Gabriella and Claudette discuss the books, film, theatre and podcasts that they loved (and a few that they loathed) in 2016.

Length: 1hr 6mins, Recorded December 2016

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Notes:

• Sport for Jove’s Summer Season, a double bill of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar/Antony & Cleopatra (playing to January 29, 2017)


• Eimar McBride on TLS, reading an excerpt from her novel, The Lesser Bohemians.


• “Selfie with Sunflowers”, Julian Barnes on Van Gogh for LRB Podcast


• “What I Did in 2015” – Alan Bennett reads from his diaries for LRB Podcast


• Helen Garner’s review of Pride and Prejudice


• Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof by Alisha Solomon


• “My Son, the Prince of Fashion” by Michael Chabon for GQ Magazine

Episode Rundown

1:40 Theatre in 2016

1:56 King Charles III

7:14   Twelfth Night

11:15 The Literati

12:30 Disgraced

13:30 Taming of the Shrew

16:00 Three Sisters

18:34 Antigone

20:54 Speed the Plow

27:00 Books in 2016

28:10 The Lesser Bohemians

31:00 The Natural Way of Things

33:05 A Little Life

34:47 The Argonauts

35:50 Between the World and Me

37:28 Everywhere I Look

39:39 M Train

40:06 The First Bad Man

43:00 TV in 2016

Gabriella recommends The West Wing (NBC)

Claudette recommends Some Girls (BBC), Stranger Things (Netflix), The Crown (Netflix), Victoria (ITV)

44:00 Film in 2016

44:38 Rooco and his Brothers (1960)

45:37 Where am I Going? (2016)

47:05 Nocturnal Animals (2016)

49:03 Arrival (1960)

50:28 Podcasts in 2016

50:52 The Party Room

51:00 TLS Voices (Times Literary Supplement)

52:10 How Did this Get Made?

52:43 London Review Books Podcast

52:13 The Berlin Patient

53:56 My Dad Wrote a Porno

54:38 How to Be Amazing, Episode 46: Ira Glass

56:25 This American Life

Episode 592: Are We There Yet (Refugee Camps in Greece)

Episode 597: One Last Thing Before I Go (Wind Telephone in Japan)

58:20 Things we are looking forward to in 2017

Moonglow

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Hillary Mantel’s new book

Golden Hill

The Essex Serpent

Margaret the First

Measure for Measure

Three Sisters

The Rover

Ghosts

Cabaret

Parsifal