“Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.” The third instalment in an alternate-history epic inspired by the real Ford Motors company town of Fordlandia. A charismatic millionaire makes a daring run at the Presidency… Support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/jackdean iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/fake-town-fables/id1114881723?mt=2 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jackdean/sets/fake-town-fables Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jack-dean/fake-town-fables?refid=stpr Sampled tracks: “Bossa

"he never paid attention to the frantic hum of demolition and construction taking place between the 3rd and 4th Arrondissements, never looked up from the street enough to see the eighteen identical crosses of brilliant grey-white creeping into the sky like furtive geometrical prayers"

“So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed – it could be because you he retained the human values you were supposed to he discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud”

“Wilhelm had his nation’s second city occupied by an army he didn’t know was there” A story from the Grandad and the Machine universe. A charismatic millionaire runs into trouble at a rally.

“And the town stays sleeping off the edge of the damp downs, it’s precious cargo hidden from genocidal eyes” A story about New Year’s Day, granddads,  oom-pah bands and the Yorkshire founding myth.    

A tale for the Grandad and the Machine Universe, in which an eccentric multi-millionaire sets out on a mission to change the world.

"Is Gotham in America? Has it ever been?"

The ancient home of the gods gets relocated to York. Performed live at Say Owt Slam, 9th July 2016. Check out Say Owt here: https://www.facebook.com/sayowtslam/?fref=ts

The Britonnic castle of myth and legend, as seen through the eyes of Aurelius Conanus, about whom the Historia Regum Britanniae said “Art not thou as the former to thy utter destruction, swallowed up in the filthiness of horrible murders, fornications, and adulteries, as by an overwhelming flood of the