May 22, 2026
Muriel Spark wrote it in months while Nixon was still in office. Fifty-two years later, Melanie and Ed test whether the joke still lands.
Spark's 90-page novella, subtitled "A Modern Morality Tale," relocates Watergate to a Benedictine convent in Cheshire. The newly elected Abbess Alexandra has bugged the grounds,...
Dec 24, 2025
Our hosts seem to have hit the eggnog early as they discuss The
Shop Around the Corner, a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama film
produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring Margaret Sullavan,
James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and Joseph Schildkraut.
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