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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’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock, who talks about being part of the last great British girlband, how she’s 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’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts, Say Now’s 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’Connell Editor: Gareth Isles Executive Producer: Joe Haddow Commissioning producers: Jonathan O’Sullivan, Sarah Gosling Commissioner for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music: Will Wilkin