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20 December 2016

SRSLY #73: The Home Alone Special

Look what we did, ya little jerks! That's right, a Home Alone special!

By Caroline Crampton

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Our guests

Stephanie Boland is the digital assistant at the New Statesman. She’s on Twitter @StephanieBoland

Simran Hans is a freelance film journalist who writes for Sight and SoundDazed and The Fader. She’s on Twitter @heavier_things.

India Bourke is the editorial assistant at the New Statesman. She’s on Twitter @India_Bourke.

Jonn Elledge is the editor of the New Statesman‘s sister site citymetric.com. He’s on Twitter @JonnElledge.

 

More specials

If you liked SRSLY’s take on Home Alone, you might enjoy our other specials on Friends, Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, and Love Actually

 

For the first episode of 2017

Caroline is reading The Shore by Sara Taylor.

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. 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 #72, check it out here.

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