To Fly Where No Pigeon Has Flown Before!

No.217, aired May 29, 2013. With a reading of Colin Smith’s Desprit, from Carbonated Bippies! (Nomados, 2012), and more passages from Charles Darwin’s The Origin Of Species (Tantor audiobook ed., read by David Case). Episode title references a line in Carbonated Bippies – at page 20, with “pigeon” substituted for “Seagull” – and a notice on a window at the landing between the 2nd & 3rd floor of the old GMC Building (where CJTR’s studio and offices are) saying to keep the window closed, as a pigeon had gotten into the building. Fittingly, Darwin, through Case, lectures at length on wild & domestic pigeons. It may be worth mentioning that Smith’s poem Desprit, at pg.8, contains a reference to a pigeon (or a dove rather, which to a naturalist is no more than a white pigeon, despite the symbolic resonance of colour) – “May the Seven Doves rest on your shoulders.”

Part 1

1. Race Riot – D.O.A.
2. Lettre A Un Ami – Denis Gougeon -- Desprit – Colin Smith
3. Into The Void – Monster Magnet
4. Nazi Training Camp – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Slave To My Dick – Subhumans
2. l’Odyssee d’Alfred Le Serpent – Myke Roy – Desprit (con’t) – Colin Smith
3. I Want More – Monster Magnet
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere – Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
6. Communication Breakdown – D.O.A.
7. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans