How to record sex, with podcaster Kaitlin Prest. Plus: fashion month explained by a trend forecaster

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🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning podcaster Kaitlin Prest (of The Heart and Mermaid Palace) is one of the most innovative people making audio today. She chats with Lilah about sex, power and the grey areas around consent—as well as how her collective of queer anarchist outsiders climbed to the top of the audio world. Plus: trend forecaster Emily Segal, known for coining the term 'normcore', stops by to share her top five alternate takeaways from fashion month (including that trends may be entirely over!).

As always, we'd love to hear from you. Say hi on Twitter @FTCultureCall, or by email at [email protected] to tell us what you're reading, watching, listening to or otherwise obsessed with. And if you enjoy the show, why not leave us a review on Apple Podcasts?

Recommended links:

–Kaitlin Prest and Drew Denny's new audio show, Asking For it, comes out February 25. Trailer here: https://mermaidpalace.org/Asking-For-It

–The Heart's three part series on consent, 'No': https://www.theheartradio.org/no-episodes

–If you liked Emily Segal of Nemesis, this is a great conversation between her and star fashion designer Virgil Abloh: http://moussemagazine.it/virgil-abloh-emily-segal-2018/

–Danny Leigh's piece about Amy documentarian Asif Kapadia ('the director who reinvented the documentary'): https://www.ft.com/content/5311f8ce-871b-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2

–Gris' Twitter thread about the best theatre on in London right now: https://twitter.com/griseldamb/status/1229743591863541761

–FT review of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt and Death of England (paywall): https://www.ft.com/content/9f91a7f6-4e4b-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5

–Gris' Culture Call interview with Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat Person: https://www.ft.com/content/79a36ebb-3599-4231-92e8-094220b414ef

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to Culture Call, a transatlantic conversation from the Financial Times.
0:06.5	I'm Griselda Murray Brown in London.
0:08.7	And I'm Lila Raptopoulos in New York.
0:11.5	Coming up on today's episode.
0:16.0	That's the balance that I try to strike in my work.
0:19.1	I'm trying to make something that is as entertaining
0:21.2	as Batman that's representing extremely important issues and like naturalizing them.
0:32.5	Today's guest is the multi-award winning podcaster Caitlin Prest, who is formerly of The Heart, and now is the founder of the podcasting company Mermaid Palace.
0:42.0	She's, I think, one of the most interesting and innovative people making audio today.
0:46.2	And after that, we're doing something a bit different for Fashion Month.
0:49.9	Fashion Month just means when New York, London, Milan and Paris have their fashion weeks one after the other.
0:55.5	So in honor of this, we decided to get Emily Seagull onto the podcast.
1:00.0	She's a trend forecaster. She coined the term Normcore.
1:03.4	So she stopped by to give us her top lines on Fashion Month and to question whether trends even exist anymore.
1:09.9	Just a heads up, our conversation with Caitlin not only covers issues around sex and consent,
1:14.3	but also contains some swearing.
1:16.5	So it may not be suitable for everyone.
1:22.9	So, Lila, it's been a few weeks.
1:24.9	Other than co-launching season two of the podcast, what have
1:29.9	you been up to? Not much. I'm just kidding. I have been up to a few things. One, I've been
1:38.0	looking through our emails after episode one, because it's just like food for the soul to read
1:42.7	our notes from listeners. And we got tons of love
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