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18 Jan 2019
dawn in the city of manchester, the image is to be used for the reform radio programme not quite light

NQL ON REFORM RADIO – JANUARY 2019

TO LISTEN CLICK HERE NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. This month’s show, for January 2019, features the very talented poet Emily Oldfield, who I interviewed at dawn on a bridge in Hulme, made famous by a photograph of Joy Division from 40 years ago. We explore the thinking behind resolutions and the need for fresh starts. Film clips from The Shawshank Redemption, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and It’s A […]

21 Dec 2018
dawn in the city of manchester, the image is to be used for the reform radio programme not quite light

NQL ON REFORM RADIO – DECEMBER

NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. This month’s show features artist LoneLady, and explores themes of journeys, childhood and destination. Film clips from ‘The Innocents‘ and ‘Scrooge’. Music featured:  Simple Minds, Nick Cave, Steve Mason, Lonelady amongst others… TO LISTEN CLICK HERE

27 Nov 2018
dawn in the city of manchester, the image is to be used for the reform radio programme not quite light

NQL ON REFORM RADIO – NOVEMBER

NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. This month’s show sees me travel across the M62 to Hull to interview author Russ Litten. We discuss Hull fair, and how where we are from shapes who we are. I visit the room where I was actually born and wonder about sliding doors, and who i might have become if I’d lived in Hull. With music from The Doves, Willy Mason, Eric Random and Honeyfeet amongst […]

16 Oct 2018
dawn in the city of manchester, the image is to be used for the reform radio programme not quite light

NQL ON REFORM RADIO – OCTOBER

NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. This month’s show is about connections and loss, and features an interview made in Manchester By The Sea, New England, made famous by the movie of the same name. It takes an unexpected and personal turn, and features music from both sides of the Atlantic, including Jane Weaver, Lonelady and I Am Kloot from the city of Manchester. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN PLAYLIST

28 Aug 2018
dawn in the city of manchester, the image is to be used for the reform radio programme not quite light

NQL ON REFORM RADIO – AUGUST

NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. Click the link to listen to the July show online, which was partly recorded in Antwerp, Belgium. It explores themes of escape and love, when I meet up with an ex-girlfriend I haven’t seen for 16 years. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

24 Jul 2018
dawn in the city of manchester, the image is to be used for the reform radio programme not quite light

NQL ON REFORM RADIO – JULY

NQL now has an hourly monthly show on Manchester based station Reform Radio. Click the link to listen to the July show online: NQL ON REFORM RADIO

09 Mar 2018
milkman city centre manchester

THOSE THAT FEED US

In this episode of the Not Quite Light Podcast I spend dawn with those that feed us. I travel the city centre streets of Manchester with Dave, a milkman with Creamline dairies. I take in the smells and sounds of the wholesale market at Openshaw with Lucy Noone and her dad Mike, who run R Noone & Son, supplying fruit and vegetables to cafes and restaurants across the North West. And I watch fresh bread being made at the Trove […]

22 Jan 2018
dawn on dartmoor the sun gets covered by sarharan sand turning day into night

NQL PODCAST- DAWN ON DARTMOOR

In this episode of the Not Quite Light podcast I visit Dartmoor in a hurricane, and also talk to Manchester artist Claire Riley about working at dawn in the city, and our need to sometimes escape. CLICK HERE to see a gallery of work from the journey. TO SEE ARTIST CLAIRE RILEY’S WORK BY CLICK HERE

31 Oct 2017
not quite light podcast the hive

NOT QUITE LIGHT PODCAST – THE HIVE

This episode of the Not Quite Light Podcast – The Hive – is inspired by the project “You Live With Us, We Live You”, commissioned by 5 Plus Architects, where I explored buildings in their reality as opposed to the CGI fantasy. I chat to one of the directors, Jon Matthews, overlooking Manchester at dawn from the rooftop of The Hive building, I talk to whistling Wayne, the security guard there, and I read an extract from the recently published […]

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