It’s the last show of 2017 and we’ve swapped our Graham for a Mick. In other news, the winner of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced, a 12 year-old photographer causes giraffe-based flashbacks for Andrew, selfies get their own museum and Texas prisons have some […]
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S15E10 – The Children of Tight Jeans
Producer Rob is joined by a rather ill Graham for another turn on our chatter-go-round. We kick things off this week with a look at Facebook’s terrible security strategies before moving on to Google, who are offering people the most frightening and soul-destroying job that anyone could have on the […]
S15E09 – A Red Sock and Two Bills
Literary Loitering 78 – Lie Back and Think of Kierkegaard
Get your ballet dancers and rollercoasters ready because it’s the most wonderful time of the year, and as always the nominations for Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction award deliver. After that exciting opening (pun very much intended), it’s a veritable cavalcade of oddities including Sean Penn’s unknown author, Scrabble […]
Literary Loitering 77 – The Handible of Justice
Cinema Eclectica 137 – Tinky-Winky, LaLa, Dipsy & Edgar Allan Po
An uncharacteristic happiness and contentment falls on the show this week as Aidan, Graham and Rob discuss “Paddington 2”. Before that though, there are all the regular features – including Off the Shelf where Graham tackles Second Run’s release of Otakar Vávra’s historical nightmare “Witchhammer”, Aidan flees the nudging piano […]
Keyframe 96 – Satoshi Kon’s Anime Sausage
The times, they are a-changing … 45 years after their original team-up, Batman once again joins forces with Scooby Doo and the rest of the Mystery Gang. Meanwhile, Sony complete their purchase of Funimation (a lot faster than we expected), and Anime Ltd. move into music distribution. Our featured anime […]