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 treated to nearly six months of red carpet looks, tearful acceptance speeches and, if we’re lucky

Gilmore Girls: A roundtable with Anna Leszkiewicz and Zarina Muhammad

Nov 24th, 2020 55m 51s

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, who is one half of art collective The White Pube, and Anna Leszkiewicz, Culture Editor at the N

Soundtracks: Coyote Ugly and the lost art of the movie single

Nov 17th, 2020 53m 22s

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 year 2000’s most memorable pop hits — but none of them would exist if it weren’t for movies. D

The Sims: The enduring appeal of the second life simulator

Nov 10th, 2020 47m 39s

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 community of fans. In this episode, Tara, a longtime player of the game, explains it’s enduring app

Craig David: Born to do it?

1 Nov 3rd, 2020 38m 13s

When Southampton teenager Craig David arrived into the mainstream with the help of production duo Artful Dodger in 1999, many considered him a poster boy for UK Garage. In his own work, he melded that 2-step sound with crooning R&B and even Spa

White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut

Oct 27th, 2020 47m 6s

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 this mood and symbolised a changing of the guard. Smith was lauded with critical acclaim and

Reality TV: Big Brother, Faking It and a new kind of fame

Oct 20th, 2020 45m 24s

The year 2000 saw the launch of two new reality TV shows. Big Brother made instant celebritiesof ordinary people and was deemed the most addictive show on telly. Faking It won two BAFTAs and took home an International Emmy, but remains a cult

High Fidelity: What came first, the music or the misery?

Oct 13th, 2020 42m 20s

“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 2000 film starring John Cusack, and ask if there's value in the idea that our favourite songs,

Destiny’s Child: The rocky road to the definitive line-up

Oct 6th, 2020 40m 4s

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 Destiny's Child’s original line-up. A decade after the band first came together under a differe

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Are you ready to go back to the year 2000? Introducing Twenty Twenty

Sep 8th, 2020 3m 39s

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 years ago.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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