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Author: ijwilson (page 2)

Good Friday Fundraiser for Turkey and Syria on FOTW Radio

It’s probably no secret to anyone on here, that I also moonlight as a radio DJ for Halloween, with my…
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Posted on: April 2, 2023 Last updated on: April 2, 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: ijwilson
Picture of Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych wearing traditional dress and a picture of an early recording of the carol Shchedryk

The Story of Carol of the Bells/Shchedryk

On Christmas Eve, I did a special radio broadcast on FOTW Radio, mainly for a group of Japanese listeners who…
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Posted on: December 29, 2022 Last updated on: July 7, 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: ijwilson
Collage of Heavy Metal Covers from the 1980s

Heavy metal bands in the 80s – Is heavy metal bad for you?

“As Barry listened to the music, he became mesmerized by it, as a whole new world opened up to him.…
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Posted on: October 13, 2022 Last updated on: February 1, 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: ijwilson
Jan Pienkowski-style Sunset

IN PRAISE OF CREATIVE PEOPLE

One of the things I like now most in my life, as a forty-something man, is having creative friends. It…
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Posted on: September 9, 2022 Last updated on: September 9, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: ijwilson
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Johnny Dark’s a Legend

TOWARDS THE END OF Glebe Point Road, the 438 bus pulled up outside the Valhalla Cafe and a gang of…
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Posted on: July 23, 2022 Last updated on: August 11, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: ijwilson
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As a creative person, how do you know you are doing good work?

This week I watched a good training video about how to direct actors in an audio story. But at the…
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Posted on: February 11, 2022 Last updated on: February 11, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: ijwilson
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A few retrospective music genres for armchair time-travellers

Occasionally I realize – with a slight panic – that most of the things I like are from the past:…
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Posted on: December 8, 2021 Last updated on: December 8, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: ijwilson

The Night Jeep – a strange tale from the dusty garage!

Over Halloween, I took a few weeks off from my normal job to run an annual online Halloween radio stream,…
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Posted on: November 16, 2021 Last updated on: November 16, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: ijwilson
Merve Daşdemir from the band Altin Gun

Altin Gün: One of the best things about 2021

The world might be a bit shit at the moment – and that’s maybe an understatement! But you can’t go…
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Posted on: July 17, 2021 Last updated on: July 17, 2021 Comments: 2 Written by: ijwilson
Pile of Spoken Word CDs

The Great Spoken Word Albums of the Nineties

“In general, our first impressions are true ones . . . In early youth we read a poem, for instance,…
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Posted on: May 24, 2021 Last updated on: January 8, 2025 Written by: ijwilson
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