On the show this Tuesday 29 April 08 , a musical extract from the new release by 1 Giant leap. It's been some years since their debut album and DVD, and to be honest I doubted that the next release would ever turn up. They had spoken about it for the last 2 years on their website but nothing was appearing. Lo and behold last week saw the first installment screened on BBC televison. Hear the audio off this on the show today.

Giant Leap are back with another lovingly crafted explosion of music, philosophy and image. Following the success of their first double Grammy nominated film & album, Duncan Bridgeman and Jamie Catto visited 50 global locations. Weaving together hundreds of interviews, conversations, music sessions and songs recorded and filmed on their epic journey through the cities and villages of the World. The end result is their new film album and TV show taking an inspiring and alarming look at the numerous ways we humans drive ourselves crazy. Needy in relationships, insatiable in desire, avoiding all pain with happy pills and unable to stop thinking, but how we still manage to be inspired and creative...


The first installment is Bombardment, featuring
Maxi Jazz (Faithless), Noam Chomsky, Will Young, Eckhart Tolle & Michael Stipe

What About Me? features
Noam Chomsky, Tim Robbins, Eckhart Tolle, Billy Connolly, Stephen Fry, Bob Geldof, Tom Robbins, Susan Sarandon, DBC Pierre, Neale Donald Walsh, Ram Dass, Gabrielle Roth…Michael Stipe, Alanis Morrisette, Daniel Lanois, KD Lang, Maxi Jazz, Will Young, Oumou Sangare, Baaba Maal, Rokia Traore, Lila Downs, Zap Mama, Speech, Mahotella Queens, Michael Franti, Stewart Copeland...