Pop Culture: The Soft Drinks Podcast

Welcome to Pop Culture, the podcast that puts soft drinks at the top of the menu. Helen O'Hara and Kat Brown are arts journalists who don’t drink: Helen's a life-long teetotaller, and Kat is four years sober. Join us as we explore the culture lifting soft drinks out of the dark ages, hear from guests about their favourite non-booze options, and meet the people making things delicious. If you’re fed up of being given elderflower cordial at weddings, this is the pod for you. Send us your non-booze drinks obsessions (and good/bad/tedious soft drink menus) to popculturedrinkspodcast@gmail.com and see what we've been drinking lately on Instagram @popculturedrinkspodcast.

Helen O'Hara

Helen is Empire magazine's Editor-at-Large and a freelance film journalist, broadcaster and author. She co-hosts the Empire podcast, reviewing films weekly and interviewing guests, and hosts the Christmas movies podcast, Bah Humbug, and podcasts and panels for major corporations. She is a regular guest on TV and radio, and the author of three books, the most recent of which, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 as their book of the week.

Kat Brown

Kat Brown is a freelance journalist, commentator, and author. Her books, It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult, and, No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty Two Stories of Almost Parenthood, will be published in spring 2024, and she is a regular contributor to print and broadcast titles. Kat has worked on multimedia and news desks, chairs live events, and writes across reviews and features, copywriting, and even a bit of advertising. She loves tarot, horse riding, and her ridiculous menagerie of animals.