Dissident Vox

Minivox - Solicitors Protest

John B — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:10:00 +0000

An interview with a group of solicitors protesting in Islington against planned reforms to the Legal Aid system.

They argue that these 'reforms' will force legal aid solicitors out of business; dramatically affect defendants access to the legal advice of their choice and diminish the quality of legal representation in court.

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Timecapsule

John B — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:31:00 +0000

This was originally intended for inclusion in the Yahoo Timecapsule project. Sadly, in the run-up to this years PodcasConUK I forgot to upload it in time. Rather than waste it, I thought I'd give it a home here on vox in the hope someone would get some pleasure form hearing it. :)

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Torchwood04_Microreview

John B — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:21:00 +0000

Episode 04 is here! - 'Cyberwoman'

Tonights episode had blood, gore, snarky jokes, a violent Teradactyl, and some serious tension in Torchwood team. Check out my (almost) spoiler free microreview here! :)

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Torchwood03_Microreview

John B — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:29:00 +0000

Wet your appetite for Episode 3 of the hippest new Sci-fi show on British television 'Torchwood'.

This weeks episode is entitled 'Ghost Machine'

I love this show already! :)

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Torchwood_Microreview

John B — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:26:00 +0100

Vox popz in to give a mini-review of the new BBC Sci-fi Doctor Who spin off 'Torchwood'.

The official site is here.

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Dissident Vox - B is for ball..Or Bilderberg! (minicast)

John B — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:23:00 +0100

Vox discusses the current focus of global attention that is the 18th FIFA World Cup. He takes a peek inside the secretive world of the Bilderberg Group meeting in Ontario, Canada, this weekend. (June 9-11) and picks his 'Bilderberg 11' to compete for the mythical 'Masters of the Universe' Trophy.

Intro
FIFA World Cup
Football 12th Century Style!
The Nation and Footie

Team Bilderberg
A Barrel of Oil
The Squad!
Vox Bilderberg 11

Notices
Personal Comments
Music : 'Look Hard' - 'Globalinks'

Contact the show at: http://dissidentvox.com where you can leave audio comments
or email DV at : dissidentvox@googlemail.com

DVoxPopz - 'Brian & the Band!'

John B — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:50:00 +0100

In this double edition of DVoxPopz, DV and BB focus the conversation on the tireless work of Peace Protester Brian Haw, who has been living and campaigning outside The Houses of Parliament for the past 5 years. They play an excerpt from an interview with Mr Haw conducted by independent journalist Naomi Fowler, and then discuss the latest news in his struggle.

Also in the show there is an exclusive interview recorded last week with up and coming band 'Far From the Dance' at their gig in Leeds, and two tracks taken from the bands recent EP.

The show's also packed with a posse of priceless podsafe and independent music. So check it out!!

Intro
Music: 'Self Help Provider' - 'Far From The Dance'
DV & BB

Operation Peace Protestor!

Brian Haw's 5 year campaign in Parliament Square
The 78 man, £7,200 to £27,754 destruction of a peace protestors placards!
Biographical info
2 minute spoken excerpt from Brian Haw in Parliament Square (Recorded by Naomi Fowler)

Music: 'Overcomer' - 'Jessica Smith Wright'

"The Life of Brian"
Arrests, conditions, and permissions
25 arrests under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act
Freedom suppression & unauthorised demonstrations
www.parliament-square.org
Current situation

'Far From The Dance'
Band Interview (11 mins)
Music - 'Never Stops' - 'Far From The Dance'
Gig notices for June
www.farfromthedance.com

DV & BB
Brians last word!

Music - 'Free Ride' - 'The Clintons'
The Clintons website

Contact the show at: http://dissidentvox.com where you can leave audio comments
or email DV and BB: dissidentvox@googlemail.com

LATE NEWS: The cost of dismantling Brians protest has been confirmed as £27,754. This followed an earler unconfirmed report that the original costing of £7,200 was wildly innacurate, and that the actual figure was as high as £50,000. Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Ian Blair has now confirmed the figure of £27,754 to the press.

DVoxPopz - Beer & Curry

John B — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:21:00 +0100

DV and BB are back in the studio with another great
show. This time there's an exclusive interview with the "Podfather"
and host of the Daily Source Code Adam Curry, at the 'Britpod' Meet-up
in central London last weekend. Plus lots of enjoyable chat, great
music, and a host of all-round audio goodness!

Intro

Music from Psalmist - 'Free'
DV
& BB
Easter break

PodcastUserMagazine
Podfest
2006
DV's Slam Idol
interview
Doctor
Who!

Britpod Meet-up
Simon Toon voxpop (slightly
distorted)
Barry 'BURB's'
interview
Adam Curry interview

Adam's handjob offer!
Thoughts on the day
Closing
Comments
Music from Geoff Smith - 'Give up my
day job'

Bed track - Elysis - "Beyond the Borders'

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DVoxPopz - Have you ever heard of Podcasting?

John B — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:16:00 +0100

It's a brand new DVox-Popz as the show takes on a new
format!

On this weeks show, BB hijacks the DV studio, whilst
Vox chats with the people of Manchester about podcasting, art,
technology and life.

Great music from a local band called 'Far from the Dance'.

Intro
BB hijacks the DV studio!
DV on the OB!
"Excuse
me Sir, have you ever heard of Podcasting!?"
"Podcasting..? No
thank-you!"

Artist Michael Mayhew
High
Street - The Fiddle Player
The Luddite!
End of the day
BB
in the studio with Dex

'Far from the Dance' - 'Never
Stop'
Band Website
'Far from the
Dance' on MySpace

NB : BB mistakenly says
Bar 21 instead of Bar 120 in Huddersfield, as the venue for the 'Far
from the Dance' gig on April 21st (*Sorry guys!*)

Send
comment or audio feedback to: dissidentvox@googlemail.com

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Mellow African Guitar (Repost)

John B — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:12:00 +0000

An old file recorded on the South Bank in London. Reposted to set-up my Odeo feed. My Odeo Channel (odeo/79c7dbbda4bb367a)

Jedi-Skype 2

John B — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:12:00 +0000

A thirty seven minute loosely structured chat with Dissident Vox in the north of England, and Jedi-Juzi in the south-west of Japan. Slight lag leads to occasional verbal confusion!

Intro
Hello Mate!
Missing Match of the Day!
Quite and Loud. (Draconian Britain)
Political Japan - Thoughts on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
Communists, liberals, and socialists
Civil Liberties and Agendas
Japan and the United States
Fingerprinting Foreigners and the Alien Registration Act
Japan, Korean and Chinese Foreigners
'Alien' perceptions
China, Japan, and Taiwan
US Footholds and recent history
Women and Japan
Pride and Shame & Deference
Japanese humor
Korean soap
Ichiro Suzuki (Japanese sporting God)
J-Pop and Brit-Pop
Language & Alphabets
Generation Y and Z
Robots. Gadgets and Games
Doraemon the Blue robot cat
Anpanman - Sweet Bread Man!
Justins blog
Outro

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Somewhere over Christmas

John B — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:39:00 +0000

A touch of Narnia and a reaction to King Kong.

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Audioblog from the Metaverse

John B — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:26:00 +0100

Notes from a second life!

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Wallace & Gromit reaction

John B — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:11:00 +0100

Vox gives a reaction to the new movie 'Wallace & Gromit : Curse of the Wererabbit!'

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Serenity Movie Reaction

John B — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:37:00 +0100

Vox offers a reaction to the new Joss Whedon movie 'Serenity'.

Movie Site
Fansite
Trailer

A year in the life of a day. (Higher quality)

John B — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:17:00 +0100

Click here for the video

I put this together over the course of a week using a friends digital stills camera, that just happens to shoot a little video on the side. :) The most dificult thing, apart from watching iMovie 5.0 crash a lot and waiting for things to save and encode, was figuring out the best way to get it onto the web! It's a 12.7 Mb file, so please be a little patient with it whilst it is loading!

RRRRRRRRRRRR!

John B — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:16:00 +0100

Hannnah revs her engine!

dVoxpopz_Jedi-Skype!

John B — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:00:00 +0100

Vox chats with his brother in Japan via Skype. They talk Japanese food, culture, and karaoke.

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Neil Dixon at PodcastConUK

John B — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:08:00 +0100

Vox sneaks a few moments with the irrepressible Neil Dixon, the man who created Britcaster.com, and helped put together this years PodcastConUK.

Tag: podcastconuk

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Mark Hunter at PodcastConUK

John B — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:06:00 +0100

Vox grabs Mark Hunter, the genial Scottish host behind the Tartan Podcast, for a quick chat. The Producer of one of the best independent music podcasts on the web assures the listeners that no bagpipes are included!

Tag: podcastconuk

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Podcastpaul at PodcastconUK!

John B — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:34:00 +0100

From five people planning a drink in a pub in Birmingham, to a swish London hotel, and a conference attended by the BBC, Virgin Interactive, and 150 new media folk! Vox chats with one of the men behind this years PodcastconUK, lawyer and all round podcasting Birmingham bloke, Paul Nicholls, AKA PodcastPaul!

Tag: podcastconuk

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Vox meets Vobes!

John B — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:23:00 +0100

Vox interviews a man it is impossible to squeeze into 3 minutes (!) Mr Richard Vobes at podcastconuk 2005.

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My Odeo Channel

dVoxpopz into Manchester!

John B — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:53:00 +0100

Vox has a natter with the people of Manchester!

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Her Majesty's Private Room

John B — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:15:00 +0100

Vox sacrifices his O.B.E. to gain an audience with Her Maj!

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Vox calls Blair sumat!

John B — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:33:00 +0100

Vox places a (traced!) call to the office of the PM!

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dvoxpopz_voxcallsforcurry!

John B — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:04:00 +0100

Vox aggregates a call to the Podfather!

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dVoxpopz_(00)_Testing_1_2

John B — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:54:00 +0100

What is vox popz, how long is it, and what's it about!?
How is vox popz like William Shatner?
Cover up over London shooting.
Cindy Sheehan
E-bay teens

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The Mass Surveilance Society

John B — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:29:00 +0100

The British governnment is continuing its push to ensure that every UK citizen will be required too carry the new ID card in the very near future. Opposition to the card has virtually collapsed in the wake of the London bombings.

The new card will carry a biometric scan of every individuals facial features, which will be placed on a national database, that can be matched with images accessible to police and security services from the 4 million CCTV cameras currently active in Britain. Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, has said that the "facial images national database should be operational by December 2006"

3 links..

John B — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:50:00 +0100

In case you are wondering, I'm at work on the latest podcast. It should be done today, at the latest early tomorrow. In the meantime here are 3 differing links of interest.

Electronic Frontier Foundation : Biometrics Primer

Iserenity - Ambient digital environnments

Music4You - Aural Interactive stimulus!

All hail Oceania!

John B — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:16:00 +0100

I've been re-reading George Orwell's 1984, a book which is so eerily prescient, that it feels like it was written this week!

A society where all citizens are relentlessly scrutinized by the ever present eye of a totalitarian surveillance state. Where false beliefs are ruthlessly conditioned, and the media is systematically altered in real-time to conceal the facts. A world where freedom has vanished, and truth is deemed to be morally relative. Engaged in a never ending war, against an invisible enemy from within and without. Where dissidents, thought criminals, and P.O.W s' are routinely killed and tortured, and where orthodoxy means, you never question the authority of the all-powerful state.

Sound familiar!? If it doesn't now, it will soon!

RoBo Cup 2005!

John B — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:43:00 +0100

No problems with transfers, agents, or the half time team talk here then! Not unless your transfer is data related, your agent is software based, and your half time team talk consists of programming a set-piece on the fly!

Chemists in Cairo & Starship Destroyers!

John B — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:24:00 +0100

London bombings update, and Darth Chaney's Virginia class, monster underwater "Starship Destroyer" submarine program!

This article claims that they plan to build 30 of them, but at the rate of one a year I make 6 between now and 2011.That's still a lot of scary money though.

Sing Along a Dan!

John B — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:46:00 +0100

The British entrant for Eurovision 2015 gets in some early practice!

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Brighter notes..

John B — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:10:00 +0100

• Play the Wired Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. CD it is still up for download if you feel like listening! :)

• Or for a few minutes of relaxed observation, explore Their Circular Life

• If that doesn't work there is always Bubblewrap!

Batman Begins/Reaction

John B — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 06:14:00 +0100

A few thoughts on leaving the cinema.

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Hollingworth Lake

John B — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:15:00 +0100

An enjoyable afternoon in the countryside! I'm such a city type, I thought that the ducks were geese, the lake was a river, and that we were in the county of Yorkshire, when in fact we were in Lancashire! :)

You've (not?) got my foot!

John B — Mon, 16 May 2005 20:15:00 +0100

Three generation conversation
Welsh
English
Danglish!

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Push these buttons!

John B — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:22:00 +0100

Here are a few fun links courtesy of my brother Justin.

SINGING MICE!

Press the RED button!

Who should you vote for! (Don't they have the same agenda ???)

Thanks mate!
;-)

Reel or Phake?

John B — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:36:00 +0000

Somedays I need a reality check but the thing is, even then I can't distinguish the real from the fake. As the news factory transforms into the propaganda zone, I find I can no longer distinguish as easily between real news, (?) and a government briefing.