Jun 27, 2026 · 13 min · 13 segments
A civically minded archivist is thrust into the limelight as the new leader of Harford. But soon starts to wonder who is really pulling the strings. This episode was written and performed by Dan…
Dan HooperHost
Not to the level my CV would suggest, but I'm a meticulous record taker, and if a plane was crashing, I'd back myself.
Not to land the plane, you understand, but to follow the safety briefing to the letter.
I'd not even need to take my eyes off aircraft investigations on my little screen.
That thoroughness and subservience to authority, that's what got me the job in the council, in the archive department.
Dietary preferences, nicknames, details of neighbours arguing about garden fences.
At the council, everyone is so civically minded and united in the mission to make the citizens' lives better.
Although you can't answer the phones because it's always someone shouting about dog mess or bins.
Whether you live in North Harford, East Harford, North East Harford or the Japanese Quarter, I think it's incumbent on you to be overly territorial about your environs to outsiders until you move somewhere else.
Not to the level my CV would suggest, but I'm a meticulous record taker, and if a plane was crashing, I'd back myself.
Not to land the plane, you understand, but to follow the safety briefing to the letter.
I'd not even need to take my eyes off aircraft investigations on my little screen.
That thoroughness and subservience to authority, that's what got me the job in the council, in the archive department.
Dietary preferences, nicknames, details of neighbours arguing about garden fences.
At the council, everyone is so civically minded and united in the mission to make the citizens' lives better.
Although you can't answer the phones because it's always someone shouting about dog mess or bins.
Whether you live in North Harford, East Harford, North East Harford or the Japanese Quarter, I think it's incumbent on you to be overly territorial about your environs to outsiders until you move somewhere else.
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