Laura Lexx - History, Hilarity, and Klopp Actually

Yup, another fortnight's passed and we're as confused as everyone else about it. Turns out we have been quite busy though, with conflabs over the astonishing Promising Young Woman, Twitter writing advice, International Women's Day and the widespread response to Meghan's (and Harry's, it needs to be said) interview, chats about Ali Smith's 'Summer' and Olga Tokarczuk's 'Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead' all on the cards, plus of course, your usual dose of insanity/inanity.

Our guest this week though really steals the show; you might know Laura Lexx as the brilliant comedian gracing screens on Mock The Week and Live At The Apollo, or maybe were one of the legions hooked on her madcap Twitter thread about her imaginary relationship with Jurgen Klopp - maybe you even got intrigued at the subsequent two-book deal she won off the back of that (that's right, you can get Klopp soft-porn in hard-copy now - keep it clean - while we await her debut novel). She's phenomenally intelligent and candid, and opens up about not only her journey into stand-up and her love of history, but her climate anxiety and why that led to her decision not to have biological children. We think she's glorious, and reckon you will too. Plus, you know, she can knit a mean dinosaur.

As always if you could subscribe and tell your friends about us that would mean the world, as this is the FINAL episode of Season 2! We will be back with a sneaky extra special bonus ep in two weeks time though before sleeping for a thousand years and returning (in six weeks) for a bright and spangly Season 3. The more for the big return (and the incredible guests we have lined up), the better!

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Shownotes

Tweet on writing - https://twitter.com/CherylStrayed/status/1368054516822675456 

Promising Young Woman - https://www.focusfeatures.com/promising-young-woman/ 

The Bold Type - https://www.netflix.com/title/80176085 

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead 

Summer by Ali Smith - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/285/285183/summer/9780241973370.html 

Laura Lexx - https://www.lauralexx.co.uk/ 

The Jurgen Klopp thread - https://twitter.com/lauralexx/status/1238601779773952005?lang=en 

Microsoft Notes - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/onenote/digital-note-taking-app 

National Treasures Podcast - https://www.lauralexx.co.uk/shows/national-treasures 

Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob (Hardback) - https://www.waterstones.com/book/klopp-actually/laura-lexx/9781529348217?awaid=3787 

Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals by Ginny Smith - https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/philosophy-psychology-social-sciences/overloaded-how-every-aspect-of-your,ginny-smith-9781472969347

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