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The Mispronounced Item
by Sarah and Nathan Ditum
Sarah and Nathan talk about the things they have seen, read, written and played every week.
Episodes
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Episode 54: Hold Me, Steve
This week's big question is: if a tree falls in the woods, are you banging your own mum? But before that: Avengers Infinity War, and Netflix series The Rain.
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Episode 53: An Army of Thatues
Sarah and Nathan saw Mary Stuart at the Theatre Royal Bath, and Nathan saw a lot of films on a plane - some of which were not terrible. Plus, Age of Answers!
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Episode 52: Ready Player Bum
Don't say we didn't warn you. Ready Player One is really, really bad, so it sucks to be Sarah who only got to see that this week. Better times for Nath who also saw Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark with live soundtrack, meaning that we can delve into the mysteries of good Spielberg…
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Episode 51: God of Woof
Why is the new Lara Croft movie like a plastic cup? Can a family annihilating demigod achieve character development? And just how should a person be? All these questions and more (including the ones you put to us in Age of Answers via the email below) WILL be answered in this amazing episode of…
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Episode 50: Hoist By Our Own Wetard
We're back from Seattle, and here we are with the aural equivalent of your neighbours coming over with the slides from their holiday. This week: things we learned in Seattle (mostly about aircraft, please trust us that this is very interesting), Annihilation the book and the film, Ursula Le…
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Episode 49: All Good Examples
We went to see Flight of the Conchords! It was great! We listened to loads of Britpop on the way! It was... variable! We watched Murder on the Orient Express! It was exactly what we hoped for! And Nathan has been playing Burnout Paradise Remastered! It has been consuming!
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Episode 48: Dog-Related Content
Apologies for being a day late on this due to Nath being ill. Still, we're here now with thoughts on Black Panther (MANY SPOILERS, you have been warned) and You Were Never Really Here (about which we try to say as little as humanly possible, leading to a pretty weird section TBH where we talk…
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Episode 47: Better With Bean
We watched Mute. We thought it couldn't be as bad as people said, but it is if anything much, much worse. So bad that Sarah argues it should have been more like Mr Bean, and actually has a point. Maximum spoilers here so avoid if you want to watch Mute (but you don't want to watch Mute). Plus a...
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Episode 46: Hold On to Your Hot Take Horses
Here's the Great Lost Episode from last year! And by "Great" we mean "Really Quite Long", but for EXCELLENT REASONS, mostly relating to the brilliance of Get Out, here discussed extensively (and with spoilers all the way). We originally recorded this in March 2017, but it's OK because we were…
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Episode 45: There Are Dozens of Us!
"It's the intellectual equivalent of separate beds!" says Nathan, meaning he's watched a film I haven't and I've read a book he hasn't this week.
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Episode 44: Philip K Dicks
Write here…
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Episode 43: Raging Sex Blobs
This week! Walking sims are great, humanity is terrible, and comedians are chatty.
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Episode 42: Not Throwing Away My Clem Fandango
We went to see Hamilton! It was predictably amazing! Plus a bit about Star Trek.
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Episode 41: Deutschemordzeitgehen
The fun twist this week is that we've been doing completely different things, making for some classic repartee along the lines of "what are you talking about?" and "I don't understand".
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Episode 40: Two Idiots In An Office, Bath
Well it's been ages, hasn't it? Let's try to make this thing more regular. Sarah and Nathan are back to talk about films, books and games again.
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Episode 39: Open That Drawer
Women on top, Gillingham rising and evil babies
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Episode 38: Begins and Ends With Mogwai
Dana Spiotta, Orson Welles, Spec Ops: The Line, Apocalypse Now, Sherlock
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Episode 37: The Essex Chicken
Sarah Perry, Hunt for theWilderpeople, Dishonored 2
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Episode 36: Red Jez Detention
Ten reasons not to worry even though everything is quite bad really!
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Episode 35: Jetlag Radio Future
What we did in LA, Disneyland, Yosemite and San Francisco
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Episode 34: Phasers on Glum
Watching Room, reading gruelling stories about male violence, and playing Firewatch
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Episode 33: The Revelsant or Bumming Roley
Making a Murderer, The Revenant, David Bowie and the bloody awful Legend
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Episode 32: The Unauthorised Menace
Join us this week as Nathan talks seemingly endlessly about Star Wars - no, not even the new one, but about the prequel trilogy, digital effects, and the curse of the 1990s. Sarah has been reading Jonathan Bate's biography of Ted Hughes, a very sharp look at a titanic talent and an utter bastard,...
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Episode 31: We're Making a Listicle
We're back! With MASSIVE STAR WARS SPOILERS (00:51:40-01:18:12). Also best games, best film and best books of 2015.
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Episode 30: Thunderwank, or: Edging For Lepers
WE'RE BACK! YouTube, Ted Hughes and leper blues.
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Episode 29: My Uncle is a Hunkle
All aboard the return train to the mid-twentieth century with revivals for Man from Uncle and Bond, changing stations at Contemporary Thrillerville for The Girl on the Train
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Episode 28: T-rex in love
Atwood's dystopia, Justified's new west, and why your A-level's matter
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Episode 27: Blue Balls of the Heart
Diary of a Teenage Girl, True Detective season 2, Juiceboxxx
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Episode 26: On the National
a whole lot of talk about Windermere, a scamper through the unconscious with new Pixar movie Inside Out, a discussion of Matt Dillon's face and its work in Wayward Pines, and a bit at the end where we both start singing the word "MONEY" at each other because Sarah has listened to Dark Side of the...
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Episode 25: That Frozen Fella
This week: Nath's been watching the FX series of Fargo, which stars Martin Freeman and is available on Netflix, and mostly enjoying its fine performances and refractions of Coen-brother themes and imagery. Watching Fargo was, for the most part, an attempt not to think too hard about James Meek's...
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Episode 024: It's Behind You
Don't stop, don't sleep, don't let your guard for one second: we've been watching It Follows and it is pretty bloody scary. Horror stories of another kind as Nath explores the raw brilliance and tabloid tragedy of Paul Gascoigne as revealed in a new documentary, which is strangely coy about the...
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Episode 023: Tresspassport To Pimlico
We went to see Mark Thomas do his new show about trespassing! That was good, so there's some chat about that and how it reminds Nath of his own experiences re-walking London. Then Sarah has read techno-conspiracy thrill-ride Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer and Nath has read Climbers by M…
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Episode 022: Death To False Metal
Musical goings on this week, as Sarah heads off on a pilgrimage to Hyde Park to kneel at the altar of Taylor Swift, while Nath whispers the Warrior's Prayer and talks about Mogwai's excellent 20th Anniversary show. Metal remains a theme for our movies this week - the exquisitely odd and probably...
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Episode 21: Night Boat To Caro
After a week away the podcast returns only HUGE, with two weeks' worth of thoughts and talk making this the longest and quite possibly least disciplined episode ever. Under discussion this week is HBO's dark documentary of privilege and injustice, The Jinx, as well as the Wachowskis' new Netflix...
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Episode 20: Say Hi to Your Mother from Me
Drugs, murder and collapsing identities: we follow the Silk Road to ruin with Wired's astonishing two-part feature. Then hark at Nathan's untrammelled enthusiasm for E3, listen to Sarah rave about Ali Smith winning the Baileys Prize, become marginally bilious with us as we grapple with dirty old...
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Episode 019: You're a Bunch of Wires
If I told you this episode was about consciousness, empathy and growing up in Ex Machina, Leslie Jamison's essay The Empathy Exams and Judy Blume's new novel In the Unlikely Event, you might be like, "Hmm, interesting, I'll bookmark that for later." But! If I told you it's also about Sarah...
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Episode 018: Like A Hot Rod, Like A Hot Potato
Mad Max: Fury Road is the week's big talking point, and some questions need to be answered: How on earth did it get made? Why is it so brilliant? And can Sarah pull off the "oil crown" Furiosa look in the office? Then, because in the distant future there is only phwaor, we take a look at Polly...
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Episode 017: Now We Got Bad Puns
Not sure we actually get to the point at all this week, but ostensibly you will hear about: Taylor Swift's video and why it is brilliant (yes it is brilliant), practical magic in A Wizard of Earthsea, and Sarah has reviewed Kirst Logan's novel The Gracekeepers. Hurrah!
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Episode 016: More Of It
A postmortem of Politics Christmas, which seems to have birthed a new era of intolerance and awfulness ALREADY, and can only be made better through the masochistic review of hopeful pre-election left-wing headlines. The Witcher 3 provides some respite from reality - "It's like real life, in a…
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Episode 015: Politics Christmas Eve
Sarah has read some BOOKS this week - namely Ali Smith's How To Be Both and Do It Like A Woman by Caroline Criado-Perez. Politics Christmas Eve is celebrated with Politics Quizmas, in which Sarah is challenged to identify local parliamentary candidates using snippets of their CVs and hompages…
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Episode 014: The Prime Minister Who Could Not Have a Biscuit
You know what's hard? Talking about comedy without ruining all the jokes. So you get a very unfunny appraisal of Stewart Lee's very funny current tour. Nathan went to see Blade Runner. Thrill to his intimate knowledge of '80s studio politics and variant cuts. No writing to talk about, so instead...
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Episode 013: Game of Fish
Dun-dun, da-da dun-dun, da-da dun-dun, da-da dun. YES GAME OF THRONES IS BACK AND SARAH CAN'T HELP SINGING THE THEME TUNE. Will she be able to have a ten-minute chat with Nath without spoiling anything to come in the series? The latest edition of the LRB has an excellent report from Grimsby…
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Episode 012: Dinner with Daredevil
Daredevil has arrived on Netflix – we find out if the latest part of the ever-expanding Marvel universe is any good. Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? The new book from Katrine Marçal answers this question, and in the process uncovers the missing piece of economics. And in this week's writing…
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Episode 011: Wild Words and Weird Interiors
This week Nathan and Sarah wrestle with the macabre and they deal with loving and dreading the new series of Inside No 9 on BBC Two, and walk with words while discussing the nature writing of Robert Macfarlane and Melissa Harrison. To finish there's discussion of a sad meeting with Python's Terry...
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Episode 010: Bloodborne and Politics Christmas
This week Nath's plunged himself into Bloodborne and is full of love for the games of Hidetaka Miyazaki, Sarah has gone ludicrous for the imminent arrival of the election - or, as she calls it, Politics Christmas - and we discuss GTA, games censorship and rape suspect anonymity in what we've...
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Episode 009: Druid Clowns for President
Great, tear-streaked excitement as Sarah finally gets to the Sleater-Kinney gig she's been waiting TEN RUDDY YEARS for (and takes Nathan along too). The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is Tina Fey's new sitcom on Netflix: females are strong as hell, but are the jokes too? And Sarah's been doing her…
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Episode 008: Paris Was A Woman, Pratchett Was A Man
This week, it's art, escape and women loving women on the Left Bank at the Bristol Women's Literature Festival. Then Sarah and Nathan say their farewells to Terry Pratchett, and wonder how he managed to have more ideas on a page than most people have in a lifetime. And in writing, Sarah has had a...
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Episode 007: D is for Dystopia
This week - a Helen MacDonald visit to Bristol prompts a discussion of her astonishing, nature writing-redefining memoir H Is For Hawk, while Nathan's been watching '70s dystopias Rollerball and Network and Sarah's been writing about the parenting pressures of world book day.
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Episode 006: Canon Fodder
This week Nathan and Sarah contemplate the rise of the robots as a new wave of automation threatens to supplant the middle classes (not us!) and then talk sports and sports writing in light of a visit to watch Barcelona in the Champions League. Then, with Neill Blomkamp set to right the wrongs of...
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Episode 005: Three Bags Saul
It's time to LWYRUP: every Breaking Bad fan's favourite attorney at law (well, semi-law) is back in Better Call Saul, and the court of Ditum is in session to deliver its verdict. Also dipped in justice is Aardman's new feature animation, Shaun The Sheep Movie, while the things we've written this...
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Sarah and Nathan talk about the things they have seen, read, written and played every week.
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