Titus Groan (1946)

A trip down the winding sentences and cluttered paragraphs of Gormenghast

Feb 7 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

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January 2026

Metropolitan Mixtape: January 2026

New Year, Same Nonsense

Jan 31 • The Editors, Tobias Sturt, and Rowan Davies

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Whatever happened to Jennifer Lopez?

Nobble, nobble

Jan 24 • Rowan Davies

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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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I don't think about you at all

There’s a famous dunk in Mad Men in which some young dweeb in a plaid coat (I don’t know who he is, because I’d stopped watching Mad Men by this point…

Jan 10 • Rowan Davies

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Excession

Iain M. Banks (Orbit, 1996)

Jan 3 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

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December 2025

Metropolitan Mixtape: December 2025

The year in review

Dec 27, 2025 • The Editors

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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892/1984/1991)

"Remarkable, Holmes!", "Meretricious, Watson." "And a Happy New Year."

Dec 20, 2025 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

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Father Christmas

Raymond Briggs (Hamish Hamilton, 1973)

Dec 13, 2025 • Tobias Sturt

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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Say, what gives?

Dec 6, 2025 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

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Christmas Movie Season 2025

And a one, two, three, four...

Dec 2, 2025 • The Editors

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November 2025

Metropolitan Mixtape: November 2025

Diplomats, gangsters, monsters and the Christmas playlist

Nov 29, 2025 • The Editors, Tobias Sturt, and Rowan Davies

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