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Refigure episodes

July 11, 2019 Refigure E30 – The End 2
It's the season two finale of Chris and Rifa's weekly review of culture, tech and diversity.

For this packed episode, we binge-watch the entire run of HBO's hugely acclaimed multi award-winning political satire Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, to mark the occasion of that show finishing.

We also mooch up to Tate Modern for a preview of Danish/Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's major new solo exhibition 'In Real Life', which, spoiler alert, is sensational.

And on Netflix we check out Aziz Ansari's new stand-up special Right Now, that inevitably reflects on his changed status after last year's accusation against him of sexual misconduct.

Rifa is reading New Philosopher magazine (which she actually bought for Chris), while Chris is reading Benjamin Myers' poetic non fiction work Under The Rock.

Thank you very much for supporting Refigure through our second season. We love you. Refigure will be back in autumn for season three but in the meantime you can still find us at: Facebook.com/RefigurePod, Twitter @RefigurePod and on Instagram @RefigureUK.
35 min
July 04, 2019 Refigure E29 – Glasto & Berry
Nearing the end of season two, Rifa and Chris take their weekly bitesize chunk out of the arts, culture, tech and diversity.

This week we cleared our schedules, bought a pile of unhealthy snacks and settled in to spend the whole weekend binge-watching BBC live streams from Glastonbury Festival, enjoying full live sets by more than 25 bands, without the distractions of presenters, acoustic sets or annoying 'atmosphere' video packages over on the 'normal' TV coverage.

Our Glasto conversation ranges from the impressive BBC sound quality; via the improvement of diversity at major festivals; to Stormzy's sensational headline and the state of grime; via the genius of Lizzo, the tears of Idles singer Joe Talbot and the obligatory "oh god, Morrissey" sidebar. Icons as disparate as Sali Hughes and Darren Hayman get brief mentions.

In What You Reading For? Rifa is enjoying Kate Atkinson's Life After Life and Chris is blown away by Robert Macfarlane's Underland.

Thank you for listening. If you're enjoying Refigure please 'follow' us or give us a nice review and star rating on whatever podcast thing you use. You can find us on Twitter: @refigurepod Insta: @refigureUK and Facebook.com/refigurepod.

Next time will be the final episode of season two. XX

31 min
June 28, 2019 Refigure E28 – Television & Reality
Chris and Rifa's weekly bitesize look back at their week in culture, tech and diversity.

This week, we chat about three recent TV drama series that we binge-watched, all of which try to make us think about the state of reality, right now.

We watched season five of Charlie Brooker's Netflix show Black Mirror, Russell T Davies' new BBC series Years & Years and NBC's Chicago legal drama The Good Fight.

In What You Reading For? Rifa talks about the epic blog entry she has written with collaboration from some of Brighton's experts on creativity.

Meanwhile Chris read Jody Rosen's long article in New York Times Magazine about a warehouse fire in 2008 on the Universal Pictures lot, which is now revealed to have destroyed tens of thousands of music's most important audio masters, from the greatest artists of all time.

Thank you for all your support this season. We're on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

32 min
June 19, 2019 Refigure E27 – Primavera & Gaudí
Chris and Rifa's weekly bitesize show digging through their favourite arts, culture, tech and diversity.

This week is a Barcelona special, mostly recorded at Kino Café outside the Contemporary Art Gallery, over a big pile of patatas bravas. We chat about our weekend at Primavera Sound 2019 music festival, which had a wildly diverse lineup and booked more than 50% women artists.

We also talk about Catalonia's great architect and design genius Antoni Gaudí, walking around Sagrada Família and doing a tour of his extraordinary, unique house Casa Batlló.

In What You Reading For? Chris is reading Tina Jordan's essay in the New York Times about the disappearance of Agatha Christie, while Rifa just finished Toni Morrison's first novel The Bluest Eye, from 1970.

If you enjoy Refigure, please give us a nice review or rating where you listen to pods, consider subscribing – and please tell your friends about us. You can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram and connect with us on Facebook.

Thanks a lot.

27 min
June 11, 2019 Refigure E26 – Applegate & Saxons
After a mid-season hiatus and a bit of overseas travel, Chris and Rifa return for another bitesize munch on culture, tech and diversity.

This week the show is taped in our Barcelona hotel room. We would've recorded it on the roof terrace but there were noisy Brits. We chat about new Netflix drama series Dead To Me starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini.

We also talk about visiting Brighton Museum's new archaeological gallery, with its excellent exhibition uncovering some of the earliest humans to live in Sussex, including hi-tech facial reconstructions from their original skulls.

It's a quick episode to ease us back into the habit of podding, so expect more soon. Hope you dig it. Find us at Facebook.com/refigurepod and on Twitter @refigurepod and on Insta @refigureUK

Cheerio.
21 min
May 15, 2019 Refigure E25 – Iron & Wine
Chris and Rifa dig into another week of arts, culture, tech and diversity.

This week we're both blown away by Icelandic indie film Woman At War starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir.

Chris is also watching Sky Atlantic's sobering true-life 1980s drama Chernobyl about the Soviet Union's great nuclear disaster – and we aren't convinced by buddy comedy Wine Country, directed by Amy Poehler, which is up on Netflix.

We also have starkly conflicting reactions to Malian photographer and DJ Fototala King Massassay's exhibition Iron Men, about iron workers and smelters in Mali's capital city of Bamako, which is at Brighton's Pheonix Gallery this month as part of Brighton Festival.

Rifa gets annoyed with the English edition of Flow magazine from the Netherlands, while Chris loves N J Stallard's short story The White Cat that won the Aleph Prize.

Let us know what you think about all the shiz we discussed over on Facebook and follow us on Insta and Twitter @Refigurepod.

Phew, we packed a lot in this week. Hope you dig it. If you do, please give us a 'like' / a nice review / five star rating, wherever you listen to your podcasts – that sort of stuff hugely helps us, without a marketing budget or anything.

Thank you. XX
29 min
May 11, 2019 Refigure E24 – Thanos & Nwando
Chris and Rifa take a marmalade-fuelled amble through some arts, culture, tech and diversity.

This episode, we go to the cinema with everyone else in the world to watch Avengers: End Game.

We also take part in the opening ceremony of Nwando Ebizie's glorious Distorted Constellations installation / exhibition at Lighthouse, as part of Brighton Festival. And we eat some Divine ginger thin chocolates (sort of biscuits) we got from Oxfam.

Rifa is reading Ruben Pater's The Politics Of Design and Chris is reading Kel Winser's horror/fantasy comic User, based on a screenplay by Anthony Melton, and also J.B. Morrison's as-yet unpublished fifth novel.

As always, thank you for listening. Do come visit us on Facebook and Instagram and follow the pod's new Twitter feed.

26 min
April 25, 2019 Refigure E23 – Vincent & Beyoncé
Chris and Rifa's weekly adventures in culture, the arts, tech and diversity.
This week Chris and Rifa head to Tate Britain to check out hot new exhibition Van Gogh And Britain. They also watch Beyoncé's new concert film Homecoming on Netflix, based on her headline shows at last year's Coachella festival.
Chris is reading Suzannah Evans' first book-length poetry collection Near Future published by Nine Arches Press, while Rifa is reading about the artist Daniel Minter in Womankind magazine.
Thank you so much for listening. If you're enjoying Refigure please leave us a nice review or a rating, it really helps us raise the podcast's profile. You can also visit us at Facebook.com/Refigurepod and follow us on Instagram.
28 min
April 11, 2019 Refigure E22 – Rhodes & Sitcoms
Chris and Rifa swim in the balmy waters of the arts, culture and diversity. This week's episode comes from the Eastern Mediterranean sea shore.

We revisit the three British sitcoms that we reviewed at the start of the season, now they've each finished their six episode run, namely Derry Girls, Home and Fleabag.

We also went to the career retrospective exhibition of iconic Greek realist painter Valias Semertzidis at the Museum Of Greek Modern Art.

Rifa reads a tiny poem she saw on Twitter and Chris is re-reading Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks.

If you enjoy the show, please give us a nice review or leave a star rating or whatever. This stuff hugely helps us, since more reviews means a higher profile on podcast publishers. And share us with your friends.

You can find Refigure on Instagram @refigureuk and Facebook at Facebook.com/Refigurepod. Be lovely to hear from you.XX

33 min
April 04, 2019 Refigure E21 – Queer Eye & Pose
Chris and Rifa take their weekly dip into the choppy waters of culture, tech and diversity.

This week we catch up with two iconic queer TV shows: the second season of makeover reality hit Queer Eye on Netflix and groundbreaking FX drama series Pose, about the underground trans ball scene in 1980s New York, which is on the BBC iPlayer. This expanded into a broader conversation about LGBTQI and QTIPOC representation, privilege and ally-ship.

Chris is reading David Grann's non fiction book White Darkness, about Henry Worsley's solo attempt to cross Antarctica, while Rifa's reading Oprah's new pithy advice quotations book The Path Made Clear.

Find us on Facebook and Instagram. If you're enjoying Refigure, please help us grow our audience by leaving a nice review, 'following' us and sharing with your friends. Thanks a lot! We're in Greece right now, so next week's Refigure should have a distinctly mediterranean feel.
27 min

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Chris and Rifa sift through their past week in culture and the arts, with a nod to technology and representation. Freshly ground in Brighton on the English south coast.

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