Cast your mind back to the 90's and the cultural phenomenon that was loaded magazine. Now join co-founder of the magazine Tim Southwell, and his editors at large Bill Borrows and Ben Marshall as they explore the before, during and after of that... different time
Oasis Declare War On BritPop Feud and Ronnie O'Sullivan’s Dad Calls loaded From Prison!
How did Loaded finally get Oasis on the cover? By letting Noel Gallagher review his own album.
And what happened after Bill interviewed Ronnie O’Sullivan? His dad rang from prison to make sure the story was straight…
Tim Southwell, Ben Marshall and Bill Borrows revisit the madness of Loaded in the 90s, from Noel’s verdict on (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? to the Blur versus Oasis battle — and why “Roll With It” wasn’t among his favourites.
Also this episode:
• Claudia Schiffer and a painfully awkward interview.
• Our most embarrassing encounters with women.
• Planet of the Vapes: would you let AI do your flirting?
• Ben’s memories of Billy Idol and the LA riots.
• Hollywood’s notorious death tours.
• Ed Sheeran gets the Sell Me the Cover treatment.
Celebrity encounters, Britpop, football and three men who really should know better by now.
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Tell us in the comments: what’s the best song on Morning Glory?
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2 Oct 2026
Gazza Turned Up To A Siege With What??!!
Gazza arriving at a police siege with a fishing rod, lager and a kebab remains one of British football’s most extraordinary stories.
Recording from Alicante, Tim Southwell, Ben Marshall and Bill Borrows revisit Paul Gascoigne’s Loaded cover interview, his remarkable talent and the darker side of fame.
Plus: Pablo Escobar, Bill’s disastrous jungle adventure, Gen Z “aura farming” and why Gordon Ramsay and Emu deserve a one-way ticket to Mars.
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28 Sept 2026
OASIS & ROBBIE WILLIAMS RECORDED AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FOR LOADED… AND I LOST THE LOT. 🤦♂️
It’s 1995. loaded is Magazine of the Year, Britpop is exploding — and Tim finds himself at T in the Park with a hotel room, a Dictaphone and the possibility of the exclusive we’d been chasing for months.
While Tim is downstairs drinking in the hotel bar, Noel Gallagher and Robbie Williams end up in his room — and record an impromptu interview with EACH OTHER for loaded. Absolute gold.
There was just one tiny problem… Tim had reversed the batteries in his Dictaphone to protect an earlier interview. Nothing had recorded. Not. One. Bloody. Word.
Welcome to another episode of EXPloaded, where Tim Southwell, Ben Marshall and Bill Borrows return to the glorious chaos of loaded and the 1990s.
Also this week:
🔥 Tim goes to Hawaii and dresses up as Magnum PI
🏨 The worst hotels loaded ever encountered
💩 Possibly the greatest hotel diarrhoea story ever told
👕 Why are Gen Z wearing Nirvana, Ramones and Joy Division T-shirts?
🗣️ Ben declares war on people describing everything as a "journey"
🚀 Who gets the next one-way ticket to Mars?
📰 Who would make the cover of loaded today?
🤦 And the music journalists who reviewed gigs they never actually attended
Plus John Noakes, David Letterman, Peter O'Toole, Gangster Hamster and plenty more tales from a time when magazines had expense accounts and apparently very little adult supervision.
If you grew up with loaded, Oasis, Britpop, football, comedy and the glorious madness of the 90s, this is your podcast.
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EXPloaded — for men who really should know better by now.
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