Dua Lipa’s third album came out last week, huns, and we had such high hopes. So why has Radical Optimism fallen a little flat for us? This got us discussing the general ‘mood’ around the superstar: is she reaching her potential? And how authentic is her media empire, Service95, At Your Service podcast and her new production company Radical22? Plus, we’ve both watched the much-hyped new Anne Hathaway rom-com, The Idea of You, which explores the relationship between a 40-year-old divorcee and the 24-year-old frontman of a superstar boyband (Nicholas Galitzine), based on the hit 2017 novel of the same name. And finally, Kathers gives us the lowdown on the new season of Pandora Sykes’s new podcast, How Do We Know If We’re Doing it Right.

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Recs discussed

• Dua Lipa, Radical Optimism (album)
• Dua Lipa, Service95 (newsletter)
• Dua Lipa, At Your Service (podcast)
• Dua Lipa Manifested All of This, Time magazine
• Dua Lipa on pop, psychedelics and proving her haters wrong, The Guardian
• The Idea of You by Robinne Lee (book)
• The Idea of You, Amazon Prime
• Anne Hathaway Is Too Hot for 'The Idea of You', The Cut
• The Mother (2003), Amazon Prime
• Anne Hathaway on Tuning Out the Haters and Embracing Her True Self, Vanity Fair
• How Do We Know If We’re Doing it Right podcast, Pandora Sykes
• Decolonising My Body, Afua Hirsch
• Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, Afua Hirsch
• Omnilux contour face mask