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1066 And All That
W C Sellar & R J Yeatman (Methuen, 1930)
Apr 4 • Rowan Davies

March 2026

Metropolitan Mixtape: March 2026
Histories, cinematic, personal and otherwise
Mar 28 • The Editors, Rowan Davies, and Tobias Sturt
Changing Rooms (1996-2004)
Changing TV
Mar 21 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt
Avoiding President Farage
Those who walk away from Sandringham
Mar 14 • Rowan Davies
Highlander (1986)
There can be only one. And a couple of sequels. And a TV series. And a remake.
Mar 7 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

February 2026

Metropolitan Mixtape: February 2026
Small moments of beauty
Feb 28 • The Editors, Rowan Davies, and Tobias Sturt
1986: Nu Shooz
Ba buh-buh buh-buh buh
Feb 21 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt
Swansea beach
Content warning for sexual assault
Feb 14 • Rowan Davies
Titus Groan (1946)
A trip down the winding sentences and cluttered paragraphs of Gormenghast
Feb 7 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

January 2026

Metropolitan Mixtape: January 2026
New Year, Same Nonsense
Jan 31 • The Editors, Tobias Sturt, and Rowan Davies
Whatever happened to Jennifer Lopez?
Nobble, nobble
Jan 24 • Rowan Davies
Blackadder II (1986)
A sitcom so cunningly devised that you could put a silly hat on it and call it the court jester to the king of weasels.
Jan 17 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt
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