01.27.05
Moore Moore Moore
I thought, if I’m going to react, I might as well over-react.
Worryingly, as the years roll by and Alan Moore makes ever unusual judgement calls (such as deciding to become a magician to see if it worked and refusing the cheques for his increasingly frequent Hollywood adaptations), he sounds ever more reasonable. He jokes that when he asked his loved ones to rescue him if the magic turned him mad, they asked him how they would know.
On Radio 4’s Chain Reaction, Stewart Lee has a lovely half-hour interview with the man and the beard. You will be able to listen to it here until next week, when Moore will interview Brian Eno, which sounds equally a treat.
(Sadly, the current BBC deal means that you must use RealPlayer, which in turn means that even though it is free to install, you have to provide your credit card details to a third party (RealPlayer) in order to listen to publicly owned, free content. Pah.)
mattw said,
January 28, 2005 at 4:10 pm
You shouldn’t have to provide your credit card details. Use the BBC Real download links and you’ll get the installer straight away–I don’t think you have to give your details in the installation process? (I might be wrong..)
Nick said,
January 29, 2005 at 1:54 am
None of that madness for http://www.real.com/linux or http://www.real.com/mac/ users either.
Jon said,
January 31, 2005 at 9:48 am
Hm. Har. Hmph.
Much as Matt is right (and I’m not surprised he’s right, it being the sort of thing he’s paid about which to be right), I’ll swear I spent half an hour at home monkeying about on the other side of the link provided, utterly unable to get to the download stage. I somehow contrived always to be sent to RealOne’s own site, which insists on offering you a 14-day trial of the Pro version, which ‘naturally’ requires credit card details before you’re allowed to do it.
I should have specified that the unnacceptable price of the download is making me look like an idiot.
paul said,
February 12, 2005 at 10:33 pm
and if you’re so inclined, there are ways to grab the stream and save it as a file for listening at your leisure (on the Tube, for example). A google for time-shifting audio or the like should turn up some useful bits. If you need more guidance, sing out . . .
brook said,
March 5, 2005 at 6:48 am
Alan Moore interviews Brian EnoIf you’re in or near London on 14 December, you could go to see Alan Moore interview Brian Eno. BBC Radio 4’s Chain Rection show is being recorded and you stand a chance of getting tickets via the link below. Here’s the spiel