The whole point of no return. A monthly hour long radio show on Resonance fm.

Once you've left, there's no coming back to exactly where you were. Mark Aitken and guests walk and talk and discover that things will never be the same again.

 

Episode 4, 6th June, 2025
We meet writer Helen Bailey, a local to Hackney Marshes. These London Edgelands inspired her works on Megafauna and our complicity in inexplicable events. And as usual by serendipity we find the whole point of no return. With music from Led Zeppelin, Pinhead Nation, Sibusile Xaba, Tom Waits and David Thomas.
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Episode 3, 2nd May 2025

The tale of Deano Martino and the lost mobile phone. Join Mark Aitken and guest Lorna Vincent as they tread lightly over gothic remains while landing at the whole point of no return. With music by Steve Reich and Dean Martin.

 

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Episode 2, 4th April 2025

'The sight of immediate reality is like an orchid in the land of technology' (Walter Benjamin). Join Mark Aitken and guest Jon Wozencroft from Touch as they work out the whole point of no return. With music by Michal Jacaszek. Photo by Jon Wozencroft.

 

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Episode 1, 7th March 2025

Mark walks with writer Howard Cunnell along the freezing Eastbourne shoreline, blurring lines between writing and not writing and the rituals we cling to instead of getting on with work.

 

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