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Our end-of-year round-up reaches a festive crescendo with guests ANNA FIELDING of Stylist magazine and EAMONN FORDE of The Guardian and Q on what they liked best this year. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’! Sparks! Kelela! ‘The Death Of Stalin!’ The Oreilles! Plus Matt Hall finally gets to Have His Say about his own favourites of the year. We’re back with the regular show on Sat 6 Jan – so have a lovely Christmas and an even lovelier New Year. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BigmouthiTunes

It’s end-of-term! Special guests MARK HOOPER of Hole & Corner magazine and Times/Rolling Stone/Guardian journalist SOPHIE HARRIS bring in the records, films and other stuff that’s wowed them in 2017\. Which movies changed the way we think? Which great records did you miss? And how will Andrew squeeze some comics in at the last minute? There’s only one way to find out…

The doyen of pop biography CHRIS HEATH drops into the Bigmouth bunker to talk about his Robbie Williams fly-on-the-wall epic book ‘Reveal’ and the art of reporting what celebs think you’re not noticing. Plus Chris and special guest NADIA SHIREEN talk over The Disaster Artist, a huge new DVD box set covering the entire history of British pop video, and the “swingorilliant” days of “classic” Smash Hits. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BigmouthiTunes

This week on Britain’s most polymathic pop podcast, special guests Richard Benson and Kate Hutchinson don the Army & Navy raincoats of destiny for ‘To The Outside Of Everything: A Story of UK Post-Punk 1977-1981’. Plus: Spike Lee remakes ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ for Netflix. Is Miguel the new Prince? And is the David Niven classic ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’ the most stiff-upper-lip movie ever made? Andrew and Matt are on hand to operate the escalator to black and white heaven.

New albums from Björk and Noel Gallagher, Gregory Porter's TV series on singers and Laura Mvula's Radio 2 Gospel show are all discussed by author ANDY MILLER and pork aficionado MICHAEL HANN. They join Matt Hall and special guest presenter Laura Barton in the pod. Oh, and if anyone wants Michael to review trifle for them, he can be contacted via @Big_MouthUK.

It’s Bigmouth vs. much-loved weirdo music outlet The Quietus in our first Podclash. JOHN DORAN and ANNA WOOD of The Quietus join Andrew and Matt to talk about new magazine memoir ‘The Story Of The Face’, discover vintage Arabic dance music, review BBC4’s documentary on Cambridge spy Guy Burgess – and tell us what “dungeonsynth” and “boiling the goat” mean. Intrigued? You will be. Visit http://thequietus.com for your Ordnance Survey of music’s outer limits.

Which Morrissey is on show on his new album – perpetual teenager with a way with words or sour Brexit grand-dad? How does Sky’s Weimar-era debauchathon Babylon Berlin – the most expensive German TV show ever made – stack up in the Anglophone world of novelistic TV? And how do near-twins ‘News Of The World’ by Queen and the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ soundtrack sound on their 40th birthdays? Fêted beer writer and pop fiend PETE BROWN and movie critic LINDA MARRIC are here to help Andrew and Matt detect the subtle aftertastes and hoppy finishes.

Does Stranger Things 2 deliver – or is its Spielberg nostalgia wearing thin? How does Motörhead’s grot-rock debut stack up after 40 years? What were BBC1 playing at with that Sounds Like Friday Night mess? And a long-lost album by dirty old man Serge Gainsbourg. Comedy writer Sarah Morgan and man-about-town Justin Quirk join Andrew and Matt to sort it all out.

What does ‘The Death Of Stalin’ tell us more about: genocidal totalitarianism or human resources issues in the workplace? Does Ian Dury’s ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ sit well in the modern world? What were the Japanese listening to when everyone else was going counterculture mad? And how ace is ’Mindhunter’? Guests Jude Rogers and Michael Hann are here to help Andrew and Matt with the quality opinionising.

On this week’s show: How does The Smiths’ masterpiece ’The Queen Is Dead’ stand up in the light of Morrissey’s current antics? What was going on with that George Michael documentary? Plus a bizarre Netflix resurrection of ‘Dynasty’ and a new rather good Roisin Conaty comedy on E4. Special guests SALI HUGHES and MICHAEL HOGAN help Andrew and Matt make sense of it all.

On this week’s show: Is pop polymath St. Vincent our new Kate Bush? Can ‘The Deuce’ do with the porn industry what creator David Simon did with policing in ‘The Wire’? And popumentaries on Nile Rodgers and XTC. Guests Hannah Verdier and Andrew Mueller join Andrew and Matt.

Can ‘Blade Runner 2049’ live up to the incredible advance press? The return of Liam Gallagher: what’s in Our Kid’s raging id? And the latest 33 1/3 rock criticism books on Björk and The Raincoats. It’s CARRY ON VOIGT-KAMPFFING week at Bigmouth with special guest Laura Snapes and Andrew Male plus geek desk correspondent Michael Moran.

Is the latest version of Star Trek the one we need right now, or just the one we’re getting? Will Wolf Alice regenerate the indie band template? And will famed documentarian Ken Burns change the way we think about the Vietnam War? All this and more as guests Rebecca Nicholson and David Stubbs join Andrew and Matt for more high-quality pop procrastination.

Is Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Mother!’ a deeply-felt work of visionary genius… or a load of ludicrous cobblers and the worst movie of the 21st Century so far? Have The Horrors finally come good? Can Channel 4 and Amazon make sci-fi master Philip K. Dick work on TV? Journos Siân Pattenden and Ali Catterall join Andrew and Matt to thrash it all out.

This week on the pop culture podcast for the discerning flâneur, Michael Hann welcomes special guests Laura Barton and Travis Elborough to talk Bowie, rock memoirs and more. Producer Matt Hall twiddles the knobs appreciatively.