Lloyd and Tim are back in Kent, scene of their adventures with Moonraker and Stig of the Dump. This time they’re retracting the footsteps of Riddley Walker, the eponymous star of Russell Hoban’s extraordinary 1980 novel. In the first episode they attempt to track down Riddley’s home in How Fents, and travel to Canterbury CathedralContinue reading “Riddley Walker Part One”
Category Archives: Series 2
The War of the Worlds Part Two
In the second part of their War of the Worlds adventure, Lloyd and Tim travel to Weybridge, where the River Wey meets the River Thames, and where Martian tripods destroyed the church at Shepperton while studiouly ignoring D’Oyly Carte’s astonishing mansion built on an island in the Thames. They then head west to try andContinue reading “The War of the Worlds Part Two”
The War of the Worlds: Part One
Lloyd and Tim take on one of the most potent myths of the 20th century: HG Wells’s The War of the Worlds. In part one they take you to the site of the first Martian cylinder, heading next to the Narrator’s house (via the house Wells wrote the novel in), and then down to PyrfordContinue reading “The War of the Worlds: Part One”
The Curiously Specific Book Club 