Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast
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Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast
Are you ready to go back to the year 2000? Combining storytelling and commentary, this podcast returns to some of the noughties’ biggest cultural moments, trends and figures, and explores them with the added benefit of twenty years’ hindsight. The world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Si...
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Introducing: Finding Andy
In 2019, Loti Nambombe was on the brink of taking his own life. He was standing on the edge of Manchester's M60, ready to jump, when a passerby stoppe...
Award Season: The best pop culture of the year 2000
Award Season is a highlight of the pop culture calendar. From MTV’s Video Music Awards in September through to the Academy Awards in March, we are tre...
Gilmore Girls: A roundtable with Anna Leszkiewicz and Zarina Muhammad
This week we’re hosting a special roundtable on everyone’s favourite mother-daughter duo, The Gilmore Girls. We’re joined by critic Zarina Muhammad, w...
Soundtracks: Coyote Ugly and the lost art of the movie single
Pure Shores by All Saints. Independent Women by Destiny’s Child. Can’t Fight the Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes. These chart-topping tracks are some of the...
The Sims: The enduring appeal of the second life simulator
Twenty years after it first launched, The Sims is still going strong. Much more than a nostalgic relic of the noughties, the game has a thriving commu...
Craig David: Born to do it?
When Southampton teenager Craig David arrived into the mainstream with the help of production duo Artful Dodger in 1999, many considered him a poster...
White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut
The new millennium brought with it a fresh wave of optimism and excitement for the future. Zadie Smith's best selling debut novel White Teeth embodied...
Reality TV: Big Brother, Faking It and a new kind of fame
The year 2000 saw the launch of two new reality TV shows. Big Brother made instant celebrities
of ordinary people and was deemed the most addict...
High Fidelity: What came first, the music or the misery?
“What matters is what you like, not what you are like" or so says Rob Gordon, the protagonist of High Fidelity. In this episode, we look back at the 2...
Destiny’s Child: The rocky road to the definitive line-up
Kelly, can you handle this? Michelle, can you handle this? Beyoncé, can you handle this? It’s a roll-call so iconic, it’s easy to forget this wasn’t D...
Are you ready to go back to the year 2000? Introducing Twenty Twenty
Are you ready to back to the year 2000? Join two culture critics in their twenties, as they delve into the most memorable pop culture from twenty year...