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On this week's smart pop culture podcast: Obama's summer mixtape, the return of De La Soul, a surprisingly moving Gary Numan documentary, and more. Special guests are Esquire Magazine's Johnny Davis and Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian.

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We're skiving off on our hols – so here’s some of our favourite music discussion from the last few months: Alexis Petridis and Sylvia Patterson on ABC, Michael Hogan and Hannah Verdier on Bat For Lashes, Kate Mossman on The Monkees… and the obligatory much, much more.

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On the thinking person’s pop culture podcast this week: Netflix’s fantastic ‘Stranger Things’, Wild Beasts’ new album, and has music gone ME-ME-ME mental in our new age of narcissistic pop? Special guests Laura Snapes and Michael Hann join Andrew and Matt to argue the “toss”. Click to listen.

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On this week’s smart pop culture podcast: Paul Morley’s book ‘The Age Of Bowie’… Luke Cage, Wonder Woman and the Marvel/DC trailer tsunami… Star Trek: Beyond… classic British psych rock, and more. Special guests are Dan ‘Harry Hill’ Maier and Michael ‘The Internet’ Moran. Click to listen.

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This week on the smart pop culture podcast, special guests Laura Barton of The Guardian and Robin Turner of Caught By The River join Matt and Andrew. On the agenda: Laura goes up Pompeii with David Gilmour and Mary Beard, the legacy of Alan Vega, the joy of terrible reggae covers, and is it time to stop worrying and learn to love Simple Minds?

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Can it really be ten years since the very last Top Of The Pops? Could it ever come back? We ask this week's special guests Simon Price and David Stubbs – and get their tales from life at their alma mater, the Melody Maker paper. Also, is The Avalanches new album any good? This and more with co-presenters Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Click to listen.

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On this week’s smart pop culture podcast: #CarolineAherne remembered, #MirandaSawyer on her new book #OutOfTime about the changing nature of middle age, #EamonnForde on Apple buying streaming minnow Tidal, and we rediscover a classic #JudgeDredd comics series. Click to listen.

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Andrew Collins and Sarah Bee join Andrew and Matt in the studio to discuss the sixth season of #GameOfThrones and wonder who'll be left standing when the epic finally draws to a close in two seasons' time. Andrew reports back from #Glastonbury and we review the latest album from Roisin Murphy.

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This week top TV journos Hannah Verdier and Michael Hogan join the smart pop culture podcast to tell us – literally – what we're missing. Also, Bat For Lashes' new album 'The Bride', the attack on the #Radiohead playback in Istanbul, and can #Beck's 'Odelay' really be 20 years old? Dear God, apparently so.

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This week on the smart pop culture podcast, Andrew and Matt are joined by music writers Justin Quirk and Sîan Pattenden. Our topics: why are no musicians engaging with the Euro Referendum? Is Grace Jones the best pop star ever? And why do people get angry about who's headlining Glastonbury? All this and much more…

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