Flicking #69: A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar-winning comedy drama received an embarrassment of plaudits from the industry and critics. Now it’s time to get the ones that really matter: Mick, Hannah and Yosra watch America...
16 Tammi 32min
The Bush Telegraph: 73 questions (most of which are WTAF?)
It's the first BT of 2026, so Mickey and Hannah have some catching up to do. This time, they're talking about failure: Grok user failures, women's health study failures and child benefit failures. Sti...
15 Tammi 24min
Rated or Dated: Save the Last Dance (2001)
Thomas Carter’s teen dance film helped launch the career of Julia Stiles, but has she been wronged by public perceptions of her dance skills in the years that followed? How many tropes are too many tr...
14 Tammi 28min
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Elizabeth Hyman
Holocaust Memorial Day is coming up later this month (Tuesday 27 January), so Hannah's been on the Zoom with historian Elizabeth Hyman to talk about her non-fiction book The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw...
13 Tammi 30min
Why Laura Hall lay her head in water
Feeling bogged down by meetings and out of her depth at work, travel writer Laura Hall quit her job and embarked on a fresh challenge to get her life back on track. Her new book, The Year I Lay My Hea...
12 Tammi 26min
Rated or Dated: Sexy Beast (2001)
Our weekly look at a film from the past is back for the New Year like a boulder about to smash into your swimming pool, as we watch Jonathan Glazer's debut: a one-last-job tale with a gangster who won...
7 Tammi 27min
Salima Saxton is a bad patient
Last year, actor, author, life coach and professional mad woman (she co-hosts the Women Are Mad podcast with psychotherapist Jennifer Cox) Salima Saxton got ill. Obviously she started a Substack about...
6 Tammi 27min
Wendy Welpton wants you on the floor
An injury in her early 40s, and a long period of chronic pain that followed, made Wendy Welpton think about how she was moving. Now a movement coach, founder of Reclaim Movement, and a podcast host, s...
5 Tammi 26min
