One of the station's members, Richard Hanrahan, has made it to the final 20 for the BBC New Comedy Award as part of Radio 2! You can click here for your chance to see all the competitors in action and also vote to get them into the Semi Final.
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It is always difficult to review a festival. No matter what has happened to you, someone else will have had a totally different so I will spend this review trying my best to describe the experience that I had over my 5 day period.
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I had not listened to Jonsi’s album before I saw him at Latitude and honestly I was expecting a Thom Yorke style strip down of Sigur Ros, what I got was something far far more than that. It was mesmerising, fun, beautiful and absolutely brilliant.
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In the run up to October, celebrating our 1st full year of interviews, we welcome the return of BLOK, where it all began for us... Our first met up with BLOK at the Glasgow Music Now convention for the 2009 MOBOS and Scotland's Premier All Round Dance Troupe have gone from strength to strength seeing them reach the semi finals of BBC 3's 'Mov
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Sandport Industrial Estate in Leith: that’s where the hard work for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010 is currently taking place for a young children’s theatre production company. Tortoises in a Nutshell are returning for the second time to the Fringe with their new show: The Last Miner.
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This year Fresh Air has been lucky enough to be part of the EIFF in a number of roles, covering in part all of the aspects of the festival. But what exactly is is like being part of the festival that the public don't see?
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Pixar revives classic for one of the biggest movies of 2010 Just like the toys you played with as a child; the memory of Toy Story has become fonder as the years have passed, and like the big box of Lego you used to play with; Toy Story has stood the test of time. Pixar has only recently managed to emerge from the influences of Toy Story through recent films Wall:E and Up, so to go back and revisit this modern classic was certainly a bold move for studios. However, Toy Story 3 was never in danger of falling short and this film had all the Pixar hallmarks from brilliantly witty jokes to fantastic story telling.
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How's this for bizarre - world superstar Billy Zane has a cameo in a Greek zombie comedy. You better believe it - Evil In The Time Of Heroes (EITOH) may be one of the weirdest films at this festival. Director Yorgos Noussias is once again at the reigns, delivering a higher budgeted sequel to Evil, but worry not - one can easily enjoy this film without knowing its prequel, as it is fairly devoid of plot.
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Bleak film which fails to live up to its comic intentions, says Chris Aitken.
It all begun so well - the first few minutes were an enjoyable fare, only problem was it wasn't actually part of the film but an advert for Skillset. The feature film director Viv Fongenie suggests the audience might find the real film quite dark but funny at the same time. This film is not dark. Dark is interesting. This film is probably better described as bleak. Bleak is rarely interesting - she lied.
The nuts and bolts of the story are these - Ollie Kepler, a bloke in his mid-thirties who has a passion for astronomy, loses his fiancé when she dies suddenly. As you'd expect, he doesn’t take this well. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of his two friends, this spirals until he has a breakdown, that involves an obsession with painting his flat purple, talking to cheese and eating muesli. He eventually ends up in a mental institute. He gets a bit better, but never fully recovers. This is pretty much it.
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Another worthy award winning film and a pioneer in the soon to be glut of post-gulf film-making.
Before Vietnam films became an accepted genre, I wonder at what point there came the understanding of what tone these films would take? I can only assume that where some lead others follow - films like Apocalypse Now and Hearts and Mind are remembered now, but was that always the way? With a new conflict in a new age, there is the demand for a new perspective, and The Dry Land wants to fit this role.
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