Talk Media The Big Light

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Nothing much to talk about this week.... aye right! Always good to have Angela and Paddy on the show - good insights.


At the end of the show we had lined up a huge listener question section but due to time constraints we had to edit it a bit.


Recommendations:


Angela


Dark Matter - Apple TV


Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his life; to get back to his true family, he embarks on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrifying foe imaginable: himself; based on Blake Crouch's best-selling book.


Dark - Netflix


A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.


Paddy


Last Week Tonight - HBO


Winner of the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Talk Series, British comedian, actor and writer John Oliver delivers all the breaking news in his own inimitable style.


The North Face of Soho - Clive James - Book


From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James.


Eamonn


House Arrest - Alan Bennet - Book


A year in and out of lockdown as experienced by Alan Bennett.






The diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads to thoughts on Boris Johnson, from his father's short-lived craze for family fishing trips, to stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut, and encounters on the local park bench. A lyrical afterword describes the journey home to Yorkshire from King's Cross station via fish and chips on Quebec Street, past childhood landmarks of Leeds, through Coniston Cold, over the infant River Aire, and on.

It's girl power this morning here at Talk Media Control. Eamonn is hopefully safe and well in Spain this week and not being chased down a cobbled street by a bull!!!!!


At the end of the Show a question from Ian MacKinnon.


Recommendations:


Ruth


Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots - Rosemary Goring


In this book, Rosemary Goring tells the story of Mary’s Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place and also examines the part Scotland, and its tumultuous court and culture, played in her downfall. Whether or not Mary Stuart emerges blameless or guilty, in this evocative retelling she can be seen for who she really was.


https://www.waterstones.com/book/from-our-own-fire/william-letford/9781800173439 - William Letford


This prose and poetry tour de force of storytelling has the narrative punch of a novel. It is a new departure for the poet, and for poetry itself. It takes the reader into the not-too-distant future: an artificial intelligence rules the world, and a working-class family use their wits to live off the land. William Letford blends prose and his inimitable poetry: sci-fi and hunter-gatherer are merged into a coherent story in the pages of a stonemason's journal.


Americast - BBC Sounds


Shona


Dancing for the Devil - Netflix


After TikTok dancers join a management company and its associated church, unsettling details about the founder and their dark realities come to light.


Catriona


AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders - Netflix


Follow the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from auditions to training camp and the NFL season as they chase their dreams and a coveted spot on the squad.

Today's episode of course looks at the election results and the huge win for Labour all over the mainland.


This week we have David Pratt joining us, so it is a great opportunity to get his specialist insights in to the continuing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.


We've missed having Stuart with us so to welcome back Stuart and to celebrate, we've let him talk about one of his bugbears in "Why so Trivial?"


At the end of the show a question from Paul Hampton regarding the Labour result.


Recommendations:


Stuart


An open letter to supporters from Adam Webb


David


The White Cities: Reports From France 1925-1939 - book - Joseph Roth


Eamonn


The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir - book - Griffin Dunne

In this pre ballot day podcast we've gone for a slightly different format designed to give us more time for your questions. Of course, we got carried away, so what you've got here is a 90 minute episode!


Thanks to Eamonn, Angela and Catriona for managing to stay with us for that length of time.


Recommendations:


Angela


Sacked in the Morning


From transfer windows to formations, from man-management to getting the sack. Craig Levein and Amy Irons explore what it takes to survive as a football manager.


Catriona


The Bear


Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.


Eamonn


The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years - Unreliable Memoirs


In the 1980s, Clive James found his way into full-time television. In The Blaze of Obscurity, his fifth book of memoir, he delivers the inside story. A hilarious, thoughtful, warts and all account of a life in the public eye.


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mufy4

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The boys are in great form today. Recorded just before the SNP manifesto.


At the end of the show a question from Roger Hyam.


Recommendations:


Stuart


Mercedes-Benz Museum


Porsche Museum


Eamonn


The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties - Netflix

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