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WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

I'm Chris Bentley, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston.

And today, you're going to need a bigger podcast.

Our friends at WBURP podcasts have a new three-part series about a movie near and dear to my heart, Jaws.

It's been 50 years since Stephen Spielberg's film came out, and it's still inspiring fans, the most devoted

of whom I learned from this podcast call themselves fanatics. I wouldn't go so far as to call

myself a fanatic, but I watched Jaws roughly once a year, usually around July 4th. And once,

while watching on a projector in my friend Mickey's backyard, his

neighbors came over with their young son. He made a big show of not being scared until Hooper

discovers the wreck of Ben Gardner's boat. I bring that up because that feeling of seeing

something you're a little too young to see, that's part of what WBUR's

Andrea Shea explores in this new show, Jaws Island, along with everything else that makes

the movie and its fandom so enduring. And also why a movie famous for some fairly

gory scenes is actually a comfort watch for so many of us.

So whether you've seen Jaws a hundred times or just want to glimpse into a fandom that's been growing for 50 years,

and what that means for the people who live on the small island where it was filmed,

I think you're going to enjoy Jaws Island from WBUR podcasts.

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