Season 13 continued in full chaotic style with a missing Scott, an ill RJ and Stewart Hotston being pulled in last minute as a new host! Other chaotic events include:

• Five minutes of pancake discussion before anyone thinks to introduce the guest

• A conversation on writing that soon devolved into all the ways to not write

• A delicious addition to the Sandwich Shop of Dreams that made everyone want to immediately go to Paris to find it

• Aliette's eldest wants her to add murder to her current work. Kit helpfully adds "you can't go wrong adding murder, can you?"

• Stew wins 'best title pun' for his current WIP

• Lessons from history are discussed

• Lots of love for Terry Pratchett!

• Aliette would like to do a podcast on tea or golden age crime fiction.

Listen in for all this and so much more! Enjoy!

The glorious One Star Quiz returns!

We have our most independent of adjudicators, Laura Mauro!

We have Kayleigh Dobbs teaming up with Kit!

We have JL Worrad joining Stewart Hotston's team!

We have the most fair scoring ever observed, "gibous moon", furries, "cismen, honestly!", an interesting tangent caused by Punch and Judy, all new bonus rounds and so, so, so much more!

Enjoy!

Mythology Queen Shauna Lawless joined us for a fascinating discussion including:

• RJ brazenly announcing he wrote the Wyrdwood books specifically so that they could easily sell the film rights as they would be cheap to make… RJ may have failed in this endeavour

• Shauna's excellent approach to home schooling in lockdown: throw out the curriculum, throw on Bill And Ted

• Shauna greatly offended and intrigued the Sandwich Shop of Dreams

• The recent announcement of the TV show of Shauna's series!

• RJ teases about All The Things!

• Kit has flashbacks to having to cut 4k words from a 44k not-novella to make it an actual novella

• Kit compares the differences between writing song lyrics and writing prose

Listen in for all this and so much more! Enjoy!

We're back!!

After a year full of far too many disruptive shenanigans, it is time to get this show back on the road! Or back in the podcast feeds, anyway.

And what better way to do it than an episode with Steve Toase that immediately veered off into a discussion about German cake and cheese. Classic. Topics also included, but were not limited to:

• RJ knows what podcast he's on, so that's a good start

• Steve started discussing his work and a few minutes later vampire motorbikes appeared

• Inevitably, Stephen King

• Steve has read many books. This is confusing for everyone.

• RJ broke the rules

• "Flaccid fish finger"

• A fight broke out over mushy peas

• Thagomizer!

Look, if you want context, you'll just have to listen! Enjoy!

In a miracle the likes of which we can barely comprehend, a lost episode has been found! That's right, the host-only opener to Season 4 has been discovered in the vaults of Kit's laptop. Behold an episode asking the big questions, such as:

• Are musicals any good?
• Are Queen any good?
• Is Bo Rap any good?
• Is religion any good?
• Is Lie To Me any good?
• Pantsers and planners
• Worldbuilding
• Is the new Game of Thrones any good?

And much, much more. Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: Please be aware that this episode contains discussions around Neil Gaiman and his work. It was recorded before the recent allegations concerning his conduct were public knowledge. We believe victims. Listener discretion is advised.

The magnificent AK Faulkner returned for season 11 and proceeded to confuse everyone by asking if they could get things back on track during the episode. Other outrageous behaviour in the episode include:

• RJ giving his car eyeliner

• AK bringing science into Doctor Who, to the horror of everyone.

• Scott looking forward to a future of Doctor Who on CBeebies, where it belongs

• AK visibly angering the sandwich shop of dreams

• and RJ and Kit doing excellent Bob Dylan impressions

Listen in for all this and so, so, so much more! Enjoy!

In a shocking twist, the mystery guest was revealed to be... the admin! That's right, queen of admin Katie Bruce was invited on the show, revealing her voice to the citizens for the first time! And how did the King of Leeds respond to having a fellow Loiner on the show? He swanned off on holiday and abandoned the whole of Writeopolis, obviously. Rude.

More importantly than RJ's absence, we also had:

• Kit describing the 'all hot, no plot' Bat Out of Hell musical as 'culture'

• Scott doing a deep dive into his own psyche over his hatred of Thatcher

• Katie making the Sandwich Shop of Dreams feel all its feelings (and the citizens struggle with the concept of 'bread in moderation')

• Kit is very, very busy and has mysterious good news

• Dinosaurs get shown a lot of love with the dragon prince of Mongolia and Katie makes a reluctant choice on the binary that causes uproar!

• There's also some big David Bowie love and all things Labyrinth are discussed.

  Listen in for all this and so much more! Enjoy!

After the epic fail of Craig the recording bot last episode, he was thoroughly reprimanded in time for the amazing Marguerite Kenner! Listen in for highlights such as:

• The very rude motorbike

• The podcast getting immediately thrown off topic by cats and video games leading to a record-breaking 16 minute delay on getting to the intro

• Scott is sacked for having a sore throat

• Cheese Detective

• Marguerite talks about the frankly awe-inspiring amount of work she's doing

• "I've been helping my wife build a human skin desk"

• Night cheese is not bed milk

  And so, so much more! Enjoy!