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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141: Podcast #141: Russian Doll, Shaun Ryder’s ...
This week we’re joined by Quietus co-founder JOHN DORAN and film writer LINDA MARRIC to pan for more pop culture gold among the gravel and bottle tops. RUSSIAN DOLL on Netflix: what’s the metaphysical subtext of TV’s funniest drinking, drugging and dyi...
66 min
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140: Podcast #140: Das Boot, Out Of The Woods w...
On this week’s podcast, **ALAAARM!** We talk over the stunning re-Boot of sub-sea nerve-wrangler **DAS BOOT** with our guests, Quietus co-founder **LUKE TURNER** (left) and pop culture journo **MARK HOOPER** (right). Does the story of a different U-boa...
56 min
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On this week’s high-end pop culture hootenanny, we’re joined by music business journo EAMONN FORDE – who fills us in on the cautionary tale that is his new book **‘The Final Days Of EMI: Selling The Pig’** – plus The Times’ rock and pop critic WILL HOD...
62 min
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It’s a rather more stylish Bigmouth than usual as GQ magazine editor DYLAN JONES joins us for this week’s pop culture dégustation along with SOPHIE HARRIS of Mojo, Time Out and… yoga?On the menu this week: Can HBO/BBC4 documentary ‘**The Defiant Ones...
59 min
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“It’s not fraud, it’s just false advertising!” Special guests and major influencers **AL****EXIS PETRIDIS** of The Guardian and **LUCY O’BRIEN**, author of ‘Madonna: Like An Icon’, join regulars Siân and Andrew on a microlite to misery as we gaze in di...
60 min
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136: Podcast #136: Stan & Ollie, Trevor Horn’s ...
Have Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly brought back the real Laurel & Hardy, and how many hankies should you take to **‘Stan & Ollie’**? Why is **Trevor Horn** reinventing the 80s if they weren’t broken in the first place? And former Beta Band ma...
52 min
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What do the letters H.O.M.E. mean to you? We’re joined in Conversation Corner by guests **Ralph Moore** of dance bible Mixmag and **Anthony Teasdale** – terrace style guru and Balearic soothsayer – to discuss the movie that made everyone’s Christmas, ‘...
58 min
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In our second End of Year special, guests MIRANDA SAWYER and EAMONN FORDE tell us their favourite records, telly, films and other stuff of 2018 – and Andrew gets to make his choices too. Who liked lesbionic romantic disaster **SALLY4EVER**? What did th...
59 min
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133: Podcast #133: Best of 2018 inc The 1975, B...
The 1975! The Lemon Twigs! Anna Calvi! That fantastic Jeremy Thorpe dramatisation from the BBC! And some films, telly and music you might not have heard of too! It’s the first of our ‘Favourites of 2018’ shows.**MICHAEL HANN** of The Guardian and FT ...
59 min
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This week on the pop culture podcast for today’s prancing popinjay: Bassist to the gentry, raconteur and stand-up comic GUY PRATT tells us about life playing with Pink Floyd, Madonna, Robert Palmer and – for about a week – The Smiths. And music journo ...
67 min
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131: Podcast #131: Vic & Bob's Big Night Out, T...
They wouldn't let it lie. Spam! Pants! Soil! Is the all-new Vic n Bob's Big Night Out all we've been expecting from a big night in? The Kominsky Method on Netflix stars Mr Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, as ageing acting coach S...
53 min
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130: Podcast #130: The Good, The Bad & The Quee...
Dim the lights! It's the pop culture podcast for the louche lounge dweller. Does the Coen Brother's anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs cast a new light on the narrative of the Wild West and the lonesome cowboy? And did anyone recognise To...
58 min
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129: Podcast #129: Kate Bush, Stan Lee, Happy M...
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 P...
63 min
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128: Podcast #128: Netflix’s Cash/Nixon and Bob...
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...
54 min
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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… ...
61 min
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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-actualisin...
61 min
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125: Podcast #125: Cold War Steve, Neneh Cherry...
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 ‘Masseduc...
57 min
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124: Podcast #124: Doctor Who, John Grant, Prim...
‘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 s...
63 min
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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?...
59 min
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122: Podcast #122: Killing Eve, Chic, Maniac an...
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” Walle...
73 min
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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, Lu...
61 min
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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...
63 min
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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 with...
54 min
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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 fro...
60 min
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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’...
49 min