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21 September 2016

SRSLY #60: The Great British Bake Off / Bridget Jones’s Baby / Extremis

On the pop culture podcast this week: our views on the current series of GBBO so far, the new Bridget Jones film, and a heart-breaking Netflix documentary about end-of-life care.

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 Great British Bake Off

Catch up on the show so far.

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Eleanor Margolis on how the Bake Off will change when it moves to Channel 4.

Bridget Jones’s Baby

Bridget as an enigma.

Bridget on forgetting to vote for Tony Blair.

Extremis

The film on Netflix.

For next time

Anna is reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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 #59, check it out here.

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