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Top Flight Time Machine

TFTM Gold: The Twits Odyssey - Part 10

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Sports, Comedy, Soccer, Sports & Recreation

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

(Rec: 30/9/20) The Twits head off for guns, there’s some Ask Attenborough, the Roly Poly Bird explores the shed, and the monkeys reveal their plan.


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0:00.0

Here we go.

0:04.1

Here we go.

0:08.1

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. This is Top Flight Time Machine. I am Andy

0:15.6

awesome. Ba, ba, ba. I'm Sam Nick Delaidey. So what?

0:20.4

Welcome to the Twitsodicy Part 10. We're going through the Roll-Dar Classic, The Twits, illustrated by Quentin Blake, and we are at the point where we're in the chapter, which has got the best title, best title, rather, of any chapter in the book, Mr. and Mrs. Twick go off to buy guns. Yeah.

0:37.6

Which is all you can ask for in a children's book, isn't it? The acquisition of firearms. In any book? Someone's a chapter that starts with the protagonists go off to buy guns. You're thinking things are ramping up here. Yeah. Yeah. And when it's a kid's book, even better. and when they've got a roof that's covered in birds,

0:56.0

well, you know what's going on next, don't you?

0:58.1

Yeah. And when it's a kid's book, even better. And when they've got a roof that's covered in birds,

0:56.0

well, you know what's going to happen next, don't you?

0:58.1

That's where we left it, I think, wasn't it?

0:59.6

All the birds were on the roof because the cage, the monkeys are in,

1:05.5

was covered in glue, the branches of the tree was covered in glue.

1:08.9

So all the birds are taken to the roof of the house,

1:12.6

and Mrs. Twit had scalded in Mr. Twit and said,

1:17.2

I won't have you smearing sticky glue all over the roof of our house.

1:22.2

To which Mr. Twit got very excited.

1:25.0

It says, I've got a great idea, he cried.

1:28.4

He didn't bother to keep his voice down

1:30.4

because he didn't think

1:31.2

the monkeys could understand

1:32.3

how wrong he was.

1:34.2

How very wrong he was.

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