{"podcast":{"title":"Breakfast in the Ruins","slug":"breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577","podcast_index_feed_id":554577,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/breakfastintheruins/feed.xml","website_url":"https://breakfastintheruins.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6271951/breakfast2_improvedanau4.png","author":"STIMBOT5000","episode_count":141,"summary":"Friends old and new join me in Derry and Toms roof gardens to discuss the work and influence of prolific British fantasist Michael Moorcock, as well as other bits of 60s and 70s genre fiction that came to me via my Grandad in the 80s and informed my world view. Books, music, role-playing games, wrestling in Featherstone Library and many other digressions await.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T02:18:33.743080+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577"},"episode":{"title":"Birch and Jay w/ Allister Thompson","slug":"birch-and-jay-w-allister-thompson","published_at":"2026-03-27T16:43:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/birch-and-jay-w-allister-thompson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577","url":"https://breakfastintheruins.podbean.com/e/birch-and-jay-w-allister-thompson/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/6ufnuzwdej5zz7aa/134_Birch_and_Jayaup32.mp3","summary":"Allister Thompson returns to Derry & Toms to talk about his new novel, Birch and Jay: The Knowledge Seekers Part One. In a typically roving conversation, we get into his influences and intentions in writing about a climate apocalypse and aftermath, as well as other stuff, like bad War of the Worlds adaptations (again). This episode plays out with Why Did We Do It (The Last Ones) from Allister's tie-in EP and you can grab that along with his entire discography from Bandcamp.","meta_description":"Allister Thompson returns to Derry & Toms to talk about his new novel, Birch and Jay: The Knowledge Seekers Part One. In a typically roving conversati…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4426,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/episodes/birch-and-jay-w-allister-thompson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/birch-and-jay-w-allister-thompson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}