Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected]

Books

• My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams 
• Theft by finding by David Sedaris
• What Happens Now by Sophia Money-Coutts 

Movies

• Laundromat (Netflix)
• Resurfacing - Andy Murray Documentary (Amazon Prime)
• Julie and Julia (Netflix)

TV shows

• The Crown Season 3 (Netflix)
• Samantha (Netflix)

Podcasts 

• Sentimental Garbage 

Longreads

• The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die (The New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/05/sports/euthanasia-athlete.html

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected]

Books

• Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor

Movies

• Adrift (Netflix)
• The King (Netflix)

TV shows

• Brooklyn 99 (available on Netflix)

Podcasts 

• Ctrl Alt Delete with Emma Gannon 
• Lingthusiasm

Longreads

• Undercover in an Orthodox World (https://gen.medium.com/undercover-in-the-orthodox-underworld-83c61ba3aa83)
• The World According To Phoebe Waller-Bridge by Lauren Collins (https://www.vogue.com/article/phoebe-waller-bridge-cover-december-2019) 
• Guardian compilation  of Phoebe Waller-Bridge questions and answers (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/09/phoebe-waller-bridge-alternative-ending-fleabag)
• The Rise and Fall of WeWork from the New Yorker (https://gen.medium.com/undercover-in-the-orthodox-underworld-83c61ba3aa83)

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected]

Books

• Educated by Tara Westover 
• When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman 
• The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh 
• Don’t You Forget About Me by Mairi Macfarlane 

Movies

• The Farewell (in cinemas)
• Tell Me Who I Am (on Netflix)

Podcasts 

• Doing It! With Hannah Witton
• Where Shall We Begin with Esther Perel 
• Angela Scanlon's Thanks a Million

Supplements for Where Shall We Begin

• Book - Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel 
• Book - The State of Affairs by Esther Perel 
• New Yorker interview with Esther - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/love-is-not-a-permanent-state-of-enthusiasm-an-interview-with-esther-perel# 

Longreads

How The Human Soul Survives Atrocity (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/31/magazine/iraq-mental-health.html

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected]

Books

• Inside Vogue by Alexandra Shulman
• The Inn Boonsboro trilogy by Nora Roberts (Book One is The Next Always)
• Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Movies

• Late Night starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson (available on Sky)

TV shows

• Motherland Season 2 on BBC iPlayer
• Modern Love on Amazon Prime

Podcasts 

• Millennial Love

Longreads

• How 'The 5 Love Languages' Became the Language of Love We All Know (and Love) by Kathryn Jezer-Morton (Vice) (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne89gx/the-5-love-languages-baptist-relationship-self-help-book-history-gary-chapman-interview)
• I Thought I Knew About Feminism And Then I Started Working in a Women’s Prison by Mim Skinner (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/17/feminism-working-womens-prison-inmates-sex-work-marriage)
• My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Addiction by Colton Wooten (The New Yorker) (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/21/my-years-in-the-florida-shuffle-of-drug-addiction)
• The Case for Checking a Bag by Roxane Gay (on her Medium magazine, Gay) (https://gay.medium.com/the-case-for-checking-a-bag-b0f92968a852)

Music

• Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves (YOUTUBE IT. NOW. Or Spotify. Or iTunes. Just. Do. It. Please.)

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Culture Comforts! Everything we discussed is linked below. As always, if you have any questions or recommendations, send us an email at [email protected].

Books

• Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas 
• After Dark by Takashi Murakami
• Breaking and Mending: A Junior Doctor's stories of compassion of burnout by Joanna Cannon

TV Shows

• Original Tales of the City (US Netflix)
• Carnival Row (Amazon Prime) (Orlando Bloom is very handsome in this)
• Big Mouth (Netflix)

Podcasts

• Birth Stories with Clemmie Hooper

Longreads

• Sleeping towards infertility by Emma Barnett https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/article/undiagnosed-endometriosis-and-fertility 
• The Secret Lives of Democratic Women Married to MAGA Men https://gen.medium.com/the-secret-lives-of-democratic-women-married-to-maga-men-7236ea962689

Comedy

• Stand up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) at the Soho Theatre  https://sohotheatre.com/shows/stand-up-with-janine-harouni/

Thank you for listening to Episode 12 of Culture Comforts! If you have any questions or recommendations get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we’ve discussed below. 

Books

• The World I Fell Out Of by Melanie Reid
• Confessions of a Sociopath by M. E. Thomas
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel 
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Longreads

• The DM That Changed My Life: A ‘You Out?’ That Became a Five-Year Relationship (https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/a35nw8/getting-over-a-long-term-relationship-break-up)
• Who Would I Be Without Instagram by Tavi Gevinson (https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/who-would-tavi-gevinson-be-without-instagram.html) 

Movies

• Hustlers (in cinemas now)

Television

• The Politician on Netflix 
• Kathy Burke’s All Woman on Channel 4

Thank you for listening to Episode 11 of Culture Comforts! If you have any questions or recommendations get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we’ve discussed below. 

Books

The Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante starting with My Brilliant Friend 

I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Mothership by Francesca Segal 

Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller

No Exit (& Three Other Plays) by Jean Paul Sartre

Longreads

The Gospel according to Marianne Williamson by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (New York Times)

Television

This Way Up (Channel 4/All 4 on Demand/Hulu (in the USA)

Movies

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 

Paddington (Amazon Prime)

Paddington 2 (Amazon Prime)

Free Solo (Channel 4/All 4 on Demand)

Hello and welcome to Episode 10 of Culture Comforts! This week it's a short(-er than usual) bonus episode of our favourite books to read, and reread which we recommend for your summer holiday reading. As always, you can get in touch at [email protected]. Happy reading!

Christina's Recommendations
The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

Dolf's Recommendations
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Thank you for listening to Episode 8 of Culture Comforts! If you have any questions or recommendations get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we’ve discussed below. 

Books

Love by Toni Morrison

My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain

Hadley Freeman: Me and Mrs. Hemingway (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/10/hadley-freeman-richardson-ernest-hemingway)

Television

Good Omens on Amazon Prime

Movies

The Lion King, in cinemas now

Musicals

Come From Away

Shows

Dolly Alderton at the Hay Festival interviewed by Clemency Burton-Hill

https://www.hayfestival.com/p-15297-dolly-alderton-talks-to-clemency-burton-hill.aspx?skinid=16