SIM Ep 139, Pod 46: Feminist fringes, twitching twinkles & train journeys from hell

In this episode Jen catches up with author Molly Aitken to chat about her debut novel, The Island Child. They talk about motherhood, mental health, mythology, and why women don't ever seem to catch a ...

1 Maalis 202025min

At last year's Edinburgh Fringe, Mick, Hannah and Jen had a bloody lovely chat with comedian Laura Lexx and presenter and author Janet Ellis. They talked about finding a thing's peril (but doing it an...

26 Helmi 202054min

From Marian Keyes to Jilly Cooper, Joanne Harris to Toni Morrison, Barbara Cartland to Gabriel Garcia Marquez: romantic novels are a broad church able to tackle a lot of big topics and hot potatoes. A...

23 Helmi 202039min

Ever wondered why some of the women around you just can't seem to catch a break in the workplace? In the fourth and final episode of our series on pregnancy, Jen catches up with Aceil Haddad, head of ...

23 Helmi 202038min

FANFARE PLEASE. It's our 100th podzine and, woman oh woman, is it a bumper banger. (Yes. Yes it is.)  Kiran Millwood-Hargrave writes beautifully of women's experiences from history and The Mercies, he...

19 Helmi 20201h 26min

We hear quite a lot about the joy and wonder of pregnancy, rather less about the stress of wondering if something's wrong or you just need to fart. In part three of our series on pregnancy, Jen talks ...

16 Helmi 202036min

Journalist Hazel Davis had The Best Time when we sent her to the British Library to chat with author and all-round hilarious woman Nina Stibbe. Chat veers delightfully wildly from Nina's first book, L...

16 Helmi 20201h 12min

In the first of our new film podcast, Flicking *sniggers*, we're off to the Oscars where there is laughter, terror, some really old white dudes, and not a lot for anyone else. That's right, this month...

14 Helmi 202038min