{"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":"Teaching Behold the Man w/ Professor Rowland Wymer","slug":"teaching-behold-the-man-w-professor-rowland-wymer","published_at":"2026-04-06T10:17:51+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/teaching-behold-the-man-w-professor-rowland-wymer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577","url":"https://breakfastintheruins.podbean.com/e/teaching-behold-the-man-w-professor-rowland-wymer/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/2wq4e5gy2epy8z66/136_Teaching_Behold_the_Man_mixdown81ta1.mp3","summary":"In a blasphemous conjunction of the spheres, this year is the 60th anniversary of the publication of the novella Behold the Man in New Worlds issue 166 - and a few weeks ago patron Nick Hopkinson sent me the link to an article by Professor Rowland Wymer in Vol 52 no 2 of the Interdisciplinary Critical Journal Mosaic from June 2019, titled The Imitation of Christ: Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man. The conjunction was completed when the Professor agreed to hop in to Derry & Toms to talk about his article, his journey into SF and how he came to teach it, living and drinking in Hull and lots of other stuff along the way. We briefly talk about Russian SF too, so here I am talking to Ralph Lovegrove on his excellent Fictoplasm Podcast about Roadside Picnic.","meta_description":"In a blasphemous conjunction of the spheres, this year is the 60th anniversary of the publication of the novella Behold the Man in New Worlds issue 166 -…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3878,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/episodes/teaching-behold-the-man-w-professor-rowland-wymer/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/teaching-behold-the-man-w-professor-rowland-wymer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}