This week’s is the premiere programme of the series, which takes us on a unique sound journey down the Thames from rising to Estuary and features hydrophonic recordings composed into an audio storytelling by Prof Tony Myatt, especially for RoS.
Other highlights include live studio conversations led by Adrian Evans, the Director of the Totally Thames festival + a late night (10pm to midnight) live-to-air, ambient broadcast of improvised "Thames Nocturnes" by noted UK composer/soundtracker Simon Fisher Turner (Derek Jarman / BFI silent film series) on location from the riverside community-led 'Hermitage Moorings’ floating Pier House near Tower Bridge.
Other programming guests this week include New York's stalwart WFMU radio presenter Bob Brainen playing a selection of riverine songs – exploring the Thames-inspired international influence as seen from afar – along with a dip into the archival recordings of the epic Thames writings of Peter Ackroyd & contemporary provocations on the hot-topic of Water Rights by leading nature & landscape writer Robert Macfarlane, raising the question of ’Is A River Alive’.
Go with the flow on our radio ebb & tide.
Forthcoming highlights include:
Claire Mander, founder & Director of COLAB’s ’Artists Garden' by Temple Embankment, talking with female artists about the wide range of inspirations the Thames has had on their work.
London Review of Books' specially-made-for RoS AI project – an epic poem using every published mention of the Thames from their archives.
Iain Sinclair delving into his longstanding psychogeographical relationship with the river in his writing.
From the hysterical (Monty Python) to the historical (Wolf Hall) via the revolutionary (Jean-Luc Godard) to revelationary (Emanuel Swedenborg)...
The River Thames has danced, transported & beguiled them all.
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