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5Sammy and Dino Episode 6: The Rat Pack
In the early 40s, both Dean and Sammy idolized Frank Sinatra. 20 years later, they became Sinatra’s cohorts in the Rat Pack,...
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Sammy and Dino Episode 7: Yes I Can
Released in 1965, Sammy Davis Jr.’s autobiography became an instant classic, one of the most dynamic celebrity memoirs ever published and a...
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61Nils Frahm: ‘Using a chainsaw gave me strength in my fingers for piano’ | Music
Music was everywhere when I grew up, not just on the stereo. My mother had a piano. My father played guitar and...
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Sammy and Dino Episode 8: Generation Gap
In the mid-1960s, 47 year-old Dean Martin proves he’s still got it by knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop...
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2Vermiglio review – exquisite Italian Alps wartime drama | Drama films
The year is 1944. But the remote Italian Alpine village of Vermiglio is a place of timeless rhythms and rituals, unchanged for...
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Sammy and Dino Episode 9: Is That All There Is?
Desperate to be seen as cool and not a relic of an earlier age in 70s America, Sammy gets into porn and...
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6On my radar: Naomi Alderman’s cultural highlights | Naomi Alderman
Born in London in 1974, the author Naomi Alderman studied PPE at Oxford and creative writing at the University of East Anglia....
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3‘I knew I was overexercising and not eating enough’: novelist Emma Healey on the dark side of self-control | Books
Emma Healey’s two previous novels explored themes vivid in her own life. The protagonist of her bestselling debut, Elizabeth Is Missing, for which Healey won...
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Porno Chic and The Brief Heyday of X Ratings (Erotic 80s Part 1) — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Here in 2022, there is more public conversation about the nuances of human...
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2Victoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns review – a musical promise fulfilled | Pop and rock
With two Ivor Novello awards for songwriting and a mentorship from Chris Martin that landed her on the Pyramid stage last year...
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Richard Gere and American Gigolo (Erotic 80s Part 3) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Film Reviews: American Gigolo, Variety, Jan 30, 1980 American Gigolo, Films in Review, March 1980, Vol 31 Iss 3...
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3Blood Simple at 40: how the Coens set the standard for modern noir | Coen brothers
The loathsome proprietor of a Texas bar slumps in his office chair after hours, seemingly dead from a gunshot wound to the...
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Neonoir, Body Heat and Postman Always Rings Twice (Erotic 80s Part 4) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock ‘N Roll Generation by Peter Biskind Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on...
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41Guy Pearce: ‘My ex-wife was the greatest love of my life, but I’ve moved on now’ | Guy Pearce
Born in Cambridgeshire, Guy Pearce, 57, grew up in Australia and was in Neighbours. He starred in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen...
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Teen Sexploitation, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky’s and The Blue Lagoon (Erotic 80s Part 5) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Long Live the New Flesh! Or, Why Video Stores With Real Employees Will Always Win, By Ross Scarano, Matt...
