Sentimental Garbage

Caroline briefly comes off hiatus to chat with country music aficionado Jof Owen about Dolly Parton. Together we try to get to the bottom of what made Dolly such a universal force of hope, how she created an image that could be drawn by a child yet be based on 'the town trash', and where the 'real' Dolly can be found.

Jof's Sentimental Dolly playlist:

Dolly Parton's America: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3E1dSFR01VoQU5IvuHag6a?si=7818d57b86ad4043

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The one where we celebrate the best festive moments of Friends, and reflect on why this timeless TV show feels most at home at Christmas. Join us for the final episode of the year, and the season finale of this mini-series - Merry Christmas all x

Song credit: Oystercatcher - Merry Christmas! I Love You! I'm Falling Apart!!! - https://oystercatchr.bandcamp.com/album/gifts-winter-25

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Dr Dolly Alderton PHD rejoins us for a Freudian lens into Friends

TW: Brief discussion on eating disorders (01:15:10 - 01:20:19)

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One moment, you're unemployed and playing table football against your financially stable flatmate to win enough money to pay the rent. The next, you're buying a giant dog sculpture and matching gold friendship bracelets... this week Jessie Brown Findlay joins us as we take a look back at Joey’s best moments, mad acting career, and what it takes to be a successful creative in the working world - the nominees are… *cue award ceremony montage*… 

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This week, Ryan helps us dig a little deeper into the most complex and beloved Friend of them all - Princess Consuela Banana Hammock (aka Phoebe Buffay).

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This week, queen hostess and friend of the pod Alexandra Haddow joins us to dissect the house parties of Friends - bring your red solo cups and lukewarm mixer (Fun Bobby plus ones encouraged).

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Silence in court! This week we get our barrister wigs on and lay out the character faults of the least liked Friend - Ross Geller. Imogen West-Knights is the defence. The charges are…

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Welcome to Friends Thru A Lens, a Sentimental Garbage mini series where I talk about the show FRIENDS with a lower case-f friend through the LENS of their choosing. This week we're talking to former wedding caterer and romance novelist Kate Young about the weddings of Friends. More specifically, we're ranking them.

Episodes to watch:

S1 E1

S2 E11 & 24

S4 E23 & 24

S5 E24

S7 E11, 23 & 24

S10 E12

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An ode to the horniest group of short kings since The Monkees. Sugar, we're going down!

Me and Ashley's Fall Out Boy Hate F**k playlist

Ashley's podcast Good Noticings

Patrick Stump's upsetting op-ed

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This week, Nikkitha Bakshani joins us to discuss the highly requested 2002 CLASSIC Bend It Like Beckham. Don't forget your shin pads!

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"That's you and me, kid. You and me."

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It's not her best work, but it might just be ours

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This week we're in SE London getting chased by big glow-in-the-dark gorilla wolf aliens! The Guardian's community affairs correspondent Aamna Mohdin joins us to discuss Joe Cornish's directorial debut 'Attack The Block'.

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Hello? It's Brooklyn Beckham selling you his latest hobby/career on your insta feed.

This week, YA author and ex-celebrity reporter Benjamin Dean joins us to discuss the fascinating epidemic of nepo babies. Grab your privilege, phone case lip gloss and parental trauma!

Ben's book 'Bury Your Friends' is out now!

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Broadway star, friend-of-the-pod and Skipshock narrator Natasha Hodgson joins Caroline on stage at The Strand to talk about friendship, creativity, Hey Arnold and magical admin. Skipshock is out on audiobook everywhere now!

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Taylor Swift and Matty Healy, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, Carrie Bradshaw and Duncan who lives downstairs. Too Much writer and actual-lover of English men Monica Heisey returns to talk about the hundred year tradition of American girls coming to England to fall in love.

Monica's book Really Good Actually is available now. Her show, Smothered is available on SKY.

Tickets for Caroline's Library of National Congress National Book Festival event: https://www.loc.gov/events/2025-national-book-festival/schedule/item/event-417959/weird-times-in-otherworldly-novels-ya-with-caroline-odonoghue-and-ransom-riggs/2025-09-06/

The Strand with friend of the pod Natasha Hodgson! http://eventbrite.com/e/caroline-odonoghue-skipshock-tickets-1591998192449?aff=oddtdtcreator

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It's the last time we will (probably) ever talk about Sex and the City, so buckle up, break out the cosmos, and for god's sake – ITS JUST A BIT OF PISS.

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Lyra's back and she inexplicably has a new friend straight out of a Jacqueline Wilson novel. Phillip Pullman's The Subtle Knife tackles parallels worlds, god's existence, quantum physics, skull-drilling, and funding applications – and somehow is the greatest book for children over the age of eleven of all time.

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Traci Thomas is back yet again for part two of our conversation on The Hunger Games prequels. This one is on Sunrise on the Reaping!!

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Traci Thomas is back for our deep-dive of both The Hunger Games, starting with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Next week we're doing Sunrise on the Reaping so don't say we didn't tell you.

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Shon Faye joins us to talk about Oz and the thrilling art of scaring children to death

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We're finishing up our fairytale trilogy with a discussion on manipulating kids to get morphine for us.

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This week, Juno Dawson joins us to discuss the 1986 cult magical fantasy classic Labyrinth.

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We talk about Shrek!

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Recorded on 24th May at the Hay Festival, join Jack Edwards and Caroline in the Welsh fields of Hay-on-Wye as they discuss writing, the power of time and Caroline's new YA novel Skipshock.

SKIPSHOCK - OUT NOW

Head to your local bookshop or order online: https://www.walker.co.uk/9781529507966/skipshock

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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.

SKIPSHOCK - OUT NOW

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Friend of the pod Ella Risbridger joins us for our summer fantasy book club, where we'll be covering Philip Pullman's iconic trilogy His Dark Materials.

This week we kick off with the first book of the series: Northern Lights.

ALSO - SKIPSHOCK IS OUT TODAY!

Head to your local bookshop or order now: https://www.walker.co.uk/9781529507966/skipshock

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Author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon comes to discuss her life-long love of Dragonheart! We talk dragons, knights, St George, dragons as elemental force, "wyrms", novels-as-video-games and the great cinematic traditions of the Dragonheart franchise.

SKIPSHOCK - out June 5

Pre-order now: https://www.walker.co.uk/9781529507966/skipshock

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Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty... get out ya shell bras and silicone tails losers, we're going swimming with Katherine Webber to dive deep into the world of mermaids.

SKIPSHOCK - out June 5

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The Stacks host Traci Thomas joins us to talk about the original Hunger Games trilogy! Mostly the books! Five stars on Uber for Suzanne Collins!

SKIPSHOCK - out June 5

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Welcome to Magical Garbage - a Sentimental Garbage mini series!

To celebrate the upcoming release of my new YA novel SKIPSHOCK, Sentimental Garbage is diving into the world of fantasy and exploring the magical storytelling that made us who we are, with pals old and new.

This week, we're starting off with a biggy - friend of the pod Jen Cownie joins us to rank the storylines of The Lord of the Rings.

SKIPSHOCK- out June 5

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Am late, with mad hair and can barely breathe in scary knickers - this can only mean one thing...

Join Caroline, comedian Alexandra Haddow and the legendary Shazzer herself, Sally Phillips, for a live Bridget Jones Special.

Recorded on 26th March 2025 at the Ham Yard Hotel, Soho.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy - available to buy or rent at home now.

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Sarah Griffin joins us in the queue to the haunted mansion for the final episode of the season. Bring your Mary Blair Mickey ears, sick bags, childhood nostalgia, and sneaky gin tinnies.

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This week, Lauren Bravo joins us to discuss the self-help book turned star-studded romcom 'He's Just Not That Into You'.

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Bestselling author Coco Mellors joins us to talk about one of our most-demanded episodes, 10 Things I Hate About You

Coco Mellors is the author of Blue Sisters and Cleopatra & Frankenstein, both in paperback now!

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Recorded on Feb 6th at the Union Chapel, Caroline and Alexandra Haddow talked about 90s pop, 'relaunched' boyfriends, Working Girl, van life and what's real to them

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Kate Young returns to the pod for a conversation about art, creativity, Flesh Kermit and RENT.

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This week, musician Jensen McRae join us to discuss the iconic 1961 West Side Story.

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Angel of music Rebecca Kuang emerges from her organ to talk Phantom of the Opera, gothic love, pre-teen horniness and the mystery of Gerard Butler's casting.

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Writer Janina Matthewson joins us this week to discuss Adrienne Shelly's delicious 2007 film Waitress. Bring pie please.

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FILM DISCUSSION BEGINS AT 36.04

We're back on the continent with Jen Cownie and this time, we're talking Norway, New Years and nude saunas. We also cry about Hook (1991) and consider whether Caroline might be ready for therapy.

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Welcome back to Sentimental Garbage, where the sequel is better than the original and the movie is better than the book. This week, Caroline admits she was wrong about Mean Girls the musical and guest Okechukwu Nzelu reminds her what was so good about the franchise to begin with.

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He's England's answer to Nora Ephron and knows that love is the most important thing in the world - this Christmas special, Caroline and friend of the pod Ella Risbridger dive deep into the world of Richard Curtis and his iconic romcom universe.

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This week we've been thirst von trapped by the Captain - it's the 1965 film adaptation of 'The Sound of Music'.

Sentimental Garbage is live for one night only at the Union Chapel this February 6th: https://www.fane.co.uk/sentimental-garbage

Join us at the afterparty! https://www.designmynight.com/london/pubs/angel/the-old-queens-head/sentimental-garbage-the-afterparty

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In which we become extremely emotional about the private life of Edna Turnblad

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If you're sick of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande crying and pawing at each other during the Wicked press tour, then skip on past this episode. Please expect pawing, clawing, crying, and holding space.

ALSO – we are launching Sentimental Garbage's FIRST EVER merch drop in support of War Child. Head over to

https://everpress.com/warchild-x-sentimentalgarbage to start feeling the most.

War Child are driven by a single goal – ensuring a safe future for every child affected by war. They work in the hardest to reach places to support those who are hardest hit, to protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children living in areas of conflict.

We're also doing a live show this February! Come see us at the Union Chapel on Feb 6: https://www.fane.co.uk/sentimental-garbage

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Author of Long Island Compromise and Fleishman Is in Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins Caroline for a special edition episode to discuss their favourite Taylor Swift songs.

SENTIMENTAL GARBAGE LIVE

Thursday 6th February 2025 @Union Chapel, London UK

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It's the final postcard of Continental Garbage - today we recap on the series and our summer.

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We're outta here!

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in which a woman with no back story and no trauma simply enjoys herself in Paris. Groundbreaking, no?

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This week Blake Lively is having a shocker so we watch The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

TW: sexual assault, suicide, grief!

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This week we're back, discussing the Netflix documentary on the 2017 event car crash that was Fyre Festival. Join us to swim with pigs, eat cheese sandwiches and get scammed.

Documentary discussion from 18.26

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Ahead of Sentimental Garbage Live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Caroline and comedian Alexandra Haddow take to the stage for the June leg of the SG UK tour.

EDINBURGH EVENTS:

Alexandra will be at the Fringe performing her show 'Third Party' throughout August at Monkey Barrel Comedy (Venue 515).

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The first tour to break a billion dollars, and Caroline's the last person on earth not to see it. This week we get deep into Taylor's many eras as we have an adult sleepover and watch the tour movie on Disney+.

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FILM DISCUSSION STARTS AT 21.35.

Does having an affair make you the worst person in the world? Does anyone really survive the roommate phase? And is it ever night time in Norway?

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This week we're going back to 1989 for a seminal Woman On Holidays classic - Shirley Valentine. We discuss the water cycle of the holiday wardrobe, the changing norms for women and housewives, and whether your friend is allowed to go Make F**k with Costas on his brother's boat.

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Sadly the podcasting gremlins took over, so you just get the postcard this week. Sorry!!

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FILM DISCUSSION STARS AT 29.59

In this week's postcard we discuss Disneyland vs Cannes, Feminism 201, and whether we really need to throw Princess babies out with the Princess bathwater. Then we discuss Ridley Scott's A Good Year, and whether men are allowed to go on life-changing holidays too.

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Get ready for some pickled herring and a handful of cod liver oil pills, we're talking about conflict and monogamy.

MOVIE TALK STARTS AT 29.06

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FILM DISCUSSION STARTS 21:44

This week Caroline and Jen discuss their favourite adult sleepover movie, Dangerous Beauty.

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In today's postcard, we discuss the ethics of bailing. In the main episode, we catch up with our best pals Jesse and Celine to see if these two kids can finally get it together.

Film discussion from 19.54

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You asked for it and we damn well delivered - here's our analysis of Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department'.

ALBUM DISCUSSION FROM 24.04.

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This week we're in Croatia, being tomato girls and living our best Porco Rosso life.

FILM DISCUSSION STARS AT 26.07

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This week we're checking out of our hostel bunk beds and into the fanciful world of Wes's Grand Budapest Hotel, bathing in all its delicious violets and pinkish hues.

Film discussion from 24 minutes.

SENTIMENTAL GARBAGE UK LIVE TOUR

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This week we're under the Tuscan sun talking about Under the Tuscan Sun - come join us in our hostel bunkbed! (Bring olives and wine).

Film discussion from 00:27:54

SENTIMENTAL GARBAGE UK LIVE TOUR

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Welcome to Continental Garbage! A mini-series with travel buddy and longtime Friend of the Pod Jen Cownie! This week we're kicking off our continental film club eating (melon and prosciutto), praying (for the eternal banishment of stripy v-necks) and loving our way through the 2010 film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir.

Film discussion from 00:20:

SENTIMENTAL GARBAGE UK TOUR

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In this very special episode, comedian Alexandra Haddow joins us ahead of the live tour to talk about what she wants to dig out of the Sentimental Garbage can. Catch us on tour together with https://www.fane.co.uk/sentimental-garbage

LIVE TOUR DATES:

LONDON: 02 JUN 2024 - HACKNEY EMPIRE

BRIGHTON: 07 JUN 2024 - BRIGHTON DOME CORN EXCHANGE

SALFORD: 15 JUN 2024 - THE LOWRY, SALFORD QUAYS

GLASGOW: 16 JUN 2024 - THE OLD FRUITMARKET, GLASGOW

BRISTOL: 20 JUN 2024 - ST GEORGE'S BRISTOL

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Hello! This podcast was recorded courtesy of FANE in January 2024 with Dolly Alderton at the Bloomsbury Theatre. Want to come on tour with us? We're playing:

LONDON: 02 Jun 2024 - 19:30 - HACKNEY EMPIRE

BRIGHTON: 07 Jun 2024 - 19:30 - BRIGHTON DOME

SALFORD: 15 Jun 2024 - 20:00 - THE LOWRY, SALFORD QUAYS

GLASGOW: 16 Jun 2024 - 19:30 - OLD FRUITMARKET, GLASGOW

BRISTOL: 20 Jun 2024 - 19:30 - ST. GEORGE'S BRISTOL

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The season finale and we’ve finally got the grand dame of podcasting on to talk about the Bravo hit that launched a million franchises. Elizabeth Day is an author whose latest book Friendaholic is out now!

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Author of Green Dot Madeleine Gray is here to talk about society's fascination with The Other Woman. From Anne Boleyn to Monica Lewinsky, from Camilla Parker Bowles to Glenn Close, we investigate why these women are so endlessly interesting to us and whether they are our key to decoding society's most shadowy figures. We're also very glad that Tracy Chapman exists.

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Musician and jingle-maker Harry Harris makes his SG debut by talking about One Hit Wonders!

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Bring the Kleenex lads, this is an emotional one.

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A true champion of the sweaty yet charming premise, How To Lose A Guy takes all the mid-noughties rom-com tropes and rolls them into one. A woman's magazine! An advertising campaign! A bet! An article! Friends! We discuss Kate Hudson's comedic gifts, the death of the bubblegum romcom and whether women's magazines even deserve a place in the culture. Check out Elizabeth Sankey's documentary Romantic Comedy for more, or her music at Summer Camp

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Blackhead squeezing, earwax removing, blood, guts, fluids. We're talking about how an exponentially growing beauty industry has also created a Yucky industry, where we watch Dr Pimple Popper before bed and Naked Attraction before we go to sleep in hotel rooms. Nicola Dinan joins us to talk about "yuckycore" and where it came from.

TW: everything gross

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Style Queen Lauren Bravo joins us yet again for a deep dive, and a eulogy for, the noble skinny jean

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Yes, we all watched the documentary, but WHAT ABOUT THE MUSIC? Caroline and Dolly take a deep dive into the rich, thick, expensive fabric that is Robbie Williams' pop career. And yes, we do talk about Swing When You're Winning.

Playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6gx0XURxXE8RtEJXlVPdId?si=1e54995d032d4526

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It's been the Roman Empire for all tween girls for over 100 years, so for this year we investigate: what is it about the Anastasia myth that we just can't let go of? Caroline and Ella attempt to examine the real story versus the many false ones that grew around it, touching on Anna Anderson, the Romanovs, the emergence of new media in 1918 vs now, the 1956 movie starring Ingrid Bergman and the 1997 Don Bluth cartoon.

This is not a history podcast and we don't use a script so please bear in mind that we play fast and loose with dates and places. If you want a more thorough and historically accurate enquiry into this story, we recommend:

The C Word on Anna Anderson https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anna-anderson-aka-anastasia-romanov/id1567724444?i=1000580210342

You're Wrong About on Anastasia https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/anastasia/id1380008439?i=1000476500473

...or if you just want a detailed love-in about the cartoon, Caroline has done one on the Juvenalia podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/104-anastasia-with-caroline-odonoghue/id1096401730?i=1000483680225

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Writer of Really Good Actually and creator of Sky’s Smothered joins us for a definitive ranking of every relationship in Love Actually

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Everyone's favourite public transport-cum-coma romance that is, somehow, also a Christmas movie. Sam Sedgman joins us to talk about his enduring love of both Sandra Bullock and trains in general.

Sam Sedgman is a children's author whose next book The Clockwork Conspiracyis out Feb 2024.

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Returning Cindy horse Jof Owen talks to us about the woman who broke all records and changed pop music forever. It's time for a potted history of Shania Twain! With jokes, Wotsit similes and wild theorising about Lyme disease

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Austentatious star Cariad Lloyd takes us through the 1995 BBC Pride & Prejudice classic

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what a superbly featured room and what excellent boiled potatoes

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Yes, the Sentimental Australia trip wasn't just a figment of our collective imaginaton, here's the proof. Radio and TV star Myf Warhurst joins Caroline on-stage at the Wheeler Centre's Spring Fling for a Sentimental live show that includes dissections of The Secret Garden, Baz Luhrman, novelty hair-slides, Wolford tights and menu-splaining in restaurants.

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Our Sweet Valley sweetie Jess Pan returns with the rom-com that changed the definition of what a rom-com could be. My Best Friend's Wedding gave us an anti-hero worth rooting for, a 'Gay Best Friend' that goes above and beyond the usual clichés, and an early Paul Giamatti role that makes you sit up and say "Is that Paul Giamatti?"

Jess Pan is the author of I'm Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come and also the substack It'll Be Fun, They Said https://jesspan.substack.com/

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You paid a whole dollar for that? Richard Makin joins us to talk about the queer touchstone and eternal sleepover movie Romy & Michele's High School Reunion. In his words "this movie is to me what Pretty Woman is to them". We discuss high school, bullies, our inner Heather Moonys, the Simpsons DNA that runs through this movie and how Lisa Kudrow will inherit the earth.

Richard Makin is a cook and the author of Anything You Can Cook I Can Cook Vegan

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You either know everything about Caroline Calloway, or nothing at all. This episode is for everyone in the first category. Author Diana Reid comes into the studio to get balls deep in mid 2010s influencer culture, the politics of young friendship, digital media trends of yesteryear and the first person essay economy that reigned over our lives for so long. We try to use the Caroline Calloway/Natalie Beech story as a Rosetta Stone for our own lives, and the result is a pretty fabulous conversation

Diana Reid is the author of Love & Virtue as well as Seeing Other People

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Padam, padam, we feel it and we know. The doyenne of Aussie pop culture and co-host of the Shameless podcast Michelle Andrews joins us for a chat about the southern hemisphere's premier pop icon Kylie Minogue. We cover a lot here, but it's not a biography – for that we recommend Michelle's three-part series on Shameless Media. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-original-kylie-part-two/id1352875216?i=1000558533650

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In preparation for Caroline's Australian book tour, Aussie friend of the pod Kate Young joins us to dissect Strictly Ballroom. We talk about why Strictly Ballroom is "Dirty Dancing for nerds", 90s Australian cinema, and our efforts to beat the snakes. Kate Young is the author of several cookbooks as well as the forthcoming novel Experienced, a queer rom com, out in May 2024.

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Last season, we opened the season on Weddings, where we talked about planning, hen parties, dresses and the cultural expectations of being a bride. Now we've had the wedding, what have we *learned*? Maid of Honour and longterm friend of the pod Ella Risbridger comes back to discuss the wins, losses and lessons of...Caroline's wedding.

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We're coming back off break to offer our opinions on the most formative Sentimental Garbage there is, Barbie. Caroline and Jen talk about their early memories of Barb, Greta Gerwig's new movie, the hunk-to-hero trajectory and the ascendancy of Ryan Silly Gooseling.

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue is available everywhere now. Jen Cownie's Wild Card: Let The Tarot Tell Your Story is everywhere too.

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Hey everyone! Caroline's been on tour with The Rachel Incident so the Straight Up girls have kindly agreed to allow their podcast to feature on the Sentimental Garbage feed. It's a really fun episode where we talk about all kinds of pop culture, including Sex and the City, Fleishman is in Trouble, Brooke Shields, and much more. This is the final episode of Sentimental Garbage for this season, please enjoy the break and your summer!

Straight Up is the weekly podcast hosted by journalists Kathleen and Ellie that debriefs on all the juiciest happenings in celebrity and pop culture. They have guests on twice a month, which other than me have included Sean Paul, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Akon, Pandora Sykes, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Aitch… and they always record over cocktails! Their episode this week is all about Barbie’s insane marketing plan, chaotic celebrity divorces, Idris Elba's new thriller series and The Idol finale.

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An ancient, deathless vampire attempts to woo a young woman. And also, we talk about about Twilight.

Maisie Peters album, The Good Witch, is out now! Caroline O'Donoghue's book The Rachel Incident is out now also

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Friend of the pod Dolly Alderton returns to interview me about The Rachel Incident, the latest novel from Caroline O'Donoghue (me)

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Tom McInnes is back for the ultimate test of this podcast's entire premise. Namely, can two people have an incredibly long and feelings-y chat about a three minute pop song from 1983? Let's see x

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It's been a big week to be a Taylor Swift fan, so we're back for a second go of Midnights with Jen Cownie. We talk the bonus extras, the great ironies of “The Great War”, the Blake Lively fan fiction on “Bigger than the Whole Sky”, real Paris vs American Paris, and much much more. Also: what exactly DID happen to Caroline's Instagram? Apologies about the sound quality, the ever evolving narrative around Taylor meant we had to record this episode in a tin box.

SENTIMENTAL GARBAGE LIVE(London) with Dolly Alderton: waterstones.com/events/sentimental-garbage-with-dolly-alderton-and-caroline-odonoghue-at-waterstones-piccadilly/london-piccadilly

SENTIMENTAL GARBAGE LIVE (Dublin) with Sophie White: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/caroline-odonoghues-sentimental-garbage-podcast-live-dublin-event-tickets-646891288257?aff=ebdssbcategorybrowse

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We talk disordered eating, body image and diets through the prism of pop culture, with Hanna Flint, the author of Strong Female Character. Is there such a thing as a "responsible" way to depict an eating disorder? Can we ever forgive Richard Curtis for what he did to Martine McCutcheon? And can we fairly say that we in a more body positive era when Ozempic is becoming more normal than ever? And has pop culture made us think that eating disorders are a White Girl Problem? We mention Love Actually, Bridget Jones Diary, The Whale, Heathers, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Jacqueline Wilson, School of Rock, Queen Latifah, and the Special K "drop a jean size" challenge.

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The 1990s answer to Hard Day's Night was Spice World: The Movie, 92 minutes of pure joy that also provides Baby's First Blueprint to how fame works when you're a young woman. We talk about Wannabe as the Kennedy Assassination for millennial women, the subtext of the Spice Girls songbook, the insane cameos, the incredible plot strands, and the sad uselessness of the pregnant friend.

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Could Joe Alwyn's departure from Taylor's life be the skeleton key to understanding Midnights, Taylor Swift's murkiest album? Jen Cownie returns for a track-by-track study that, she believes, tells the story of a woman who is breaking up with herself.

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Filmmaker and author Emma Forrest on her lifelong relationship with Cher. We talk noses, outsiders, plastic surgery, Mermaids, Moonstruck, I Got You Babe, the Sonny years and much much more. This is a really good one.

Emma Forrest's new book, Busy Being Free, is available everywhere now.

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