Paula Yates – The life, loves and tragedy of a Big Breakfast superstar
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Big Breakfast presenter, tabloid icon and 50% of THE rock power couple, Paula Yates was one of the most fascinating and complicated figures of the 1990s. A journalist...
22 Jun 1h 22min
Select Magazine – How the ’90s greatest music mag launched Britpop and reinvented Glastonbury
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Not many images epitomise Britpop more than Suede’s Brett Anderson in front of a Union Jack with “Yanks go home!” emblazoned across his chest. Suede were not happy… b...
15 Jun 1h 1min
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror
This episode was recorded prior to the sad death of the brilliant Anthony Head on 5 June 2026. Diving deep into all things ’90s. Fangs for the memory! Buffy the Vampire Slayer began life as a teen h...
5 Jun 1h 5min
Cash, cocaine and chaos – The mad, bad ’90s music biz with author John Niven
Diving deep into all things ’90s. The music business’s last hurrah of excess, extravagance and super-colossal expense accounts came in the ’90s – and John Niven was in the front row as an A&R man* at ...
1 Jun 1h 1min
Showgirls – Worst film of the ’90s or misunderstood gem?
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Paul Verhoeven’s camp, deranged, Vegas-based “erotic drama” Showgirls was a $45 million Hollywood gamble that became one of the biggest box office flops of the decade...
25 Mai 1h 7min
From Queen to Mogwai – John Robins on his ’90s music journey
Diving deep into all things ’90s. John Robins was a child at the start of the ’90s and eighteen by the end of it. He talks through his early obsession with Freddie Mercury and Queen’s ‘90s releases, h...
18 Mai 1h 3min
Prozac Nation! – How one grunge-era depression memoir changed everything
Diving deep into all things ’90s… Elizabeth Wurtzel’s groundbreaking grunge-era memoir of depression, medication and alienation Prozac Nation divided opinion like few books ever have. How did it becom...
11 Mai 59min
Alcopops! – Hooch, Metz, Breezers and the booze of the ’90s
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Bright, sugary and brewed to go down far too easily, alcopops arrived in the ’90s with a bang. They blurred the line between soft drink and spirit, encouraged a new g...
4 Mai 58min
