Are they like charity shops? 'Cause I love charity shops.

Oh boy…

It's an interesting idea in theory, I guess, having one character in your survival series being a no-exceptions pacifist, but in practice it seems to just be there so he can constantly stall their progress.

Yeah, and as with Craig they course-corrected on the last season and made Jamm work (the extended version of the episode where Ron and Leslie have to stop him marrying Tammy II is one of the best of the last season).

And as a kid he played The Artful Dodger in David Lean's Oliver Twist.

While Sleeper and Catatonia et al had hits at the time, folk still mostly associate britpop with Blur, Oasis and other bloke-y bands. Perhaps this is because of the rise of lad culture being concurrent with the britpop era and them getting mixed up in the popular imagination, but the movement has that football and…

Sure I know who he is - he's that guy who every time he comes up on screen I am sure I know, but after I check IMDB I'm still confused as to what it is I know him from.

Well, this has just been added to my to-read pile!

That's a good point - a lot of sci-fi tales about cool new tech often forget that it'd pretty much only be rich folk that really get good use out of it.

So basically Rosencratntz and Guildenstern as they appear in the Tom Stoppard play?

Yeah - I was actually really surprised when the obits mentioned his age, because I had never thought of him as being that old.

I think they also muff up Harry's participation in that scene - I'm sure in the book he has ran out to try and help and hit with a stunning spell so he is forced to watch it play out while he is completely powerless, while in the film he just kinda skulks about in the shadows.

Frank was really good too

Spoilers for Shutter Island, man…

I was going to mention "It's No Game (Part 1)"!

Also some predictably great piano from Roy Bittan

Good to hear. I was really in to the world that Leviathan Wakes built so hearing that there are more books in that setting that are even better is encouraging.

Finally, thanks to the BBC adaptation, decided to give War & Peace a go. Boy does it live up to its reputation! It's often hard to read books that are hailed as masterpieces without part of you thinking 'Is this it?' but I've just been enthralled by this. I'm around 1000 pages in and I'm still as engrossed as I was at…

I recently read Leviathan Wakes after liking the TV series, and definitely enjoyed it so I look forward to tackling the rest of the series at some point.

Have you read NW? It's easily my favourite of hers