Erratic Dialogues

Episode 7 – 2016: A Cultural Autobiography

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Gabriella and Claudette discuss the books, film, theatre and podcasts that they loved (and a few that they loathed) in 2016.

Length: 1hr 6mins, Recorded December 2016

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Notes:

  • Sport for Jove’s Summer Season, a double bill of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar/Antony & Cleopatra (playing to January 29, 2017)
  • Eimar McBride on TLS, reading an excerpt from her novel, The Lesser Bohemians.
  • “Selfie with Sunflowers”, Julian Barnes on Van Gogh for LRB Podcast
  • “What I Did in 2015” – Alan Bennett reads from his diaries for LRB Podcast
  • Helen Garner’s review of Pride and Prejudice
  • Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof by Alisha Solomon
  • “My Son, the Prince of Fashion” by Michael Chabon for GQ Magazine

    • Episode Rundown

    1:40 Theatre in 2016

    1:56 King Charles III
    7:14  Twelfth Night
    11:15 The Literati
    12:30 Disgraced
    13:30 Taming of the Shrew
    16:00 Three Sisters
    18:34 Antigone
    20:54 Speed the Plow
    27:00 Books in 2016
    28:10 The Lesser Bohemians
    31:00 The Natural Way of Things
    33:05 A Little Life
    34:47 The Argonauts
    35:50 Between the World and Me
    37:28 Everywhere I Look
    39:39 M Train
    40:06 The First Bad Man
    43:00 TV in 2016
    Gabriella recommends The West Wing (NBC)
    Claudette recommends Some Girls (BBC), Stranger Things (Netflix), The Crown (Netflix), Victoria (ITV)
    44:00 Film in 2016
    44:38 Rooco and his Brothers (1960)
    45:37 Where am I Going? (2016)
    47:05 Nocturnal Animals (2016)
    49:03 Arrival (1960)
    50:28 Podcasts in 2016
    50:52 The Party Room
    51:00 TLS Voices (Times Literary Supplement)
    52:10 How Did this Get Made?
    52:43 London Review Books Podcast
    52:13 The Berlin Patient
    53:56 My Dad Wrote a Porno
    54:38 How to Be Amazing, Episode 46: Ira Glass
    56:25 This American Life
    Episode 592: Are We There Yet (Refugee Camps in Greece)
    Episode 597: One Last Thing Before I Go (Wind Telephone in Japan)
    58:20 Things we are looking forward to in 2017
    Moonglow
    Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    Hillary Mantel’s new book
    Golden Hill
    The Essex Serpent
    Margaret the First
    Measure for Measure
    Three Sisters
    The Rover
    Ghosts
    Cabaret
    Parsifal

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