William Boyd - The Flaming Terrapin (Part 1)

The Moon Under Water

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🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Oh to be sitting in front of a roaring fire at your favourite pub. Book in one hand, pint in the other... is there any better feeling? It's almost impossible to capture the sheer perfection of such a moment in print. However, a handful of writers have been able to bring moments like that to life, and this week's guest is one of the finest novelists the Other Realm has ever produced. It's the incredible William Boyd.

William is an acclaimed author whose works of fiction have been celebrated the world over. His novels include A Good Man in Africa, The New Confessions and Any Human Heart, and his latest book The Romantic has received widespread critical acclaim. His experiences in pubs all over the world have helped him create pubs in his own pieces of fiction, meaning that he arrives at The Moon Under Water armed with a deep knowledge of what makes the perfect drinking establishment.. and we cannot wait for him to join us.

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0:00.0	The hog's head, the king's head.
0:12.0	The head of the river.
0:16.0	The three goat's heads.
0:20.0	The hog's king, the head's goat,
0:25.7	the three rivers head, the head's head.
0:31.4	The king of goats, the head's river,
0:37.1	the hog of the head the three heads heads heads the head the head of the goats
0:45.3	the river's king the three hogs the heads heads, the moon underwater. Oh Robin, it's good to finally see you here in the moon underwater this evening.
1:33.7	Thank you. It's lovely to be here.
1:35.7	The moon underwater has got a bee in its bonnet.
1:38.4	Oh, really?
1:39.2	Yeah. But that's a good thing. Yeah.
1:41.3	Because if you look over there, see its bonnet.
1:44.0	Yeah. See that enormous bee? Yeah. Yeah. Because if you look over there, see it's bonnet. Yeah.
1:44.5	See that enormous bee?
1:46.8	Yeah.
1:47.4	Yeah.
1:47.8	I think what it's a sign in many ways.
1:51.4	There's quite a sort of harvest feel to the moon underwater.
1:54.9	But what it likes to do is just make sure that our guests aren't beset by bees when they
2:00.7	arrive in the correct realm
2:01.9	because, as you know, when you traverse the realms,
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