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Slate Culture

No Bad Horses Edition

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

June Thomas, Stephen Metcalf, and Dana Stevens discuss the TV BBC and Amazon show A Very English Scandal, the HBO film The Tale, and the work of Aretha Franklin with Jody Rosen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This Winter, memberships will never be the same again.

0:03.4

Amazon Prime presents Eddie Murphy's new Christmas movie, Candy Kane Lane, and Fast Delivery,

0:09.0

all for 899 a month. I've got to sign up now.

0:12.2

Get great entertainment and fast delivery, all for 899 a month.

0:16.0

It's on prime.

0:18.0

Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus.

0:20.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:23.2

I'm Stephen Meckhaff and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest No Bad Horses

0:37.5

addition it's Wednesday August 15th 2018 on today's show a very English scandal is a very British import

0:43.8

miniseries it's a dramatization of the 1970s Jeremy Thorpe scandal

0:49.6

luckily we have June Thomas here to tell us what those words mean. I know this much to be true

0:54.8

though it stars a wonderfully revived Hugh Grant. And then the tale is the first feature

0:59.8

film by documentarian Jennifer Fox. It, as she herself has said, a brutally

1:04.4

candid telling of the story of her own childhood sexual abuse stars Laura Dern.

1:10.1

And finally, we begin the excruciating process of saying goodbye to Lady Soul.

1:16.0

The news is broken that Aretha Franklin, as of this recording is in hospice care.

1:21.0

We will discuss her incalculable legacy. I mean there is just there's one thing and I

1:27.9

really mean this sincerely there's one thing in the world you are not allowed to

1:31.3

not like you couldn't and still be human and that's the

1:35.0

singing of Aretha Franklin. We'll discuss her legacy with Jody Rosen. Joining me

1:39.3

today is June Thomas. Do you have some fancy new title I should know about?

1:43.7

I am, you're a bot, no.

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