DIGITAL LIBRARY // FAMILY

Welcome to your digital library for this quarter where you’ll find lots of great content we couldn’t physically put into the box.

 

PLAYLISTS

Christmas Divas by DJ Funky Bitch

Inspired since the 90s by a love of dancing and house music, Brighton-based DJ FunkyBitch brings joy to dance floors at her Frisky Disco events, where she plays an uplifting mix of funk, soul and house.

For your Winter box, she’s put together a slower paced Christmas playlist celebrating female divas from the blues, jazz and soul genres. Expect velvet voices, some risqué lyrics and a fair bit of flirting with Santa!

 

 She’ll be playing this playlist live on Sweet Frequencies Radio on Sunday 15th December from 4pm. You can listen in here.

And a special extra mix for Drift + Focus subscribers! She's also created a special Frisky Disco mix to get you up and dancing! She says:

“Put your books down. Tuck away your phone. Turn this up and have a dance to my Frisky Disco. Lots of disco and funky house to keep you moving.”

 

Follow DJ Funky Bitch here and catch her on Sweet Frequencies Radio every Sunday from 4pm.

 

 

PODCASTS

 

Anna Funder on Wifedom: The Lost Woman Behind George Orwell

An episode of The Hatchards Podcast in which Anna Funder discusses Wifedom and touches on her own marriage and the difficulties of juggling being a writer, mother and wife.

Kieran Yates on Why Shelter is Important

The How to Be…Books Podcast is hosted by journalist and editor Suswati Basu and explores important life hacks found in the best intersectional non-fiction books. Topics include everything from persistence and motivation to climate change and processing grief. In this episode, she talks to Kieran Yates and other guests about why shelter matters.

Masculinity and Memoir – Blake Morrison on Family Life

Author Blake Morrison reads extracts from two of his best-selling memoirs and discusses sibling relationships, family secrets and transitions in father-son relations.

Therapy Works - Agony Aunties

Best-selling author and psychotherapist, Julia Samuel, whose work we drew from on page 10 of your magazine, has a weekly podcast called Therapy Works. In between regular episodes, she records shorter Agony Aunties episodes with her own daughters, Emily and Sophie, who are both therapists. In this episode, they respond to a listener’s complex family dynamic.

 

INSTAGRAM

Family Comes First by Hollie McNish

Watch award-winning poet, writer and performer Hollie McNish recite a new poem written for anyone panicking about having to see family they don’t like over the holiday season.

WATCH

How to make a golden embossed bird decoration from a recycled tomato puree tube!

If you want to make more embossed birds after you’ve used the sheet of metal we sent in your box, you can repurpose tomato puree tubes. This video from Louise Lockhart shows you how.

(And here’s Louise’s inspiration board on Pinterest for other embossed decoration you could make.)

  

 

 

READ

‘It could disappear for ever’: Anger over sale of George Orwell archive

If Anna Funder’s book has got you thinking about Orwell more than you might otherwise, you might be interested in this Guardian article.

  

 

That’s it for this quarter’s digital extras. Your next box will arrive in March. Until then, remember you can join our email list at the foot of the page if you want to be notified about the next theme.

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