Bigmouth

This week on the pop culture podcast for the sophisticated procrastinator: The **KATE BUSH** reissues are out. How do her leotard years stand up at nearly 40 years’ remove? We mark the ascension of Marvel mastermind Smilin’ **STAN LEE** to the Astral Plane with guest Dorian Lynskey from the Remainiacs podcast. **HAPPY MONDAYS**’ infamous second album ‘Bummed’ is 30 years old. And is Netflix’s blood-sodden Robert the Bruce drama **OUTLAW KING** fit for purpose as the new Braveheart? Writer and rock’n’roll muso **KATE HODGES** joins Andrew and Siân to sort it all out.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Elsie Bath. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.**

Is Netflix’s new rockumentary series Remastered up to BBC4 music doc standard? We look for things we don’t know in their episodes on **JOHNNY CASH**’s relationship with Richard Nixon and the attempted murder of **BOB MARLEY**. The producers of House Of Cards stage a realistic Mars shot in **THE FIRST** – but is the myth-making too earnest? And Andrew gets all excited about a lost gem of comic books from the late 2000AD artist **CARLOS EZQUERRA**, a spaghetti western for kids called El Mestizo. Special guests **JUDE ROGERS** of The Guardian and New Statesman and **JAMES MEDD** of The Times – veterans of the late lamented WORD magazine both – join Siân and Andrew for this week’s pop culture autopsy.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

THE PRODIGY: the electronic AC/DC who don’t ever need to change because they got it right 25 years ago, or relics of rave? Is THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA a fitting reboot to the 90s Saturday morning cult witchfest… is it a bit gother-than-thou… and does it still have a talking cat? And does C4’s euro-spy effort BERLIN STATION have _das richtige Zeug_ for modern espionage drama? Special guests ANTHONY TEASDALE of Umbrella magazine and former editor of The Face RICHARD BENSON join Siân and Andrew to sift this week’s pop culture popcorn.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

This week we get all textual with **NEIL TENNANT**’S new book ‘100 Lyrics and a Poem’ – is he the pop TS Eliot or the Rave Larkin? – and gaze aghast at Julia Davis’s utterly filthy new comedy ‘**SALLY4EVER**’ in which a self-freeing and self-actualising lesbian affair turns into a disaster all round. Plus **ROBYN**’s new record of heartbreak on the dancefloor, Bobby Gillespie takes on The Man by refusing to dance with Michael Portillo on the BBC’s ‘This Week’… and much more. **ANDY MILLER** of the brilliant books podcast [Backlisted](https://www.backlisted.fm/) is our extra special guest for the week. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

Twitter photomontage artist **Cold War Steve**: just another Banksy or the Fly-Tip Warhol of Brexit Britain? **Neneh Cherry** returns with the proper grown-up pop of ‘Broken Politics’ and **St Vincent** redoes her last album for solo piano as ‘Masseducation’ – does it work? And can our panel stomach the splattery historical horror of ‘**Apostle**’, the new Netflix movie from Gareth “The Raid” Evans. Britain’s best beer writer **Pete Brown** joins Andrew and Siân for an hour of quality pop culture wittering. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

‘DOCTOR WHO’ returns with its biggest series debut in a decade, but what are the pundits missing about this new incarnation of the sci-fi institution? Will JOHN GRANT’s arch, observational electropop – showcased on new album ‘Love Is Magic’ – hit the spot with our panel? And we load up on collard greens and grits to explore PRIMAL SCREAM’s post-‘Screamadelica’ journey into fatback gumbo chicken-scratch soul as their lost Memphis tapes reappear after 20 years.  Guests HANNAH VERDIER of The Guardian and MICHAEL HANN of the FT, The Spectator and er The Guardian join Andrew and Siân to pick through the chitlins of pop culture.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

The massive **David Bowie** box set project reaches the 1980s. Will the highs – Let’s Dance, Absolute Beginners, Loving The Alien – win out over the lows and is it strictly kosher to reinvent unloved albums to sound better after the artist’s death? Plus our guests Mark “Hole & Corner Magazine” Hooper and actor and director Caroline Catz talk about the **Cat Power** album, their emergency go-to movies for a night when there’s nothing on TV, and Caroline’s new film documentary [**Delia Derbyshire**: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6880092/) about the High Priestess of Radiophonics. And it’s a sad farewell to producer Jack Claramunt who is leaving us for bigger things… Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

On this week’s pop culture palaver-fest, ex-NME and ZTT mouth-on-a-stick PAUL MORLEY joins  Siân and Bigmouth regular Michael Moran to ponder the week’s key broadcasts and releases. Is serial killer drama Killing Eve – written by Phoebe “Fleabag” Waller-Bridge – the electrifying experience everyone says it is? How about Netflix psychonautical caper Maniac? Is the new Chic album any good? And which show does Michael think is “like watching a cultural reference mood board”?  All this and more on the show they’re all calling “Late Review except it’s still going and it’s a  podcast not a TV show.”  BIGMOUTH was presented and produced by Siân Pattenden with audio production by Sophie  Black. BIGMOUTH is a Podmasters Production.  Keep Bigmouth going and get the famous EXTRA BIT every week. Support us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform at http://patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast

It’s Gender Non-Conformist Week on the smart pop culture podcast as guests Miranda Sawyer and author and pop journo Lucy O’Brien discuss CHRIS (the artist formerly known as Christine & The Queens), the magnificent return of pop polymorphs SUEDE, Lucy’s MADONNA biography ‘[Like An Icon](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madonna-Like-Icon-Lucy-OBrien/dp/0552176028)’ and loads more. Listen in as Siân cheers them on and Andrew has his appalling retrograde cis-male attitudes shaken to their very core. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

Hands in the air and lasers akimbo: ORBITAL brothers Paul and Philip Hartnoll materialise in the Bigmouth bunker to talk about new album ‘[Monsters Exist](https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/orbital-monsters-exist)’ and their 30 years at the forefront of raving. What’s it like working with Prof Stephen Hawking and Dr Brian Cox? How did the self-confessed “Mitchell Brothers of techno” bury the hatchet and start working together again? What are their favourite current tunes and classic electronic records? And what telly and box sets are they hammering? Andrew and Siân don the torch-glasses of destiny to find out.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the [crowdfunding platform Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

On this week’s show, RUDE BOY CINEMA: does Idris Elba’s Yardie capture the truth about Jamaican gangsters without romanticising it? LAVENDER ON THE MOVE: we try and fail to discuss the Keeley Hawes/Robb Stark from GoT political potboiler BODYGUARD without spoilers. Should close protection officer David Budd stop clenching his jaw and enjoy his job a bit more? And the not-at-all difficult second album from West London slow-groovers JUNGLE. Our guests this week: [MATT ALLEN](http://www.unitedagents.co.uk/matt-allen) of Q, Mojo and sports book fame, and JUSTIN QUIRK of [Supplement magazine](https://www.instagram.com/supplement_mag/?hl=en) and a whole load of other stuff. Keeping the diary irie, your hosts Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra bit at the end, just for our backers if you [buy us a pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

LURING DISCO DOLLIES TO A LIFE OF VICE: This week we delve into Soft Cell’s enormous retrospective box set **‘Keychains And Snowstorms’** in the company of Times and GQ writer SIMON MILLS (who has some VERY interesting revelations about Marc’n’Dave from the good old days) and doyenne of the TV reviews JULIA RAESIDE of The Guardian. Plus: Is Spike Lee’s **BlacKKKlansman** really the most important movie of the year? And why you really ought to be watching the Murdoch dynasty series-a-clef **Succession** on Sky Atlantic. Saying hello and waving goodbye, your hosts Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden.  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

ELF’N’SAFETY GONE MAD: Is Matt Groening’s sword-and-slapstick Netflix series Disenchantment up to par with Futurama and The Simpsons? Plus fractured r’n’b on the new album Blood Orange and a truly excellent new biopic of James Lavelle, The Man From Mo’Wax. Spoiler: it’s This Is Spinal Trip Hop and a bit more besides. Guests [ANDREW MALE](https://twitter.com/Andr6wMale) of Mojo and Sight & Sound and [MICHAEL MORAN](https://twitter.com/TheMichaelMoran) of The Mirror join Andrew Harrison for this week’s pop culture ponderfest. Keep BIGMOUTH going – buy us a pint on the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast). Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.

SHARK LIFE! Who will be the only one of our panel who didn’t like this summer’s prime Statham-vs-Fish chompbuster The Meg? How does Boards Of Canada’s ‘Music Has The Right To Children’ sound 20 years down the line? And what will be our guest JUDE ROGERS’ choice for the album only she in the whole wide world likes? (Clue above). Andrew and Siân are on hand with the chum bucket and the mop.  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast). Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY: Is Mike Leigh’s great rural comedy **Nuts In May** (now back on iPlayer) still in a field of its own? Has former Scissor Sister **Jake Shears** rediscovered his mucky mojo on his solo debut? And does Marvel’s shrinky-dink super-sequel **Ant-Man And The Wasp** have a sting in its tail – or will it simply show that little things please little minds? Guests NEIL DENNY of literary podcast and magazine Little Atoms and rock journo ROY WILKINSON of British Sea Power fame join Andrew and Siân to discuss these weighty matters. Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast). Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.**