With over 700 million active monthly users, Spotify has successfully dominated the music streaming market. We know Taylor Swift, Billie Ellish and The Weeknd can survive off their streaming revenue, but what about small artists? How do emerging artists breakthrough on the world’s largest streaming platform?

New film, Pillion, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Henry Lighton is a masterclass in how intimate scenes can add to a plot and develop characters. How do you create ethical and compelling sex scenes for film? Ita O’Brien, the intimacy coordinator behind Normal People, I May Destroy You and Sex Education shares all the behind the scenes secrets.

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Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Liv:

• Paddington the Musical
• Ballet Black annual Christmas show at Saddler’s Wells

Miranda:

• Dizzie Rascal Live

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

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We’re back in the land of Oz with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo for the second half of the Wicked adaptation. It’s a box office hit, but critics have been divided. Was making a Wicked sequel the best or worst move for the franchise?

Timothée Chalamet is flooding Liv and Miranda’s timelines with a string of press stunts: from a spoof marketing Zoom call and designer merch collabs to commissioning orange blimps to hype his new film. So who is the little-known 29-year-old Glaswegian behind the stunts who is collaborating with Timothée, Charli XCX, and Billie Eilish?

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Read Wendy’s review of Wicked: For Good HERE

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Liv:

• Burgonia (film)

Miranda:

• This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich by Daniel Rachel (book)

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little

Guest: Wendy Ide, The Observer’s film critic

Producer: Casey Magloire

Assistant producer: Amalie Sortland

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Where do we draw the line with problematic artists? Last week, Michael Jackson became the first artist to land a top-ten hit in six different decades - right as the Michael biopic trailer dropped and racked up a record-breaking 116 million views in 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the battle for the best Christmas advert is officially underway. John Lewis, M&S, Aldi and Sainsbury’s are all vying for your festive cheer. Joining Liv and Miranda to dissect the ad wars is legendary advertising guru Sir John Hegarty, the creative force behind some of the most iconic campaigns in the past sixty years, including Levi’s, Lynx and Audi.

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Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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David Harbour hasn’t posted about the latest season of Stranger Things and has skipped major cast interviews, despite being one of the show’s stars. Liv and Miranda sit down with a crisis PR expert to explore how Netflix might be managing the fallout from Harbour’s ex Lily Allen’s breakup album - and the Daily Mail’s claims that Millie Bobby Brown filed a harassment and bullying complaint against him.

Is getting zero star ratings from critics and initially receiving 0% on Rotten Tomatoes the best thing that could have happened for Kim Kardashian’s new Disney+ series? More than three million people tuned in to watch in the first weekend alone.

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Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Liv:

• Die My Love (Film)

Miranda:

• Broken English (Documentary out next year)

Listener recommendations:

• Celebrity Traitors' Mark Bonnar recommends: O Brother (book)
• Lee Miller exhibition at the Tate

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

Links to everything mentioned ‘In The Margins’:

• For The Love of Jamaica
• Grammy nominations - Olivia Dean
• Miss Piggy film

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How did The Celebrity Traitors become British television’s most unmissable series? This week’s finale looks set to break records - one in four UK adults tuned in for the launch.

After 40 years, MTV is shutting down nearly all its UK channels. Once the gateway to pop fame, the music video may seem obsolete in the streaming era - yet Rosalia’s latest release, Berghain, is blowing up. So, is 2025 the death of the pop music video or its rebirth?

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Miranda:

• Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

Liv:

• Sorry Baby (Film)

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

Links to everything mentioned ‘In The Margins’:

• Billie Eilish calls out Billionaires
• Olivia Dean breaking records
• Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now? By Chante Joseph

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little

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Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Has Lily Allen shared too much in West End Girl, her first album in 7 years? She’s said it’s “not gospel” but it reveals painful details of the breakdown of her non-mononymous marriage.

Has Strictly Come Dancing lost its sparkle now that Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly are making their exit? TV critic Scott Bryan shares his thoughts.

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Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Miranda:

• Dave’s new album ‘The Boy Who Played the Harp’

Liv:

• Yasmin Lacey’s new album ‘Teal Dreams’

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

Links to everything mentioned ‘In The Margins’:

• Grace Wales Bonner
• ROSALÍA’s new music video ‘Berghain’
• Vogue World 2025: Hollywood
• Wayward (TV show)
• The Perfect Neighbour (TV show)

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little

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Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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Jacqueline Wilson was the author who carried millennial women from childhood into adolescence. Her books didn’t shy away from tough subjects like depression, abuse and grooming. Now, as she releases Perfect Imperfect, the long-awaited follow-up to her 1997 classic The Illustrated Mum, Liv and Miranda discuss how she mainstreamed taking girlhood seriously.

It’s been a wild week in the art world: a heist at the Louvre, A-listers swanning through a British Museum ball trying to outshine the Met Gala, and the Frieze Art Fair came to London. But behind the Chanel and champagne lies one big question: why does a multi-billion-pound industry have a money problem?

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Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Miranda:

• Thorpe Park Fright Night

Liv:

• Pillion (film)
• Santosh (film)
• The Stimming Pool (film)
• I swear (film)

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

Links to everything mentioned in this episode:

• Get a copy of Jacqueline Wilson’s new book - Picture Imperfect - HERE

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little

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Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

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This week, Netflix released a three-part series on Victoria Beckham’s evolution from Spice Girl to fashion designer. Produced by David Beckham’s company, it joins a growing list of self-made celeb docs - from Harry & Meghan to Beyoncé, Pamela Anderson, and Robbie Williams.

London and Paris Fashion Weeks sparked online outrage - with models walking in metal mouth braces, bound arms, bodysuits printed with male genitalia, and trad-wife-style aprons. With major houses like Chanel, Dior, Gucci, and Balenciaga now mostly led by men, Liv and Miranda ask The Observer’s Jo Jones what’s gone wrong.

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Miranda:

• ‘It Always Was’ (song) by Joshua Idehen
• ‘Cocksucker Blues’ (documentary)

Liv

• ‘Dreaming Whilst Black’ (Series)

Cat Burns (!!!)

• The Assessment (Film)

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes!

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Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little

Producer: Casey Magloire

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.