Podcast Episodes

Mark Kermode tells us stories about music in movies

Episode 829

The Graduate, Trainspotting, Jaws, Star Wars, Citizen Kane – films you can’t picture without thinking of the music. Mark Kermode has been gripped by the marriage of movie and soundtrack since Dougal …

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

How many bands can you name every member of?

Episode 828

This week’s news put through the wringer and hung out to dry. On the line you’ll find …

… Taylor Swift and Ophelia and other things pop videos turned into tourist attractions

… the appeal of D’Angelo…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21

Episode 827

The Zombies formed before the Stones and had huge hits with She’s Not There and Time Of The Season. Their baroque masterpiece Odessey and Oracle now gets ranked beside Revolver and Pet Sounds. Colin …

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Led Zeppelin’s fight for attention and how they fudged their backstory

Episode 826

This lavish, beautifully designed collection of late ‘60s news stories, reviews and press clippings sheds new light on the band’s roots and ascent from the days when the Kidderminster Shuttle would s…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Stones, Blondie, Iggy and songs that make a movie & why we loved Diane Keaton

Episode 825

Shifting the pass-the-parcel of news and removing the wrapping when the music stops. Which this week happens here …

… will rock bands get offered the Saudi money?

… “there could be no British nightcl…

Published on 1 month ago

Ringo and why the Beatles wouldn’t have worked without him

Episode 824

The look, sound, story and dynamic of the Beatles can’t be imagined without him. Nor can their success. Tom Doyle, author and drummer, examines the unexplored depths of the one at the back from 70 di…

Published on 1 month ago

Rock stars we envy, Madonna as a sister-in-law & the British obsession with poshness

Episode 823

Steering the supercar of enquiry round the rock and roll racetrack with the occasional stop for a tyre change. Foot-to-floor moments this week include…

… why are the British so hung up about posh pop…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms

Episode 822

London’s Blitz club in 1980 had a huge impact on the way the decade looked and sounded, the launchpad for Boy George, Spandau Ballet, a new age of electro-pop and many writers, designers and photogra…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie

Episode 821

Prince’s commercial peak was Purple Rain but John McKie thinks Sign O’ The Times was his creative masterpiece and tracked down over 200 collaborators, girlfriends, “Prince whisperers”, assistants and…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The three London kids who invented rock style

Episode 820

Paul Gorman, biographer of Malcolm McLaren and friend of the pod, tells the extraordinary story of the three young hipsters behind Granny Takes A Trip, the Kings Road store that was a magnet for rock…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago