Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the Power Ballad review?
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Chapter 3: What insights does James Graham share about Dear England?
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Today's program, hello, by the way, is that battle which many people have fought this week between quietness and coolness. And I have just shut the door in my home little studio here, which means that as we progress through the show, Mark, I will be turning pews.
Are you cool there? I'm fine. I mean, actually, because I'm in my bespoke studio downstairs in the chapel in Cornwall. Although upstairs on the roof, there are several people banging nails in because the roof work is still going on. But actually, it's quite cool because it's an old Methodist chapel. So they're built with, you know, that stone that just actually stays cool. So I'm fine.
I'm sorry that you're sweltering. I know how hot it is upstairs in your house.
Amazing. it's like it's a whole new country upstairs, it has to be said. But I'm sort of halfway up, and halfway up the stairs is the stair where I sit. There isn't any other stair quite like it. Anyway, but I am doing a show in shorts today, which is really not kind of a good thing.
You know, you should never go to work in shorts, but I feel as though people will understand my personal circumstances here.
Can I tell you an uplifting, well, a story? I'll be quite quick, okay? Is it uplifting or not? Well, I think it is. I don't know whether you remember, but I used to wear a signet ring.
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Chapter 4: How does Mark review Backrooms and its significance?
I had this signet ring that I wore all the time and it was my grandfather's signet ring. And when I was a kid, he used to let me put it on my thumb because he wore it on his little finger. He used to put it on my thumb and I would, because I was so impressed by it. Anyway, after my grandfather died, the signet ring was left to me and I wore it ever since I was a kid.
And it's one of my favorite things. And about seven months ago, I lost it. I had it adjusted because it was slightly too small and my hands had got larger, amazingly. And I lost it.
Chapter 5: What themes are explored in the Tuner review?
And I was pretty sure I knew how I'd lost it and it had come off in water and it was gone. And I was really kind of upset about it, but I also did the thing about, okay, fine, there's nothing you can do. It's gone, it's gone, it's gone. Anyway, last week we had a car in the yard that had been sitting there for ages and ages that we finally had to sell. And somebody came along and towed it away.
And there was just like leaves and muck and everything under it. And the good lady professor, her outdoors, was sweeping up the leaves under the car. And she found my grandfather's ring. Wow. It must have come off when I was fixing the exhaust. And I literally feel like it's come back to me. Because in my head, I had completely got used to the fact that I had it.
Chapter 6: What unique experiences does Mark share about his personal life?
How long was it gone for? Six months. And it was literally in a load of leaves that she was sweeping up and she was sweeping them out onto the thing. So she could have not seen it. She could easily, if it was literally sitting there under the car, it must've come off when I was doing work on the car and, and I had anyway, so there it is.
I have it back and I can't, I can't tell you how happy it's made me.
In that spirit, we're going to have to resume our hunt for our missing Rembrandt, just in case. That's right, I forgot about that. It's fallen down the cracks somewhere. Just refresh the listener's memory.
Chapter 7: How does the episode address the cultural impact of football?
Oh, well, we had a question, it was a question smashed in, what have you lost that's upset you or something like that? And there is this, you know, it may well turn out to be absolutely nothing, but a friend of the good lady's ceramicist, her indoors friend,
His former partner was an art dealer who many years ago gave the good lady ceramicists her indoors, like a drawing on a sheet of A4, which looked pretty ancient.
followed it away and a few years ago we were in amsterdam we went to the rembrandt museum and there's a series of his illustrations and it looks exactly like the one that our art dealer friend gave to him so he came back to look for it thinking no i don't think it can be and we can't find it anywhere so so so that's it so somewhere in the house there might be one or tentatively he might have been done by this guy and it's worth like tub and tape me
Well, I can tell you for a fact, it wasn't under the car. So I'm sorry about that. No. All right. But that's very good. When you find something like that, that is just amazing.
Chapter 8: What final thoughts do Mark and Simon share about the films reviewed?
It was so thrilling. And she did the thing, but I came in and I was grumpy because I can't remember what was going on. I was grumpy because I was doing something. And she just said, hold out your hand, close your eyes, hold out your hand. And I did. And it was like... It's like that folk song in which there's the woman who throws the engagement ring into the sea.
And then years later, she's working in a fish shop and she slices a fish open and the engagement ring falls out. It was literally like that level of magic. I'm so glad to have it back. Do you have only her word for it?
Because it could be that she could have pawned it and then for six months, and then she made some money, then got it back and then just handed it to you.
I used to have this musical notes jumper that I thought was very rockabilly and she thought was very horrible. And then I couldn't find it for ages and I wrongly accused her of having hidden it.
What parent has not done something similar to one of their offspring has just got some terrible, terrible trousers or shirt. No, I put it in the wash. I haven't seen where it is and it's right at the bottom underneath the towels. Anyway, on the show, as we slowly heat up... Well, Mark doesn't, but I certainly will. What are you talking about?
Packed show. We have reviews of Tuna. You interviewed Leo Woodall last week. Power Ballads, which is the new film by John Carney, of whom I'm a big fan. Backrooms, a creepy psychological horror based on a viral series. And Dear England, on that there BBC iPlayer and television, which brings us to our special guest...
Yes, he's James Graham, one of the most prolific and well-regarded playwrights in the UK. So nice to talk to a writer. James Graham will be along. And in take two, Mark, what's going on?
The directorial feature debut from Kristen Scott Thomas, My Mother's Wedding and Fairyland, which is produced by Sophia Coppola.
You can get Take Two with no more ads by heading to our Patreon page where you'll find all kinds of loveliness. An email from Sophie in Leeds. Warwick Alumnus 2007. Dear Tossall Flats and Hume Crescents. Very good. Last week, Simon mentioned a mite of trouble that University Radio Warwick got into regarding submarines.
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