Self Help Radio 091420: Fiction

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Fiction comes in many forms.  & of course they're all lies.  I'm sorry, I can't hold my tongue any longer.  The theme of this week's Self Help Radio shouldn't be fiction, it should be "LIES!"  It's all lies!  Fiction isn't real!  The stories in your precious books aren't real!  Your movies, your plays, your television show - those are people pretending to be other people.  They're not really in outer space!  Or even in New York!  They are in false places called "sets" or else if they're "on location" they're not the people they say they are.  & those precious books of yours - someone made the stories up.  They never happened.  Surely there shouldn't be a show celebrating that!

While we're at it - have you heard about how faulty your memory is?  Just read up about it - read non-fiction books & articles about it - you'll see that much of what you think you remember is just stuff your brain changed to protect you!  So your memory is mostly fiction!  Imagine that!  You can't even remember your own life properly!

Although.  If that's the case.  Fiction is all we have.  All right, then.  Let's have a damn radio show about it.

It's where all Self Help Radio episodes go to die: at the Self Help Radio website. Please remember there's a username (SHR) & a password (selfhelp) to listen.  The show is almost exactly two hours long.  What happens on the show is below.  Enjoy.

As long as you remember it's all lies!

Self Help Radio Fiction Show
"Ficciones" Los Vidrios Quebrados _Fictions_
"Fiction" Joni Mitchell _Dog Eat Dog_
"Fiction" The Lucksmiths _Warmer Corners_

introductions & definitions

"Fiction" Afrika Bambaataa _Hydraulic Funk_
"Fiction" The Nails _Hotel For Women_
"Fiction" Islands _Should I Remain Here At Sea?_
"Fiction" $10,000 _The Crossword EP_
"Fiction" The Concretes _In Colour_

interview with creative writing teacher Errol McDougal

"Love Is A Fiction" The Shirts _Street Light Shine_
"Living In Fiction" Icky Blossoms _Mask_
"Fictional Girl" Kelley Stolz _In Triangle Time_
"Fictional Decision" Drahla _A Compact Cassette_
"The Fiction (Gareth's Song)" Osunlade _Rebirth_

Book Corner with Ned Dry

"Science Fiction/Double Feature" Richard O'Brien _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_
"Science Fiction Man" Clare & The Reasons _The Movie_
"Science Fiction" Happydeadmen _Classics - A Decade In Pop_
"A Science Fiction Film" Woody Allen _Standup Comic: 1964-1968_
"Science Fiction" George Coleman _Bongo Joe_

interview with the Rev Dr Howard Gently

"Part Past Part Fiction" The Chills _Heavenly Pop Hits_
"Stranger Than Fiction" Yeah Jazz _Six Lane Ends_
"Lost In The Fiction" Jim Salinger _Starry Verse_
"Political Fiction" Half Pint _20 Super Hits_

conclusion & goodbye

"Beautiful Fiction" Braille Stars _Fields & Streams_