I loved the movie. It was very funny and twisty. I went to see it as a reader of Nesbo's books, particularly the Harry Hole series, so the humour was an unexpected but delightful surprise.

In the scene between Stannis and Melisandre before she left Dragonstone, wasn't he asking her to make another shadow baby? She told him he didn't have the strength and she needed someone else with a king's blood. Forgetting the book and Edric, my impression from the show was that Melisandre was after Gendry for the…

I appreciate that I am very late with this comment and it's likely that no one will ever read it, but I've only just listened to the podcast and wanted to chip in on the discussion of disappointing movies. Specifically, I wanted to present that discussion as the epitome of "first world problems" and of the…

Elvis, he's a hero, he's a superstar and I hear that Paul McCartney drives a Rolls Royce car. Dylan sings for millions but I just sing for free, oh…

I'm struggling with how the references are anachronistic. Four books had been published by then, the latest in March 1956 (Suez was in October) and Fleming was within a year or two of being able to give up the day job. The books may not have taken off in America by then but they'd done well enough in Britain and two…

Forgotten Finn
Todd, in your song list, you forgot Finn's rather fine rendition of "I've Gotta Be Me."

Ratings Suck
The ratings are down from last week.

Twitter from the composer, David Arnold in July when it aired on the Beeb: