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22 August 2017

SRSLY #107: Emoji Movie / Quacks / Perfume Genius

On the pop culture podcast this week: The Emoji Movie, the BBC period comedy Quacks and the Perfume Genius album No Shape.

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

Events! Tickets for the Game of Thrones quiz from here, for the live episode at the London Podcast Festival here and for Caroline’s podcasts and social media workshop here.

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The Emoji Movie

The trailer.

Robbie Collin’s (very funny) review.

Quacks

The show on iPlayer.

No Shape by Perfume Genius

The album on Spotify.

Laura Snapes’ review at Pitchfork.

For next time:

We are listening to the radio drama Love in Recovery. Find some episodes on the BBC Radio iPlayer, or the whole series as an audiobook on Audible.

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 #106, check it out here.

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