{"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":"Halloween Special 2025 - SLUGS by Shaun Hutson","slug":"halloween-special-2025-slugs-by-shaun-hutson","published_at":"2025-10-31T13:08:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/halloween-special-2025-slugs-by-shaun-hutson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577","url":"https://breakfastintheruins.podbean.com/e/halloween-special-2025-slugs-by-shaun-hutson/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bqxyx3b72hxseuxy/122_Slugs6uhkx.mp3","summary":"As voted for by our dear patrons, the subject for this year's Halloween Special is SLUGS! Shaun Hutson's breakthrough best seller has been on the poll list for three or four years, but 2025 was its year. So, join Graham, Phil and me as we evaluate Shaun Hutson's entry into that classic and most pulpy of British horror traditions, the Killer Critter novel. Also, we mull over whether four clefts are just too many, and get disappointed by our initially impressive socialist hero's basic levels of competence. Image by Simon Perrins!","meta_description":"As voted for by our dear patrons, the subject for this year's Halloween Special is SLUGS! Shaun Hutson's breakthrough best seller has been on the poll lis…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7172,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/episodes/halloween-special-2025-slugs-by-shaun-hutson/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/halloween-special-2025-slugs-by-shaun-hutson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}