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Top Flight Time Machine

The Twits Odyssey - Part 2

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Sports & Recreation, Soccer, Sports, Comedy

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We meet Mrs Twit, Roald Dahl clashes with his publishers over the insult levels, and how to enhance a marriage with bunk beds. (Rec: 5/8/20)


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0:43.2

It's the top right time machine, I'm Andy Dawson, pal, pal, pal. I'm Sam, this is Delaney Sagwa.

0:47.4

It's the Twits Odyssey part 2 and we're working out, we're gradually through a raw

0:51.6

dialed book of the Twits which you might be familiar with if you've ever been a child.

0:56.7

Of course it's illustrated famously by Quentin Blake, so we talk as much about the illustrations

1:01.4

as much as the story itself. Lots of chapters in this, lots of very short chapters indeed,

1:06.0

I think we rattled through three of them in the first episode. We're now under the next chapter

1:10.4

which is just called Mrs Twitt, we've not heard anything from so far talking about Mr Twitt

1:14.9

and dirty beads and dirty faces. Mrs Twitt doesn't have a bead

1:19.8

but you know, rolled doll isn't kind to Mrs Twitt at all, he wasn't kind to Mr Twitt, he's not

1:26.5

kind to Mrs Twitt, he'd be given begins the chapter by saying Mrs Twitt was no better than her husband.

1:33.2

She did not of course have a hairy face, it was a pity she didn't because that read

1:38.4

that would have hidden some of her fearful ugliness, take a look at her, he says, take a look at her,

1:43.4

have a look at this, fix your fucking papers on this everyone, have a look at it,

1:52.0

Quentin, it's me, rolled, yeah, I've got a new jump for you, new commission,

1:58.0

I want you to draw a right ugly cow, I'm working on a book about a couple of fucking idiots,

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