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  • Stop The Wedding!!!! With Ashe

    October 21, 2026 · 29 min

    Ashe is a huge US based singer-songwriter, a collaborator of FINNEAS (Billie Eilish’s brother and creative partner), and now the voice behind 'Stop the Wedding!', the viral song making women everywhere rethink what they should expect from…

  • Helen Haines’ Attack, Sally Rooney & Victoria Secret Runway

    October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Hi everyone. This episode is coming amidst some tragic developing news: independent federal politician, Helen Haines, is in a critical condition after a man purposefully drove into her multiple times outside her office. Hannah shares what…

  • The World Is Getting Meaner. Why Are We Still Playing Nice?

    October 14, 2026 · 57 min

    Is our obsession with being nice is actually part of the problem? This week on Small Talk, I'm joined by one of Australia's most respected political journalists and authors, Amy Remeikis, to unpack why playing nice might be getting us…

  • Olivia Dean, US Execution Livestream & Selma Blair Arrest

    October 13, 2026 · 58 min

    Hello hello! If you had any doubt before, you can now say for certain that we are living in a dystopian hellhole because the U.S. has announced it will livestream the execution of a prisoner on death row.  Hannah talks about how this…

  • How Well Do You Understand Your Hormones? With Dominique Elissa

    October 7, 2026 · 49 min

    We spend years learning about our bodies through trial and error because no one ever really taught us how our hormones work. Model, founder of Selfdom and creator of the bestselling gratitude journals, Dominique Elissa returns to the pod…

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  • The Cornell 7, Pete Davidson & Greens New Leader

    October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Prosecutors have reopened an investigation into an alleged rape at Cornell University after public outrage and mounting questions over how the case was handled. Then, the New York Times has decided the best TV shows of the 21st century…

  • Daisy Edgar-Jones & Esmé Creed-Miles: Big Sister Advice

    October 1, 2026 · 25 min

    Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles on in studio with us? Consider this Sarah’s pinch-me moment. The girls join us to talk about their new film, Sense and Sensibility, which by the way, is perfect cinema. You’ll know Daisy of course…

  • Watergate: Nixon, Vietnam & The Pentagon Papers PART ONE

    September 29, 2026 · 35 min

    Welcome back to Big Talk! It’s the political scandal so infamous that, 50 years later, we’re still adding “gate” to the end of every controversy. But Watergate didn’t begin with a break-in. In Part One, we’re going back to Richard…

  • Watergate: Nixon, Vietnam & The Pentagon Papers PART TWO

    September 29, 2026 · 42 min

    Richard Nixon wins re-election in one of the biggest landslides in American history. Less than two years later, he becomes the first and only U.S. president to resign. So, how did it all fall apart? In Part Two, we get into Nixon’s…

  • Taylor Swift’s Encore, OpenAI Hacks Medicare & The VMAs

    September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    AUDIENCE SURVEY LINK HERE!!!! THANK YOU ILY: https://forms.gle/dc9iXh7BEwntMuiW9  On the show this week, OpenAI hacked a Medicare portal months ago, and we’re only just hearing about it now. So… how did that happen? Then, Taylor Swift…

  • Trial By TikTok With Amber Heard's Lawyer, Jen Robinson

    September 23, 2026 · 56 min

    This week, Sarah sits down with renowned human rights and media lawyer Jen Robinson, whose career has taken her from Julian Assange’s legal team and the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal to representing Amber Heard. Jen unpacks how defamation…

  • Lena Dunham's Surrogacy, Channing Tatum & Joanna Howe

    September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Hey BSTies! On the show this week – anti-abortion activist Dr Joanna Howe and her husband James have come under fire after he said that he doesn’t “do consent”. Then, the girls unpack Lena Dunham’s announcement that she has become a mum…

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About the show

The big and the small – all in one place. Because loving pop culture doesn’t mean you don’t understand politics. Tuesdays we unpack the headlines you need to know.  Thursdays we talk to the people you want to hear from on the topics you care about. And every month, we deep the stories from the past that you’ve been dying to understand. Hosted by Sarah Jane Adams and Hannah Ferguson. Find us at @bigsmalltalk_pod for more.