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7 November 2018updated 26 Jul 2021 5:02am

SRSLY #160: The Little Drummer Girl / Ariana at the BBC / Robyn

The pop culture podcast with Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz.

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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.

In this episode, Caroline and Anna discuss The Little Drummer Girl (1:36), Ariana Grande at the BBC (10:17) and the new Robyn album Honey (23:21).

Watch The Little Drummer Girl on BBC iPlayer.

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See Ariana Grande at the Wicked 15th anniversary celebration.

Laura Snapes on Robyn.

For next time:

We are reading the GQ profile of Ezra Miller.

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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. 

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