OK listeners, lots of admin to get through this morning, so pay attention:
1. We have a new album out! Click here to learn more about/buy The Answer Me This! Sports Day. Clue: it’s all about the Olympics sport.
2. We’re interviewed on the latest episode of the marvellous podcast Getting Better Acquainted, which you can hear here.
3. We’re also on Answer Me This! Episode 222, as you might expect.
4. If we sound a bit maniacal to you in the episode, it’s because of the sugar rushes provided by the AMTfans at Roly’s Fudge. Sooooo many sweeties… We’ll have a little lie-down while you listen:
Today we consider:
the definitive version of ‘Hallelujah‘
Brighton Pavilion
campfire guitar war
the Cornwall vs. Devon clotted cream war
universally compulsory therapy
Disneyland Battersea
Giraffe
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
Dr Richard Russell’s seawater cure
energy drinks
Emily Woof
A Handful of Dust
afternoon tea strategy
Muse phoning it in
and
an extremely traumatising image of calamari.
Plus: Olly almost allowed Lynda La Plante to steer his destiny; Helen shares her psyche with the ship from Dark Star; and we discover Martin the Sound Man find crumbs deeply upsetting. He’s really too delicate for this cruel world.
This week’s Bit of Crap on the App takes the episode’s prevailing theme of afternoon tea and heads straight for the cucumber sandwiches. Fire up the iDevices or Android to hear, and if you try the Cucumber Supercrunch Megasandwich, let us know if it is pleasant.
It is definitely pleasant to send us QUESTIONS; please do so by emailing answermethispodcast@googlemail.com or leaving voicemails to the Question Line (dial 0208 123 5877 or Skype answermethis).
See you next Thursday,
Helen & Olly
• iTUNES • ALBUMS • AMT BOOK • QUESTION ARCHIVE • EPISODES • FAQ •
iPHONE APP • ANDROID APP • FACEBOOK • TWITTER • YOUTUBE • MERCH
Tags: A Handful of Dust, afternoon tea, Alan Bennett, Alton Towers, architecture, athletics, Battenburg cake, Battersea, Battersea Power Station, best friends, bicarbonate of soda, body horror, branding, Brighton, Brighton Pavilion, cabins, calamari, Camden, campire, childbirth, clotted cream, competitiveness, confectionery, Cornwall, crabs, crabs' eyes, crank cures, cream, cream tea, cures, cuttlefish, design, Desmond Tutu, Devon, difficult, divorce, dodgy medicine, Dr Richard Russell, Emily Woof, Evelyn Waugh, Exit Music for a Film, fancy tea, fashions, food, friendship, fudge, George IV, Gilbert Scott, Giraffe, guitar players, guitars, Hallelujah, health, heartbreak, Heathrow Terminal 5, homosexuality, iconic buildings, Irish economy, jam, Jason Orange, Jeff Buckley, JLS, Killer Net, laws, Leonard Cohen, licence, logs, London, London 2012, London transport, London underground, Lynda La Plante, Malaysia, medicine, Middletons, milk, monotony, Muse, music, musicians, Olympics, passive aggressiveness, Prince Regent, prolapse, property development, psychotherapy, quackery, Radiohead, red phone boxes, refurbishment, regeneration, relationships, royals, royalty, scones, sea, seawater, seawater cure, singing, singsongs, song, Spice Girls, Spitalfields, sport, spouses, squid, St Pancras, sugar, swimming, tact, Tate Modern, tea, telly, theme parks, therapy, Tom Cruise, towns, trends, tricky situations, tube, TV miniseries, urban regeneration, Wannabe, water, wedding cake, West Country, wives, woodlice, yuk
Answer Me This! Podcast 
July 11, 2012 at 9:38 am |
It’s not the space ship that becomes self aware, it’s one of the bombs it is carrying that becomes self aware.
July 9, 2012 at 4:11 pm |
I must chime in here: I’ve kept quiet on the whose-on-top issue for too long. (Josie, there is a world of difference between whipped cream and cream cheese.) Sure, cream cheese is more delightful when it is a bit airy, but you’re still meant to spread it to ensure an equal amount of enjoyment in every bite. Then, when you add the jam, the two kind of mix anyways. Ergo, cream first, jam second, but neither is the alone the top but instead marry into a delicious singular topping.
July 5, 2012 at 2:46 pm |
Re scones: I vote for jam then cream on top! Jam is designed to be spread, cream is designed to be dolloped. Why go to the trouble whipping the cream so it’s nice and airy if your just going to spread it and squash it under jam. It’s nice and light, ergo, it should go on top!