This week's big question is: if a tree falls in the woods, are you banging your own mum? But before that: Avengers Infinity War (whole bunch of spoilers, including a spoiler for which Avenger Nathan is in love with), and Netflix series The Rain.

• Infinity War trailer, if you haven't already seen it
• Vanity Fair longread on Kevin Feige's reign over Marvel
• Watch The Rain on Netflix
• Sarah's review of Natalie Hayne's novel Children of Jocasta (that's Jocasta in the right of the image)

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Sarah and Nathan saw Mary Stuart at the Theatre Royal in Bath, and Nathan saw a lot of films on a plane - some of which were good, some of which were not terrible, and some of which were made by Ridley Scott. Plus, Age of Answers! 

• More about Mary Stuart
• That incredible Tonya Harding profile
• Caroline Criado Perez explains why she campaigned for a statue of a woman in Parliament Square

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Don't say we didn't warn you. Ready Player One is really, really bad, so it sucks to be Sarah who only got to see that this week. Better times for Nath who also saw Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark with live soundtrack, meaning that we can delve into the mysteries of good Spielberg vs poor Spielberg. There's no Age of Answers this week because there were, shockingly, NO QUESTIONS - make us happy and send us some!

• Seriously don't bother
• What Nathan saw
• Molly Ringwald's essay

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Why is the new Lara Croft movie like a plastic cup? Can a family annihilating demigod achieve character development? And just how should a person be? All these questions and more (including the ones you put to us in Age of Answers via the email below) WILL be answered in this amazing episode of The Mispronounced Item. 

• The trailer for Tomb Raider if you must
• but tbh everything looks good at Cinerama so it doesn't matter that the movie is nonsense
• Meet daddy Kratos in the God of War trailer
• Stephen Bush on why Hermione Granger is obviously black
• Sheila Heti's website, you simply must read her
• Here is the Siri Hustvedt essay that Sarah utterly mangled in the description
• This is what the Muskehounds theme should sound like

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We're back from Seattle, and here we are with the aural equivalent of your neighbours coming over with the slides from their holiday. This week: things we learned in Seattle (mostly about aircraft, please trust us that this is very interesting), Annihilation the book and the film, Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, and (of course) THE AGE OF ANSWERS.

• Seriously, the Museum of Flight is VERY VERY GOOD
• The Figuring History exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum
• Watch an amazing retro-futuristic video about the World's Fair and the Space Needle
• Watch Annihilation on Netflix
• But first read the book (or maybe after, we didn't really decide)
• And definitely read The Left Hand of Darkness

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We went to see Flight of the Conchords! It was great! We listened to loads of Britpop on the way! It was... variable! We watched Murder on the Orient Express! It was exactly what we hoped for! And Nathan has been playing Burnout Paradise Remastered! It has been consuming! Plus, we answer a long overdue question in the Age of Answers. No Mispronounced Item next as we're on holiday, so see you when we get back.

• Check out the Conchords website (there are some new dates on the UK tour so you can still grab tickets)
• Read Francis Wheen's magnificent article about crime writer Josephine Tey
• Burnout Paradise Remastered is out for Xbox One and PS4 now

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Apologies for being a day late on this due to Nath being ill. Still, we're here now with thoughts on Black Panther (MANY SPOILERS, you have been warned) and You Were Never Really Here (about which we try to say as little as humanly possible, leading to a pretty weird section TBH where we talk about Britpop for ages for some reason), plus The Age of Answers which is of course the best bit. 

• Black Panther is in cinemas now (when you've watched it, here's the column on it we mentioned)...
• And so is You Were Never Really Here.
• Queer Eye is on Netflix and is 100% pure joy.

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We watched Mute. We thought it couldn't be as bad as people said, but it is if anything much, much worse. So bad that Sarah argues it should have been more like Mr Bean, and actually has a point. Maximum spoilers here so avoid if you want to watch Mute (but you don't want to watch Mute). Plus a quick rattle through a novel inspired by the life of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, and Nathan getting excited about The Swapper. Age of Answers includes some career advice and thoughts on Chuck Palahniuk, with special bonus atmospheric noises supplied by our newly adopted dog, Jessie.

• Mute is on Netflix. Leave it alone.
• Pre-order The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka (out April).
• Play The Swapper.
• Read "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk but by God you better have a strong stomach.

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Here's the Great Lost Episode from last year! And by "Great" we mean "Really Quite Long", but for EXCELLENT REASONS, mostly relating to the brilliance of Get Out, here discussed extensively (and with spoilers all the way). We originally recorded this in March 2017, but it's OK because we were right about basically everything. Some links: 

• Get Out has been Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya); by God you should watch it.
• I Am Not Your Negro is on home release now, but also read Baldwin.
• Here's Sarah's review of the Charlotte Rampling memoir.
• The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy is compulsory reading.
• The Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Quote is from Between the World and Me.
• Aliens is just amazing, get it on Blu-ray already.

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"It's the intellectual equivalent of separate beds!" says Nathan, meaning he's watched a film that Sarah hasn't and Sarah has read a book he hasn't this week. Cloverfield, Shirley Jackson, and dietary advice for dogs, let's go.

• The Cloverfield Paradox is on Netflix now (if you're avoiding spoilers, skip 00:03:00-00:22:00 of this podcast).
• Treat yourself to the Ghostwatch/Stone Tape DVD double bill.
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson is available in this lush deluxe edition from Penguin.
• Not going to link to any creepypasta because good grief you can ruin your own brains if you must.
• This apparently trustworthy website says our advice on dogs and pasta is solid, so why not hit us up with further pet queries that we are in no way qualified to answer.
• Nathan's Kickings columns aren't online, but here's Sarah on Nadine Dorries.

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Somehow we manage not to wang on further about Hamilton this week though that may change due to popular demand (i.e. if someone asks, which they already have, thank you Deya on Twitter). This week! Walking sims are great, humanity is terrible, and comedians are chatty.

• The games we talk about are What Remains of Edith Finch, Oxenfree, Crossing Souls, Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Gone Home and Tacoma.
• Sarah's Edith Finch article for Eurogamer is here; Nathan's for Rolling Stone is here.
• Here's an article about the Winchester Mystery House.
• The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch is published in the UK by Canongate.
• Peach by Emma Glass is published by Bloomsbury Circus; Sarah's review for the Guardian is here.
• Leslie Jamison's article on female anger is here.
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is on Netflix.

We went to see Hamilton! It was predictably amazing! Plus a bit about Star Trek.

• See Hamilton if you can, but definitely definitely listen to the cast recording on Spotify.
• Read Helen Lewis's article about Hamilton.
• Watch Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix.

The fun twist this week is that we've been doing completely different things, making for some classic repartee along the lines of "what are you talking about?" and "I don't understand".

• Dark is on Netflix; Sarah is going to watch it and you should too
• Red Oaks is on Amazon Prime
• Ian Leslie's article on the golden age of television is a great explanation of how TV got so good and why it won't last
• The John Jeremiah Sullivan essay on the blues that Sarah mentions is in Pulphead
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit are both by Becky Chambers
• Light and Climbers are by M. John Harrison
• All the Pretty Horses is by Cormac McCarthy

Questions to @sarahditum or @nathanditum on Twitter are very welcome, and we'll answer them in The Age of Answers next week (if we can find the sting).

Well it's been ages, hasn't it? Let's try to make this thing more regular.

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is on general release now. Watch the trailer here. 
• The Shining is obviously still in print and you should buy it from your favourite book shop. 
• Read the amazing story of Antony Burgess's pettiness at The Wrap.
• The games books Nathan read are Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games by Walt Williams and Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier.

What's in the drawer? It's the mystery of whether Nathan's sexuality was formed by a Two Ronnies sketch! Open if you dare. 

• Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine is out now from Icon; Sarah's review for the Guardian is here 
• The Essential Difference by Simon Baron-Cohen was published in 2003 and is still in print because there is no God
• The Power by Naomi Alderman is out now from Penguin; Sarah's review for the New Statesman is here
• Why not watch the the Two Ronnies' sketch The Worm that Turned and never feel nostalgic for the 80s again?
• The wines we were comparing are the Society's Exhibition Sancerre 2015 and Concha y Toro Corte Ignacio Rapel Sauvignon Blanc 2015, both from the Wine Society 
• The Will Adams memorial is in Gillingham, and you can read more about the Kentish Samurai on Wikipedia
• Nioh is released on 8 February and you can watch some gameplay on PS Access
• Keza MacDonald and Jason Killingsworth's book about Dark Souls is called You Died
• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes is published by Faber and Faber
• Prevenge is on general release on 10 February: watch the trailer
• Assassin's Creed is out now: watch the trailer and be impressed by Marion Cotillard's ability to sell some right Matrix bollocks

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Last week's good intentions to focus on the positive come awry as Sarah and Nathan talk about war (it's bad), Sherlock (pretty bad also), and why Sarah is biased against American fiction.

• You, unlike Nathan, can watch Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? on BBC iPlayer and read Sarah's New Statesman column about the programme  
• Sarah's review of Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta is at the Spectator
• Sarah's review of The Bed Moved by Rebecca Schiff is at Literary Review
• Around the World With Orson Welles is available on DVD from the BFI; in the podcast, Sarah says that the cohosts were "Kenneth Anger and wife": Kenneth Anger is of course the super gay occultist who wrote Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Tynan is the theatre critic who stood in for Welles when the big man couldn't make it to the bullfight, and "Mrs Kenneth Tynan" is Elaine Dundy; other than that, great job Sarah
• Janet Frame's collected short stories, The Daylight and the Dust, are published by Virago
• Nathan's piece about Apocalypse Now and Spec Ops: The Line will be linked here when published
• Sherlock is on BBC iPlayer but honestly not recommended; here's a good piece from 1843 Magazine about the turn to personal relationships in drama

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2016 is gone but we are back! With a new theme tune! And we've put together a list of everything worth redeeming from the smoking trashpile of last year. Sarah picks books by Sarah Perry (above left) and Susan Faludi, and albums by Carly Rae Jepsen and Angel Olsen; Nathan takes on film and games, with props for Hunt for the Wilderpeople (above centre) and Dishonored 2 (above right). See, it's not all completely apocalyptic. Just mostly.

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Things have taken a turn for the really quite bad, haven't they? Join us in our search for ten reasons not to worry even though everything is terrible. Nathan's been revisiting Red Dead Redemption, Sarah's been reviewing Susan Faludi's memoir of her father's life and gender transition, and there are some superb new stings to feed your misery. "Seamus I'm not sure this supercut of D:Ream and George Galloway is a great idea either." TOO LATE SEAMUS WE'VE DONE IT ANYWAY.

You know how much fun hearing about other people's holidays is? Well listen to us talk about our holiday for a whole hour. Los Angeles! Disneyland! Yosemite! San Francisco! All the things we did and you didn't! Plus, Sarah on why The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry might be the novel of the year, and Nath's amazing behind-the-scenes revelations about Chatham Historic Dockyards.

Strap yourself in for NO FUN AT ALL in this edition of The Mispronounced Item where we talk about male violence, male violence, and fire. We've watched claustrophobic Oscar contender Room (spoilers ahoy), Sarah reminisces about the horrible time she tried to read all the Red Riding books in one go, and Nathan's been playing new PS4 game Firewatch. Plus, we answer your questions in that feature at the end which we always forget to do! 

This is a farrago. We try to have a serious chat about Netflix series Making a Murderer and the rise and rise of the true crime genre (mentions to this excellent critical response from the New Yorker, this NYT portrait of a special victims unit, and Leslie Jamison's essay on the West Memphis Three compiled in The Empathy Exams). But it starts to go off the rails when Nathan turns out to have really no opinions at all about The Revenant; and somehow, terribly, the section where we meant to pay tribute to David Bowie turns into a chat about the awful awful Krays film Legend, which turns into something basically unforgivable. Sorry!

Join us this week as Nathan talks seemingly endlessly about Star Wars - no, not even the new one, but about the prequel trilogy, digital effects, and the curse of the 1990s. Sarah has been reading Jonathan Bate's biography of Ted Hughes, a very sharp look at a titanic talent and an utter bastard, and Sarah has also reviewed Samantha Hunt's new novel Mr Splitfoot and did not like it, which leads to a discussion about how critics feel when they need to be mean about things (poor us!) and, inexplicably, a blow-by-blow summary of several episodes of Adam Buxton's new podcast. Sorry.

Let's just pick up where we left off and pretend we haven't ghosted you for months, yeah? We've assidiously rated THE WHOLE OF 2015 so we can talk at you about the actual best bits. We've got the best games, the best books, and the best films. (Not to give anything away on that last one, but there are a lot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers from 00:51:40 to 01:18:12. Like, we-will-ruin-your-viewing-pleasure spoilers. Consider yourself warned.) And remember: we're not content creators, we're entertainers!

OH MY GOD WHERE HAVE WE BEEN? HOW HAVE YOU COPED WITHOUT US? Top domestic chat this week about Nathan's sunglasses, which he has lost. While we've been away, Nath's been writing about YouTuber KSI: is he the worst thing that has ever happened or quite good? Sarah has been writing about new novella Grief is the Thing with Feathers, inspired by Ted Hughes: is he the worst thing that has ever happened, or quite good? And finally, Nath read a boring book about a leper and wants to tell you all about it even though Sarah does her best to distract him with a fascinating story about dead crows. Enjoy!

What did we do on our holiday? Well we went all gooey about Henry Cavill in The Man from Uncle, we  thrilled to The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, and we didn't do any writing (because we were on holiday, duh) but Sarah's review of new Bond novel Trigger Mortis has just been published and she wrote about Anthony Horowitz's much-criticised comments on whether Idris Elba should play 007 – so you get some talk about all that. And at the 39 minute mark, genuinely the worst conversation we've ever had. 

This week: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy pushes humanity off a cliff (and frankly we deserve it), Justified lays down the law, and why people who say your A-levels don't matter are big smug liars. No pod next week as we're on holiday, but to be honest once you've heard Sarah's weird Gael García Bernal fantasy, you'll have had enough of us for a while.

Sorry we're late, Nath had to drive to Paignton and Paignton waits for no pod. Up this week: Sarah has watched brilliant coming of age drama The Diary of a Teenage Girl; Nath boldly decides to be the only human alive with a good thing to say about Vince Vaughn in True Detective season 2; some talk on art, appreciation and rap-rock as Sarah has reviewed Leon Neyfakh's The Next Next Level, about being the number one fan of Juiceboxxx; and of course, THE AGE OF ANSWERS. Till next time!

There was a moment when this podcast was going to be called Oryx and Lakes, because Sarah and Nath have been on holiday to Cumbria and Nath read Margaret Atwood while they were there. But then Sarah pointed out that, as she's read all the Oryx and Crake books, she would probably spoil them by accident if we talked about them. So instead you get a whole lot of talk about the National Trust properties of the Windermere region, a scamper through the unconscious with new Pixar movie Inside Out, a discussion of Matt Dillon's face and its work in Wayward Pines, and a bit at the end where we both start singing the word "MONEY" at each other because Sarah has listened to Dark Side of the Moon for the estimable RAM Album Club.

This week: Nath's been watching the FX series of Fargo, which stars Martin Freeman and is available on Netflix, and mostly enjoying its fine performances and refractions of Coen-brother themes and imagery. Watching Fargo was, for the most part, an attempt not to think too hard about James Meek's Private Island, an excellent book about the sell-off of Britain's state-owned enterprises and essentials over the last 35 years, which Sarah avoided by getting into Bond - she talks about Casino Royale, Moonraker, and the word "bitch". Offline Dating comes up for discussion in what we've written this week, and finally we answer your questions - and forget to be annoyed that the BBC American film poll doesn't include a single Coen brothers entry. Rubbish.

Don't stop, don't sleep, don't let your guard for one second: we've been watching It Follows and it is pretty bloody scary. Horror stories of another kind as Nath explores the raw brilliance and tabloid tragedy of Paul Gascoigne as revealed in a new documentary, which is strangely coy about the man's violence against his wife. And Sarah chats about her review of Scarlett Thomas's funny, ambitious and ecstatically rude new novel, The Seed Collectors. Plus! Our advice on mystery staircases, and the last word anyone will ever need on Byron (twat).

We went to see Mark Thomas do his new show about trespassing! That was good, so there's some chat about that and how it reminds Nath of his own experiences re-walking London. Then Sarah has read techno-conspiracy thrill-ride Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer and Nath has read Climbers by M John Harrison, so there's some chat about that. And then there's some more chat about things that we have been writing this week (Sarah: drinking in pregnancy and how it's weird that everyone is always telling women what to do; Nath: FIFA as an exemplar structural sexism), and also what Steve Hogarty has written, which is a brilliant piece about going to St Petersberg to play a game and having a terrible time. Then we answer some of your questions, and then there is NO MORE CHAT UNTIL NEXT TIME BYE.

Musical goings on this week, as Sarah heads off on a pilgrimage to Hyde Park to kneel at the altar of Taylor Swift, while Nath whispers the Warrior's Prayer and talks about Mogwai's excellent 20th Anniversary show. Metal remains a theme for our movies this week - the exquisitely odd and probably awful Excalibur and Hawk The Slayer - before Sarah gives the Pope a good shafting, and we try to answer your questions.

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After a week away the podcast returns only HUGE, with two weeks' worth of thoughts and talk making this the longest and quite possibly least disciplined episode ever.  Under discussion this week is HBO's dark documentary of privilege and injustice, The Jinx, as well as the Wachowskis' new Netflix show, Sense8. We discuss the conferences that stopped us recording last week - Nath went to E3 in LA, Sarah to the British Humanist Association in Bristol - and what we've written this week, including work on the return of Doom, the strangeness of LA, and Irish abortion. Then, in a new regular, we answer your questions - you here mostly meaning 'Caroline' - and for no reason at the end there's talk about Marc Maron's interview with Barack Obama.

Drugs, murder and collapsing identities: we follow the Silk Road to ruin with Wired's astonishing two-part feature. Then you can hark at Nathan's untrammelled enthusiasm for E3, listen to Sarah rave about Ali Smith winning the Baileys Prize, become marginally bilious with us as we grapple with dirty old man poetry, and get a bit giddy as we swoon over the lovely Nolan North.

If I told you this episode was about consciousness, empathy and growing up in Ex Machina, Leslie Jamison's essay The Empathy Exams and Judy Blume's new novel In the Unlikely Event, you might be like, "Hmm, interesting, I'll bookmark that for later." But! If I told you it's also about Sarah squawking "FOKKEN YOU IN DA FACE" and Nath doing impressions of a sad South African robot, you would probably press play instantly. All these things and more in the podcast people are calling "Front Row with swearing" or "Cunt Row". (Thank you Tom Doran!)

Mad Max: Fury Road is the week's big talking point, and some questions need to be answered: How on earth did it get made? Why is it so brilliant? And can Sarah pull off the "oil crown" Furiosa look in the office? Then, because in the distant future there is only phwaor, we take a look at Polly Vernon's Hot Feminist, before rounding on Game Of Thrones with a look that says "Stop bloody raping people, Game Of Thrones."

Not sure we actually get to the point at all this week, but ostensibly you will hear about: Taylor Swift's video and why it is brilliant (yes it is brilliant), practical magic in A Wizard of Earthsea, and Sarah has reviewed Kirsty Logan's novel The Gracekeepers. Hurrah!

A postmortem of Politics Christmas, which seems to have birthed a new era of intolerance and awfulness ALREADY, and can only be made better through the masochistic review of hopeful pre-election left-wing headlines. The Witcher 3 provides some respite from reality - "It's like real life, in a game" - but then Sarah brings the election back up by having written about it, and everyone waltzes offstage crying and reciting favourite passages from Flann O'Brien. Kafka's The Castle is somehow involved.

Sarah has read some BOOKS this week - namely Ali Smith's How To Be Both and Do It Like A Woman by Caroline Criado-Perez. Politics Christmas Eve is celebrated with Politics Quizmas, in which Sarah is challenged to identify local parliamentary candidates using snippets of their CVs and hompages ("I'd love to give up work, politics and city life and spend my time caring for large, wild cats") and Nathan has written something about Star Wars, motion and memory.

You know what's hard? Talking about comedy without ruining all the jokes. So you get a very unfunny appraisal of Stewart Lee's very funny current tour. Nathan went to see Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Thrill to his intimate knowledge of '80s studio politics and variant cuts. No writing to talk about, so instead you get extra Politics Christmas, Nath's London Marathon, and why Sarah gets stressed about looking at art.

Dun-dun, da-da dun-dun, da-da dun-dun, da-da dun. YES GAME OF THRONES IS BACK AND SARAH CAN'T HELP SINGING THE THEME TUNE. Will she be able to have a ten-minute chat with Nath without spoiling anything to come in the series? The latest edition of the LRB has an excellent report from Grimsby, where Ukip are winning popularity in the ruins of the fishing industry. And in things we've written this week, Sarah has dealt with the lethal crisis in migration in the Mediterranean, and Nathan has written about forthcoming game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and very British apocalypses.

Daredevil has arrived on Netflix – we find out if the latest part of the ever-expanding Marvel universe is any good. Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? The new book from Katrine Marçal answers this question, and in the process uncovers the missing piece of economics. And in this week's writing, Sarah has been wondering whether sex offenders really are made by their genes, and Nathan has been exploring fantamystical worlds. Yes, fantamystical is a real word. Or it should be.

This week Nathan and Sarah wrestle with the macabre and they deal with loving and dreading the new series of Inside No 9 on BBC Two, and walk with words while discussing the nature writing of Robert Macfarlane and Melissa Harrison. To finish there's discussion of a sad meeting with Python's Terry Jones, and Sarah talks about being wrong about pornography.

This week Nath's plunged himself into Bloodborne and is full of love for the games of Hidetaka Miyazaki, Sarah has gone ludicrous for the imminent arrival of the election - or, as she calls it, Politics Christmas - and we discuss GTA, games censorship and rape suspect anonymity in what we've written this week. 

Great, tear-streaked excitement as Sarah finally gets to the Sleater-Kinney gig she's been waiting TEN RUDDY YEARS for (and takes Nathan along too). The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is Tina Fey's new sitcom on Netflix: females are strong as hell, but are the jokes too? And Sarah's been doing her best to destroy the Green Party, while Nathan's been writing about Little Baby Bums.

This week, it's art, escape and women loving women on the Left Bank at the Bristol Women's Literature Festival. Then Sarah and Nathan say their farewells to Terry Pratchett, and wonder how he managed to have more ideas on a page than most people have in a lifetime. And in writing, Sarah has had a pop at Jeremy Clarkson, King of the Idiots, while Nathan's been figuring out his verdict on Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.

This week - a Helen Macdonald visit to Bristol prompts a discussion of her astonishing, nature writing-redefining memoir H Is For Hawk, while Nathan's been watching '70s dystopias Rollerball and Network and Sarah's been writing about the parenting pressures of world book day.

This week Nathan and Sarah contemplate the rise of the robots as a new wave of automation threatens to supplant the middle classes (not us!) and then talk sports and sports writing in light of a visit to watch Barcelona in the Champions League. Then, with Neill Blomkamp set to right the wrongs of Alien 3 and Resurrection, there's talk of canon and the reasons fans cling so tightly to 'official' versions of fictional events.

It's time to LWYRUP: every Breaking Bad fan's favourite attorney at law (well, semi-law) is back in Better Call Saul, and the court of Ditum is in session to deliver its verdict. Also dipped in justice is Aardman's new feature animation, Shaun The Sheep Movie, while the things we've written this week touches on proposed amendments to the UK's abortion laws, and the issue of stars in video games.

Sarah and Nathan take a fumble with Fanny Hill, as they discuss the Caroline-Quentin-starring new adaptation at the Bristol Old Vic. There's a tribute to David Carr, the New York Times' consummate columnist who died last week. And in this week's writing, Sarah reports from the launch of the Femicide Census, and Nath reviews new Mike Judge sitcom Silicon Valley.

This week on The Mispronounced Item Sarah and Nathan discuss political correctness with reference to the no platforming of Kate Smurthwaite by the Goldmsmiths University Feminist Society, and to Stewart Lee vomiting into the gaping anus of Christ. Then thing get really gruesome as Nathan talks about seeing out The Hobbit trilogy at the cinema, a Middling-earth he'll not be returning to see, before a closing look at the cultural devastation caused by an all-female Ghostbusters update.

In the first episode of The Mispronounced Item, Sarah and Nathan discuss the upcoming Oscars and in particular best picture contenders Whiplash and Birdman, both of which explore the cost of performing. Book talk takes in Cormac McCarthy's Child Of God and Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, and we finish with a discussion of the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall and the unregulated capitalism of FIFA Ultimate Team.