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10 May 2016updated 17 May 2016 3:40pm

SRSLY #43: The Hollow Crown, Not By Accident, Cry Baby

This week on the pop culture podcast, we chat the new series of Shakespeare adaptations on the BBC, a podcast about middle-aged single motherhood, and a John Waters musical comedy spoof starring Johnny Depp.

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 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

(04:17) The Hollow Crown

Watch the show on iPlayer.

Helen Lewis’s piece on young male Shakespeare actors.

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On staging the History plays.

(16:22) Not By Accident

Listen to the podcast.

(23:05) Cry Baby

The trailer.

Bustle on the weirdest parts of the movie.

For next week:

Anna is watching Twenty Feet From Stardom.

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.

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See you next week!

PS If you missed #42, check it out here.

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