Be My (Bowie) Wife

About Be My (Bowie) Wife

The podcast where a lifelong David Bowie fanatic and a converted skeptic take a marital tour through the sprawling universe of the Starman himself. And after years of repeat listening for him…and a growing curiosity from me, we are going to share our kitchen table debates. Every fortnight, we are going to explore different aspects of the life and art of Bowie. But fair warning: we love a good tangent and never miss a rabbit hole. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Marnie Chapman

Category

arts · music · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 May 2026

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026

   Season 2 Episode 6 - A little bit Bow, A little bit Jones

   Season 2 Episode 6 - Mid-season Episode 1 Show notes Topics referenced or discussed: Marnie is in the room! Feral Kid Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain Wales visit Cut-ups Generational Bowie Prodigy, Pantera, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Queen Nine Inch Nails ‘Downward Spiral’ Tarot and I-Ching Two-Face / Marvel & DC / Batman Animated Series Sheldon ‘Shel’ Talmy The Lower Third Placebo at 30 Re-mixed Bowie albums Gorillaz NME/Melody Maker/Q Neil Young 'Ragged Glory’ & ‘Sleeps with Angels’ Pearl Jam Iggy Pop Lou Reed Bob Dylan ‘Time Out of Mind’ Common Room Music The Doors - Val Kilmer Suicide Kinks / The Who / The Easy-Beats Pin Ups Denmark Street, Soho Jimmy Page The Pretty Things Ouroboros Last Train to Clarksville Ashes to Ashes When do decades actually start..? The Kinks Can’t Help Thinking About Me Sample potential Dodgy lyrics EP Thompson Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! The Sweeney Maybe-Baby Bowie’s vault (is it that full..?) Ryko Disc Scary Monsters demos Prince Marnie Returns! Leon Tapes Toy Tin Machine 2 Reeves Gabrels Hunky Dory imminent… Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Season 2 Episode 5 - The North-Minehead By election

   Season 2 Songs 8 & 9. Show notes: You tube song link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g33-W9t2q2Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g33-W9t2q2Q) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0871DYyHSE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0871DYyHSE) Topics referenced or discussed: Flies Everybody Needs Good Neighbours…and Harvey! Metrobolist Beat Poets Brion Gysin’s ‘The Process’ Reading to Vic Stephen Jay Gould ‘The Mis-Measure of Man’ Guests Tony Visconti Nirvana The Secret of Arabia Fashion Jonny Greenwood sabotaging ‘Creep’ Ken Scott David Lynch Exhibition in Prague Don’t cross on the stairs! Madness MR James Freud Nietzsche Elon Musk The Prisoner Doppelgängers and characters Buddhism Lulu Johnny Cash ‘Hurt’ Neil Young ‘Change Your Mind’ Mott the Hoople Lou Reed Iggy and the Stooges Ava Cherry (name forgotten in show, apologies) Tina Turner Placebo Absolutely Fabulous Scotch Video Melvyn Hayes Super Ted Outside Live Show re-recording SNL 1980 Hugo Ball, Dada Klau Nomi Joey Arias The Tristan Tzara Suit The Man Who Sold the World - the Rosetta Stone of Bowie songs..? The Hearts Filthy Lesson Seven (Film) Strangers When We Meet (single) Basquiat The Odyssey Ming the Merciless Also Sprach Zarathustra - Strauss The Jimmy Page guitar riff (Supermen/Dead Man Walking) Howard Goodall Monkey (TV series) The Hype Beyond Good and Evil Fascism Bootstrapping Hunky Dory Station to Station Nazism and the Occult Ancient Egypt Charlie & the Chocolate Factory Smashing Pumpkins Boy George Gary Numan Ozzy Osbourne The Beatles Tears for Fears Summing up the album Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Season 2 Episode 4 - A Virus With Shoes

   Season 2 Song 2 (Apologies - some mic movements) BIG CONTENT WARNINGS (Sexual assault, rape, pedophilia) Show notes: You tube song link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBO0gf27sl8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBO0gf27sl8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u08RG6HYaO4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u08RG6HYaO4) Topics referenced or discussed: Star Trek Terminator 2 The Matrix Hal AI President Joe Joe the Lion Richard Dawkins Stephen Jay Gould Steve Rose Darwin and Lamark New Atheism Blake’s 7 Cosmetic surgery Looks-Maxing The X Files Jim Rose Circus Vincent Schiavelli Clavicular Gaza Peter Thiel The Organic Composition of Capital Data Centres Pearl & Dean Deep Thought Roland Rat Kevin the Gerbil EM Forster The Cyberiad Utopia Ronald Reagan Nietzche Bill Hicks Agent Smith Believe in science..?! Covid Scepticism The Demon-Haunted Mind Gary Numan The Becoming (Nine Inch Nails) Poppy and Grimes Tolkien-inspired rock Harlan Ellison Tonight and Never Let Me Down Let’s Dance / Serious Moonlight Tour Tom Baker Angela Bowie Tony Visconti and Mick Ronson Ariston and ScotchTape Skeleton from SuperTed God Only Knows Cream Hendrix Tin Machine Young Americans Earthling Prodigy Goldie Charles Shaar Murray Yew Tree Lori Maddox Beat of Your Drum The Sweeney Elon Musk Citizen Vigilante Cultural appropriation Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

4. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Season 2 Episode 3 - Apocalypse Then

   Season 2 Songs 3, 4 & 5 Show notes: You tube song link: https://youtu.be/-c4Gj7XbrRQ?si=fHjYP9j-6IXKXmjw https://youtu.be/OXewmtDGQFQ?si=8Z4u5THvLtBQ0V9f https://youtu.be/WM74wALZJjk?si=rH9RsN0KT-6o17Jn Topics referenced or discussed: Hi, Ron! Heat Wave! Alien 3 Seasonal albums Moog Synthesiser Famous telephone numbers My poor Yeti Goat Boy Marc Bolan Gloria Jones - Tainted Love Rolan Bolan & Zowie Bowie Captain Buckles - Adam Buxton BRIAN BLESSED! Girl Loves Me Black Sabbath Nicholas Pegg Chris O’ Leary T-Rex Take That Nirvana - Suede - Prodigy Bananarama Michael Jackson ‘Bad’ Moondial Star Trek TOS (‘Charlie X’) Insanity theme Bleed Like a Craze, Dad Wishful Beginnings Please, Mr Gravedigger Portishead ‘Third’ The Cygnet Committee Alistair Crowley Nietzche Bowie’s political trajectory Brit Lifetime Achievement Award Tony Blair After All - Proto-Goth The Cure Siouxie & The Banshees Bauhaus Alien Sex Fiend Scott Walker Hannibal Tori Amos cover of ‘After All’ Velvet Underground & Nico Terry Gilliam Vietnam War Full Metal Jacket - The Dear Hunter - Apocalypse Now My Lai Massacre Racism Johnny Speight, Til Death Us Do Part Not the Same Log podcast Salo EP Thompson Colonialism in Rock Valentine’s Day Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

5. 

   31 Aug 2026

   Season 2 Episode 2 - I Think I Need Some EST

   Season 2 Song 2 (Apologies for sound issues - mic movements, at start; first few minutes). Show notes: You tube song link: https://youtu.be/KrlvgARHdzc?si=STe0faSKglkToNfv Topics referenced or discussed: Terry Burns Cane Hospital Haddon Hall Music as medication Mental health Characters as fractured personality Cut-ups One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Brazil Arkham Asylum Bowie and Eno go to Guggin Sinister Gnomes A Small Plot of Land Monty Python and The Holy Grail / Jabberwocky Wild Eyed Boy From Free Cloud Legendary Stardust Cowboy Daniel Johnston Wild Man Fischer Vince Taylor The Aladdin Sane Lightning Bolt The Prisoner Huxley and Orwell Psychotropic drugs Vietnam War Moorhaven Hospital EST Recorders Tony Visconti and Mick Ronson Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed Woody Woodmansey Joseph Heller Kurt Vonnegut Librium Sexuality as mental illness libel Jack Kerouac ‘On the Road’ Beat Poets Open the dog! Un Chien Andalou The Buddha of Suburbia Kabbala Who sold the world..? The People Under the Stairs Grunge voice Billy Corgan and Kurt Cobain Swedish Chef Johnny Marr (The Smiths) Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath Van Der Graff Generator Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

6. 

   17 Aug 2026

   Season 2 Episode 1 - Turn Around Go Back!

   Season 2 Songs 1 Show notes: You tube song link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as) Topics referenced or discussed: Metropolis Mick Ronson Tony Visconti Lodger Woody Woodmansey John Cambridge The Hype Jeff Beck Angela Barnett Jagger and Richards Tin Machine Space Oddity (Cygnet Committee / Janine) Led Zeppelin - Black Sabbath - Cream Folk Metal! Bowie hippie? Prince Bowie-Translate Andy Warhol Hunky Dory Ziggy Stardust Nirvana MTV Unplugged Glass Spider Tour Kurt Cobain’s 50 Favourite Albums Lulu Carlos Alomar Dodo Diamond Dogs Guide vocals Man Who Sold the World, 1995 Eno Mix The Width of a Circle Pi Kepler Occult Sacred Geometry Alistar Crowley Friedrich Nietzsche Fascism Kanye West DJ William Blake Dion Fortune Lou Reed Station to Station - Blackstar Primal Scream - Loaded Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Black Tie White Noise - I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday Morrissey - Your Arsenal / Bowie - Rock ’n Roll Suicide Gary Numan John Foxx Boy George Deep Purple Metallica - Megadeth - Fear Factory Nursery rhymes Ashes to Ashes Robert Plant Shakespeare Bruce Springsteen Gilgamesh Van Der Graff Generator Jarvis Cocker Suede The Auteurs Haddon Hall (Not on the alternative album cover. Your host was wrong.) Gabriella Rossetti Lauren Bacall Ophelia Dinosaur Jr. Terry Burns Monty Python - Terry Gilliam David Lynch Dante T-Rex Nile Rodgers Jimmy Page Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

7. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Season 2 Trailer

   Updates for Season 2 - a public service announcement Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

8. 

   4 Aug 2026

   Season 1 Episode 10 - Sunday in the Park with George Part 2

   Season 1 Mid Season Episode 4 - George Daniel Lea. GEORGE DANIEL LEA’S Links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Georg.. (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUlpiT0lJWHR3LUtaN3lyWUhjaThhdnxBR3JiS2Fta1BTYkt1Mm9lUTkwcVdPLVluTnRici10YW5IV3NTdjItWERpUVhQUG5nYTFHSXZwbmpfN2pNYnJiR1FPRG5LQ0ZHY2dKcnRLZW5ud01ldUE2bjVZZWZwRmZ3NkFZ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fstores%2FGeorg..&v=252u3pMYgrQ). https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ.. (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rVHBvUHJ1a0xNdnA0X3RzZ0JCOTBxOXxBR3JiS2FsZExpZ2xrV1BjSVM2U2FqZ3NxVS1GMzZtTjhGaE8ycFloOVNRajM2b21FOXdISzNPVWFhaFI5NGtRWk9TWWJvQ0JObjg4ZllsbHZXblBaNE5KQjhtTGpZNGZaYWFH&q=https%3A%2F%2Fperpetualpublishing.com%2Fprodu..&v=252u3pMYgrQ). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Blood-G.. 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Topics referenced or discussed: Blackstar The Next Day Kit Power Bowie’s passing and fall-out Diana, Princess of Wales David Lynch Rik Mayall The Young Ones and Post-Punk The Damned Motorhead Spike Milligan The Good Life Bottom - Godot and Pinter Be My (Bowie) Wife - how’s and why’s Bowie Bonds Bass players The DAM Rhythm Section (Carlos Alomar, George Murray, Dennis Davis) James Brown Gail Ann Dorsey O Superman Lou Reed / Transformer Iggy / Bowie albums La Belle et la bette Jump They Say / Le Jetee Not the Same Log The Alien (Marnie the Whippet) Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes (TV) David Lynch When the Wind Blows Genius Vs. Scenius Never Let Me Down The Falcon and the Snowman (This is Not America) Blah Blah Blah Time Will Crawl Podcasting Back to Rik Mayall Off on a tangent: ‘Not the Same Log’ (Clash of the Titans, Alien, Quatermass, Hammer, Nigel Kneale, John Carpenter, Steven Volk, The Stone Tape, The Fly) George’s details GEORGE DANIEL LEE’S Links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Georg.. (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUlpiT0lJWHR3LUtaN3lyWUhjaThhdnxBR3JiS2Fta1BTYkt1Mm9lUTkwcVdPLVluTnRici10YW5IV3NTdjItWERpUVhQUG5nYTFHSXZwbmpfN2pNYnJiR1FPRG5LQ0ZHY2dKcnRLZW5ud01ldUE2bjVZZWZwRmZ3NkFZ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fstores%2FGeorg..&v=252u3pMYgrQ). https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ.. 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9. 

   27 Jul 2026

   Season 1 Episode 9 - Sunday in the Park with George Part 1

   Season 1 Mid Season Episode 3 - George Daniel Lea GEORGE DANIEL LEA’S Links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Georg.. (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUlpiT0lJWHR3LUtaN3lyWUhjaThhdnxBR3JiS2Fta1BTYkt1Mm9lUTkwcVdPLVluTnRici10YW5IV3NTdjItWERpUVhQUG5nYTFHSXZwbmpfN2pNYnJiR1FPRG5LQ0ZHY2dKcnRLZW5ud01ldUE2bjVZZWZwRmZ3NkFZ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fstores%2FGeorg..&v=252u3pMYgrQ). https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ.. (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rVHBvUHJ1a0xNdnA0X3RzZ0JCOTBxOXxBR3JiS2FsZExpZ2xrV1BjSVM2U2FqZ3NxVS1GMzZtTjhGaE8ycFloOVNRajM2b21FOXdISzNPVWFhaFI5NGtRWk9TWWJvQ0JObjg4ZllsbHZXblBaNE5KQjhtTGpZNGZaYWFH&q=https%3A%2F%2Fperpetualpublishing.com%2Fprodu..&v=252u3pMYgrQ). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Blood-G.. 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The Strange Playgrounds: http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/ (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rVEZmZGttX2pJQU9nQXJDcWV2VUoyMHxBR3JiS2FsSDYwd0FoWDJqdDVKMXVZNFBoNzJEelRJdFBUSVo4bDQ0bjRXVzF2NjUzMFN5dk80WTVDR3J6Y3hrRGNLd01nZjZvMWgxSXRWVHMxMW43Q0QxbUNBaW9SMGJPQkRR&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.strangeplaygrounds.com%2F&v=252u3pMYgrQ) Topics referenced or discussed: Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour MTV Outside (1995 album) Nine Inch Nails The Cure Depeche Mode (Violator-era) Labyrinth Let’s Dance Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me David Lynch and David Bowie Raymond Briggs (The Snowman & When the Wind Blows) Jim Henson Creature Workshop Sexual awakening Michael Jackson Jareth the Goblin King 70s Rock Scene / groupies / underage sex La Belle et la bette Be My (Bowie) Wife Bowie as a Search Engine German Expressionism Brecht / Weill Orwell Velvet Underground 2016 Celebrity Cull Prince Internet meme: 'Bowie dies - everything went to shit’ Blackstar Bowie the Magician Bowie the Necromancer Lazarus Girl Loves Me (“Where the f**k did Monday go?”) Tony Visconti Heathen Bring Me the Disco King Dollar Days Sue (or in a Season of Crime) Tis a Pity She was a Whore Cancer Jacobean Revenge Tragedy Bob Dylan Neil Young David Lynch (again) Young Americans Aladdin Sane What Ray Had to Say Subverting pop music Danny Kaye’s Inchworm (Ashes to Ashes) Tubby the Tuba By the Wings of a Dove Rick Wakeman and Life on Mars? Music theory Let’s Dance DIY ethic Changing voice Adam Buxton Neil Tennant Anthony Newlay Diamond Dogs Billy Mackenzie (The Associates) Apollo 440 (‘Pain in Any Language’) Philip Glass Cover songs Bowie Interviews Sexuality Smoking - clothes - haircuts Mads Mikkelsen PJ Harvey Trent Reznor The 90s obscure phase Elton John Paul McCartney The critics revenge Surviving Punk Glastonbury 2000 revival of fortunes Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes (TV series) Visconti Remixing Lodger Woody Woodmansey The Man Who Sold the World Live Shows (Visconti) The Cult of Earthling Bowiedolatory GEORGE DANIEL LEA’S Links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Georg.. (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUlpiT0lJWHR3LUtaN3lyWUhjaThhdnxBR3JiS2Fta1BTYkt1Mm9lUTkwcVdPLVluTnRici10YW5IV3NTdjItWERpUVhQUG5nYTFHSXZwbmpfN2pNYnJiR1FPRG5LQ0ZHY2dKcnRLZW5ud01ldUE2bjVZZWZwRmZ3NkFZ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fstores%2FGeorg..&v=252u3pMYgrQ). https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ.. 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    20 Jul 2026

    Season 1 Episode 8 - YES, WE'VE GOT A VIDEO!!!

    Season 1 Mid Season Episode 2 - Ashes to Ashes Video. You tube song link: https://youtu.be/HyMm4rJemtI?si=ckmC0f4Kv5HQw9O4 Topics referenced or discussed: Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour MTV Top of the Pops The Chart Show Michael Jackson ‘Thriller’ Peter Gabriel ‘Sledgehammer’ Bugles’ ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ Adam and the Ants Video Promos Lodger videos “Heroes” video Be My Wife video David Mallet Kenny Everett Video Show Michael Jackson ‘Black & White' Video Morphing Iman Jamiroquai 'Virtual Insanity' Video Smashing Pumpkins ‘Ava Adore’ video Peter Greenaway’s ‘The Cook, The Thief, The Wife & His Lover’ Cribbs The Osbournes Cable TV Sky Television Nine Inch Nails Videos / Watershed BSB’s The Power Station Doctor Who: 1980-1 season Quantel Imaging Solarisation The Cleopatras Richard Griffiths Fall of Eagles Monty Python’s ‘Surrounded by film’ sketch Cinematic naturalism Vs. Video stylisation Nefertiti The Blitz Kids’ Acolytes New Romantics Boy George-Marilyn-Spandau Ballet-Duran Duran Mick Jagger Steve Strange-Visage Elise Brazier Darla Jane Gilroy Judith Frankland Gary Numan Teenage Wildlife Placebo Suede PJ Harvey Nas Damon Albarn The Rolling Stones Ageism in pop The Pierrot Lindsay Kemp Mime Troupe Les Enfants Dus Paradis Peggy and Haywood Jones HR Giger Major Tom PVPI-Health & Safety Live TV 5-Star-Aswad -Children’s TV live phone-in controversies Monica Seles Noel Edmonds Late Late Breakfast Show (Michael Lush accident) Doctor Who water tank accident Celebrity The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin The Strange World of Gurney Slade The Young Ones James Joyce Quatermass Diana Dors Ultravox ‘Vienna’ video Let’s Dance Live Aid Howard Jones Nick Kershaw Queen U2 Talking Heads ‘Once in a Lifetime’ video The Muppets Floria Sigismondi Walter Sterne Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    13 Jul 2026

    Season 1 Episode 7 - The Man Who Sold ... Himself

    Season 1 Mid Season Episode 1 - Bowie Bonds. You tube song link: N/A. Topics referenced or discussed: Marathons Bath I Don’t Speak German Not the Same Log You’re Not Alone (Show) Moonage Daydream (Film) V&A David Bowie Is… Orson Welles Shakespeare Egypt Therapy Bowie’s Finances Tony DeFries Ken Pitt Nicholas Pegg Chris O’Leary Ozzy and Sharon Osborne MainMain Iggy & the Stooges Rights to the Master Tapes John Lennon and Mick Jagger/Rolling Stones Bonds A View to a Kill Earthling David Pullman (Wall Street) EMI BowieNet James Brown 55 million dollars Prudential America Lost Highway Tin Machine ChangesOneBowie Selling Song Rights Seven Moby Moodys Napster Jeremy Paxman Interview Michael Caine Paul Macartney Michael Jackson Prince on Mariah Carey’s deal Batman (1989) 2000 Glastonbury Bill Zysblatt Corrine ‘Coco’ Schwab Jools Holland Pepsi Ad (Tina Turner) Evian Ad Sexual Harassment Allegation Modern Love The Buddha of Suburbia Suede Hours… Heathen Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

12. 

    6 Jul 2026

    Season 1 Episode 6 - The Free Songs

    Season 1 Songs 9 & 10 Show notes. You tube song link: https://youtu.be/kSDm7jcsZlM?si=O6iS-KNZSlrDFbzC Topics referenced or discussed: LP Vs. EP Tarkovsky Music Formats B-sides Playlists BBC Radio 2 - Tony Blackburn Station to Station - Heathen - Blackstar Portishead - Third Doppelgängers Elvis Costello & The Attractions Elvis Presley The Buddha of Suburbia Dave Gahan - Gary Numan - Simon Le Bon Always Crashing in the Same Car Suicide ideation Blue Jean The Man Who Sold the World (Album) Class and Church / law and morality Consumerism Bowie the lyricist Day In Day Out Tin Machine Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd. / New York Toy (Album) Age and visibility Theme of isolation Damon Albarn Nineteen Eighty-Four (Charrington) Bottom (TV series) Bowie the singer Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox Ryko Disc From the vaults Bowie Bonds Christopher Walken Bobcat Goldthwait Michael Caine Motorcycle Emptiness Free Town Prophets Marc Bolan JRR Tolkien Lady Stardust Mob justice Mime, Lindsay Kemp Kate Bush ‘Moving’ Tibet Brecht/Weill Paul Nicholas Musical Theatre Nineteen Eighty-Four Lazarus Eddie Izzard Buckfastleigh Monks Cabaret Silly Boy Blue / Karma Man / Seven Years in Tibet Suede ‘The Drowners’ Elaine Paige and Michael Ball Queen Rebel Rebel: We are the Dead: Golden Years: Staton to Station Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds Punk London Calling Meat Loaf Post-Post Punk The Wicker Man Hey Jude The Cygnet Committee Doubling Glastonbury Postmodernism UFOs Bruce Springsteen Cameron Crowe Jarvis Cocker Sorted For E’s and Whizz Mick Ronson ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris Old Grey Whistle Test Hammersmith Odeon Gig Philip Glass ‘Akhenaten’ Conversation Piece Space Oddity (single) 1979 re-recording Toy Neil Young The Hype The Prettiest Star Tony Visconti Gus Dudgeon Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    29 Jun 2026

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Elvis ... God Wants a Word

    Trigger warning - Poor Mental Health Season 1 Songs 6 7 8 - Elvis … God Wants a Word Show notes You tube song link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oBD2xLC4k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oBD2xLC4k) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k409Tpjj6Fs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k409Tpjj6Fs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuCzaARmA8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuCzaARmA8) Topics referenced or discussed: LP Vs. EP Tarkovsky Music Formats B-sides Playlists BBC Radio 2 - Tony Blackburn Station to Station - Heathen - Blackstar Portishead - Third Doppelgängers Elvis Costello & The Attractions Elvis Presley The Buddha of Suburbia Dave Gahan - Gary Numan - Simon Le Bon Always Crashing in the Same Car Suicide ideation Blue Jean The Man Who Sold the World (Album) Class and Church / law and morality Consumerism Bowie the lyricist Day In Day Out Tin Machine Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd. / New York Toy (Album) Age and visibility Theme of isolation Damon Albarn Nineteen Eighty-Four (Charrington) Bottom (TV series) Bowie the singer Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox Ryko Disc From the vaults Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

14. 

    22 Jun 2026

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Answer the phone Neil

    Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil: The Cygnet Committee Trigger warning - Poor Mental Health Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil- Show notes You tube song link: https://youtu.be/ZZ2VMPPyyck?si=IQUGHBKP1N3NUBYl Topics referenced or discussed: EMI Glastonbury 2000 Asian Dub Foundation Twitter (Pre-Musk) Stewart Lee Naughty jokes Blackstar King Crimson (In The Court of the Crimson King) Inflation Calculator Mike Garson Carlos Alomar Earl Slick Mick Ronson E-Street Band (Roy Bittan) Rick Wakeman Training Vs. Untrained (musicians/actors) Daniel Day-Lewis Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Station to Station Lynda La Plante and Mick Jagger Gail Ann Dorsey Hippie culture Bowie’s politics Rock Against Racism Eric Clapton Bob Dylan Blank verse Bowie the singer Five Years The Pretty Things are Going to Hell Antifa Beckenham Arts Lab Winstanley The Diggers The Levellers (not the band!) MC-5 ‘Kick Out the Jams’ Free State Somebody Up there Likes Me Big Brother Moses Socialism and Anarchism Generational tension 9/11 - War on Terror - Invasion of Iraq 1980s Let’s Dance Anthony Newlay Brian Eno - Roxy Music (and Social Democracy) Feminism in hippe culture Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    15 Jun 2026

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Odes to Hermione

    Season 1 Songs 3 & 4 - Odes to Hermione - Show notes **Trigger warnings for content (poor mental health) Link to the song version we listened to - https://youtu.be/Xw1mmqMD9j0?si=7iolOYVMQzf0OuL4 https://youtu.be/UMU261WsLlc?si=uSwPt2vSysEfC8hB Topics referenced or discussed: Davey Jones & The Monkees, band & TV legends Tom Jones, singer Jim Bowie - The Bowie Knife Song Of Norway, Operetta A Reality Tour, Bowie Where are We Now? The Next Day, Bowie Tony Oursler, artist Breaking up (‘…is so very hard to do.’) Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach ‘Painted From Memory’ (‘This House is Empty Now’) Beak-up albums (Bob Dylan ‘Blood on the Tracks’, Joni Mitchell ‘Blue’, Beck ‘Sea Change’, Carol King ‘Tapestry’, Lorde ‘Melodrama’) Angela Barnett (Bowie) ‘Be My Wife’ (Low) John Cage, artist Stereo, audio technique Neil Young, artist Gender stereotypes / sexism Hours (‘Thursday’s Child,’ ‘Something in the Air,’ ‘Survive’) Artifice Vs. Authenticity I’m Not Quite (Demo) David Bowie, The Actor Stanislavsky - emotional memory Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Philip Jeffries) Labyrinth, film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Night and Fog in Japan, film Tom Conti, actor The Hunger, film “Heroes”, Bowie Blackout, Bowie Word on a Wing, Bowie Space Oddity, Bowie Love and romance Iman, wife Heroin phase Polyamory, multi-partner relationship Bisexuality, sexual orientation Gender fluidity, unfixed gender expression Veronica Lake and Lauren Bacall, actresses Susan Sarandon, Tina Turner, Melissa Hurley, Romy Haag, romantic partners Berlin, capital city Mick Jagger, artist Melody Maker, music publication Norwegian Wood, song Tin Machine, band Les Dawson, comedian When I Live My Dream, song Suede (Animal Nitrate, Metal Mickey, The Drowners), bands Hunky Dory (Fill My Heart, Kooks), albums The Man Who Sold the World (The Supermen), song Time Will Crawl, song Diamond Dogs, Bowie Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    8 Jun 2026

    Season 1 Episode 2 - A Death in the Family

    ** Trigger warning - loss of a parent Season 1 Song 2 - A Death in the family- Show notes You tube song link: (1:30] https://youtu.be/IXdZ57xhOik?si=rz2nnvyhFT7kPXXi Topics referenced or discussed: Davy Jones and the King Bees (Band) The Mannish Boys (Band) The Lower Third (Band) Arnold Corns (Band) Q/NME (New Music Express) (Music Magazines) The Beatles: Abbey Road/Revolver (Band: Albums) Simon & Garfunkel (Band) Jonie Mitchell (Singer Songwriter) Arlo & Woody Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant Massacre (Singer Songwriters: Song) Bob Dylan (Singer Songwriter) Marc Bolan (Singer Songwriter) Feathers: Hermione Farthingale (Folk Trio: Person, Lover) Loss of a parent (Trigger warning) Haywood Jones (Person, Father) Credit cards, Barclaycard & the first ATM (Event) Reg Varney (Actor) Manson Murders > Kray Twins (Event > Organised Crime Gang) Mental Health & suicide (Trigger Warning) Terry Burns (Person, Maternal Half-Brother) U2: Zooropa, Brian Eno (Band: Album, Producer) Also mentioned: Dadaism, Cubists (Art Movements) Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    1 Jun 2026

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Lift Off

    Season 1 Song 1 - Space Oddity - Show notes You tube song link: David Bowie - Space Oddity (Official Video)[22:30] - https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo?si=IfEx8xL9a0cJW6qm Topics referenced or discussed: Our Friends in the North, Terry Cox “Tosker” played by Mark Strong (tv) 2001 A Space Odyssey (film) The Right Stuff (film) Apollo 11 & the Space Race (event) Star Trek (tv) Quatermass Experiment (tv) Various pop music inc The Beatles Manson murders (event) 60s Anti-war protests (event) Stonewall riots (event) Explicit language - single reference that we may swear Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    25 May 2026

    Initial Trailer

    He spent his life obsessed with the music and art of David Bowie. Whereas, I spent the early years of our marriage trying to escape it. Spoiler alert: I failed. Welcome to Be My (Bowie) Wife, the podcast where a lifelong fanatic and a converted skeptic take a marital tour through the sprawling universe of the Starman himself. And after years of repeat listening for him…and a growing curiosity from me, we are going to share our kitchen table debates. Every week, we are going to explore different aspects of the life and art of Bowie. But fair warning: we love a good tangent and never miss a rabbit hole. Subscribe right now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Join us for Be My (Bowie) Wife—our first official episodes drop very soon! So put on your red shoes... and we will upload on Tuesday … well we might just stretch it to Wednesday ... Follow us on Bluesky at bemybowiewife.bsky.social and don't forget to like and scribe - 5 ★ would be Hunky Dory. Credit to Airstream for use of their track "on Board". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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