Jessica is on the home stretch of her Masters Dissertation this week (g’wannnn) so we’re hopping back into the archives, this time to 2018 and another week when the Pumpkin Spice Latte returned to British shores. Also, look at Peter Kavinsky, erstwhile Twitter boyfriend. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked You Don’t Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce, while Rosie went for Cat People by David...

We’re hopping back in the time machine this week to 2014, where in another early September, a man disrupted a nation by putting a baked alaska in a bin. Simpler times. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica has been playing Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd, while Rosie has been torturing her family with Them Heavy People by Kate Bush (not Alan Partridge.) The V&A’s Wedding Dresses 1775 – 2014 exhibition...

In episode 133, Rosie and Jessica may be succumbing to sweating sickness. I cannot tell you how much 100% bonko audio I cut. Rosie has too many potatoes. Jessica has a wall chart. A cotton romper had little ducky buttons. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Share Your Address by the Ben Platt, while Rosie went for Dua Lipa’s Boys Will Be Boys. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify!...

In episode 132, Rosie and Jessica discuss how to be a good guest (pineapples) and what is and what isn’t camp (pineapples – pretty camp.) There’s a mysterious model boat which sounds exactly like a plot point in an episode of Murder, She Wrote. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Kokomo by the Beach Boys, while Rosie went for Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell. Playlists of all our song choices are available on...

In honour of the Hamilton movie hitting Disney+, we’re hopping back to 2016 for this week’s Yesterday of Fun for our Hamilton special which, my god, somehow manages to still have Flap My Jack mentioned. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. Sara Grant’s new book Chasing Danger is out now! We loved Pop Culture Happy Hour’s Hamilton special. Stephen Colbert gets schooled in walking like King George. Needle and FedAll the...

In episode 131, Rosie and Jessica somehow get distracted from the goings-on in the world at large and instead talk about how to scam your way through a university-level Latin exam. That’s kind of it. All of our Patreon takings from June are being donated to Black Lives Matter UK. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers.

Jessica has some essay deadlines this week so we’re hopping back into the archive. As RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 has just wrapped up, we’re looking back to 2018 and Episode 111, where we discussed the end of Season 10 and, some would say, predicted the post Drag Race career of one Vanessa Vanjie Matea. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Layla by Derek & The Dominos, while Rosie went for Send Me On My Way...

In episode 130, Rosie and Jessica thank you for being a friend. Home haircuts have taken place, knitting is going appallingly and why not just go and rewatch Ghosts for a bit? You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Lonely Alone by Sheryl Crow & Willie Nelson, while Rosie went for Sophie Ellis Bextor’s Murder on the Dancefloor. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s...

In episode 129, Rosie and Jessica are afflicted by pollen and also by not pressing record at the start of the episode. Virtual parties have been attended, bonnets have been constructed and bananas have been smuggled into brownies. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked You’ll Get By by Show of Hands, while Rosie went for Anna Karina’s Roller Girl. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify!...

In episode 128, Rosie and Jessica take you through some very basic self care, all the way from trimming the hair round your ears to having a wee. This week we’re watching television from 22 years ago and are grateful to baked potatoes. (Rosie’s recommendation this week, Buyer and Cellar, was only available for 72 hours – which she didn’t know at the time. Sorry! You missed it!) You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica...

In episode 127, Rosie and Jessica have celebrated that most important of spring festivals, Rex Manning Day. Oh, also Easter. Rosie saw someone she know and Jessica has worn socks. All important things. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Kiss Me Deadly by Lita Ford, while Rosie went for Lana Del Rey’s Love. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s...

In episode 126, Rosie and Jessica, though thinking they hadn’t done much, had actually witnessed brave and valiant journeys to the supermarket. Also Rosie shaved her head. Lot of supermarket chat this week, you have been warned. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Yours and Mine by Fountains of Wayne, while Rosie went for RuPaul feat. Myah Marie’s Adrenaline. Playlists of all our song choices are available...

In episode 125, Rosie and Jessica haven’t done a whole bunch to be honest. Rosie has tried one push up. Jessica has witnessed sunlight. Rosie also went deep in on Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness. What else is there to do?? You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Your Song by Kate Walsh, while Rosie went for The Magnetic Field’s Busby Berkeley Dreams. Playlists of all our song choices are available on...

In episode 124, Rosie and Jessica, look, well, they’re back on schedule but the schedule of the world has become a lot more chaotic so there is quite a lot of stuff in here that sounds super dated. Anyway, there’s also a review of the film Troop Zero, available on a streaming service near you. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Must Have Done Something Good by Relient K, while Rosie went for Joni Mitchell’s...

In lieu of this week’s normal episode, we’re recommending some ways to pass the time indoors because if there’s one thing we specialise in, it’s cosy media and staying indoors. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers Brad and Claire “make” doughnuts. Plumbella plays The Sims Medieval. Some previous episodes of ours! Our Top 5 Things To Do When You’re Poorly, Rainy Day Films, and Bake Off Methadone.

In episode 123, Rosie and Jessica somehow maybe broke their podcast feed – maybe through neglect? – but are back with an episode that catches you up on frankly very little. Luckily, for any moment of need, there’s Joan. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers [powerpress_player] This week’s songsJessica picked Africa by Toto, while Rosie went for Simon & Garfunkel’s The Only Living Boy in New York Playlists of all our song choices are...

In episode 122, Rosie and Jessica are back after a long break although not as long a break as you’ve had. There have been international trips, house moves, and action franchise spin offs that are only tangentially related to cars. And it’s two-for-two with returning feature, Now It’s Time for Gina’s Transport Opinions! You can listen to it on iTunes or online This week’s songsJessica picked She’s Kerosene by The Interruptors, while Rosie went for Laura Branigan’s...

It’s time for another dip back into the archives! We’re going back to 2016 to listen to Episode 78: Smileys and Smash. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt had returned for a second season and we were extolling the virtues of school dinners in a Top 5 Dinner Lady Foods. You can listen to it on iTunes or online here: This week’s songsJessica picked The Ballad of Barry and Freda by Victoria Wood, while Rosie went for Drag by Cat’s Eyes. Needle and Fed   Bunny slippers. A photo posted...

In episode 121, Rosie and Jessica welcome back Top 5s with another overly specific one about food. There have been lots of cinema trips and some of them have included tiny detective hats. And – what’s this? another feature! Now It’s Time for Gina’s Transport Opinions! You can listen to it on iTunes or online This week’s … Continue reading Episode 121: Thick Shreds and Lasagne Pans

We’re heading back into the archives with Episode 56 from 2015. Rosie was writing an essay on The Wizard of Oz and was totally unable to talk about anything else, except for sticky toffee puddings. Luckily Jessica was on hand to talk us through her many cakes (and keep things on track.) You can listen to it on iTunes or online here: This week’s songsJessica picked Ultraviolet by fictional band, The Stiff Dylans and Rosie picked Belle & Sebastian’s Nobody’s Empire. Ask to see the...

In episode 120, Rosie and Jessica are quickly derailed by Rosie’s twin obsessions: denim and scams. Once Rosie’s got those – and curséd pom pom creatures – out of her system, Jessica takes us through the many books she’s read during work hours. Rosie meanwhile has been knitting on the job although her job technically is knitting so it’s probably okay? You can listen to it on iTunes or online here: This week’s songs Jessica picked Celebrity Skin by Hole, while Rosie went for Slow Burn by by...

We’re taking another dip into the archives with a Yesterday of Fun from 2017. Back then, Jessica was entering a period of funemployment that mainly consisted of shredding. There was a late review of the movie Austenland and Rosie was eating a lot of Nobbly Bobblys. You can listen to it on iTunes or online here: This week’s songs Jessica picked Who Loves You by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, while Rosie went for Carol Brown by Flight of the Conchords. Playlists of all our song choices...

In episode 119, Rosie and Jessica celebrate their (belated) seventh podcast birthday! Luckily they do not become stuck in a time loop as they discuss Netflix’s new show, Russian Doll and get caught up on various parties, plays and potential trips to IKEA. You can listen to it on iTunes or online here: This week’s songs Jessica picked I Specialise by Clive Gregson and Christine Collister, while Rosie went for For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield. Playlists of all our song choices are...

Rosie and Jessica are on an asynchronous schedules so, to save you from a podcast-less existence, we’ll be diving back into the archives to hear some Yesterdays of Fun. Today we’ll be looking back to 2013 and Episode 21: Trumpets and Pop Tarts, in which Jessica moves house and Rosie is hoovering a crevasse. You can listen to it on iTunes or online here: 

In episode 118, Rosie and Jessica have been inundated with cinematic spiders. They’ve been catching up on lots of television (Killing Eve), movies (see above) and stand-up (see above that) over the Christmas break. Rosie’s got a shop, Jessica’s got a new job and everyone likes dumplings. You can listen to it on iTunes or online here:  This week’s songsJessica picked Here You Come Again by Dolly Parton, while Rosie went for thank u next by Ariana Grande. Playlists of all our song...