In part 43 of 2921, Briar and Uther discuss A BARGAIN OF NECESSITY, the fifth episode of the 1964 DOCTOR WHO tv serial THE REIGN OF TERROR, written by Dennis Spooner and directed by Henric Hirsch. A lost episode, we watched the 2013 animated recreation directed by Austen Atkinson for Big Finish Productions, Theta Sigma and the BBC.

Some of the other topics discussed: Uther's dumb jokes, Club Silencio is an Apple Store, Taskmaster, Rove McManus, fear from what follows Moffat's surfing, what studio we're in, the most reluctant a kiwi has ever been to talk about the weather, beak measurement, how is distance kept, the rain, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, Now That's What I Call Music, how time works in Deep Space 9, the work of Helen Zaltzman, was Davison the last good Doctor, when Hugh Grant was the Doctor, Uther's absurd prediction for the 60th anniversary special, other celeb Doctors but not Idris Elba, Star Wars, A View to a Kill, what terms of magic Shakespeare invented, the best ten books ever according to GoodReads, There's Show Quizness Like Show Quizness Like Show Quizness I Show, when As read YA, yet more Sally Rooney talk, 'Drive My Car', 'Memoria' and Tilda Swinton moping, how does one trapse?, 'Bad Habits' by Flynn Meaney, the powers of English teachers and playwrights, Katherine Mansfield, a surprising amount of 'Heavenly Creatures' discussion, Final Questions, the heist to kill time continues its planning stage, the Ent who puts out his on-fire head in the water, Adam Driver (of course), Jimmy Pound, and, as always, Briar's status as a sleeper agent for the French government.

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