Sophie Gilbert on how pop culture turned women against themselves
In Girl On Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Sophie Gilbert underlines how popular culture isn’t an innocuous force. She chats to our...
25 Huhti 202525min
Rated or Dated: Leon (1995)
Once cool, now ick. That could describe so many things from 1995, but in this instance it's Luc Besson's thriller about a prepubescent girl and her assassin neighbour. But could it all have been so di...
23 Huhti 202522min
Meeting history with Amy Ng
Two young women walk into a theatre in China in 1935 and so begins a relationship that spans a turbulent period of history and ends with the death of one of them. Hannah chats to playwright and histor...
22 Huhti 202527min
Abigail Johnson on nineties nostalgia and millennium madness
Books are a bit like buses for author Abigail Johnson, who signed a two-book deal after taking a punt on a creative writing course during the pandemic. Fast forward a few years, and Abigail's debut no...
21 Huhti 202524min
Outside The Box April 2025
There's a long weekend ahead and if you want to spend it watching telly, then you do you. Have some help choosing in the form of our monthly chat about TV, in which we're talking about The White Lotus...
18 Huhti 202531min
The Bush Telegraph: Mon dieu! Did we say we liked dystopias?
Things are looking very worrying over in America, so of course we're talking about that. But we manage to get in a lot of other stuff too, including workers' rights, good news about bad games, rich wo...
17 Huhti 202532min
Rated or Dated: American Psycho (2000)
Comedy? Horror? Satire? A full-length Huey Lewis and the News music video? There’s a lot going on in Mary Harron’s big screen adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 bestseller. Will Chri...
16 Huhti 202533min
Alice Vincent is listening
Alice Vincent was a music journalist for many years, which had already started to shift how she listened, but then pregnancy and a deep trauma when her baby was very small led to her relationship with...
15 Huhti 202523min
