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 5, 4th July, 2025
The Last Time You Listen

Resident artist Mark Aitken spent time in Parc y Moch (Park of Pigs) listening and recording sounds made by what's visible and not so. 'The Last Time You Listen' is about time and place and how sounds might orientate or disorientate us to this woodland. You can't always see what you hear or hear what you see.

Written, Performed and Produced by Mark Aitken. Welsh voiceover by Sara Roberts.

Thanks to Sara Roberts and Harri Pickering.

Commissioned by Parc Coed Moch CIC with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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The series will take a summer break and hopefully return in the autumn. Thanks for listening.

 

 

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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Touch

 

 

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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