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18 October 2016

SRSLY #64: My Scientology Movie / The Divine Comedy / Game of Thrones

On the pop culture podcast this week: Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie, The Divine Comedy’s Foreverland album and tour, and the “Two Swords” episode of Game of Thrones.

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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Anna’s piece on the new Fantastic Beasts/Harry Potter films.

My Scientology Movie

The trailer.

Peter Bradshaw’s review.

Foreverland by The Divine Comedy

The album on Spotify.

Neil Hannon’s piece on lyrics for the New Statesman.

The Drowned in Sound review.

Caroline’s introductory Divine Comedy playlist.

Game of Thrones

The theme tune Anna tried to sing.

Caroline watched the “Two Swords” episode – the first episode of season 4.

For next time

Anna is watching Crazy Stupid Love.

If you’d like to talk to us about the podcast or make a suggestion for something we should read or cover, you can email srslypod[at]gmail.com.

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.

We love reading out your emails. If you have thoughts you want to share on anything we’ve discussed, or questions you want to ask us, please email us on srslypod[at]gmail.com, or @ us on Twitter @srslypod, or get in touch via tumblr here. We also have Facebook now.

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

See you next week!

PS If you missed #63, check it out here.

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