Martin Deeson UNLOADED

She shouted "Oi oi, Dickie!" at Richard Branson from the top floor of a Notting Hill squat, and by Monday he had put money into Kiss FM's bid to go legal. Years later she went to Ibiza with Radio 1, wandered off to the loo after Pete Tong told her to "stay close"... and didn't do the next show. Lisa I'Anson was there for three of the great revolutions in British music broadcasting: pirate Kiss FM...

Peter Greenaway, the director of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, decided there was nothing after death when he was 13. Seventy-one years later, sitting in front of the Swiss Alps, he talks sex, death, ageing, his daughter's verdict on him and the films he will never get to make. Recorded at the St. Moritz Art Film Festival (SMAFF), where Greenaway was Guest of Honour, this speci...

Murray Lachlan Young walked off the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury to find himself on the front page of the Daily Telegraph as the poet who had signed a million pound record deal. It made him the most talked-about poet in Britain, and very nearly broke him. Includes three poems performed in full: Simply Everyone's Taking Cocaine (with a brand-new verse), Don the sheepdog, and Everything's Un...

She was 16, naked and sprayed gold in the Spandau Ballet video. A decade later she was pushing the trolley in Common People. Sadie Frost has been at the centre of British popular culture since 1983. She was in the two music videos that define the 80s and the 90s, she flew to Hollywood eight months after giving birth to audition for Francis Ford Coppola, and she spent a decade as the most photograp...

The Word was the gateway drug to the 1990s, and everyone remembers Oliver Reed. Katie Puckrik was the one standing next to him, and this is the full behind-the-scenes story. Katie Puckrik arrived in London in 1984 expecting the future and found powdered milk, orange squash and restaurants advertising the fact that they had ice. Within seven years she had danced with Michael Clark, toured the world...

She killed Dirty Den and buried him under the Queen Vic. Then she ran Torchwood, got turned into a Cyberman, and lost a soap award to a small dog in a bow tie. Tracy-Ann Oberman has been in more of the things you love than almost anyone alive. EastEnders, Doctor Who, Toast of London, Friday Night Dinner, After Life, It’s a Sin, The Witcher, The Sandman, Ridley Road, the Royal Shakespeare Company a...

In 1997 a young A&R man at London Records opened the post and found demos from two unsigned bands called Coldplay and Muse. He listened, shrugged, and decided Britain did not need another Radiohead. Episode Summary: John Niven spent the 1990s inside the record industry at London Records and Independiente, and then turned all of it into Kill Your Friends, the novel that caught the decade's gree...

She narrated Eurotrash, starred in The Fast Show, and has spent thirty years sitting at the next table to everyone - Nigella, Graham Norton, Cilla Black, Salman Rushdie. But Maria McErlane didn’t come on to drop celebrity names; she came on to talk about how to actually live, and somehow we ended up discussing the two bottles of morphine in her fridge. Episode Summary: Martin Deeson sits down with...

Rowland Rivron was there at the birth of alternative comedy, sharing stages and dressing rooms with Rik Mayall, French & Saunders, Alexei Sayle and The Comic Strip. In this episode he reveals what Soho was really like during the wild 1980s and 1990s, from The Young Ones to the Groucho Club and beyond. Episode Summary / Bullet Points In this episode of Martin Deeson Unloaded, Martin sits down w...

James Brown changed British culture when he launched Loaded magazine in the 1990s - and changed Martin Deeson’s life along with it. In this hilarious, emotional and frequently chaotic reunion, the founder of Loaded sits down with his former star writer for the first time in years to talk about magazine wars, addiction, creativity, grief, comedy, the Beastie Boys, Keanu Reeves, Irvine Welsh, Hunter...

Keith Allen joins Martin Deeson for a wild, funny and surprisingly moving conversation about punk, prison, Gazza, The Comic Strip, alternative comedy, World In Motion, the madness of 90s Britain and what it really felt like to live through the cultural explosion of Channel 4, rave culture and Cool Britannia. From opening for The Clash and Dexys Midnight Runners to smashing up a members club, going...

When people talk about 90s ladettes, they usually think of Sara Cox, Denise Van Outen or Zoe Ball. But before them came Jenny Eclair: PVC-clad, vodka in one hand and fag in the other. Before Jenny Eclair became a beloved comedy veteran, novelist, podcaster, artist and national treasure, she was one of the defining women of the 1990s: loud, filthy, funny, fearless, and right there at the start of t...

He was the wildest man in 90s club culture - and by his own admission, probably would’ve “won the World Cup of caning. "I realised I was more scared of living without drugs than I was of dying with them.” In this raw, funny and unexpectedly moving conversation, Martin Deeson sits down with legendary DJ Brandon Block - the man synonymous with Ibiza, excess, and one of the most extreme lifestyl...

In the 1990s, Kathy Lloyd was everywhere. As three time Page Three Model of the Year she was one of the most recognisable faces in Britain - appearing in the country’s biggest newspaper and Loaded magazine. Then she disappeared from the media spotlight for twenty years. Until now. Episode Summary In this rare interview, Martin Deeson talks to Kathy Lloyd about fame, media culture and the surreal w...

What really happened when Trainspotting exploded and suddenly the author was partying with Oasis at the height of Britpop? Irvine Welsh joins Martin Deeson to talk about fame, the chaos of the 1990s, and the single greatest party he ever witnessed. Episode Summary When Trainspotting became the defining novel and film of a generation, Irvine Welsh found himself at the centre of the cultural storm t...