‘What harm was one more podcast?’

Yes, we may have been teeny bit premature in heralding the end of the podcast a couple of years ago. So why are we back, all be it briefly? Well, with a new Red Dwarf novel having just been published with Rob Grant & Andrew Marshall’s Titan, as well as suggestion that Doug may look to turn his his intended Dave special into a novel, it felt that there was a big chunk of the Red Dwarf universe that we’d not covered properly on the podcast. So to put that right, and as something of a coda to the podcast, we’ll be releasing a limited series of episodes, each discussing a different book. But with Titan having only recently been released, to give us and indeed you a chance to properly absorb it, we’re taking a slower run up by first covering all of the prior novels, starting with this episode covering Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers.

Is the novel just a straight retelling of a collection of TV episodes? How does it hide important plot strands early on? And given it’s less than 25 pages into the book before Lister is being offered services in a robot brothel, just why on Earth were we all reading this book at an age where we could still be singing soprano in the school choir?

All these age inappropriate questions and more will be covered as Alex, James and Andrew find themselves alone in a Godless universe and out of Audible credits.

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In our final ever episode of The Garbage Podcast, we’re closing out our celebration of Back to Earth’s 15th anniversary with a look back at the story’s concluding part.

By the episode’s own quantum logic, is Lister a murderer? Which prime time family drama does Doug think is naff? And if your sitcom seems to be leaning more heavily into drama than normal, can you balance that by having one of your cast smash their cock and bollocks into a desk, while two of the others get twatted by rakes?

All these painful questions and more will be covered as Alex, James and Andrew try one last time to prove that even though they’re disgusting, sometimes they can be quite listenable.

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In our continuing celebration of Back to Earth’s 15th anniversary, we look back at the story’s second part in our penultimate podcast.

Does this part have some similarities with another British televisual institution? Just why won’t real life Fan Club chairman James Bull change his name to Reg Wharf? And at what point in the production did it occur to anyone that a Smart car only has two seats?

All these compact questions and more will be covered as Alex, James and Andrew reminisce about what is arguably the strangest episode of Red Dwarf ever made.

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