Hello precious angels! Well here we are again, and this time we're seniors, and we're gonna ruleeeee the schooool. (Name that movie). This week, we talk about the legacy of queer legend Little Richard, Lucy's cat-lover documentary rec, 'Kedi', Olivia's review of Booker Prize 2019 winner 'Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo and an emotional review of the final series of Schitt's Creek. Come on in, the water's fine! Little Richard article: https://www.them.us/story/queer-icon-little-richard-...
May 20, 2020•1 hr 2 min
It's week 17,436 of lockdown angels and we're back to bring you a big gulp of what we've been up to. This week we talk managing the Corona rage- whether it be by watching pots get smashed or growing marigolds on a windowsill. Plus, the cult of Joe Exotic and whether we're maybe, basically, over it. We deep dive the stunningly realised TV series of 'Normal People' and talk all our #thoughtsandfeelings about being seen by a piece of work. Special shoutout to Connell's chain, again. We've also got ...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Well hello to all of our favourite lockdown bbis! We are SO excited to bring you this week's episode as we are joined by very a very special guest, the wonderful, Carrie Lyell! Carrie is the Editor-in-Chief at DIVA, Europe's leading magazine for queer women and we are very lucky to have her join us on the podcast. Not only is she a very accomplished writer and editor but she has lots of insightful, funny and quite honestly, GAFTA-winning things to say on this episode- we are all very bless-ed. C...
May 06, 2020•1 hr 29 min
Oh hey all you gorgeous at home stunners. We hope you are the most well and safe! This week we chat what we've been up to aka playing The Sims. The obsession is real and we discuss the virtues and pitfalls of The Sims 4 vs The Sims 2 plus the many, stunning and iconic graces of true Sim-Stan, Juno Birch. We've mainly been watching Netflix's newest ridiculous, yet heart-warming, reality show 'Too Hot To Handle', which sees dating take on an eerily prophetic distancing twist. Plus Olivia rewatches...
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Hello all of you gorgeous socially distant huns, it's only us, here with another hefty dollop of queer goss and quarantainment! This week we chat about Lucy's independent film festival success (spoiler: you'll be craving maple syrup after listening), Killing Eve, the latest on Ru Paul's Drag Race season 12 and Olivia's new muse... Zac Efron! Tracks of the week: Tiny Dancer, Elton John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcyacLRPNs Miami Memory, Alex Cameron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Btytp...
Apr 22, 2020•1 hr 9 min
We've hit week four of lockdown sweet bebbis! We hope you are all doing okay and ready for some queer recs! First, we talk through what we've been consuming from 'Trigonometry' to 'Ozark', via 'Table Manners' and 'A Little Life'. Plus this week we do a lot of looking forward and give you some stunning recommendations for where you can watch great queer TV and film online. The BFI Player can be found here, https://player.bfi.org.uk/, check out the releases from Flare (the annual LGBTQ+ film festi...
Apr 15, 2020•56 min
Hello our sweet lockdown angels! How goes it? We promised we'd be doing something over these next few freaky months and we aren't ones to disappoint! Welcome to our mini-series, 'Queer in the Time of Covid' where we talk about all of our usual stuff, but with a pandemic twist! It's been important for us to have some time to switch off and talk Netflix, books and dumb news, but we don't want to ignore the elephant in the room either, and it's clear this is a super-stressful, weird time for lots o...
Apr 08, 2020•52 min
Hope you're all hanging in there sweet huns? Whilst we figure out a way to bring you the pod in some form of it's full glory we thought we'd send out some lil lols and bring you some bloops from the past few months. So if you've been missing our voices never fear! Here we are making mistakes and laughing a LOT about it! We hope you are all staying safe and healthy. Longing 4 u always xoxo
Mar 26, 2020•11 min
Another day, another pod. This week we're celebrating Olivia's burgeoning career as an unboxing influencer. Thank you to #mygoodfriendsatg*usto. We review stunning new film 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' and Lucy is reminded of brilliant lesbian artist Gluck, who's painting 'YouWe' can be explored further here: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/magazine-gluck-brighton-museum-art-gallery-diana-souhami. Also for the mentioned New Yorker article, click here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...
Mar 11, 2020•57 min
Hello beauties, it's another flipping week isn't it?! This week, we discuss our favourite spices (I know, you've been dying for such hot goss), our ranking of the best ever slogan t-shirts and bumper stickers we've ever seen and the latest news from our Wakefield belle, Jane McDonald Plus, all the latest music bits from our OBSESSION with Lady Gaga's latest single 'Stupid Love', the UK'S Eurovision music entry, Stormzy's Gregg's Black Card and Christine and the Queens brand new EP. Plus we go IN...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr
Another week, another stunning pod. Join us as Lucy gets over excited by the biggest boyband news this side of 2016 and we introduce you to the concept of ‘fifth member’. We’ve been cultured huns at the cinema this week so we happily bring you our glowing reviews of ‘Parasite’ and ‘Queen and Slim’- two films you MUST see. We give you our rundown of the Brits in a quick ‘Britique’, before we lend our thoughts to the tragic news of Caroline Flack’s death and what it says about our relationships wi...
Feb 26, 2020•51 min
Hello podcast fans! This week, we wax lyrical about how BLOWN away we were by Kim Petras when we saw her on her Clarity Tour, OMG! We also talks trips to Blackpool, Olivia'a gambling prowess and chip shop recommendation, plus all the updates on Schofe and Jameela Jamil. We talk the beauty of the Independant Spirit Awards (and the universal queer love that exists for Laura Dern) as well as the latest news from Dwayne Wade and Nikkie Tutorials. We review Fortune Feimster's new Netflix special, 'Sw...
Feb 18, 2020•51 min
Welcome huns! Join us as we talk about the stunning time we had at Carly Rae Jepsen, the return of the love sausage and our continued beef with bad gig etiquette. We take a brief look at the boggling Netflix drama ‘The Stranger’, recap ‘Queenie’ by Candice Carty-Williams and recommend Russell Tovey’s podcast ‘Talk Art’. We take a look at what’s going on with Jameela Jamil’s coming out in the wake of being made a judge of new ballroom show ’Legendary’ (comprehensive article here: https://www.indy...
Feb 12, 2020•40 min
Hello sweet bebs! This week we're talking the delights of Pasta Grannies, our upcoming queer music weekender and the new Taylor Swift Documenary, 'Miss Americana'- slide on in! Tracks of the week: Georgia, 'About Work the Dancefloor' Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Y9V07wry4 Clairo, 'Sophia': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9l8zCOwEII Queer-Friendly barbers approved by you! Matu Barber Company: @matubarbercompany Palace Barbers, Afflecks Palace: https://www.afflecks.com/shops/palace-bar...
Feb 05, 2020•49 min
She's here, she's queer, she's a brand new ep. Join us this week for our lowdown on the Grammys (mainly obsessing over anyone who is a queer cowboy), our reviews of films 'Rafiki' and 'Bombshell' and a little dive into the world of Nigella and Nigel- I'm sure you know who we're talking about. We also chat the coming out of NikkieTutorials, the rise of the Tradwife and give you a good bumper haul of queer book news. There's a big old deep dive into season two of 'Sex Education' and we also cover ...
Jan 29, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Hunnies we're home! It's 2020 and the year of our reckoning! It's so fab to be back after a short bbi podcast hiatus and OH how we've missed you! Some might even say that we've lived and longed for this moment?! This week we take a look back at the decade that was, the decade that is, re-capped Olivia's 30th birthday bonanza (it finally happened everyone) and marvelled at the advent of Lucy's signature lip. 2020 is shaping up to be a big'un already and we love to see it! Track of the week: Music...
Jan 22, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Join us this week for a stunning holiday feast of an ep as we make the yuletide gay! Starting off we take you through a very festive round up of feel good news bits including dogs in Christmas jumpers- obv! Then we move on to give our rave reviews of Netflix's new Christmas films from cute, high-school romance 'Let It Snow' to wonderfully twee and questionable 'The Knight Before Christmas'. We also talk our favourite Christmas songs, what we don't agree with during the festive period and our fav...
Dec 18, 2019•51 min
Hello you lil’ bbi angels on top of the Christmas tree! We’re here, refreshed and revived off the back of a YouTube guided meditation video, ready to bring you all your favourite Queer Longing BITS! And much like Xena and Gabrielle in that bath scene, we too are cleansing you of your worries and taking you on a journey of rejuvenation and discovery through Dolly Parton’s America, Pose Season 2, the latest in Christmas movie offerings and how it all, inevitably, ends in Fleetwood Mac. Track(s) of...
Dec 11, 2019•43 min
We are joined this week by gorgeous guest and lovely, great human Sophie Galpin! Sophie is a super talented multi-instrumentalist who currently performs with two of our favourite acts SOAK and Self Esteem all over the world! Aside from that she is also involved in all manner of exciting projects from theatre productions to creating solo tracks. Sophie joined us for a great chat about all the bits she's been up to and gave us some insights into the life of a touring musician. We talked balancing ...
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr 2 min
What's that you hear bbis? That's right it's the sweet sound of jingle bells! We're swinging right into the festive season, albeit a lil early, on the poddy this week as we bring you our review of the astounding new film 'Last Christmas'. Buckle in for some right feelings about it. We also talk our round up of 'Atypical' season 3 with all the great queer bits and friendship bits, have a chat about the new season of 'The Crown' and weigh in on the utterly bemusing interview given by Prince Andrew...
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr 14 min
We're back bebes! Lucy has just about enough voice to get back in the podcast saddle and get an ep out but as you'll hear she's extra croaky. So soz, not soz about that. In this glorious ep we talk the new BBC adaptation of 'His Dark Materials', in which Lucy has a nerdy freak out about it not being wholly bad. We also talk the exciting news of the upcoming 'Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show', Russell T Davies' emotive appearance on 'Desert Island Discs' and we discuss Emma Watson's new phrase 'sel...
Nov 13, 2019•56 min
Ah sweet huns- unfortunately this weekend Lucy lost her voice just before our planned recording sesh in some unknown bout of illness via a raucous wedding dance floor. However, before she was completely silenced (a tragedy, we know) we recorded this short note whilst hanging out in a haunted cloakroom. You can tell from this recording that Lucy's voice was not long for this world (RIP). We thought we'd release this because, why not (take a crazy chance)? We hope to be back to normal service ASAP...
Nov 06, 2019•3 min
THIS IS HALLOWEEN. THIS IS HALLOWEEN. HALLOWEEN. HALLOWEEN. THIS IS HALLOWEEN. BOO! Welcome to a very special SPOOKY EP of Queer Longing! Halloween is basically queer Christmas so it would be remiss of us not to indulge, right? This week we serve you all our spookiest recs from films to podcasts, plus we have A REAL LIFE spooky STORY TIME! Hold on to your berets. We also give you our reviews of Jonathan van Ness' show at Manchester Apollo as well as a rave review (as per usual) of our dream hun ...
Oct 30, 2019•58 min
On this week's stunning episode Olivia and Lucy give you a full review of the outstanding time they had at HearHer Festival 2019. To learn more about the festival check out their website https://www.hearherfestival.com and get down to next years fest! They are ever expanding and if you want a weekend full of likeminded, gorge huns this is not one to sleep on. In other news, RuPaul's Drag Race UK has started! We digest what we love about the series' UK offering and also take a quick look at what ...
Oct 23, 2019•48 min
Why hello sweet angels! Another week, another chance to SPEAK. This week is all about the Transparent Musical Finale, Spooky Season and whether or not there is one unifying dream?! We also discover our VERY FIRST TROLL (we honestly feel famuz now, thank u su much) and discuss our respective histories in the theatre, darling! Aimee Stephens article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/30/there-is-no-protection-case-of-trans-woman-fired-after-coming-out-could-make-history Cool dreams: https...
Oct 09, 2019•54 min
Ever wanted to know what houseplant Olivia and Lucy are according to their lesbian characteristics? Well look no further. We discuss that incredibly important topic and many more in today’s episode. We talk YA books that shaped us from ‘Sophie’s World’ to ‘His Dark Materials’ and Lucy gives you her review of ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ and we therefore fancy ourselves as literary critics. Olivia takes us through her experience of ‘Carnival Row’ which ended with her actually watching ‘Disob...
Oct 02, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Word up hunni bbis, how goes it? This week, we discuss three of the most popular documentaries of the moment, find/watch them here: Jessy Nelson: 'Odd One Out' https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07lsr4d/jesy-nelson-odd-one-out Gareth Thomas: HIV and Me: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008yrh/gareth-thomas-hiv-and-me Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea.: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80244973 DailyDot review: https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/hello-privilege-its-me-chelsea-review-ne...
Sep 25, 2019•52 min
This week we bring you a recap of the most stunning weekend we had in Margate celebrating a friends 30th. We discuss the golden rule of holiday destinations i.e. one gay bar and one gay bar only, and talk about trifle shots and glorious drag queens at Margate's answer to this rule- Sundowners. Lucy let's you know all about her family's obsession with games and quiz shows as well as opening up her heart re her lifetime love of One Direction. We gush some more over Schitt's Creek and give a big me...
Sep 18, 2019•53 min
We power through a gorgeous episode this week and hit all the sweet queer spots you could wish for. There's chats re stunning lez character Dr Carr on 'Mindhunter', Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird being 10/10 couple goals for their piece in InStyle magazine and Kristen Stewart holding hands with her gf no matter what. Olivia watches 'Call Me By Your Name' at the same time Lucy reads it and we hear all about Olivia's latest wild dream where her and Lucy escape a murderous friend to go watch brilliantl...
Sep 12, 2019•46 min
Oh she's a goodie this week bebs! We take you through all our thoughts and feelings via a deep dive into our new TV obsession 'Euphoria' and also chat about the sublime nothingness that is 'Big Little Lies'. It's not all about TV this week as we chat about great podcast listens from Beanie Feldstein on 'Armchair Expert' through to Christian Holden of The Hotelier on The E Word Podcast. We also have time to answer the questions we know you're dying to have answered, namely: what are our favourite...
Sep 04, 2019•1 hr 5 min
