This page is a fairly random list of stuff which may be worth airing, but doesn't obviously fit into one of the show ideas. Feel free to add/delete stuff from this list at will.
Contents
Audio Items
Lyn Gerry Interview
- An interview by Skidmark Bob from 2008 is here
Add your question to Lyn Gerry here...
- Questions:
- What/how are you doing?
- How did you get the idea for UG?
- Why did you call it "Unwelcome Guests"?
- How did you keep it up for nearly 10 years?
- Life, the universe & everything -- what is the nature of our existence, do you believe in god or any kind of afterlife?
- State of the world, where is society heading with respect to the economic collapse, peak oil, climate change, empire, industrial civilization etc?
- Hope for the future, what seeds of a post-industrial / post-capitalist society exist in our current society and how might these grow to transform the nature of society?
- How has your understanding of the world change during the course of the making 500 episodes of UG?
- How do you think the world has changed since you first started making UG?
- (How) Did you manage never to miss a show? How did it impact upon your life, practically?
- What were your favorite episodes of UG?
- What were your unfavorite episodes of UG?
- What are your favorite alternative media sources and radio shows, what do you listen to?
- What is the A-Infos Radio Project and how can people use and contribute to it?
- Have you any closing words of wisdom, advice to people who are just starting to pull the threads of the official matrix of deceit?
Guantanamo From Both Sides of the Wire
On Tuesday 20th of January 2009 the Cageprisoners "Two Sides, One Story -- Guantanamo From Boths Sides of the Wire Tour" -- a tour to mark seven years of unlawful detention, abuse and torture, came to Sheffield. Christopher Arendt (former Guantanamo guard, Iraq Veterans Against War, http://ivaw.org ), Moazzam Begg (former Guantanamo prisoner, spokesperson for Cageprisoners, http://cageprisoners.com/ ) and Omar Deghayes (former Guantanamo prisoner, http://www.save-omar.org.uk/ ) were introduced by Jillian Creasy on behalf of the Sheffield Guantanamo Campaign. It was an outstanding and very moving event
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and the Current Situation
Ilan Pappé addressing a public meeting entitled The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and the Current Situation which was organised by the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign and took place in Sheffield on 13th March 2008.
- http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/26880
- http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2008/03/393740.html Not current
Misc
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Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms (Education)- Feel like I've done enough on schools. - Michael Rosen - Politics of Shakespeare
Audio Series
Invisible Hand
A book written by a sociology professor about a post money future in 2015 in USA, very similar to Altruistic Economics. He's quite clued up about peak oil, homeschooling etc. and it's largely about people's reactions to money.
Video Series to Adapt
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Pandora's Box by Adam CurtisAdapted 4/6 episodes: See 524, 526, 548 & 629
Text
- The Authoritarians, Bob Altemeyer Also as audiobook?