041: The Awakening

"Something is coming to our village... something very wonderful and strange." So is the Davison two-parter The Awakening "wonderful and strange"? Well the sets are certainly wonderful and there are some rather strange goings on in Little Hodcombe. There's a bad-wigged nutter with a tinclavic stress ball, a one-eyed beggar with a penchant for ladies' handbags and Ben Wolsey's infamous Reproduction Room, for starters. Where does old Big Face keep his body? Would an incredulous guppy make a good companion? And just who is the old fella with the wizened chesticles? Listen as Jim and Martin awaken their feeble brain cells and try to answer these questions, while distinguishing set from location, real person from projection and, rather more easily, stroppy air hostess from straw May Queen.