The Monty Funk Podcast: Recent Episodes
Monty Funk Productions
A series of podcasts from BBC Programme makers Monty Funk Productions. Some of these podcasts have been previously broadcast on the BBC and are here once the rights have reverted back to us. Others are original podcasts, some are in production. More information: www.montyfunk.com
A two-part exploration of the 'Aquatic Ape' hypothesis first proposed 50 years ago. Presented by Sir David Attenborough, this programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005.
Programme one: considers Raymond Dart's Taung Child discovery and the ensuing savannah theory of human origins, as popularised by Robert Ardrey and Desmond Morris.
Programme two: looks at evidence accumulated in the last 10-15 years driving the anthropological herd inexorably down to the water's edge. It includes reports on brain evolution, highlighting the essential fatty acids and nutrients that can only be sourced in the marine food chain; the global coastal migrations of early hominids, including major water crossings 1 million years ago.
A two-part exploration of the 'Aquatic Ape' hypothesis first proposed 50 years ago. Presented by Sir David Attenborough, this programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005.
Programme two: looks at evidence accumulated in the last 10-15 years driving the anthropological herd inexorably down to the water's edge. It includes reports on brain evolution, highlighting the essential fatty acids and nutrients that can only be sourced in the marine food chain; the global coastal migrations of early hominids, including major water crossings 1 million years ago.
Programme one: considers Raymond Dart's Taung Child discovery and the ensuing savannah theory of human origins, as popularised by Robert Ardrey and Desmond Morris.
Monty Funk's Richard Collins travels to, and explores the strange phenomenon of spirits in old industrial sites. Spooky and eerie!
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Produced by Peter Nash
Presented by Richard Collins
Archive material from the Cambridge University and Royal Geographical Society's expedition to the Torres Strait in 1898. It was primarily an ethnomusicology expedition, and they used the very newly invented wax cylinder recording machine, presented to the world by Thomas Edison only a few years earlier.
The recordings were mainly for note taking, but many have been preserved and restored by the British Library.
Janet Topp-Fargion, the British Libraries head of ethnomusicology, takes us on a journey through they remarkable and singularly rare archive, what it meant at the time, and how these recordings are being used by indigenous people of Australia to resolve land rights.
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Produced by Peter Nash
Presented by Janet Topp-Fargion
The third and final of three short podcasts exploring the Chester Mystery Plays.
It's the first public read-through and we reveal the public's reaction...
The second of three short podcasts exploring the Chester Mystery Plays.
In this episode we catch up with the team behind the forthcoming production, leading up to the opening ceremony...
The first of three short podcasts exploring the Chester Mystery Plays.
Produced for the 2013 cycle of the Mystery Plays, this podcast introduces the new production team featuring Peter Leslie-Wild, Artistic Director and Stephanie Dale, Writer.
We hear from the many other members of the production team, and listen in to the initial workshops...
Another in the Monty Funk Podcast series on festivals. This time a music festival that's been going to several years, nestled on the western side of the Malvern Hills.
Another in the Monty Funk Podcast series on arts and music festivals. This one is an arts festival in West Malvern on the Worcestershire - Herefordshire border.
A Special treat for Morgan Car enthusiast. This podcast includes a tour of the factory in Malvern, with Charles Morgan himself!
Presented by Ashly Cavers
Another in our series of arts festivals. This time a music festival hosted in the small village of Linton, just outside Ross-On-Wye.
Featuring bands from the locality and some guests from further afield. The on-stage host is the late Andy Dakin.
For more information about Monty Funk podcasts, visit: www.montyfunk.com
This podcast explores the H-ART Arts Festival, an annual event in Herefordshire, UK.
Hear many of the artists, organisers and the public as the festival gets underway.
This is one of a series of podcasts from Monty Funk Productions: www.montyfunk.com
Post Panto season at the Malvern Theatres opens with a production of 'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Susanna Byers talks with writer Amelia Marriette about her adaptation of the performance, presented by the Malvern Players at Malvern Theatres.
More Info: https://www.ameliamarriette.com/plays