I was interviewed about my work by writer MS. Karamat for Vogue Italia .
You can read the piece here. Vogue Italia
I was interviewed about my work by writer MS. Karamat for Vogue Italia .
You can read the piece here. Vogue Italia
The Café Chronicles, my new 10-part radio comedy series starts on Monday 6 August at 10am on Resonance 104.4FM (repeated at 6:30pm) and runs every weekday until Friday 17 August.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon returns with a brand new series, presenting 10 x 5 daily missives from the South Lambeth Portuguese café he has holed himself up in since the summer of 2001. As the gentrification sweeping through Nine Elms and Vauxhall accelerates, The Café Chronicles documents the characters and community threatened by these changes.
It’s a world of tobacco, discarded chicken bones, faded denim, easily slighted personalities, exaggerated Mediterranean gesticulations and coffee, the glue that holds the old community together.
EPISODE LISTING
Monday 6 August 2018
Episode 1 – The Handshake
Priding himself on a firm traditional handshake, a turned ankle on his way to the café leads to what is easily Daniel’s worst handshake of the year.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Episode 2 – Poor Butter Coverage
Daniel locks horns with a new waiter over the poor butter coverage on his Portuguese Toast.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Wednesday 8 August 2018
Episode 3 – The Non-Handwashing
The weekly appearance of the non-handwashing Singing Spaniard has Daniel bemoaning the reluctance among the café’s regulars to embrace handwashing after using the loos.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Thursday 9 August 2018
Episode 4 – The Hash Brown Ring Walk
The addition of the Hash Brown to the now all-day English breakfast, and the curious manner of its standalone delivery, over-complicates the café breakfast.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Friday 10 August 2018
Episode 5 – The Towel
The salmon-coloured socks of a laughs-too-easily customer leads to a troubling, long-suppressed recollection for Daniel.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Monday 13 August 2018
Episode 6 – Mistaken Bald Identity
The death of a bald regular revives uncomfortable memories for Daniel of the time he mistook another bald regular for the now deceased.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Tuesday 14 August 2018
Episode 7 – The Reward Card
Daniel looks at the difficulties the introduction of a coffee reward card in the café has caused him.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Wednesday 15 August 2018
Episode 8 – The Head Man of SW8
The unusually hot October evening back in 2011 when the Drunken Somalian abused the café regulars is recalled.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Thursday 16 August 2018
Episode 9 – The Lamp Post Pole Dancer
The sun brings out the Lamp Post Pole Dancer and the ensuing chaos leads to Daniel having trouble getting his latte.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Friday 17 August 2018
Episode 10 – The Nod
A ‘nod’ introduced into his prayers by an old teacher continues to cause Daniel problems, but its presence may have inadvertently led to a thawing out of the frosty relations between our host and the new waiter.
Last in the series.
Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.
Listen: Tune into Resonance 104.4 FM or via goo.gl/E6rhgs
Sunday 19 August 2018
Omnibus - All 10 episodes aired at 10am
From Monday 6 August at 10am, repeated at 6:30pm, and running every weekday until Friday 17 August, I'll be presenting daily 5-minute missives from the South Lambeth Portuguese café I've holed myself up in since the summer of 2001. As the gentrification sweeping through Nine Elms and Vauxhall accelerates, The Café Chronicles documents the characters and community threatened by these changes.
It’s a world of tobacco, discarded chicken bones, faded denim, easily slighted personalities, exaggerated Mediterranean gesticulations and coffee, the glue that holds the old community together and you can hear the 10-part series only on Resonance 104.4 FM.
The show's 10 episodes will also be repeated as a 50-minute Omnibus edition at 10am on Sunday 19 August.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Christmas Eve 2017
Our little-heard host finally reaches the magical 200 mark on his one-time favourite day of the year. Featuring Channel Christmas, the once-a-year-only imaginary festive channel and a special appearance from 'The Kid'.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Thursday 21 December 2017
In the second of three shows this Christmas week (and the penultimate episode of the series), our little-heard still under-the-weather host struggles through a torrid 21 minutes.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Monday 18 December 2017
In the first of three shows this Christmas week, our little-heard under-the-weather host looks at new businesses opening up on South Lambeth Road and recalls a long forgotten memory from the café.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Thursday 14 December 2017
Our little-heard tries not to sniff his way on air through his first winter cold of the year and Channel Christmas, the mysterious annual Christmas Eve-only channel is on its way, maybe.
It's that time of year where I ask listeners to submit their programme/film suggestions for the annual Christmas Eve-only channel, Channel Christmas, that first debuted in the 2014 Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available Bumper Christmas Annual.
Your submissions can be drama, comedy, animation, something with a festive feel you'd like to see on the Channel. I need the running time, the year the show was made and your preferred Christmas Eve time slot. And if you can, let listeners know why you feel this selection would grace Channel Christmas.
Submissions either via mail Available
Or via Twitter: #ChannelChristmas @1607WestEgg
And below is the full listing for last year's Channel Christmas
Midnight – The Legend of Hell House from Stuart
01:35am – Single Santa meets Mrs Claus – David W Poole
03:11 – Number 13 – MR James by ex Kid Cop child star Danny J Smith. Now thought to be some lowly podcaster.
03:50 – 4:20 – the 1985 Fresh Field Christmas Special – A Dickens of A Christmas – submitted by ITV fan The Chin.
04:20 – 5AM - Porridge 1975 Xmas special – by Micky Boyd who curated last year’s Channel Christmas
5am – a two hour Steve Walsh block.
Begins with The Snowman.
5:30am – Father Christmas
06:00am – How the Grinch Stole Christmas
06:30am – A Charlie Brown Christmas
07:00am – 0830am – Suede shoed Billy Two Rivers 9 gives us Brave Little Toaster
08:30am – Rug Rats – The Santa Experience – the first of a double bill submitted by the still living at home half man, The Kid.
09:05 – Pinky and the Brain Christmas – the second of the Kid’s 90s cartoon double bill
09:23 – Some Christmas music. The official video for East 17’s Stay Another Day, their moving 1994 Christmas song.
09:28ish – Me and my bouffant telling you what’s coming up the rest of the day on the channel.
09:30 – 10:30am – Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special – Time On our Hands – nominated by Sandra.
10:30 – 11:30am – The World’s Strongest Man – a joint submission from Steve Walsh and Paul S Davies
11:30 – 12:30 pm – California Fever, submitted by Bark Pamphlet
12:30pm – Top of the Pops 1987 Christmas special – Chrissie Plummer
13:30 – Bernard and the Genie – Drink Me for free
14:37 – 15:00hrs – a Tom and Jerry triple bill, which includes a Christmas episode.
15:00 – 17:00hrs – Nectar Points King Paul S Davies with a ruinous for the schedules film, You’ve Got Mail.
17:00 hrs – West Wing – a festive episode from the show’s second year – that’s from Nick Bryan.
18:00 – 18:55hrs – The World at War – Pete Domican – Operation Barbosa
18:55hrs – a 5 minute Johan Cruyff montage
19:00hrs - The Good Life Christmas Special . 1977 – from Crimson Avenger
19:30 – 20:15 – The Likely Lads 1974 Christmas Special from Stuart
20:15 – Steptoe and Son Christmas Special – also from 1974. From Micky Boyd. Its 42 minutes running time caused us some scheduling problems which were filled up with the toilet seat papering attempts myself and Micky make in 2010 in both SW8 and SW1. They can be found here at danielruiztizon.com
21:00 – Atlanta – Jon Horsley
21:30 – It’s A Wonderful Life - Charne
23:40 – A silent film. The Laurel and Hardy Christmas short – Big Business.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Monday 11 December 2017
Our little-heard host talks about his end-of-year BOUFFANT, the Vauxhall Pissoire and continues to bemoan a shortage of 10 pence pieces.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Thursday 7 December 2017
Our little-heard host frets about his 'over-generous' tipping in the cafe.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Monday 4 December 2017
Our little-heard host gets the long johns back out as the temperature in southwest London plummets. Meanwhile, continuing his cash point machine war with the Nine Elms Monster, the latte ponce also gets caught up in a spectacular hygiene fail and does his best to avoid The Man's further attempts to engage him with Christmas.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Thursday 30 November 2017
Our little-heard host is irked by a hot chocolate purchase, ponders a ‘transitional’ wardrobe and the Christmas decorations go up early in the café.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Monday 27 November 2017
Our little-heard host looks back at a week that saw his anecdotes tailing off badly, fights off The Man’s early attempts to engage him in the festive season and walks the back streets of Westminster with a packet of 38p Lidl shortbreads.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Thursday 23 November 2017
Our little-heard host discusses busted coat hangers, interrupts Spanish Kanu’s 3pm ‘evening meal’ and looks at the origins behind a greeting with a new café regular.
Monday 20 November 2017
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Episode 190
Our little-heard has a challenging incident in a lift, talks about the horror of leaving-dos and speculates as to how an earlier commitment to The Man might’ve changed the way his life turned out.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Full episode out Monday 20 November 2017.
Our little-heard host on the horror of leaving-dos.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Thursday 16 November 2017
Our little-heard host talks botox, coat hangers, and there’s a request for porridge in the café.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Monday 13 November 2017
Our little-heard host looks at loud biscuits and impractical office furniture.
Listen here: Available188
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Monday 13 November 2017
Our little-heard host looks at loud biscuits and impractical office furniture.