Culture Comforts

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***TRIGGER WARNING
We talk about domestic violence in Carmen Maria Machado's book In The Dream House from 7.37 - 11.17. 

We talk about sexual violence in relation to Filthy Rich from 21.38-23.31.

Books
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik 
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 

Films 
Ocean's 8 on Amazon Prime 

TV shows 
Filthy Rich on Netflix 
Queen Victoria and her Nine Children on Netflix 
Motherland (Season 1) on Netflix 

Longreads
'Alzheimer’s Turned my sense of responsibility upside down’ by Octavia Bright in Elle 
https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a33274996/alzheimers-responsibility-turned-upside-down/

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Books

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
• The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley 
• Inferno by Catherine Cho
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle 
• Fabulous by Lucy Hughes-Hallett 

Television

• I May Destroy You on iPlayer 
• White Lines on Netflix
• Never Have I Ever on Netflix 
• Unorthodox on Netflix

Podcast

• In Writing by Hattie Crisell

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Books
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell 
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 
Expectation by Anna Hope 
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Emma by Jane Austen
Here's Looking At You by Mhairi MacFarlane
If I Never Met You by Mhairi MacFarlane
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

TV shows
This Country

Films
Jojo Rabbit (rent on Youtube and Amazon Prime)

Podcasts
Couples Under Lockdown (part of Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel)

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Books

• Grown Ups by Marian Keyes
• Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
• Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog by Emily Dean

Movies

• The Personal History of David Copperfield
• To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You on Netflix

Television

• Next in Fashion on Netflix
• Spinning Out on Netflix

Longreads

• 10 Life-Changing Moments That Happened Since My Cancer Went Into Remission by Erin Chack (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/erinchack/cancer-survival-gratitude)
• Letter From Beijing: Vogue China Editor Angelica Cheung On Finding Strength In A Health Crisis by Angelica Cheung (https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/vogue-china-editor-coronavirus-quarantine-beijing)

Podcasts 

• You’re Booked presented by Daisy Buchanan

Musicals

• Dear Evan Hansen 

Welcome to our Oscar Movie Special! We obviously haven't watched all the nominated films, but we've seen a selection of the ones that looked the most interesting to us and given you some recommendations below.

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Films in cinema:
Parasite 
Little Women 
1917 
Knives Out

Films on Netflix: 
Marriage Story 

Books 

• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• How to give up fast fashion by Lauren Bravo

Television

• Cheer on Netflix 
•  The Stranger on Netflix 

Museum exhibitions

•  Tim Walker: Wonderful Things at the V&A

Podcasts

•  Family Ghosts
• How to Fail
• Subtitle

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Books

• This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps 
• Period by Emma Barnett
• Identity by Francis Fukuyama
• Exposure by Olivia Sudjic

TV shows

• Golden Girls 
• Shrill (BBC iPlayer)

Movies

• Okja (Netflix)
• Twenty Feet from Stardom (Netflix) 

Podcast

• So I Got To Thinking 

Longreads

• Ann Patchett in The New York Times ‘My year of no shopping’ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/shopping-consumerism.html
• Emma Hunsinger in The New Yorker ‘How to draw a horse’

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Books

• Less by Andrew Sean Greer 
• The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
• Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella 

Movies

• Cats (in cinemas)
• Florence Foster Jenkins on BBC iPlayer
• A Private War on Netflix 

Television

• His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer 
• The Witcher on Netflix 

Longreads

• No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage by Laura Pritchett, part of the NYTimes Modern Love column (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/style/modern-love-no-sound-no-fury-no-marriage.html) 

Podcast

• The Edge of Sleep 

Excited to read in 2020!

Dolf 

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps 
• Inheritance by Dani Shapiro 

Christina 

• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 
• Lost Dog by Kate Spicer 
• How to break up with fast fashion by Lauren Bravo 

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Books

• Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
• Family Values by Wendy Cope

Movies

• The Holiday (Amazon Prime)
• Love Actually (Amazon Prime)

Music

• Christmastide by Jessye Norman
• King’s College Choir Carols on Youtube 

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Books

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Everywoman by Jess Phillips 

Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams 

Movies

Let it Snow on Netflix 

Theatre

SIX at the Arts Theatre London

Cyrano de Bergerac at Playhouse Theatre

Podcasts 

Endless Thread 

Longreads

The Mystical, Mind-Sharing Lives of Tulpamancers from Narratively (https://narratively.com/the-mystical-mind-sharing-lives-of-tulpamancers/?utm_source=digg)

Joe Hammond’s final article: ‘I’ve been saying goodbye to my family for two years’ from The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/14/saying-goodbye-to-family-motor-neurone-disease-reflecting-on-end-of-life)

The Christian Withdrawal Experiment from The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/retreat-christian-soldiers/603043/?utm_source=digg