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You thought Take the Cake was as juicy as it could get? Think again! Your weekly pop culture roundup on UvA Radio is BACK - hosted by the one and only Miss Char de Nay, blonde bombshell and drag queen extraordinaire. Just like her namesake Chardonnay, she is cheap, white and WILL get you drunk - on both celebrity gossip and a new bottle of white wine for every episode. For her first session, this queen is NOT holding back, covering everything from Sam Smith’s new wig shop to Wendy Williams’ casual homophobia and the mysteries of TikTok. Get your glasses ready and pop the cork honey, because it’s time to POUR IT UP.

On a cold but sunny February afternoon the Icelandic musician Brynja and her band members paid a visit to the UVA RADIO studio. They played a few songs, including her latest release Fight. They also had a good chat with Mark Mansa about her music and the process of writing.

The empire has struck back. Biden has won 10 out of 14 Super Tuesday states and is now neck and neck with the young Bernard. How did this happen? Is our new hope lost? Can he still return balance to the force? Now there is only one thing we can be sure of. The fight is on, and the gloves must come off.

Quiz On Your Face is back baby! The chat is often nonsensical, yet the facts are truly fascinating. Such wonderous juxtaposition. Learning with fun, if you will. Join Olivia, Emil, Felix, Benedetto and quizmaster Matt, for chat surrounding the worlds of Emus, altitudes and bad attitude!!!

Getting 6s. The original. De enige echte. Timon and Felix are back once more with the meats. What kinda meats? Meet and greets. Cause now at #uvaradio we have figured out the delicate science of calling in to guest contributors. Friends of the show for this week include a Zimbabwean living in Iowa and a Pole living in Bristol. It's live. It's direct. It's Getting 6s.

Bernie has won Nevada in emphatic fashion and he is now the front runner. It's official. People have been doubting for as long as he's been running, but here at UvA Radio, we've been calling Bernie 2020 for over a year now. It's evident. The movement is unstoppable, and we are all but humble observers to this seminal moment in history. BERNIE TAKE THE WHEEL. Felix Faillace lends his wisdom once more to the politics and the events in this weeks installment of Party Roulette!

On this episode of Beetroot, Lottie and Marta explore the world of William Blake's poem 'The Sick Rose' with theatre maker and improviser Margo van de Linde. They discuss worms that fly through the night and poems, that like an arrow, cut through the layers and shoot straight to the heart. Tune into your favourite poetry podcast, Beetroot, to hear more!

Stukafest Amsterdam: Transforming student rooms into tiny theaters! In this interview, Beth is speaking with Jon Buijs, one of the program coördinators of Stukafest Amsterdam - a small scale festival that organizes 20 performances of all sorts (music, theater, poetry, dance - even an anarchist-punk magic show) in 20 student rooms in Amsterdam. The two of them discuss music culture in Amsterdam, Stukafest’s ideals and vision and the hardships of finding your place in a brand new city as an international student. Music featured in this episode: Mad Rev & Zudo - Performing live @ADEV Freddy and the Scabies Sisters - Live at Wombat’s Laundromat Sessions in Berlin Lion’s Den - Live performance for Het Naakte Geluid @De Ruimte, Amsterdam Stukafest Amsterdam takes place on February 19th throughout the city centre of Amsterdam. Want to know more? Visit https://www.stukafest.nl/amsterdam/ or follow them onsocial media.

The 2020 presidential race is now well and truly underway. Bernie has won the first 2 states. Even though they are already rigging the process against him, our saviour remains steadfast, his followers remain committed and the movement grows with every passing second. Felix went to Iowa for a month to get in on the action. Choon into Party Roulette for the inside scoop.

All good things come to an end - and take the cake is no exception. The oven is cold, the tea party is over, Jenna is moving back to the UK. But she couldn’t leave without one last hurrah - so join her and Max for one more deep dive into last week’s pop culture, from the Grammys to Chinese pig markets to a critique of influencers as a concept. This is an episode you don’t want to miss - and thank you all for listening to Take the Cake!

Join Allie, as we look into Chinese DJ and producer Another Van, who created a special mix for Tumbling Dice to give us a taste of the emerging producers from China’s electronic music scene. Another Van runs Ran Music’s sub-label, Ran Groove, which specializes in showcasing rising house and techno producers whom have been scouted from across China. Tracklist: 1. Flash Beats Bone - Space Touch (Unreleased) 2. 3He - Dimension Reduction (Unreleased) 3. HUAN HUAN - One Big Bug (Unreleased) 4. CHEN KU - 镜 (Ran Groove) 5. Hielektromen - First Love (Unreleased) 6. Nocturnes - Perfect Tide（Another Van Remix）(Beijing Caotai Music Culture Communication Co., Ltd) 7. J.R.G. - Sunset Surfing (Ran Groove) 8. L+R - 巨浪 (Ran Groove) 9. Beijing Eastside Jam Squad - 你的迷妹 (Ran Groove) 10. Another Van - Last Girl On The Dance Floor (Ran Groove) 11. Hielektromen - After The Song of Songs (Unreleased) 12. Silicone Moons - Thumpasaurus (Ran Music)

Are you ready for a Royal edition of Take the Cake? Because the tea party is back in session and this time, it's very british! This week, Max and Jenna dive deep into the Royal Family goss, discuss majestic swimming owls and share their opinion on the new James Bond theme song. Tune in and come get your taste!

De Gelukszoekers podcast gaat over life en wij hebben ook een leven. Soms heb je tegenslagen en deze week was een van de hosts niet available. Maar nogsteeds is de podcast gefocused doorgezet. Focus is one of the most important natural resources of the mind. Let’s get into it. Er is ook een speciale verassing inbegrepen, be ready.

Mother knows best! Or does she... On this week’s episode of UvA Radio’s only historical drinking game, host Ezra O’Dea is joined by a special guest, in good ol’ Alternative History fashion, brought a buttload of booze, a whole lot of fun, and SO many mom references, you’re sure to lose count if you’re not taking notes! Who will lose, who is really the loser, and what secret has Shakespeare been hiding from us? Tune in to find out!

It’s a Take the Cake SPECIAL! With 2019 just out and a new decade that has arrived, Max and Jenna take a trip down memory lane through the 2010s. How has the world of pop culture changed in the last 10 years? What were the standout events and people in music, television, film and celebrity culture? Who will be uninvited from the 2020 tea parties, who is the podcasts artist of the decade (hint: NOT Ed Sheeran) and most importantly: who takes the cake? Tune in for the big holiday episode!

Terug zijn in de trap, structuur nieuwjaarsdag en respect. De Gelukszoekers, zijn weer aan het graven in de ditches van life zonder life te ditchen. We holding on als Gregory Porter, structuur houden is lastig maar de trap heeft het ons geleerd. Nieuwjaar ligt op de horizon, we finna do, do, do.

This time on the show is Catherine Lord, a practitoner in theatre and film and professor at UvA. Catherine brought along ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats. The girls got knees deep into mystics, incantations, global warming and politics.

Baby, it’s cold outside! But in the studio, the tea is steaming hot as Max Rogall and Jenna Stivey dive into the best and worst of pop culture. Harry Styles is back with new music, but what have the other One Direction boys been up to? Why does Max rap about crop tops? And why is CATS going to be a box office hit? Tune in to find out this and much more - including a touching tribute to Roxette!

Mo, the prince of the trap & Mark Mansa zijn back na 6 maanden UvA Radio stilte. Er is in de meantime veel gebeurd zoals wereldreizen en fulltime functies, maar de Gelukszoeker podcast draait om conversational vibes die zeker niet geroest tijdens de absentie. Zie dit als de time-skip van Naruto, we evolved bra. We back tho, love naar iedereen.

Today on the show is Bipin Upadhyay, a storyteller working in IT who moved to Amsterdam from India 5 years and 11 months ago. Bipin brought along William Cowper’s ‘The solitude of Alexander Selkirk’. We discussed the oceans of the mind, teenage confidence, beautiful Punjabi verse and leaving parts of ourselves behind.