The magCulture Podcast

After a gap of a few months, the magCulture Podcast returns as the UK loosens the lockdown. The episode opens with an overview of recent magazines – including Barter Baby, Creative Review, Here and British Vogue – and general observations from Jeremy Leslie, before moving on to Eye. Recorded during the special one-day Every Eye Ever event at the magCulture Shop, we eavesdrop on part of a conversat...

This episode was recorded a couple of weeks ago, ahead of the current Coronavirus shutdown. We post it here as an antidote to all the other current news, but plan to address the effect of the virus on publishing in our next episode. --------------------------- Ricarda Messner from Sofa and Flaneur joins Jeremy Leslie at the magCulture Shop to talk magazines, and editor-in-chief of ZEITmagazin Chri...

Editor/founder of Port magazine Dan Crowe joins Jeremy Leslie at the magCulture Shop to talk magazines. After a flick through new issues including Interview, Varoom and Holiday, Dan talks about the development of Port across 25 issues, the return of creative director Matt Willey and the origins of their working relationship on Zembla. After discussion of the pros and cons of multiple front covers,...

Recorded at the magCulture Shop, Jeremy Leslie introduces our first podcast of 2020 with a look at some upcoming launches, before introducing David Lane, co-founder of The Gourmand. The two take a look at some recent magazines (Family Portrait, South London Review of Hand Dryers, Vogue Italia, Rubbish FAMzine), chat about the brand new 13th issue of The Gourmand, and David’s work for Frieze. The e...

Our final Podcast of 2019 looks back at the year. Recorded at the magCulture Shop, Jeremy Leslie shares his highlights of 2019 alongside a host of indie magazine publishers, including Buffalo Zine, MacGuffin, Flaneur and Sabat. Plus he meets Martha Dillon to discuss her essential magazine It’s Freezing in LA! There’s also an excerpt from our recent magCulture Meets Good Trouble event. Huge thanks...

For this episode, Jeremy Leslie is joined at the magCulture shop by Marc Robbemond from Amsterdam’s Athenaeum magazine shop. We also hear from Ariane Spanier of Fukt magazine, listen in on David Hillman and Caroline Baker of sixties classic Nova in an excerpt from their recent magCulture Shop event, and podcast producer Lucy Dearlove removes her headphones to share the effect a zine had on her own...

Our latest Podcast, recorded at the magCulture Shop in London, is a bumper edition that hangs loosely around the theme of change. The episode opens with Jeremy and Liv flicking through recent new mags, starting with The Face, freshly relaunched after a 15 year hiatus. Can it possibly live up to expectations? The pair also look at this year’s print edition of gal-dem and the exciting new Buffalo Zi...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop in London. The episode opens with a look at magCulture’s late summer plans, leading into a an overview recent new issues including the first issue of Belissimo and fourth issue of Safar Journal. We also hear from Steven Gregor at Gym Class about the zine-y nature of his new edition and Anna Broujean of Club Sandwich reve...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture in London with a dash to Manhattan for some chat from our NY visit. The episode opens with a look back at how The Sunday Times Magazine reported the Apollo 11 moon landings, 50 years ago. Jeremy and Liv discuss this years Stack Awards, which have just been launchec, and then flick through new issues of Club Sandwich, C 41 and...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture in London with interviews from our recent New York residency. The episode starts with an overview of new mags, including the Neat Review, Banana and Dazed. Plus the new book about RayGun magazine, from founder Marvin Scott Jarrett. We then switch to New York, where we hear from ModMagNYC speakers Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (gal-...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture in London and at our New York MagMagMag popup. The episode starts in London; Jeremy and Liv take a look at a selection of recent arrivals including Violet Book, Apartamento, RAID and Subway. Plus we hear from photographer Jenny van Sommers about shooting the latest cover of The Gourmand. We then switch to our MagMagMag pop-up...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss how magazines parody the format, with a look at the recent ninth issue of Buffalo Zine and its ten parody cover designs. We look back at Joseph Ernst’s wonderful Naked Woman Covered in Glitter, and Words and hear from Claire Milbraith about Editorial Magazine’s new mascot (itself a form of parody). There’s also a look at a bunch of recent arrivals including Th...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop. In this eighth episode, Jeremy and Liv discuss longevity and magazines, asking how many issues it takes for a magazine to assert its existence and noting the trend for limited publishing programmes; Justinien Tribillon from Migrant Journal explains how they plan to mark the end of their planned six-iss...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop. In this seventh monthly episode, Jeremy and Liv discuss the paradox of printing a magazine about climate change and the wastage built into the long-standing system of magazine distribution. With contributions from Martha Dillon of It’s Freezing in LA and Rob Orchard from Delayed Gratification and a loo...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop. In this sixth episode, Jeremy and Liv bid farewell to New York magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss, highlighting the ‘Cosby: The Women’ front cover and the weekly staple ‘Approval Matrix’. They go on to discuss the role of lists in magazines, take a peek at the new Gym Class Magazine and look back at Ma...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop. In this episode Jeremy and Liv share their magazine highlights of 2018, and we hear from ten guests about their favourite magazine moments of the year: Steven Gregor (Gym Class), Steve Watson (Stack), Kirsten Algera (MacGuffin), Ian Birch (‘Uncovered'), Perrin Drumm (Eye on Design), Fernando Pacheco(Mo...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop. In this episode: The Stack Awards, Buffalo Zine, The Guardian snacks, the magazines that influenced our love for print, Ripped & Torn, Tribune relaunched, Gal-Dem and Zeit International’s fifth anniversary issue. The magCulture Podcast is supported by Park Communications – thank you! Produced by John W...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop. In this episode: front covers, new books about magazines, the latest issue of Eye on Design and 1940’s mag Lilliput. Jeremy meets editors Elisabeth Krohn (Sabat) and Valentina Egoavil Medina (Suspira) at the London Art Book Fair, and Liv contrasts coverage of Agnes Verda in The Gentlewoman and the rela...

Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall host the first of a new series of podcasts celebrating the culture of magazines. In this episode: Holiday reading, The Guardian x gal-dem, a Dance Magazine, Print! Tearing It Up, The Stack Awards 2018, Nest magazine. The magCulture Podcast is supported by Park Communications – thank you! Produced by John Webb/The London Podcast Company

Episode 2 of the magCulture podcast features Rob Orchard (Delayed Gratification)with Jeremy Leslie in London and Ricarda Messner (Flaneur) in Berlin with Madeleine Morley. We hear about their new issues and take a look together at Makeshift magazine.

Episode 1 of the magCulture podcast features Danielle Pender(Riposte)with Jeremy Leslie in London and Kai von Rabenau (mono.kultur)in Berlin with Madeleine Morley. As well as news of their two magazines, the four discuss issue 16 of Apartamento.