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7 November 2017updated 05 Oct 2023 8:19am

SRSLY #118: Murder on the Orient Express / Joan Didion / Hunt for the Wilderpeople

On the pop culture podcast: the new adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Cannot Hold and the Taika Waititi film Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

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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Murder on the Orient Express

The trailer.

The Deadline review.

Joan Didion: The Center Cannot Hold

The documentary on Netflix.

Our previous episode about Joan Didion.

Hayley Mlotek on Didion.

The Guardian on Didion as a brand.

Who owns Joan Didion?

Towards a unified theory of Joan Didion.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

The film on Netflix.

For next time:

We are watching Freaks and Geeks.

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.

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #117, check it out here.

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