Resonance FM: Hooting Yard On The Air show

Resonance FM: Hooting Yard On The Air

Summary: Baffling, erudite, funny, vertiginously bizarre, digressive, obsessive, eccentric and poignant. Hooting Yard the home of legendary pamphleteer Dobson, Blodgett Marigold Chew, home of the picnic for detectives and location of the palace of Hoon.A splendid place, much cake is eaten there.Written and presented by Frank Key.

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 Hooting Yard On The Air: My Little Blind Crow | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

My Little Blind Crow - 00:21 The Windows in the Villa - 02:21 Museology - 04:52 Chrononhotonthologos - 07:03 Hoon Hing Boom Bang a Bang - 09:46 The Glass Man - 15:02 Today's Recipe - 17:38 Poppy Nisbet's Music Tips - 20:31 A Sad Story - 23:03 Hooting Yard Archive, March 2005 - 28:40. This item belongs to: audio/hooting-yard. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

 Hooting Yard On The Air: A Thrilling Yarn | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A Thrilling Yarn - 00:00 Pabstus Tack - 05:46 Max - 11:16 Dispatches From the Nib of Van Dongelbraacke - 17:06 How to Think of Things Other Than Juggling - 20:55 King Wenceslas - 25:54 "The kam, as if approaching the Yarta..." - 27:05 On Why I Should Be The Next Director General Of The BBC - 30:09 T.... This item belongs to: audio/hooting-yard. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

 Hooting Yard On The Air: Peas | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Peas - 00:26 Jeanette Winterson Please Note - 09:10 The Magic Mountain - 10:50 Crisis in the Sedge - 20:06 My Little Blind Dolly - 22:55 "The Humane Voice is Air, impregnated, and..." - 27:23. This item belongs to: audio/hooting-yard. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

 Hooting Yard On The Air: Wisps and Clumps | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Wisps and Clumps - 00:15 On The Administration Of Lighthouses - 06:13 Cemetery Birds - 15:55 Ukrainian Postage Stamp Bees - 25:16. This item belongs to: audio/hooting-yard. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

 Hooting Yard On The Air: A Thrilling Yarn | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A Thrilling Yarn - 00:44 Pabstus Tack - 06:31 Max - 12:01 All Ears - 14:39 Dispatches From the Nib of Van Dongelbraacke - 17:50 How to Think of Things Other Than Juggling - 21:39 "The kam, as if approaching the Yarta..." - 27:50. This item belongs to: audio/hooting-yard. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

 Hooting Yard On The Air: Horse Begone | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Horse Begone - 00:00 Tadeusz Kapisko and His Ears of Wheat - 02:07 With Dobson in the Land of Nod - 07:20 Give Me a Glossary - 10:49 Nomenclature of Diminutive Persons Who Plunge Down 150-ft Cliffs and Survive With Hardly a Scratch - 17:30 Billy Parallelogram - 20:20 Metal of the Week : Tin - 23:52 .... This item belongs to: audio/hooting-yard. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

 Hooting Yard On The Air: Bosanquet | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Bosanquet - 02:07 The Smashed God - 05:33 A Dobson Anecdote - 11:31 And I Shall Walk - 15:34 Murder in the Murk - 19:46 Destiny's Darning-needle Pierced My Very Soul - 23:59. This item belongs to: audio/hooting-yard. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

 Hooting Yard: The Big Metal Fence | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:17

Freakishly tall, draped in a soutane, my brain pounding, I found myself standing before a trench full of sludge. In each hand, I discovered I was holding a bucket of pungent goo. My feet were encased in sturdy plastic bootees and at least two pairs of socks. I squelched across the trench, each step expelling from the sludge noisome fumes that wafted in the air behind me, shimmering and stinking. After some minutes, I clambered on to the other side, and rested the buckets upon the ground. Sulphurous fires ablaze within my skull, I had made the crossing from LIFE into DEATH. Eternity was before me. The Big Metal Fence The Smelly Castle In a German Forest In Another German Forest Water-Parties This episode was first broadcast on December 1st 2012.

 Hooting Yard: Live at Brewer’s Bar, Part 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:43:33

  This audio was recorded (badly) at Brewer’s Bar, Dalston, London. 9th March 2016.

 Hooting Yard: Live at Brewer’s Bar – Part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00:01

  This audio was recorded (badly) at Brewer’s Bar, Dalston, London. 9th March 2016.

 Hooting Yard: The Vagabonds’ Ragatta | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:55

If you are lucky enough to get a non-counterfeit ticket and still be in possession of all your limbs, you are certainly in for a treat! Down to the riverside you go, past the field where the Picnic For Detectives is in full swing. The spectators’ area on the riverbank is muddy and sloshy and the stink of unnameable effluence wafts through the foul air. There are the rowing boats! They are empty, of course, at this stage, just before dawn on the day of the regatta. You tuck in to your official regatta snack of compressed reconstituted meat ‘n’ gristle slices on a bed of contaminated lettuce leaves in a basket. Headphones jammed into your ears, you listen to your iFry, tuned in to Stephen Fry’s pre-regatta commentary. In recent years there have been moves to replace Fry with someone less ubiquitous, but, as so many others have learned, resistance is futile. You slurp your can of Squelcho! You leaf through the official programme, sponsored by Dignitas, casting your eye over the beautifully-executed mezzotints of the vagabonds, reading up on their form. On The Vagabonds’ Ragatta On Ping Pong, Imagined Acknowledgements and Disclaimer On Not Having A Dog In The Fight This episode was first broadcast on the 4th October 2012.  

 Hooting Yard: On Natty Dread | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:28:25

Natty Dread. Like it or lump it, it has become clear to any thinking person that Emperor Haile Selassie, or Ras Tafari, was indeed a living god. Admittedly, the thinking done by those persons is conducted with brains ravaged by pot, but that does not make their thinking any less cogent. Well, it does, and perhaps they might think a teensy bit more cogently with clearer heads. But they would surely reach the same conclusions regarding Haile Selassie and Jah Rastafari and the escape from Babylon and all that business. Natty Dread indeed. On Gas Rig Monkeys On Natty Dread Black is the Colour The Spitting Mills This episode was first broadcast on the 9th August 2012.

 Hooting Yard: On The Ground | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:10:14

We can go over now to our reporter on the ground, Praxiteles Hubbard . . . Prax, what is the situation there on the ground? On The Ground On The Krummhorn Man On Life Without Ducks High Strikes Correct Forms of Greeting This episode was first broadcast on the 2nd August 2012.

 Hooting Yard: On Pointy Town | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:15:52

To see properly pointy buildings, of course, one need go no further than Pointy Town. Now there is a place where the architects and builders do not fight shy of true pointiness. There is not an edifice in Pointy Town that is not pointy, certainly pointier than the Shard. Not just buildings, but statues, street appurtenances, people’s hats, even the very landscape itself – all as pointy as can be. For those keen on pointiness, it is very heaven. I am not sure if Pevsner ever went to Pointy Town, but had he done so, he would have been in raptures at the sheer profusion of pointy bits, if, that is, he was pointy-minded, which I am equally unsure whether he was or not. Let us say merely that he damn well ought to have been. “Pevsner”, after all, is a curiously pointy name, at least one suggestive of pointiness, in comparison to a name like, oh I don’t know, Stalin, for example. In spite of its meaning of “steel” or “steely”, which might evoke pointiness, “Stalin” has a softer, more rounded quality than “Pevsner”, to my ear. And Stalin himself was of course pocky, of which more later. Insufficiently pointy? On Pointy Town On Beggar’s Farm On Light Pouring Out

 Hooting Yard: Muggletonians | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:28:10

It was in February 1651 that a London tailor, John Reeve, received a commission from God. He explained to Muggleton, his cousin, also a tailor, that they were the two witnesses spoken of in the Book of Revelation 11:3, “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” Reeve died a few years later in 1658, leaving Muggleton to continue their work, and to give the sect his name. What was that work? It was one of the key tenets of the Muggletonians that, having created Man, God took a step back and took no interest whatsoever in our everyday doings. Muggletonians did not preach, nor proselytise. They had no form of organised worship, and indeed hardly any organisation at all. What they did do was meet up, usually in taverns, and talk – often rancorously – and sing Muggletonian songs. They also had holidays, where they might choose a picnic spot instead of a tavern for talking and singing, on the 19th of July, and on the “Great Holiday”, from the 2nd to the 4th of February, celebrating Reeve’s initial revelation. Muggletonians On Weather Lore On The Underpants Bomber, The U-Boat, And Ted And Sylvia This episode was first broadcast on 19th July 2012.

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