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Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields, and in this episode we’re all about Jane Austen. I’m thrilled to be joined by three very lovely friends of mine Hannah Campbell, Nell Cardozo, and Rowan Charleson.

We’re talking about romance and heartbreak in four of Austen’s six major novels and their film adaptations: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey.

Support Hannah’s project Birds with Words - https://www.instagram.com/birdswithwords_uk/ - here and the gallery Nell and I are directors of here - https://instagram.com/16nicholsonstreet?igshid=ngtu75trpw9y

Please support Glasgow Night Shelter if you can too: https://glasgownightshelter.org

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  [email protected] or you can follow us on instagram at  @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields. This week I’m joined by one of my favourite people in the world, Cameron Mackay for a very wholesome episode.

Cameron is a filmmaker, composer, and environmentalist. His background is in climate change research and traditional Scottish music, and through short documentary films he tells stories about sustainability, Scottish culture, and the natural world. I met Cameron in first year of University in the Glasgow Uni Union through mutual friends and since then, Cameron is someone I’ve always turned to for deep cut chats on relationships and anxiety.

This week we're talking about maintaining control in your relationship, one listener's feelings of panic and relationship incompetence, anxiety post-break up over whether or not anyone will want to be with you again, and fear that your partner will get bored of you. 

You can find more information about Cameron on his Website, and catch him on instagram here @cameronjmackay or on his professional page here @cmackproductions.

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  [email protected] or you can follow us on instagram at  @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields. This week I'm joined all the way from New York City and San Francisco by the developers of Project Bluetick, Louisa and Grace. 

"A couple months ago, my boyfriend broke up with me. He told me that I texted too much and was too needy, so I decided to use data analysis to prove him wrong."

Louisa is also looking for more contributors to the SMS analytics so please submit your WhatsApp chats and work out who in your last relationship texted more, who was more affectionate, who initiated more, and a number of other factors in your online correspondence! 

Louisa's Medium Article: https://medium.com/swlh/improving-my-dating-life-one-text-analysis-at-a-time-a802cb8c2876

Project Bluetick

The Website: bluetick.group

The Code: https://github.com/llu13701/sms_analysis

Getting in touch with Louisa: [email protected]

Recommendations for heartbreak recovery from Louisa and Grace:

Louisa:

Movie - Birds of Prey (2019; Dir. Cathy Yan)

Music - 'Married Life' by from the film Up

Grace:

Movie - Say Anything... (1989; Dir. Cameron Crowe)

Music - If It Wasn't For the Nights by ABBA

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If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact [email protected].

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Radiophrenia (Listen Here)

Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf - A Common Spring

22 November 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A Common Spring​ is the radio adaptation of Isabella Shields’ work-in-progress horror novel of the same name, accompanied by a sonic response from the artist Adam Benmakhlouf. A Common Spring is based on an original concept by and has been developed with Harlan McGlinchey, whose vocal performance features in this broadcast.

Taking its name from Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Alone’, ​A Common Spring follows five content creators for ​‘Interim​' magazine who have been sent to cover the village of Hareton Gowt’s annual fete. The existing romantic and resentful tensions in the group complicate their difficult engagement with the villagers, and realities and relationships become increasingly destabilised as their coverage of the fete takes increasingly horrifying turns. In its mood, the story itself is designed to create a pervasive sense of disturbance and dissonance. As it develops thematically, it becomes a consideration of personal authenticity, the erosion of individualism, and the mutability of selfhood. 

In turn, Benmakhlouf's soundscape combines original composition and bootlegged mixtape  in a theme of suspense that emphasises the multiplicity and re-figurations of the story through an anxious interaction of a diversity of audio materials. For ​A Common Spring​, Adam treats the sonic and textural audio elements as a further means of creating a surprising and out of the ordinary encounter in order to facilitate a sense of leaving the rigid patterns of daily avoidance or emotional disengagement."

Isabella Shields (she/her) is a writer and curator whose work revolves around the collapse of distinctions within culture, and the construction of relationships. She is director of 16 Nicholson Street, a contemporary art gallery in Glasgow which she established in 2016. She is undertaking her PhD in Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and her continued academic and critical focus is on trauma theory, intermediality, and the dissolution of boundaries within culturally prominent systems of representation.

Adam Benmakhlouf (they/them) is a documentary fantasist working in drawing, sound, writing, teaching and programming. Committedly manifold, in their practice they embody and experimentally represent nuanced strategies of world-building formed out of necessity and hope by BIPOCs and queers.

https://www.isabellashields.com/

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields, and this week I’m joined by two of my best, most glamorous, and longest held friends Stephen Cunningham and Maddie Gold! You might remember Maddie and Stephen from our Bridget Jones Diary episode but this week we’re talking all about first relationships.

We're answering questions about 

the aftereffects of harsh criticism from your first ex 

managing keeping your first ex in your life

not getting an 'I love you' back the first time you've ever said it

getting your first ex out of your head 

losing your virginity later in life. 

You can support Stephen's Movember efforts HERE. 

You can follow us on instagram @breakinguppodcast and you can follow Stephen on instagram @step_hen08 and Maddie on instagram @maighdlingold.  

Please tell all your friends if you like the podcast and give us five stars if you’re listening on iTunes so other people can find the podcast and we can get a big serotonin hit.

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact [email protected].

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf.

This is the last week of our October spooktacular! We’re talking about another two relationship centric horror films - Jim Gillespie’s I Know What You Did Last Summer from 1997 and David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows from 2014. These films are teen psychosexual horrors which is why we’ve paired them together, and we’ve got some thematically linked questions about relationships to go along with them.

Content warning: discussion of sexual violence, and mental health issues.

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  [email protected] or you can follow us on instagram at  @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf.

This week begins our October spooktacular! We’re talking about two relationship centric horror films - Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation (2015) and Adam Wingard’s You’re Next (2011). 

Next week we're talking about I Know What You Did Last Summer and It Follows so give them a watch! 

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact [email protected] or you can follow us on instagram at @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf.

This week we’re talking about worry over a partner’s eating habits, splitting the difference financially, and having a partner whose waking and baking is taking the fun out of spending time together.

James Salter reading Break It Down by Lydia Davis:

https://play.acast.com/s/guardianculture/james-salter-reads-break-it-down-by-lydia-davis

Content warnings in this episode for disordered eating and exercise, and for discussion of substance abuse.

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact [email protected] or you can follow us on instagram at @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf.

We're shaking up the format this week with a slightly unusual episode made up of our movie pitches for the break up films we want to see! Next week we'll be back to agony aunt questions but catch us on Instagram or over email to let us know which of these films you would watch.

With thanks to Wild Potato Designs for our cover art. Music and production by Isabella Shields.

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  [email protected] or you can follow us on instagram at  @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf.

We’re back to the old format and dealing with agony aunt questions you’ve sent in!

This week we’re answering questions about keeping in touch with your ex’s family, being sick of your friend’s chat about their break-up, and finding out your partner has slept with more people than they told you they had.

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  [email protected] or you can follow us on instagram at  @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.