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John is a professor, Alison doesn\u2019t have a bucket list, and Liz is the country\u2019s foremost fan historian.\nAn uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media.\nContent warnings this episode: More wealth privilege (chapter 2)\nLetters of comment\nBridget Bradshaw\nChristopher J Garcia\nFarah Mendlesohn\nJonathan Cowie\nJonny Baddeley\nKin-Ming Looi\nSandra Bond\nTammy Coxen\n\nAwards\nBabel wins \u201cBest Translated Work\u201d at the 2024 Xingyun Awards\nClarke Award finalists\nJohn: 0, Alison: 1, Liz: 3\nThe winner will be announced on 24 July\n\n2024 Nebula Awards\n2023 Nebula Awards\nLocus Awards\n\nGlasgow 2024\nThe Hugo Packet is now available\nJoel\u2019s Whisky Zoom is hosting a tour of the Clydeside Distillery on 9 August at 7pm\n\nPicks\nJohn: Sunderland Shorts Film Festival\nSoulmate, Beautiful Things, Ensouled, Finger Food, Bisected, Own Home?, R1CO, The First Time I Never Met You\nWes Anderson\u2019s short adaptations of Roald Dahl\n\nAlison: Aurora\nLiz\u2019s view on auroras\n\nLiz: A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin [paper, ebook, audiobook, Amazon]\n\nCredits\nCover art: \u201cExplain 2233\u201d by Alison Scott\nAlt text: Three photographs of the night sky, labelled Newcastle, Bangkok, and \u201cQuite near London\u201d (the labels were written by a Londoner, which is why it doesn\u2019t just say \u201cLondon\u201d). Text above reads \u201cOctothorpe 110\u201d and below reads \u201cLocal Aurora Snapshots\u201d. The Newcastle and London images show photographs of aurora with some minor bits of vegetation intruding; the Bangkok picture shows a skyline of buildings underneath a thunderstorm.\n\nTheme music: \u201cFanfare for Space\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)