The nineteenth demonstration features Marie Phillips vs Unimpressive Men (she is in the wrong county to find the computer where she has a great story about her and Impressive Men) and also THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL GREAT MIGHTY FIN SONG OF ALL TIME!!!

Marie's newsletter is at https://tinyletter.com/mariephillips

The long weekend is at an end. In one sense, anyway.

In other news, we have a thrilling story about people fighting for the love of a good engineer and a song about being a cool boss.

In other news, where are you, Finland? We're going to do our part, you do yours.

The long weekend is coming and we suggest you cook your seed cakes, beetroot salad or whatever else may happen to be traditional in your culture to the soothing sounds of a story about a frisky wee doggie and a Susannah Pearse number about someone in denial.

For alternate fifteen minuteses, Annika Stranded by Nick Walker is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049fg98/episodes/player

And Warhorses of Letters, born at Tall Tales, is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p6dcx

If, after Warhorses of Letters, you need more Marie Phillips, then her newsletter is terrific: https://tinyletter.com/mariephillips/

We're at www.listenandoften.com/talltales and [email protected]

In today's demonstration, terrifying comedy from Anna Savory, and terrifying piano from John Finnemore.

This might not be the best link to Finnemore on YouTube, but it is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUJmHuHfKQ

This demonstration is indecisively decisive about the future of technology and features the first appearance of a much repeated trope amid what are, now these stories are sitting up against each other without months and years between them, some continuity errors that the Central Committee are totally ok with.

Also, Ellis as our favourite Puck, even more than Puck in the lovely period crime drama series Crimes of Passion.

We hope you had a lovely weekend, and spent it in a wise fashion. We did, because we are so wise. It is our defining trait. Also, some of us, and I'm not going to reveal who, had long-needed haircuts, but in a wise way.

Today's stars, and it's not a word we use lightly, are Mike Westcott and Susannah Pearse's songwriting, and the voices of Matty Hughes, Annie Gill and Hugh Trimble.

Today's demonstration features what is literally my wife's favourite Kilburn story and what is literally one of my four favourites. It has a song and also, song fans, Tim Sutton, who featured a few episodes back and will again, I bet, is making his first appearance on the Now Show tonight. You probably missed it, but you can listen again and you should.

It's going to be sunny this weekend, if you're in much of the UK. And 84% of you are in the UK. A surprisingly small percentage of you are in Ireland. What's going on, Ireland? Italy is kicking your ass. America, to my surprise, is doing well. I suppose there are lots of Americans. Canada is no surprise. I worry that this might be a boring programme note. There will be those among you who are thinking I am not as worried as I should be.

The twelfth demonstration features - huge news - Mike Westcott. There's not much other news, I promise.

Seriously, there's much less news than you'd think if you glued yourself to the news all day. It's the news' job to make you think important new things are happening every five seconds, but they're not and you really don't have to follow every bounce of the ball and we're here to help you not do that. We're like medicine, like cod liver oil.

The eleventh demonstration footnotes last night's live broadcast, focusing obviously on the cat.

Matthew Parker describes a time when we ventured into a conversation with hilarious consequences (that's a great elevator pitch, Matthew, for if you're ever in an elevator with Spielberg or Iannucci) and we speculate on the System's possible musical future and your role in that.