Rated or Dated: Escape to Victory (1981)
Hollywood giant John Huston directs Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone and – wait – Pelé, in this sports-war drama, reimagining the 1942 “Death Match”. But how bad can a prisoner of war camp be when al...
8 Heinä 26min
Havoc and hysteria, with Rebecca Wait
Author Rebecca Wait makes a return visit to the podcast to chat to Hannah about her latest book Havoc, a dark comedy about a mystery illness that breaks out at a girls' boarding school in 1984. They c...
7 Heinä 25min
A not-dying art form, with Leyla Nazli and Lisa Logan
This summer marks the 19th year of the Arcola Theatre’s seminal Grimeborn festival, a season of new and reworked operas. Jen chats to the Arcola’s executive director, Leyla Nazli and Lisa Logan, the ...
6 Heinä 27min
Get Ahead of Being Dead, with Evie King
After her first book - Ashes to Admin - was published, a lot of people got in touch with Evie King to tell her they'd been inspired to get plans in place for the end of their lives. If that's what she...
3 Heinä 27min
The Bush Telegraph: Watch out, beavers about!
Is too much screen time really the scourge of the under-twos? And exactly how excited should we be that the first ever female Labour Prime Minister is Andy Burnham, a man who isn’t even Prime Minister...
2 Heinä 33min
Rated or Dated: The King & I (1956)
No-one's going to argue that Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical doesn't have issues, but does it still have things to recommend it? Is Anna an early feminist? Does it contain a banger? Is The Small House...
1 Heinä 35min
Rachel Fairburn is a class act
Working-class, feminist comedian Rachel Fairburn has long been a guaranteed good laugh on the comedy circuit, and a must-listen on All Killa No Filla, her smash hit true crime podcast with fellow stan...
30 Kesä 26min
Sex Talk with Emma-Louise Boynton
In her new book, Pleasure: The Reclamation of My Body, journalist and broadcaster Emma-Louise Boynton interrogates the societal forces that teach women to mistrust their bodies and perform rather than...
29 Kesä 26min
