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SRSLY #108: Edinburgh Festival / The Cuckoo’s Calling / Love in Recovery

On the pop culture podcast this week: the 2017 Edinburgh Festival, the BBC TV adaptation of JK Rowling's crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling and the radio comedy Love in Recovery.

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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Edinburgh Festival

An interview with Frince Comedy Award winners Hannah Gadsby and John Robins.

The Cuckoo’s Calling

Read the book.

Watch the show.

What did critics really think of The Cuckoo’s Calling before they knew it was by JK Rowling?

Love in Recovery

Find some episodes on the BBC Radio iPlayer, or the whole series as an audiobook on Audible.

For next time:

We are watching the Japanese reality TV show Terrace House: Boys & Girls in the City. It is available in the UK on Netflix.

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #107, check it out here.

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