Culture
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91TV tonight: the return of more super-fun 90s games in Gladiators | Television & radio
Gladiators 5.50pm, BBC One Contender, ready? Gladiators is back with some zhushing up: Hammer and Cyclone join the pack and there’s the...
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51Fatal Attraction and Dirty Dancing (Erotic 80s Part 10) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Backlash by Susan Faludi Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker by Stephen Galloway Fatal...
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8The Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo audiobook review – bite-size historical wonders | Books
Podcast listeners may have come across The Memory Palace, the longrunning series comprising bite-size vignettes about forgotten moments in history, set against...
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Kevin Costner, Sean Young, No Way Out & Bull Durham (Erotic 80s Part 11) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources: A Breakthrough Role in `No Way Out’: Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. 09 Aug 1987 NO WAY OUT...
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71Songhoy Blues: Héritage review – the Malian rockers take a gorgeous acoustic turn | Pop and rock
Each of Songhoy Blues’ albums has mapped slightly different terrain. The Malian rockers’ 2015 debut, Music in Exile, was a gripping, energising...
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Rob Lowe and James Spader (Erotic 80s Part 12) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography by Rob Lowe Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the...
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71The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup | Thrillers
Havoc by Christopher Bollen (Borough, £16.99)The narrator of American author Bollen’s latest novel, 81-year-old Wisconsin widow Maggie Burkhardt, has an insatiable desire...
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Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy and Julia Roberts in the early 90s (Erotic 90s, Part 2) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources: “Steel Magnolia: Julia Roberts” by Sheryl Kornman, Vogue, Sept 1988 “Julia Roberts: She’s Fahn” by Jack Olsen, Village View,...
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5Mobb Deep review – New York rap duo can still keep the temperature rising | Rap
Big Noyd holds up a half-drunk bottle of brandy as though it were an Olympic torch, pleading: “Lord forgive me, the Hennessy...
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Theresa Russell and Sondra Locke (Erotic 90s, Part 3) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources: “Theresa: Tycoon’s other girl: by Bridget Byrne, LA Herald Examiner, Dec 5, 1976 “Sondra Locke, starring with and directed...
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5‘I was playing grannies at 38’: Keeley Hawes on fame, frocks and feminism | Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes is reminiscing about hanging out with Harrison Ford at the Emmys. “I said hello, as you do, and we ended...
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Thelma & Louise (Erotic 90s, Part 4) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources:“Living: Onward, Women! The Superwoman Is Weary, The Young Are Complacent, But Feminism Is Not Dead. And, Baby, There’s Still...
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4Rob Copland on his head-banging, daredevil comedy: ‘I want it to feel like a punk rock show’ | Comedy
Comedian Rob Copland is sipping a pint of Guinness as I arrive at a cosy pub near his south London flat. There’s a...
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The Blanks From Hell: Fatal Attraction’s Children (Erotic 90’s, Part 5)
In the five years after the release of Fatal Attraction, Hollywood scrambled to make one movie after another about homes and workplaces...
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10From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked | David Lynch
It is one of life’s eternal mysteries that for the last two decades of his life, no one was willing to fund...
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Basic Instinct (Erotic 90’s, Part 6) — You Must Remember This
SHOW NOTES: Sources:“The Letter That’s Shaking Hollywood by Nina J. Easton, LA Times, Oct. 19, 1989 “Carolco Buys Joe Eszterhas Script for...
