Program: Stop Everything

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Pop culture is everywhere. But it's also a lot. If you need help making sense of like, everything in your feed, Beverley Wang is here to help.

Every episode, Beverley and a special guest sort through the latest hot takes and Internet discourse to help you understand how pop culture reflects your world.

New Podcast episode every Thursday.

Airs Friday at 1:30pm. Repeated Saturday at 11pm, Sunday at 2pm and the following Friday at 2am.

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Why Raygun is breaking our brains

We're talking about the moment B-girl Raygun, aka Dr Rachael Gunn, became the world's favourite meme.

Published: 14 Aug 2024Wed 14 Aug 2024 at 9:00pmwith Beverley Wang

Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

Feature Articles

Performing, 10,000 pairs of shoes and John Farnham help Céline Dion get through pain in new doco

Céline Dion kept her diagnosis with stiff person syndrome a secret from her fans for years. This new documentary offers an unfiltered glimpse at what her life is like now.

A composite of Celine Dion photos where she's singing, one very young, one with bright red hair, another in a sparkly dress

Published: 25 Jun 2024Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 2:54am

Anne Hathaway's The Idea of You is ripe with steamy romps, but is it any good?

Anne Hathaway's steamy new film explores the age-gap relationship between a single mum and a much younger boy-band heart throb.

A film still of Nicholas Galitzine, 29, and Anne Hathaway, 41, who is smiling brightly. They're boarding a private plane.

Published: 2 May 2024Thu 2 May 2024 at 2:22amby Beverley Wang

When Jennifer Lopez dance-montages her way through three failed marriages, it's breathtaking

Jennifer Lopez reclaims her wild rollercoaster of a love life from our judgmental gaze in new musical This Is Me … Now.

Jennifer Lopez wears a flower garland and carries a bouquet as she walks down an aisle surrounded by dances forming an arch.

Published: 19 Feb 2024Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 3:55amby Beverley Wang

Yes, I know mumfluencer videos show me an unattainable ideal. But can I give them up?

From Ballerina Farm to Nara Smith, we can't help but fixate on the perfect lives of mumfluencers, no matter how problematic. But, for my own wellbeing, I need to look away.

Illustration of a woman applying makeup in a mirror with a crying baby on her hip, flames all around them, phone glowing

Published: 5 Feb 2024Mon 5 Feb 2024 at 11:50pmby Hannah Reich

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