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Culture Comforts

27 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

The weekly podcast bringing you cultural recommendations for the person you are, not the person you think you should be

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Episodes

Little Fires Everywhere, Ocean's 8 and In The Dream House

July 27, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

Thank you for listening, we hope you enjoy the episode. Get in touch at [email protected]. See you next week!  ***TRIGGER WARNING We talk about domestic violence in Carmen Maria Machado's book In The Dream House from 7.37 - 11.17.  We talk about sexual violence in relation to Filthy Rich from 21.38-23.31. Books Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik  In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado My Wild and Sleepless Nig...

I May Destroy You, The Vanishing Half and The Chiffon Trenches

July 20, 2020 06:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB

Thank you for listening to Culture Comforts, we hope you enjoyed the episode. If you want to get in touch, email us at [email protected]. See you next week!  Books The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley  Inferno by Catherine Cho Untamed by Glennon Doyle  Fabulous by Lucy Hughes-Hallett  Television I May Destroy You on iPlayer  White Lines on Netflix Never Have I Ever on Netflix  Unorthodox on Netf...

The Dutch House, My Dark Vanessa and Jojo Rabbit

July 13, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB

Thank you for listening to Culture Comforts, we hope you enjoyed the episode! If you want to get in touch, email us at [email protected]. See you next week!  Books The Dutch House by Ann Patchett My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell  The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood  Expectation by Anna Hope  Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Emma by Jane Austen Here's Looking At You by Mhairi MacFarlane If I Never Met You by Mh...

Episode 24: Marian Keyes, Spinning Out and Dear Evan Hansen

February 17, 2020 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MB

Thank you for listening to the episode! Any questions, queries or comments? Contact us on [email protected] Books Grown Ups by Marian Keyes Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog by Emily Dean Movies The Personal History of David Copperfield To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You on Netflix Television Next in Fashion on Netflix Spinning Out on Netflix Longreads 10 Life-Changing Moments That Happened Since My Cancer Went Into Remission by Erin...

Episode 23: Oscar Movie Special!

February 13, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MB

Welcome to our Oscar Movie Special! We obviously haven't watched all the nominated films, but we've seen a selection of the ones that looked the most interesting to us and given you some recommendations below. If you have any questions or comments do let us know at [email protected]! Films in cinema: Parasite  Little Women  1917  Knives Out Films on Netflix:  Marriage Story 

Episode 22: Cheer, Taylor Swift and Donna Tartt

February 04, 2020 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MB

Books  Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Secret History by Donna Tartt Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes How to give up fast fashion by Lauren Bravo Television Cheer on Netflix   The Stranger on Netflix  Museum exhibitions  Tim Walker: Wonderful Things at the V&A Podcasts  Family Ghosts How to Fail Subtitle

Episode 21: Busy Philipps, Shrill and Golden Girls

January 09, 2020 06:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MB

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected] Books This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps  Period by Emma Barnett Identity by Francis Fukuyama Exposure by Olivia Sudjic TV shows Golden Girls  Shrill (BBC iPlayer) Movies Okja (Netflix) Twenty Feet from Stardom (Netflix)  Podcast So I Got To Thinking  Longreads Ann Patchett in The New York Times ‘My year of no shoppi...

Episode 20: Cats, The Witcher and His Dark Materials

December 31, 2019 06:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MB

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected] Books Less by Andrew Sean Greer  The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella  Movies Cats (in cinemas) Florence Foster Jenkins on BBC iPlayer A Private War on Netflix  Television His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer  The Witcher on Netflix  Longreads No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage by Laura Pritchett, par...

Episode 19: Christmas Comforts!

December 22, 2019 08:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected] Books Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella Family Values by Wendy Cope Movies The Holiday (Amazon Prime) Love Actually (Amazon Prime) Music Christmastide by Jessye Norman King’s College Choir Carols on Youtube 

Episode 18: SIX, Let It Snow and Endless Thread

December 16, 2019 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected] Books Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Everywoman by Jess Phillips  Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams  Movies Let it Snow on Netflix  Theatre SIX at the Arts Theatre London Cyrano de Bergerac at Playhouse Theatre Podcasts  Endless Thread  Longreads The Mystical, Mind-Sharing Lives of Tulpamancers from Narratively (https://n...

Episode 17: The Crown, Laundromat and David Sedaris

December 08, 2019 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MB

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected] Books My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams  Theft by finding by David Sedaris What Happens Now by Sophia Money-Coutts  Movies Laundromat (Netflix) Resurfacing - Andy Murray Documentary (Amazon Prime) Julie and Julia (Netflix) TV shows The Crown Season 3 (Netflix) Samantha (Netflix) Podcasts  Sentimental Garbage  Longreads ...

Episode 16: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, WeWork and Fleishman is in Trouble

November 12, 2019 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MB

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected] Books Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor Movies Adrift (Netflix) The King (Netflix) TV shows Brooklyn 99 (available on Netflix) Podcasts  Ctrl Alt Delete with Emma Gannon  Lingthusiasm Longreads Undercover in an Orthodox World (https://gen.medium.com/undercover-in-the-orthod...

Episode 15: Educated, Esther Perel and The Water Cure

November 03, 2019 23:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MB

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected] Books Educated by Tara Westover  When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman  The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh  Don’t You Forget About Me by Mairi Macfarlane  Movies The Farewell (in cinemas) Tell Me Who I Am (on Netflix) Podcasts  Doing It! With Hannah Witton Where Shall We Begin with Esther Perel  Angela Scanlon's Thanks a Million ...

Episode 14: Modern Love, Motherland and Mindy Kaling

October 22, 2019 22:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MB

Hope you enjoyed the episode :-) Links to everything we discussed below. Any questions or recommendations? Email us at [email protected] Books Inside Vogue by Alexandra Shulman The Inn Boonsboro trilogy by Nora Roberts (Book One is The Next Always) Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Movies Late Night starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson (available on Sky) TV shows Motherland Season 2 on BBC iPlayer Modern Love on Amazon Prime Podcasts  Millennial Love Longre...

Episode 13: Carnival Row, Murakami and Clemmie Hooper

October 15, 2019 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Culture Comforts! Everything we discussed is linked below. As always, if you have any questions or recommendations, send us an email at [email protected]. Books Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas  After Dark by Takashi Murakami Breaking and Mending: A Junior Doctor's stories of compassion of burnout by Joanna Cannon TV Shows Original Tales of the City (US Netflix) Carnival ...

Episode 12: Hustlers, The Politician and Confessions of a Sociopath

October 07, 2019 19:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MB

Thank you for listening to Episode 12 of Culture Comforts! If you have any questions or recommendations get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we’ve discussed below.  Books The World I Fell Out Of by Melanie Reid Confessions of a Sociopath by M. E. Thomas Circe by Madeline Miller Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel  Heartstopper by Alice Oseman Longreads The DM That Changed My Life: A ‘You Out?’ That Became a Five-Year Relationship (https://www.vic...

Episode 11: Trick Mirror, This Way Up and Taffy Brodesser-Akner

September 08, 2019 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB

Thank you for listening to Episode 11 of Culture Comforts! If you have any questions or recommendations get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we’ve discussed below.  Books The Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante starting with My Brilliant Friend  I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino Mothership by Francesca Segal  Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller No Exit (& Three Other Plays) by Jean Paul Sartre Longreads The Gospel according ...

Episode 10: Bonus Episode of Holiday Reading Recommendations

August 13, 2019 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MB

Hello and welcome to Episode 10 of Culture Comforts! This week it's a short(-er than usual) bonus episode of our favourite books to read, and reread which we recommend for your summer holiday reading. As always, you can get in touch at [email protected]. Happy reading! Christina's Recommendations The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton Dolf's Recommendations Me Talk Pretty One Day by...

Episode 9: The Crane Wife, The Let Down and The Boy With The Top Knot

August 04, 2019 22:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB

Thank you for listening to episode 9! We hope you enjoy it. If you have any questions or recommendations get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we talk about below.  Books  The Boy With The Top Knot by Sathnam Sanghera On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty TV Shows Friends from College on Netflix Crashing on Amazon Prime The Let Down on Netflix Movies Animals (in cinemas now) Longreads The Crane Wife b...

Episode 8: Nora Ephron, Dolly Alderton and The Lion King

July 28, 2019 23:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MB

Thank you for listening to Episode 8 of Culture Comforts! If you have any questions or recommendations get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we’ve discussed below.  Books Love by Toni Morrison My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Heartburn by Nora Ephron The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain Hadley Freeman: Me and Mrs. Hemingway (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/10/hadley-freeman-richardson-ernest-hem...

Episode 7: Lily Allen, Love Island and Literary Novels

July 14, 2019 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MB

Thank you for listening to Episode 7 of Culture Comforts! If you have any questions or recommendations get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we discuss below.  Books My Thoughts Exactly - Lily Allen  Call Me By Yours Name - Andre Aciman  Motherhood - Sheila Heti  Longreads On the Outside: The Harsh Reality of Life After ‘Love Island’ https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/7/8/20682978/love-island-reality-tv-mental-health Stella McCartney: ‘It’s not like I’...

Episode 6: Table Manners, Tales of the City and The Wild Ride at Babe.net

July 08, 2019 20:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

Thank you for listening to episode 6 of Culture Comforts! If you have any recommendations or queries, get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we discussed are below!  Books What Would The Spice Girls Do? By Lauren Bravo Last Night by James Salter Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez Longreads The wild ride at babe.net from The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/babe-net-aziz-ansari-date-rise-and-fall.html  I came out in my 30s and I have no idea wh...

Episode 5: Derry Girls, Daisy Buchanan and the Discomfort Zone

June 30, 2019 23:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MB

Thank you for listening to episode 5 of Culture Comforts! If you have any recommendations or queries please do get in touch at [email protected]. Books Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Sisterhood by Daisy Buchanan Black, White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker  Ordinary People by Diana Evans  The Discomfort Zone by Farrah Storr Longreads I Tried To Stop Eating My Feelings - And Now I Have Too Many Feelings by Daisy Buchanan (https://medium.com/@NotRollergirl/i-tried-to-stop-eatin...

Episode 4: Booksmart, Book of Mormon and Brand Strategy

June 23, 2019 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MB

Thanks for listening to episode 4! If you'd like to get in touch with any queries or recommendation, please contact us at [email protected] Books Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Look Alive Out there by Sloane Crosley This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan Mary Poppins by PL Travers Longreads How brands get their names, explained by a professional namer by Rebecca Jennings (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/16/18625036/brand-nam...

Episode 3: Wine Country, Who? Weekly and Late Night Woman's Hour

June 09, 2019 23:00 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MB

Welcome to episode 3 of Culture Comforts! If you have any questions or recommendations, get in touch at [email protected]. Details of everything we talk about in this week’s episode are below.  Books  What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty In Search of Silence by Poorna Bell This Is A Story Of A Happy Marriage - Ann Patchett Essays  Outside Voices by Sloane Crosley (from her book of essays ‘Look Alive Out There’) Stuff Your Rules by Taffy Brodesser-Ackner  https://www.nyt...

Episode 2: Curious Careers, California and Cultural Homework

May 23, 2019 21:00 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MB

We're two episodes in! Thank you so much for listening. If you want to reach out to us our email address is [email protected]. Details of everything we talked about are below.  Books Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link The Pisces by Melissa Broder A Curious Career by Lynn Barber An Edited Life by Anna Newton Hunger by Roxane Gay Longreads When did pop culture become homework?  by Soraya Roberts (Longreads.com) We need bodice ripper sex-ed  by Jennifer Weiner (NYTimes.com) ...

Episode 1: Memoirs, Misfits and Multi-Hyphenates

May 23, 2019 20:00 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MB

Welcome to Episode 1 of Culture Comforts! Thank you so much for listening. If you want to reach out to us our email address is [email protected]. Details of everything we talked about are below.   Books How to Fail by Elizabeth Day  The Multi-Hyphenate Method by Emma Gannon  Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford  TV Shows  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on Netflix  The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix  Movies  Sierra Burgess is a Lose...

Guests

David Sedaris
1 Episode
Esther Perel
1 Episode

Books

His Dark Materials
1 Episode
Tales of the City
1 Episode