We Have Notes with Liv Little and Miranda Sawyer

The internet and group chats across the country were on fire on Monday night with the news that Brooklyn Beckham had finally addressed rumours of a rift with his famous parents. We give you TLDR on everything that happened, Brooklyn’s claims and discuss the PR approach the Beckhams may be using.

Before Brooklyn’s Instagram story, the only thing the internet was talking about was the viral hit TV show Heated Rivalry. How did a small, indy show become the most talked about series of the year?

And we hear from artist Lindsey Mendick, who is a part of the team behind Off Season, a pop-up art festival in Margate.

More details on Off Season HERE

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Liv:
No Other Choice (film)
To Whom This May Concern - Jill Scott
Miranda:
Hamilton
The Self Help Podcast

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes!
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on Instagram
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on TikTok
[email protected] via email

Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little
Producer: Casey Magloire
Executive Producer: Jasper Corbett

Subscribe to The Observer today and get access to:
Our podcasts before anyone else
A daily edition, curated by our editors 7 days a week
Puzzles from the inventors of the cryptic crossword
Recipes for every occasion
Free tickets to join Observer events in our newsroom or online
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are baaaccck!

This week we talk to Chloe Hadjimatheou, the Observer journalist behind the viral investigation into the Salt Path. She dishes on all the behind the scenes details of her new podcast series - The Walkers: The Real Salt Path. Observer subscribers can listen to all episodes HERE.

Award season is in full swing and we have noticed a trend … a lot of the top film nominees are about dads. One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Sentimental Value, even Marty Supreme! We speak to the Observer’s Olivia Ovenden and ask why is Hollywood so obsessed with putting fathers on film?

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE

Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here’s what’s on their radar this week:

Liv:
Deborah Levy - Cost of Living, Hot Milk and ‘Reality was so dull. Bowie gave us glitter’ (for The Observer)
Joy Gregory’s Catching Flies with Honey exhibition
Kerry James Marshall’s The Histories exhibition
Miranda:
Peaches' new album - No Lube So Rude (coming soon)

More details on everything we chatted about in this episode!
Read Chloe Hadjimatheou’s Salt Path Investigation HERE
Raynor Winn’s response to the Observer’s investigation HERE
Read Olivia's article: How daddy issues took over this year’s Oscars race HERE

Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer’s New Review HERE

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes!
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on Instagram
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on TikTok
[email protected] via email

Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little
Producer: Casey Magloire
Executive Producer: Jasper Corbett

Subscribe to The Observer today and get access to:
Our podcasts before anyone else
A daily edition, curated by our editors 7 days a week
Puzzles from the inventors of the cryptic crossword
Recipes for every occasion
Free tickets to join Observer events in our newsroom or online
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your favourite cultural commentators Liv Little and Miranda Sawyer are (almost) back for a brand new season of the We Have Notes Podcast.

That means new episodes every week from Wednesday 14th January onwards. Make sure to follow the feed so you don't miss the first episode of season 2!

Until then… Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes!
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on Instagram
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on TikTok
[email protected] via email

Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little
Producer: Casey Magloire
Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

Subscribe to The Observer today and get access to:
Our podcasts before anyone else
A daily edition, curated by our editors 7 days a week
Puzzles from the inventors of the cryptic crossword
Recipes for every occasion
Free tickets to join Observer events in our newsroom or online

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miranda and Liv hear from the queen of the year: the one and only… Lily Allen! We went mad for KPOP Demon Hunters, Adolescence and Kendrick Lamar’s bootcut jeans at the Super Bowl. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial dominated headlines and the new documentary - Sean Combs: The Reckoning went viral.

Listen to Part One of 2025 Wrapped HERE

You can read Eva Wiseman’s interview with Lily Allen HERE

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes!
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on Instagram
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on TikTok
[email protected] via email

Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little

Producer: Casey Magloire

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This year has delivered a string of surreal pop-culture moments: Katy Perry in space, Katy Perry going official with former Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, the jumbotron affair at the Coldplay concert, the Louvre heist, the rise of Labubus and JoJo Siwa’s unlikely romance with Love Island’s Chris Hughes.

Liv and Miranda discuss their favourite moments of the year as well as those things they’d like to leave behind.

Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE

Liv and Miranda’s 2025 highlights

Liv:
Hard Truths (film)
A Real Pain (film)
One of Those Days (film)
Pillion (film)
Such Brave Girls (TV)
Mo (TV)
Kehlani (singer)
Sasha Keable (singer)

Miranda:
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man (Podcast)
Pipeline Left to Die (podcast)
Hamlet Hail to Thief (theatre)

More details on everything we chatted about in this episode!
Read Chloe Hadjimatheou’s Salt Path Investigation HERE
Raynor Winn’s response to the Observer’s investigation HERE
Miranda’s Hamlet Hail to Thief review HERE

Let’s chat! Send us your voice notes and predictions for 2026!
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on Instagram
@WeHaveNotes_Pod on TikTok
[email protected] via email

Hosts: Miranda Sawyer and Liv Little
Producer: Casey Magloire
Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.