Discontent Provider

Episode 12: The Disappearance of Colonel Tavistock’s Shoe-horn

Safety, sanity, security, and even more super-safe-safeness are winging their way to the UK, and neither Arkham nor Foxy could be more impressed - nor less inclined to find fault with things.  Could it be time to change the title of this podcast?With the corner up it could, cats and kittens...

Episode 11:Posse of the Damned out of West Appendectomy

Despite being beset by a terrifying vision of a future wherein only merciless cyborgs can podcast, Arkham and the Silver Fox still find the time to wax cynical on the subject of self-serving institutions looking to act like somebody in a lift pretending that they didn't just drop a monumental - that's how dedicated they are to you, cats and kittens...

Episode 10: Wet Flannel Nightmare

Three gorgeous brown eyes look out at you from the deep weeds of the Happy Place this week as Foxy and Arkham abandon the cosy world of convenient narratives and get into some fairly intense research.  WARNING: This episode may contain graphs.  It doesn't, obviously - what would be the point of that in an audio medium?

Episode 9: Quiet Romance on the 9:40 to Inverness

It's a liberating week in the Happy Place as Arkham and Foxy learn that - according to senior politicians - it's absolutely fine (and almost indecently dandy) to be half- and bone-idle in matters of social criticism.  Obviously, they didn't exactly say that - but the Discontent Provider lads are shrewd enough to read between the lines...

Episode 8: Terror Stalks the Garden Centre

This week finds Foxy and Arkham pondering such diverse matters (or ARE they?) as journalistic ethics, Public Inquiries, and dog excrement. Those with a keen ear may note that - once again - the West Midlands' most spiffily-dressed troubadour has trouble with the word "relevance", but are asked (politely) not to go on about it.

Episode 7: The Shadow of the Scorpion’s Sting

Fear, despondency, and self-loathing cast a drear pall over the Happy Place this week as Foxy and Arkham contemplate the possibility that they're not as high and mighty as they may have thought.  They probably ARE, mind - if not a good deal better - but it was a damned close call...NB: At one point in this episode, the word "nongendered" accidentally replaced the word "monogendered" in a slip of the tongue that it's difficult to edit when you're sitting by a babbling brook.

Episode 6: The Stranger Wore Wellington Boots

A slight chill has fallen over the Happy Place this week with Arkham and Foxy reeling from a disaster on the home front.  Soldiering on, however, they make time to ponder Objects in the Beyond, become curiously misty-eyed over the most terrifying era in recent History, and - once again - point out that people on the Internet are acting like morons.

Discontent Provider Episode 5: Return To The Galaxy Of Unspeakable Sudden Death

This week find Foxy and Arkham a little out of their comfort zone - viz, talking High Finance.  Fortunately, a veteran comic icon seems to be making a bit of a berk of himself - which puts the chaps back in their comfort zone toot sweet.

Discontent Provider Episode 4 1/2: The Pirates Of Barracuda Cove

A "mopping up" operation this week as Foxy and Arkham get around to finishing off some stuff they didn't get around to in the previous episode.  It's never easy to know where to lay the blame on occasions like this - and pointing fingers is completely counter-productive - but it was probably everybody else's fault.

Discontent Provider Episode 4: Inheritors of Forbidden Passion

There's trouble in Paradise this week as a careless mistake sets Arkham and The Silver Fox at odds.  Despite that, however, they not only hit upon yet ANOTHER pure-gold podcast idea (that they won't act upon because of artistic sensibilities or some such similar drivel), but also manage to ponder the possibilities of a "Partially Open" Britain and to lament the lack of literary allusions in the Popular Press.