Resonance FM Blog

Dear Hooting Yard readers and listeners,

Today is Bloomsday, when Joyceans celebrate their myopic hero. My mother, on the other hand, once announced in her finest Flemish accent “Tch! James Joyce was a fool!” We don’t celebrate Bloomsday at Hooting Yard, but then every day is devoted to other matters of towering import. Do remember to check regularly, probably about as often as you breathe in.

You will see when you visit that a second Hooting Yard paperback is now available. Make your purchase of Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, And Other Tragedies directly via the website, as you won’t find this little beauty in the shops, alas.

You’ll also find a link to the Hooting Yard On The Air podcasts, so if you’re stuck for something sensible to listen to, there are innumerable hours of me babbling into a microphone for you to download. Thank you for your support.

Frank Key

http://www.hootingyard.org

The Curzon Cinemas network now have a podcast produced by Resonance FM and presented by our own film guru Alex Fitch, which takes a look at what they’re showing over the coming month along with clips, director Q&As and more. Definitely worth checking if you’re a more discerning filmgoer.

Here’s the feed link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/curzoncinemas

…and they’re also listed on iTunes if you’re so inclined.

Or take a taster of the podcast here before subscribing (click to listen):
http://audio.resonancefm.com/curzon/Curzon_Podcast_1.mp3

Frank Key of Hooting Yard on the Air narrates this week’s SF epic “How Lonesome a Life Without Nerve Gas” was written by James A. Trimarco and published by Escape Pod, the weekly Science-Fiction audio magazine.

Cory Doctrow of BoingBoing states that “Frank Key, of the Hooting Yard podcast, gives it a dry, sardonic reading that fits perfectly.”, and I am in agreement. BoingBoing also link to Frank’s web-site (but sadly not the podcast feed).

I’ve been trying to get Cory Doctorow to read / listen to Hooting Yard on the Air for some time now (well at least the brief time that I knew him and he lived in London). Could it be that he too is an aficionado of Frank Key’s “Hooting Yard on the Air“?

Hmmm - according to this article it seems there are now more people podcasting via Feedburner alone than there are radio stations on the planet.

Interesting stuff certainly, but I am left wondering just how significant all the pro-Podcasting stats really are. After all, you can have millions of people podcasting, but how many people are listening, and how captive is the audience.

The future for Resonance perhaps? Hmmm… time will tell!

The literary world abounds with tales of lost books; These are manuscripts which have been mislaid and masterpieces which never made it to the press. Since they are gone forever you will never be able to read them; and because of their unavailability they are automatically the most interesting books you are never likely to read.Just search google for “lost manuscripts” for a very long lost of famous novelists and their missing works.

This week, the Resonance FM Podcasts site features the story of what is perhaps the most obscure and befuddling tale of lost text. Frank Key will be lecturing us on the origin, supression, recovery and destruction of Maude Glub’s only work of fiction, “The Book of Gnats”.