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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A Recipe For Quarantine Relief
26/03/2020 Duration: 53minA look at the latest celebrity coronavirus content. Plus Beverley and Benjamin stumble down the Gourmet Makes wormhole.
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Stay home!
19/03/2020 Duration: 54minArnold Schwarzenegger and his miniature pets have a stern message on staying safe amid the COVID-19 crisis: 'listen to the experts, ignore the morons.'
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#Crapocalypse
05/03/2020 Duration: 54minAre there any squares to spare after shoppers stock up for coronavirus crisis? Plus, Judith Lucy is overwhelmed and dying (unrelated to COVID-19)
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Julia Jacklin on her sense of self
27/02/2020 Duration: 54minSinger-songwriter Julia Jacklin stops by the Stop Everything! studio. Plus, Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty - what next for Hollywood?
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What is reality?
20/02/2020 Duration: 53minReality TV is this week's problematic favourite. Plus, Justin Bieber is in our consciousness after his latest album.
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Inside the #Bonghive
13/02/2020 Duration: 54minLet's drink until next morning! We talk to Dr Jane Park about Bong Joon-ho's Oscars success. Plus Steven Oliver is Faboriginal.
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(Doctor) Who is she?
06/02/2020 Duration: 54minWhovians travelling through time and space to talk Stop Everything! through the significance of the new Doctor. Plus Kate Jinx on 'the one and only Quentin Tarantino'.
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Problematic Faves
30/01/2020 Duration: 54minEveryone has a problematic fave, we'll ask a scholar in the field to share their relationship with theirs. Plus, why it's time you start paying attention to BTS.
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We're back baby!!!
23/01/2020 Duration: 54minDid you miss us? Beverley and Benjamin share their extra-curricular summer homework from Cats reviews to Watchmen, The Art Show's Namila Benson introduces us to black beauty vlogging plus Baker Boy on his big 2019.
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Tarana Burke and Lulu Wang
09/01/2020 Duration: 53minMe Too movement founder Tarana Burke on her work before and after #Metoo went viral in October 2017 and some of the challenges of Me Too in Australia and
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Sampa The Great and the internet
26/12/2019 Duration: 54minSampa The Great on her new album and performing a live score for a film for the first time, Jan Fran introduces us to ContraPoints and Kanan Gill introduces us to some weird conspiracy theories. Plus Rainbow Chan destroys us with a live performance.
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Kanye, Lena, Lizzo: Pop culture in the 2010s
12/12/2019 Duration: 54minWe look back at the last decade of pop culture - from polarising figures to how our phones and platforms changed the way we consume media - with The Guardian's culture editor Steph Harmon and playwright, TV writer and actor Nakkiah Lui.
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Dolly Parton's America
05/12/2019 Duration: 58minThe L Word showrunner Ilene Chaiken on why they've rebooted the cult queer series 10 years later and film curator Kate Jinx on the legacy of the original series, plus WNYC producer Shima Oliaee on the two-year journey of making hit new podcast Dolly Parton’s America.
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Baby Yoda is heartbreakingly beautiful
28/11/2019 Duration: 52minNeo-soul singer Ngaiire treats us to some new music, we look at how autism is represented in pop culture, and we feel a little clucky over baby Yoda.
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Survivor, speed, sweat
21/11/2019 Duration: 54minOur Survivor Correspondent Shannon Gaitz on the #metoo controversy surrounding the latest episodes of US Survivor, we examine that Prince Andrew interview and should people be watching/reading/listening to things at speed?
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Going beyond the hashtag with Me Too founder Tarana Burke
14/11/2019 Duration: 54minMe Too movement founder Tarana Burke on her work before and after #Metoo went viral in October 2017 and some of the challenges of Me Too in Australia, comedian Josh Thomas revisits Seinfeld, and Ricky Gervais hosts the Golden Globes AGAIN.
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Call Your Girlfriend because we solved a mystery
07/11/2019 Duration: 54minCall Your Girlfriend’s Aminatou Sow on celebrity culture, Neighbour's star Georgie Stone gives us a pop culture confession and we solve a mystery for satirist Mark Humphries.
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Create Netflix and (then) chill
31/10/2019 Duration: 54minNetflix cofounder Marc Randolph on the beginnings of the streaming game-changer, ABC's Life Osman Faruqi weighs in on Kanye West's new gospel album, and Awaye!'s Daniel Browning looks back at David Bowie's Let's Dance video.
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Star Wars: The Thirst for Oscar Isaac
24/10/2019 Duration: 54minWe get distracted by the return of Oscar Isaac/nerd out about the final trailer for the new Star Wars movie with Lawrence Leung, look at the new Prince Harry and Meghan Markle documentary with our Sussex correspondent Santilla Chingaipe, and Out Magazine's Raquel Willis on who’s shifting the culture in music, arts and entertainment.