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Lost Notes: Groupies

S1 Bonus - Reissue: Mad About the Boy

Lost Notes: Groupies

KCRW

Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7721 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We resurface a story from Falling Tree Productions that takes a look at the empowering flip-side of pop fandom.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, gang, I'm Nick.

0:02.6

And I'm Mike, and we are the producers of Lost Notes.

0:05.6

Yep, and we have good news and some bad news.

0:08.6

We have bad news?

0:09.6

Well, not exactly, but this is not a new proper episode of Lost Notes.

0:14.0

Ah, yes, that is technically true.

0:16.0

But we do have new episodes coming.

0:17.9

That's good news.

0:18.9

We're working on a bunch of new stories right now, and we'll tell you more about them very, very soon. But in the meantime...

0:23.6

In the meantime, we thought we'd spend our off time sharing some of our favorite stories from

0:27.6

elsewhere in the podcastosphere. Yep, and this first one's really, really great. It comes from

0:31.9

one of our very favorite radio producers, probably anywhere. Anywhere, indeed. Eleanor McDowell take a bow.

0:38.3

She is part of Falling Tree, a company in the UK that produces so much good work for the BBC

0:42.7

and other folks.

0:44.0

And she herself is one of the best music documentaries out there in my humble opinion.

0:48.4

She's, yeah, totally.

0:49.4

And this one, though, is a little different from anything we've done before, certainly.

0:52.8

It's called Mad About the Boy,

0:54.6

and Eleanor made it with her friends Ruth Barnes and Jude Rogers, both of whom are super

0:59.1

talented writers and producers in their own right, and together they explore pop music and fandom

1:04.3

and the sometimes literal madness that goes down between artists and people who love them the most.

1:09.1

Yeah, I really had fun listening to it. And hope you like it too.

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