Awful and Awesome Ep 192: Mank, The Wilds, and A Call to Spy

Talking about Noor Inayat Khan, played by Radhika Apte in A Call to Spy:

Rajyasree: One of her parents was Indian and she was a pacifist. So all those things...

Abhinandan: She was a what?

Rajyasree: A pacifist. She doesn’t believe in… a, like a baby pacifier, but a pacifist.

Abhinandan: Ok, who believes in Pacific Ocean?

Rajyasree: Haa like she used to swim in the Pacific Ocean, so she was a pacifist.

Abhinandan: She was deep. I’m more of an Atlantist.

Rajyasree: Yeah, I’m also someone known as an Atlantist you know.

Abhinandan: You’re a bloody Hoogliest. Which is dirty and full of fish!

Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the historical drama A Call to Spy; David Fincher’s Mank; Amazon series The Wilds; Pakistani animated short film Swipe; and Smiths City’s whiteware commercial.

Song: Vanjhali Waja

Timestamps

00:01 - Introduction

1:29 - A Call to Spy

12:10 - Mank

28:50 - Letters from listeners

37:28 - The Wilds

47:46 - Letters from listeners

51:09 - Swipe

56:25 - Letters from listeners

1:01:27 - Smiths City ad

References

A Call to Spy

Mank

Why Highly Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy

The Haunting of Bly Manor

The Haunting of Hill House

The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium by Gerald Durrell

The Omen

Monihara

Amityville Horror

The Wilds

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Swipe

Smiths City ‘A Whiteware Christmas’

Willow by Taylor Swift

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Let’s Talk About: Big Data

Recorded and produced by Jude Weston, edited by Umrav Singh.

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