Are you ready to go back to the year 2000?
Combining storytelling and commentary, this podcast returns to some of the noughties’ biggest cultural moments, trends and figures, and explores them with the added benefit of twenty years’ hindsight.
The world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Simran Hans and Tara Joshi, two self-proclaimed fangirls who grew up on the internet. Film critic, Simran, and music critic, Tara, explore how it feels to return to the defining songs, shows and sleepover movies of their childhoods, and what they tell us about pop culture today. Special guests will be joining the hosts each month.
Join us on a journey into the new millennium, a period of change and optimism, examining the surprising, funny and poignant parallels between then and now.
Launching 6 October 2020 – new episodes available every Tuesday.
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Are you ready to go back to the year 2000?
Combining storytelling and commentary, this podcast returns to some of the noughties’ biggest cultural moments, trends and figures, and explores them with the added benefit of twenty years’ hindsight.
The world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Simran Hans and Tara Joshi, two self-proclaimed fangirls who grew up on the internet. Film critic, Simran, and music critic, Tara, explore how it feels to return to the defining songs, shows and sleepover movies of their childhoods, and what they tell us about pop culture today. Special guests will be joining the hosts each month.
Join us on a journey into the new millennium, a period of change and optimism, examining the surprising, funny and poignant parallels between then and now.
Launching 6 October 2020 – new episodes available every Tuesday.
White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut
Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast
47 minutes
5 years ago
White Teeth: Sharmaine Lovegrove on Zadie Smith’s Literary Debut
The new millennium brought with it a fresh wave of optimism and excitement for the future. Zadie Smith's best selling debut novel White Teeth embodied this mood and symbolised a changing of the guard. Smith was lauded with critical acclaim and lavished with media attention — an overnight literary sensation at just 24 years old. With special guest Sharmaine Lovegrove, publisher at Dialogue Books, we explore the impact of the novel and the legacy of its author.
Content Warning: Mention of suicide
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Select books Sharmaine mentions in the episode:
The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
Second Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi
Blonde Roots, Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
Queenie, Candice Carty Williams
Bridget Jones Diary, Helen Fielding
Select work by Zadie Smith referenced:
Fences: A Brexit Diary, NY Books
Stormzy at Glastonbury
Intimations
Sharmaines question to Zadie in the Guardian
Clips Used:
Tony Blair wins landslide general election win for Labour (1997) - Newsnight archives
America's Internet Trading Boom (1990) -
Journeyman Pictures
Tony Blair on immigration (2004) - London Business School
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Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast
Are you ready to go back to the year 2000?
Combining storytelling and commentary, this podcast returns to some of the noughties’ biggest cultural moments, trends and figures, and explores them with the added benefit of twenty years’ hindsight.
The world of entertainment is re-examined by hosts Simran Hans and Tara Joshi, two self-proclaimed fangirls who grew up on the internet. Film critic, Simran, and music critic, Tara, explore how it feels to return to the defining songs, shows and sleepover movies of their childhoods, and what they tell us about pop culture today. Special guests will be joining the hosts each month.
Join us on a journey into the new millennium, a period of change and optimism, examining the surprising, funny and poignant parallels between then and now.
Launching 6 October 2020 – new episodes available every Tuesday.
