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Happy day! We've found ourselves trapped in a spooky little village, unable to leave and with only Happy Ones for company (they're posting inspirational memes on Facebook again), and so to while away the day, it's time to inflict 1977's unsettling children's drama Children of the Stones onto Heather. But what will she make of the show's murky narrative, flared trousers and reluctance to mail anything to America?

To find out whether you're the kind of man she thinks you are, Margaret Smythe requests that you touch the stone, and then like, rate and subscribe to the podcast.

If you're brave enough to dance among the stones and become one of the Happy Ones, you can find the full list of Children of the Stones episodes right here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWr85zWHuCuLlhD5oVRzFX9j90DWyUH8k

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Hey hey we're Adam and Heather

And people say we Adam and Heather around.

Leonard Nimoy has really become a Vulcan and Michael Nesmith has put his fist through a wall (and it coulda been your face), so it's time to pull on our green woollen hats and double-breasted red shirts and join the world's first manufactured boy band on their tartrazine-fuelled romp around the dispiriting mid-60s music industry. It's The Monkees!

But will Adam be nice about Heather's favourite band and TV show, or will he become a shirtless outcast wandering through the desert in search of a Coke machine, only to capture the entire Italian army, become sucked up into a giant vacuum cleaner, get rescued by mermaids, have a tour of a dangerous chemical plant, fight Sonny Liston, and end up right back inside the big black box?

Monkees is the craziest people.

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Let me tell you one thing, son. Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

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It's time to hop on over to the TFI Friday studios for... gritty 1967 spy thriller, Man In A Suitcase. Adam and Heather take a trek through the darker and grimier corners of the swinging decade, and get involved in all sorts of espionage shenanigans and undercover jiggerypokery - meeting a very familiar drunken rogue and a very familiar double agent in the process.

But will Adam enjoy the show, or will he become distracted by a drunken Shaun Ryder, an ugly bloke and Ocean Colour Scene?

Philip Madoc asks if you could like, rate, review and subscribe to the podcast, and in the meantime your name will also go on the list. What is it?

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Well, a lookie-here, if it ain't that most disreputable gang in the whole of the west - the Retrotube Gang, come to shoot the marshal and his deputy full o' holes - with their verbal sparring, of course: there ain't no guns allowed on Retrotube Ranch. Why look, it's Ezekial Retrotube, Norton Retrotube, Clete Retrotube, ol' Gabriel Retrotube, Clayton Retrotube, Isaac Retrotube, Phileas Retrotube, Charlton Retrotube, little brother Seth Retrotube, Mad Merton Retrotube, and worst of all, Ma and Pa Retrotube, Heather and Adam.

But will they enjoy the most polarising episode of Doctor Who until Love + Monsters, or will they be stringing it up from a tree by sun-up (or mid-afternoon)? Maybe Nurse Gladys Emmanuel will have some thoughts on the matter...

So fill up your ipod

And sit in your room

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In the Last Chance Saloon...

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Here's a little extra bonus thingy - not so much an actual episode, more supplementary material to go along with the chat with Peter Tunstall.

We touched upon the audio tapes that we used to record and post to each other throughout the 90s. If you were at all intrigued by the clips I included in the episode, or just enjoy the whole nostalgic 80s/90s tape cassette culture, I've put together a C90's worth of some of the highlights. It won't be everyone's cup of tea - or even their glass of warm cherryade - but I think there'll be people out there who might dig our hauntologically-inclined shenanigans.

Do give it a try, anyway. I think Peter is a really extraordinary writer, and we had a lot of fun making them and trying out new ideas back in the day.

Let us know what you think!

-Adam

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