Ila Colley on the trouble-making Elizabeth Allen
The fascinating story of Elizabeth Allen takes us from East London to a remote woodland cabin, to Hollywood and back, before settling in Coventry, where Compton Verney is exhibiting the artist’s absur...
13 Huhti 26min
Beneath the Waves
A new adaptation of Virginia Woolf's The Waves opens at London's Jermyn Street Theatre next week. Hannah chats to playwright Flora Wilson Brown about the appeal of Woolf to young people, the issues wi...
10 Huhti 23min
Helen Thorn has faced big change and come back stronger
It’s fair to say author, Scummy Mummy and self-proclaimed running nerd Helen Thorn has dealt with some pretty hefty shit in the last few years. Her new book, How to face big change and come back stron...
7 Huhti 26min
The Cost of Trust
Surgeon Ian Paterson was jailed in 2017 for conducting botched and often unnecessary operations on his patients, who were predominantly women. Hannah chats to Deborah Douglas and Tracy King about thei...
3 Huhti 31min
The Bush Telegraph: Is that a really long scroll, or are you just pleased to see us?
What could go wrong in an unregulated fertility clinic, asks our Jen while discussing a BBC report on families seeking fertility treatment in Northern Cyprus. Mick has better news about guidance aimed...
2 Huhti 31min
Rated or Dated: Chariots of Fire (1981)
Is it the Devil's work to run on a Sunday? Who's even heard of Cambridge University? And who will win a mini-break with Nigel Havers? Find out the answers to these and many more questions as we watch ...
1 Huhti 34min
Samira Ahmed’s inside the box
Journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed is a busy woman. Through the Square Window, her new(ish) podcast with Graham Kibble-White guides listeners through UK TV of decades gone by. It’s nostal...
31 Maalis 28min
Elinor Cleghorn on the radical history of mothering
The work of mothering has been undervalued for centuries, relegated to the sidelines thanks to patriarchal control of history. In her new book, A Women’s Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mother...
30 Maalis 27min
