Wednesday 1st September at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 5th September at 4pm (UK)

• Tip of My Tongue – Coco Electrik
• Coma Chameleon – Jamie Lidell
• Author Unknown  – Jason Falkner
• Monster’s Waltz – The Invisible
• Crazy In Love – Puppini Sisters and The Real Tuesday Weld

But Will It Make You Happy?

www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/business/08consume.html

London Aquarium

Click on the photos to see more Taragh’s photos

Cape Farewell

The cultural response to climate change www.capefarewell.com

Jenny McCabe’s Moth Lampshade

www.flickr.com

Mark Stevenson Author of Optimist’s Tour of the Future

Amazon UK: An Optimist’s Tour of the Future

Amazon US: An Optimist’s Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer “What’s Next?”

Plants have feelings too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10598926

What if..

Wednesday 4th August at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 8th August at 4pm (UK)

• Fire and Ice – Coco Electrik
• Feet to the Sky – Lulu and the Lampshades
• Yadada’s Uncle – 6 day riot
• Couldn’t be Done – Tim Finn
• Breakfast in Berlin – Coco Electrik

The Station Sessions

www.stationsessions.com

Tamara Schlesinger of 6 Day Riot at St Pancras Station Sessions

Ping London

Table tennis across London this summer pinglondon.com

My nephews playing at Kings Place

Polly Morgan at Haunch of Venison

www.haunchofvenison.com

Battersea Arts Centre One on One Festival

www.bac.org.uk

Picasso exhibition in Kings Cross

www.gagosian.com

Cambodian Children’s Painting Project

www.letuscreatecambodia.org

The Farncombe Estate

Portrait painting and many other courses at the beautiful www.farncombeestate.co.uk

Keith Morton demonstrating how he starts a portrait painting

My final portrait

The Optimist on Tour - Mark Stevenson

www.optimistontour.com

Coco Electrik interview

More info and link to buy the new album at www.myspace.com/cocoelectrik

Coco Electrik – Fire & Ice from TÉAR on Vimeo.

Wednesday 7th July at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 11th July at 4pm (UK)

Playlist

• Let’s make Love and Listen to Death From Above – CSS
• She Said – Plan B
• Idiot – Superthriller
• Tomoko – Hafdís Huld

Thank you to Mark Stevenson and Nick Heyward for our jingles.

Karen Garratt has her knickers on show at Flowers East Gallery.

Artist/maker Karen tells how and why she started making things

See more of Karen’s work at her website web.mac.com/kgarratt

Karen has her knickers on show at What a Relief at Flowers East Gallery www.flowersgalleries.com

The Alternative Plan B – Steve Price

Steve is an artist, designer, creative and newspaper editor.

Steve’s blog: http://designweak.com/
Follow Steve on twitter: http://twitter.com/planbstudio
Steve’s company: http://www.plan-bstudio.com/
Steve’s collaborative newspaper: http://www.plan-bstudio.com/planb_project10.html

Electric Hotel

Great music by Superthriller.
Video clip at www.sadlerswells.com

Draw dead things

www.drawdeadthings.com

Polly Morgan

More work by Polly Morgan at www.flickr.com/photos/polly_morgan/

Jan Burch – DrawDeadThings.com contributor (below)

Caroline Johnson – La Rose Carmine – DrawDeadThings.com contributor (below)

Cole Opteran – DrawDeadThings.com contributor (below)

James Anthony – JBops59 – DrawDeadThings.com contributor (below)

Hafdís Huld

www.hafdishuld.com/

Tomoko – Hafdís Huld Video

Wicklow Street Party – London Festival of Architecture

The Station Sessions at St Pancras Station

Every Thursday 6pm to 7pm through July 2010

www.stationsessions.com

On our last radio show I talked about The Royal Standard, an artist-led gallery, studios and social workspace in Liverpool. I met them at the Tate Gallery, and won a prize (see video below).

Well, Mike Carney of The Royal Standard wrote to me saying he was interested in www.drawdeadthings.com, (our radio spot to encourage you to draw) and guess what… he’s put a post on his drawing blog about it.
www.drawing-paper.tumblr.com

We love good ideas, so finally here is the video about meeting the Royal Standard and winning a prize.

Wednesday 2nd June at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 6th June at 4pm (UK)

Playlist

• The Ills – Mayer Hawthorne
• Killing Me Softly – The Fugees

Again thank you to Mark Stevenson and Nick Heyward for our jingles.

Special guest and art therapist Cecilie Enos

Art therapist Cecilie talks about violence in our media and environment and the effect it might be having on our children.

Estimated numbers of incidents of domestic violence

Full report that Mark found http://www.dewar4research.org/DOCS/dvg-v3.pdf

Let’s Rock The Moor 2010

Nikki and I made it along for the second year of this fun charity event

Haircut 100 on stage at Cookham Moor, 22nd May 2010. More photos on Taragh’s Flickr

Drawing from the gig by Nikki

Drawing from the gig by Taragh

Taragh wins a piece of art from the Tate Modern

A tom-bola prize at The Royal Standard as part of No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern
My idea at www.thisisafreemessage.blogspot.com

Mark Stevenson

More from Mark at www.optimistontour.com

Wednesday 5th May at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 9th May at 4pm (UK)

Playlist

• Are Friends Electric – Gary Numan and Little Boots
• Odessy – Caribou
• Walking on the Moon – The Police

Again thank you to Mark Stevenson and Nick Heyward for our jingles.

Digital artist Joel Gethin Lewis

www.joelgethinlewis.com

Gary Numan Gig

Nikki and I enjoyed this gig together. Adam ant appeared and murdered “Cars”.

Warning: This video has quite a few swear words.

Gary Numan laughing at Adam Ant

Woman are not allowed on military submarines

Photo by Mateus

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22354/94342-ladies–might–now-serve-submarines

Mark Stevenson meets the people changing our world

Mark has returned from his world trip and talks to us about some of the most fascinating people working to change the future of the world.

• Vice-president of Google, and father of the internet Vint Cerf (pictured above)
• Eric Drexler, father of nanotechnology
• John Seely Brown, on the future of society
• Mojave space port and space planes using runways
• Dick Rutan, aviator who piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop

More from Mark at www.optimistontour.com

Next month’s guest pops in briefly, Cecilie Enos

Art therapist Cecilie will be talking about violence in our media and environment and the effect it might be having on our children on next month’s show (June 2010).

Ask Cecilie a question

This may be romantic but it’s not a love letter

http://helloemptyroom.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/so-i-found-a-love-letter/

• Wednesday 7th April at 7pm (UK)
• repeated on Sunday 11th April at 4pm (UK)

Playlist

• She said – Plan B
• Shark’s Tooth – Archie Bronson Outfit
• Apocolips – Turin Brakes
• Sex Shooter – Coco Electrik
• Beaches & Friend Club Edit – French Horn Rebellion versus Database

Scientists can switch off our morals with a magnet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7540495/The-amazing-brain.html

Project 10 by PlanB Studio

or Steve Price plan-bstudio.com

Is this Horror Maze a good idea? We want your feedback.

Thorpe Park promotes an experience based on the 18-certificate horror movie series SAW. The maze experience includes a room where a man (actor) appears to saw off his foot, and another has his stomach sliced open. Others have their eyes and mouths “sewn up”. Thorpe park says it may not be suitable for under 12s.

Clinical psychologist Dr Angela Wright warned that violent films can cause aggression in children and that “the link may be stronger with this interactive experience”.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2887439/Fury-as-theme-parks-horrifying-Saw-ride-is-open-to-children.html

What’s your opinion? Have you been or know anyone who has?

Contact us to send feedback

Anyone for crucifixion?

Tantra Death Challenge

Tantriks perform the ultimate destruction ceremony with sceptic

Young me, now me

www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/

Get Religulous

One of our favourite clips from Religulous.
Bill Maher with Father Reginald Foster talking about some of the ideas in Catholicism and the Vatican, in a very amusing way.

Great clip: www.youtube.com

Kabbalah

Taragh – I was told by represenatives at the Kabbalah Centre that Kabbalah is not a religion, however my experience after several hours there was that it is a religion. It certainly includes non-evidence based beliefs, or faith in my opinion, some of which I think are not positive. Unlike some, I do not feel the need to have a religion tell me what I should believe.
www.telegraph.co.uk – Why-do-people-believe-in-God?

Treadmill Wheels

www.inewidea.com

Fast Food Nation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation_(film)

Simon Singh wins libel case

Dr Singh questioned the claims of some chiropractors over the treatment of certain childhood conditions. Full story: news.bbc.co.uk

Trusting a posh pilot

www.dailymail.co.uk – Pilots-posh-accents-make-passengers-feel-safer

Stamp size diagnosis

Stamp-Sized Paper “Chip” Diagnoses Diseases For Just a Penny
by Jasmin Malik Chua www.inhabitat.com

The Optimist on Tour.

Mark Stevenson talks to us about the fascinating people he’s met on his second trip to New York City

www.optimistontour.com

Playlist

• Bye Bye Baby – Temposhark
• Garden of Love – Clor
• Hell is Round the Corner – Tricky
• Ike’s Rap II – Issac Hayes
• Measure – Field Music

How to recognise a controlling person

www.wikihow.com/Recognize-a-Controlling-Person

Inventor unveils $7,000 talking sex robot

edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html

Calderon Dolphin Slaughter

www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-the-calderon-dolphin-slaughter-in-denmark

www.hoax-slayer.com/denmark-whaling.shtml

Nikki and Taragh’s life drawings

www.lifedrawingsociety.co.uk

Taragh’s

Nikki’s

Playlist

• Rocket – Goldfrapp
• New Gold Dream – Simple Minds
• Nature Boy – Pomplamoose
• Life’s What You Make It – Talk Talk

Don’t send us your gold

The Trading Standards Institute is investigating companies that offer money in return for gold items sent in by customers. www.channel4.com

Lucid dreaming and reality checks

A lucid dream is a dream in which the sleeper is aware that she or he is dreaming. When the dreamer is lucid, she or he can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. More at  en.wikipedia.org

Synthetic Biology

We chat to Mark Stevenson www.optimistontour.com back in the UK this month

Draw Dead Things, Our youngest artist

Visit www.drawdeadthings.com to see all the drawings

Let’s Rock the Moor

Outdoor concert on Cookham moor on 22nd May 2010 with live performances from
Haircut 100 and Howard Jones. More info at www.letsrockthemoor.co.uk

Rolf Harris and Nick Heyward at last year’s concert

Playlist

• New Day – Kate Havnevik
• A&E – Goldfrapp
• Last of the Melting Snow – The Leisure Society
• Jean Genie – David Bowie
• 1234 – Feist

Erin and Mike’s new home in New Zealand

New look make-up by Lucie (aged 2)

Nick Heyward and Haircut 100

We chat with Mark Stevenson

www.optimistontour.com

Draw Dead Things

Beetle by Brett