of each month.

* Subscribe to our podcast 'More Music for Films'.

http://www.thebeekeepers.com/category/radio/music-for-films/

* Music included in the essay

1. Krzysztof Penderecki - 'Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima' - 1960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima

2. Antonín Dvo?ák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 (aka 'The New World Symphony') - 1893
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)

3. R D Burman and Anand Bakshi - Yeh Dosti' from 'Sholay' - 1975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay#Music

4. Barry Adamson - 'Everything Happens to Me' - 1989
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Side_Story

5. Miklós Rózsa- 'Eternal Silence' from 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' - 1970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa#Film_scores

6. Friedrich Hollaender  - 'Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt' (aka 'Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)') - 1930
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_in_Love_Again_(Can%27t_Help_It)

7. Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner - 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler?' - 1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad%27s_Army#Music

8. David Bowie - 'Helden' (German version of 'Heroes') - 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_song)#Other_releases

9. Moondog - 'Lament 1 (Bird's Lament)' - 1969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog_(album)

10. Eric Satie - 'Nocturnes' - 1919
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes_(Satie)

11. X-Ray Spexs 'The Day The World Turned Day-Glo' - 1978
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Spex#Singles

12. The Shamen - 'Ebeneezer Goode' - 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Goode

More Music for Films - Kennington - The Immigrant

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

Roz Kaveney, Tim Concannon and their guests with Kim Newman and Sophia McDougall discuss the complicated relationship between fact and fiction in filming the legends of the Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes, in conversations at the Genesis Cinema in London’s East End, near to where the real Ripper murders happened.

Music for Films - Hainault - Murder By Decree, with Kim Newman and Sophia McDougall

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

Tim Concannon and Shruti Narayanswamy discuss the 2008 film 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People' in light of Toby Young's appointment to - and resignation before taking up his post at - the Office for Students, and in light of the crisis of male power in the entertainment industry and in culture generally following the Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey scandals. NSFW (some swearing and adult themes).

Music for Films, Box Set - How To Lose Friends & Alienate People - Part One

1 hour 43 min podcast version. Not safe for work. Contains some swearing and adult themes.

Interesting people talk about the music, films and music for films which have shaped their lives.

Roz Kaveney, Tim Concannon and their guest Andrew Smith wander down busy Caledonian Road in North London, to Housmans peace bookshop near to Kings Cross station. They discuss two linked technologies produced by the atomic age, computers and nuclear arms, and the ways that the peace movement and radicalism have responded to both being part of modern armed conflict.

The starting point for the conversation is Pete Watkins’s 1965 film for the BBC, banned from broadcast at the time, ‘The War Game‘. Made two decades before ‘Threads‘ and Raymond Briggs’s ‘Where the Wind Blows‘, Pete Watkins’s film is a documentary-style depiction of Britain under nuclear attack. It was withdrawn before transmission by the BBC under government pressure, but went on to win an Oscar for Best Documentary.

Caledonian Road is notable for two things: its longstanding Irish community and Housmans Bookshop, opened in 1959 and named after Laurence Houseman the gay, pacifist playwright who suggested the Peace Pledge Union establish a permanent base in 1948. As well as publishing Peace News, it became a focus of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .

The two worlds converged in 1974 when an IRA bomb blew up the pillar box outside the shop. The explosion incinerated all the copies of Campaign Against Arms Trade’s first newsletter.

More...

* The War Game
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game

* Housmans Bookshop
www.housmans.com/

* Campaign Against the Arms Trade
www.caat.org.uk/

Join CAAT or make a donation here: www.caat.org.uk/support-our-work/donate

Scala Underground films

More Music for Films - Caledonian Road - The War Game, with Andrew Smith

A special pro-rogue edition of Music for Films, the underground film podcast, kept in reserve for times of national emergency. Roz and Tim showcase their field recordings of London streets and locations, from some of the holy places of cinema and pop culture: Bowie's birthplace in Stockwell, Roz's memories of serial killer Dennis Nilson, and Angela Carter's favourite cinema, the Grenada in Tooting.

Music For Streets Special

Bat Amazons! Part one of a Batwoman special, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites)talk all-girl garage bands, Indian and Mexican women super heroes, and Sixties Batwoman ripoffs.

'The Wild World of Batwoman'

https://archive.org/details/TheWildWorldOfBatwomanVose

'La Mujer Murcielago' (The Mexican Batwoman)

https://archive.org/details/LaMujerMurcielago

More on the missing Indian film about female master criminal 'The Wildcat of Bombay' (including rare stills from the song booklet)

http://www.mahalmovies.com/film-hunt/bambai-ki-billi/

More on Mary Evans aka 'Fearless Nadia'

http://www.mahalmovies.com/film-hunt/hunterwali/

'Supermen of Malegaon'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRq7ZpjF0I

More on the Beekeepers website...

http://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-wild-world-of-batwomen/

Music for Films, Box Set - The Wild World of  Batwomen - Part One

Bat Amazons! Part two of a Halloween, Batwoman special, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk some more about all-girl garage bands, Indian and Mexican women super heroes, and Sixties Batwoman ripoffs.

'The Wild World of Batwoman'

archive.org/details/TheWildWorldOfBatwomanVose

'La Mujer Murcielago' (The Mexican Batwoman)

archive.org/details/LaMujerMurcielago

More on the Beekeepers website...

http://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-wild-world-of-batwomen/

Music for Films, Box Set - The Wild World of Batwomen - Part Two

Part one of a two-parter, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk about Robert Wise's 1971 film based on Michael Crichton's novel, and Felipe Cazals's 1978 film from a Gabriel García Márquez screenplay based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel 'A Journal of The Plague Year'. NSFW (swearing, sexual themes).

In part one, we discuss Shruti's experiences in the Mumbai flood of 2003 and the work of the composer of the innovative electronic score of 'The Andromeda Strain', Gil Mellé.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_a%C3%B1o_de_la_peste

* Music

'Yo te Amo... Yo Tampoco' Isela Vega (1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcJtvH7R9k

Gil Mellé compilation

'Desert Trip' Andromeda Strain OST (1971)
'Four Moons' Gil Mellé Quintet, on 'New Faces, New Sounds' 'Blue Note 5020' (1953)
'The Desert' Six Million Dollar Man (1973)
'Night Gallery Theme' (1969) 
'Neon Canyons' on 'Mindscape' (1989)
'Kolchak The Night Stalker theme' (1974)

Music for Films, Box Set - Pandemic Special - The Andromeda Strain & El Año De La Peste

Part two of a two-parter, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk about Robert Wise's 1971 film based on Michael Crichton's novel, and Felipe Cazals's 1978 film from a Gabriel García Márquez screenplay based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel 'A Journal of The Plague Year'. NSFW (swearing, sexual themes).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_a%C3%B1o_de_la_peste

https://youtu.be/sprYIRyAQcw

Music for Films, Box Set - Pandemic Special - The Andromeda Strain & El Año De La Peste, part two

A sampler of the varied career and influences of Blue Note Jazz artist, film and TV composer, and electronic music pioneer Gil Mellé.

https://jazztimes.com/archives/gil-melle-instrumental-inventions/

Even More Music For Films - Just one more thing - a Gil Mellé medley

Bonus podcast introducing the ebook guide to the Scala map, 'What is crouching and why does it end?' 

A love letter to London cinema and London cinema buildings, read by noted sentimentalists Roz Kaveney (@ RozKaveney)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites).

Linking every station on London’s Underground to a movie made at, near or to do with it, over 345 illustrated pages with numerous detailed maps, the guide imagines the city as a film programme at the legendary Scala film club at Kings Cross in the 1980s.

£4. DRM-free PDF. Free updates when we bring out new editions.

Buy it now at www.thebeekeepers.com

* The title of this essay is inspired by a Stephen King's Lovecraftian short story 'Crouch End'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End_(short_story)

* Music included in the essay

1. Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima

2. Antonín Dvorák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World', Op. 95, B. 178 (aka 'The New World Symphony') (1893)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)

3. R D Burman and Anand Bakshi - Yeh Dosti from 'Sholay' (1975)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay#Music

4. Barry Adamson - Everything Happens to Me (1989)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Side_Story

5. Miklós Rózsa- Eternal Silence from 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' (1970)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa#Film_scores

6. Friedrich Hollaender  - Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt (aka 'Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)') (1930)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_in_Love_Again_(Can%27t_Help_It)

7. Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner - Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler? (1968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad%27s_Army#Music

8. David Bowie - Helden (German version of 'Heroes') (1977)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_song)#Other_releases

9. Moondog - Lament 1 (Bird's Lament) (1969)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog_(album)

10. Eric Satie - Nocturnes (1919)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes_(Satie)

11. X-Ray Spexs - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo (1978)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Spex#Singles

12. The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode (1992)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Goode

What is crouching and why does it end?

A guide to the Scala map of London underground films

Episode One: Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites)discuss Hitchock’s 1925 film ‘The Pleasure Garden‘ and Germaine Dulac’s ‘La Souriante Madame Beudet‘ (1923).

*The Pleasure Garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pleasure_Garden_(1925_film)

*La Souriante Madame Beudet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Souriante_Madame_Beudet

*Shruti mentions Tami Williams’s book ‘Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations‘. 
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/47yxb8mr9780252038471.html

* The Pleasure Garden (1925)
https://youtu.be/4hoMKZOoNcw

* La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) With English Subtitles
https://youtu.be/1VA8NBhipvs

* Hitchcock-Truffaut Episode 1: Youth, Influences, First jobs (1962) With English Subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq51gq4s5r4

Rated "H" for Hitchcock

Music for Films: Rated "H" for Hitchcock - The Pleasure Garden & La Souriante Madame Beudet

Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies)
& Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss inspirations for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman: Roland West’s 1926 silent noirish thriller ‘The Bat‘ and his talkie remake, 1930’s ‘The Bat Whispers‘.

* The Bat (1926)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1926_film)

https://archive.org/details/TheBat1926WithSoundtrack

* The Bat Whispers (1930)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_Whispers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgEKm7-kOM

Music for Films, Box Set - The Shadow of the Bat, part one

“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.

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