Roisín O’Donnell’s portrait of coercive control
Roisin O’Donnell’s striking debut novel, Nesting, tackles some big issues: domestic abuse, coercive control and the housing crisis in Ireland. We follow protagonist Ciara’s spur of the moment decision...
11 Maalis 202525min
Jemima Rooper on an actor’s life
Jemima Rooper has been on our screens since the mid ‘90s, featuring in shows such as As If, Hex, and more recently The Split and Geek Girl. Now she’s at London's Park Theatre as Suzanne in one of Fran...
10 Maalis 202521min
Flicking #59: Timestalker
Hannah, Yosra and Mick are all big fans of Alice Lowe. But will that translate into loving Timestalker, which she wrote, directed and stars in? Does an excellent supporting cast (Tanya Reynolds, Jacob...
7 Maalis 202528min
The Bush Telegraph: Zen and the art of potty training
There has been some good news this week, if you squinted right. So we're saying "no thank you" to the White House bullies and "yes please" to big legal developments, potty training, the pursuit of hap...
6 Maalis 202525min
Rated or Dated: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Margaret Atwood via Harold Pinter? Volker Schlöndorff’s 1990 adaptation of what’s become a feminist classic promises “a haunting tale of sexuality in a country gone wrong”. So there’s that for starter...
5 Maalis 202529min
Son of a bitch, it's Anna Morris!
Imagine losing it in public, a video going viral and the whole world calling you a bad mother. That's what happens in playwright and actor Anna Morris's new play Son of A Bitch, now at Southwark Playh...
4 Maalis 202525min
Emily Callaci wants Wages for Housework
Like many new parents, Emily Callaci - writer and professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison - was amazed by the amount of housework that came with looking after small children. Her n...
3 Maalis 202528min
Is the public about to catch on to the Spycops scandal?
The women tricked into relationships with undercover police officers have spent a lot of years investigating and campaigning, largely unnoticed. Might a new ITV documentary about their stories finally...
28 Helmi 202527min
