Your favourite cultural commentators Liv Little and Miranda Sawyer are (almost) back for a brand new season of the We Have Notes Podcast. 

That means new episodes every week from Wednesday 14th January onwards. Make sure to follow the feed so you don't miss the first episode of season 2!

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Miranda and Liv hear from the queen of the year: the one and only… Lily Allen! We went mad for KPOP Demon Hunters, Adolescence and Kendrick Lamar’s bootcut jeans at the Super Bowl. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial dominated headlines and the new documentary - Sean Combs: The Reckoning went viral. 

Listen to Part One of 2025 Wrapped HERE

You can read Eva Wiseman’s interview with Lily Allen HERE

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

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This year has delivered a string of surreal pop-culture moments: Katy Perry in space, Katy Perry going official with former Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, the jumbotron affair at the Coldplay concert, the Louvre heist, the rise of Labubus and JoJo Siwa’s unlikely romance with Love Island’s Chris Hughes.

Liv and Miranda discuss their favourite moments of the year as well as those things they’d like to leave behind. 

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

Liv and Miranda’s 2025 highlights 

Liv:

• Hard Truths (film)
• A Real Pain (film)
• One of Those Days (film) 
• Pillion (film) 
• Such Brave Girls (TV) 
• Mo (TV) 
• Kehlani (singer) 
• Sasha Keable (singer) 

Miranda: 

• Fela Kuti: Fear No Man (Podcast) 
• Pipeline Left to Die (podcast) 
• Hamlet Hail to Thief (theatre) 

More details on everything we chatted about in this episode! 

Read Chloe Hadjimatheou’s Salt Path Investigation HERE 

Raynor Winn’s response to the Observer’s investigation HERE

Miranda’s Hamlet Hail to Thief review HERE

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes and predictions for 2026! 

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little 

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Spotify Wrapped is here! All of the usual suspects are dominating the global charts - Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Drake… not much has changed from last year. So how do emerging artists breakthrough on the world’s largest streaming platform? 

The new film, Pillion, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling is a masterclass in how intimate scenes can add to the plot and develop characters. But how do you create ethical and compelling sex scenes for film? Ita O’Brien, the intimacy coordinator behind Normal People, I May Destroy You and Sex Education shares all the behind the scenes secrets. 

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week: 

Liv:

• Paddington the Musical 
• Ballet Black annual Christmas show at Saddler’s Wells 

Miranda: 

• Dizzie Rascal Live 

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE 

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes! 

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little 

Producer: Casey Magloire 

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We’re back in the land of Oz with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo for the second half of the Wicked adaptation. It’s a box office hit, but critics have been divided. Was making a Wicked sequel the best or worst move for the franchise?

Timothée Chalamet is flooding Liv and Miranda’s timelines with a string of press stunts: from a spoof marketing Zoom call and designer merch collabs to commissioning orange blimps to hype his new film. So who is the little-known 29-year-old Glaswegian behind the stunts who is collaborating with Timothée, Charli XCX, and Billie Eilish?

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

Read Wendy’s review of Wicked: For Good HERE 

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week: 

Liv:

• Burgonia (film)

Miranda: 

• This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich by Daniel Rachel (book) 

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE 

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little 

Guest: Wendy Ide, The Observer’s film critic

Producer: Casey Magloire 

Assistant producer: Amalie Sortland

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Where do we draw the line with problematic artists? Last week, Michael Jackson became the first artist to land a top-ten hit in six different decades - right as the Michael biopic trailer dropped and racked up a record-breaking 116 million views in 24 hours. 

Meanwhile, the battle for the best Christmas advert is officially underway. John Lewis, M&S, Aldi and Sainsbury’s are all vying for your festive cheer. Joining Liv and Miranda to dissect the ad wars is legendary advertising guru Sir John Hegarty, the creative force behind some of the most iconic campaigns in the past sixty years, including Levi’s, Lynx and Audi.

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little 

Producer: Casey Magloire 

Assistant producer: Amalie Sortland

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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David Harbour hasn’t posted about the latest season of Stranger Things and has skipped major cast interviews, despite being one of the show’s stars. Liv and Miranda sit down with a crisis PR expert to explore how Netflix might be managing the fallout from Harbour’s ex Lily Allen’s breakup album - and the Daily Mail’s claims that Millie Bobby Brown filed a harassment and bullying complaint against him.

Is getting zero star ratings from critics and initially receiving 0% on Rotten Tomatoes the best thing that could have happened for Kim Kardashian’s new Disney+ series? More than three million people tuned in to watch in the first weekend alone.

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week: 

Liv:

• Die My Love (Film) 

Miranda: 

• Broken English (Documentary out next year) 

Listener recommendations:

• Celebrity Traitors' Mark Bonnar recommends: O Brother (book)
• Lee Miller exhibition at the Tate 

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE 

Links to everything mentioned ‘In The Margins’: 

• For The Love of Jamaica
• Grammy nominations - Olivia Dean
• Miss Piggy film 

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes! 

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How did The Celebrity Traitors become British television’s most unmissable series? This week’s finale looks set to break records - one in four UK adults tuned in for the launch.

After 40 years, MTV is shutting down nearly all its UK channels. Once the gateway to pop fame, the music video may seem obsolete in the streaming era - yet Rosalia’s latest release, Berghain, is blowing up. So, is 2025 the death of the pop music video or its rebirth?

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week: 

Miranda: 

• Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe 

Liv:

• Sorry Baby (Film) 

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE 

Links to everything mentioned ‘In The Margins’: 

• Billie Eilish calls out Billionaires 
• Olivia Dean breaking records
• Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now? By Chante Joseph  

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes! 

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little 

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Assistant Producer: Amalie Sortland

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Has Lily Allen shared too much in West End Girl, her first album in 7 years? She’s said it’s “not gospel” but it reveals painful details of the breakdown of her non-mononymous marriage. 

Has Strictly Come Dancing lost its sparkle now that Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly are making their exit? TV critic Scott Bryan shares his thoughts.

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week: 

Miranda: 

• Dave’s new album ‘The Boy Who Played the Harp’

Liv:

• Yasmin Lacey’s new album ‘Teal Dreams’

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE 

Links to everything mentioned ‘In The Margins’: 

• Grace Wales Bonner
• ROSALÍA’s new music video ‘Berghain’
• Vogue World 2025: Hollywood 
• Wayward (TV show)
• The Perfect Neighbour (TV show)

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes! 

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little 

Producer: Casey Magloire 

Assistant Producer: Amalie Sortland

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Jacqueline Wilson was the author who carried millennial women from childhood into adolescence. Her books didn’t shy away from tough subjects like depression, abuse and grooming. Now, as she releases Perfect Imperfect, the long-awaited follow-up to her 1997 classic The Illustrated Mum, Liv and Miranda discuss how she mainstreamed taking girlhood seriously.

It’s been a wild week in the art world: a heist at the Louvre, A-listers swanning through a British Museum ball trying to outshine the Met Gala, and the Frieze Art Fair came to London. But behind the Chanel and champagne lies one big question: why does a multi-billion-pound industry have a money problem?

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE 

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week: 

Miranda: 

• Thorpe Park Fright Night

Liv:

• Pillion (film)
• Santosh (film)
• The Stimming Pool (film)
• I swear (film)

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE 

Links to everything mentioned in this episode: 

• Get a copy of Jacqueline Wilson’s new book - Picture Imperfect - HERE 

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes! 

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little 

Producer: Casey Magloire 

Assistant Producer: Amalie Sortland

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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