{"podcast":{"title":"Talk ’90s to me","slug":"talk-90s-to-me-7427236","podcast_index_feed_id":7427236,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NSR2448691535","website_url":"https://www.podmasters.co.uk","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c62c1c7c-60b3-11f0-bc3c-93387a404277/image/40b6b4aee8c18a58ea6998af0f0fc1a3.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Podmasters","episode_count":53,"summary":"Diving deep into a wild decade of chaos, creativity and hedonism – from Oasis to ‘Friends’, from grunge to girl power, from Kate Moss to alcopops to ‘Trainspotting’ and beyond. Join award-winning Observer journalist and Smash Hits graduate Miranda Sawyer as she meets the people who were really there for the decade of Cool Britannia, Cantona and the Chemical Generation. Follow us on Instagram and BlueSky for clips, behind the scenes content and to send us your questions & thoughts! You can now support us on Patreon! Help support the podcast and get episodes early and ad-free, bonus content and some EXCELLENT merch. Talk ’90s To Me – could a podcast BE any more brilliant? Talk ’90s To Me is a Podmasters production.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T08:17:05.837026+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-90s-to-me-7427236"},"episode":{"title":"Prozac Nation! – How one grunge-era depression memoir changed everything","slug":"prozac-nation-how-one-grunge-era-depression-memoir-changed-everything","published_at":"2026-05-11T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-90s-to-me-7427236/prozac-nation-how-one-grunge-era-depression-memoir-changed-everything","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-90s-to-me-7427236","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8839603247.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8839603247.mp3","summary":"Diving deep into all things ’90s… Elizabeth Wurtzel’s groundbreaking grunge-era memoir of depression, medication and alienation Prozac Nation divided opinion like few books ever have. How did it become the book of a generation? Does it stand up now? Did Wurtzel reinvent an old genre or start a new one? And would Lena Dunham’s Girls exist without it? Miranda Sawyer is joined by Sian Pattenden, culture writer, artist and musician, to discuss how Prozac Nation changed the game for young women writers. • Want early ad free episodes and access to merch? ⁠Support us on Patreon Follow us on: BlueSky Instagram TikTok Subscribe to our Spotify playlist Listen to Sian’s band The Sha Sha Shanimals here. • Buy Miranda’s book Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll be helping the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. • Advertisers! Want to reach smart, engaged, influential people with money to spend? (Yes, they do exist). Some 3.5 MILLION people download and watch our podcasts every month – and they love our shows. Why not get YOUR brand in front of our influential listeners with podcast advertising? Contact ads@podmasters.co.uk to find out moreWritten and presented by Miranda Sawyer. Produced by Liam Tait. Audio and video production by Tom Taylor. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Soniq Branding from Artlist. Talk ’90s To Me is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"Diving deep into all things ’90s… Elizabeth Wurtzel’s groundbreaking grunge-era memoir of depression, medication and alienation Prozac Nation divided opin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3549,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talk-90s-to-me-7427236/episodes/prozac-nation-how-one-grunge-era-depression-memoir-changed-everything/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-90s-to-me-7427236/prozac-nation-how-one-grunge-era-depression-memoir-changed-everything.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}