Anita Rani on ditching the baggage, owning her anger and why her 40s are her power decade
Hello, and welcome to season 5 of The Shift, and I could not be happier to kick off this season with this very special guest. What even is the “right sort of girl?” That’s a question my guest this wee...
13 Heinä 202145min
Dr Jen Gunter on menopause, mental health and why we all need a meno-party
The best way I can think of to describe this week’s guest is that she’s a women’s health vigilante. (A vagina vigilante if you will!) Dubbed twitter’s resident gynaecologist, and the nemesis of snake ...
15 Kesä 202147min
Esther Freud on motherhood, guilt and upending your life in your 50s
How does it feel to come from a family with a legend? If you’re today’s guest, novelist and playwright Esther Freud (daughter of painter Lucian Freud and great granddaughter of Sigmund Freud) you work...
8 Kesä 202141min
Kate Mosse: why caring is a feminist issue (from the archives)
This is a replay of an episode published at the start of the year in which Kate Mosse talked about her experience of caring for both her own elderly parents, and her husband's mother. I'm replaying it...
3 Kesä 202143min
Pragya Agarwal on shame, surrogacy and the many faces of motherhood
This week’s guest is the behavioural and data scientist, Dr Pragya Agarwal. A passionate campaigner for gender and race equality, Pragya is the author of the much-praised Sway, about unravelling uncon...
1 Kesä 202145min
Annie Mac on turning 40 and why middle aged women are a force to be reckoned with
My guest this week is a business woman, broadcaster, curator, tastemaker and DJ. She headlines festivals, hosts one of BBC Radio 1’s flagship shows, was Europe’s biggest female DJ and has her own hit ...
25 Touko 202142min
Mona Eltahawy on anger, ambition and ageing disgracefully
The phrase force-of-nature was created to describe this week’s guest. Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy has been fighting back and refusing to shut up for the best part of 50 years. She has b...
18 Touko 202147min
Alison Bechdel on her search for inner and outer strength. Plus tarot
My guest this week is the cartoonist Alison Bechdel. Probably best known for the Bechdel test - a tongue in cheek method she came up with in the 80s for assessing gender bias in movies. She became a h...
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