"Chekhov's Croissant" Oh yes. Just under five whole years since we finished covering every single Red Dwarf novel in ludicrous depth, the DwarfCast Book Club is back, ready to tackle the latest addition to our collective book shelves. It may have taken us a little longer than expected to start bringing you our nitty-gritty analysis of Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall's all-new side-universe prequel, but we're making it up to you by releasing a podcast so long that you'll have to take the afternoon off to get through it all. And we're only covering half of the first part. So open up your by now well-thumbed copy of Red Dwarf: Titan, and join us for a chapter-by-chapter (and in some sections, pretty much sentence-by-sentence) run through of the prologue, Proloog, and chapters 1-16 of Part One, Walverlof. Oh, and there is very obviously extreme levels of spoilers, so for goodness sake, don't listen to this before you've read the bloody book.

Show notes

• Red Dwarf: Just The Franks (no Randolphs)
• Throwing Ewoks into a lake of farts
• Chapter 3 in YouTube form
• We've tried our best to clarify whether "boweliest" is a valid word in Countdown, to no avail.

"The Carousel of Hideous Mistakes That Make You Say 'Fuck' In The Middle Of A Supermarket" The loss of Rob Grant earlier this year was a complete shock. Whether you knew him personally or were one of his thousands of fans, it was a bolt out of the blue. It's taken us a little while to be able to talk about it, but with the release of Red Dwarf: Titan - Rob's final work - rapidly approaching, we wanted to get together and discuss just how much he meant to us. So join us for our reminisces about all of G&T's interactions with Rob over the years, discover the origin of that "ex-wife's honeymoon video" quote, relive the moment that Ian's imminent fatherhood was announced to the world unexpectedly, and discover what's on the wall of Rob's downstairs toilet. You can also peruse the show notes section below for a bumper dose of Rob-related content, and feel free to share your own memories of Rob in the comments.

Show notes

• Cappsy's ancient White Hole interview
• Mr Flibble Talks To Rob Grant
• Danny and Ian interview Rob and Andrew
• The Quarantine Commentaries archive
• The last G&T interview with Rob
• Andrew Marshall's tribute
• Our obituary for Rob
• The incredible TOS tribute

"INT. Chris Barrie's Arse" 8 extra pages! 2 free postcards! Smeggier than ever before, it's the new-look Smegazine Rack! Yes, after a prolonged gap since our last sojourn to the early-to-mid 1990s, we return to discover everything's become glossier, wider and more densely packed, as we finally reach Volume 2 of the Red Dwarf Smegazine. There is much to discuss, not least the most unfortunate cover line of all time, but also a comic strip with remarkable parallels to a much later TV story, the latest news on just how messy the production of Series VI was, the evils of red chairs, the soap opera parody that refuses to die and the crossover event of the century. Plus, we give a very special welcome to a new Smegazine writer, who would go on to have a very, ahem, "interesting" career.

Show notes

• The magazine, via archive.org or Stasis Leak, whatever's your poison
• It was actually us that tweeted a list of all the times the crew could have got back to Earth, although Curtis Threadgold did indeed come up with a number of other suggestions.
• We haven't managed to dig up any of Chris Barrie's Jackanory episodes, but we have figured out the TX dates: Jack Crater, 1st-3rd March 1993; The Fox and the Chicken, 25th February 1994; The Greatest, 9th March 1994
• Ace Rimmer Worlds Tour
• Smegazine signing event at Forbidden Planet, May 1993
• What Stanley Didn't Say, by Anthony Frewin