“It’s not fraud, it’s just false advertising!” Special guests and major influencers ALEXIS PETRIDIS of The Guardian and LUCY O’BRIEN, author of ‘Madonna: Like An Icon’, join regulars Siân and Andrew on a microlite to misery as we gaze in disbelief at not one but BOTH Fyre Festival documentaries. What were the best bits, what did we learn about “millennials” and is there enough Evian in the world to douse this Bonfire Of The Inanities? Hey, dig our on-brand orange tile… 

PLUS It’s la recherche de Fred Perrys perdu with new albums from The Specials – their first in 37 years – and the faction of The Beat that includes Ranking Roger. And we FEEL THE NOIZE on a new 60-track compilation of ultra-obscure glam rock from the actual real-life 1970s, ‘All The Young Droogs’. 

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Have Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly brought back the real Laurel & Hardy, and how many hankies should you take to ‘Stan & Ollie’? Why is Trevor Horn reinventing the 80s if they weren’t broken in the first place? And former Beta Band man Steve Mason says his fourth album ‘About The Light’ is his first proper record – is he right? 

Seasoned journos Ian Harrison of Mojo magazine and Michael Hogan of the Guardian and Telegraph join Siân and Andrew to push the piano of pop culture up the metaphorical staircase of criticism. Will it come clattering down and smash to bits? There’s only one way to find out. 

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What do the letters H.O.M.E. mean to you? We’re joined in Conversation Corner by guests Ralph Moore of dance bible Mixmag and Anthony Teasdale – terrace style guru and Balearic soothsayer – to discuss the movie that made everyone’s Christmas, ‘Bros: After The Screaming Stops’.

Plus: can we mourn HMV if we didn’t spend enough money there? New Order’s fluorescent classic ‘Technique’ is a whole 30 years old. And an unusually ravey selection of tunes from our guests. 

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In our second End of Year special, guests MIRANDA SAWYER and EAMONN FORDE tell us their favourite records, telly, films and other stuff of 2018 – and Andrew gets to make his choices too. Who liked lesbionic romantic disaster SALLY4EVER? What did the panel make of the new DOCTOR WHO? And who was the most appalling monster on TV? Plus music from Christine & The Queens, Shame, Suede, Half Man Half Biscuit and Dave – just Dave. It’s all you need for the long dark winter evenings. 

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The 1975! The Lemon Twigs! Anna Calvi! That fantastic Jeremy Thorpe dramatisation from the BBC! And some films, telly and music you might not have heard of too! It’s the first of our ‘Favourites of 2018’ shows.

MICHAEL HANN of The Guardian and FT and ANDREW MUELLER (once Melody Maker, now Monocle and you can’t say that about everyone) join Andrew and Siân to choose the best of the year. Plus: how do you persuade uptight business-y mags like The Economist and The Spectator to run stories on Cold War Steve and Lawrence from Denim/Go-Kart Mozart? 

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This week on the pop culture podcast for today’s prancing popinjay: Bassist to the gentry, raconteur and stand-up comic GUY PRATT tells us about life playing with Pink Floyd, Madonna, Robert Palmer and – for about a week – The Smiths. And music journo and author MARTIN ASTON helps us dissect new Netflix ‘Polish noir’ drama 1983 and the surprisingly addictive new jazz album from BRYAN FERRY. (Guy is the soul of tact here – Bryan is his mate of old).

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They wouldn't let it lie. 

Spam! Pants! Soil! Is the all-new Vic n Bob's Big Night Out all we've been expecting from a big night in? The Kominsky Method on Netflix stars Mr Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, as ageing acting coach Sandy Kominsky - we ponder this dark, comedic "later life" series. 

Plus with new reissues of the three This Mortal Coil albums on 4AD, we listen to Ivo Watts-Russell's ethereal studio collective and debate whether it still packs a punch 27+ years on.

And goodbye Nic Roeg, director of Performance, Man Who Fell to Earth, Walkabout and more.

Music boffins Rob Fitzpatrick and Hannah Verdier join Siân. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a virtual pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. 

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Dim the lights! It's the pop culture podcast for the louche lounge dweller. Does the Coen Brother's anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs cast a new light on the narrative of the Wild West and the lonesome cowboy? And did anyone recognise Tom Waits? We talk about the Suede documentary The Insatiable Ones - chasing the dragon or gettin' off that thar horse? And yes, it's Brett vs Damon week as we muse upon The Good, The Bad and the Queen, Damon Albarn's supergroup with new Brexit Britain album Merrie England.

Ian Gittins from the Guardian, Melody Maker and Telegraph plus Sophie Harris from MOJO, The Guardian and Men’s Health join Siân to chew the cud.

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This week on the pop culture podcast for the sophisticated procrastinator: The KATE BUSH reissues are out. How do her leotard years stand up at nearly 40 years’ remove? We mark the ascension of Marvel mastermind Smilin’ STAN LEE to the Astral Plane with guest Dorian Lynskey from the Remainiacs podcast. HAPPY MONDAYS’ infamous second album ‘Bummed’ is 30 years old. And is Netflix’s blood-sodden Robert the Bruce drama OUTLAW KING fit for purpose as the new Braveheart?

Writer and rock’n’roll muso KATE HODGES joins Andrew and Siân to sort it all out. 

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Is Netflix’s new rockumentary series Remastered up to BBC4 music doc standard? We look for things we don’t know in their episodes on JOHNNY CASH’s relationship with Richard Nixon and the attempted murder of BOB MARLEY. The producers of House Of Cards stage a realistic Mars shot in THE FIRST – but is the myth-making too earnest? And Andrew gets all excited about a lost gem of comic books from the late 2000AD artist CARLOS EZQUERRA, a spaghetti western for kids called El Mestizo.

Special guests JUDE ROGERS of The Guardian and New Statesman and JAMES MEDD of The Times – veterans of the late lamented WORD magazine both – join Siân and Andrew for this week’s pop culture autopsy. 

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