Sentimental Garbage

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Sentimental Garbage is a podcast hosted by Caroline O'Donoghue about the culture we love that society can sometimes make us feel ashamed of. Formerly a chick-lit podcast, sometimes a Sex and the City podcast. We don't know the most, we feel the most. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Reality TV with Pandora Sykes

06.30.2022

The host of Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV joins us to talk about this quintessentially 21st century art form. Can we talk about reality TV as a monolith? What's worth keeping, and what's worth throwing away? And was ...

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06.30.2022 Reality TV with Pandora Sykes The host of Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV joins us to talk about this quintessentially 21st century art form. Can we talk about reality TV as a monolith? What's worth keeping, and what's worth throwing away? And was ...
06.23.2022 Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill with Janina Matthewson Janina Matthewson returns to discuss Alanis Morissettes 1995 smash hit album, Jagged Little Pill. We discuss Alanis as a survivor and a songwriter, her enormous good brain, and whether she's the Barack Obama of 90s music. Janina Matthewson is the ...
06.16.2022 Costume Dramas with Dr Emma Southon Costume dramas are the most dominant way that ordinary people engage with history, so why are we so frequently snobby about them? Dr Emma Southon gives a historian's perspective about the usefulness of costume drama, as well as the pure ...
06.14.2022 Bonus: WILD GARBAGE with Jen Cownie Jen Cownie is back on to celebrate our 100th episode with a boozy tarot round up of all the things that need Sentimental Garbage tarot readings: when will men embrace pyjamas? Why does it feel so good to cry in ...
06.09.2022 Josie & The Pussycats with Andrea Cleary Punk rock prom queens assemble, today we're talking about the criminally over-looked and under-loved Josie & The Pussycats. Why was this movies so misunderstood, and why do so many critics refuse to believe that women can do sarcasm? We talk ...
06.02.2022 Influencers with Louise O'Neill Do influencers make fame feel less special? Influencers distort our ideas of where wealth and fame should come from, and often provoke our hate-follows in the process. We discuss the power of influence and its humble beginnings in the blogging ...
05.26.2022 Charlie's Angels with Grace Medford Journalist Grace Medford joins us to talk about the endlessly entertaining dress-up box that was the noughties Charlie's Angels reboot. We discuss the giddy fun of this movie, the power of the Diaz/Barrymore/Liu trio, why a "woke" version was never ...
05.19.2022 Indie Twee, pt II with Self Esteem Before Self Esteem was selling out venues as a solo artist, she was Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club, a band who helped bring British twee to its apex in the 2010s. We talk about glockenspiels made out of Shloer, making ...
05.12.2022 Indie Twee, pt I with Jof Owen Usually on the podcast I speak to people about the culture they love that has been unfairly dismissed, but I’m also interested in talking to the artists who created that work. This week we're starting an "indie twee" investigation. This ...
05.09.2022 Light A Penny Candle with Sarah Maria Griffin (BINCHYCAST #3) Sarah Griffin is back to worship at the altar of Maeve Binchy and to deliver a new taxonomy about men and the wind. Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors ...
05.05.2022 Taylor Swift with Marisa Bate We're joined by journalist and long-time Swiftie Marisa Bate to talk about why the most decorated artist of her generation is also one of the most polarising. We cover All Too Well, the Squad era, Taylor's obscene productivity, her endless ...
04.28.2022 Save the Last Dance with Leah Green Guardian host and producer Leah Green is in the garbage vault this week with 2000's dance classic Save the Last Dance, a movie that has since become famous for having... sort of shitty dances? We talk about music video culture, ...
04.21.2022 Sentimental in the City: And Just Like That, pt III We're limping towards the finish line of an uneven first season, talking about what we would have done differently, whether Carrie can even be called the main character of this show anymore, and pitch our new TV show, Steve & ...
04.14.2022 Sentimental in the City: And Just Like That, pt II It's part two of our And Just Like That recap, and we're talking about Charlotte's horrible dinner party, the terrible music choices, our blind adoration of Seema, That Jackie and the emotional burden of the mealy mouthed teacher. The three ...
04.07.2022 Sentimental in the City: And Just Like That, pt I Dolly Alderton is back, and we're finally getting balls deep into And Just Like That. This is the first of THREE Sentimental in the City episodes covering the reboot, and while the show was famously uneven and a bit cringe ...
12.22.2021 The Nora Ephron Christmas Spectacular! with Ella Risbridger Nora Ephron is a writer and filmmaker whose fame was huge in her lifetime and has only snow-balled since her death in 2012. Now that her name is on t-shirts, her novel is an established classic, and she's even the ...
12.16.2021 Coyote Ugly with Hannah Woods How did a Bukowski-style piece published in 1997 by Elizabeth Gilbert in GQ magazine turn into the quintessential sleepover movie of the early noughties? Author Hannah Woods brings the 2000 movie Coyote Ugly to the garbage truck, and we discuss ...
12.09.2021 The High Street with Lauren Bravo Whether it's a baked potato in a M&S; cafe, a Jane Norman shopping bag, or a limited-range of celebrity dresses at Topshop, there's nothing that gets our hearts racing or our wallets twitching like the high street. Fashion writer Lauren ...
12.02.2021 Julie & Julia with Fiona Zublin There is a very clear narrative on Julie & Julia, Nora Ephron's final feature film, and it's this: the Julia Child portions of the movie are heavenly, and the Julie Powell side of the movie is both infuriating and a ...
11.25.2021 The Word 'Like' with Amanda Montell Young women's use of the word 'like' has been parodied for decades, but where did it come from, why do we use it, and why is it, like, so goddamn useful? Linguist and host of Sounds Like A Cult podcast ...
11.18.2021 Titanic with Janina Matthewson When Titanic first came out, it made history for the epic scale of James Cameron's filmmaking. But like the ship itself, its reputation started to capsize. The more the movie was embraced by young women and girls, the more it ...
11.10.2021 Songs about Jane by Maroon 5 with Catriona Innes The Guardian once compared Maroon 5 to 'rats scavenging through pizza boxes', but to a generation of millennial women, they were as close to sex-positive as indie music was willing to get. Caroline and Cosmopolitan editor Catriona Innes talk about ...
11.04.2021 Grease 2 with Séamas O'Reilly According to best-selling author Séamas O'Reilly's family, this is not just the superior Grease film, but a classic movie on a par with Jaws and Scarface. We discuss Michelle Pfeiffer's breathtaking star turn as Stephanie Zinone, the idea of Grease ...
10.31.2021 Halloween BONUS: Magic with Michelle Tea Author, witch and host of Your Magic Michelle Tea talks about one of the most guilt-ridden feminine practices of all: magic and witchcraft. Caroline and Michelle talk about tarot, astrology, belief, having an altar, Catholic childhoods and devotion. Michelle is ...
10.28.2021 All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue (me!) with Avoca Reaction This week it's a very special Halloween push for Caroline's debut spooktacular YA fantasy series, All Our Hidden Gifts. Avoca Reaction, a.k.a The Spawkling Diamond of the Moulin Rouge, a.k.a. Wren Dennehy takes over hosting duties as they quiz Caroline ...
10.21.2021 Sunset Boulevard (1950) with Joe Black "I AM big... it's the pictures that got small." Drag Race UK star Joe Black joins us to talk about the camp Billy Wilder classic that took the best of gothic literature and the best of old Hollywood to make ...
10.14.2021 Mona Lisa Smile with Kate Young Mona Lisa Smile was a 2003 movie about women's education in the 1950s, and it was also the first Julia Roberts drama to spectacularly fail. We talk a lot about the negative reception to the film – in some cases, ...
10.07.2021 The Music of Amanda Palmer with Tom McInnes Coin Operated Boy Tom McInnes is back and we're here to cry about Amanda Palmer. Amanda Palmer is a singer, songwriter and performance artist who first rose to fame in the early 2000s with her band, The Dresden Dolls. After ...
09.29.2021 The Bodyguard (1992) with Irenosen Okojie If I should stay, I would only get in your way. Caroline and Irenosen Okojie get extremely giddy about The Bodyguard, arguably the best date movie of all time. We talk about the tragic history of Whitney, the power of ...
09.23.2021 America's Next Top Model with Juno Dawson How did ANTM become one of the most influential reality shows of all time? Caroline and Juno bond over their shared love of this pioneering reality series, its absurd lens on the modelling industry, and the competitors who have stuck ...
09.16.2021 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (the book) with Ayisha Malik It's 1997 and Bridget Jones is navigating New Labour, the sudden death of Princess Diana, and her on-again off-again relationship with the elusive Mark Darcy. Caroline and novelist Ayisha Malik discuss why Helen Fielding remains one of the greatest comic ...
09.09.2021 Moulin Rouge! with Avoca Reaction (a.k.a, Wren Dennehy) The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is to love this crazy movie and be loved in return. Wren Dennehy brings Moulin Rouge to the garbage pit and we discuss the joy and adrenaline of Baz Luhrman's 2001 film. So exciting! ...
09.04.2021 Mamma Mia with Zoe Terakes (sponsored episode) Super Trouper Zoe Terakes has brought Mamma Mia to the garbage dump and is ready to celebrate it for the mad camp wonderland it truly is. We talk about how Mamma Mia rejects patriarchal frameworks, whether or not Sophie is ...
09.02.2021 RuPaul's Drag Race with SELF ESTEEM (a.k.a, Rebecca Lucy Taylor) Rebecca Taylor of Self Esteem (formerly Slow Club) talks about how Drag Race literally dragged her out of a dark post-break up depression and helped redefine her musical persona. We gush unabashedly about how this show changed our lives, admit ...
08.26.2021 Red Carpets with Muireann O'Connell We're back with season 8 and TV presenter Muireann O'Connell is making the case for award season red carpets being a competitive sport in their own right. We talk about Joan Rivers and Fashion Police, the questionable feminism of judging ...
08.18.2021 Get ready for a new season! There's a whole new season of Sentimental Garbage on the way! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
04.15.2021 Sentimental in the City 8: Sex and the City The Movie 2 (2010) This episode was edited by Caroline O'Donoghue, mixed by Hannah Varrall, with music by Harry Harris and artwork by Gavin Day. Dolly Alderton is the author of two books, Everything I Know About Love and Ghosts. Caroline O'Donoghue is the ...
04.08.2021 Sentimental in the City 7: Sex and the City The Movie (2008) It's the movie!!! And it's... not as good as we remember! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
04.01.2021 Sentimental in the City 6.5: Sex and the City, Season Six, Part 2 It's the winter of this content, and we're debating Aleksandr Petrovsky (call me Bob) so hard that it risks ending our friendship entirely. We discuss the Paris episodes, the infamous demise of Lexi Featherstone, the Wizard of Oz journey each ...
03.25.2021 Sentimental in the City 6: Sex and the City, Season Six, Part 1 What does Charlotte do all day? We finally have the answer and it's Judaism. We go hell for leather on Jack Berger, fall in love with Smith the baby chick and discuss the Post-It heard around the world. See acast.com/privacy ...
03.18.2021 Sentimental in the City 5: Sex & The City Season Five This is the FIRST class sleeper? Put on your visor and trapeze dress, it's time for the big bag of fun that is season five. We talk about Atlantic City, big wing woman energy, how everyone must open for a ...
03.11.2021 Sentimental in the City 4: Sex and The City, Season 4 Don't you bring that cardboard baby in here! This week we're coming into Season 4 with tears, and the firm knowledge that CABS ARE BULLLSSSSH*T. We discuss the comic chops of Chris Noth, the confusing friendship of Aidan and Steve, ...
03.04.2021 Sentimental in the City 3: Sex and the City, Season 3 Take your seats, turn off your phones, it's time to settle in for the National Theatre's presentation of THE MCDOUGALLS ARE COMING FOR SUPPER and there will be no intermission. This week we discuss everyone's favourite members of the Scottish-American ...
02.25.2021 Sentimental in the City 2: Sex and the City, Season Two It's season two and the hair is great, the clothes are even better, and Mr Big is fundamentally depressing. We argue that season two of Sex and the City is Miranda's Season as twenty episodes of sexual humiliation threatens to ...
02.18.2021 Sentimental in the City 1: Sex & The City, Season One This week, we're kicking off our Sex and the City mini-series with our discussion of the character arcs and themes (take a drink) of season one. After a round dismissal of the pilot episode (abso-f*cking-who-cares?) we get right into the ...
02.15.2021 Introducing: Sentimental in the City, with Dolly Alderton It's the first ever Sentimental Garbage mini-series: a big basket of episodes about Sex and the City! In this mini-series, author Dolly Alderton joins me as we spend each episode discussing every season of the TV show Sex and the ...
01.28.2021 Unforgivable Love with Sareeta Domingo Sophfronia Scott re-imagination of Dangerous Liaisons set in the Harlem Renaissance is sexy, surprising and so entertaining that we're willing to forgive the baseball references. Author of IF I DON'T HAVE YOU Sareeta Domingo talks us through her love for ...
01.21.2021 Evening Class with Sarah Maria Griffin Ciao bella! It's our second Maeve Binchy-cast of the season, with returning guest Sarah Maria Griffin. It’s the dawn of the Celtic Tiger in early nineties Ireland, and Nora O’Donoghue, or Signora, is returning home after over 20 years away. ...
01.14.2021 Le Divorce with Fiona Zublin Get your Kelly bag and your load-bearing beams ready, this week we're talking about Diane Johnson's Le Divorce with real-life American Girl in Paris, Fiona Zublin! Isabel Walker is a young, bored film school graduate who has decamped to Paris ...
12.24.2020 The Children's Books Christmas Special Spectacular! Merry Christmas everyone! Usually this time of year, you’d be in your childhood bedroom, re-reading the books that got you through primary school. This year, a lot of us can’t go home this Christmas, but there’s still every reason to ...

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