The Daily Ampersand

An almost entirely fact free ramble through the eleventh episode of series three, Utopia.

The books Loll can't quite bring to mind are the Sister Fidelma mysteries by Peter Tremayne.

It's our hundredth episode and in celebration we have been briefly removed from our own time-streams to go old school and dawdle ineffectually around Survival from the olden days of 1989.

On at least one occasion John says Rhona Cameron instead of Rona Munro, and he could not be more mortified. Sorry.

Please read all of John Wyndham's work with the possible exception of the posthumously published Plan For Chaos.

Peter Strickland's four films Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke Of Burgundy and In Fabric are all exquisite, but they aren't for everyone.

Restraint Of Beasts by Magnus Mills is a morbidly brilliant book. Highly recommended.

This is the US Doctors thing we were nattering on about. You'll have seen it ages ago.

https://youtu.be/bCv5o7n_mtk

Lawrence would like to draw your attention to these Numberphile things:

https://youtu.be/l4bmZ1gRqCc

https://youtu.be/U6xJfP7-HCc

Stay strong. You're all wonderful.

A commentary for the series 3 episode Blink, after the usual protracted preamble.

The book John likes is Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, available from all good and wicked bookshops. We like the ones who pay their taxes best.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/riddley-walker/russell-hoban/9781408832240

The brilliant book podcast that has recently covered Riddley Walker is the Backlisted Podcast:

https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/9-russell-hoban-riddley-walker

Una McCormack is in it, and she's one of us.

Lawrence's recommended time travel books are the Lightbringer Trilogy:

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/samantha-lee/lightbringer-trilogy/

The film John chunters on about is Christopher Smith's excellent horror movie Triangle:

 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1212111_triangle

 And the film in Smith's oeuvre that John can't quite bring to mind is the excellently silly horror comedy Severance.

Join the Highlanders (@Feexby23 and @Loll73) as we gallivant around Paul Cornell's magnificent episodes Human Nature and The Family Of Blood.

Facting you till you're full!

This week John and Lawrence (@Feexby23 and @Loll73) address the political and moral complexities of not quite being able to keep your attention focused on the thing you're supposed to be talking about.

It's Chibnall time as we reach his first episode as writer: 42.

The Lazarus Experiment as chaotically explained by @Feexby23 and @Loll73.

Contains more pants than any episode so far.

A wheezy old stroll round the fifth episode of the third series of that new-fangled children's TV series Doctor Who.

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Musings on, and a commentary for, the fourth episode of the third season of that Doctor Who everyone's talking about.

Featuring ALL the accents, and the shocking bedroom secrets of Lawrence.

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Peace out.

Our commentary and various musings on the third episode of the third series of new Doctor Who - Gridlock.

The wonderful Doc Savage covers John mentions are by Keith "Kez" Wilson, and can be found here:

http://docfantasycovers.com

We can be found on Twitter. John is @Feexby23 and Lawrence is @Loll73

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... That makes Thursday.

Join John (@Feexby23) and Lawrence (@Loll73) as they creep in their petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.

It's The Shakespeare Code this time. The second episode in the third series of that children's television programme we quite like: Doctor Who.