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Welcome back to part two of the rise and rise and slight fault of the Spice Girls.

When we left them, we discovered how the band was formed.

The iconic lineup was finally almost complete as Baby Spice attempted to get off a train

at Maidenhead Station.

Coming up in this episode, we find out about the girls in their incredible

pre-fame flat share and their ambitions lead them to make a crucial last-minute management change.

Time to meet our studio guests, five girls who for years were knocking on the doors of recording studios.

Eventually they decided to get together, live together and form an all-girl-power pop group themselves.

They're heading for the big time. They're called girls and they join us on the sober party welcome to the list hello

hello you've got the new single yeah out the week today called wannabe

high hopes very extreme high hopes maybe a bit I don know, we're trying to be realistic about it,

but we are optimistic as well.

Uzi, we're on the platform at Maidenhead Station. Oh my gosh. I thought this day would never come.

Exactly. It's one of the great kind of pop moments in history. It's one of the great historical moments. They are waiting for Emma Bunton to get off the train. They want to see what she looks like. They want to see what she's like. Jerry's in mother mode. So we said hi and she said hi. We're all conscious of being extra polite. What with it being our first meeting. What a really nice girl I thought to myself. Not my kind of girl, but nice to tweet. Not my words, Sue is the words of Metal B. I mean, I just love how honest she is. She's very honest, isn't she? You know what you're getting with Mal B?

You do, and that is absolutely rinsed.

So Emma turns up and they all live in the house together.

That must be weird because one's moved out and you've come in on a six-week trial.

And do you think she's sharing with Victoria or do you think they gave her her own room? I think she's sharing with Victoria, because no one could be in a room with Jerry, because she's unbearable, according to Mel B. Oh, yeah, that's true. Crikey. But they soon are a gang. We had to live on a strict budget, according to Jerry. Once a week, we all trooped down to say in Sprees and bought our weekly shopping. We tended to each have our own food because our tastes were so different. Do you want to guess what

Emma, Emma Baby Spice ate, according to Jerry? Like just beans on toast or something like that.

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