Lethargic Man (anag.)

From time to time I have something delivered to my father's place in Newcastle, when having it shipped to Germany would cost an arm and a leg. This year, however, as I was not able to make it to the UK to collect these, I got my father to forward them on to me in a single parcel (along with a year's worth of post to his address). Thus I now have waiting for me to read/watch as appropriate:

• A copy of the Exagoge of Ezekiel, which is a 2200-year-old retelling of the Exodus in the form of a Greek play, which plays to my interest in the neglected (except by academics) Jewish literature of the Second Temple period.
• A copy of the play Journey's End, set during the First World War. I studied this at school, and wanted to reread it, not least in the wake of having recently (well, a year ago) rewatched Blackadder Goes Forth, which I was astonished to discover is now itself also used for teaching about the war.
• A copy of the Tom Baker Doctor Who serial Shada, the production of which in 1979 got derailed by strike action, and which was finally completed in animation, with voiceovers by the original cast members, almost forty years earlier. My interest in this is that it was the source of elements of the Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, which elements Adams, who was the Doctor Who screenwriter, cannibalised from his abortive earlier creation.

An eclectic selection, I hear you say? Hell yes, and I wouldn't have it any other way.