Talk ’90s to me
Episodes
This Life – The definitive guide to being young in the ’90s
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Eastenders icon Natalie Cassidy! – On being Sonia, barmy soap stories and Britpop!
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Rise of the 90s’ Ultimate Heartthrob
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 G...
Jeff Buckley – Inside a Beautiful Tragedy
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How The Fast Show and Cold Feet defined ’90s Telly with John Thomson
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Lads' Mags – From Loaded to GQ, how the ’90s changed media
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. 1994, Loaded lands on newsstands and suddenly the tone of British magazines shifts overnight. Louder, cheekier, mo...
Björk! – The National Elf Service… and how she shaped the ’90s
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Bjö...
Calvin Klein! The brand that made Kate Moss into the ’90s It Girl
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. CK’s iconic black-and-white underwear ads didn’t just sell underwear – they practically defined the style o...
Disney Villains! – How queer baddies helped save Disney in the ’90s
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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-last...
When Posh married Becks – The original Beckham wedding that dazzled Britain
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Brooklyn and Nicola? Pffft. In 1999 David Beckham and Victoria Adams were the two most stratospherically famous pe...
Britney Spears – the world’s most powerful teenager
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. In 1999, Britney Spears exploded into pop superstardom. One song, one video, and suddenly she was everywhere with ...
Josh Widdicombe on TFI Friday and the chaos of ’90s live TV
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. This week, Miranda is joined by comedian and podcast royalty Josh Widdicombe (who loved ’90s TV so much he even ...
Pulp Fiction! Tarantino’s masterpiece that changed cinema forever
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Cool. Violent. Funny. Quoted to death. Still feels modern today. This week on Talk 90s To Me, Miranda opens the br...
Adidas Gazelles – The '90s trainer that will never go out of style
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A special preview of the kind of thing we're doing over on our Patreon to tide you over the new year! Suede, slim and quietly confident, Gazelles cou...
Were the ’90s the golden age of Christmas Number Ones?
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Did the Great British Christmas Number One peak in the ’90s? Miranda Sawyer sits down with comedian Marc Burrows...
Stay Another Day – The story of East 17's accidental Christmas classic with Tony Mortimer
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Today we unwrap one of the great Christmas gifts: how a lad from Walthamstow wrote the Crimbo anthem of the 90s. Y...
Italia ’90 – Gazza’s tears, Maradona’s madness and the tournament that changed football!
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Italia ’90 wasn’t just a World Cup, it was a national mood. The summer when Gazza wept, England stumbled heroi...
Catwalk Britain, Absolutely Fabulous and shopping in the ’90s – with Mary Portas, darling!
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into all things ’90s. The British high street was everything in the ’90s. A place to roam, reinvent yourself and blow your wages on wh...
Seinfeld – The best sitcom of the ’90s?
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. Seinfeld was a “show about nothing” that critics didn’t get, audiences didn’t lo...
RIP Mani – Why the Stone Roses bass genius was universally loved
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sudden death of Stone Roses bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield aged only 63 shocked music fans everywhere and led to an outpouring of love and appr...
Thelma & Louise – The ’90s most important chick flick
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. This week we’re talking about the Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis blockbuster Thelma & ...
From Take That to Westlife – Inside the boy band boom!
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. Boy bands were a big deal in the ‘90s, with Take That paving the way for what feels li...
Patreon mini-pod! UNFINISHED SYMPATHY – How MASSIVE ATTACK kickstarted trip-hop
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back us on Patreon and get a special extra podcast like this every two weeks. On our first mini-pod, the story of Unfinished Sympathy. Back in 1991, a...
The KLF! The real story of the band that burnt one million quid
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty didn’t just make pop music in the 90s. They abducted it,...
How Scream started the ’90s horror revolution
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. For our special Halloween episode, we’re looking back at the film that defined ‘90s ...
Adam Buxton! – Inside the making of The Adam and Joe Show!
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. Before YouTube, before TikTok, Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish were ahead of the curve: paro...
Tomb Raider! – Lara Croft, girl power and the game that changed everything
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. The world met Lara Croft in 1996 and video games were never the same again. The decade’...
How the Castlemorton rave changed festivals forever
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. In May, 1992, Fifty thousand people descended on Castlemorton Common for a week-long par...
Radio 1's most chaotic decade – with Mark Radcliffe of 'Mark and Lard'
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. In 1997, Mark and Lard landed the biggest job in British radio: hosting the Radio 1 Brea...
The birth of Parklife, Britpop and Cool Britanania with Blur's Dave Rowntree!
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. Before they were the poster boys of Britpop and the soundtrack to Cool Britannia, Blur w...
Madonna! From Blonde Ambition to the Pope’s Blacklist
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. From cone bras to the sexist coffee table book of all time, Madonna ruled the early 90s ...
The Prodigy – Keith Flint, Firestarters and a rock-rave fusion
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. How did a gang of Essex ravers in baggy jeans and bucket hats end up storming Top of the...
Princess Diana – The inside story of THAT ‘Revenge Dress’ – with Vogue’s Plum Sykes
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. On June 29, 1994, Prince Charles confessed on national TV that he’d cheated on Princes...
Friends! Could a TV show be any more influential?
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. In 1994, six twenty-somethings walked into a Manhattan coffee shop and changed TV foreve...
George Michael! – From tabloid target to shamelessly gay pop icon
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. On April 7, 1998, George Michael was arrested for “lewd conduct” in a Beverly Hills ...
Nirvana! Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, grunge and the whole brilliant mess – with Yasi Salek
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. How did a grunge band from Seattle become a global sensation? Yasi Salek, host of the Ba...
Trainspotting! – Irvine Welsh on what it all REALLY meant
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. This time: How did a novel about heroin, unemployment and clubbing become a cultural phe...
Oasis! Music, mayhem and the band that kickstarted the ’90s – with author Ted Kessler
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brand new podcast that dives deep into all things ’90s. This time: Oasis brought chaos, electricity and working-class swagger to a music scene d...
Talk '90s to me - trailer!
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diving deep into a wild decade of chaos, creativity and hedonism – from Oasis to ‘Friends’, from grunge to girl power, from Kate Moss to alcopop...