The Matts’ cultural highlights of the year
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
2025 may have been an absolute skip fire for political progress but it was a cracker for culture. The Matts round off the year with their highlights - but what will be their joint top moment of 2025? Thank you for listening this year - the Matts return early January and wish all listeners a fabulous festive season and happy New Year!
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time of year, folks. |
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| 0:48.6 | Review of the Year. |
| 0:50.0 | It's a review of the year. |
| 0:51.2 | Cultural review of the year. |
| 0:52.4 | We're looking back at those review cultural things that we like. |
| 0:55.6 | It's got to that time of year. |
| 0:57.0 | It has. |
| 0:57.8 | And yes, it has. |
| 1:00.1 | Do you think, Matt, before we get into our specific picks, and dear listeners, we've got one mutual pick at the end, which you'll have to stay tuned for. |
| 1:09.7 | You'll never guess. |
| 1:10.5 | You'll never guess what it is. |
| 1:12.1 | But we've each picked four cultural highlights of the year. |
| 1:17.8 | Was it a great year? |
| 1:18.9 | It was 2025 a great year for culture? |
| 1:21.8 | It was a brilliant year. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah. |
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