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Up In Smoke and I Predict A Riot
Season 1 · Episode 22

Up In Smoke and I Predict A Riot

Alas Vine & Hitchens · Daily Mail

July 23, 202533m 6s

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Show Notes

Peter is inflamed! Why, he wants to know, searching around him in vain for an ashtray, does smoking seem to be on the rise once more in the UK? Is it vaping? Is it fashionable once more, heaven forfend? He sincerely hopes not. For her part, Sarah doesn’t smoke, well, only after three glasses of wine.


Elsewhere, Sarah asks is rioting on the rise once again? And asks are we now too far gone as a country where we can’t expect anything but civil unrest? Though it’s not all doom and gloom, we have poetry, plump up your cushions and settle back as Peter and Sarah take turns to soothe the savage soul with hand selected verse. 


On our reading and watch list this week: 


·      Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening – Robert Frost

·      Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas

·      The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe

·      The Dragon Book of Verse - Various


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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East


A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular


To get in touch email [email protected], you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on WhatsApp - on 07796 657512 start your message with the word 'alas'


Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Phillip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East


A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular


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