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Adam Curtis, Welcome to Your Fantasy, true crime podcasts

Documentary maker Adam Curtis on his newest work, Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. Plus Gimlet's Welcome to Your Fantasy, their latest true crime podcast.

Documentary-maker Adam Curtis crafts densely-constructed, visually-fragmented work so packed full of ideas and images that you can’t take your eyes off the screen for a moment. He pulls together disparate images and soundtrack to create a mesmerising hypothesis. He discusses his newest work, Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, which debuts on Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer this Thursday.

Welcome to Your Fantasy and The Missing are two new true crime podcasts swelling the ranks in a genre which continues to feature highly in both Spotify and Apple podcast charts. Crime writer and true podcast fan Denise Mina, Natalia Petrzela, presenter and co-producer of Welcome To Your Fantasy, and true crime podcast maker Hannah Maguire, co-host of RedHanded, discuss the continuing appeal of this format.

We’ve another in our continuing series, Moments of Joy, showing how art can brighten dark times. Today it’s the turn of writer Max Liu, who celebrates a moment in Annie Baker‘s drama The Flick, which defies theatrical conventions to great effect. It also reminds us of the unacknowledged value of small talk.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Julian May

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Wed 10 Feb 2021 19:15
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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Adam Curtis

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Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World, a series of 6 documentaries by Adam Curtis is streaming on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer from 11 February 2021.   Images:     Main image above and image to the left: Stills taken from the Can't Get You Out of My Mind documentary series by Adam Curtis.

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