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Welcome TO The OC, BITCHES!
Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clark (right) — aka Summer Roberts and Julie Cooper on The OC — spent lockdown recording a podcast together.
Each episode of Welcome To The OC, Bitches! recalls a particular episode of the much-loved Noughties series.
Expect cameos from former cast members, writers, musicians, and “the many people that made The OC the cultural phenomenon that it is today”.
room 20
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In a nursing home in San Diego, a patient known only as Six-six Garage lies in a vegetative state after a nearfatal car accident, with police labelling him only as an “undocumented” Mexican immigrant.
Fifteen years after his initial crash, reporter Joanne Faryon dedicates herself to finding out the truth about his identity and the people he left behind — the beginning of a shocking investigation into the history of his case. Gripping, timely, and important.
SCATTERED Chanel CONNECTS
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The first season of the storied fashion house’s culture podcast featured intimate, wide-ranging conversations between creatives such as Keira Knightley and Lulu Wang and British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful and Tilda Swinton.
Now, in its second instalment, you’ll find eight more ingenious pairings, from Maisie Williams (left) and Grimes on the metaverse, and Kehinde Wiley and Misan Harriman on image making, to Emerald Fennell and Gillian Flynn on anti-heroines and the comedy that can be found in tragedy.
LAST DAYS Of August
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At the end of 2017, 23-year-old adult film star August Ames committed suicide after her Tweets about refusing to work with men who shot gay porn were met with widespread backlash.
In The Last Days of August, journalist
Jon Ronson both delves into her backstory and explores the many hierarchies implicit within the porn industry today in a way that’s sensitive, enlightening, and deeply empathetic.
Listen to it from start to finish, then download Ronson’s earlier podcast The Butterfly Effect, which looks at the tech industry’s transformation of the adult film world.