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Hello, and welcome to the final Popular Table of the year! Before David, Mike, and Felix leave the show, they delve into the world of pop culture news for one last time. With Vicky, Ibi, and the ghost of Tom, they discuss the unfortunate passings of Christopher Lee, Ron Moody, Dusty Rhodes, and Ornette Coleman, Chris Hemsworth's role in the all-female Ghostbusters reboot, Marvel's response to their fans, and Jurassic World's success.

In part 2 of this week's show, the gang reminisce about how they got involved in the show, and examine some of their favourite moments.

In the final part of this week's show, our keen pop culture analysts look at Vicky's contradictory opinions on Taylor Swift, and bloopers, before saying some last goodbyes...

And that's all from the Popular Table for this academic year. Thank you so much for listening in week after week. The show will return in September with a slight facelift.

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Hello and welcome to another edition of The Popular Table!

We are without David this week, but a massive congratulations to Ireland on voting Yes in the marriage referendum! In his absence, Ibi, Mike, Victoria, Sam, Felix, Tom and Alanna get things going with a look forward to Eurovision, briefly touching on the latest Game of Thrones controversy (to be discussed in detail next week), praising Pixar for its latest decision on diversity, criticising Cannes for its heels policy, and looking at the New Mutants spin-off.

In the second part of the show, we fall in love with Taylor Swift all over again, as we discuss her changing image and the use of alter egos in music like Sasha Fierce, Slim Shady and Ziggy Stardust. Then, we talk about whether the creation of culture and the means to get into cultural industries is limited to the middle and upper classes, or whether the working class can be represented without being patronising.

In the final part of this week's show, we talk about how the Met Gala created controversy around cultural appropriation with its theme of China this year, and we go further into discussion appropriation versus inspiration

And that's all for this week! This week's clips were the Eurovision theme song and a clip taken from classic film Oliver!