Bigmouth

This week, guests PETER ROBINSON of PopJustice and NME fame and DAN MAIER of Harry Hill and TV comedy fame join Andrew and Siân at the Algonquin Round Table of pop music, telly and similar.   On the agenda: Have BBC2 successfully filmed China Miéville’s unfilmable novel The City And The City? Are Australian pop-dance hipsters Confidence Man up to the job of being the new Deee-Lite? Will the reunited En Vogue free our minds and will our asses follow? And what are the greatest ten second bits in all pop? There’s only one way to find out… Help keep BIGMOUTH in rude health – buy us a metaphorical pint via the crowdfunding platform http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast

This week Andrew’s old boss DAVID HEPWORTH of Word, Q and Live Aid fame comes in to discuss his book **‘Uncommon People: The Rise And Fall Of The Rock Stars’**, out now in [paperback](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784162078). Are rock stars really finished, and did Dave fiddle the scores so he didn’t have to write about Liam Gallagher? Plus fellow guest ANNA FIELDING of Stylist magazine piles in to look at IDRIS ELBA’S new comedy ‘In The Long Run’, dissect the latest LP by fun-with-depression rock hermits EELS, and confess to the album that only she likes. Clue: ratty dreads. It’s all in the pop culture podcast for discerning dilettantes, co-presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production. Help keep BIGMOUTH in rude health – [buy us a metaphorical pint](http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast "http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast") via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.

This week on the discerning pop culture podcast, FACE magazine veterans **Richard Benson** and **Craig McLean** join Andrew and Siân to discuss Philomena Cunk’s all-encompassing Reithian history of Britain. Turns out they would have put the Cunk on the cover of The Face… but doing what? Plus: We spank ourselves senseless with a tambourine for the 25th birthday edition of **Suede**’s debut, explore the lore of the **Great British Record Shop**, and find out how Craig broke his arm messing about with Björk. It’s what your Bank Holiday was made for.  Audio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production. **

On this week’s show… Can Steven Soderbergh’s UNSANE drag the stalker movie into the iPhone era? Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters writes a surprisingly moving book. How does Pulp’s Britpop comedown epic ‘This Is Hardcore’ stack up at 20 years old? And our guests reveal the records that they like but nobody else can stand.  KATE HUTCHINSON of The Guardian and Worldwide FM and movie critic LINDA MARRIC join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out. Audio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.

On this week’s show, Alex Garland’s ANNIHILATION: psychedelic sci-fi masterpiece, Ghostbusters done seriously, or Google Deep Dream: The Movie? DAVID BYRNE’s new album and the best of soul orchestra MFSB. The worst songs by our guests’ favourite bands. And the surprising story of how our guest Ralph Moore of Mixmag tracked down the infamously reclusive comics legend Steve Ditko… Justin Quirk of The Guardian and Supplement magazine joins Ralph plus Andrew and Siân for the smartest pop culture natter on your internets. Click here to listen now or subscribe at [http://po.st/BGMitunes](http://po.st/BGMitunes "http://po.st/BGMitunes") Audio production by Jack Claramunt with help from Rachael at Soho Radio. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.

This week on the pop culture podcast for connoisseur time-wasters: Does The Big Lebowski still abide after 20 years? Has Tracey Thorn reinvented herself as the one-woman Pet Shop Girls of middle youth? Why you should investigate that A Tribe Called Quest documentary that’s finally on Netflix. And what's the deal with Superorganism, the Dalston Avalanches? Guests HANNAH VERDIER of The Guardian and Smash Hits and ANDREW MUELLER of Monocle and Melody Maker join Siân and Andrew to thrash it all out.

Can the panel discuss Janelle Monáe’s latest bangers without mentioning Pr***e? Was BBC2’s urban conspiracy thriller ‘Collateral’ any good? Can special guest MICHAEL HOGAN of the Telegraph withstand the uncut indieness of Go-Kart Mozart and The Lovely Eggs? And which flop movies should have been hits? Listen up and find out… Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Studio production is by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.

Underwater love: Is Guillermo del Toro’s amphibiosexual romance The Shape Of Water more than just Oscar bait? And who will win the Oscars anyway? Can Father John Misty’s mate Jonathan Wilson update the sensitive Californian longhair songbook? And what are the worst gigs we ever went to. Special guests TERRI WHITE – editrix of Empire magazine – and Word mag veteran JAMES MEDD join presenters Siân “Stan” Pattenden and Andrew Harrison to sort the prize catches from the tiddlers. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Studio production is by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.

Marvel’s Black Panther is the afro-futurist movie that’s bringing new audiences to the superhero genre – and dragging every mum and dad into the multiplex over half term. Which of our guests will unexpectedly love it: maquillage guru SALI HUGHES or Guardian/FT music journo MICHAEL HANN? Will they prefer ice-skating drama I, TONYA instead? What will they make of U.S. GIRLS’ womanpower megapop album? And what are the records that only they like? Spoiler: Sali is standing up for the much-maligned TIN MACHINE. Presenters Siân “Stan” Pattenden and Andrew Harrison look on in horror. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Studio production is by Jack Claramunt. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.

It’s ROXY/BOWIE night on Bigmouth this week as we’re joined by journo-about-town and one-time Evening Standard “parties editor” SIMON MILLS and Guardian TV writer JULIA RAESIDE to discuss the return of Roxy’s debut and a very odd BBC radio drama on David Bowie’s final days. Also: Joan As Police Woman’s new album, the return of sleeper hit afterlife comedy The Good Place… and cycling with Gary Kemp out of Spandau Ballet. Plus! The debut of our new co-presenter Siân “Stan” Pattenden! It’s like when they got a new member of Pan’s People. Only BETTER.   Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Studio production is by Jack Claramunt. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.

DRINK THE LONG DRAUGHT FOR THE HIP PRIEST: The world thought that Mark E. Smith would outlast cockroaches, Keith Richards and Later With Jools Holland… yet the sad day came to pass in January. Join horrid trendy wretch Andrew, mere pseud ’cast producer Matt and Fall fans Debbie Smith (of Curve, Echobelly and more) and David Stubbs to pore over the singular life, achievements and vocabulary of the artist otherwise known as Roman Totale XVII. Plus the new Franz Ferdinand album, and another sad farewell to our producer Matt Hall, who leaves us this week for an actual job with proper money. Who ever heard of such a thing? Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes BIGMOUTH was produced by Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall with audio production by Jack Claramunt. It’s a Podmasters Production.

Two universes clash in our senses-shattering first Podcast Crossover! Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey of our sister show REMAINIACS – the best Brexit podcast on the internet – enter the Bigmouth Bunker. This week: Sky’s Romans-in-Britain epic Britannia, the return of Django Django and BBC4’s latest music biz documentary. Plus: Can a roomful of comics nerds agree whether Doomsday Clock, DC’s controversial sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, is a harmless sideshow or an actual war crime? There’s only one way to find out… listen to Bigmouth. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes And if you like Remainiacs you can follow it here: https://audioboom.com/channel/remainiacs-podcast BIGMOUTH was produced by Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. It’s a Podmasters Production.

Is bleak comic thriller THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI as good as everyone’s saying? And what about the criticism that it doesn’t care about its black characters? Plus – a chance to catch up on The Moonlandingz’ mesmeric disgusto-pop, and two glimpses into the world of the modern teenager with the black humour of The End Of The F**king World and C4’s bravura situation BOMBedy Derry Girls. Guests SIAN PATTENDEN and JUDE ROGERS tell Matt and Andrew what’s what. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes

What were you doing 50 years ago this week? Johnny Cash was about to play to a room full of murderers and robbers at Folsom Prison. Our guests MIRANDA SAWYER and MATT ALLEN wonder whether this – and not the old guy on Rick Rubin’s porch – is the real Cash. Plus the BBC’s crime epic McMafia, and the albums we love, but nobody else does. All on the pop culture podcast for the smart timewaster.

It’s a right royal rave-up as Bigmouth welcomes DJ legends Mark Wood and Mark “Jelly” Johnstone AKA the LONDON READERS WIFES (never Wives), hosts of the capital’s best night out, DUCKIE at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. The chaps join Andrew and Matt to discuss BBC2’s bravura “hagsploitation” drama ‘Feud: Joan & Bette’, Sky Arts’ history of Berlin’s Hansa Studios, the debut album by south London noise urchins Shame… and why pop is always better than rock. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes