{"id":14219,"date":"2022-10-10T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T08:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14219"},"modified":"2022-10-10T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:08:24","slug":"a-good-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14219","title":{"rendered":"A good book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Completely unexpectedly the <em><strong>Gamesmaster<\/strong>: An Oral History <\/em>book turned up at my house on Friday &#8211; I don&#8217;t think I Kickstarted it, but I got on board with the second round of pre-backing I think. I can&#8217;t remember now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On the one hand I&#39;ve got the likely disappointing Netflix Mole to watch. On the other hand this unexpectedly turned up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cdiMhkQNjS\">pic.twitter.com\/cdiMhkQNjS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brig Bother (@BothersBar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BothersBar\/status\/1578479804407767047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spent all of yesterday afternoon devouring it &#8211; it&#8217;s absolutely unputdownable, even if you could basically reduce it to &#8220;look, I was in my twenties, I had an extremely successful TV show, yes I was a bit of a nob.&#8221; It has the skinny on everything &#8211; the red jacket, Dexter Fletcher (who contributes, gamely), <em>that<\/em> episode from series six, it&#8217;s not disappointing. There are also tales of high debauchery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of fun take homes for me &#8211; that Atlantis is set in the same church they set Hell in, and that series seven wasn&#8217;t meant to happen, they only discovered they were commissioned a few weeks before broadcast because everybody forgot to tell C4 at the end of S6 they weren&#8217;t going to make it anymore and most execs at C4 didn&#8217;t bother watching the show to pick up on the cues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s quite expensive, but it&#8217;s a properly bound hardback. You can buy it from booksellers if you want, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3fOaset\">or Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It strikes me that there is probably good Oral History potential for quite a lot of Hewland International&#8217;s output, actually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completely unexpectedly the Gamesmaster: An Oral History book turned up at my house on Friday &#8211; I don&#8217;t think I Kickstarted it, but I got on board with the second round of pre-backing I think. I can&#8217;t remember now. Spent all of yesterday afternoon devouring it &#8211; it&#8217;s absolutely unputdownable, even if you could basically\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14219\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3Hl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}