Calm Down Dear

Another fortnight's passed and we're already at the point of only being happy about the Euros for the excuse to drink on a school night - seriously, how are people still talking about it when there's so much better about to watch? This week we delve into Season 2 of Feel Good and Becoming A God In Central Florida, plus of course the books we've been devouring (Tabitha Lasley's extraordinary Sea State and David Mitchell's riotous Utopia Avenue) along with our favourite short-form literature: stupid tweets, and we may have beaten the toenail one.

Our guest this week is the serene and beautifully cerebral Lamorna Ash, author of previous BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town. In her honest, hilarious and heartwarming chat with Becky, they discuss what drew her to drop life as she knew it and move to Newlyn, the friendships she found there and of course, what gets her enthused on the daily. If you're a fan of writing, pasta and cult movies, you're gonna love it.

And for the big one... For a while now we've been beavering away behind the scenes and we are finally delighted to announce OUR FIRST LIVE SHOW! On Wednesday 21st July you can join us at the beautiful Ocean Studios in Plymouth (or if you're further afield, online) for an evening of chat, performances, food, beers and bants. We cannot WAIT, especially given that we'll be joined for a live podcast recording by Suzy Bennett, award-winning Plymouth-based comedian you may know from support dates for Jimmy Carr and more, and the glorious also award-winning, Glastonbury and Maida Vale-playing, Mystery Jets and Robert Plant supporting Ferris & Sylvester! We know too that everyone's erring towards being stone cold broke (us too) and so the tickets are pay what you feel and in limited numbers. We can't wait to see you there!! Tickets can be found here

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Our next guest: The wonderful Tom Rasmussen, LGBT trailblazer, drag queen, and the author of the brilliant forthcoming book First Comes Love (Bloomsbury). See you in two weeks!

Shownotes

Feel Good - https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=80241545 

On Becoming A God In Central Florida - https://www.netflix.com/search?q=on%20becoming%20a%20god&jbv=81173143 

Sea State by Tabitha Lasley - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/28/sea-state-by-tabitha-lasley-review-sex-drugs-and-oil-rigs 

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/19/utopia-avenue-by-david-mitchell-review-endless-prog-rock-noodling 

Dark, Salt, Clear by Lamorna Ash - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dark-salt-clear-9781526600028/ 

Why I Long For The Wilds of West Cornwall - https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/apr/13/why-i-long-for-the-wilds-of-west-cornwall-lamorna-ash-st-just-penwith 

Mên-an-Tol - https://www.cornwalls.co.uk/history/sites/men_an_tol.htm 

Penlee Lifeboat Disaster - https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1981-penlee-lifeboat-disaster 

The Pasta Alphabet - Rachel Roddy - https://www.waterstones.com/book/an-a-z-of-pasta/rachel-roddy/9780241402504 

Pasta Grannies - https://www.youtube.com/user/pastagrannies 

Newlyn Guardian article - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/25/its-a-betrayal-cornish-fishing-vote-turns-against-tories-over-brexit-deal 

Beyond Clueless - https://mubi.com/films/beyond-clueless 

'The Matrix' is an allegory for being transgender, according to director Lilly Wachowski - https://www.insider.com/the-matrix-trilogy-is-an-allegory-for-being-transgender-wachowski-2020-8 

First Comes Love by Tom Rasmussen -https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/first-comes-love-9781526626875/ 

Terri White and Emerald Fennell - https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/promising-young-woman-emerald-fennell-interview-feature/ 

Rule of Three - https://www.ruleofthreepod.com/ 

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue - https://open.spotify.com/track/7iqAuZe5yS0suLQcFfVK39?si=7074ae1f4a6846d1 

Adam Buxton and Mark Riley - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Esv2mmmWt4idj8SSuj9pg?si=B-kWcTc2QSiBJNUo9WpZbQ&dl_branch=1 

I Love Dick - https://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Love-Dick/dp/B086HX1J65 

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It's a new fortnight, an awards show has FINALLY given Michaela Coel the love she deserves (thank you BAFTA), the internet's been mad and we love Wolf Alice. And books. And basically everything else. Did we mention we're enthusiasts?

Our guest this week is someone with a similar passion for everything, the phenomenal critic, host of the BBC's Movie Show and a woman who spends more time than anyone we've ever met gallivanting (working) at the biggest film festivals in the world, the wonderful Anna Smith. Having started out as a music journalist, she became the first female editor of a UK dance magazine only to then change her specialty to film, where she became only the second woman ever to be made Chair of the Film section of the UK's Critics Circle. Saying she's accomplished seems like an understatement, but did you know she can also analyse people through their handwriting and whistle and hum in harmony? Nope, us neither.

As always you'll get loads of recommendations from us, plus all the anecdotes you never really needed (potato stamps, we see you) and a very exciting event announcement...

If you like what you're hearing but there's something in particular you think we should dabble in/someone you think we should speak to, please do get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!

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Shownotes

Graham Linehan article - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/27/twitter-closes-graham-linehan-account-after-trans-comment 

Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend - https://open.spotify.com/album/1zt521PK0lam6J79DNMIJi?si=WAFIa5DNTFecxx4KGffrwQ&dl_branch=1 

My Dark Vanessa - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/13/kate-elizabeth-russell-my-dark-vanessa-interview 

Toenail tweet - https://twitter.com/best_gabby/status/1398268098478850049 

Anna Smith’s website - http://annasmithjourno.com/ 

Girls on Film podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/girls-on-film/id1439182513 

Graphology - https://www.handwriting-graphology.com/handwriting-analysis-chart/ 

Emerald Fennell and Olivia Wilde chat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzgZ64AC97g 

Marika Hackman - We Slept At Last - https://open.spotify.com/album/7bGKJT7GMChX7lM3txM9Iz?si=eMkcZtV0RsmkZ83KxHpsoA&dl_branch=1 

6 Music - Loud and Proud with Ezra Furman - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wsqf 

Roadrunner trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihEEjwRlghQ

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It's been a beautiful couple of weeks filled with pubs, trips out of the county, books and in Sarah's case, a bout of cystitis which meant she actually had time to read them. Huzzah!

Our guest this week is the winner of the Ted Hughes Award (AKA a huge deal), a person who is not only one of Britain's foremost poets but one of Becky's absolute idols, the phenomenal Hollie McNish. Her new collection 'Slug (And Other Things I've Been Told To Hate)' is a delightful, poignant and hilarious collection of prose, poetry and essays which Becky more than got into with her as well as (because what else) wanking and being told off for reading out a poem about anal sex. Oops.

As well as that, we of course have tonnes of recommendations and chat for you including the brilliant Motherland, Mare of Easttown, Deborah Levy's 'The Cost of Living', Brit Bennett's 'The Vanishing Half', heading to the dump and just Billie Piper in general. Just a normal week then eh?

As always, we'd love it if you could leave us a review (but only if it's nice - at least we're honest) and to hear from you at the following:

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Shownotes:

Billie Piper on Changes - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/billie-piper/id1465937091?i=1000512982808 

The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/06/cost-living-deborah-levy-review-feminist-manifesto-divorced-simone-beauvoir 

The Vanish Half by Brit Bennett - https://britbennett.com/the-vanishing-half 

Motherland - https://www.netflix.com/title/81284515 

Mare of Easttown - https://www.hbo.com/mare-of-easttown 

A trip to the dump is one of my greatest pleasures in life - and I’m not alone - Richard Godwin - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/22/trip-to-the-dump-great-pleasures-in-life-not-alone 

Hollie McNish - Slug - https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/hollie-mcnish/slug/9780349726342/ 

Caroline Bird - https://www.carolinebird.co.uk/ 

Andrew McMillan - https://www.andrewmcmillanpoet.co.uk/ 

Natalie Diaz - https://www.faber.co.uk/author/natalie-diaz/ 

Rachel Sirmanni - https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelSermanni/featured 

Wizard Hand - https://wizardhand.bandcamp.com/ 

Hollie McNish - Honestly - https://www.instagram.com/p/CN8RmlXhZT_/ 

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/13/kate-elizabeth-russell-my-dark-vanessa-interview 

Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen - Like I Used To - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibj87fwRaM 

Excess of Everything - Grace Campbell and Scarlett Curtis podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/excess-of-everything/id1567742552 

Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtd_jlV61mA 

Entertain The Elk - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gjznzViwMols6dz89qLbg 

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart - https://www.douglasdstuart.com/books

And keep your peepers peeled - we have a VERY exciting announcement coming soon...

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We've got a new look, a new county (Becky), some new meds (Sarah) and a new series especially for you! Once again the topic of the day is enthusiasm, but happily for us that covers all manner of brilliant, intriguing, and often slightly odd sins.

As our first episode back falls in Mental Health Awareness week, we're delighted that our first guest is neuroscientist and science writer (and host of the British Psychological Society’s Psych Crunch podcast) Ginny Smith, answering all of our many childish questions and telling us exactly how she became such an enthusiast.

We're also filling you in on the books we've been loving (forthcoming guest Isobel Wohl's phenomenal debut Cold New Climate, John Boyne's The Heart's Invisible Furies and Grace Campbell's Shame), our new favourite show, Rose Matafeo's Starstruck, and of course THAT Billie Eilish Vogue cover. How could we not?

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Shownotes:

Billie Eilish - Vogue - https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/billie-eilish-vogue-interview 

Amazing Disgrace - https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781529354003 

Starstruck - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09djx9y/starstruck-series-1-episode-1 

The Heart’s Invisible Furies - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33253215-the-heart-s-invisible-furies 

Cold New Climate - https://londonreviewbookbox.co.uk/products/cold-new-climate-by-isobel-wohl 

Ginny Smith - Overloaded - https://www.ginnysmithscience.com/overloaded 

May Britt Moser’s dress - https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/neurons-inspire-nobel-laureate-may-britt-mosers-dress-n265866 

Green Day - Longview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42BBdzzgPNM 

Aphantasia: A life without mental images - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34039054 

Brain Rays - Zesty Enterprises - https://brainrays.uk/ 

Windows on the world: pandemic poems by Simon Armitage, Hollie McNish, Kae Tempest and more - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/08/windows-on-the-world-pandemic-poems-by-simon-armitage-hollie-mcnish-kae-tempest-and-more 

Barry Jenkins: ‘Maybe America has never been great’ - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/may/09/barry-jenkins-the-underground-railroad-interview-moonlight 

Little Simz and Cleo Sol - Woman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHGf6tmnLYE 

The Handmaid’s Tale - Season 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg_160Be71g 

Crosta and Mollica - https://www.crostamollica.com/pizza/ 

Cheers loves! Sarah and Becky x

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Yup, another fortnight's passed and we're as confused as everyone else about it. Turns out we have been quite busy though, with conflabs over the astonishing Promising Young Woman, Twitter writing advice, International Women's Day and the widespread response to Meghan's (and Harry's, it needs to be said) interview, chats about Ali Smith's 'Summer' and Olga Tokarczuk's 'Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead' all on the cards, plus of course, your usual dose of insanity/inanity.

Our guest this week though really steals the show; you might know Laura Lexx as the brilliant comedian gracing screens on Mock The Week and Live At The Apollo, or maybe were one of the legions hooked on her madcap Twitter thread about her imaginary relationship with Jurgen Klopp - maybe you even got intrigued at the subsequent two-book deal she won off the back of that (that's right, you can get Klopp soft-porn in hard-copy now - keep it clean - while we await her debut novel). She's phenomenally intelligent and candid, and opens up about not only her journey into stand-up and her love of history, but her climate anxiety and why that led to her decision not to have biological children. We think she's glorious, and reckon you will too. Plus, you know, she can knit a mean dinosaur.

As always if you could subscribe and tell your friends about us that would mean the world, as this is the FINAL episode of Season 2! We will be back with a sneaky extra special bonus ep in two weeks time though before sleeping for a thousand years and returning (in six weeks) for a bright and spangly Season 3. The more for the big return (and the incredible guests we have lined up), the better!

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Cheers loves! Sarah & Becky x

Shownotes

Tweet on writing - https://twitter.com/CherylStrayed/status/1368054516822675456 

Promising Young Woman - https://www.focusfeatures.com/promising-young-woman/ 

The Bold Type - https://www.netflix.com/title/80176085 

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead 

Summer by Ali Smith - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/285/285183/summer/9780241973370.html 

Laura Lexx - https://www.lauralexx.co.uk/ 

The Jurgen Klopp thread - https://twitter.com/lauralexx/status/1238601779773952005?lang=en 

Microsoft Notes - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/onenote/digital-note-taking-app 

National Treasures Podcast - https://www.lauralexx.co.uk/shows/national-treasures 

Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob (Hardback) - https://www.waterstones.com/book/klopp-actually/laura-lexx/9781529348217?awaid=3787 

Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals by Ginny Smith - https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/philosophy-psychology-social-sciences/overloaded-how-every-aspect-of-your,ginny-smith-9781472969347

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Yup, it's been a fortnight already but woohooo - freedom is on the horizon! If after this week's news you're already planning your first dates/hookups/contact out of lockdown, then this episode is perfect for you as we're joined by the extraordinarily enthusiastic artist, author and sex educator Ruby Rare to answer your questions on sex and intimacy and of course, to answer a few of ours too. (Becky says this was her favourite interview she's ever done, so you know it's gonna be a good'un).

As always we've been filling our time with devouring everything cultural in sight, and for this ep that means a whole lotta good reads and some excellent new music picks. We delve into the personal essays of Sirin Kale and Molly McCully Brown, and the respective worlds we've been wrapping our heads around courtesy of Ursula Le Guin and Zoe Gilbert. Oh, and Sarah discovers a talent for singing birthday songs and yes, weirdly, she is available. How did you know?

Everything we mention is listed below for ease and if you enjoyed the ep, we'd love to hear from you. Come say hey at the following, and let us know what you've been enjoying, and show off your newly learned crafts:

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Shownotes:

Sirin Kale - https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/food/2021/feb/02/the-real-thing-my-battle-to-beat-a-27-year-diet-coke-addiction 

Pleasure Principal - Molly McCully Brown - https://www.mollymccullybrown.com/places-essays

Folk - Zoe Gilbert - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Zoe-Gilbert/Folk/22511796

Left Hand of Darkness - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-strange-friendships-of-ursula-k-le-guins-the-left-hand-of-darkness 

Ruby Rare - Sex Ed - https://thefeministbookshop.com/products/sex-ed-a-guide-for-adults 

Brook - https://www.brook.org.uk/ 

Betty Dodson - https://dodsonandross.com/ 

Sink the Pink - https://sinkthepink.co.uk/ 

Pussy Palace - https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/31104/1/pussy-palace-the-all-girl-run-club-where-drag-queens-and-rudeboys-collide 

The Box LGBT+ Commissions - https://www.theboxplymouth.com/lgbt-commissions 

Body Love Sketch Club - https://instagram.com/bodylovesketchclub?igshid=103lg5xgolh35 

Charade - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/13/charade-audrey-hepburn-cary-grant 

Weird Walk - https://www.weirdwalk.co.uk/ 

Madlib - Sound Ancestors - https://open.spotify.com/album/5ftKZ7X2vjjJ1HFQYQn1UF?si=L9HeWw6tQPOw2oyrKb4uEQ 

Shame - Drunk Tank Pink - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/shame-drunk-tank-pink/

MOPES - Get You Down - https://mopesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/get-you-down-ep

Parks and Recreation

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Hasta luego!

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Another fortnight (has it been? Are you sure?), another episode and while this lockdown might be the biggest slog yet, Sarah and Becky have still uncovered plenty to keep them enthused, not least local parish council meetings. Get your fresh batch of recommendations (Call My Agent, Pretend It's A City and Roma to name a few), before you meet this ep's phenomenal guest and one of our favourite interviewees yet.

Signed to the beloved Chess Club Records and the newest darling of Radio 1, Liverpool's Pixey is one of the most exciting prospects in British music right now. Calling herself "the Indie Britney Spears" and fusing Stone Roses psychedelia with Lana Del Rey type soundscapes, she's not only an exceptional musician, but person too - having nearly died a few years ago, her re-evaluation on life after recovery led to her learning guitar and production from scratch to fulfil her dreams. It's kind of annoying; not only is she incredibly talented, resilient and grounded, she's really funny and nice too!

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Shownotes

Handforth Parish Council - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGmYeAm0jk 

Handforth Parish Council movie trailer - 

Michael Fry - https://www.instagram.com/bigdirtyfry/?hl=en 

Pretend It’s a City - https://www.netflix.com/title/81078137 

Public Speaking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn_zBomVXs 

Fran Lebowitz on Conan O’Brian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyH3IxZfu34&t=54s 

Blown Away - https://www.netflix.com/title/80215147#:~:text=2019%7CTV%2D14%20%7C2,Watch%20all%20you%20want. 

Call My Agent! - https://www.netflix.com/title/80133335 

Roma - https://www.netflix.com/title/80240715 

Road to Roma - https://www.netflix.com/title/81085934 

Pixey on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Mwm5rtTYi44wClH4ZXjkI?si=ZcjtFO-sTbCN_zZIXM1-Sw 

Leandra Medine - https://www.instagram.com/leandramcohen/?hl=en?ref=badge 

Harry Potter video game - https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/harry-potter 

Pixey Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iampixey/ 

Pixey - Free To Live In Colour - EP - https://www.fiveriserecords.co.uk/product/pixey-free-to-live-in-colour/ 

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It's our first big normal show of the year and as we totter towards the end of series 2, we're chatting with one of the creatives whose work has crept up most throughout Calm Down Dear so far. The brilliant broadcaster behind the BBC's My Albion and the selector responsible for NTS Radio's Questing not to mention a tonne more, we couldn't be more delighted to be joined by Zakia Sewell if we tried, and she more than came through chatting all things from her passion for 1970's avant-garde jazz to missing heaps of cigarette ends by the studio now she's working from home. Whatever floats your boat Zakia!

As it's our first full ep back, we've got a tonne of new recommendations for you as well in an episode bursting at the seams with books, TV and podcasts we've been devouring to get us through this most miserable of lockdowns in the best way we know how - enthusiastically.

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Shownotes

Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life - www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-subversive-brilliance-of-a-little-life/amp 

Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires - https://www.minjinlee.com/book/free-food-for-millionaires/ 

Superstore - https://www.netflix.com/title/80061132?s=i&trkid=13747225 

It’s A Sin - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/its-a-sin/on-demand/68719-001 

Just Kids by Patti Smith - theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/13/just-kids-patti-smith-biography 

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst - .theguardian.com/books/2004/apr/10/fiction.alanhollinghurst 

Radio 4’s Bookclub - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s5sf 

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - https://www.elizabethstrout.com/books/olive-kitteridge 

Louis Theroux’s Grounded with FKA Twigs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p091pg54 

Questing on NTS - https://www.nts.live/shows/questing-w-zakia 

Jeremy Deller - https://www.jeremydeller.org/

My Albion - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pffy 

My Amey and Me - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g3fh

Honest Jon’s - https://honestjons.com/shop/latest_100_arrivals 

Speaking Sabar - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h2db 

Zakia’s website - https://www.zakiasewell.co.uk/ 

UKG Reloaded - https://soundcloud.com/platform/ukg-reloaded-an-original-boiler-room-podcast 

Music Feeds Festival - 28th and 29th January (Presented by Sarah Gosling) - https://everybodybelongshere.com/event-music-feeds/ 

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To paraphrase Paramore, we've been away for a while and now we're back don't try to follow the thread of our giddy chatter. We're starting the new year off as we mean to go on - in lockdown! - nope sorry, that should have been *drum roll please* enthusiastically! We're looking back over some of our highlights from our first mad year of this podcast with brill bits from Evanna Lynch, Lauran Hibberd, Anna Meredith and Kate Marlais, and ditching most resolutions (who ever really sticks to them anyway) in favour of mad challenges and all the trivia we ever half wanted to know about each other. Who would we shag, marry and kill from the Harry Potter cast? Well, you'll just have to listen to find out. And yes, that is as much click-bait as we're gonna give you.

It's hilarious. Trust us. Happy New Year team, and don't you ever calm down.

Shownotes

Huhtamaki Wab - https://instagram.com/huhtamakiwab?igshid=pgclma8hehhv 

Genius Treasure Collection - https://instagram.com/geniustreasurecollection?igshid=ddlswo605rs4 

Taylor Swift Goat Original video - https://youtu.be/-aLYvZ5sX28 

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We're deep into series two now, and the conversation is only getting more absurd. In episode seven Becky and Sarah discuss their obsession with needles of the (happily) knitting variety, which cartoon characters are okay to fancy and which famous scientist's dog burned their mad notes on the secrets of the apocalypse being hidden under the pyramids, all without even chatting to this week's phenomenal guest.

Jaguar is the presenter of BBC Introducing Dance on BBC Radio 1, the founder of Utopia - a series of events, talks and podcasts centred on the idea of music as a means to create the perfect, open community - and a friend of Sarah's for years, and in this episode they discuss what made Jaguar get into the broadcasting game, her Alderney raving roots, and her longstanding obsession with, well, The Veronicas (you know, those 'Untouched' gals). Basically, she's a delight.

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SHOWNOTES

Ruby Rare - https://www.waterstones.com/book/sex-ed/ruby-rare/sofie-birkin/9781526628374 

Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock the secret code of the pyramids- https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/06/revealed-isaac-newtons-attempts-to-unlock-secret-code-of-pyramids 

The High Low finale - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5oKdIsci2Qq5JSEXQR5dfq?si=iQRYkrLzQnacGASwlz7mSg 

Zakia Sewell’s My Albion - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pffy 

Zakia Sewell’s Questing - https://www.nts.live/shows/questing-w-zakia 

Wool and the Gang - https://www.woolandthegang.com/

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Loads of love,

Sarah and Becky x

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