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Pods & Their Ilk : The Good News
A number of readers and listeners have written to me on the subject of Hooting Yard podcasts, generally along the lines of “Oi, Mr Key! My life has become barren and empty and devoid of purpose and it is all your fault. Where once I could rely on weekly, or even twice-weekly, new Hooting Yard podcasts, nowadays they only turn up once in a blue moon. What in the name of heaven is going on?”
I ought to explain that I am as bewildered as my correspondents. Once a week, more or less, I go to the Resonance studio and babble into a microphone for half an hour, live on air. How any of what I say eventually finds its way onto the ethereal mews and boulevards of Interwebshire has always been a profound mystery to me.
However, I have good news for all those of you biting your pillows in despair. All episodes of Hooting Yard On The Air are now uploaded, regularly and promptly, to the ResonanceFM Hooting Yard Soundcloud Archive. As I write, there are twenty-eight shows online, with which to siphon out your ears. Turn on, tune in, yelp with glee!
Those Out Of Print Pamphlets
If you wish to listen to Mr Key reading out the titles of all 168 out of print pamphlets by Dobson – and you do!, you do! – then all you have to do is point the pointy thing on your computer screen here, sit back, wring out your ears, and wallow for half an hour in the sheer glorious foolishness of it all.
Pamphlet cover design by Daniel Tomasch
A Plea
Oi, you lot. This is a plea for money, and for once it is not an unseemly begging letter asking you to plop a few groats into the coffers of Mr Key’s Fund For Distressed Out Of Print Pamphleteers, though of course you can do that too. On this occasion, however, honour, duty, and sheer common sense calls you to send money, or indeed monies, to the world’s finest radio station. Here is what the powers that be at ResonanceFM have to say:
Dear Friends of Hooting Yard,
Resonance is currently trying to raise money to bolster its imminent application to Arts Council England. To this end, the radio station wants to build reserves – savings which indicate its financial resilience and which it can draw upon in exceptional circumstances.
If you enjoy Hooting Yard On The Air, please help us by donating to Resonance today. You can do this here on our website, or here via JustGiving.
And if you are a UK tax payer you can add value to your donation to our registered charity (number 290236) through GiftAid. All it takes is fifty listeners of Hooting Yard donating £10 each for us to reach this year’s target. Please mention Hooting Yard in your communication.
Resonance does not own a building, so has few material assets; nor does it charge for its service, so it very much relies on the generosity of you, its listeners. Please take a moment to show your appreciation of our broadcasts and secure the station’s future. Thank you!
Tin Foil Pod
Custard, A Duck, And Canadian Owls
Over at The Dabbler today, the final set of Brief Lives for the time being. This week features custard, a duck, and Canadian owls.
You can listen to some of these and other Brief Lives on yesterday’s Hooting Yard On The Air, now available on soundcloud. The show also includes a reading of The Pirate’s Tale by Janet Aichison (age five and a half).
On Gulls’ Pods
Reservoir Pod
Brilliantly Eccentric
Hooting Yard is not mentioned, alas, but this piece in Time Out provides an insight into the unique thing that is ResonanceFM. Recommended reading.
The Wooden Pod
Pontiff!
The time has come for me to update the enormously useful Hooting Yard Pontiff Mnemonic. Before I wrestle with the most appropriate F word, however, I think I am right in saying that there could be no more Hooting Yardy Pontiff than a one-lunged Jesuit bus passenger.
UPDATE : I managed to pluck from the dictionary the definitive F word to add to the Pontiff Mnemonic just in time for today’s episode of Hooting Yard On The Air on ResonanceFM. You can find out what the word is by listening to the show, archived on soundcloud here.
Behind The Scenes
A typical afternoon in the studios at ResonanceFM . .
Art Squad Pod
Auction
It is fundraising week at ResonanceFM, and I do encourage you to empty your bank account accordingly. There is the annual auction of enticing things, not least of which is a copy of the legendary Malice Aforethought Press paperback Twitching And Shattered, signed by Mr Key just the other day. Do remember that Resonance is a shoestring operation, that none of us who make the programmes get paid a penny, and that without your support the whole thing will go down the drain. Be generous!
