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Happy New Year! And here, for your unhinged pleasure, is me and returning guest Kit Power discussing our highlights of the 1993 Stephen King short story anthology Nightmares and Dreamscapes. For over (checks notes) 5 hours. An all-time record. Yikes. Vital timestamps below.
ENJOY! And we'll be back with more later in the the year!
0.00 - Penguin/Joker
0.26 - N&D/the Intro
1.03 - Dolan's Cadillac
1.43 - Popsy
2.15 - The Doctor's Case
2.49 - Crouch End
3.20 - The End Of The Whole Mess
3.51 - It Grows On You
4.31 - My Pretty Pony
You can find the show on X at @EGoat_pod (or post at me on @D_Faggiani - I'm on Bluesky too) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Kit Power lives in Milton Keynes and writes horror and dark crime fiction, with occasional forays into dystopian science fiction. His fiction work includes a novel, ‘GodBomb!’, and a novella collection ‘Breaking Point’, two short story collections (‘A Warning About Your Future Enslavement That You Will Dismiss As A Collection Of Short Fiction And Essays By Kit Power’ and ‘Voices’) and novellas ‘The Finite’ and ‘A Song For The End’. He also writes non-fiction (https://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/my-life-in-horror.html with Volume 1 and 2 also available in book format) and has a limited hardback available on the subject of Ken Russell’s movie Tommy. In his increasingly inaccurately labelled spare time, he podcasts - on his own show, Watching Robocop With Kit Power, on What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? with George Lea - and, as mentioned in the show, he has recently launched the new podcast series The Ultimate Horror Anthology with fellow horror author Jasper Bark. For weekly early access to his fiction, non-fiction, and podcasting work, visit www.patreon.com/kitpower. He has also been on seven (!) previous episodes of The EscapeGoat Podcast, discussing each part of the original UK House of Cards Trilogy in turn, the Stephen King short story collection Skeleton Crew, his essay collection My Life In Horror Volume II, the classic British gangster movie The Long Good Friday, and the South Park tie-in album Chef Aid. Check them out! Also get him on Bluesky.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
NOTES
Will add to these early in the New Year - ran out of time before my NYE party :D
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Join me for our final episode of Series 5 in which Matt and Patrick gather with me to discuss the classic Star Wars movie (and shared personal treasure) Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand). Brace yourself for Sith, Walkers, Ewoks and Harrison Ford impressions! Yub Nub!
The EscapeGoat Podcast will revenge... I mean, return.....
0.00 Intro
0.08 Star Wars in general
0.53 Return of the Jedi
You can find the show on X at @EGoat_pod (or post at me on @D_Faggiani) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Matt and Mike can be found on Spotify (and other streaming platforms) with their regular co-hosted movie analysis show 'Matt and Mike Pull Focus' - Matt has previously appeared on several episodes of this show - including our episodes on The Batman, Count Duckula, and Time Bandits. Check them out!
Patrick was on the show in 2023, talking about the start of the Ncuti Gatwa era of Doctor Who - listen to that here! And you can find his videogame photography Insta account here.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
NOTES
Here is the 2017 Elizabeth Sandifer essay on Return of the Jedi that I reference in the episode. Well worth a read, as is her other stuff on Star Wars.
I have now seen both the scene from the Obi Wan show that Patrick describes... and also the 'Mouth of Sauron' one from Return of the King Matt and Patrick both admire. Can confirm: both are, indeed, good. You can see them on YouTube, of course, as you can the original 1983 trailer we use, and many, many brilliant Carrie Fisher interviews.
I had the great experience of doing a podcast hosted by Patrick before, discussing fandom culture in general, and it was a good time! Listen to that one here.
And all credit to DJ2FLY, for our outro. Rousing stuff. Here it is.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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On the penultimate episode of Series 5, we bring Kit back onto the show, to discuss two exemplars from the early years of South Park (Comedy Central, 1997-present). After a bit of chat about Kit's new horror short story podcast, we firstly delve into the movie South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker, 1999) - and how our thoughts on it in 2024 might differ from our teenage ones. We then have a discussion of Isaac Hayes, his relationship with the show, and, specifically, the end of said relationship, leading to the infamous episode The Return of Chef.
In the second half, we set out on a gloriously enjoyable track-by-track journey through the better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be tie-in album Chef Aid (1998) - which, amongst many things, turns into an extended clebration of Hayes the man, the myth and the legend. We hope you enjoy it!
Way back in 2020, me, Matt and Olivia talked about South Park Season 5 (2001) at some length - you can listen to that here.
0.00 Intro
0.05 The Ultimate Horror Anthology
0.31 South Park in general
0.46 South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
1.38 Isaac Hayes and his departure from South Park
1.52 The Chef Aid Album: tracks 1-10
2.49 The Chef Aid Album: tracks 11-21
3.45 Closing thoughts
You can find the show on X at @EGoat_pod (or post at me on @D_Faggiani - I'm on Bluesky too) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Kit Power lives in Milton Keynes and writes horror and dark crime fiction, with occasional forays into dystopian science fiction. His fiction work includes a novel, ‘GodBomb!’, and a novella collection ‘Breaking Point’, two short story collections (‘A Warning About Your Future Enslavement That You Will Dismiss As A Collection Of Short Fiction And Essays By Kit Power’ and ‘Voices’) and novellas ‘The Finite’ and ‘A Song For The End’. He also writes non-fiction (https://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/my-life-in-horror.html with Volume 1 and 2 also available in book format) and has a limited hardback available on the subject of Ken Russell’s movie Tommy. In his increasingly inaccurately labelled spare time, he podcasts - on his own show, Watching Robocop With Kit Power, on What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? with George Lea - and, as mentioned in the show, he has recently launched the new podcast series The Ultimate Horror Anthology with fellow horror author Jasper Bark. For weekly early access to his fiction, non-fiction, and podcasting work, visit www.patreon.com/kitpower. He has also been on six (!) previous episodes of The EscapeGoat Podcast, discussing each part of the original UK House of Cards Trilogy in turn, the Stephen King short story collection Skeleton Crew, his essay collection My Life In Horror Volume II, and the classic British gangster movie The Long Good Friday. Check them out! Also get him on Twitter and Bluesky.
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Chef Aid is on Spotify! Which is very cool.
So much I could include here, but....here is the Glastonbury performance (from 2002) of Hayes performing Chocolate Salty Balls. Fantastic. And my brother Matt interviewing the superbly entertaining Toddy Walters (voice actor on much early South Park - and voice actor AND animator wrangler on the movie) can be listened to here.
Also... here is Chef Aid: Behind The Menu (as mentioned in the episode, narrated by John Lydon!) and featuring several of the artists from the album. And here's a Pitchfork piece from 2010 where they talk to Matt Stone about South Park and music, including working with Perry Farrell, and a Chef Aid retrospective in 2022 from Matt Mills at Metal Hammer.
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We're back with a few more! James Murphy returns, to have a terrific chat about an influential, interesting but most-definitely flawed piece of media for both of us - that is, the seventh series of the sci-fi/comedy/drama show Red Dwarf (BBC, 1997).
We cover Lister, Rimmer (and his departure!), The Cat, Kryten and his neuroses, Holly and, of course, Kochanski. Also, fan fiction, addiction, paradoxical assassinations and unlikely heroism. Gum?
0.00 Intro/preamble
0.12 Red Dwarf and our backgrounds with it
1.03 Red Dwarf VII in more detail
You can find the show on X at @EGoat_pod (or post at me on @D_Faggiani - I'm on Bluesky too) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
James podcasts at Pex Lives, about Doctor Who, Bob Dylan, western movies and whatever else he pleases. He also co-hosts the marvellous Pop Could Never Save Us (check it out!) and his Springsteen project (with Kit) We Learned More From a Three Minute Record. He can be got primarily via jamesmurphy.bsky.social on Bluesky these days. This is his fourth appearance on this show - earlier this year, he was on (with Kit Power) talking about seminal British gangster film The Long Good Friday. Listen to that here.
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So, as mentioned in the episode, James had a great chat about the first Red Dwarf novel (by 'Grant Naylor') a few years ago, as part of the great I Don't Speak German podcast. Get that here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/02M7UaahntiYO92ROT7d2h?si=TOi4Gq4yT6G-PLVcw_qMfg
Currently on YouTube, for those interested in Red Dwarf VII, is the ridiculously detailed documentary the production team and cast put together for the DVD release! Actually pretty fascinating. And you can get it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17LvjqKHqi0&t=2235s
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In this pretty-much-final helping of And Ninthly.. David and John are... well... a little bit overwhelmed, excited and emotional about the LAST EVER episode of Inside No 9 'Plodding On', which aired on 12 June 2024. And then we give our rankings for Series 9. Includes SPOILERS for... I'd say most IN9 episodes (this one, obviously, and quite a few others). Be warned!
It's been a real trip, folks. Thank you anyone who listened and shared the episodes - we very much loved doing them, through the cheese, and the crackers. From us both... Stay Ninthly.
If you want to hear previous bits of David and John chatting about IN9, it's been the subject of a few EscapeGoat Podcast episodes - here are the links!
Series 1-5: discussion and highlights
Series 6 (pt 1)
Series 6 (pt 2)
And you can find our episode-by-episode coverage of Series 7 and 8 via And Ninthly... on this thread too.
You can reach us on X at @EGoat_pod and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
The intro music was recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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In this stirring movement of And Ninthly.. David and John mull the high and low notes of 'Curse of the Ninth', which aired on 5 June 2024. Includes SPOILERS for a few IN9 episodes (this one, obviously, and notably 'The Harrowing'). Be warned! And see you in a few days for our coverage of the last ever episode! Then Let Us Be.
If you want to hear previous bits of David and John chatting about IN9, it's been the subject of a few EscapeGoat Podcast episodes - here are the links!
Series 1-5: discussion and highlights
Series 6 (pt 1)
Series 6 (pt 2)
And you can find our episode-by-episode coverage of Series 7 and 8 via And Ninthly... on this thread too.
You can reach us on X at @EGoat_pod and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
The intro music was recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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On this helping of And Ninthly.. David and John analyse their confinement in 'CTRL ATL ESC', which aired on 29 May 2024. Includes SPOILERS for a few IN9 episodes (this one, obviously, and notably 'The 12 Days of Christine'). We also discuss some aspects of the later seasons of The Sopranos. Be warned!
The review of this episode I mention in our discussion was indeed on Den of Geek, and was written by Louisa Mellor - and here it is: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/inside-no-9-series-9-episode-4-review-ctrl-alt-esc/
If you want to hear previous bits of David and John chatting about IN9, it's been the subject of a few EscapeGoat Podcast episodes - here are the links!
Series 1-5: discussion and highlights
Series 6 (pt 1)
Series 6 (pt 2)
And you can find our episode-by-episode coverage of Series 7 and 8 via And Ninthly... on this thread too.
You can reach us on X at @EGoat_pod and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
The intro music was recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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On this chapter of And Ninthly.. David and John twitch their curtains at 'Mulberry Close', which aired on 22 May 2024. Includes SPOILERS for a few IN9 episodes (this one, obviously, and notably 'Dead Line'). Be warned!
If you want to hear previous bits of David and John chatting about IN9, it's been the subject of a few EscapeGoat Podcast episodes - here are the links!
Series 1-5: discussion and highlights
Series 6 (pt 1)
Series 6 (pt 2)
And you can find our episode-by-episode coverage of Series 7 and 8 via And Ninthly... on this thread too.
You can Tweet us at @EGoat_pod and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
The intro music was recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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On this installment of And Ninthly.. David and John muse over the choices made by 'The Trolley Problem', which aired on 15 May 2024. Including SPOILERS for a few IN9 episodes (most notably 'The Stakeout' and 'Riddle of the Sphinx' but quite a few, really). Be warned!
If you want to hear previous bits of David and John chatting about IN9, it's been the subject of a few EscapeGoat Podcast episodes - here are the links!
Series 1-5: discussion and highlights
Series 6 (pt 1)
Series 6 (pt 2)
And you can find our episode-by-episode coverage of Series 7 and 8 via And Ninthly... on this thread too.
You can Tweet us at @EGoat_pod and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
The intro music was recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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Welcome back to And Ninthly...! For this first episode of the ninth and final series. David and John are once again joined by the superlative George Daniel Lea to analyse 'Boo To A Goose', which aired on 8 May 2024. We also catch up with George first about his reaction to the tail end of Series 8, including SPOILERS for a few IN9 episodes (most notably '3 x 3' and 'The Last Weekend'). Be warned!
George is a prolific YouTube creator, mostly on videogames, pop culture and literature, whose channel can be found here. His horror fiction and reviews can be discovered on his website Strange Playgrounds. He can be reached on Twitter on @EnigmaticElegy. He has previously featured on The EscapeGoat Podcast talking about Gormenghast, The Flight of Dragons, Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell Trilogy and Count Duckula, and David has guested on his channel a few times, most recently also alongside the ever-terrific Kit Power to chat about a Clive Barker short story. And here's George and Kit chatting about another one, which we bring up in the episode...
If you want to hear previous bits of David and John chatting about IN9, it's been the subject of a few EscapeGoat Podcast episodes - here are the links!
Series 1-5: discussion and highlights
Series 6 (pt 1)
Series 6 (pt 2)
And you can find our episode-by-episode coverage of Series 7 and 8 via And Ninthly... on this thread too.
You can Tweet us at @EGoat_pod and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
The intro music was recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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On this installment, I'm joined again by Nannina, and we're talking about some great female film directors! After a bit of initial chat about Dorothy Arzner and her pre-Code movie Nana (which Nannina and I managed to watch together recently!).. we move onto the main double bill.... a chat about The Hitch-Hiker (1953, Ida Lupino) and Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow). Fun is had. Enjoy! And Vaya Con Dios.
0.00 Intro/Preamble
0.16 The Hitch-Hiker
1.07 Point Break
You can find the show on Twitter at @EGoat_pod (or tweet at me on @D_Faggiani) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do share and enjoy. We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show.
Nannina is a screenwriter, who procrastinates at writing by going down deep research wormholes into alternate dimensions. She supports her writing habit by making coffee, and can be found on Twitter and Bluesky via @NanninaGilder talking about early women filmmakers.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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This is a fun article, about Ida Lupino: https://screen-queens.com/2020/02/21/wihm-the-hidden-polemic-of-ida-lupinos-the-hitch-hiker/
Weirdly, once again, my brother Matt chimed with us without co-ordinating, by chatting with his podcast partner Mike about another female-directed movie American Psycho! Give it a listen! https://open.spotify.com/episode/4flYtxiEZvW6N3seXH9x8U?si=MEEPas9MSiWISuA5c_oFBA
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This week, my brother Matt returns to the show! We have a terrifically fun chat about the deeply flawed, maniacally disturbing and nasty but still kind of wonderful movie Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983, Terry Jones). In the first half, we discuss our general thoughts and reactions to the movie, from childhood exposure to it, til now. In the second half, we do a discursive trawl in rough order through the film's disparate sketches, songs and nightmare fuel. We hope it's a good listen - we enjoyed it!
0.00 Intro/preamble
0.16 The Meaning Of Life (pt 1) - general discussion of the movie and Python
0.55 The Meaning Of Life (pt 2) - rough in-order discussion of the movie's sketches, songs and other sequences
You can find the show on Twitter/X at @EGoat_pod (or tweet/post at me on @D_Faggiani - I'm also now on Bluesky) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Matt and Mike can be found on Spotify (and other streaming platforms) with their regular co-hosted movie analysis show 'Matt and Mike Pull Focus' - Matt has previously appeared on several episodes of this show - including, as we mention in the show, our 2022 episodes on The Batman and Count Duckula, and our 2021 episode on Time Bandits, which functions as a natural companion piece to this installment. Check them out!
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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There's quite a lot of Python-related material (apart from the core shows/films) on Netflix at the moment - including an interview they did around 2013, where they talk about production elements of The Meaning of Life, amongst other things. Very illuminating. Also... if anyone else hadn't seen 'The Adventures of Martin Luther' scene cut from the film... here it is, via YouTube. Extraordinary.
The interviews Matt conducted quite recently which he references in the show, respectively with actors Vin Hawke and Toddy Walters, are both really, really worth checking out - would recommend!
Also, if you wish to hear my nephew performing his punk epic '8 million/10 million Babies' - and who wouldn't - here it is. Bracing stuff.
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For this episode, I am pleased to be able to welcome back Christine Kelley to the podcast! After a bit of intro chat, we get on to the main topic - the Irish tragic black-comedy Calvary (2014, John Michael McDonagh), pretty much exactly on its 10th anniversary. We discuss the priesthood, guilt, politics, sardonic humour and animal murder - it's a good time!
0.00 Intro/preamble
0.13 Calvary (pt 1)
0.57 Calvary (pt 2)
You can find the show on Twitter at @EGoat_pod (or tweet at me on @D_Faggiani) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Christine Kelley (@ballardiangorse on various platforms) writes about speculative fiction and radical politics from a queer revolutionary perspective. Her writing projects include Nowhere and Back Again, a psychogeography of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and Dreams of Orgonon, a song-by-song study of Kate Bush. Christine featured on the podcast in 2023, talking about the David Lynch movie The Straight Story. Support Christine on Patreon.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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As I mention in the show, I was fortunate enough to get to chat to Kit Power and George Daniel Lea on their show in early 2023, talking about the then recent movie The Banshees of Inisherin, directed by McDonagh's writer/director brother, Martin. Think that makes a nice companion piece to this episode! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iifk3JM0u-Q&list=PL_3YQW0lAL2OwUpmigRz4mLXrkNtHSLNp&index=31&t=4831s
Funnily enough, talking of brothers... my brother Matt has also recorded a podcast about Calvary, with his co-host Mike! You can hear what they thought of the movie here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XuOIuxaR5ktskvLDnXK5p?si=cn_H7F0hQsS-R2NYRHl1cQ
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This is Series 5! Come on in. We kick off this run with a brilliant combination of returning guests Kit Power and James Murphy, joining me to pick apart (well, gush over) the seminal, thrilling yet melancholic and haunting British Gangster movie The Long Good Friday (1980, John Mackenzie).
We discuss Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren and the snapshot of dawn-of-Thatcher London presented here. Also politics, money, racism, queerness, violence... and Razors. Oh, and THAT ending. Spoilers.
0.00 Intro/preamble
0.14 The Long Good Friday pt 1
1.03 The Long Good Friday pt 2
You can find the show on X at @EGoat_pod (or post at me on @D_Faggiani - I'm on Bluesky too) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Kit Power lives in Milton Keynes and writes horror and dark crime fiction, with occasional forays into dystopian science fiction. His fiction work includes a novel, ‘GodBomb!’, and a novella collection ‘Breaking Point’, two short story collections (‘A Warning About Your Future Enslavement That You Will Dismiss As A Collection Of Short Fiction And Essays By Kit Power’ and ‘Voices’) and novellas ‘The Finite’ and ‘A Song For The End’. He also writes non-fiction (https://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/my-life-in-horror.html with Volume 1 and 2 also available in book format) and has a limited hardback available on the subject of Ken Russell’s movie Tommy. In his increasingly inaccurately labelled spare time, he podcasts - on his own show, Watching Robocop With Kit Power and on What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? with George Lea. For weekly early access to his fiction, non-fiction, and podcasting work, visit www.patreon.com/kitpower. He has also been on five previous episodes of The EscapeGoat Podcast, discussing each part of the original UK House of Cards Trilogy in turn, the Stephen King short story collection Skeleton Crew, and then his essay collection My Life In Horror Volume II. Check them out! Also get him on Twitter and Bluesky.
James podcasts at Pex Lives, about Doctor Who, Bob Dylan and whatever else he pleases. He also co-hosts the marvellous Pop Could Never Save Us (check it out!) and his Springsteen project (with Kit) We Learned More From a Three Minute Record. He can be got primarily via jamesmurphy.bsky.social on Bluesky these days. This is his third appearance on this show - last year he featured talking about Douglas Adams' Mostly Harmless.
NOTES
Here is the full extended clip featuring Bob Hoskins and film critic Barry Norman in walkabout conversation around London from a few years after the movie, which we play an excerpt from in the episode. Watch it, they make a ridiculously charming unlikely pair. I'd watch a series of just them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTgqHsJ4410
Here's a retrospective piece from 2021, including some thoughts from Helen Mirren on the movie: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/01/beheading-scene-helen-mirren-co-stars-long-good-friday-british-classic
Here is a BBC cast and crew documentary about TLGF from 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCA7eKyKbc
And here's a BFI panel discussion (including Paul Barber) from 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCT5HCRCmkE
Finally... I've had this podcast planned for a while... but in autumn 2023, over at my brother Matt's podcast... they were lucky enough to have guest star Simon Osborne ('Pitt the Younger' in Blackadder III) on for a chat (which is a fascinating listen in its own right)... but guess what movie Simon picked as his favourite to talk about?? Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ktV6CZqxuqon76fYDIQHz?si=ilM6R_GvR9aAOQ6w8i7xjg
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Part 2 of our 60th Anniversary Doctor Who coverage, including hot takes on The Church on Ruby Road - featuring previous guest Olivia returning to the show, and also for the first time the brilliant Patrick!
0.00 pt 1 - General chat about the recent Specials/Tennant/RTD
0.50 pt 2 - Thoughts about The Church on Ruby Road, and the future of the show
Enjoy! And see you in 2024.
You can find the show on X at @EGoat_pod (or post at me on @D_Faggiani) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Olivia appeared on the show quite a while ago, on episode 4 of the show, where we discussed South Park and episode 13, where we chatted about Pokemon and Monster in my Pocket. Check them out. Olivia can be reached on X on @olivia_broome or on Instagram via @oliviaxbroome.
Patrick is the co-host of the Poditive Spin: The Friendly Fan Club podcast. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter via @poditivespinffc. I had the great experience of being on one of their episodes before, discussing fandom culture in general, and it was a good time! Listen to that one here.
Thanks to Colleen and Andrew for appearing on pt 1 (which you can listen to here) Both Colleen and Andrew featured on a previous episode of this podcast, in which we discussed the Flux series of Who - here it is. And here's an episode where Colleen and I chatted about the Matt Smith-led Season 6 of the show.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
NOTES
You can watch the mini-episode of Who from back in late 2005 that Patrick references in the episode here. Is the Fourteenth Doctor at least in part referring to his own moles?? You be the judge.
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We're back for a pair of specials, ahead of the end of the year! In this first part, Colleen and Andrew discuss the three November/December 2023 Doctor Who Specials, featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor - particularly The Giggle, which had just aired about 24 hours before we had the chat. It's first draft of history time, folks! Join us as we discuss strange quasi-retirements, fresh starts, disquiet, and, of course, comfort and joy.
0.00 pt 1 - General chat about the Specials/Tennant/RTD
0.37 pt 2 - Thoughts about The Giggle, and where the show goes next
We'll be back with a part 2 just after Christmas! x
You can find the show on X at @EGoat_pod (or post at me on @D_Faggiani) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Colleen Cheetham-Gerrard, despite the name, is not a Daily Telegraph columnist. Instead, she's a stand-up comedian and public speaker who can mostly be found on the London circuit. Colleen was also a co-host for Strong Female Leads, a now-completed podcast focusing on nerd culture from a feminist perspective. You can find Colleen via @thecolleencg on X, and she's also on Instagram and Bluesky.
Andrew Blair is a writer, poet and software developer based in Edinburgh, and a frequent contributor to Den of Geek and other sites. You can visit his website via this link. He can be found on X (and Bluesky) via @freelance_liar.
Both Colleen and Andrew featured on a previous episode of this podcast, in which we discussed the Flux series of Who - here it is. And here's an episode where Colleen and I chatted about the Matt Smith-led Season 6 of the show.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
NOTES
Here's Elizabeth Sandifer's review of The Giggle, and the Pex Lives boys chatting about The Star Beast is here. I haven't even read Darren Mooney's review of The Giggle yet, but I know it'll be great - here it is. Oh, and here's Andrew's latest (post-Giggle) on Den of Geek.
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We cap off this current series with a great finale episode, in which I am joined by the brilliant Christine Kelley for the first time. After a general chat about a few things, we turn to talking about our mutual backgrounds with the films of David Lynch, and then in the second part we focus in on Christine's favourite Lynch film - the elegiac, melancholy and tenderly unconventional road movie The Straight Story (1999). Such a lovely chat. Hope you enjoy it.
This episode is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr David Baume (1943-2023).
0.00 pt 1 - Intro/David Lynch chat in general
0.48 pt 2 - The Straight Story
That's it for Series 4! Thank you for listening everyone! And many many thanks to all the contributors. You're the best bunch in the world.
The EscapeGoat Podcast will return...
You can find the show on Twitter at @EGoat_pod (or tweet at me on @D_Faggiani) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Christine Kelley (@ballardiangorse on various platforms) writes about speculative fiction and radical politics from a queer revolutionary perspective. Currently her main project is Nowhere and Back Again, a psychogeography of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Her first project was the now semi-retired blog Dreams of Orgonon, a song-by-song study of Kate Bush. Support Christine on Patreon.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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This Cinephilia Beyond retrospective article on The Straight Story is well worth checking out (as is the B-roll footage it includes). Also, have a look at this wonderful piece by friend-of-the-show Kit Power on Wild at Heart, one of his long-running My Life in Horror series (now available in two-volume book form).
Oh, we mention American Beauty as (bizarrely) outshining The Straight Story at the Oscars? Here's my brother Matt and his podcast partner Mike having a chat about that film: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tb8d05ek7XE8wRcLrmg1X?si=859df45c5d0849c7
Finally, here is Christine's post which will make you want to watch the classic surreal Czech film Daisies. WATCH DAISIES.
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This week, I am joined by the fantastic Jack Graham, for his second appearance on the show. In the first hour, me and Jack chat about many things (okay, quite a lot of Star Trek, I'll be honest) and then we turn to the main topic - the classic Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (1939), a text that has fascinated Jack for decades. Also... Jack may read a poem insert that I wrote (on the bus) the day following the main recording. I promise, it will make sense in context. A great one, enjoy!
WARNING - contains spoilers for And Then There Were None (like, in-depth) and also for Christie's other monumental thriller The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926). Be aware!
0.00 Intro/Additionata
1.08 And Then There Were None
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Jack Graham is a writer and podcaster who is probably best known as the co-host of the anti-fascist podcast I Don't Speak German. His work can also be found on Eruditorum Press, via his discussion show The Shabcast (a huuuuuuge influence on The EscapeGoat Podcast, I don't mind telling you) and via his Patreon. He can be reached on Twitter on @_Jack_Graham_
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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While I was editing this episode, this apparently happened. I suspect the involvement of a giant wasp, personally: https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-greenway-house-agatha-christie-8601707
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In this latest installment, I'm joined by film critic and pop culture commentator Darren Mooney, to have a ridiculously nerdy and only slightly rambling conversation about Star Trek - both in general terms (initially), and then our respective experiences of the various tie-in book series. Following that, we zero-in on one specific Star Trek novel - that being Star Trek: Invasion! First Strike (Diane Carey, 1996). We had a great time. If this interests anyone else, it will be a bonus. Many thanks to Darren.
0.00 Intro chat/David and Darren's background with Star Trek in general
1.12 A selective overview of the Star Trek novel tie-ins
1.41 Star Trek: Invasion! First Strike
You can find the show on Twitter at @EGoat_pod (or tweet at me on @D_Faggiani) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Darren Mooney is a pop culture critic at large for The Escapist. He writes the twice-weekly In the Frame column, writes and voices the In the Frame videos, provides film reviews and writes the weekly Out of Focus column. Plus, occasionally he has opinions about other things as well. Darren lives and works in Dublin. He also writes for The Irish Independent and provides weekly film coverage for radio station Q102. He co-hosts the weekly 250 Podcast and he has also written three published books of criticism on The X-Files, Christopher Nolan and Doctor Who. He somehow finds time to watch movies and television on top of that. Ironically, his superpowers are at their strongest when his glasses are on. His extensive work on Star Trek (and many other topics) at The M0vie Blog is, frankly, stupendous (our words). Check it out here.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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Another trove of work regarding Star Trek is this sizeable archive of essays at Eruditorum Press. Explore it by starting here.
I also greatly enjoy the long-running Pensky Podcast, who are at time of this episode covering Season 3 of Voyager, and Witney Seibold and William Bibbiani's All Our Yesterdays show, currently discussing Season 4 of TNG, and available on their Critically Acclaimed network's Patreon.
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We come zooming back, to continue the fourth series! I am thrilled to welcome Jonny to the show for a second appearance, after a substantial gap, to chat about The Flash!
After a first half in which we discuss DC Comics' Scarlet Speedster generally, and a little bit about his previous incarnations and adaptations, we use the second half to review the (at-time-of-recording) new movie The Flash (2023, Andy Muschietti). We get spoilery from 1h 16 mins in, if anyone cares about that. Enjoy!
0.00 Intro/The Flash as a character and a symbol
1.02 The Flash (2023) - review and discussion
You can find the show on Twitter at @EGoat_pod (or tweet at me on @D_Faggiani) and email us with any feedback on [email protected]. All our episodes so far are on Spotify, our YouTube channel, and Apple Podcasts. Do spread the word! We also have a Patreon - any amount of money will get you early access to episodes, and help support the show!
Jonny Kiehlmann is a politics, maths, book and climbing nerd based in Aberdeen and London. He is on Twitter on @kiehlmanniac. He was previously on the show in Episode 22, chatting with me about Alan Moore's Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow and the endings of superhero stories in general. Give it a listen!
Last year, we did a quite similar-in-format episode, where I reviewed The Batman movie with the aid of Matt and Mike. Listen to that here!
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
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Yes, this is basically a scene in the movie (I'm barely exaggerating).
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