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Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape review show - 21.01.25

Dear listeners, enjoy Zines, booklets, CDs & tapes from Japan, Italy & California - with works from Chris Frias' Tele-Electrica SUPERBAS Volume 1. Michele Mazzani's label  Lonktaar, Imposta Fabbricazione Spiriti & from our regular contributor Kazuhiro Ohtsuka another release on his label Trial Run Tapes. Discussions include memories of new year 2000, the Jesus surname question,  Los Angeles burning and the death of Robocop & David Lynch. Look forward to spontaneous jams from Alebeek & Shephard, killing Bukowski, Kojak and Tom Waits impressions. As usual it's impossible to predict which direction these shows will go in. Goodnight from the rabbit repair shop.
Recording & Edit: Adrian Shephard
www.radio-on-berlin.com :21.01.25

Radio-On-Historic #14 – Lustgarten Part 2 - Rinus Van Alebeek & Jason Honea

Jason Honea and Rinus van Alebeek are caught in a whirlwind of stories about one of the oldest places in Berlin, the Lustgarten. Gnostic revelations, dogs, tulips and the failed attempt on Hitler. Crowds, mass rallies and revolutions, crypts and citizens, it’s all there, the story of Berlin’s history changing shape like a flight of starlings.
Recording & Edit: Adrian Shephard
www.radio-on-berlin.com :07.04.25

Radio-On-Berlin – Barometric Dispatch #5 – Gudinni Cortina & Anne-F Jacques

A bi-monthly summary of sonic contributions and updates received from presses précaires (Montréal) and ISO (Ciudad de Mexico) collaborators, friends and informants, located in various altitudes, caught in different weather systems. fragmented landscapes, failing devices and inexact charts.
compiled in 30 minutes blocks of audible matter by Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques.
El despacho barométrico es un sumario bi mensual que muestra contribuciones sonoras y actualizaciones recibidas de colaboradorxs, amigxs y informadorxs, situadxs en diversas altitudes, atrapadxs en diferentes sistemas meteorológicos. Paisajes fragmentados, dispositivos que faltan y cartas inexactas.
Está recopilado en bloques de 30 minutos de materia audible por Gudinni Cortina y Anne-F Jacques.
In this episode, live interventions by some of Mexico City’s finest sound travellers: Aleida Perez, Diren Checa and Gudinni Cortina, interspersed with untimely irruptions of objects dragged on the ground and late-night club bootlegs.

Radio-On-Historic #13 – Lustgarten Part 1 - Rinus Van Alebeek & Jason Honea

Rinus Van Alebeek & Jason Honea unravelling the monumental history of the Lustgarten in Berlin, the magnet for time travel tourists. This short episode is the teaser for the next one. Jason tells two of the many stories that can be told. One about the schlossbrücke, the bridge of the angels and the other is about a bowl. What bowl? Tune in and hear all about it.
Recording & Edit: Adrian Shephard
www.radio-on-berlin.com :28.03.25

Radio-On-Berlin - Mutig. Menschlich. Miteinander Demo - Bebelplatz - 16.02.25

Radio-On reporters Jason Honea, Adrian Shephard & Musti interview people at the 'Mutig. Menschlich. Miteinander' demo in Berlin at Bebelplatz in advance of the general election on the 23.02.25.www.gemeinsam-hand-in-hand.org
'On the 16th February 2025, we will open a rally in Berlin under the motto “Courage. Human. Together.” a week of action for democracy, social justice and human rights.
Together we raise our voices against exclusion, hatred and agitation and show how important the protection of democratic values and solidarity cohesion are.'
for more info:
www.radio-on-berlin.comrecording & edit : Adrian Shephard.

Radio-On-Historic #12 - Grazer Damm with Rinus Van Alebeek & Adrian Shephard

Adrian Shephard and Rinus van Alebeek follow fellow Radio On historic reporter Jason Honea's advice and travel to the south of Berlin to visit the Grazer Damm. This example of Nazi architecture was built in 1938-1939. You will hear a lengthy explanation on how the Nazi ideology was integrated and made visible in the social housing complex and how it was different from the Bauhaus vision. The Radio On reporters describe the ornaments and the inner courtyard and will make you wish that you were there for just a brief moment.
Recorded: 02.08.24www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape review show - 17.12.24

The Tape review Xmas special with Rinus Van Alebeek and Adrian Shephard ripping open packages from Japan, Italy, The Netherlands, Thailand and Undocumented Aliens Talks include how to grow your garden with the remains from ancient battles, Parisian catacombs and what not to bring back home lest you become cursed and Rinus' Tips on Berlin historical tours and much more squeezed into a 2 hour audio adventure for you, our dearest festive listener !
Recorded: 17.12,.24www.radio-on-berlin.com
 

Radio-On-Berlin - The Open Mic Situation #3 - Lausitzer Platz - 30.11.24

The Open Mic Situation is an initiative from some of the residents of Haus 17, Lausitzer Platz, Kreuzberg to bring the neighbourhood together to share poetry, spoken word, stories, music and ideas. We hope it will be a monthly occasion.Record & Edit : Shephardwww.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - Daybreak in Gaza - Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller @ Curious Fox Bookstore

Reading & discussion with Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, editors of Daybreak in Gaza (Saqi Books) at Curious Fox books, Berlin.
‘A love letter to Gaza. A heartbreaking testament to the beauty and courage of Palestinian people in the face of extraordinary brutality.’— Isabella Hammad‘A most significant collection, one that frightens, awes and inspires, the timeliest of reminders of our common humanity and the irrepressible force of the written word.’— Philippe Sands
 
About the Book: This was Gaza. A place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now pulverised and devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught.Today, as its heritage is being destroyed, Gaza’s survivors preserve their culture through literature, music, stories and memories. Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture is a record of that heritage, revealing an extraordinary place and people. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers across the generations offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They display the wealth of Gaza’s cultural landscape and the breadth of its history.This remarkable book humanises the people dismissed as mere statistics and portrays lives full of joy and meaning. Daybreak in Gaza stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction, and as a testament to the people of Gaza.
About the Editors:Mahmoud Muna is a writer, publisher and bookseller from Jerusalem, Palestine. He runs Jerusalem’s celebrated Educational Bookshop and the Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel, both centres of the city’s literary scene. Muna writes regularly on culture and politics, with bylines in the London Review of Books and Jerusalem Quarterly, among others. He recently published the first-ever Arabic edition of Granta magazine.
Matthew Teller is a UK-based author and broadcaster writing on place and culture, with a special focus on Palestine and the wider Middle East. His 2022 book Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City was a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. Teller produces and presents documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and World Service, and reports for BBC Radio’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’. His journalism is published by the BBC, Guardian, Independent, Times and Financial Times, among others. Teller is the author of Quite Alone: Journalism from the Middle East 2008–2019 and several travel guides, including the Rough Guide to Jordan.Recorded 01.11.24Edit : Adrian Shephard.www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Historic #11 - Hitler's Walk with Rinus Van Alebeek & Jason Honea

Jason, Adrian and Rinus teamed up to offer you a Radio On Berlin walking tour !
Hitler’s walk leads you to Hitler’s Berlin starting from his rise to power in the early 1930s to his death in 1945. Jason Honea and Rinus van Alebeek narrate the walk (both Jason and Rinus are experienced tour guides). Adrian Shephard documented the proceedings.Recorded: 23.09.24Editing & Production: Adrian Shephard.
Music: Testcard

Radio-On-Berlin - Halloween with Nikolas Schreck

Yes, we join the Halloween frenzy and turn our radio into a pumpkin that stares at you with blood drained flickery eyes.
Nikolas Schreck will reach out to all of you, who hide in cupboards, under the bed or in a mass grave. On the Halloween Scare.a.thon he will play appropriate macabre music from every kind of genre and introduce the songs.Radio-On-Berlin

Radio-On-Berlin - The Open Mic Situation #2 - Lausitzer Platz - 121024

The Open Mic Situation is an initiative from some of the residents of Haus 17, Lausitzer Platz, Kreuzberg to bring the neighbourhood together to share poetry, spoken word, stories, music and ideas. We hope it will be a monthly occasion.

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape review show - Polychron, Good morning Chernobyl, Tribal Tapes & Tapes found by Marcin Barski 03.06.24

The legendary Tape review show returns with Rinus Van Alebeek & Adrian Shephard at the helm.  Imagine what chaos ensues now that AI has taken over the Radio-On satellite. The show includes reviews of Polychron, Good morning Chernobyl, Tribal Tapes & Tapes found by Marcin Barski - Japan, Italy & Uzbekistan. Thank you for sending in your Tapes, CDs and records. Broadcast: 03.06.24www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Historic #10 - @Alexanderplatz with Jason Honea & Rinus Van Alebeek

Radio-On Time travellers Jason Honea & Rinus van Alebeek, walk you through the history of Berlin Alexanderplatz from the space age dreams of the DDR to the present day where the monumental TV tower still stands grounded on its mission.Recorded: 19.07.24Production: Adrian ShephardMusic: Testcard.www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Mostly-Unheard-Of #1 - Field Recordings with Adrian Shephard & David Gordon

The first in a new series of field recordings in Berlin with Adrian Shephard & David Gordon using a Geofon and hydrophone to unearth the 'mostly unheard sounds' all around us. In this episode they venture to the Spree and encounter Factory gates, grammar traps and underwater spectres of the spectrum. Please note that many of these recordings are best listened to with headphones in order to fully appreciate the sonic frequencies of the city.Recorded : 30.7.24Edit : Adrian Shephardwww.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Historic #9 - @Rosa Luxemburgplatz with Jason Honea & Rinus Van Alebeek

An historic journey from Rosa Luxemburg platz to the St Marien & St Nikolai Cemetery with Rinus Van Alebeek & Jason Honea.
An historic journey from Rosa Luxemburg platz to the St Marien & St Nikolai Cemetery with Rinus Van Alebeek & Jason Honea.Communists, nazi’s, riots, murders, jewish immigrants, Weimar, the Rosa Luxemburg Platz holds quite a few of the many stories that can be told in Berlin. Jason Honea and Rinus van Alebeek were there and together they take the listener on a walk. Then one name emerges from the past and the Radio On team goes on an unexpected excursion...
Radio On historic #9 was recorded and edited by Adrian Shephard.
Sonic miniatures by testcardRecorded 27.06.2024www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Historic #8 - @Bebelplatz with Jason Honea & Rinus Van Alebeek

Our heroes of Berlin's tour-guide history, Rinus Van Alebeek & Jason Honea take us to Bebelplatz, a cornucopia of campaigns, arts and education.
'The Bebelplatz in Berlin was built as an expression of Frederick the Great's, Prussian vision: Love for the arts, the importance of knowledge and tolerance took form in these beautiful buildings. The palace of his brother Henry became a university after his death and thus added another virtue to the Bebelplatz: the freedom of choosing your future along the lines of study. But then, centuries later, there was Hitler.' - Rinus Van Alebeek.
Recorded 21.06.2024
Edit & production: Adrian Shephard.All music: Jason Honea
www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - Brave Ear with Jason Honea & David Pollack - Destiny records and more stories...

'Had the distinct pleasure this afternoon to talk to Dave Pollack from Destiny music agency and records at length. Though we both hail from the Bay Area/ SFCA punk wars and have brushed elbows on many occasions here in town it was great to really cut him loose and let him tell, tell,tell all. What was supposed to only be a ten minute exchange turned into a 1.5 hour long walk, shuffle and protracted chat beginning with our childhood days in different parts of San Francisco and ultimately our migration over here . Berlin then and now stuff, spaces and places. Tune into Radio On ! Berlin and tuck your ears!' - Jason Honea.
28.02.2024
www.radio-on-berlin.com
Recording, edit & production : Adrian Shephard.
 
 

Radio-On-Berlin - Barometric Dispatch #3 - Gudinni Cortina & Anne-F Jacques

Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques – Barometric Dispatch/Despacho Barométrico – episode 3
A bi-monthly summary of sonic contributions and updates received from presses précaires (Montréal) and ISO (Ciudad de Mexico) collaborators, friends and informants, located in various altitudes, caught in different weather systems. fragmented landscapes, failing devices and inexact charts.
compiled in 30 minutes blocks of audible matter by Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques.
El despacho barométrico es un sumario bi mensual que muestra contribuciones sonoras y actualizaciones recibidas de colaboradorxs, amigxs y informadorxs, situadxs en diversas altitudes, atrapadxs en diferentes sistemas meteorológicos. Paisajes fragmentados, dispositivos que faltan y cartas inexactas.
Está recopilado en bloques de 30 minutos de materia audible por Gudinni Cortina y Anne-F Jacques.
Imaginary rivers by Elena Solis and Antonia Alarcón; found and made sounds by Arturo Hernández Alcázar; some unused material retrieved from the archives of film works by Julie Doucet and Anne-F Jacques. Mysterious gestures, ubiquitous cell phones, dysfunctional electronics, serial eavesdropping.

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape review show with Nazlo Records & Marcin Barski 14.01.24

Tape review special with Anton aka Wassily Bosch and Marcin Barski with a plethora of tapes and limited edition vinyl on the decks. 
Marcin Barski from Krakòw and long time Radio On radiomaker Wassily Bosch came to visit the studio on a mid-winter Sunday. Wassily runs Nazlo Records. His visit to Berlin resulted in picking up a load of cassettes and vinyls that his label released over the years. We played them all and through sounds and stories we got an insight in one particular eastern european niche of underground culture. Add to this the walkabouts of Marcin and you get a radio show custom made for an all inclusive listening experience.
https://nazlorecords.bandcamp.com/
https://walklistencreate.org/author/marcinbarski/
www.radio-on-berlin.com
recorded : 14.01.24

Radio-On-Berlin - The Haunted Salon & other true ghost stories with Caroline Shephard 30.12.23

Tis the festive season so perfect timing for Carrie Shephard & Adrian Shephard to discuss some haunted Plymouth ghost stories. This episode includes Carrie's creepy eyelash curdling salon experience and her partner - Big Tony's poltergeist activity in the ancient cottage he used to live in. Thanks also to Selena Shephard for the additional story about the history of the cottage. For those listeners of a delicate disposition this program contains some descriptions of mysteriously rearranged fruit bowls.
Recorded 30.12.23
www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape Review Show - Xmas Episode 10.12.23 with Rinus & Adrian

It's a Berlin winter - Snow is falling and it's time for the Xmas Tape Review show with Cassettes sent from Japan, Robert Pepper (CD) (London) - Ted Trager (CD) (USA) and his handmade Zine. Rinus presents maps of Mitte from the DDR.
 
Broadcast 10.12.23www.radio-on-berlin.com
 
 

Radio-On-Berlin - Xmas Tape Review Special 2023 with Mim King & Jason Honea

The Xmas Tape Review Special returns with guests Mim King & Jason Honea - a cornucopia of overflowing delight with Tapes sent to us from Uruguay, Japan & London. Expect stories from Wormwood scrubs prison, Roger Eno, David Bowie, Musique Concrete, Apollo 11 and more in this fact packed journey through the looking glass hosted by Rinus Van Alebeek and Adrian Shephard.Broadcast 18.12.23.
www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape Review Show - 09.10.23 - Live from the Studio

Adrian & Rinus return with another zany Tape review show and this time live from the Kreuzberg studio !  Discussions include - what was the surname on Jesus's postbox? The Stasi museum camera films - sunglasses for the crusaders - The Tomorrow people - Mork & Mindy and Joey Ramone dolls. This months reviews are from :
Hochberg - Two Evils (Tape)
Bolivian fireships - untitled (CD)
Enigmatic Sound Machines - Telepathic Waves (CD)
The Weights of Babylon - Steffan de Turck / Manuel Padding (Tape)
www.radio-on-berlin.com
recorded 09.10.23.

Radio-On-Berlin - The Wirebender presents Beyond the Edge : Radical Dance Faction Special

The Wirebender presents : beyond the edge Radical dance faction special with three tracks from the Youth produced LP. Features tracks : Food bank : i carried the mountain and cockroach town. Included is a dj mix from Dj smart monkey and Rae Cheddae of mystic red corporation. Recorded live at oval space London.
Radical Dance Faction
Art by Al Damidge.www.radio-on-berlin.com
 
 

Radio-on-Berlin - The Wheel and the Axle #3

Live or undead from the New Jerusalem of Northern England, Sheffield Patrol Group presentsTHE WHEEL AND THE AXLE 3Endtroducing Rev. Chris Brain, the Caligula of Crookes, Sheffield’s very own mini-Manson, and his ghoulish legion of horrible admirers, together constitutingTHE ABOMINATION OF NOSThe Nine O’Clock Service (NOS) operated from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. It first met at the parish church of St. Thomas, Crookes before moving to larger premises in Sheffield. NOS was hailed by the Church of England as a model for rejuvenating the church and bringing young people to the faith. Articles appeared in the national press commending the group on its innovative style of worship. It collapsed after a sex scandal alleging the abuse of at least 40 women by its leader, and was later accused of promoting hedonistic paganism in place of orthodox Christianity.Track listingNarration: Extracts from ‘The Nine O’Clock Service: An Exercise in Power and Control’ by Sheffield Patrol GroupExcerpts from ‘Planetary Mess’ by Apostates1. Introitus2. Offertorium | Canon Missae3. Asperges Diaboli4. ConclusioLinkPlanetary Messhttps://apostates1.bandcamp.com/album/planetary-mess

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape Review Show - 30.08.23 - Live from the Balcony

Live from the balcony with Alebeek and Shephard at the helm. The Tape review show returns just in time for the end of the Berlin summer. This show reviews the tape release 'Starlight and still air reworked' from Starlight Assembly sent to us from from Milan by Matteo Hue Uggeri. Included Remixes by Robin Rimbaud AKA Scanner, Sawako Kato, Patricia Wolf. and Joel Shanahan AKA Auscultation.
www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - Barometric Dispatch #2 - Gudinni Cortina & Anne-F Jacques

Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques – Barometric Dispatch/Despacho Barométrico – episode 2
A bi-monthly summary of sonic contributions and updates received from presses précaires (Montréal) and ISO (Ciudad de Mexico) collaborators, friends and informants, located in various altitudes, caught in different weather systems. fragmented landscapes, failing devices and inexact charts.
compiled in 30 minutes blocks of audible matter by Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques.
El despacho barométrico es un sumario bi mensual que muestra contribuciones sonoras y actualizaciones recibidas de colaboradorxs, amigxs y informadorxs, situadxs en diversas altitudes, atrapadxs en diferentes sistemas meteorológicos. Paisajes fragmentados, dispositivos que faltan y cartas inexactas.
Está recopilado en bloques de 30 minutos de materia audible por Gudinni Cortina y Anne-F Jacques.
for this second episode, a mix of dispatches received for Salsipuedes (Argentina) and Mexico City, from Bardo Todol y sus aves sin nido and Gudinni Cortina. Strange pressure shifts, furtive manifestations and hyper-local phenomenons.radio-on-berlin.com
 

Radio-on-Berlin - The Wheel and the Axle #2

Live or undead from the New Jerusalem of Northern England, SHEFFIELD PATROL GROUP presents:
THE WHEEL AND THE AXLE 2
 
Rahoola-Boola! Ar-lala-rad-zhaman!
Esoteric psychedelia 4 real, fam!
So far out it’s coming in again…
 
Got a fortune you don’t know what to do with? Got more money than you know how to spend? Want to invest in the End of the World?
SHEFFIELD PATROL GROUP is adept at helping people to dissipate their fortunes.
Give everything you have to SHEFFIELD PATROL GROUP and you’ll never regret it, not in the next world, nor in what is left of this one.
 
SHEFFIELD PATROL GROUP
Purveyors of the finest
TOMES
MEDITATIONS
SPIRITUAL BUNK-UPS
Wholesale – Retail
Enlightenment is just one click away!
https://sheffieldpatrolgroup.wordpress.com/ 
 
Track Listing
Magick: Systems of Madness
Cross of Light / The Abominable Dr. D
The Abominable Dr. D / Cross of Light
Our Righteousness
 
Link
Magick is the Opium of the Middle-Classes
https://apostates1.bandcamp.com/album/magick-is-the-opium-of-the-middle-classes radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-on-Berlin - The Wheel and the Axle #1

Programme description:
 
THE WHEEL AND THE AXLE
 
Have you ever wondered if Elton John sold his soul to the devil for the sake of a polyurethane wig in the same deal that saw the genius Sting (Ein-Sting-Stein) equipped with the skills to engage in 8-hour Tantric bunk-ups?
 
Have you ever longed to hear decent versions of ‘John Barleycorn’ and ‘Thomas Rymer’ that do justice to the ancient texts (Satchmo style)?
 
Then why not feast your ears on THE WHEEL AND THE AXLE, brought to you live (or undead) from the New Jerusalem of Northern England by Sheffield Patrol Group?
 
And there are also many other things to be heard on THE WHEEL AND THE AXLE, the which, if they should be heard every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the audio files that should be generated.
 
So be it.
 
PLAYLIST
 
1. Intro: Sailor Boy
2. National Treasure
3. Satchmo Style
4. Klepto-Lunar Nympho-Christ
5. John Barleycorn (Satchmo Style)
6. Look Everywhere
7. Satan Sat in Somerset Set
8. Look Nowhere
9. Psycho Satchmo Liber Style
10. Curse Alien Big Thinkers' Signals
11. Thomas Rymer (Satchmo Style)
12. Fat Dolls
13. Outro: Execution Chamber
 
LINKS
 
Sheffield Patrol Group: https://sheffieldpatrolgroup.wordpress.com/
 
Apostates: https://apostates1.bandcamp.com/radio-on-berlin.com
 

Radio-On-Berlin - Barometric Dispatch #1 - Gudinni Cortina & Anne-F Jacques

Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques – Barometric Dispatch/Despacho Barométrico
A bi-monthly summary of sonic contributions and updates received from presses précaires (Montréal) and ISO (Ciudad de Mexico) collaborators, friends and informants, located in various altitudes, caught in different weather systems. fragmented landscapes, failing devices and inexact charts.
compiled in 30 minutes blocks of audible matter by Gudinni Cortina and Anne-F Jacques.
El despacho barométrico es un sumario bi mensual que muestra contribuciones sonoras y actualizaciones recibidas de colaboradorxs, amigxs y informadorxs, situadxs en diversas altitudes, atrapadxs en diferentes sistemas meteorológicos. Paisajes fragmentados, dispositivos que faltan y cartas inexactas.
Está recopilado en bloques de 30 minutos de materia audible por Gudinni Cortina y Anne-F Jacques.
about this first episode:
A digest of dispatches received from Maria GC Goded (CDMX), Zhao Cong (Beijing), Julián Galay (Berlin / Argentina), Daniela Solis (Cuernavaca) and Anne-f Jacques (Montréal).radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - Medical Edition #4 - Live from the operating theater 28.07.23

Adrian Shephard is back at the Krankenhaus in Friedrichshain for a blitzkrieg drug fuelled surgical visit with Rinus Van Alebeek as the trusty 'No-one gets out of here alive' Radio-On-linguistics specialist. Tune in for more memory loss, literal heart felt stories from the operating room, inter-dimensional numerical time travelling, the antigravity of animals, patients talking in their sleep, alien abduction experiments and more.
www.radio-berlin.com
 
 

Radio-On-Berlin - Marty Segal - A Spy for God

“…a man who lived his life with a ferocious veracity… an inspiring and impossible to describe genius who never gave up or sold himself out. He passed away suddenly, December 2003. This piece was from Marty’s weekend experience in a British hospital as he recounts his detailed analysis and relationships with staff, patients and all with his unique charm and witty intellect.
Professor of Mathematics & Dr of Social Psychology from the Einstein School in New York, Marty Segal was the Jewish son of a Rabbi living in 60's America when everything was deemed possible. He went on to teach at the Sorbonne in Paris and I met him in the last 15 years of his life in Brighton in the UK. He was a writer and performer and incredible speaker able to entertain anybody with his quick wit, humour and educated deep insight into almost any subject. He recorded interviews with many people with his Sony Professional cassette machine and he recounted this personal weekend as a tape diary to his fellow writer John Heart when he was admitted to a British National Health Service (NHS) hospital in Brighton for Pneumonia. It's both a tour de force critique of the hospital system and a credit to those who work there. - Adrian Shephard.www.radio-on-berlin.com
 
 

Radio-On-Historic #7 - JFK @ Rathaus Schöneberg with Jason Honea & Rinus Van Alebeek

Jason Honea & Rinus Van Alebeek meet up at the Rathaus Schöneberg on the 26th June to commemorate the speech that Kennedy made from the Rathaus balcony and recount the history leading up to this legendary moment.
Recording & Edit: Adrian Shephardwww.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On - FELD Theater & Streit Kultur Tag 30.06.23

 
Radio-On - FELD Theater & Streit Kultur Tag 30.06.23

Radio-On - Streit Kultur#4 - FELD Theater: Kopernikus Oberschule

Streit Kultur#4 - FELD Theater : Kopernikus Oberschule, Steglitz Berlin.Juni 2023.
Unsere Show "Mehr Mitmischen" ist das Ergebnis einer Reihe von Workshops, die wir seit Anfang März mit Schülerinnen und Schülern der KoperniKus Oberschule in Stieglitz, Berlin, mit Unterstützung von StreitKultur und FELD Theater durchgeführt haben.
Sie tauschten ihre Sorgen und Gedanken aus, vertraten ihre Meinung, bezogen Stellung zu Fragen der Zukunft und des Klimawandels, erzählten uns von ihren religiösen und kulturellen Hintergründen, während ihre Stimmen Nein zu Rassismus, Mobbing und Sexismus sagten. Durch diese Workshops, die in der Sendung gipfelten, und während sie schüchtern und selbstbewusst begannen, wurden sie mutig, witzig, enthusiastisch, konzentriert und engagierten sich für sich selbst und ihre Umgebung... durch Diskussionen, Interviews, Lachen, Singen und Gedichte legten sie Schichten von Gleichgültigkeit und Distanz ab und wuchsen zu einer vereinten Schulgemeinschaft heran, voller Respekt und Ehrlichkeit, um bescheidene Radiostars zu werden....tune in to find out how! Eure wahren Radiogurus, Gaby und Adrian...
mit Dank an alle bei StreitKultur und FELD theater, die Schüler und Lehrer für ein unvergessliches Erlebnis !
English:
Our show, 'Mehr Mitmischen' or 'taking part', 'being involved', 'making a stand' and 'having a voice', is a result of a series of workshops we conducted since the beginning of march with high school students at the KoperniKus Oberschule in Stieglitz, Berlin supported by StreitKultur and FELD Theater.
They shared their worries and thoughts, put forward their opinions, took a stand regarding issues about the future and climate change, told us about their religious and cultural backgrounds while their voices said no to racism, mobbing and sexism..through these workshops that culminated into the show and while they started shy and self-conscious, they became brave, funny, enthusiastic, focused and involved with themselves and the environment around them...through discussions, interviews, laughter, singing and poems they shed layers of indifference and distance to grow into a united school community , full of respect and honesty to become humble radio stars....tune in to find out how!. Your true radio gurus, Gaby and Adrian..
 
with thanks to all at StreitKultur and FELD theater, the students and teachers for an unforgettable experience !
 

Radio-On-Berlin : The Tape Review Show – Snare Rush zine, Dregs of Zen, Hannya White, Grey Frequency

Stories told by Adrian Shephard & Rinus van Alebeek about potatoes or/and Boris Johnson, a description of a visit to a pub in a tiny village in Cornwall on a stormy evening, what to do at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin, an extended synopsis of a movie about Adrian’s coming of age, with lots of details, and apart from that a deeper analysis of the never ending Brexit saga.
We also played songs and sounds from and gave killer reviews to:
Snare Rush, a zine made by Andrew Fletcher.
Dregs of Zen – self made Cdr
Hannya White – Who put the flowers in the garden and other songs
Grey Frequency – fragments from found recordingsBroadcast : 08.09.1998Radio-On-Berlin

Radio-On-Berlin - Medical edition #3 - Tape Review Show 29.05.23

In this third medical episode of the Tape review show broadcasting from the vivantes Krankenhaus in Friedrishain the painkiller shots mount up on the hospital tray as Adrian desperately tries to maintain a grip on reality - 'all I hear are chickens'. Rinus skilfully keeps the tapes playing whilst simultaneously nursing the guy in the bed next to us. The intrevenous drips keep flowing and Adrians blood pressure goes lower in this game of review the tapes before the doctors arrive to remove his lung waste removal cable. In this show we review :
Audioregistratore Due Cavalli - Angelo
Bignamini/Cristiano Carosi
2
Phase two - ATRX
Feu de Joie - Angelo Bignaminip
*Bignamini
Live Bujun Dokument - Harshcore & Der
Einzige
Zumpelvelder Silagerparade 1989-
Woeësj-Joepe
Broadcast : 29.05.23www.radio-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - Medical edition #2 - Tape Review Show 28.05.23

Once again our intrepid team Rinus Van Alebeek & Shephard broadcast from Adrian's now 3 week residency at the Krankenhaus Friedrichshain, Berlin where doctors & nurses are currently putting Shephard's insides back together. The tape review show is live so expect interruptions from patients returning from surgery as Cassettes are reviewed and nurses wondering what is going on, on their watch. Today we play Z'ev, Tzii and a Tokyo release from Trial Run Tapes plus a birthday cassette from the HOK gallery in the Hague.
Broadcast 28.05.23Edit : Adrian Shephardwww.radio-on-berlin.com
 

Radio-On-Historic #6 - Sportpalast with Jason Honea & Nikolas Schreck 31.03.23

Jason Honea & Nikolas Schreck present another classic Historic episode for Radio-On-Berlin - The Sportpalast built for entertainment 1909-1910 & used by the Nazis for their propaganda machine was finally embraced by Rock'n'Roll hosting the likes of Bill Haley and his Comets, The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Mothers of Invention and many more. Discover the real history of Berlin with Jason & Nikolas.
Title Music : Mes Yeux : Ken Shakin 
Recorded : 31.03.23Editing : Adrian Shephardwww.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - Medical edition #1 - Tape Review Show 26.05.23

The Tape Review show broadcasting directly from the Vivantes Krankenhaus Friedrichshain, Cardiology ward, where Adrian has taken up residency for the last 17 days so far. Nothing stops the Tape review show even life threatening illness so today Rinus & Adrian present Tapes sent in from Stuttgart and Tokyo in their miniaturised medical studio MASH camp. Listen out for nurses, medical bleeps, oxygen warbling, Helicopters landing, Hawkeye, Trapper, Hotlips, Radar, Klinger and find out how Adrian got here (not ended here!) in the first place. 
Broadcast 26.05.23www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - Medicine, Healing & Spirituality with Nikolas Schreck

Recorded live in the Cardiology unit at the Vivantes Hospital, Friedrichshain, Berlin. Adrian Shephard interviews Nikolas Schreck about Medicine, Healing and Spirituality according to Buddhism. It's Adrian's 11th day in hospital after an emergency treatment for extreme Pneumonia and now possible heart related issues, so why not seize the moment and make a radio program !
My thanks to Nikolas Shreck and the doctors & nurses and all staff at the Krankenhaus as well as family and friends currently helping me to get back on my toes again !
 
Recorded : 20.5.23
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Radio-On-Berlin - Patti Smith - Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin 160423

Thanks to Mustafa we managed to get the very last tickets to see the legendary punk poetess Patti Smith here in Berlin at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Though tickets really made very little difference in the end as so many people had turned up there was literally no space between those with tickets and none. An incredibly intimate (despite so much audience). performance from Patti Smith showing her absolute humanness and sensitivity keeping her fire alive. Still as relevant now as she was in the historical times she lived through - an epic concert.Recorded & edited : Adrian Shephardwww.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - The time travel show with Pagan Exorcist Sir Ralph Harvey interviewed by Adrian Shephard

The interview was made in 2002 in a squat on the seafront for radio4a a pirate station (yup real pirate radio !) – I met Ralph firstly through the occulture agency – which had an office above the Brighton cinematheque which I co-managed in the media centre. Occulture founded by Jonathan Tapsell was an occult office (literally) who had many incredible people on their books with a festival and regular events – wonderful people in one building ! Ralph was a unique true and honest gentleman (Thanks Jon !) and in this interview, Ralph is asked about death – he responds he had ‘no fear’ and that death was ‘the final adventure’…” - Adrian Shephard.
Ralph Harvey, Count Sir Ralph de Straet von Kollman, was a well known UK occultist and author, with best selling titles such as ‘The last Bastion’, and ‘The Mystical and Magical World of Faerie’. He has written numerous scripts and screenplays, the latest of which, ‘The Spy in the Eagles Nest’ is in pre-production with Imperial Film Productions, the book of which is to be published by Lilith Mandrake Books in 2017. Currently he has over 20 books in print and this year he completed a new TV series entitled Wiccan Ways.He was regularly invited to give lectures on witchcraft, magic and faeries and was the founder of his own movement, The Order of Artemis, and has established over 100 covens in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Switzerland as well as the UK.
“To Ralph Harvey, Wiccan elder, the worlds leading pagan Exorcist and the go-to man for all indigenous tribes around the world who entrusted him with their histories, their artefacts and traditions. Keeper of the Maori Kara-Kura sacred gemstone, and one of the only white men to been inducted into the inner Hopi rites. Ralph opened every single Occulture festival not as a compere but to invoke the Gods and Goddesses of his faith and reach out to members of all beliefs to unite in peace.Ralph was asked to become the King of the Witches but stated that such a title did not exist in his faith and yet, unbeknown to many he was actually a European aristocrat holding the title Count.He married Audrey who herself was of ancient Witch bloodstock being part of the Kemp family of Brighton. Together the couple presided over 200 covens worldwide.
To Ralph Harvey … a gentleman Witch who will now join the land of Old Gods.”
– Jonathan Tapsell (Occulture)Radio-On-Berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - Punk the Capital with James June Schneider & Jason Honea

 
On the occasion of the screening in Berlin of the documentary Punk the Capital James June Schneider visited our studio, where he was introduced to Jason Honea. James’ movie covered the east coast punk scene. Jason was actively involved in the west coast punk movement. Both guests share an enormous knowledge of persons, bands and anecdotes.
Hear about yippies, Reagan, GI’s, obscure basements, bad brains, cramps, germs, death club, skaters and how to deal with a vast archive of super8 and VHS-footage and bring it together in a documentary.
Encyclopikaleidoscipical!
Punk the Capital is on tour in Europe, with lots of Q&A moments with James and Jeff Nelson (Minor Thread/Discord Records)Broadcast 28.10.21Radio-On-Berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape Review Show - Staalplaat Special (Muslimgauze and Alexei Shulgin)

Adrian Shephard and Rinus Van Alebeek with Two new releases from the staalplaat label:
Alexei Shulgin/ 386 DX – Biggest Smash Hits
Muslimgauze – Narcotic (the vinyl version)Founding fathers boarding the ship in Delfzijl, old computers, information on Alexei Shulgin, netartists, old technology, romantic coffee, Momus in second life, a ten thousand year old octopus, who is the guy on the Muslimgauze cover, the 1990s and what they were like and how the decade influenced the work of Bryn Jones, the big computer meltdown in the year 2000, the explorative works of C-drik, and tracks from both albums.Broadcast : 02.02.21Radio-On-Berlin.com

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape Review Show - 19.03.23

Rinus and Adrian return to the Kreuzberg studio once again for another riveting revolutionary rollicking Tape review show : Packages from Tel Aviv, London and somewhere in Germany are about to be opened and discussed along with endless bizarre banter - expect shoplifting confessions, the saddest budgie death story in Berlins history, AI poems and more...!Broadcast 19.03.2

Radio-On-Berlin - The Tape review show - 31.12.20

Adrian Shephard and Rinus van Alebeek did a Tape Review Show on the last day of 2020, a few hours before the last sunset of the year. You need to wait at least twenty minutes to hear the tape, which is called The Joy of Isolation, released by Aural Detritus. Well, it takes twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds before the play button activates the tape machine.
Until that time the existence of different time zones, the Greenwich meridean line, Brexit, various approaches of woke-ism, slavery, Brexit again are discussed.
At minute thirty-two the track finishes and a discussion follows while fireworks explode in the background.
They consult the Book of Prediction.
Rice pudding, Pierre Lachaise. Fall in love, why fall? Gravity?
I think and maybe I am. Post-Descartian Love.
Rutsch. Slip.
B-side at 44 minutes, almost, first there is a wow and flutter investigation. B-side starts at 47.30 minutes.
Normally New Year. Clever Poles cross the border.
Protect your ears.
Rutsch again.
Berlin, rebel city.
Discussing religious calendars.
Readings from the Book, Never have a bad day ever again.Dust...Broadcast 31.12.20www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Sound-Art with Michael Northam

On the 14.2.23 I had the pleasure to interview the sound artist Michael Northam currently recuperating from surgery in a ramshackle jungle hut in the humid temperatures of Kerala, southern India. During the show he plays tracks from his exclusive latest release 'It is just a name' and talks about the 'hidden kingdom' where he was conducting sound workshops during the months before. This interview is part of our sound-art series.
Contact Michael Northam via his website:www.orogenetics.org
Interview & edit : Adrian Shephard.more info: www.radio-on-berlin.com

Radio-On-Ukraine with Dmytro Fedorenko Part 2

Radio On’s friendship with Dmytro started in the winter of 2013-2014. In a weekly series of skype broadcasts with him directly from the Maidan uprising. Those events turned out to be decisive in the further development of Ukraine as an independent state. Russia didn’t agree with the new government. The war in Donbass, the annexation of Crimea were small steps towards the massive invasion we witness now.
Dmytro came to our studio to talk about all this, and give some insights from the Ukrainian point of view.
In our second epic conversation the Berlin situation is discussed and described. Out of seemingly nowhere a massive organisation is set up to gather resources, modes of transport and help for refugees that arrive in Berlin as well as for all those who are in Ukraine. Dmytro talks about his experiences. Adrian describes the situation at the Hauptbahnhof. Our own Field Recordings from the demonstrations in Berlin are played.
Professor Hu Wei wrote Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s Choice. Some points he made were discussed.
Dmytro plays tracks from CDs by Pan-sonic (Oksastus), Zavoloka (Promeni) and Muslimgauze (Eleven Minarets), all released by his former Ukrainian label Kvitnu.Recorded : 15.3.2022www.radio-on-berlin.com