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NOW 46 - Summer '00: Michael Cragg

October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

Welcome to Back to NOW - the podcast where we bravely revisit the CDs that once lived permanently in your parents' car stereo! Yes, it’s the ‘year’ 2000! After years of warnings that planes would fall from the sky and toasters would…
NOW Yearbook 1960-1962: Bob Stanley

September 25, 2026 · 49 min

Greetings Pop Pickers! If you tuned into the BBC Light programme in September 1961, a new voice was presenting Pick of The Pops. Booming out across the airwaves, delivering this now legendary announcement - Alan 'Fluff' Freeman. The call…
NOW 6 - Autumn '85: Sanjeev Kohli

September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

Gimme Fried Chicken! Well, if that sentence means anything to you at all, other than being a slightly curt way of asking for, er, fried chicken, then you are in the right place! Yes, of course this was Queen's hilarious final line in their…
NOW 24 - Spring '93: Ray Harris

August 28, 2026 · 34 min

Nineteen Ninety Three. It's a country we've visited on a number of occasions in this particular parish of variously compiled pop. And it's always one that welcomes us back warmly. There's our strident, shiny boybands working up a sweat…
NOW Yearbook '76: Alexis Petridis & Ian Wade

July 20, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

1976. You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. Well, silly or not, the charts of this fascinating year were full of big, big hits. Crowdpleasers, I hear you cry? Well, whatever way you view 1976, and many…

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NOW 43 - Summer '99: Rob Johnson

June 25, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 99: So the year/decade/century/millennium was coming to a close but before the apocalypse didn’t actually arrive at midnight on 31st December 1999, there was the small matter of a quite poptastic summer…
NOW 5 - Summer '85: Graeme Thomson

May 22, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

The Big Pig is back! As July, turned into August in 1985, the world was still basking in the afterglow of, what was already being called the event of the decade. No, not the ceasing production of the Sinclair C5, or even the latest episode…
NOW 12 - Summer '88: Tom Doyle

April 17, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

Oh, that’s bad! No, that’s good! If you know your 80s dancefloor bangers, you’ll recognise that S-Express vocal insert and will already be donning your sparkly bellbottoms, possibly even getting right-on one (matey) because it’s Summer…
NOW 37 - Summer '97: Marc Burrows

March 18, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

Swing it, shake it, move it, make it! …is exactly what the nation was doing in 1997. Yes, that’s right, Channel 5 was here and fiddling with that aerial to try and get a reception to see The Jack Docherty Show was what we were all up to…
NOW 10 - Autumn ‘87: Sue Charles

February 24, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

Welcome back to 1987! The decade of decadence, extravagance, elegance and other words that end in -nce was powering its way towards the later end of its cultural tenure. And whilst there is no doubt that perceived wisdom (or, the internet…
NOW 23 - Autumn '92: Josh Widdicombe

January 15, 2026 · 46 min

How do you begin to describe 1992? Well, Her Majesty called it her Annus horribilis, for a number of reasons. Quite possibly including the three weeks Boyz II Men spent at number one, possibly not. But whatever the reason, we can safely…
NOW Smash Hits of the 80s: Justin Lewis

January 1, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

Welcome to the utterly swingorilliant Autumn 1987! Frightwigs ahoy! Pass around the rock’n’roll mouthwash because the Ver Kids knew that pop was back, Back BACK! Actually, what this all really means is that in 1987 the nation’s favourite…