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13 September 2017

SRSLY #110: Bake Off / Anna of the North / Terrace House

On the pop culture podcast this week: the new non-BBC series of The Great British Bake Off, the new Anna of the North album Lovers and the Japanese reality show Terrace House.

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.

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The Great British Bake Off

The show on All4.

Anna’s article about Prue Leith.

Anna of the North

The album on Spotify.

The FADER interview.

Terrace House: Boys and Girls in the City

The show on Netflix.

Anna’s piece about it.

For next time:

We are listening to the album Lighthouse by the Russian prog chamber duo iamthemorning. Listen to it on bandcamp here.

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #109, check it out here.

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