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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116: Podcast #116: The Meg, Boards Of Canada, R...
SHARK LIFE! Who will be the only one of our panel who didn’t like this summer’s prime Statham-vs-Fish chompbuster The Meg? How does Boards Of Canada’s ‘Music Has The Right To Children’ sound 20 years down the line? And what will be our guest JUDE ROGER...
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115: Podcast #115: Nuts In May, Jake Shears, An...
GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY: Is Mike Leigh’s great rural comedy **Nuts In May** (now back on iPlayer) still in a field of its own? Has former Scissor Sister **Jake Shears** rediscovered his mucky mojo on his solo debut? And does Marvel’s shrinky-dink super-...
51 min
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114: Podcast #114: Robin Williams’ deranged lif...
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 electroni...
46 min
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113: Podcast #113: The secret history of electr...
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...
65 min
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112: Podcast #112: Who Is America? Picnic At Ha...
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’...
67 min
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111: Podcast #111: Duran Duran, Public Image Lt...
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 successf...
64 min
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110: Podcast #110: ANNE DUDLEY of Art Of Noise ...
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 Whisp...
64 min
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109: Podcast #109: Lost Vagueness Glastonbury m...
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 d...
62 min
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108: Podcast #108: Johnny Marr, Microdisney, Fa...
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 – ...
60 min
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107: Podcast #107: Studio 54 documentary, Kanye...
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 he...
60 min
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106: Podcast #106: Han Solo, Generation Grime, ...
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 – l...
60 min
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105: Podcast #105: Madness biopic, Half Man Hal...
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 f...
59 min
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104: Podcast #104: Arctic Monkeys, Patrick Melr...
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 ...
59 min
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103: Podcast #103: Kraftwerk’s Man-Machine is 4...
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 MICHAE...
62 min
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102: Podcast #102: Infinity War with spoilers, ...
**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 ...
67 min
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101: Podcast #101: Michael Smiley, the glory da...
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...
60 min
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100: Podcast #100! Simon Day, Charley’s War, Ju...
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 Sk...
60 min
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99: Podcast #99: The City And The City, Confide...
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...
60 min
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98: Podcast #98: David Hepworth on his elegy fo...
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 real...
60 min
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97: Podcast #97: Cunk on Britain, Suede, record...
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...
59 min
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96: Podcast #96: Unsane, Pulp’s This Is Hardcor...
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...
58 min
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95: Podcast #95: Annihilation, David Byrne, MFS...
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....
60 min
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94: Podcast #94: Big Lebowski at 20, Tracey Tho...
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 Que...
59 min
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93: Podcast #93: Janelle Monáe, Collateral, Go-...
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 ...
68 min
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92: Podcast #92: Shape Of Water, Oscar tips, Jo...
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 ...
62 min