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I'm Stephen Metcalfe, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Best, Too Old to Be Governable, Too Young to Die edition. It's Wednesday, May 18th, 2016. On today's show, Love and Friendship is the new Witt Stillman movie. It's based on the Jane Austen novella Lady Susan and stars Kate Beckinsale, Tom Bennett, Chloe Savigny, and many others. And then Radiohead has a new record out. We discuss a moon-shaped pool. And what it means to be the last great rock band in a post-rock and roll world. We discussed this with Slate's music critic, Carl Wilson. And finally, never to be delimited in our Anglomania, we go three Brit topics this week in honor of our new intern. Television may be the new

art cinema, but it will also and always be television. That is a way to shut off the mind as well as

in live in it. We discuss Laura Miller's favorite TV comfort food, the British crime procedural,

Scott and Bailey, and the concept in general of TV as comfort food. Joining me today is Laura Miller.

Hi, Laura.

Nice to be here.

And Slate's editor, Julia Turner.

Hey, Julia.

Hello, Steve.

Hi.

Welcome to Brooklyn.

I know.

To the spanking new, it's kind of got a new car smell here at Slate.

Yeah, very much so.

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