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8 November 2016updated 03 Aug 2021 2:31pm

SRSLY #67: The Crown / Autumn / Populaire

On the pop culture podcast this week: Netflix royal family drama The Crown, the Ali Smith “Brexit” novel Autumn and the 2012 French film Populaire.

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 usually hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s web editor and editorial assistant. 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

The Crown

The show on Netflix.

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The Crown needs more dragons, says Laurie Penny.

Autumn

The book on Amazon.

An interesting review touching on its representation of time.

Populaire

The trailer.​

For next time

Caroline is reading Rookie’s Infinity Diaries.

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Our theme music is “Guatemala – Panama March” (by Heftone Banjo Orchestra), licensed under Creative Commons. 

See you next week!

PS If you missed #66, check it out here.

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