The Doctor fights trees. Or rather doesn't. In the single greatest arboreal threat since The Happening, these leafy bastards crop up out of nowhere and with the help of their fairy brethren actually save us from being fried alive, then bugger off.
Oh.
Well, thanks for that, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. In the Forest of the Night is a genuine curio, an episode you'll hear more than once on this podcast described as "not 100% successful" but which coasts by on some pretty effortless charm (even as it stirs up a medication controversy).
Join Joe and Chris as they cryptically hint at something else they have planned, explain why you shouldn't get the bus home if you have particularly awful spelling, do a teeny bit of belching and largely don't know what the hell to make of this episode of Doctor Who.
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Listen to IN THE FOREST OF THE NIGHT
TRACKLISTING:
ReplyDeleteJim Johnston feat. Rich Luzzi of Rev Theory: Voices
The Cure: A Forest
Why?: Light Leaves
a-ha: Cry Wolf
Les Savy Fav: In These Woods
Radiohead: Tree Fingers
Scritti Politti: Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Frankin)
The Magnetic Fields: 100,000 Fireflies
Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Pink Floyd: When the Tigers Broke Free
High on Fire: Speedwolf
David Dundas & Rick Wentworth: The Wolf
Sufjan Stevens: All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands
Oneida: The Wooded World
The Icicle Works: Chop the Tree
Johnny Pearson: Walk in the New Forest
The Who: The Kids Are Alright
Mastodon: The Wolf is Loose
Earth, Wind & Fire: Kalimba Tree
Les Baxter and his Orchestra: Ruby
The Mountain Goats: Up the Wolves
Kimya Dawson & Antsy Pants: Tree Hugger
Jimmy Scott: Sycamore Trees
Producers: Barking Up the Right Tree
Hollywood, Mon Amour feat. Katrine Ottosen: Eye of the Tiger
Clannad: Ancient Forest
The Fall: Wolf Kidult Man
Louis Prima & Keely Smith With Sam Butera & The Witnesses: Autumn Leaves
Nick Perito: The Green Leaves of Summer
Pulp: The Trees
The Settlers: The Lightning Tree