The Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 33
A Paschal package of links and recommendations to entertain and engage you
Hello, you … and Happy Easter!
I hope you’re having the best weekend you can, with whomsoever you’re spending it. As per personal tradition I listened to Bach’s St Matthew Passion on Friday, and I’m having hot cross buns for breakfast whilst writing today’s Sunday Supplement. It’s not much by the way of observance; I should do more, but sometimes it’s a choice between doing more and doing me, isn’t it?
It’s a very busy time at Hello You World Headquarters (kinda an excuse), not least because so much is going on that will lead to exciting episodes of the podcast over the next few weeks. Thank you to everyone who’s got in touch via email, social media or confidentially on Signal with tipoffs, suggestions and leads to some really great personal stories that often tie in with big local and national news. I won’t list them all now, but suffice to say that you won’t want to miss any of them. And the best way of making sure you don’t is simply to hit this here green button:
Hello to my lovely new subscribers! Thank you so much for joining the Hello You family. I hope you find it a happy place to be. If you’re super-new to Hello You the Shropshire podcast, there are links below to three (count ‘em!) three episodes from the last week which demonstrate what I do, the way I do it and the podcast’s wide range. Check them out and let me know what you think?
OK, Hello You family members, gather around the Virtual Kitchen Table because here comes a specially big plate of good stuff with roasties …
Something to listen to while you read
As today is 4/20, here's a tremendous Townes Van Zandt tune from the now-91-year-old arch-toker Willie Nelson and his pal Merle Haggard
What went right this week
Social protection provisions improved globally, Australia slashed marine pollution, and lab-grown meat had a ‘breakthrough’ plus more good news from the good people at Positive News
Hope you enjoy these links. Please share them widely?
Remember when the north of England nearly went to war over the date of Easter? Probably not, it was 664AD
'I don’t care what Supreme Court judges say – I’ll always be a woman'
You can hear members of Shropshire’s trans community sharing their thoughts, fears and feelings in the light of the Supreme Court decision, on a special episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast. I recorded it yesterday at a trans solidarity rally in Telford, and I’ll publish it tomorrow morning. To make sure you don’t miss it, subscribe:
The art of clubbing is dead. In Birmingham, it’s even dead-er
We’re not too old for this (damn right we're not!)
What's your go-to feel-good film?
We are in the middle of a nature and climate crisis. We and our natural world deserve better
Smart home? Stoopid idea!
We need to tax the super-rich
Could The Daily Telegraph save money by replacing Liz Truss with AI?
Radiohead’s fraught, compassionate, disturbed The Bends at thirty
No bench at your bus stop, or somewhere else there should be one? In San Francisco, people are building and installing their own (as you might imagine, I love this idea!)
This Passover and Easter week is a lesson in humility about how little we can know
Does your 'number' really matter?
Portrait of a wounded Palestinian boy wins Press Photo of the Year
Photographer's lost photos of punk and new wave stars of the 1970s
A Manchester mental health ward neglected a suicidal patient (this is truly shocking)
Newly reissued: Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith
On Hello You the Shropshire podcast this past week:
Shrewsbury Flower Show, the Supreme Court and a Shropshire lass
Thoughts on a week of big news ... and on a remarkable Shropshire woman of two hundred years ago, brought to life by a local actor and writer
Rawdogging poetry with Lewis Wyn Davies
‘I didn’t realise I was living in poverty’
Ludlow Market soundscape
Market day in Ludlow, in vivid stereo
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If you fight, sometimes you win. If you don’t fight, you always lose
Politicians, left and right, simply don’t care about farming
‘My First Time at the Bristol HiFi Show’ – by 11-year-old Joe!
If you use AI to write me that note, don’t expect me to read it
Flour power: the campaign to get real bread to more people
Fact-checkers are out. The internet gets to vote on the truth now
Journalists assume readers are as obsessed with the news as they are. They’re wrong
'Why I'm telling young musicians to see the Dylan biopic'
London's secret midnight treasure hunts
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
If you read one thing this week, make it this
When it comes to human rights, we don’t want ‘common sense’
If you watch one thing this week, make it this
'I don’t mean to be alarmist, but the alarm is ringing'
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Final Thought, à la Jerry Springer
Thank you for being there
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