Diving deep into all things ’90s. “The Judge won’t budge!” DJ Julius O'Riordan AKA Judge Jules was at the centre of the ’90s dance music boom that took the scene from pirate radio and illegal raves to Radio 1, superclubs and Ibiza at its most ’avin it. The law student turned DJ became one of the defining figures of the decade.

Miranda sits down with Jules to talk about how dance music changed across the ’90s, what Ibiza was really like before it went mainstream, and the tracks that defined the era. It turned out that his law degree helped Jules put on raves and led to a career as a music lawyer. So how does he balance that with life as a touring DJ, playing more than 100 gigs a year?

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. Cigs for breakfast! Oral sex in the kitchen! Wobbly cameras! E binges! Egg! Milly! Miles! Anna! Warren! And “the punch”. It’s 30 years since the groundbreaking houseshare drama This Life exploded onto our screens and gave us a candid look into the lives of young lawyers living together in London. What made this ramshackle saga work? And what made the characters so believable? Miranda talks over the tears, the tantrums and the fridge arguments with entertainment journalist, podcast host and Sir! Magazine writer Boyd Hilton. 

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. What happens when you grow up on the most famous square in Britain? Natalie Cassidy was barely a teenager when she became Sonia Fowler and suddenly the nation was watching her first kisses, first heartbreaks and, yes, her many trumpet solos.

In this episode of Talk ’90s To Me, Natalie looks back on life as a child star at the heart of EastEnders at its peak: the pressure, the pace, and the peculiar reality of growing up in public. From her love of Britpop to some of the most gloriously barmy storylines of the decade, it’s a journey that turned her into a bona fide national treasure.

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. In 1994, a 19-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio received his first Academy Award nomination for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. It proved he was the real deal  and set him on course to become more than just an actor. Within a few short years he’d become the ultimate poster boy, with bedroom walls across the globe filling up with Leo pictures carefully snipped from teen mags.

This week on Talk 90s To Me, Miranda is joined by journalist and author of the upcoming newsletter Celebrity Intelligence , Dan Wakeford  to revisit the hysteria the tabloids dubbed “Leomania”. From teen magazines and paparazzi economics to Leo’s infamous ‘Pussy Posse’ and the boom years of celebrity gossip, they unpack how the 90s media machine built the cult of Leo.

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. Jeff Buckley died in 1997 at just 30 years old, leaving behind only a handful of recordings but a huge impression on his fans. In the decades since, the mythology of the singer-songwriter hasn’t really faded. Buckley didn’t leave a long catalogue behind, but what he did leave was enough to make him a legend.

This week, Miranda sits down with music Journalist Jude Rogers to talk about Buckley’s legacy, the lasting impact of his only full album Grace, and his haunting version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, which brought a new audience to the song. Jude also reflects on her own complicated history with Buckley, including an infamous article she wrote for The Guardian in 2007.

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. British comedy got faster, stranger and more gleefully quotable in the ’90s than ever before. At the centre of it all was John Thomson, the everyman who helped turn The Fast Show into a cultural phenomenon, popped up everywhere from I’m Alan Partridge to Men Behaving Badly, and then pivoted to the Sunday night, must-watch dramedy Cold Feet.

This week, Miranda sits down with Thomson to discuss the dizzying speed of ’90s fame, the catchphrases he still can’t escape, and the darker side of sudden success – phone hacking, tabloid harassment, and learning the hard way that fame in that decade came with very few boundaries.

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. 1994, Loaded lands on newsstands and suddenly the tone of British magazines shifts overnight. Louder, cheekier, more irreverent than anything before. At the centre of it all is James Brown, the unlikely magazine wunderkind who rocked the world of ’90s publishing.

This week, Miranda Sawyer sits down with James, author of new fanzine Zine Age Kicks to discuss his beginnings, the swaggering influence of the NME-era music press, and how a DIY, fan-first focus shook things up across the publishing world in the ’90s. But did these lads’ mags simply wink at modern masculinity, or help market a new era of sexism dressed up as irony?

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. Pop was trying very hard to look polished, predictable and a little bit American in the early ’90s… then Björk arrived, barefoot, uncompromising, and sounding like the future of music. She didn’t just release hit records. She blew open the idea of what a pop star could be: experimental but chart-friendly, weird but deeply human. In this episode of Talk ’90s to Me, journalist and author of Bjork’s Hegemonic, Emily Mackay joins Miranda to look back on Björk’s astonishing decade. The creative highs, the tabloid lows, the boundary-pushing videos and ask how one Icelandic artist quietly reshaped the entire sound and attitude of the ’90s.

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. CK’s iconic black-and-white underwear ads didn’t just sell underwear – they practically defined the style of the ’90s. Slip dresses that looked like you’d forgotten the rest of your outfit, billboards full of brooding half-dressed teenagers, and a minimalist aesthetic all reshaped fashion forever.

Sali Hughes, The Guardian’s beauty columnist and host of the Beyond the Bathroom podcast, joins Miranda Sawyer to look back at the man, the myth and the legend of Calvin Klein. They revisit the campaign that turned Kate Moss into the defining model of the decade, the unisex scent phenomenon CK One, Calvin’s famously salacious personal life, and why CK has stood the test of time when other brands have fallen into obscurity. 

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Diving deep into all things ’90s. The Disney Renaissance is usually remembered for its big tunes and Broadway bombast, but one of its most long-lasting impacts is the strength of its villains. From a sea witch inspired by the most transgressive drag queen of the ’80s to a Shakespearean lion schemer voiced by Jeremy Irons, these characters defined the era. Louder, stranger and far more interesting than the nice, beige heroes they were supposed to lose to.

This week on Talk ’90s To Me, we’re diving into the gay Disney villains of the ’90s with comedian and host of Welcome to Hell Dan Foxx. We explore why Disney’s baddies were allowed all the flamboyance its heroes weren’t, how queerness became shorthand for glamour, danger and excess, and why these characters have grown in popularity in the decades since.

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