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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
  • 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
  • Hole, Courtney Love, Smashing Pumpkins… Bass legend MELISSA AUF DER MAUR on the “beautiful mess” of grunge

    Hole, Courtney Love, Smashing Pumpkins… Bass legend MELISSA AUF DER MAUR on the “beautiful mess” of grunge
    Oct 12 2026
    Diving deep into all things ’90s… Canadian art school kid turned indie bass player Melissa Auf Der Maur was sucked into the whirlwind of two of the biggest alt.rock and grunge bands of the ’90s, centre stage with two of the most divisive characters of the decade: first Billy Corgan and then Courtney Love. Born to creative and politically active parents in Montreal, Melissa was never going to conform. But few would have bet on such a wild journey through music and culture she would take – least of all herself. She talks to Miranda about how she ended up playing to 65,000 people after just seven gigs… why she couldn’t say no to Courtney… and how she obsessively photographed her time in Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins from 1994-2001, all in her new book My ’90s Rock Photographs. ⁠Support us on Patreon • Buy My 90’s Rock Photographs through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Follow us on: BlueSky Instagram TikTok Subscribe to our Spotify playlist • 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
  • Censored! – Queer moments of ’90s TV that changed history – with Scott Bryan

    Censored! – Queer moments of ’90s TV that changed history – with Scott Bryan
    Oct 5 2026
    Diving deep into all things ’90s… Which TV moments stick with you forever? If you were growing up queer in the 90s, some of those scenes went beyond fond memory and became monumentally life-affirming. From Two of Us to Queer as Folk, Brookside to Coronation Street, ’90s TV was peppered with script-writing that brought the LGBTQ+ experience to the fore, sometimes facing moral outrage, backlash and censorship, and often changing the tapestry of modern culture forever. Writer, broadcaster, podcaster and “utter TV-head” Scott Bryan joins us to talk about the impact of these moments; growing up in the shadow of Section 28; and his book Out Now: A Queer Journey Through Modern Television – which is, well, out now. ⁠Support us on Patreon • Buy Out Now: A Queer Journey Through Modern Television through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Follow us on: BlueSky Instagram TikTok Subscribe to our Spotify playlist • 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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    58 mins
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What a podcast. Funny, interesting and some of the best guests. Makes me feel nostalgic for the 90s despite not being alive

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