Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast
1) 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 stopped and talked him down. The night was a blur for L...Show More
2) 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 treated to nearly six months of red carpet looks, tea...Show More
3) 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, who is one half of art collective The White Pube, a...Show More
4) 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 year 2000’s most memorable pop hits — but none of ...Show More
5) 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 community of fans. In this episode, Tara, a longtime pl...Show More
6) 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 boy for UK Garage. In his own work, he melded that...Show More
7) 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 this mood and symbolised a changing of the guard....Show More
8) 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 addictive show on telly. Faking It won two BAFTAs and took hom...Show More
9) 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 2000 film starring John Cusack, and ask if there's ...Show More
10) 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 Destiny's Child’s original line-up. A decade after ...Show More