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24 October 2017updated 05 Oct 2023 8:45am

SRSLY #116: La Belle Sauvage / Crazy Ex-Girlfriend / God’s Own Country

On the pop culture podcast this week: Phillip Pullman's new novel, the third series of Rachel Bloom's TV musical comedy and a queer Yorkshire film romance.

By Caroline Crampton

This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here, you can find links to all the things we talk about in the show as well as a bit more detail about who we are and where else you can find us online.

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SRSLY is hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s head of podcasts and pop culture writer. We’re on Twitter as @c_crampton and @annaleszkie, where between us we post a heady mixture of Serious Journalism, excellent gifs and regularly ask questions J K Rowling needs to answer.

The Links

The Book of Dust

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The book.

The full interview with Philip Pullman on the NS’s The Back Half podcast.

Rowan Williams’ review.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

The trailer.

The show on Netflix.

Anna’s piece about it.

God’s Own Country

The trailer.

For next time:

We are watching the pilot of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.

You can also find us on Twitter @srslypod, or send us your thoughts on tumblr here. If you like the podcast, we’d love you to leave a review on iTunes – this helps other people come across it.

We love reading out your emails. If you have thoughts you want to share on anything we’ve discussed, or questions you want to ask us, please email us on srslypod[at]gmail.com, or @ us on Twitter @srslypod, or get in touch via tumblr here. We also have Facebook now.

Our theme music is “Guatemala – Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #115, check it out here.

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