Episodes
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rubbish vi
.. some biannual rubbish
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rubbish v
a new year's eve trip down memory lane ..
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rubbish iv
.. an exciting new route for a sunny sunday morning ..
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rubbish iii
.. une nouvelle année .. but there's work to do .. une balade hivernale ..
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sporting memories 1 - 'arry, 'aris, jim callaghan, looking for a new ingerland
when ingerland took on italy at wemberley a short while ago in the final of euro 2020, most people believed (well, the lucky few who managed to avoid the traditional gomorrah of pre match festivities that ingerland fans had so thoughtfully provided for everyone outside) that such spectacle would...
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pond life 2 - audio journals of the plague year
gather by the apocalyptic fireside, friends, and allow three self-appointed representatives of the great powers, the almighty cradles of civilisation, to explain just how the big babies who are at present governing their plague ridden lands managed to so comprehensively wreck these cradles during...
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season 2 chapter 5 - the coldest house in france
a true feature length epic, which nevertheless cannot do justice to moliere's extraordinary return to the chateau, after an extended period of quarantine in his northern estates. but everything has changed! the hall of mirrors and the concubines are no more, and madame guenevere has muscled in....
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season 2 chapter 4 - when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes
moliere gently and merrily dreams his way downstream to the port of bordeaux on a mississippi paddle steamer, as you do. however, unbeknownst to him, he appears to be momentarily whisked away to some distant land called portsmouth. but who is responsible for this dastardly rift in the space time...
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rubbish ii
une petite balade automnale ...
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pond life 1 - quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
moliere, fat lad, and their north america correspondent, present their new, regular (but frankly, irregular) politics pod. they tell it how it is. but is it listening? and is junior j junior the third senior paying attention? we can but hope.
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season 2 chapter 3 - village green warrior
the first pilgrim arrives on the estates! and to celebrate this momentous event moliere gifts us with not one but TWO audio tours of his groundbreaking museum. he also consults with a tactile butterfly, and decides to share his pearls of wisdom with his villagefolk directly from this point forth....
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interlude - go seek some dewdrops here
we were delighted that bordeaux-based actor and poet, jair massiah, dropped in to talk about performance, gardens, pandemics and the ways in which stand up comedy represents, for the performer, both an absolute fear and an ultimate high. find jair on instagram and twitter - @jairmassiah. her…
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interlude - substance
... but it's just more rubbish really. cos it's 2020 innit, aka the end of days. an international summit, matfl style, attempts to right the wrongs and left the right.
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interlude - rubbish
.. an original take on a country stroll ..
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season 2 chapter 2 - birds
moliere modestly rewrites everything you may have gleaned from your history books, in revealing that the age of revolution probably commenced on his very own estates, wherein a surly tenant farmer (possibly fly-clad) not only makes defiant eye contact with our favourite toff guru, but also...
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season 2 chapter 1 - fruit
extraordinary events on the estates, as the ever benign moliere actually invites some unfortunate varmints in to pilfer from his own fig trees. after much fruity frolicking and illicit barbecuing, fat lad smells a rat. the chaps discuss maudit héritage by béatrice davault.
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season 1 finale - and yet you go on
while it might be considered wise - in this most benighted of all years - to walk fearlessly into a better future dressed only in carpe diem, the chaps decide instead to indulge in a proustian wallow through all the low points and low points of the supposed summer gone. for your delectation they...
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interlude - la comédie française
moliere is busy collecting his tithes in his northern estates. but he has not forsaken the listener. rather, he has recorded a choice selection of audio delights from his aquitaine environs - to both delight and to pleasure his devoted followers. marvel - as he and the other (unaccountably still...
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chapter 5 - die leiden des jungen moliere
moliere eyes new climes, commercial opportunities and territories, irritated by the constant, crawling ranting of his own over-familiar peasants. fat lad falls in love, and just falls in general. the chaps discuss dig me out by jovana babović.
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chapter 4 - hell is other toffs
things are getting serious, as moliere takes his eco-friendly sky-chariot to the new world to learn just how free the land of the free still is. back on terra firma, he finds himself caught between a rock (upon which he berates some faux toffs who are disturbing the peace on his estates) and a…
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chapter 3 - it's my bastille day and i'll cry if i want to
moliere berates the youth of today for their rampant technologies and their lack of revolutionary fervour. fat lad envies moliere's boulangerie. the chaps discuss la mare au diable by george sand - and moliere even gets to spend an agreeable night in her hotel.
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chapter 2 - space
moliere muses on the apparent influence of the scottish enlightenment on contemporary continental european politics. fat lad wonders whether a popular retro primetime drama may in fact be a socialist utopian hidden-camera documentary. and the show comes with free soothing bucolic vintner sounds…
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agency of the shielded
molière wonders about corruption as he wanders his chateau gardens. are the aristocrats really beating the bracken, yonder, for the benefit of the sans culottes? fat lad goes off on one about the plague - he's very quiet in this episode, but he is shielding and he is very shy. in the literary...