97 episodes in and Coode Street gets better and better. Yeah, it’s done by Skype and yeah it abruptly begins and ends and yeah you could make a drinking game out of how many times “The Pelican Brief” has been mentioned on the show,*but the last bunch of podcasts, which have included interviews with Peter Straub, Karen Joy Fowler, Andy Duncan, Ellen Klages and Karen Lord, have been fantastic.
Jonathan and Gary deserve their Hugo nomination. These recent podcasts only emphasize that. So go listen to them.
*Though to be fair, there was a gap of about 30 or 40 episodes from one mention to the next
I like the roughness that a dodgy Skype connection brings to the show. Frankly I think we are very lucky that we don’t have to pay for the sort of discussion we are privy to.