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Homebrew: Episode 5
Welcome to Time for Cakes and Ale’s ‘Homebrew’, our new podcast covering life under lockdown. In this episode we chat with podcaster Carl Sweeney about his adventures on The X-Cast and The Movie Palace podcasts, and the #XCastQuarantine watchalong which is running through the classic 90s TV series The X-Files during the lockdown. Direct download:… Continue reading
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Homebrew: Episode 4
Welcome to Time for Cakes and Ale’s ‘Homebrew’, our new podcast covering life under lockdown. In this episode we chat with author Chris Beckett about writing at a time when reality is stranger than fiction. Chris is best known for his Clarke Award-winning Dark Eden trilogy. Chris has recently been posting a selection of short… Continue reading
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Homebrew: Episode 3
Welcome to Time for Cakes and Ale’s ‘Homebrew’, our new podcast covering life under lockdown. In this episode we chat with Tony Black from the We Made This pop culture podcast network about podcasting, social media watch-along events, and how the lockdown is changing the way fandoms interact. Direct download: Homebrew 3 If you enjoy… Continue reading
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Homebrew: Episode 2
Welcome to Time for Cakes and Ale’s ‘Homebrew’, our new podcast covering life under lockdown. In this episode we chat with Andrew James from Square Enix about what he’s playing right now, what games people should be checking out, and how the lockdown is affecting the video games industry. Direct download: Homebrew 2: Andrew James… Continue reading
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Homebrew: Episode 1
Welcome to Time for Cakes and Ale’s ‘Homebrew’, our new podcast covering life under lockdown. In this introductory episode we talk about what this new series will feature: conversations with folk from a wide range of industries who are interested in sharing their hobbies and interests, talking about how their work and lives are changing,… Continue reading
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Time for Cherry Pie and Coffee – The Stars Turn and a Time Presents Itself
Welcome to Time for Cherry Pie and Coffee, a podcast all about Twin Peaks. We have returned to the water and the well of Lynch/Frost’s surreal vision to discuss some of the themes and ideas that have resonated with us in the months since The Return hit our screens. Each episode will use the given… Continue reading
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Cakes & Ale Episode 31: Book Club – Origamy by Rachel Armstrong
Welcome to the the Cakes & Ale Book Club! Every month we will be bringing you a mix of discussions and interviews about recent genre fiction we’ve been reading. This month, we cover Origamy by Rachel Armstrong, published by NewCon Press. Origamy is the story of Mobius, an extra-dimensional being who is part of a… Continue reading
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News from Time for Cakes and Ale!
Hello Listeners! We’ve recently migrated our podcast to a new hosting service. If you already subscribe to our mothership podcast, Time for Cakes and Ale, your feeds should automatically update. If you subscribe through an app, it might be worth refreshing our feed too. We look forward to bringing you even more of our podcast… Continue reading
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Cakes & Ale Episode 30: Avengers: Endgame
HERE BE SPOILERS! We’re well and truly in the endgame now, as the Infinity Saga draws to a close with an epic final chapter, Avengers: Endgame. In this bumper episode we race through the time-twisting plot, picking out highlights from the movie and discussing whether Endgame is a satisfying conclusion to the story. With so… Continue reading
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Cakes & Ale Episode 29: Interviews from Eastercon 2019
We’ve just returned from Ytterbium, a.k.a Eastercon 70, the annual UK science fiction convention. During the convention we had the great pleasure of chatting to a wonderful range of con-goers to create a snapshot of the kind of conversations you’d hear down at the bar, from writers to publishers, fans, reviewers, academics and con-runners. We… Continue reading