We are Nasreen and Hugh
We met in a Sheffield bookshop queue in 2013 and have been arguing about films, records, plays and the odd bus route ever since. Sidelong started in a cupboard with one borrowed microphone.
Every Thursday we pick one thing, a film, a record, a painting, a town, and look at it sideways for about fifty minutes. Sometimes we agree.
Find us as @sidelongpod
Co-host
Nasreen Qureshi
Nasreen chooses the records, keeps the time and has never once been on time.
Co-host
Hugh Pemberton-Lowe
Hugh reads the mailbag, remembers every plot and forgets every name.
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Every Thursday morning, about fifty minutes.
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