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Marcus, Jim, Vish and Pete are back to answer more of your burning questions, as we revel in football’s stupid stuff and a listener writes to us after attending that chaotic Norwegian promotion ding dong last week.
Plus, we look into how football can stop eating itself, deciding the only answer is to have more sex in Marvel films. Or bao buns.
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From its humour to its hero, why Doctor Who is so quintessentially British
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Academic and intellectual British novelist A.S. Byatt has died at 87. In a statement, her publisher Chatto & Windus said she had passed away in her home, but a cause of death was not given.
A scholar and critic, Byatt is best known for her 1990 novel Possession, which she won the Booker Prize for and which was made into a 2002 movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Through this award-winning book, as well as her 11 novels and six short story collections, she came to be known as as an academically-minded writer, stating herself that, “I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel, I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.”
Though Byatt achieved great success through her writing — with books like Angels and Insects being made into a1995 Oscar-nominated movie and gaining a teaching position at University College London — she had her share of tragedy. When her son Charles was 11, he was killed by a drunk driver. Though she didn’t overtly write about her experience with grieving his loss, it had decidedly changed her writing: “I suddenly thought, Why the hell not have happy endings? Everybody knows they’re artificial. Why not have this pleasure, as one has the pleasure of rhyme, as one has the pleasure of color?”
Though complete information on her survivors is unknown, Byatt had three daughters with her husband, and leaves behind a writing legacy that includes being named one of the 50 Greatest British Authors Since 1945 by The Times of London, and being made a dame of the British Empire in 1999 for her contributions to literature.
In a 2016 interview, she said, “I think most of my life I’ve felt very lucky, because I expected not to be able to write books. And I never really wanted to do anything else.”
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Janet Planet (2023). All photos courtesy of New York Film Festival.
Annie Baker’s Janet Planet is a film that reminded me of what it is actually like to be a child: the boredom and fascination of learning to play a tiny electronic keyboard; the experience of faking illness so diligently that you kid yourself; those self-invented witchy rituals that offer the promise of control. Set in a crunchy Western Massachusetts town and mysteriously infused with the grain of an eighties family photo, it follows Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), an eleven-year-old with a wise, anxious face and a T-shirt down to her knees, and her single mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson), as their household is disrupted by three visitors. Like Fanny and Alexander, one of Baker’s favorites, it’s a film framed by theater—there’s a culty open-air production with puppets and masks, a dollhouse with mismatched inhabitants. It also contains a scene with some of the best dialogue I’ve heard outside an Annie Baker play (while you’re here: you must read our excerpt of Infinite Life in issue no. 238!), in which two female characters have the kind of argument that only the closest friends can have, while tripping on MDMA.
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The Curse (2023).
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The brain wave that transformed Walt Disney's life
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Is a draw in Tbilisi - thanks to a 92nd minute equaliser - enough to rid Scotland of their dreaded curse? Marcus, Pete, Jim and Vish call for any curse experts to help them solve that mystery.
They also speculate whether Gareth Southgate is cooking up any experiments in his lab ahead of England vs Malta and debate which of today’s Ramblers have the cutest dad… It’s The Preview Show!
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