Month: September 2020

• 24 September 2020Episodes

  17. Cash In The Hanky

  This week we meet the sauciest man in War and Peace, and boy does he like sauce. We're talking béarnaise, we're talking béchamel, we're talking classic gravy - this man has tried them all and has found a place for most of them on his clothes.

  Plus we're spending some quality time with WAP's two old and dearest friends. But will their insatiable lust for money bring these best buds closer together, or push them apart - like two halves of a wallet stuffed full of CASH?

  Tune in this week to see how this tenuous simile plays out.

• 17 September 2020Episodes

  16. The Con Is On

  If you thought you could kidnap a policeman, tie him to a stolen bear, then push them both in the canal and wonder off without any consequences, think again!

  Join us this week as Pierre's dark, bear filled past rears its furry head to cause moderate to severe embarrassment. Can Pierre take the heat, or will his social standing be torn to shreds by the vicious claws of gossip?

  Plus - CUE FUNKY CRIME MUSIC - we're casing the joint with two of War and Peace's wiliest slicksters - they're buttering up with one hand, and looking for Cecil's mountain of cash with the other. Will they pull off the con of the century or will they end up in the clink? CUE MONTAGE.

  Show notes

  What the hand?! Another hand drawing! Yes! More hands! Han-believable! Lucia (pronounced the Italian way) from the USA sends in this formidable artistic rendering of Pierre's infamous arm-ending appendages. Thank you Lucia! Find out more about this inspiring piece by subscribing to the newsletter and visiting Tolstoy's Hall of Fame.

• 10 September 2020Episodes

  15. Uncle In The Bedroom

  There's an uncle in the bedroom
  A bedroom made of gold
  An uncle the most handsome
  In all Russia, it's been told

  "We'd like to see the uncle please
  Before he goes and dies
  We've heard he's freakin loaded
  And we were passing by"

  There's an uncle in the bedroom
  In this week's episode
  Listen now, and have no fear
  The actual show's in prose

• 3 September 2020Episodes

  14. This Is So Diplomat!

  This week the generations are at war.

  On one side, the mysterious Vera. Handsome as they come, her mouth quite possibly brimming with spiders - and now, terrifying new rumours that she wields dark and unnatural powers.

  On the other side, four hopeful children. Innocent as tiny little ducklings, their only weapons are the power of love and some really quite cutting insults they have just invented.

  But will their incantations be enough to overpower the ice hearted Vera? Or will the good house Rostóv be consumed with pure spidery evil?