Burn your bras, lads: we’re back in the 70s this week – only this time the magazine under the spotlight *has* caught up with the decade’s radical social progress.

Lucy is leading the way through a tour of Cosmo’s little sister mag: the recently launched Company. There’s a report into how technology is about to transform work as we know it, some timeless fashion tips, and an ad for a 1970s-era Hinge.

But it’s not all women’s lib. The Mag Hags get the ick over a Freudian feature about girls’ relationships with their dads. And there is an *exquisite* essay about the sexiest thing imaginable: not having sex.

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CHAPTERS

04:14 – Introduction to Company – December 1979 

06:50 – What’s on the cover?

12:06 – “The leisure decade”: Sociologist Ann Karpf explores how technology is going to precipitate a 20-hour-work week and a socialist revolution 🫠🙃

26:42 – *An ad break from 1979*

30:15 – “Fathers are first”: A deeply psychologically problematic feature telling readers that if their dad is absent then they’ll definitely never have good relationships with men. 

42:42 – Fashion and beauty tips from 1979

46:11 – “Lunchtime lovers”: Is there anything conceivably hotter than an indulgent flirtation with an intellectual sparring partner who you also fancy? Over lunch??

59:03 – What's hot and what's not in 1979

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