{"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":"Birthday Special 2025","slug":"birthday-special-2025","published_at":"2025-12-18T02:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/birthday-special-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577","url":"https://breakfastintheruins.podbean.com/e/birthday-special-2025/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nwgnu6v29gn4qcqm/125_Birthday_Special_20256cukc.mp3","summary":"Another year, another Birthday Special... our sixth! It's Mike's birthday... it's Phil's birthday... it's the podcast's official state birthday... so what better than a silly, hastily assembled drunken quiz? No ? required... that was a rhe A chance for Loz to close the gap on Phil's epic quiz streak as well as to introduce a wild card in the shape of a third contestant! OK, fine. This wasn't the actual intent, but best laid plans and all that. Also, Simon Perrins drops in to elaborate on his frankly incontestable assertion regarding a British cultural icon and their place in the Multiverse. Simon is also responsible for the magnificent art for this episode, which is a pretty big clue if you're British and over a certain age. MOOOOR COCK-COCK-COCK refrain is from The Dewey Decibel System by BlöödHag","meta_description":"Another year, another Birthday Special... our sixth! It's Mike's birthday... it's Phil's birthday... it's the podcast's official state birthday... so what…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6786,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/episodes/birthday-special-2025/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/birthday-special-2025.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}