Award Season: The best pop culture of the year 2000
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 Acade... Read more
1 Dec 2020
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57mins
Gilmore Girls: A roundtable with Anna Leszkiewicz and Zarina Muhammad
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 joine... Read more
24 Nov 2020
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55mins
Soundtracks: Coyote Ugly and the lost art of the movie single
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-t... Read more
17 Nov 2020
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53mins
The Sims: The enduring appeal of the second life simulator
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,... Read more
10 Nov 2020
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47mins
Craig David: Born to do it?
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,... Read more
3 Nov 2020
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38mins
White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut
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 de... Read more
27 Oct 2020
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47mins
Reality TV: Big Brother, Faking It and a new kind of fame
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 celebritiesof ordinary people and was... Read more
20 Oct 2020
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45mins
High Fidelity: What came first, the music or the misery?
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 ... Read more
13 Oct 2020
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42mins
Destiny’s Child: The rocky road to the definitive line-up
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’... Read more
6 Oct 2020
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40mins
Are you ready to go back to the year 2000? Introducing Twenty Twenty
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 memorabl... Read more
8 Sep 2020
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3mins