Like pulling teeth only this time with the redoubtable AT875r in a very echoey space.  Shotgun dentistry.

But nevertheless, despite these technical impediments, we dragged ourselves through a whole chapter, discussed footpaths and other rights of way, Princess Margaret, surveillance capitalism as heard on Andrew Marr R4, and all the while avoiding Barrymore jokes.

The slow audiobook movement has never been more irrelevant.