Bigmouth
Clever talk about pop culture.
Bigmouth is pop culture talk for discerning grown-ups. Music, TV, movies, books or something else entirely – we’ll enthuse, argue, squabble and pick over the bones of what’s happening in the world of the stuff we love.
Presented by WORD magazine veterans Andrew Harrison (ex-editor of Q, Select and Mixmag) and Siân “Stan” Pattenden, a graduate of the Smash Hits and Select Mag Schools of Excellence.
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Podcast #42: 40 Years of 2000AD comic, The Magn...
Special guests Strictly Kev AKA DJ Food of Ninja Tune plus sport and music writer Matt Allen join Andrew and Matt in the Bigmouth Command Module. This week: Happy Birthday to 2000AD, The Magnetic Fields’ ‘50 Song Memoir’ and BBC1’s SS-GB. Plus Shriekba...
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Podcast #41: Lego Batman, bad stage patter, ‘Gi...
Is ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ more realistic than Christopher Nolan’s batfilms? What’s the worst onstage banter? Does the new series of ‘Girls’ make any sense if you haven’t seen the rest of it? Guests Ali Catterall of The Guardian and Justin Quirk of Ask...
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Podcast #40: 'Roots' remake, David Axelrod RIP,...
Guests Joe Muggs of Mixmag and Anthony Teasdale of Umbrella magazine join Matt and Andrew to discuss a 21st Century take on Kunta Kinte, the late cosmic soul man David Axelrod, and the debut album by Sampha, the Frank Ocean of Cricklewood. Click to pla...
45 min
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Trainspotting 2 – a spoiler-packed Bigmouth Min...
So what actually happens to Renton, Spud, Begbie and Sick Boy – and does it work as a movie? Miranda Sawyer of The Observer, Will Hodgkinson of The Times, Matt and Andrew go right round the Edinburgh u-bend on T2. Warning: don't listen unless you...
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Podcast #39: Trainspotting 2, female Doctor Who...
Is T2 as good as T1? Are we ready for a Time Lady in the TARDIS? Special guests Will Hodgkinson of The Times and Miranda Sawyer of The Observer join Andrew and Matt to discuss these weighty matters and more. Click to listen or see download link on righ...
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Podcast #38: Elbow, Bonobo, Trump (oh no), A Se...
Elbow + Bonobo = Elbonobo? Their new albums are under discussion with Andrew, Matt and special guest Dorian Lynskey. Also: Netflix's new Lemony Snicket adaptation and how the entertainment world is dealing with the Dawn of Trump. Click to listen o...
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Podcast #37: La La Land, Run The Jewels and pop...
Show us another podcast that discusses hardcore hip hop and light-loafered musicals with the same panache. Guests Siân Pattenden and Andy Miller join Andrew and Matt to see whose game is mad tight and whose gavotte is rot. Click to listen. And don...
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Podcast #36: Stevie Nicks book, The xx, Flaming...
This week on the smart pop culture podcast: Zoe Howe on her Stevie Nicks book plus new albums by The xx and Flaming Lips with Matt, Andrew and special guest Eamonn Forde. Click to listen! And remember you can hear all the music on this podcast in ful...
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Podcast #35: The OA, George Michael, Carrie Fis...
The smart pop culture podcast is back from its Christmas break with special guests David Stubbs and Michael Hann of The Guardian. This week we talk about Netflix's inexplicable chiller The OA, the brilliant new album by Flo Morrissey and Matthew E...
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HOLIDAY SPECIAL: A Bigmouth All-Star Edition
While we're on our Christmas break, here's a special edition of the smart pop culture podcast. Throughout 2016 we've been asking our guests to name the one thing they'd rescue – humans and animals excepted – if their flat went on fi...
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Rogue One – a spoiler-heavy Bigmouth Minicast
WARNING – THIS PODCAST CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! Right, now that's out of the way: Jedi wannabees Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall are joined by space scum Ian Harrison and Michael Moran to pick over the bones of the latest Star Wars movie, work out how i...
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Podcast #34 - Spoiler-free Rogue One review, pl...
Michael Moran and Ian Harrison (some relation) join Andrew and Matt in the studio to discuss the latest movie to roll off the Star Wars production line. Where does it fit in the 'best Star Wars movie' chart? Plus Michael and Ian talk about th...
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Podcast #33 - What we loved in 2016
Whiskers on kittens and snowdrops on mittens. Neither of these things crop up in this show, as Dorian Lynskey and Jude Rogers join Andrew and Matt to race through a few of their favourite things of 2016. Bowie's final album, Westworld, The Hateful...
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Podcast #32 – Brad Pitt in Allied, Nordic noir ...
Guests Ted Kessler of Q Magazine and James Medd join Andrew and Matt to pick over Modus ( the latest Scandi Noir to hit BBC 4), make like Pat Benatar with Brad Pitt's WWII romance thriller Allied, and review the latest LPs from Pete(r) Doherty and...
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Podcast #31 - Clarkson’s Grand Tour, Kate Bush,...
This week special guests Miranda Sawyer and Hannah Verdier join Andrew and Matt to discuss the return of Clarkson, Hammond and May in Amazon's The Grand Tour, and Kate Bush’s live album. Plus London club Fabric gets one last chance, and Kanye West...
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Arrival – a spoiler-laden Bigmouth Mini-Cast
A spoiler-heavy discussion of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi brain twister Arrival, with Andrew, Matt and guests Joe Muggs and Mark Hooper. WARNING: If you haven’t seen the movie – don’t listen!
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Podcast #30 - A Tribe Called Quest, Arrival mov...
This week we talk about A Tribe Called Quest’s incredible final album, alien first contact movie Arrival and godfather of DJ culture David Mancuso with guests Joe Muggs of Mixmag and Mark Hooper of Hole & Corner magazine. Click to listen.
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Podcast #29 - Bowie art auction, Marr and Sprin...
This week Laura Barton and Laura Snapes join Andrew and Matt in the pod to discuss the Sotheby’s auction of David Bowie’s art, autobiographies by Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Marr, and the plague of articles asking “Where is all the protest music?” Cli...
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Podcast #28 - Rock photog Kevin Westenberg, mus...
On the smart pop culture podcast this week: rock photography war stories from the legendary Kevin Westenberg, the man responsible for the look of 4AD Records and much more. Plus Luke Turner from The Quietus joins Matt and Andrew to talk Solange Knowles...
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Podcast #27 – Bowie play and book, Dr Strange, ...
It's a cosmic week on the smart pop culture podcast, as we look at the Bowie ’Lazarus’ play and Marvel’s Doctor Strange plus Pete Burns and Steve Dillon. Special guests are Nicholas Pegg – author of ’The Complete David Bowie’ – and Dorian Lynskey ...
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Podcast #26 - Leonard Cohen, Half Man Half Bisc...
Guests Andrew Male and Johnny Davis join us to discuss the new album from Leonard Cohen and Half Man Half Biscuit’s rarities compilation. And we enter the 36th (debating) Chamber to figure out which MPs sound like they should be in the Wu-Tang Clan. Cl...
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Podcast #25 - Simon Reynolds’ glam rock book Sh...
Guests James Medd and author Simon Reynolds (Energy Flash, Retromania) join Andrew and Matt to talk Bolan, Bowie and more from Simon's new glam rock epic Shock And Awe. Plus Sky Atlantic’s new robots-go-wrong series Westworld, wild world psychede...
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Podcast #24 - Marvel’s Luke Cage, Bon Iver, Pix...
Special guests Andrew Perry of the Telegraph and Jody Thompson join Andrew and Matt to chew over Netflix's new hip hop-soaked Marvel adaptation, Luke Cage. They also dissect the new albums from Bon Iver and Pixies, and look back at the life of Cle...
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Podcast #23 - Oasis’s ‘Be Here Now’ vindicated?...
This week's slice of “premier league culture punditry” (cheers, The Guardian) sees Supplement magazine editor Justin Quirk plus Joel Morris (top comedy writer and co-creator of the grown-up Ladybird books) join Andrew and Matt. They revisit the hu...
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Podcast #22 - Nick Cave, Yello, #SaveFabric and...
On the smart pop culture podcast this week – Nick Cave, Slaves and Yello’s new albums, the fight to save beleagured superclub Fabric, and the dirty underbelly of reviewing records. Special guests are Jude Rogers of The Guardian and Simon Price of Q and...
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