Barbican Station - A Slow Horses Podcast
@barbicanstation
A podcast on the Slough House books, the AppleTV show SLOW HORSES & other works of Mick Herron. Hosted by @SpyWrite. On all podcast apps or link ⬇️
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Barbican Station - A Slow Horses Podcast SpyHards - A Spy Movie Podcast Ah the vexed McVities Jaffa Cake question crops up again. Whether they're a cake or a biscuit came to a head in 1991 when the UK tax authorities tried to define them as biscuits for VAT purposes. All biscuits and cakes incur VAT at 0% unless the biscuit is wholly or partly…(1/3)
Barbican Station - A Slow Horses Podcast SpyHards - A Spy Movie Podcast …covered in chocolate in which case it becomes a luxury item and incurs VAT at 20%. The case ended up before a tax tribunal where McVities turned up with a specially made Jaffa Cake the size of a cartwheel in defence of their case that they were cakes…(2/3)
Barbican Station - A Slow Horses Podcast SpyHards - A Spy Movie Podcast …The judgement ruled in McVities’ favour partly on the grounds that Jaffa Cakes (like cakes) go hard when stale whereas biscuits go soft when stale (I think that’s in Magna Carta somewhere). (3/3)
This sounds like an amazing event. Wish I could be there to hear this. As someone who enjoyed Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice and has a whole podcast, Barbican Station - A Slow Horses Podcast, on Mick Herron's work, this is a can't miss if you can make it!
First of these is my chat with James Callis discussing all things Claude Whelan with a little bit of Bridget Jones thrown in for good measure. flickeringmyth.com/exclusive-inte…
Next in my Slow Horses chats is Emma Flyte herself Ruth Bradley. Discussing shooting some of the shows best sequences and working with Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas
Mick Herron’s world works not just because he is a great storyteller, or has a keen grasp of the mechanics of espionage, but because he simply gets an awful lot right about why modern Britain is the way it is. My latest essay for Engelsberg Ideas: engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-slo…
Slow Horses and popular culture’s long fascination with the quest for the ‘perfect assassin’ – international relations expert Luca Trenta’s latest piece for The Conversation. #SlowHorses #IR theconversation.com/slow-horses-an…