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Top Flight Time Machine

TFTM Gold: The Twits Odyssey - Part 11

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Comedy, Sports, Sports & Recreation, Soccer

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

(Rec: 7/10/20) Roald Dahl smokes something he shouldn’t round the back of The Feathers and hires a giraffe.


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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 Ty Machine. I am Andy Dawson. Pow, Pao.

0:17.0

I'm Sam Lifty Delaney. So what?

0:18.8

It's the next episode of the Twits Odyssey.

0:21.3

We're going through Roll Dolls, the Twits classic children's book.

0:24.4

It's not just for children, it's for everyone.

0:26.6

And that's why we're doing it.

0:28.3

We were in the middle of the chapter entitled Muggle Wump has an idea.

0:34.7

Muggle Wump, of course, is the performing monkey.

0:39.1

He lives in a cage in the garden of the Twits.

0:42.6

And he's got the roly-poly bird roped in.

0:46.3

And Mugglewump has said that we're going to turn both Mr. and Mrs. Twit upside down with their legs in the air.

0:54.0

I can imagine that would be one of the funniest things imaginable for a young kid listening to this, age like six or something.

1:02.0

Don't be ridiculous, the roly-poly bird said, how can we possibly turn those two maggotty old monsters upside down?

1:08.6

We can, we can, we can, cried Mugglewump.

1:10.4

We're going to make them stand on their heads for hours and hours, perhaps forever. Let them see what it feels like for a change. Oh, said the Roli Polly Bird. Just tell me how. And that was where we left it. And now we're about to find out how they're going to do that. Oh, his, uh, his, uh, Dahl's language has got a little bit floured here. He's gone, uh, muggle him, laid his head on one side and a tiny, twinkling little smile, touched the corners of his mouth. He must have been high when he wrote that line. Thank you, now. He must have been... Oh, shut myself there. I'm fucking going for it here. Sometimes I get on a fucking roll. And then stop. Don't think about it. Just let it come. Keep going. Keep going. Oh, what? I went out the back of the feathers to have a piss. Because they've got an outside carsey. And there was a couple of younger lads and they were they were smoking a funny smelling cigarette and they're giving it the old art new old doll I used to fucking love James and the Giant Peach bollocks and I've gone never mind all that your pair of fucking freaks gives a toke on whatever the fuck it is your smoking there

2:18.7

they've said

2:21.2

it'll be a pleasure so

2:22.6

you know I don't want to fucking come off

2:24.9

like a fucking pussy do I to these

2:26.8

young lads so I've given out a couple of

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