The Twits Odyssey - Part 2
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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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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