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Martin Deeson UNLOADED

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Martin Deeson Unloaded is the new podcast from Loaded founding team member and star writer Martin Deeson, interviewing the characters who made the 1990s the unforgettable decade it was. Deeson sits down with the musicians, comedians, photographers, models, DJ's, actors and mischief-makers who lived

New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 52 min
Latest: 8 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026 · 32 min

Peter Greenaway: Sex, Death and The Cook, the Thief

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 special edition of Martin Deeson Unloaded sits down with one of British cinema's great provocateurs at 84. Trained as a painter, Greenaway broke through with The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), then made the run…

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24 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
Murray Lachlan Young: Simply Everyone's Taking Cocaine
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 Under Control. In the 1990s Murray Lachlan Young went from Sunday nights at Ronnie Scott's to EMI, Glastonbury and every chat show going, on the strength of a Noël Coward voice and a poem called Simply…
S1 · E12 · 10 Sep 2026 · 49 min
Sadie Frost on Pulp’s Common People, Dracula & the Primrose Hill Set
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 photographed woman in north London. She is now a documentary director making a film about Quadrophenia with Pete Townshend. She talks to Martin Deeson about Gary Kemp, Kate Moss, Gary Oldman and Winona…
E11 · 27 Aug 2026 · 52 min
Katie Puckrik on The Word, Take That & Coining ‘Ladette’
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 with the Pet Shop Boys, and beaten five thousand applicants to become one of the faces of The Word, the Channel 4 show Martin Deeson calls the gateway drug to the 1990s. She takes us inside the…
13 Aug 2026 · 46 min
Tracy-Ann Oberman on EastEnders, Doctor Who & Toast of London
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 and the new Harlan Coben series on Netflix. She joins Martin Deeson, who has known her since they were teenagers, for a very funny and occasionally jaw-dropping hour on fame, tabloids, antisemitism,…
S1 · E9 · 30 Jul 2026 · 49 min
John Niven: Oasis v Blur, Coldplay and Kill Your Friends
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 greed, cocaine and moral collapse better than anything else written about it. In this episode he tells Martin Deeson about the demos he waved away, the American visitors his label laughed out of the…
S1 · E8 · 2 Jul 2026 · 48 min
Maria McErlane: The Fast Show, Eurotrash & Graham Norton
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 Maria McErlane - Fast Show star, the unmistakable voice of Eurotrash, actress, journalist, Agony Aunt, and Graham Norton’s comedy partner on Radio 2, Virgin Radio and their hit podcast Wanging On.…
S1 · E7 · 11 Jun 2026 · 52 min
Rowland Rivron: The Young Ones, The Comic Strip & Soho
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 with comedian, actor, writer, musician and broadcaster Rowland Rivron. Long before alternative comedy became mainstream, Rowland was part of the scene that transformed British entertainment. From living…
S1 · E6 · 28 May 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
James Brown: Loaded, Chaos and the 90s
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 S. Thompson journalism and the wild rise - and fall - of 90s culture. This episode is part reunion, part argument, part therapy session. Martin and James interrupt each other constantly, disagree…
14 May 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
Keith Allen: Gazza, Prison, Groucho Club Chaos & Vindaloo
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 to prison, writing World In Motion with New Order and accidentally giving Rik Mayall a criminal record – this is Keith Allen at his absolute, outrageous best. In this episode of Martin Deeson…
S1 · E4 · 30 Apr 2026 · 43 min
Jenny Eclair: The Original 90s Ladette Looks Back
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 the ladette era. In this episode, she joins Martin Deeson to look back at when she was guest editor of Loaded, on winning the Perrier Award, on fame, hangovers, reinvention and the complicated legacy…
S1 · E3 · 16 Apr 2026 · 55 min
Brandon Block: From Ibiza Chaos to Recovery
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 lifestyles of the 1990s. But this isn’t just a chance to tell war stories. It’s a deep dive into addiction, recovery, dopamine, modern anxiety - and what happens when the party stops. How Brandon went from Ibiza…
S1 · E2 · 2 Apr 2026 · 46 min
Kathy Lloyd Breaks 20 Years of Silence on Page 3 and the 90s
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 world surrounding the rise of Loaded magazine in the 1990s. Kathy recalls what it was like becoming a national sex symbol almost overnight, the strange experiences that came with Page Three fame, and…
S1 · E1 · 13 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting, Oasis & the 90s Greatest Party
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 that was the 1990s. In this episode of Martin Deeson Unloaded , Irvine looks back on the era when literature, music and nightlife collided - from the rise of Oasis and the Britpop explosion to the…

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Martin Deeson UNLOADED is a English arts & books podcast from Podcast Room LB. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Podcast Room LB
Language: English
Category: Arts & Books
New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 52 min
Latest episode: 8 Oct 2026
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