Could it be magic?: Inside Britain’s boyband machine
The 90s belongs as much to boybands as it does to Britpop.
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Tom Gatti presents Culture, a weekly podcast series from the New Statesman, to help you understand what cultural moments show us about society and the world.
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How Paddington became the spokesbear for Britain
and one of the most commercially successful characters in the world.
The politics of faith: Britain’s changing relationship with Christianity
Is the Church experiencing an existential crisis?
Inside the UK’s most influential record store
How did they do it?
Autobahn at 50: How Kraftwerk defined modern music
and created a new and optimistic vision of the future.
Samantha Harvey: “political choices are sculpting the surface of the earth”
The Booker prize winner says Elon Musk's "individualistic" future is "problematic in all sorts of ways".
How anger defined 2024
Welcome to the age of rage.
Bezos, Murdoch, Musk: what drives the men who control our media?
Tom Gatti is joined by Alison Phillips, former editor of the Daily Mirror.