Stephen Fry, the first living guest in the Mnemonicon. The Conservative-voting joke unpacked, the McCormick sale, refusing Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and why Dostoyevsky was wrong about the jar.
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A Mnemonicon round-robin reunion. Six ghosts at one jar, with proper disagreement, and the crossover story Shakespeare asked Adams to tell
Six ghosts at one jar. Churchill, Adams, Shakespeare, Keats, Dostoyevsky and Conan Doyle, with proper disagreement and the Dirk Gently x Ford Prefect crossover Shakespeare asked Adams to tell.
A Towel Day Marmite panel with Douglas Adams and friends
A Towel Day panel: Adams plus Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Marvin and (regrettably) Zaphod Beeblebrox, each given a jar. Marvin calls it the accumulated regrets of civilisation.
Douglas Adams on Marmite, Vogon customs, and the McCormick deal: a Towel Day Mnemonicon interview
Douglas Adams (a Bovril-sandwich man, as it turns out) on Marmite, Vogon customs, and the McCormick deal. A Towel Day Mnemonicon session.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Marmite for St George's Day, and Mr Sherlock Holmes investigates an unlabelled jar that arrived by the second post
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for St George's Day, plus Sherlock Holmes deducing an unlabelled jar that arrived at 221B by the second post. Burton-on-Trent, 1902, medical-man sender.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Marmite as a moral substance, and a jar set between Ivan and Alyosha Karamazov at the tavern
Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Marmite as a moral substance that refuses the middle ground. Ivan offers the bread to Alyosha at the Skotoprigonyevsk tavern.
John Keats on Marmite, negative capability, an ode for the jar, and a fermented dainty added to Porphyro's feast
John Keats on Marmite as Negative Capability made edible. A five-stanza ode in his Nightingale register and a scene with Madeline and Porphyro on St Agnes Eve.
Winston Churchill on Marmite, rationing, and the rumoured sale: a Mnemonicon interview
Sir Winston Churchill on rationing, the Burton factory, and a rumoured Marmite sale. Two questions Britain should ask before the deal closes, in his voice.
A Mnemonicon panel with Shakespeare's cast. Romeo and Juliet, the Macbeths, and Richard III, each given a jar of Marmite
A Shakespeare panel: Romeo and Juliet on the balcony, the Macbeths in the kitchen the night before the murder, and Richard III soliloquising on toast at his coronation.
William Shakespeare on Marmite, the humours, a jar set before Falstaff at the Boar's Head, and a sonnet for the jar
William Shakespeare on Marmite as choler in a jar. Falstaff seizes it at the Boar's Head and declares it sack made flesh. Closes on the Bard's sonnet for the jar.
