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 Wounded Knee: Drifters Pioneering Scots filmmaker John Grierson was the founding father of the British documentary movement and Drifters is a landmark in his career. Grierson and his camera follow the crew of a trawler fishing for herring in the North Sea, creating a poetic portrait of their everyday lives, the hypnotic rhythms of the […]

UNRAVEL  DIRECT FILMMAKING WORKSHOP With this mornings DCR97.4 fm sponsored Film Festival workshop “Unravel Direct Filmmaking Workshop” hailed a success DJ Sammy invited the team responsible Jo Byrne and Maria Anastassiou to join him in the studio to talk to the listeners

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen Today Saturday 15th June at the  Dunoon Community Radio DCR are proud to sponsor a FREE drop-in direct filmmaking workshop upstairs in the big at the Big  Hall – come along any time between 11am and 2pm to draw, scratch or paint straight onto 16mm film. Unravel, the longest […]

JOHN BYRNE TO TALK TO NIEL ALEXANDER SATURDAY 11.00AM   JOHN BYRNE TO TALK TO NIEL ALEXANDER SATURDAY 11.00AM   THE CHARAMISTIC JOHN BYRNE Some Interesting Facts about John Byrne, our Saturday Studio after 11am Guest From 1964 until 1966 john designed jackets for Penguin Books. Following unsuccessful experiences with London galleries he released (through London’s Portal Gallery) […]

Matt Lloyd the producer and co-curator and Allan Hunter, curator of the inaugural Dunoon Film Festival   Allan Hunter, curator of the inaugural Dunoon Film Festival, film critic and co-artistic director of the Glasgow Film Festival came into the Argyll DCR studio this afternoon to tell listeners of his roll with the Dunoon Film Festival. He […]

IT’S 80s MUSIC DAY TODAY TO CELEBRATE THE DGS FILM FESTIVAL TAKEOVER 80s music from the world of Pop and Films is the order of the day here at Dunoon Community Radio. During the day we hope many folk involved with the Film Festival will be visiting us here in the Argyll Street Studio above […]

Visitors to the Studio 1 cinema, Dunoon on Friday, 14 June 2013 are in for a frighteningly good time! As part of the inaugural Dunoon Film Festival, pupils have organised a special DFF Takeover which will involve a double bill screening of two iconic 80s cult movies. Working with Festival producer Matt Lloyd and Edinburgh […]

ABLE BODIED (OR ADVENTUROUS) ONLY ON ARGYLL FERRIES The front page headlines of this weeks Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard have once again provoked comment from several of the listeners “FILM FEST FERRY CUT “ is the headline as the Observer report the announcement by Argyll Ferries of a restricted service with no late sailings […]

HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKET –BAPTIST CHURCH Everything is ready in the Dunoon Baptist Hall above The Season’s Coffee House on Dunoon’s sea front for tonight’s Fashion Show. For this very Special Fashion Show models of all ages from across the town and from abroad will be modelling latest fashions from local companies including Wrights, […]

As reported last week by Neil Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP met with the Dunoon –Gourock Ferry Action Group, Neil will again bring us all up to date and reminded us of the Scottish Government’s policy commitment in relation to the ferry service “That there shall be a safe, reliable, frequent ,commuter ferry service […]