Richie Anderson's Girl Bands Vs Boy Bands

Richie Anderson looks back over three decades of the world's biggest boybands and girlbands.

Through the 80s, 90s and 00s, acts such as Bros, Bananarama, Take That, The Spice Girls, Westlife and Girls Aloud dominated the pop charts. But what makes a great boyband or girlband? Why were they so successful? Why did we love them so much? And why were the splits so painful?

Richie chats to the stars who were at the centre of it all and the fans who pinned their posters on their bedroom walls, as we listen back to some of the biggest and best songs of the era and decide once and for all who comes out on top...in boybands versus girlbands!

It's Richie Anderson's Girl Bands vs Boy Bands.