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Avg. Duration 59m
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Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Diving deep into a wild decade of chaos, creativity and hedonism – from Oasis to ‘Friends’, from grunge to girl power, from Kate Moss to alcopops to ‘Trainspotting’ and beyond. Join award-winning Observer journalist and Smash Hits graduate Miranda Sawyer as she meets the people who were really there for the decade of Cool Britannia, Cantona and the Chemical Generation.  Follow us on Instagram and BlueSky for clips, behind the scenes content and to send us your questions & thoughts! You can now support us on Patreon! Help support the podcast and get episodes early and ad-free, bonus content and some EXCELLENT merch. Talk ’90s To Me – could a podcast BE any more brilliant? Talk ’90s To Me is a Podmasters production.

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S1E46 Buffy the Vampire Slayer! – How a surprise monster hit redefined horror

Jun 05, 2026 1h 5m

This episode was recorded prior to the sad death of the brilliant Anthony Head on 5 June 2026. Diving deep into all things ’90s. Fangs for the memory! Buffy the Vampire Slayer began life as a teen…

S1E45 Cash, cocaine and chaos – The mad, bad ’90s music biz with author John Niven

Jun 01, 2026 1h 1m

Diving deep into all things ’90s. The music business’s last hurrah of excess, extravagance and super-colossal expense accounts came in the ’90s – and John Niven was in the front row as an A&R…

S1E44 Showgirls – Worst film of the ’90s or misunderstood gem?

May 25, 2026 1h 7m

Diving deep into all things ’90s. Paul Verhoeven’s camp, deranged, Vegas-based “erotic drama” Showgirls was a $45 million Hollywood gamble that became one of the biggest box office flops of the…

S1E43 From Queen to Mogwai – John Robins on his ’90s music journey

May 18, 2026 1h 3m

Diving deep into all things ’90s. John Robins was a child at the start of the ’90s and eighteen by the end of it. He talks through his early obsession with Freddie Mercury and Queen’s ‘90s releases,…

S1E42 Prozac Nation! – How one grunge-era depression memoir changed everything

May 11, 2026 59m

Diving deep into all things ’90s… Elizabeth Wurtzel’s groundbreaking grunge-era memoir of depression, medication and alienation Prozac Nation divided opinion like few books ever have. How did it…

S1E41 Alcopops! – Hooch, Metz, Breezers and the booze of the ’90s

May 04, 2026 58m

Diving deep into all things ’90s. Bright, sugary and brewed to go down far too easily, alcopops arrived in the ’90s with a bang. They blurred the line between soft drink and spirit, encouraged a new…

S1E40 Ash! – Tim Wheeler on the Northern Irish kids who crashed the Britpop party

Apr 27, 2026 1h 13m

Diving deep into all things ’90s. It’s 1994, three schoolkids from Downpatrick get permission from their headteacher to go on tour with Elastica… and the rest is history. Ash arrive with the…

S1E39 Goldie – The drum’n’bass bad boy who defined ’90s Jungle

Apr 20, 2026 1h 16m

Diving deep into all things ’90s. Nothing captures the raw excitement of ’90s clubbing like the speaker-shattering sound of jungle and drum’n’bass – a collision of real time breakbeats and…

S1E38 Sky Magazine! – Sex, sin and six-packs with the Bible of the ’90s

Apr 13, 2026 50m

Diving deep into all things ’90s. Stuffed with high-glam, sex-soaked shots featuring the likes of Kylie, Johnny Depp, Madonna, Ewan McGregor and Uma Thurman, Sky Magazine was the glossiest badge of…

S1E37 Judge Jules – The original superstar DJ on decks, drugs and rock’n’roll

Apr 06, 2026 1h

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…

S1E36 This Life – The definitive guide to being young in the ’90s

Mar 30, 2026 51m

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…

S1E35 Eastenders icon Natalie Cassidy! – On being Sonia, barmy soap stories and Britpop!

Mar 23, 2026 54m

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…

S1E34 Leonardo DiCaprio – The Rise of the 90s’ Ultimate Heartthrob

Mar 16, 2026 1h

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…

S1E33 Jeff Buckley – Inside a Beautiful Tragedy

Mar 09, 2026 1h 4m

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…

S1E32 How The Fast Show and Cold Feet defined ’90s Telly with John Thomson

Mar 02, 2026 1h 5m

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…

S1E31 Lads' Mags – From Loaded to GQ, how the ’90s changed media

Feb 23, 2026 1h 4m

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…

S1E30 Björk! – The National Elf Service… and how she shaped the ’90s

Feb 16, 2026 1h 12m

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…

S1E29 Calvin Klein! The brand that made Kate Moss into the ’90s It Girl

Feb 09, 2026 52m

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…

S1E28 Disney Villains! – How queer baddies helped save Disney in the ’90s

Feb 02, 2026 1h 1m

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…

S1E27 When Posh married Becks – The original Beckham wedding that dazzled Britain

Jan 26, 2026 1h 1m

Diving deep into all things ’90s. Brooklyn and Nicola? Pffft. In 1999 David Beckham and Victoria Adams were the two most stratospherically famous people in Britain – and their wedding blew the…

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