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The Film Programme - The Last Picture Show - BBC Sounds

I listened to this episode of the Last Picture Show, where Francine Stock and Antonia Quirke were talking about how the streaming services are influencing cinema, because with growing use of streaming services like Netflix and Disney +, people nowadays are less likely to pay to go to the cinema.

I found this episode particularly fascinating because it is interesting to look at how the ease of using these streaming platforms is having a big impact on how (or not) cinema makes money, because people would rather pay to watch movies with a subscription for Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney + and other streaming platforms, than have the more immersive experience that going to the cinema offers. This highlights a link between developing technology, and how it is impacting the economy, because as more people use streaming platforms, it means that the economy for cinema is suffering more, and are making less money, selling less tickets.

I also found it interesting that this episode of the podcast was released over 4 years ago: on the 30th September 2021, as now that this episode is older, it is comparable to the society we live in today. I think that even though streaming platforms were popular at the time this episode was recorded, it has advanced even more since then, and it's crazy to think that in 2021, we were concerned and worried about the progression of the use of streaming platforms and how it impacts cinema, but even now, we still talk about the same thing, only now, AI is more of a topic of conversation, and people talk about how AI is a threat to the economy of cinema. However, it's interesting how people were still talking about it over 4 years ago, because it demonstrates that this is an ongoing issue, and has been going on for a long while. 

Overall, this was a very fascinating podcast, as I find it interesting to look at how society is progressing with its developing technology such as streaming services, because it can also show us what it may look like in the future, and allows us to imagine how we may be living in 10/20+ years, and whether we will even still have things like cinema, or whether it will fail to make the money to continue running.