SIM Ep 430 Chops 184: Unfinished Business at the British Library with Dr Polly Russell
Dr Polly Russell is the curator of the British Library’s cracking and important new exhibition Unfinished Business: The Fight For Women’s Rights. Bang up our alley? Yes siree. She chats to Mickey abo...
25 Loka 202033min
SIM Ep 429 Gig 57: Parris and Wix
Katy Wix AND Rachel Parris? Yep, this is a stone-cold doozie of a Zoomcast. Chat includes choosing one word to describe 2020, jigsaw aggression, unusual funeral behaviour, a needs-must ‘rethink reskil...
21 Loka 20201h 5min
SIM Ep 428 Chops 183: Megan Phelps Roper has Unfollowed
Our world is more divided than we can ever remember it, but what can we do to change hearts and minds? In this Chops, Hannah chats to Megan Phelps-Roper, author of Unfollow, a memoir about growing up ...
18 Loka 202034min
SIM Ep 427 Pod 128: Protest, progress and some classic Bette Davis
We've not one, but two, great chats about fascinating books in this week's podcast. Mickey talks to Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose latest novel, This Mournable Body, has been shortlisted ...
14 Loka 20201h 8min
SIM Ep 426 Chops 182: Baby Loss Awareness Week
It's Baby Loss Awareness Week, so in this Chops Hannah chats to Karen Burgess, CEO of baby loss counselling charity Petals, and Lia Shimada, one of the bereaved mothers helped by the service. They tal...
11 Loka 202041min
SIM Ep 425 Outside The Box #27
It's too rainy, right? Let's all spend the weekend in front of the telly catching up on some excellent documentaries. We chat The Social Dilemma, A Perfect Crime and Challenger: The Final Flight in th...
9 Loka 202040min
SIM Ep 424 Pod 127: Klopping, birthing and “hit it with a hammer!”
Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and comedian Laura Lexx is the romance we all need right now. Yeah yeah, it’s not real, but it is joyous. You can and should read all about it in Laura’s book, Klopp Act...
7 Loka 20201h 14min
SIM Ep 423 Chops 181: Laura Bates goes manospheric
Incels, pick-up artists, men's rights activists; the internet is literally crawling with angry men and as Laura Bates found out, they are more than happy to indoctrinate youngsters too. The writer and...
4 Loka 202034min
