Listen in perplexity to the first part of Monty’s curiously circular tale of Professor N.F. Randomson and his assistant Miss Millicent Bunt, whose researches into the history of naughty mathematical practices in the Danish Church brings them to Biborg and the Inn of the Golden Ratio, where neither the guests, nor Einsteinian spacetime are behaving quite as they’re supposed to…
In Part One, Randomson and Bunt encounter the garrulous Danish Proprietor of the Inn of the Golden Ratio and his pet moose Erik Forkbeard, and incur the wrath of a furious Archivist guarding the scandalous tale of heretical 16th century Magistrate Nicholas Spanking as they begin their cataloguing of the Rigsarkiv of Biborg Cathedral. Meanwhile Milly has an unexpected liaison with the impossible Kitty Schrödinger.
What precisely is the Number of the room to the right of Professor Randomson’s, will the Monks ever get to the top of their staircase and can Sir Arthur Ranblish succeed in breeding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Vole...
Based on the classic Christmas ghost story, Number 13, by M.R. James.
Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 16th December, 2025.