Slug of Time Podcast – FreakyTrigger

Slug of Time Podcast – FreakyTrigger

Lollards in the high church of low culture

Episodes

A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 16

October 28, 2008
In the last episode of Series 2, Astrophysicist Michael Williams joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “The Forgotten Enemy”, written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1949. It’s about comfy isolation, radio static, and forces la[…]
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A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 15

October 21, 2008
It’s Katie Grocott in the studio this week with Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “Things”, written by Ursula Le Guin in 1970. This is a short story about a society sharply divided between nihilist marauders and maudlin […]
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A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 14

October 14, 2008
Richard Tunnicliffe joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about Thomas M. Disch’s “The Squirrel Cage”. It’s a story about a writer writing for no one, or for everyone – he’s not sure which (lol Livejournal)[…]
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A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 13

October 9, 2008
Rebecca Levene sits in with Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about Brian Aldiss’ 1957 short story, “All the World’s Tears”. It’s about a vitiated ecology, a mechanized society, and a desolate, wind-swept mansion w[…]
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A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 12

September 30, 2008
Magnus Anderson joins the Slug Lords to talk about Arsen Darnay’s short story, “Such Is Fate”. It’s about a gypsy, a sailor, a tank of liquified gas, and what we can learn from the past. Music comes via Olivia Newton-John and […]
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A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 11

September 23, 2008
Victoria de Rijke joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “Aye, and Gomorrah”, a tale of sexless astronaut prostitutes and the people who worship them. I’m not making that up! It was written by Samuel R. Delany in 1966 a[…]
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A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 10

September 16, 2008
“Track 12” by J.G. Ballard gets Slugged this week, with Richard Thomas joining Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss it. Elisha reads this odd story of revenge via home recording in case you haven’t; music comes courtesy of Joh[…]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 9

September 9, 2008
We pick up with Pete Baran joining Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions for “Zirn Left Unguarded, The Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead”, written in 1972 by Robert Sheckley, read here by Elisha. Music includes the Electro Hippies, P[…]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 8

May 20, 2008
Kat Stevens joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about Choose Your Own Adventure books, speaking with animals, and “Build Up Logically”, an unclassifiable short story written in 1950 by Howard Schoenfeld. It’s about two men[…]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 7

May 14, 2008
Ken Hollings joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “The Tactful Saboteur”, a tale of civil servants and their multi-phase sexual life cycles. Written by Frank Herbert in 1964, it’s read by Elisha at the front of the pr[…]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 6

May 6, 2008
Al Ewing joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, the famed 1952 story about a dinosaur safari gone wrong. Lots of other Bradbury and time travel tales get a look in, and Elisha reads the s[…]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 5

April 29, 2008
Dave Queen joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about the outrageous 1927 short story “The Red Brain”, written by Donald Wandrei when he was supposedly 16 years old. Elisha reads the story at the front of the programme and music […]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 4

April 22, 2008
Martin Skidmore joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss the first space-travel story of the series, and the first truly obscure find, “Beyond the Reach of Storms” by Donald Malcolm. As always, Elisha reads excerpts at the front o[…]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 3

April 15, 2008
Alan Trewartha joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss “Segregationist”, one of Isaac Asimov’s famous robot stories from 1967. Music includes “Nobody Loves a Computer Because a Computer Does Not Dance”, by Computer. Elisha reads fr[…]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 2

April 8, 2008
Tom Ewing joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss Fritz Leiber’s “A Pail of Air”, written in 1951. It’s a short story about a kid, some rugs, and an Earth so cold that helium crawls. Will it crawl onto YOU? Elisha rea[…]
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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 1

April 1, 2008
Sarah Clarke joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There”, a 1938 science fiction novella about ice-bound scientists confronted with an alien who can become them. Elisha reads from the book in[…]
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