{"podcast":{"title":"The Corona Diaries","slug":"the-corona-diaries-744184","podcast_index_feed_id":744184,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-corona-diaries/","website_url":"http://www.stevehogarth.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/c370e517-65a8-4ca2-a31d-df61fd786163/i5nn9lm-ieiisby-lvzyo33g.jpg","author":"Steve Hogarth","episode_count":200,"summary":"Lead singer of Marillion, father, hippy, punk, soul singer, progressive rockstar (wtf!), defender of the faith, voice of reason in a world gone crazy... ...and now podcaster. Join me as I talk about my life and what is rambling around in my head. Along the way I will focus on some of the stories that have shaped my career and my life, as well as reading from my diaries and offering my take on the wider world. Stay safe, h P.S I began this journey just as CoVid-19 took hold and changed our lives, possibly forever, so it seems apt to reference that in the naming of the podcast.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T14:21:52.560369+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-corona-diaries-744184"},"episode":{"title":"Chapter 244. Abracadaver!","slug":"chapter-244-abracadaver","published_at":"2025-09-22T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-corona-diaries-744184/chapter-244-abracadaver","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-corona-diaries-744184","url":"https://the-corona-diaries.captivate.fm/episode/chapter-244-abracadaver","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8b5d94b3-3f9a-498f-a13e-a31e878b7574.mp3","summary":"There are certain things in life that are absolutes. For a start - the fastest way to find a stray piece of lego is to walk across the floor in stockinged feet, and you will find it in an instant (and with more than a modicum of extreme pain). Toast always falls butter side down, and if it is a pair of sunglasses or a laptop charger I am going to misplace it. The TCD absolute (...sorry Lucy), is that however innocuous the topic might seem at first glance, Ant and I seem effortlessly to get a podcast episode out of it.  Take this week, to be honest I had slight misgivings that going through a list of countries where the beat-combo had only ever performed twice would not really be worthy of discussion. But I was mistaken, because as soon as the red light came on then we were off and running, my often unreliable neurons began firing and I was throwing out random memories like a man possessed.  Love'n'sharp giraffes h TCD Merch Store Become Purple and support the show The Invisible Man Volume 1: 1991-1997 The Invisible Man Volume2: 1998-2014 Facebook Instagram Website","meta_description":"There are certain things in life that are absolutes. For a start - the fastest way to find a stray piece of lego is to walk across the floor in stockinged…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3102,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-corona-diaries-744184/episodes/chapter-244-abracadaver/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-corona-diaries-744184/chapter-244-abracadaver.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}