What is the Groist? Throughout the centuries, or to be more specific, in the summer of 1127, during most of March 1784, and last week, human beings have asked this question. And I should be specific about those human beings too, root and branch. I am not entirely sure that “root and branch” means anything [...]

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Midnight Sex Talk - Sex Toys - Are They Really Necessary?
Thought that might get you reading! Here at Chateau Midnight Sex Talk, we love sex toys; it would be positively heretical not to. But sometimes you have to stop and think: as they morph inexorably from ‘plaything’ to ‘absolute necessity’, have they evolved too far? [...]

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On Thursday, I mentioned in passing Picnic For Detectives. This annual event has become one of the key dates in the Hooting Yard calendar, which is somewhat surprising, given its inglorious beginnings.
The very first Picnic For Detectives was hardly a picnic at all, and the official historian of the event estimates that only a handful [...]

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Harmon e. Phrayser is still trapped in the Global Village, a place where all the the bad DJs get sent as a kind of punishment (or something like that).
Concerned by Harmon’s inability to organise an escape plot, Harmon is forced to attend iprov / storytelling evening, in which the residents exchange strange stories around a [...]

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More wartime antics from Harmon e. Phraysier; A stirring address to the People of Iraq from their great leader, and a salute to one of the greatest armed forces of our age.

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When Blodgett worked as a brain analyst, in the period immediately after a war, he became intrigued by cases of what was dubbed Ornamental Pond Guilt. One Saturday afternoon, pursuing his own projects in an otherwise deserted lab, he discovered that by exposing samples of dead brain tissue to an all-enveloping gas filtered through a [...]

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This week Tim Pickup explores the variety of noises, bleeps and melodies produced by the fruit machine.

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O how they clanged, those gubernatorial bells! It is eighty years now since their peals sounded, but still I hear them in my head. They clanged ceaselessly, all day and all night, deafeningly loud, for years on end. Cows stood dazed in the fields around the bell-tower, many, many cows, too many cows to count, [...]

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Midnight Sex Talk - Easter Anal Sex Special
Ahh, what better way to celebrate the start of British Summertime than with a thorough exploration of anal sex. From men to women and back again, via pegging, figging and fisting - God knows how we’ve managed to fit it all in!
In the studio we’ve got Tim [...]

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Midnight Sex Talk - Mother’s Day Psycho Special!
Especially for Mother’s Day, we’re pondering the cult of the serial killer, and looking at why these ultimate transgressors, who are on the extreme sexual margins of society, get quite so much attention, sometimes to the point of apparent canonisation.
Al Needham tells us what it was like [...]

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