Fiona Sturges
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Interviewer & arts reviewer @guardian @FTweekend @independent @theipaper "Rampant feminist snowflake" - Piers Morgan "Well known lunatic" - Man on the internet
Brighton, UK
Joined January 2009
For today's @Independent, I put my Catholic education to good use and pondered the new Rosalia album and the blossoming relationship between the Vatican and pop culture.
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The pop star’s experimental, religious new album has found an unlikely fan in the Vatican, writes Fiona Sturges. Could this signal a new era of papal-pop culture diplomacy?
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It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on an immersive and gripping new series about the real-life family who were shipwrecked in the Pacific for 38 days.
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A family’s voyage around the world that went disastrously wrong is documented with verve and skill
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It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on A View from a Bridge, the compelling and sometimes profound audio spin-off of the hit Insta series in which strangers on bridges stop to tell stories from their lives into a telephone receiver. https://t.co/8BAojSxHFP
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In producer Joe Bloom’s new series, passers-by and the occasional celebrity tell personal stories over the phone
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Me on Patti and her latest memoir, Bread of Angels, in today's @theipaper.
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Her poetic and immersive fourth memoir 'Bread of Angels' is both a prequel and a sequel to the bestselling 'Just Kids'
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Am contemplating my next move, but I don't want to stop writing about the audio industry which has changed beyond recognition in the last decade. So if you're looking for a pod reviewer/commentator, please get in touch!
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It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on Becoming Meg Dashwood, a racy spin-off of Sense & Sensibility w/ Emma Thompson. Sadly, the column is ending later this month after 10 glorious years, so read it while you still can. https://t.co/klszk8wcej
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Dramatisation based on Sense and Sensibility becomes a story of sexual liberation in Soho
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For @GuardianBooks, I reviewed Debsey Wykes' Teenage Daydream, a memoir/coming-of-age tale about her adventures as singer and bassist in the early 80s post-punk band, Dolly Mixture.
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Dolly Mixture’s singer and bassist looks back on their time chasing mainstream success and facing down outrageous sexism
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It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on Ill-Advised with Bill Nighy, in which listeners send in their quandaries for the great man to answer. Problem-solving may be the pretext of this pod but it's really about the (excellent) company.
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The irresistibly mellow actor dispenses advice on shirt collars, small talk and how to avoid parties in new series ‘Ill-Advised’
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And from the weekend, I wrote this for @theipaper about Harper Lee's The Land of Sweet Forever. What should we make of it when the publisher of a cherished writer who is clear about having said all she wanted to say releases two more books under her name?
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The Land of Sweet Forever is the work of a young writer still feeling her way
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It's Monday so here's my @FT column on an epic new podcast on Fela Kuti, hosted by @JadAbumrad, which examines the Afrobeat pioneer's life, loves, sounds and politics. The series is vast and wide-ranging and, after 12 eps, I still didn't want it to end.
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Wide-ranging new series explores the Nigerian musician’s life, loves and rebel politics
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It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on WTF with Marc Maron, the final ep of which is out today after a remarkable 16 years. Today's podcasting landscape looks very different to how it did then - and some of that is down to Maron.
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‘WTF with Marc Maron’ comes to an end after 16 years with a deeply personal address to listeners
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Another piece (the last for a few days, I promise), in @guardian: I spent an entertaining few hours with Evan Dando, who is one of the most unfiltered & bracingly honest interviewees you could hope for. We talked drugs, music, drugs, memoirs & more drugs.
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He was the darling of early-90s alt rock, but success came with the kind of rock’n’roll excess that many of his peers did not survive. Now, having finally quit heroin, he’s back with a new album, a...
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It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on Coining It, which tells the brilliant, bonkers story of a fiftysomething man who discovered a glitch in a bitcoin website, made a fortune and decided to share his newfound wealth with his neighbours.
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Series presented by Lewis Goodall tells the story of a Blackpool man living in poverty who became a millionaire through bitcoin fraud
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In today's @FT, I interviewed the wildly articulate and charismatic Neko Case about making music in the age of streaming and AI, the wonder of growing older and coming to terms with her extraordinary (and extraordinarily difficult) past.
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I really wanted to like Ben Elton's new memoir, What Have I Done? detailing his 40-year career as a writer, comic and occasional actor, not least because I loved The Young Ones, Blackadder & his stand-up (Double Seat!). But, well, he doesn't make it easy.
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The Young Ones and Blackadder writer is sharp on the workings of the comedy industry – and not shy about listing his celebrity admirers
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It's Monday so here's my @FT column on the return of Heavyweight, one of my all-time faves, which brings back a familiar voice: Gregor. Gregor's elderly parents need to downsize but they can't part with their belongings. Can host Jonathan Goldstein help?
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Jonathan Goldstein’s series returns with a story about love, death and our attachment to material objects
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It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on A Dose of Dandy, a lifestyle series hosted by two influencers who enjoy the finer things in life and seemingly want to live their lives as if in a PG Wodehouse novel. Is this satire or are they for real?
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Show in which two young men wax lyrical about tweed and tulips combines Instagram influencer energy and old-world gentility
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Slightly more cheery: as part of the @FT's Life of a Song series, I wrote about the dark mysteries at the heart of the gorgeous Irish lament, She Moved Through the Fair.
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An illustrious array of artists has covered the enigmatic song, perhaps most memorably Sinéad O’Connor
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I'm a day late with this but here's my @FT pod column on Death on Dubai, an (almost intolerably) dark true crime series, with an accompanying documentary film, about a young Ugandan woman forced into sex work in the UAE.
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The story of Monic Karungi, a young Ugandan woman lured to the UAE by glitz, wealth and lies
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It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on Dream Space, the podcast hosted by Gemma Cairney which talks to artists of all genres about their creative lives. First up in the new season: Marina Abramović.
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The artist guests on Factory International’s series in which creative people discuss how they think and work
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