Detritus

Detritus celebrates its first Halloween season by treating ourselves to a seance with one of television's greatest-ever tricks: Ghostwatch. First broadcast 'live' by the BBC in 1992, this one-off drama shattered the national psyche so profoundly that it was banned from broadcast for a decade afterward. John and Jack revisit this iconic haunt, in which recognisable television personalities blend wi...

Following the global phenomenon of Little Britain, comedy superstars Matt Lucas & David Walliams returned on Christmas Day in 2010 with Come Fly With Me, reflecting their sudden international stardom with a new series keen to prove just how bloody funny airports are! Dialling down the fake vomit, adult lactation and relentless catchphrasing of their best-known creation, but maintaining the fat...

Widely regarded as the greatest television show of all time, The Sopranos premiered in 1999, changing the landscape of popular culture with its ambitious, uncompromising portrayal of modern American life in a state of malaise. The Sopranos: Road To Respect was released in 2006 and changed the ambitions of spin-off video games with its similarly uncompromising portrayal of punching people in the he...

Calling all fashionistas, gussy yourselves up for possibly the most fabulous episode of Detritus yet! John and Jack transport back to 2015 to revisit the impact of…. The Dress. Discovered on the racks of an outlet mall in the North West of England, then finding global infamy via Tumblr, Facebook and Buzzfeed, no evening wear has made such an impact on the culture since Marge’s candy-pink Chanel su...

E10 - Pod’s Gettin’ Better (Man!!) - Oasis, Be Here Now & Magical Pies All around the world, you gotta spread the word… Because Detritus has reached a monumental TEN transmissions. If this podcast were a vintage prestige HBO television show, that landmark would usually signal a season finale. However, we all know podcasts have to LIVE FOREVER, so instead we’re treating ourselves to a lengthy d...

There's no pod like home, there's no pod like home... John and Jack tap their heels together to explore the century-long fallout from one of the world's most recognizable pop-culture artifacts, The Wizard of Oz; a film so significant that one of your hosts can apparently recount the entire plot without having ever seen it. But don't worry, that's not the whole episode! Finding extensively studied...

Detritus reaches the inglorious finale of what some (us) are calling The Summer of Love trilogy. After the deeply British, hazy rave memories of Fatboy on the beach and a wide-eyed Keith Allen emerging from an MRI tube, we're turning back the party clock a decade, sailing across the Atlantic to sniff the already past-it chemtrails of ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC. Or EDM, as they call it. Was this really...

Detritus’ inadvertent Summer of Love continues to unfold with a revisit of Drugs Live - The Ecstasy Trials, Channel 4’s CONTROVERSIAL 2012 study of the effects of MDMA on the human body and mind... With the legal support of the British government and top scienticians, witness a lovely lady priest, an SAS soldier, a Lib Dem secularist, Lionel Schriver, and Jack’s arch-nemesis, Keith Allen, each wil...

John and Jack return from their summer break, tanned and thriving, only to take a trip to the beach. Which beach? Brighton Beach, for Fatboy Slim’s Big Beach Boutique II. The good news? You’re invited! The bad news? So is everybody else, and there are already 250,000 people in the mix, all of them gurning, pissing in the sea and singing along to The Sexiest Man In Jamaica. With a quarter century’s...

The 'Detritus Boys' return from their summer break with a razzlin', dazzlin' fifth episode at Jack's insistence, leading John to the West End, Broadway, Tokyo, Hamburg, and your home VHS collection to discuss Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbusting, standard-bearing mega-musical hit, CATS. Recorded weeks before Lord Lloyd Webber raised the muthafuckin' alarm for the future of musical theatre, having wi...

In defiance of the escalating allegations that the Detritus podcast is “too niche” or even, “too masculine” (?!!?) John and Jack succumb to World Cup fever while they still can, tackling England’s rich, often irritating history of pop singles in support of Our Brave Lions. Featuring appearances from legends adjacent to the game including Ant & Dec, Dizzee & Corden, Bell & Spurling and...

EPISODE 3 - LOVE THEM HOE’S The course of young love never did run smooth. In 2003, the burgeoning romantic relationship between Eamon Doyle and Nicole Francine Aiello came to a sudden end, leaving the streets of Staten Island agog with grief and gossip for at least an hour. Less than a year later, whispers of this tragedy had found momentum back in Europe, stubbornly occupying the Top Of The Pop...

John and Jack mark a significant milestone for the Detritus podcast - a second episode - by traveling back to an early peak of their individual and collective powers, the year 2007. At the advent of the smartphone, in the hinterland between the old and new internet, Detritus dives into what’s left archived from BBC Switch - the public broadcaster’s well-meaning, ham-fisted attempt to reach out to...

For the debut episode of Detritus, John and Jack lock and load their podcast pistols and take aim for Autumn 2003, in order to witness the country’s leading stoic showman and positive mentalist, Derren Brown, leave a bullet hole in television history with his craziest stunt yet! It’s ‘Derren Brown: Russian Roulette’. Forget the sinister fake fan networks, bot accounts and ‘visibility’ of today’s r...