Red Shift by Alan Garner

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🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Critic and author Erica Wagner and novelist S.F. Said join John and Andy to discuss 'Red Shift', the fifth novel by Alan Garner. Also discussed: 'Brave New Weed' by Joe Dolce (no, not that one) and 'Nomad' by Alan Partridge (yes, that one). Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 8'05 - Brave New Weed by Joe Dolce 10'01 - Alan Partridge: Nomad by Steve Coogan 18'03 - Red Shift by Alan Garner * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I did
0:01.2	do you
0:03.0	do I did last week.
0:13.0	I did last week.
0:15.0	I went to...
0:16.0	This is Peated Doves.
0:18.0	What did you do last week, Andy?
0:20.0	I tell you what I'll tell you what I'll tell you what I'll tell you what I'll tell you
0:22.0	John. I went to my friend Neil's 50th birthday party
0:26.3	and Neil surprised me by saying that he was a regular backlisted listener right
0:31.8	and he really enjoys listening back. I was really chuffed, right?
0:35.0	So happy birthday, Neil. He'll hear this. But he had two specific requests if we were able to help him.
0:41.5	He said, John, could you and I stop saying,
0:45.2	extraordinary?
0:46.7	Can we find a new superlative?
0:50.1	I know, it's terrible.
0:51.1	Okay.
0:52.1	He said, if I hear you say extraordinary again I'm
0:55.8	going to come round your house and deal with you right? So I used to say
1:00.3	fantastic a lot until Fermathealy said don't use that word.
1:04.0	Everything is fantastic.
1:08.0	I can't promise it that I suspect that in today's episode the word extraordinary probably will come up.
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