Dead Air (2002)

Tom and Gav take a look at Caledonian letters in London and the rise of Media culture in Iain Bank's millennial novel.

Nov 04, 2022

Mark and Lard enliven the afternoon by playing with broadcasting death itself

William Conrad explains the Infotainment Scam to Glen Ford in this masterful 1970(!) made for TV drama…

How would “Dead Air” work as a radio play? Quite a few of Ian Bank’s works were adapted for radio, probably the most imaginative one being “Espidair Street”. Here’s the only one I could find, though; one done with his other hand as Ian M. Banks

Embarrassing, I know, but this is the kind of thing that we have in Britain instead of politics. Here is Ian Banks in 2002, sitting on a TV panel that’s filled with enough animosity to power a moonshot giving us just the ragged edge of Ken Nott.