Breakfast in the Ruins
Friends old and new join me in Derry and Toms roof gardens to discuss the work and influence of prolific British fantasist Michael Moorcock, as well as other bits of 60s and 70s genre fiction that came to me via my Grandad in the 80s and informed my world view. Books, music, role-playing games, wrestling in Featherstone Library and many other digressions await.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 100 minutes
- Episodes
- 119
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
New English Library - Bikermania
Andrew Nette returns to Derry & Toms to look at the legendary UK publisher of horror, science fiction and alarmingly violent but sociologically savvy pulps -New English Library. NEL looms large on my…
The War of the Worlds
Allister Thompson, musician and author of The Music of the Spheres, is back in Derry & Toms to talk about the scientific romance and hardcore disco prog phenomenon that is... The War of the Worlds.
W…
The Sword of the Dawn - Book One
Dave AKA SÖNUS returns to Derry & Toms and we pick up the exploits of Dorian Hawkmoon and his amusing companion Huillam D'Averc in The Sword of the Dawn, third volume of Moorcock's epic The History o…
James Herbert’s The Dark - The Nature of the Uncosy Catastrophe Part One
Graham and Miles join me in Derry & Toms to delve into more James Herbert disaster action and muse over the glut of uncosy catastrophes coming out of the 70s paperback boom to answer Aldiss's dismiss…
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine
Oliver Brackenbury drops by Derry & Toms to give us the low down on New Edge Sword & Sorcery, his new anthology magazine heading to Kickstarter around about the time this show goes out.
We talk about…
The Fortress of the Pearl - Part Two
Loz returns to Derry & Toms to pick up our coverage of The Fortress of the Pearl, muse on Elric's 'nice guy' characterisation, grumble at Jack Three-Beaks, coo over weird sky descriptions and suffer …
The Devils of D-Day 2: Manitou Boogalou
Moorcock, Art & Comics II - Saga of the Man Elf
Simon is back in Derry & Toms to carry on our chinwagging and this time we're joined by Guy Lawley, author of Saga of the Man Elf. This 1989 five issue Trident comics run is my most highly treasured …
Birthday/Xmas Special 2022 - The Devils of D-Day (Part I)
Another year has flown by and we return to Derry and Toms for our fourth annual Phil and MM birthday special and celebrate another year on the planet. This time by reading some patron-selected festiv…
Moorcock, Art & Comics (and more) PART I
Simon Perrins joins me in Derry and Toms to discuss Moorcock, art, comics, Tolkien, TV adaptations, role-playing games, tortured poet musicians we adored in our youths and generally go totally fugazi…
Halloween Special 2022 - THE FOG (James Herbert)
Me and the Monkey - Chronicles of the Monkey God Vol. I
The Black Corridor
The Mad God’s Amulet Book Two
Moorcock and RPGs Part V - Stormbringer Redux!
Moorcock and RPGs Part IV - Sandboxing the Multiverse
The Art of Bob Haberfield (1938 - 2021)
After 40 years of obsessing over the Mayflower covers of Bob Haberfield, Dave and I get to wig out and talk to Ben Haberfield about his Dad's life, art and the gestating project to celebrate the brea…
The Winds of Gath (EC Tubb) - an Old Pier Bookshop Special
The Mad God’s Amulet - Book One (Hawkmoon)
Dave AKA SÖNUS returns to Derry and Toms to dive into the fast-paced and very metal, yet weirdly just OK-ish first part of The Mad God's Amulet, second in the Hawkmoon sequence The History of the Run…