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Talk ’90s to me

Talk ’90s to me

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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.© Podmasters 2025 Art Music World
Episodes
  • Queer As Folk’s AIDEN GILLEN on fame, breaking TV’s rules… and John Malkovich’s feet

    Queer As Folk’s AIDEN GILLEN on fame, breaking TV’s rules… and John Malkovich’s feet
    Nov 2 2026
    Diving deep into all things ’90s… From The Wire to Game of Thrones, Mojo to Peaky Blinders and The Dark Knight Rises, acting superstar Aidan Gillen has made his name playing characters of complexity and grit. But the role that first took him stratospheric was that of Stuart Allen Jones in Queer As Folk, a charming advertising executive in Manchester who becomes infatuated with the teenage Nathan Maloney. Still beloved by fans old and new, Russell T. Davies’s show was pioneering for both the gay community and TV on the whole, but it also introduced Aidan to an uncomfortable amount of recognition… He talks to Miranda about handling fame, the weight of playing such a monumental gay role when you’re a straight man, and his new series out on the BBC today, Tall Tales And Murder. Plus, he discovers how Christopher Ecclestone once described him… and it’s quite the compliment. • Sign up to support us on Patreon to help the podcast AND get merch and extra material too. Follow us on: BlueSky Instagram TikTok Subscribe to our Spotify playlist • Buy Miranda’s book Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll be helping the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. • Advertisers! Want your brand to reach the 3.5 MILLION people who listen to Podmasters podcasts every month? Contact ads@podmasters.co.uk to find out more. Written and presented by Miranda Sawyer. Produced by Liam Tait and Amelia Phillips. Audio and video production by Tom Taylor. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Soniq Branding from Artlist. Talk ’90s To Me is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • My ’90s – NICK GRIMSHAW – “I saw Beckham and knew I was gay”

    My ’90s – NICK GRIMSHAW – “I saw Beckham and knew I was gay”
    Oct 26 2026
    Diving deep into all things ’90s… He made his name at the heart of the ’00s indie explosion, became a mainstay of breakfast radio, and has since become a podcasting sensation with his shows Dish with Angela Hartnett, and Sidetracked with Annie Mac… but where did it all begin? Today, we are speaking to presenter, DJ, podcaster and best friend to the nation, Nick Grimshaw, who joins Miranda in our ’90s haven to discuss growing up in Madchester during the heyday of Britpop, finding his identity in the pages of a football magazine care of a David Beckham centrefold, the ultimate gay icons Kylie and Madge, and how the ’90s, Manchester itself – and listening to his ‘Hardcore Ecstasy’ tape age six in the back of the family Fiesta – embedded in him a belief that music and culture mattered, a belief he’s carried the torch for since! • ⁠Sign up to support us on Patreon⁠ to help the podcast AND get merch and extra material too. Follow us on: ⁠BlueSky⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠TikTok ⁠ ⁠Subscribe to our Spotify playlist⁠ • Buy Miranda’s book ⁠Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs⁠ through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll be helping the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. ⁠Bookshop.org⁠’s fees help support independent bookshops too. • Advertisers! Want your brand to reach the 3.5 MILLION people who listen to Podmasters podcasts every month? Contact ⁠ads@podmasters.co.uk⁠ to find out more. Written and presented by Miranda Sawyer. Produced by Liam Tait and Amelia Phillips. Audio and video production by Tom Taylor. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Soniq Branding from Artlist. Talk ’90s To Me is a Podmasters production. ⁠www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Hardcore! How ’90s TECHNO blew up the dancefloor – with Joe Muggs

    Hardcore! How ’90s TECHNO blew up the dancefloor – with Joe Muggs
    Oct 19 2026
    Diving deep into all things ’90s… Hardcore, crusty, dub, four to the floor, LET’S HAVE IT… we are, of course, finally diving into the unrelenting, tribe-declaring world of ’90s techno (and the chemical revolution that fuelled the whole thing). The story starts in a Detroit suburb in the late ’80s with Kevin Sanderson, Derrick May and Juan Atkins – a trio of high-school friends with a deep fascination for European electronic music like Kraftwerk, Belgian synth-pop and Depeche Mode. Incorporating elements of Chicago house and funk, they created a sound that would go on to define the future of electronic music and even pop across the world, from the soulful Strings Of Life to the minimalistic bleep of Warp Records to Underworld and Orbital, and the almost impenetrable German punishers that packed out the floor at Tresor every weekend. Music journalist and tech-head Joe Muggs evangelises on the magic of the 4/4 to a slightly sceptical Miranda – “Sometimes I think I’m too Northern”. You’ll have to listen in to find out what prompted that… ⁠Support us on Patreon Follow us on: BlueSky Instagram TikTok Subscribe to our Spotify playlist • Buy Miranda’s book Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll be helping the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. • Pick up Flux Trax, a brilliant techno primer with sleeve notes by our own Andrew, for next to nothing! • Advertisers! Want your brand to reach the 3.5 MILLION people who listen to Podmasters podcasts every month? Contact ads@podmasters.co.uk to find out more. Written and presented by Miranda Sawyer. Produced by Liam Tait and Amelia Phillips. Audio and video production by Tom Taylor. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Soniq Branding from Artlist. Talk ’90s To Me is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    55 mins
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