I'm a few years younger than the character Adrian Mole, but I've followed him throughout my life — reading each new instalment of his diaries as if catching up with a lifelong friend. Sue Townsend is a truly fantastic comic writer and this conversation is a wonderful appreciation

NEW COMFORT BLANKET EPISODE! Writer Will Maclean pours scotch into his chess computer and talks about the cold comforts of John Carpenter’s groundbreaking ice-breaking paranoid sci fi horror The Thing… >>

Terrific ep. In terms of comfort, The Thing is 40 Tog . Comfort Blanket

I saw The Thing on release when I was sixteen. One of those early cinema experiences one never forgets. This episode of Comfort Blanket has rekindled some of that teenage excitement again. SKREEEEEEEEECH!!!!!!

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Loved this podcast about the brilliant Molly Dineen (❤️) and her exquisite 1989 documentary, The Heart Of The Angel. Question: where are all the other great 40 Minutes documentaries and why aren’t *they all on iPlayer like this (and just seven others).

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