麻豆约拍

Little Mix signalled a step up for the girl group: they were slick like K-pop bands, with powerhouse vocals and arena-quaking routines, and they fought hard to shake off their talent show beginnings to be seen as serious songwriters in their own right.

Mollie King meets the band鈥檚 Leigh-Anne Pinnock, who talks about being part of the last great British girlband, how she鈥檚 finally striking out on her own, and the downside of being in a hugely successful group like Little Mix, as she talks about how being in a girlband was a reckoning with her own identity.

In this episode we hear from: Little Mix鈥檚 Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Girls Aloud鈥檚 Nicola Roberts, Say Now鈥檚 Izzy Salvanera, Amelia Onuorah and Madeleine Haynes, songwriter MNEK, journalist Michael Cragg, Rob Harrison, Mae Muller, producer Brian Higgins of Xenomania.

Presenter: Mollie King
Producer: Kate Hutchinson
Written by Kate Hutchinson
Assistant Producer: Nadine Peters
Additional production: Holly Fisher
Script consultants: Owen Myers, Sharon O鈥機onnell
Editor: Gareth Isles
Executive Producer: Joe Haddow
Commissioning producers: Jonathan O鈥橲ullivan, Sarah Gosling
Commissioner for 麻豆约拍 Music: Will Wilkin