{"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":"The King of the Swords Part Two - The Vanishing Tower","slug":"the-king-of-the-swords-part-two-the-vanishing-tower","published_at":"2025-09-19T12:01:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/the-king-of-the-swords-part-two-the-vanishing-tower","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577","url":"https://breakfastintheruins.podbean.com/e/the-king-of-the-swords-part-two-the-vanishing-tower/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ukamgguct9qcg69j/119_King_of_the_Swords_Part_Two_mixdown9f75t.mp3","summary":"Simon is back to finish our look at the final instalment in the first Corum trilogy... The King of the Swords... and, as it runs ramraid style into the conclusion of The Vanishing Tower, we roped in Miles too, because he'd only recently read it! This is another pivotal book in Moorcock's oeuvre, and for this podcast, because it means that the second sequence of eternal champeen books we've managed to complete in the last six years. Yes... This pod has been going for six years. Crikey! Miles is one half of the team behind the Casual Trek Podcast. Simon, as well as being behind lots of the visual stylings of Breakfast in the Ruins, is also the co-host of Can I Pod With Madness... and they have a Patreon Page!","meta_description":"Simon is back to finish our look at the final instalment in the first Corum trilogy... The King of the Swords... and, as it runs ramraid style into the co…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7261,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/breakfast-in-the-ruins-554577/episodes/the-king-of-the-swords-part-two-the-vanishing-tower/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/the-king-of-the-swords-part-two-the-vanishing-tower.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}