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Speaker 2: new TV show you want to stream over the weekend,
Speaker 2: or book you want to read and please share yours.
Speaker 2: What are you really enjoying at the moment? What are
Speaker 2: you into? Four seventy five three one oh four three
Speaker 2: book and a TV show?
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 2: A book, finish it yesterday evening. It's called a Marriage
Speaker 2: at Sea. I don't read tons of nonfiction, but this
Speaker 2: was is a nonfiction book that read like a page
Speaker 2: turn aut fiction. Once I got into it, I become
Speaker 2: obsessed with it. I've been going to bed too late
Speaker 2: this week because of this bloody book. Just hear about
Speaker 2: this story. This is a true story. It's called Marriage
Speaker 2: at Sea in the seventies, British couple just a hum
Speaker 2: drum couple, Morris and Marilyn, that get married, They fall
Speaker 2: in love. There are just good people that would live
Speaker 2: next door. You wouldn't know much about them. However, he's
Speaker 2: into sailing, she's not. She gets into sailing. This is
Speaker 2: what happens in a relationship. They decide that actually they'd
Speaker 2: like to set up the house sell from the UK
Speaker 2: around the world to New Zealand.
Speaker 1: They get a boat. He's a skilled navigator.
Speaker 2: However, midway through the trip, in the middle of the night,
Speaker 2: and they've got no radio transmitter, a well smashes their
Speaker 2: boat in half, sinking it. There's no radio transmitter. This
Speaker 2: is in the seventies. They're now marooned in a very
Speaker 2: small dinghy together for one hundred and eighteen days. It's
Speaker 2: you and your partner. So all the things you know
Speaker 2: we were talking about half an hour ago, how sometimes
Speaker 2: you're drawn together because of similarities and what you see
Speaker 2: in each other. You're also those parts of you where
Speaker 2: you complete other parts that maybe the other person doesn't have. Suddenly,
Speaker 2: when you're in a boat, I'm guessing for one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighteen days, you think about how much we love
Speaker 2: our partners. But one hundred and eighteen days you cannot
Speaker 2: escape each other. You're going to irritate each other. The
Speaker 2: things that initially you found quite cute and now going
Speaker 2: to become problematic, so mal and the woman is very extrovert,
Speaker 2: and she keeps their spirits up every day. More sadly,
Speaker 2: you see emotionally deteriorating and fading away as he's losing
Speaker 2: the will. They've got no gear to catch fish. They
Speaker 2: have to use safety pins to try and spearfish. There's
Speaker 2: one bit where she Marilyn drags a shark right, a
Speaker 2: basking shark into this dinghy, and they butcher it and
Speaker 2: eat its liver or they die hundred and eighteen days
Speaker 2: stuck in small dig in the middle of the ocean.
Speaker 2: Their flares don't work. When they see passing ships, you
Speaker 2: just think you're going to die in the boat. How
Speaker 2: do you not lose hope? The book is about that.
Speaker 3: Wow, it is.
Speaker 2: It's a true story. It's incredible. The great thing is
Speaker 2: is that the middle of the book suddenly they're rescued.
Speaker 2: The rest of the story thing we're only halfway through
Speaker 2: the book is then what happened to them afterwards? That bit,
Speaker 2: and this is where the great writing kicks in, is
Speaker 2: even just as incredible.
Speaker 1: What happens to that couple.
Speaker 2: They became huge chat show stars around the world, but
Speaker 2: they were never the same again. It's an amazing story
Speaker 2: and it's a very short book you've read in a
Speaker 2: couple of days. It's called a Marriage at Sea. Sophie
Speaker 2: Elmhurst is the author. I cannot recommend it enough. And
Speaker 2: a new TV show Steve Carell, one of the best
Speaker 2: comic actors in the world, isn't a brand new TV
Speaker 2: show called Rooster. It's brilliant. I saw the first episode
Speaker 2: this week. It's the guy the head writers, Bill Lawrence,
Speaker 2: who also did Shrinking and ted Lasso and Scrubs, which
Speaker 2: is back at the moment. And if you're a Scrubs fan,
Speaker 2: John c Riley is in this yes, and he's got an.
Speaker 1: Incredible character in it.
Speaker 2: It's so good. Really really can't recommend it enough. That's
Speaker 2: very good. But the book if you're looking for a
Speaker 2: great book to read, and you'll read it in a
Speaker 2: couple of days. It's an insane story and as you're
Speaker 2: reading it, you will put your own relationship in it.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking I would have just jumped over that
Speaker 2: boot after about the third Hourah, good luck take me sharks,
Speaker 2: if we'll have your way with me. With Marriage at
Speaker 2: Sea is what is called Patsy what's your double thumbs
Speaker 2: up this week?
Speaker 4: Well, I am a true crime fan and Amityville an
Speaker 4: origin story we are writing to on Prime. It's a
Speaker 4: full part documentary series about the Amityville murders on Long Island.
Speaker 4: But it is a really.
Speaker 2: Close I want to just say, as a respectful broadcast
Speaker 2: of the Way You Went, it is about the.
Speaker 1: Well it's in the you. She's like death bombs.
Speaker 4: I love this. I do love true crime.
Speaker 1: I do love it in this like a real kind
Speaker 1: of like fetish. Now, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: I just go get it out think about it.
Speaker 4: You know, this is brilliant and it looks at some
Speaker 4: of the conspiracy theories about the whole situation, and one
Speaker 4: that a lot of the Cleveloyans believe is that there's
Speaker 4: this evil spirit on the land where the house was built. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I loved it. If you're into true crime and historic crime,
Speaker 4: you might like it. It's on Prime.
Speaker 2: True crime is the biggest john in for TV and
Speaker 2: podcasts in the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so hot right now, Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it is the possessed land that is
Speaker 1: doing it for me? Chris?
Speaker 4: Can you believe it's thirty years since the Birdcage movie
Speaker 4: came out. It's thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: I saw, I saw, that's right, talk about the other day, yes.
Speaker 4: And so he put something up on Instagram. I saw
Speaker 4: it yesterday. It was quite funny and how agadore the
Speaker 4: house boy. Her voice he modeled off his grandmama and
Speaker 4: mama and you know, sadly now Robin Williams and Gene
Speaker 4: Hackman aren't with us. But it's one movie.
Speaker 2: Way ahead of its time as well. Beautiful, really beautiful
Speaker 2: movie there.
Speaker 4: It is the one movie where I have been sitting
Speaker 4: in the cinema and I start crying. I am laughing
Speaker 4: so hard, and.
Speaker 1: You almaly doing that only if it's true crime. That's right.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter how what he did to them, It
Speaker 4: doesn't matter how many times we watch it. It's one
Speaker 4: of those great family classics that we'll just put on
Speaker 4: and it always makes you feel better. So thirty years
Speaker 4: it's on Prime if you want to catch.
Speaker 1: Up with it again. What are you into the moment? Real?
Speaker 3: I am loving Traitors season three. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you guys have watched Traders. It's been around for.
Speaker 1: A little while.
Speaker 3: Very good, Oh my god, it is Oh it's brilliant.
Speaker 3: It is I reckon probably the best new reality show
Speaker 3: in maybe twenty years, maybe since Survivor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Yeah, it's smart, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It's brilliant.
Speaker 4: So it's the premis.
Speaker 3: It's set in Scotland, in the Highlands, in this beautiful,
Speaker 3: lush castle.
Speaker 1: My friend Claudia hosted Curdie Winking with the Big French.
Speaker 2: She is, yes, twenty five years she's great, but she's
Speaker 2: really good.
Speaker 3: So there's twenty what they call Faithful's twenty people trying
Speaker 3: to build up a prize pool to win.
Speaker 1: At the end of the game.
Speaker 3: There are two or three secret traitors who have been
Speaker 3: sort of randomly selected and.
Speaker 1: They have secret meetings.
Speaker 4: Parts isn't a bit like the Mole.
Speaker 3: It is very similar to the Mole, except so everything better.
Speaker 3: Every night the traders kill one of the Faithful.
Speaker 2: And they have to do something like touch that touch
Speaker 2: another person's face.
Speaker 3: Yes, death yes, And then all the Faithful, everyone in
Speaker 3: the group has to banish who they think is the
Speaker 3: traitor that night. So you see, like people become really
Speaker 3: close best friends then turn on each other.
Speaker 2: It's it's and also because they all know what the
Speaker 2: show is they're all paranoid anyway, and so you know what,
Speaker 2: we just make up stories.
Speaker 1: We're just find evidence to ye theory. They're all going, I.
Speaker 2: Think it's so and so, and there are other people
Speaker 2: in it who are very good liars or they're over
Speaker 2: selling somebody who. I think it's them, you know, because
Speaker 2: you see the other day they didn't pick up that
Speaker 2: bit of rubbish. So I think they're traitors, you know, going, oh,
Speaker 2: I think you're sort of thing A trader would say.
Speaker 3: One of them was one of They voted out this
Speaker 3: poor girl because she didn't cheers when they all said
Speaker 3: cheers to the faithful, and she didn't cheers because she
Speaker 3: had like a broken arm or something.
Speaker 1: I didn't cheers because I had a broken arm, and
Speaker 1: they've voted her out.
Speaker 3: It is the very best And what's it is it
Speaker 3: on ten?
Speaker 1: It's on ten player.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you can watch all the US seasons, all
Speaker 3: the UK seasons. The US season is actually hosted by
Speaker 3: Alan Cumming.
Speaker 1: Who's incredible, right, I didn't know that pick.
Speaker 3: Any season you want, they're all amazing, but season three
Speaker 3: US I'm watching at the moment and it is phenomenal
Speaker 3: as well.
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