The LRB Podcast

Mix Tapes and Flash Cubes

Apr 19, 2022

37:27

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The Relationship Between Desire and Actuality

01:50

What Was a Kodak Flash Cube?

03:29

You're Never Without Your Phones

03:26

Introduction

4min

The Relationship Between Desire and Actuality

2min

Soda Streams - You Get Your Sparkly?

2min

You're Never Without Your Phones

3min

The Aspiration of Keeping Things Nice

3min

The Idea of Doing Things Not Only Simultaneously, but Together

3min

The Lost Property Book - It Was Made for You, Really

3min

Marilyn Monroe's Objects, the Saints' Relics

4min

The Fax Machine - A Repository of Hope and Dreams

2min

10.

Is Seamus More Valuable Than His Fax Machine?

2min

11.

What Is a Mixed Tape?

3min

12.

How Many Things Did You Have to Check in Mayflies?

4min

13.

What Was a Kodak Flash Cube?

3min

Andrew O’Hagan talks to Tom about the power of defunct objects, from the life-enhancing gadgets of his childhood to Seamus Heaney’s fax machine, and the role lost things play in fiction.

Find Andrew O'Hagan's pieces mentioned in this episode here: https://lrb.me/mixtapespod

Subscribe to the LRB and save 79% off the cover price: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b

Title music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Anthony Wilks

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The LRB Podcast

Mix Tapes and Flash Cubes

The Relationship Between Desire and Actuality

What Was a Kodak Flash Cube?

You're Never Without Your Phones

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