SIM Ep 860 Chops 258: Opening the window on the Shubbak Festival
Shubbak Festival is the UK's largest biennial celebration of contemporary Arab culture, bringing new and unexpected voices together with established artists to London – and other parts of the UK. It r...
11 Kesä 202325min
SIM Ep 859 Pod 257: Unbreakable, unlikeable and lousy with virginity
We're back to the witch hunts this week, albeit of a different kind, as Hannah chats to Sophie Perrins, producer of new documentary Forced Out. They chat about the hard reality of what it meant to be ...
7 Kesä 20231h 25min
SIM Ep 858 Chops 257: Suzy Madigan on Ukraine, and on the rise of AI
Suzy Madigan, senior humanitarian advisor on gender and protection at international humanitarian charity CARE International, is a human rights specialist who’s worked as an international humanitarian ...
4 Kesä 202333min
SIM Ep 857 Outside The Box #55
All good things come to an end and in this Outside The Box we talk about a few of them. So brace yourself for some Succession and Barry finale chat, as well as Mickey's better late than never Better C...
2 Kesä 202346min
SIM Ep 856 Pod 256: You can never have too much chat about witches
Witchcraft, witch hunts, and which witches are witch: in this week’s podzine, Hannah has a fascinating, feminist (obviously) chat to journalist India Rakusen about all things witch-related and her new...
31 Touko 20231h 17min
SIM Ep 855 Chops 256: The best queen we never had?
Lady Margaret Beaufort was a major player in the War of The Roses and the mother of Henry VII. This week marks 580 years since her birth so Hannah's been on the Zoom with historian Nicola Tallis, auth...
28 Touko 202329min
SIM Ep 854 Pod 255: The great outdoors and a colossal prick
Making babies for a chance to win cold, hard cash sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, but was something wealthy lawyer and high-level prankster/prick Charles Vance Millar planned for l...
24 Touko 202349min
SIM Ep 853 Chops 255: Cornwall, rural poverty, resilience and writing
Working-class poet and writer Natasha Carthew is Cornish. She grew up in a small village called Downderry, where the rockpools, beautiful beaches and hedgerows were as constant as the low wages, high ...
21 Touko 202329min
