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Back to NOW!

Hosted by Pop Rambler · music · EN

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Celebrating all things related to the variously compiled world of pop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Booking probability

33%

Guest openness

Selective

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80/100
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Questions about Back to NOW!

Who hosts Back to NOW!?

Back to NOW! is hosted by Pop Rambler. The show has published 75 episodes to date.

What has Back to NOW! covered recently?

Recent episodes include "NOW Yearbook 1960-1962: Bob Stanley" (25 September 2026, 49 minutes), "NOW 24 - Spring '93: Ray Harris" (28 August 2026, 34 minutes), and "NOW Yearbook '76: Alexis Petridis & Ian Wade" (20 July 2026, 68 minutes).

How often does Back to NOW! publish?

Back to NOW! publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 62 minutes across 75 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Back to NOW!?

Booking probability for Back to NOW! is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Back to NOW! requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Back to NOW!'s contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Back to NOW!?

The strongest fits for Back to NOW! are Music & Recording. Back to NOW! has a music audience.

About the host

Pop Rambler hosts Back to NOW!, a music podcast with 75 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Sep 25, 202649 minS7

    Greetings Pop Pickers! If you tuned into the BBC Light programme in September 1961, a new voice was presenting Pick of The Pops. Booming out across the airwaves, delivering this now legendary announcement - Alan 'Fluff'...

  • Aug 28, 202634 minS7

    Nineteen Ninety Three. It's a country we've visited on a number of occasions in this particular parish of variously compiled pop. And it's always one that welcomes us back warmly. There's our strident, shiny boybands...

  • Jul 20, 20261h 8mS7

    1976. You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. Well, silly or not, the charts of this fascinating year were full of big, big hits. Crowdpleasers, I hear you cry? Well, whatever way you view...

  • Jun 25, 20261h 2mS7

    Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 99: So the year/decade/century/millennium was coming to a close but before the apocalypse didn’t actually arrive at midnight on 31st December 1999, there was the small matter of a...

  • May 22, 20261h 14mS7

    The Big Pig is back! As July, turned into August in 1985, the world was still basking in the afterglow of, what was already being called the event of the decade. No, not the ceasing production of the Sinclair C5, or...

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  • Apr 17, 20261h 23mS7

    Oh, that’s bad! No, that’s good! If you know your 80s dancefloor bangers, you’ll recognise that S-Express vocal insert and will already be donning your sparkly bellbottoms, possibly even getting right-on one (matey)...

  • Mar 18, 20261h 4mS7

    Swing it, shake it, move it, make it! …is exactly what the nation was doing in 1997. Yes, that’s right, Channel 5 was here and fiddling with that aerial to try and get a reception to see The Jack Docherty Show was what...

  • Feb 24, 20261h 11mS7

    Welcome back to 1987! The decade of decadence, extravagance, elegance and other words that end in -nce was powering its way towards the later end of its cultural tenure. And whilst there is no doubt that perceived...

  • Jan 15, 202646 minS7

    How do you begin to describe 1992? Well, Her Majesty called it her Annus horribilis , for a number of reasons. Quite possibly including the three weeks Boyz II Men spent at number one, possibly not. But whatever the...

  • Jan 1, 20261h 3mS7

    Welcome to the utterly swingorilliant Autumn 1987! Frightwigs ahoy! Pass around the rock’n’roll mouthwash because the Ver Kids knew that pop was back, Back BACK! Actually, what this all really means is that in 1987 the...

  • Dec 4, 202550 minS6

    Welcome to a special festive episode of Back to Now.  We first revisited Now - The Christmas Album in 2020. You remember 2020, don’t you? It was a Christmas that needed some light to overpower some rather dark...

  • Nov 26, 20251h 7mS6

    Gonna use my…imagination. 1980 saw the UK chart taking some incredible leaps forward into the new decade. As the 1970s biggest superstars, Pink Floyd, stepped aside as the last chart topper of that decade and ushered in...

  • Nov 11, 20251h 10mS6

    Welcome to the 21st Century! Or did you call it Y2K? And if so, can I ask WHY? Yes, pop fans and curators of variously compiled pop, we had survived the End of the Century. The millennium bug turned out to be nowhere...

  • Oct 4, 202557 minS6

    Is this the way they say the future’s meant to be? It’s November 1995. Pop was pulling in many different directions. But predominantly, it was swaggering its way towards the end of the century in a confident, Union Jack...

  • Aug 29, 20251h 2mS6

    It’s the end, the end of the Seventies. It was a decade that had started with Edison Lighthouse and ended with Another Brick in the wall. After 221 number one singles, the decade that had given us everything from Bowie...

  • Jul 25, 20251h 16mS6

    Poor old Johnnie Ray. Actually, I wonder what the heart wrenching vocal superstar of the fifties made of his starring role in the biggest selling single of 1982, thirty years after his own chart topping run? Did anyone...

  • May 19, 20251h 6mS6

    Wake up, it’s a beautiful morning! It’s the spring of 1995. That most eclectic of decades, the nineties if you will, was no longer the new kid on the millennial block. Pop culture has boxed up the eighties for another...

  • Apr 21, 20251h 16mS6

    2002.  The pop culture landscape would never be the same again. No, we’re not talking about Robbie Williams £80m, six album deal (although Rudebox would indeed shift the landscape, if not exactly many copies)...

  • Mar 10, 20251h 9mS6

    Can You Feel It? It’s July, 1989 and the temperature is hot!  Actually, for a lot of the UK it surprisingly was, but let’s leave meteorological memories aside, we’re talking the dancefloor. The country, the WHOLE...

  • Jan 29, 202538 minS6

    In 2025, the iconic NOW series moves into the world of musical theatre with a brand new show ‘NOW, That’s What I Call A Musical’ delivering a storyline that ties friendship and incredible 80s pop music together...

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