The Metropolitan
The Metropolitan Podcast
August '24: Ballet Shoes
0:00
-13:31

August '24: Ballet Shoes

Unearthing Fossils

We’ve been re-reading a lot of children’s books this month, so this month’s podcast is

reading her piece on Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes.

Our theme music is Otra vez by friend of the show S F Gallardo, who you can find on Spotify and Bandcamp

Related essays from August 2024 include:


The Metropolitan podcast features readings of pieces from our archive, but you read tomorrow’s podcasts today by subscribing.


Discussion about this podcast

The Metropolitan
The Metropolitan Podcast
Monthly readings of essays from our archives, a choice usually inspired by the pieces published that month.
The Metropolitan is a weekly newsletter about the pop-cultural and social experience of British Generation X.
We won’t be providing instant reviews and hot takes, because the internet is full of them. We won’t be doing hit jobs either; it’s harder, and more interesting, to put your finger on why something works.
As Tracey Thorn sang in Oxford Street, we ‘grew up in a little world’ that flared and guttered between Playschool and Facebook, and would be unrecognisable to those younger than us. That little world influences us to this day. The Metropolitan is our swing at analysing pop culture and social trends from this specific viewpoint. We’d love you to come along with us.