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9 January 2018

SRSLY #126: McMafia / Black Mirror / Our Book Club

On the pop culture podcast this week: the BBC crime drama McMafia and series 4 of Black Mirror. Plus, a new feature for 2018: the SRSLY Book Club.

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

McMafia

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The show on BBC iPlayer.

Misha Glenny’s book, which the series is based on.

Black Mirror

The show on Netflix.

The article about the contraception confusion in Arkangel.

The SRSLY Book Club

For our 30 January book club episode, we are reading The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd.

Tweet us on #srslybookclub to tell us your thoughts as you read!

For next time: 

We are watching Arrested Development.

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