Synopsis
Stop Everything! and tune in for a savvy, critical look at pop culture and what's in the zeitgeist. Join our panellists each week for a discussion about what theyre reading, watching and listening to.
Episodes
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Vogue: Challenged
14/08/2020 Duration: 53minChris Pang is a diplomat: The Melbourne International Film Festival ambassador and Crazy Rich Asians star discusses his upcoming new Amazon series On the Spectrum and why so many talented Australian actors of colour still struggle for opportunities and recognition at home, even while breaking through with big successes overseas. Vogue: Challenged. Glossy magazines are contending with how to address calls for more and better representation of minorities -- institutionally, and within its content -- Australian Vogue's August issue features young Bla(c)k activists using social media and other platforms to raise their voices and amplify their causes. Grace Dlabik, founder and creative director of Be Collective and Be. ONE Creative provided guidance and casting direction for this special issue of Vogue. She talks fashion, activism, and whether the viral instagram #VogueChallenge was a tribute or a call out.
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Black is King/ Nothing is good/ Swan is meme
07/08/2020 Duration: 54minBW + BL explore Beyonce's new visual album, Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and rate themselves on a scale of bemused to exasperated on the "Which Jonathan Swan are you today?" mood board
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My rights as a living woman
31/07/2020 Duration: 54minBL + BW explore 28 days of white supremacy with Layla F Saad , author of Me and White Supremacy and decode Taylor Swift's surprise album drop, Folklore with writer and self confessed Swiftie Kaitlyn Blythe
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Let's talk about biodata and Indian Matchmaking
24/07/2020 Duration: 54minBW + BL check the board game cupboard for signs of a pandemic and collate the biodata on Netflix's new hit dating show Indian Matchmaking with ABC Life Editor Bhakthi Puvanenthiran and writer and campaigner Tarang Chawla.
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The power of the post-it note
17/07/2020 Duration: 54minListener notes: Jaguar Jonze calls out various cases of harassment and abuse from within the music industry Music photographer admits 'I'm an abuser' after #MeToo posts Who’s Afraid of Ziwe Fumudoh? For guests who dare to appear on the comedian’s Instagram Live show, the question is not if you are racist, but how.
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A lasagne of dissent, disagreement and discomfort
10/07/2020 Duration: 53minBW + BL sit down for some breakfast TV and consider the resurgence of open letters, filmmaker Karla Hart and Rule family matriarch Daniella Borg drop in to talk Family Rules season three, and we mourn Poh.
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Zooming with Kevin Kwan
03/07/2020 Duration: 53minFrom Radio National's Big Weekend of Books, we present a conversation with Kevin Kwan. Beverley spoke to the author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, progenitor of the box-office hit Crazy Rich Asians movie, and a new book - Sex and Vanity.
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'Crossbread' God Wife and Husband
26/06/2020 Duration: 54minBL and BW talk to Megan Washington about her new ABC comedy podcast, plus Cameron Wilson on how to debunk conspiracy theories. Listening notes: Wee TikTok users and K-pop fans really behind the poor turnout at Trump's Tulsa rally? Cross bread Crossbread competition '30 Rock' Blackface: Which Episodes Are Being Removed? 30 Rock: Tina Fey's satirical show-within-a-show mastered the art of the long-running gag ‘30 Rock’ Blackface Episodes Pulled From Streaming, Syndication at Tina Fey and NBCU’s Request Fawlty Towers episode to be reinstated to streaming platform after outcry You May Know Me from Such Roles as Terrorist #4 Hamilton to be censored on Disney Plus Babysitter club reboot trailer
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"Step into the world everyday like there's a spotlight on you"
19/06/2020 Duration: 54minBW and BL talk to Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui about their new podcast, and sneak past Ray Martin's security. Listener notes Debutante podcast Nakkiah Lui Miranda Tapsell SOH Writers Room panel Josh thomas apology Vulture: White Celebrities Take Responsibility for Racism the Only Way They Know How #SharetheMicNowAustralia
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Cancelled, Pulled, Rethought
12/06/2020 Duration: 54minBenjamin and Beverley look at which TV shows and films have been removed from streaming services and even cancelled outright following weeks of Black Lives Matter protests around the world. Is this the pop culture equivalent of tearing down statues?
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The Death That's Sparked Calls for Change
05/06/2020 Duration: 54minListener notes: American Plague: Racism, our untreated pre-existing condition, is killing both black people and the nation itself What Does Seeing Black Men Die Do For You? America’s Protests Won’t Stop Until Police Brutality Does The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage. Australia had its own George Floyd moment, only it passed without international outrage How Did #BlackOutTuesday Go So Wrong So Fast? https://www.instagram.com/p/CAy-W0cAvWV/?hl John Boyega's London Protest Speech David Guetta’s ‘tribute’ to Martin Luther King Jr and George Floyd’s family,
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Melissa Leong + Briggs = Happiness
29/05/2020 Duration: 54minBL + BW catch up with new Masterchef judge and fan favourite Melissa Leong. Plus a reunion with their talented son, rapper-TV writer-comedy actor-music label boss and debut children's book author - (Adam) Briggs. Follow along at home: Neighbours, The Voice and Border Security screened in Pacific in $17m soft-power push Could Married At First Sight be part of Australia's soft power push in the Pacific Lana Del Rey (@lanadelrey) • Instagram photos and videos Lana Del Rey's swipes at her peers of colour undermine her feminist argument
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Preoccupations of the locked down populace
22/05/2020 Duration: 54minBL and BW pay a virtual home visit to Tiddas 4 Tiddas co-founder Marlee Silva. Follow along at home: More than 150 Australian newsrooms shut since January 2019 as Covid-19 deepens media crisis Network Ten to close news, entertainment and lifestyle website 10 Daily website Buzzfeed to close Australian news operations Vice Media Group cuts 155 staffers globally Roald Dahl HQ James and the Giant Peach, with Taika and Friends Tiddas 4 Tiddas Always was always will be The Last Dance Air Jordan 'Last Dance' drop sells out before opening credits Michael Jordan Still Boasts The Richest Shoe Deal In The NBA, Earning $193M This Year
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Celebrity beef, served two ways
15/05/2020 Duration: 53minFollow along at home: Robert Pattinson: A Dispatch From Isolation Pete Evans (@chefpeteevans) • Instagram photos and videos Alison Roman New Consumer interview Chrissy Teigen responds: Part One, Part Two Alison Roman apologies: Initial reaction, Part One, Part Two Food for thought: Food fight: what the Chrissy Teigen and Alison Roman dust-up reveals, Alison Roman and the Exhausting Prevalence of Ethnic Erasure in Popular Food Culture Alison Roman’s comments about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo lit a fire. Here’s why it’s still burning. Dear Prudence Podcast Shatner Chatner Jerry Stiller Variety Obit Little Richard Guardian Obit BBC interview with Little Richard, 1972 Little Richard inducts Otis Redding into Rock and Roll Hall of fame, 2012
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Tori Amos on life in lockdown, resistance and reinvention
08/05/2020 Duration: 54minBW and BL visit the singer-song writer who is in lockdown in Cornwall, home to the 300-year-old converted barn-turned-recording studio where she's made all of her recent albums. Follow along at home: Cardi B gets ready for the 2019 Met #HFMetGala2020 #MetGalaChallenge Met Gala 2020 Livestream Thinking of the Met on a Not-So-Typical First Monday in May Billie Porter Tori Amos' Vegan Mushroom Stew Recipe "Becoming" "I wonder what's inside your butthole" Radnor & Lee's cover of "I wonder what's inside your butthole"
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At home with Anne Edmonds
01/05/2020 Duration: 54minBeverley and Benjamin stop by the comedian's apartment for a physically distanced well-being check. Follow along at home: 1) Brad Pitt as Dr Anthony Fauci on SNL 2) Logies cancelled 3) Bidou Zooms 4) Brigid Delaney's three day festival 5) Jeff Sparrow on the link between recession and longevity 6) Mrs America trailer 7) Kim's Convenience 8) Meghan Thee Stallion x Beyonce Savage Remix
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'Fetch the bolt cutters,' we're done with 2020
24/04/2020 Duration: 54minStop Everything! looks at Fiona Apple's latest album. Plus, Debbie Lee on the current state of the Australian screen industry.
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At Home with Myf
17/04/2020 Duration: 54minBroadcaster and presenter Myf Warhurst invites us into her kitchen. Plus how are TV shows adjusting to self-isolation?
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Egg-ssential Easter Listening
10/04/2020 Duration: 53minConversations with comedians Fred Armisen and Josh Thomas, The Art Show's Namila Benson and singer songwriter Julia Jacklin.
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Tips for self isolating on a luxury superyacht
02/04/2020 Duration: 53minBeverley and Benjamin go through the latest COVID 19 posts from pop culture. Plus Costa Georgiadis.