Happy Valentine’s Day! We’ve got an episode full of goodies here for you today! This week’s podcast heralds a new segment, ‘Well, Who’d a Thunk?’, for those all those eye-catching and sometimes eye-watering stories that just confirm that the madness of humanity isn’t going anywhere. We catch up on It’s A Sin, raving about the joy and heart-break of this brilliant show. Alex shares her thoughts on Promising Young Woman, a toxic revenge story of magnificent proportions, whilst Rhiannon opens our eyes to the remarkably smooth app, Borrow Box, your local library made digital. Rhiannon has been listening to The Midnight Library, a story that explores the potential lives that spiral out from every choice made. Alex has been reading the astonishing debut novel of Rebecca Watson, little scratch, which presents totally dynamic formatting exploring the inner monologue of a banal day at work - a Mrs Dalloway for the modern era. Our thoughts on inner monologues spiral tangentially before Rhiannon brings us back to stark reality, recalling the comedy of Daniel Sloss. To date, his comedy routine has broken up 34,000 relationships. The question for this Valentine’s Day is whether your relationship is strong enough to last the show.
Content Warnings: This episode includes discussions of a film that includes rape, and discussions of a book that contains sexual assault and self harm.
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See below for a full list of what we discuss:
It’s A Sin, Channel 4, Red Production Company
Promising Young Woman, written and directed by Emerald Fennell
The Great Gatsby
Birds of Prey, produced by LuckyChap Entertainment
BorrowBox app
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, audiobook read by Carey Mulligan
About Time, written and directed by Richard Curtis
little scratch by Rebecca Watson
Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness
Daniel Sloss' Dark and Jigsaw on Netflix
Books That Matter
