Bigmouth

This week on the pop culture podcast for procrastinating polymaths… **Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind**, Sky Atlantic/HBO’s masterful biographical documentary, will astonish and move you. As **Iggy Pop** hooks up with **Underworld**, will electronic talking blues become the lingua franca of the over-60s? And does new disgusting rich people documentary **Generation Wealth** capture the reality of the plutocracy – or are they even worse than we thought? Special guests [Rob Fitzpatrick](https://twitter.com/rob_fitzpatrick) of Spotify/The Word magazine and Mark Hooper of [Hole & Corner magazine](https://twitter.com/Hole_and_Corner) join Andrew and Siân to thrash it all out.  Help keep BIGMOUTH in rude health! Buy us a pint (virtually speaking) via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).  **Audio production by Jack Claramunt. BIGMOUTH is a Podmasters Production.**

As the studio melts and Siân and Andrew wilt in the heat, Melody Maker veteran **DAVID STUBBS** joins us to talk about his new book ‘Mars By 1980: The History Of Electronic Music’. Fellow bleeps’n’clonks devotee **JOE MUGGS** of Mixmag weighs in on the stuff you didn’t know about the avant garde sound that now owns the world. And yes that’s Karlheinz Stockhausen in the pic.  PLUS: We look back at the amazing **NME cassettes** that changed a generation’s way of listening, and the NME journo Roy Carr who compiled them. And David and Joe make their contributions to our grand compendium of **summer listening and reading**.  Support BIGMOUTH – [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. **

We’re back from our hols with guests DAVID BENNUN, veteran of Melody Maker and Loaded, and the David Attenborough of football casual culture ANTHONY TEASDALE joining Andrew and Siân for more high-end pop culture natter. This week: Sacha Baron-Cohen’s **Who Is America?** brings his old-school gotcha comedy back – but does it work in a post-satire world? Can the miniseries remake of **Picnic At Hanging Rock** currently running on BBC2 match the deep strangeness of the original? Meet queertronica artiste **Lotic**, voted “most likely to collaborate with Björk”. And more **summer selections** from our guests and (at last) Siân. [Support BIGMOUTH](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

On this week’s show… Did BBC4’s Duran Duran night remind us why we loved (or not) the self-styled Chic Pistols of Birmingham? Will new rockumentary ‘The Public Image Is Rotten’ change your mind about the irascible John Lydon? Can Marvel Comics successfully relaunch Captain America for a divided USA by handing the reins to uncompromising African-American author Ta-Nehisi Coates? Plus our guests KATIE PUCKRIK of Channel 4’s The Word fame/infamy and Mixmag Editor-at-Large RALPH MOORE give us their perfect choices of summer music. BIGMOUTH is presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.

Oh to be in England… This week the legend that is ANNE DUDLEY, string arranger to ABC, Malcolm McLaren, Pet Shop Boys and the pop elite, joins us in the Bigmouth Bunker. Listen up as Anne discusses her Life In Pop™, how she helped create Careless Whisper and Getting Away With It, and her new album ‘Anne Dudley Plays The Art Of Noise’… on piano? Hold tight for an exclusive live rendition of Moments In Love on the hopelessly out-of-tune studio joanna.  PLUS Mojo and Guardian journo SOPHIE HARRIS joins Anne, Siân and Anne to discuss ‘Millie Jackson Exposed’, in which the potty-mouthed diva is lovingly reupholstered by producer Steve Levine. And our guests choose the tunes and books they're taking to the beach. It's your own personal Club Tropicana.  Picture: Anne on right with Sophie, courtesy of [Shane O’Neill](https://www.instagram.com/shaneoneillpicture/).  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast). Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.**

On the probing pop culture podcast this week… Did post-crusty cabaret field LOST VAGUENESS really save Glastonbury’s vegan bacon? And why did it fall apart? A new documentary explains. Plus PUBLIC ENEMY’s Nation Of Millions is 30 years old, and a new documentary delves into the complex psyche of Matt Johnson of THE THE. Guests Rebecca Nicholson of The Guardian and Steve Yates help Andrew and Siân sort it all out.  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.

On the perspicacious pop culture podcast this week… Is it time to stop worrying and let JOHNNY MARR carry The Smiths’ banner? Who is rock-blues auteur FANTASTIC NEGRITO and why should you care? Is the TV version of GET SHORTY worth your eyeball time – and does Chris O’Dowd cut the mustard as a movie-obsessed mob enforcer? Plus guests Andrew Mueller and Eamonn Forde join Andrew at the fantastic comeback shows by the James Joyces of the midlife crisis, MICRODISNEY. All this and a whole lot more. 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. **

This week on the plugged-on pop culture podcast… DISCO VERITÉ: Why you really need to see this brilliant Studio 54 documentary, out on June 15\. EGO FREAKO: Will we ever decide we’ve had enough of Kanye West? LIL COMMUNICATION: Has Lily Allen turned her middle-youth meltdown into quality adult pop? Plus guests Hannah Verdier (Guardian) and Michael Hogan (Times) join Siân and Andrew in ’fessing up to the things they wish they liked but just can’t, no matter how hard they try… [Support BIGMOUTH](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) – buy us a birthday pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ** Photo: Liza Minelli, Bianca Jagger and Andy Warhol at Studio 54\. Photo © Adam Scull-PHOTOlink.net

WOOKIEE MEETS ROOKIE: Is the Young Han Solo prequel spaceworthy? How good is Sky Arts’ UK hiphopumenatary Generation Grime? (Spoiler: it’s ace). Will Paris In The Spring – Saint Etienne’s compilation of music from France’s political turmoil of 1968 – leave you totally soixante-huitarded? And is Trump-baiting comedian Michelle Wolf’s new Netflix series any cop?  Guests MIRANDA SAWYER of The Observer and LUKE TURNER of The Quietus join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out…

Guests this week on the pop culture podcast for perspicacious popinjays are film writer LINDA MARRIC and Telegraph/Mojo rock’n’roll journo ANDREW PERRY. On the agenda: a highly idiosyncratic biopic of Lee ‘Kix’ Thompson of **MADNESS**, Martin Freeman flees Aussie zombies in **CARGO** on Netflix, and the glorious return of the only band which describes modern life as it truly is: **HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT**. Plus – added football content! How did **Robert Plant** react when he spotted Mr Perry’s Torquay United scarf? The joys of swerving the Checkatrade Trophy. Which US indie band thinks **Johann Cruyff** is the model for making America truly great again? And in non-football related matters, the return of **Jim Lee from Slade**. Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a birthday 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. **

Is the new Arctic Monkeys album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino a return to form? Does Patrick Melrose just need a nice cup of tea and a lie down? We've also read Viv Albertine's To Throw Away Unopened and will be ruminating on New Moral Arbitraters Spotify, who've "banned" R Kelly. Special guests Sylvia Patterson and Sophie Black tell it like it is. Support BIGMOUTH – you can buy us a virtual pina colada via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Presented by Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.

Where would the future be without ‘The Man-Machine’ by Kraftwerk, which turns 40 this week, eh? What’s the sound of the summer: Beach House’s woozy, heat-hazy ‘7’, DJ Koze’s wayward disco or the Sky At Night sounds of Jon Hopkins? Special guests MICHAEL HANN of The Guardian and freelance heavy metal evangelist JUSTIN QUIRK are on hand to help Siân and Andrew sort it all out…  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a birthday pint via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

**It’s the greatest multi-character crossover in history!** In a special extra-length edition packed with scarcely believable action, we assemble guests STRICTLY KEV AKA [DJ FOOD](https://twitter.com/djfood) of Ninja Tune fame, MARK HOOPER – editor of [Hole & Corner](https://www.holeandcorner.com/) magazine – plus a special cameo role from IAN DUNT of our sister podcast [Remainiacs](https://audioboom.com/channel/remainiacs-podcast). Who are all these characters and what do they want? On the agenda: what did Infinity War mean and how are the Avengers going to get out of that? (**WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS** so we’re doing that bit at the end.) Plus we have a poke around inside Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, we rave about Bill Hader’s new hitman-in-a-crisis HBO comedy Barry – now running on Sky – and we zone out with a caipirinha and the new compilation Too Slow To Disco Brasil.  Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden are your master and mistress of ceremonies for the affair.  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a virtual pint via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. **

On this week’s show: actor MICHAEL SMILEY joins guest SARAH MORGAN for another gala pop culture digress-o-thon. Which tunes inspired Smiley on his journey from baldy late-night comic via ‘Spaced’ to ‘Luther’ and beyond? How are our guests feeling about acid house on the occasion of its 30th birthday? What on earth is going on with that Shaggy and Sting album? All this and more will be dissected… Help keep BIGMOUTH going for another 100 shows – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.

For our gala ONE HUNDREDTH podcast, special guests SIMON DAY of The Fast Show and ANDREW COLLINS (who was on the very first Bigmouth back when it was in black and white) join us for the finest in high-end pop chatter. This week: Untold pop tales in Sky’s **Urban Myths**. Legendary WWI story **Charley’s War** returns in a lavish new edition. Is it still the greatest British comic book of all time? Is **Chas & Dave**’s first proper album in 30 years any good, and what about **Juliana Hatfield**’s LP of Olivia Newton-John covers? Andrew Harrison slices the birthday cake and Siân Pattenden fills the lucky bags.  Help keep BIGMOUTH going for another 100 shows – buy us a birthday pint via the crowdfunding platform [Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.