Episode 1: Contact (1997) and the Wow! Signal
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Join Natalie and Natalie as they embark on Season 1 of Should’ve Sent a Poet. This episode, we a look at the film which gives the series its namesake, Contact: starring Jodie Foster and based on the eponymous novel by Carl Sagan. Taking a critical and historical lense, and looking at the historical event of the Wow! Signal, we tease out what Contact was saying about the world of 1997, and what it could possibly have to say about our present.