TFTM Gold: The Twits Odyssey - Part 6
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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(Rec: 2/9/20) Is Quentin Blake top dollar or laddy? And is this a bird protection podcast now?
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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. |
| 0:10.2 | Here we go. Here we go. This is Top Fly Time Machine. I am Andy Dawson. Pa-Pau-Pow. |
| 0:17.2 | I am Stam Nifty Delaney. So what. |
| 0:19.5 | Welcome along to The Twits Odyssey, the latest episode. |
| 0:21.8 | We're going through Roll Diles, the Twits book, at a rate of knots. |
| 0:26.0 | We've reached the point where I think we're going to agree. |
| 0:29.7 | It's the second act. |
| 0:30.7 | We've had the preamble, which sort of fills us in on the relationship between Mr and Mrs. Twit. |
| 0:38.8 | Mutual destruction, I think it's the theme to their relationship. |
| 0:42.8 | Not a lot of love there. |
| 0:44.0 | It's toxic and dysfunctional, and they established that over the first sort of third of the book, don't I? |
| 0:50.2 | Fucking, I think we're nearly halfway through, actually. |
| 0:52.0 | I say they, I mean, Roald Dahl, and to some extent, |
| 0:55.5 | Quentin Blake. Yeah, who played a big part in this. Some of those, I was talking about some of the Jack and O'Norri episodes where Quentin Blake told a story while doing the drawings at the same time. And they were on YouTube, some of them. Oh, really? Really good to watch. So, you know, obviously we've established and gone quite deeply into why Roald Dahl was basically a cunt on these shows. |
| 1:19.1 | But what about Quentin Blake? |
| 1:20.7 | What do we know about his personality? |
| 1:23.4 | Decent bloke? |
| 1:25.2 | Don't know. |
| 1:26.2 | Don't know. |
| 1:26.5 | Where you would put him on the... Lending car system. Yeah. Probably in the middle. What's the middle one again? The middle one is casual bloke. Casual bloke. I think Quentin Blake's probably a casual bloke. There was something on his website which I saw, which I'm just going to find now, |
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