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Things You Didn’t Know About Pop

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Scott Mills goes deep on the unexpected objects that made the Radio 2 playlist.

Scott Mills goes deep on the unexpected objects that made the Radio 2 playlist look the way it does today.

Things You Didn't Know About Pop: Christine and the Queens' Whisk

Christine and the Queens' Whisk

BBC Sounds - Things You Didn't Know About Pop, Christine and the Queens' Whisk

Scott Mills & Vick Hope find out how a whisk led to the rise of Christine and the Queens.

Scott Mills and Vick Hope discover how the combination of a whisk and a drag troupe was pivotal in the rise of Christine and the Queens.

When he walked into Madame Jojo's he was Héloïse Letissier, but after a run in with a drag troupe, he emerged as Christine and the Queens.
Scott Mills and Vick Hope hear how a trip to one of London's most famous nightspots and a whisk wielding drag queen led to the birth of Christine and the Queens.

At the time of recording and broadcast Héloïse used the pronouns she/her.

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