
Episode 54: Hold Me, Steve
This week's big question is: if a tree falls in the woods, are you banging your own mum? But before that: Avengers Infinity War, and Netflix...
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Sarah and Nathan talk about the things they have seen, read, written and played every week.

This week's big question is: if a tree falls in the woods, are you banging your own mum? But before that: Avengers Infinity War, and Netflix...

Sarah and Nathan saw Mary Stuart at the Theatre Royal Bath, and Nathan saw a lot of films on a plane - some of which were not terrible. Plus...

Don't say we didn't warn you. Ready Player One is really, really bad, so it sucks to be Sarah who only got to see that this week. Better tim...

Why is the new Lara Croft movie like a plastic cup? Can a family annihilating demigod achieve character development? And just how should a p...

We're back from Seattle, and here we are with the aural equivalent of your neighbours coming over with the slides from their holiday. This w...

We went to see Flight of the Conchords! It was great! We listened to loads of Britpop on the way! It was... variable! We watched Murder on t...

Apologies for being a day late on this due to Nath being ill. Still, we're here now with thoughts on Black Panther (MANY SPOILERS, you have...

We watched Mute. We thought it couldn't be as bad as people said, but it is if anything much, much worse. So bad that Sarah argues it should...

Here's the Great Lost Episode from last year! And by "Great" we mean "Really Quite Long", but for EXCELLENT REASONS, mostly relating to the...

"It's the intellectual equivalent of separate beds!" says Nathan, meaning he's watched a film I haven't and I've read a book he hasn't this...

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This week! Walking sims are great, humanity is terrible, and comedians are chatty.

We went to see Hamilton! It was predictably amazing! Plus a bit about Star Trek.

The fun twist this week is that we've been doing completely different things, making for some classic repartee along the lines of "what are...

Well it's been ages, hasn't it? Let's try to make this thing more regular. Sarah and Nathan are back to talk about films, books and games ag...

Women on top, Gillingham rising and evil babies

Dana Spiotta, Orson Welles, Spec Ops: The Line, Apocalypse Now, Sherlock

Sarah Perry, Hunt for theWilderpeople, Dishonored 2

Ten reasons not to worry even though everything is quite bad really!

What we did in LA, Disneyland, Yosemite and San Francisco

Watching Room, reading gruelling stories about male violence, and playing Firewatch

Making a Murderer, The Revenant, David Bowie and the bloody awful Legend

Join us this week as Nathan talks seemingly endlessly about Star Wars - no, not even the new one, but about the prequel trilogy, digital eff...

We're back! With MASSIVE STAR WARS SPOILERS (00:51:40-01:18:12). Also best games, best film and best books of 2015.

WE'RE BACK! YouTube, Ted Hughes and leper blues.

All aboard the return train to the mid-twentieth century with revivals for Man from Uncle and Bond, changing stations at Contemporary Thrill...

Atwood's dystopia, Justified's new west, and why your A-level's matter

Diary of a Teenage Girl, True Detective season 2, Juiceboxxx

a whole lot of talk about Windermere, a scamper through the unconscious with new Pixar movie Inside Out, a discussion of Matt Dillon's face...

This week: Nath's been watching the FX series of Fargo, which stars Martin Freeman and is available on Netflix, and mostly enjoying its fine...

Don't stop, don't sleep, don't let your guard for one second: we've been watching It Follows and it is pretty bloody scary. Horror stories o...

We went to see Mark Thomas do his new show about trespassing! That was good, so there's some chat about that and how it reminds Nath of his...

Musical goings on this week, as Sarah heads off on a pilgrimage to Hyde Park to kneel at the altar of Taylor Swift, while Nath whispers the...

After a week away the podcast returns only HUGE, with two weeks' worth of thoughts and talk making this the longest and quite possibly least...

Drugs, murder and collapsing identities: we follow the Silk Road to ruin with Wired's astonishing two-part feature. Then hark at Nathan's un...

If I told you this episode was about consciousness, empathy and growing up in Ex Machina, Leslie Jamison's essay The Empathy Exams and Judy...

Mad Max: Fury Road is the week's big talking point, and some questions need to be answered: How on earth did it get made? Why is it so brill...

Not sure we actually get to the point at all this week, but ostensibly you will hear about: Taylor Swift's video and why it is brilliant (ye...

A postmortem of Politics Christmas, which seems to have birthed a new era of intolerance and awfulness ALREADY, and can only be made better...

Sarah has read some BOOKS this week - namely Ali Smith's How To Be Both and Do It Like A Woman by Caroline Criado-Perez. Politics Christmas...

You know what's hard? Talking about comedy without ruining all the jokes. So you get a very unfunny appraisal of Stewart Lee's very funny cu...

Dun-dun, da-da dun-dun, da-da dun-dun, da-da dun. YES GAME OF THRONES IS BACK AND SARAH CAN'T HELP SINGING THE THEME TUNE. Will she be able...

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This week Nathan and Sarah wrestle with the macabre and they deal with loving and dreading the new series of Inside No 9 on BBC Two, and wal...

This week Nath's plunged himself into Bloodborne and is full of love for the games of Hidetaka Miyazaki, Sarah has gone ludicrous for the im...

Great, tear-streaked excitement as Sarah finally gets to the Sleater-Kinney gig she's been waiting TEN RUDDY YEARS for (and takes Nathan alo...

This week, it's art, escape and women loving women on the Left Bank at the Bristol Women's Literature Festival. Then Sarah and Nathan say th...

This week - a Helen MacDonald visit to Bristol prompts a discussion of her astonishing, nature writing-redefining memoir H Is For Hawk, whil...

This week Nathan and Sarah contemplate the rise of the robots as a new wave of automation threatens to supplant the middle classes (not us!)...

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