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6 July 2015updated 12 Oct 2023 10:07am

SRSLY #2: Rippling torsos and Rihanna

In this week’s episode, we discuss Rihanna’s new video, our love for Magic Mike XXL and why Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice totally works on YouTube.

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. Listen to our new episode now:

…or subscribe in iTunes. We’re also on Audioboom, Stitcher, RSS and  SoundCloud – but if you use a podcast app that we’re not appearing in, let us know. SRSLY is hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s web editor and editorial assistant. We’re on Twitter as @c_crampton and @annaleszkie, where between us we post a heady mixture of Serious Journalism, excellent gifs and regularly questions J K Rowling needs to answer. The podcast is also on Twitter @srslypod if you’d like to @ us with your appreciation. More info and previous episodes on newstatesman.com/srsly. Our guest this week was the marvellous June Eric-Udorie, who is on Twitter @juneericudorie. She also writes for the NS here. If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com. You can also find us on Twitter @srslypod, or send us your thoughts on tumblr here.

The Links

On Rihanna: June’s piece is here. (Helen Lewis and Margaret Corvid have also written excellent things on BBHMM that are worth checking out.) Sunny Singh’s piece is here. Doreen St Felix’s piece is here. On Magic Mike: Watch the trailer now, thank us later: Anne Helen Petersen at Buzzfeed has explored the film’s expression of female desire here. Alison Wilmore, Buzzfeed’s film critic, has written about the film’s fanservice and how smart it is. And here are two pieces about the both films’ relationship with the female gaze. On the Lizzie Bennet Diaries: As a taster, here’s episode one: The full web series is available in this playlist here. Or if you don’t have time for all of that, Caroline’s made a highlights version which you can see here. For next week, Caroline is reading Rookie – and you can too, here. Our theme music is “Guatemala – Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. See you next week! PS If you missed episode one, check it out here.

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