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March 28, 2019 Refigure E20 – Cheese & The Multiverse
Rifa and Chris do their weekly dance of near-death with the all powerful octopus of culture, art, tech and diversity.

This week we reflect on Jim Bob's solo show at Shepherds Bush Empire (where Chris was part of the band). We then binge-watch the second series of Brit Marling's brilliant reality-bending mystery TV series The OA, which has gone up on Netflix. Finally we taste-test three different artisan vegan cheeses from Fauxmagerie, the deli in Brixton Market, while arguing if vegan cheese (or even normal dairy cheese) is a Good Thing.

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27 min
March 21, 2019 Refigure BONUS – Ricky Gervais – 'After Life'
We made a BONUS episode of Refigure, in which we unpick our reactions to Ricky Gervais' new TV series After Life made for Netflix, which has had a pile of attention and wild praise. Too convoluted and lengthy a conversation to include in the main episode. Enjoy!

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18 min
March 17, 2019 Refigure E19 – Marvel & West
Yo! Welcome to Chris and Rifa's weekly ramble through the arts, culture, tech and diversity.

This week we went to the pictures to watch Captain Marvel and we also did our first Tate Modern trip of the year, to check out Dorothea Tanning, Franz West and Pierre Bonnard, though he scarcely got a look in. We recorded the Tate segment in the members' café, so it's a lot noisier and harder to hear than usual.

Chris also recommends Njideka Akunyili Crosby's beautiful large mural Remain, Thriving above the entrance to Brixton Tube.

Chris is reading Evan Ratliff's excellent new crime non-fic The Mastermind, while Rifa is loving Jim Bob From Carter: In The Shadow Of My Former Self.

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27 min
March 08, 2019 Refigure E18 – Comedy & Tragedy
Chris and Rifa's weekly dive into the arts, culture, tech and diversity.

This week, we watch a bunch of new and returning British TV sitcoms including Fleabag, Partridge, Home and Derry Girls.

Rifa goes on a bell hooks-inspired poetry workshop and mourns 80s youth telly icon Magenta Divine, while Chris accidentally uncovers an audio archive of his Great Uncle Reg's first-hand account of the trenches in World War One.

Chris is reading an article about chimpanzees in The Atlantic and Rifa is reading Matt Haig's Reasons To Stay Alive. We did watch HBO's extraordinary Leaving Neverland and were originally planning to discuss Michael Jackson but decided it was too heartbreaking.

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26 min
February 28, 2019 Refigure E17 – Spiders & Dragons
Chris and Rifa's chaotic and giggly weekly dive into the arts, culture, tech and diversity.

This week we go to the cinema to see Spiderman – Into The Spiderverse ahead of The Story Conference (which Rifa organised and compered) where Justin K. Thompson, the film's production designer, gives a superb talk.

We also binge-watch the second season of Netflix fantasy show The Dragon Prince, making this episode a bit of an accidental animated special.

In What You Reading For? we try out some printed magazines we haven't seen before (purchased from Brighton's shop Magazine), including Australian feminist mag Womankind and the Flying Lotus takeover edition of Huck. None more hipster.

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24 min
February 18, 2019 Refigure E16 – Climbing & Dying
Chris and Rifa return with a second season of Refigure, our weekly bitesize culture wig-out.
This week we binge-watched Netflix show Russian Doll, co-created by Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler.
Meanwhile Chris went to an actual cinema to watch National Geographic's BAFTA-winning climbing documentary Free Solo and Rifa fell in love with indie/hip hop/soul singer Lizzo, especially her current single 'Juice'.
In What You Reading For? Rifa is deep into University of Houston Professor Brené Brown's 'Daring Greatly', while Chris is reading the new collected writings of Mark Fisher, published in one huge volume as 'K-Punk'. Chris also finally made his start on Proust's 'In Search Of Lost Time' and recommended the article Amazon boss Jeff Bezos wrote on Medium, exposing the National Enquirer attempts to blackmail him. (Jeff that is, not Chris)
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22 min
November 22, 2018 Refigure E15 – The End
Chris and Rifa's week in the arts, culture, diversity and tech.
Episode #15 – last in the current series.
We argue about the latest TV version of a John Le Carré novel, Park Chan-Wook's adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl, starring Florence Pugh, Michael Shannon and Alexander Skarsgard.
We also binged on Netflix comedy Great News and compared it to the crop of similar shows like 30 Rock and The Good Place.
In What You Reading For? Chris has just finished lost children's classic 'The Tree That Sat Down' by Beverley Nichols. Meanwhile Rifa is ploughing through Michelle Obama's much hyped memoir 'Becoming'.
Thank you very much for listening to season one of Refigure. We'll drop a few one-off specials over the Christmas season and then be back in spring 2019 with season two.
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28 min
November 13, 2018 Refigure E14 – Latinos & Widows
Rifa and Christopher's weekly misadventures in the arts, culture, tech and diversity. Episode #14 – our penultimate episode of Season One.
This week we went to the cinema to check out Steve McQueen's intense new heist thriller Widows, starring Viola Davis. We also took another trip up to Tate Modern to look at Christian Marclay's wonderful 2010 piece Clock, built from cut up clips from throughout cinema history.
Rifa watched John Leguizamo's acclaimed one-man Broadway show Latin History For Moron's, which is now up on Netflix.
In What You Reading For? Rifa highlights Ayoola Solarin's Dazed Digital article 'Frida Kahlo Is Not Your Symbol' about the commercial commodification of a communist art icon. http://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40259/1/frida-kahlo-is-not-your-symbol
Chris also read a magazine article this week; April Ryan's essay in the Washington Post, 'I'm A Black Woman, Trump loves insulting people like me.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/10/im-black-woman-white-house-reporter-trump-loves-insulting-people-like-me/?utm_term=.80a0d6c4dcd2
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Cheerio.
27 min
October 31, 2018 Refigure E13 – Idles & Dracula
Christopher and Rifa slowly open a creaky door onto the arts, culture, tech and diversity.
Episode #13. Unlucky for some.
Rifa manages to get a ticket for Bristol's hottest righteous rock band Idles at the Concorde 2. Meanwhile, still avoiding live bands, Chris checks out Truestory Theatre's imaginative production of Dracula at The Spire.
We also binge the new Netflix reboot of Sabrina The Teenage Witch, now called The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina.
In What You Reading For? Rifa gets annoyed with Gavin Strange's Do Lectures self-help book 'Do Fly' and much prefers Nikki Gattenby's book 'SuperEngaged'.
Chris is re-reading for the second time in two years Lewis Hyde's classic 'Trickster Makes This World', trying to think about it in the context of the rise of the trolling alt-right.
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28 min
October 25, 2018 Refigure E12 – Netflix & Chilli
Rifa and Chris scrabble through the detritus of the week's arts, culture, tech and diversity. Episode #12 is meant to be a Netflix special but our fearsome pair stupidly ate a load of intense Thai takeout during taping, so the second half goes a bit loopy in a chilli-high haze.
Anyway, they watch the new Derren Brown special Sacrifice, in which Derren tries to solve racism by attempting to 'persuade' a (friendly) bigot to take a bullet for an illegal immigrant.
They also binge psychedelic multi-reality drama series Maniac, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill.
Chris is reading Robin Ince's new non-fiction book about psychology, I'm A Joke And So Are You.
Rifa is still reading Arundhati Roy's The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness and feels differently about it now.
Thank you for listening, as usual if you're enjoying Refigure, please 'like' and subscribe and share with friends and leave us a nice review. We're on Facebook at http://facebook.com/refigurepod and Insta @refigureUK. Cheerio.
24 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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