SIM Ep 723 Chops 247: The impact of conflict on women and girls in Ukraine
Clearly what’s happening in Ukraine is horrific for everyone there, but women and girls are particularly at risk during conflict, whether they’re fleeing the country or staying put in Ukraine. Suzy M...
24 Huhti 202239min
SIM Ep 722 Gig 61: Millican, Young and Hayward
Back in October at the Newcastle Stand, Mickey was tasked with herding the following brilliant comedy cats: Sarah Millican, Louise Young and Sally-Anne Hayward. As ever during In Conversations, the ga...
20 Huhti 202257min
SIM Ep 721 Chops 246: Love in the time of The Troubles
Louise Kennedy’s short story collection The End of the World is a Cul-de-sac garnered her all sorts of well-deserved plaudits. Her debut novel, Trespasses, is a page-turning story of love and loss set...
17 Huhti 202227min
SIM Ep 720 Pod 199: Hull, hell, and help, what’s happening?
Comedian Lucy Beaumont is a busy woman, starring as a fictionalised version of herself in Dave’s Meet The Richardsons and being the co-writer of new Channel 4 sitcom, Hullraisers. In this week’s podzi...
13 Huhti 20221h 20min
SIM 719 Chops 245: Georgina Scull has no regrets
A life-threatening ectopic pregnancy at 37 caused writer Georgina Scull to re-evaluate her lot. Having not lived the life she’d “planned”, she set about talking to people facing their own mortality to...
10 Huhti 202230min
SIM Ep 718 Flicking #23: Bridesmaids
The love for Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo's 2011 comedy brimming with women is flowing out of Mickey like lava, in the latest episode of Flicking. But what do Yosra and Hannah make of Bridesmaids? Th...
9 Huhti 202224min
SIM Ep 717 Pod 198: Chasing cash, discovering comets, and an absolute load of codswallop
Times are tough, financially speaking, and Makala Green knows a thing or two about looking after the pennies, having worked her way up from a 16-year-old cashier at Nationwide bank to being a chartere...
6 Huhti 20221h 21min
SIM Ep 716 Chops 244: Catherine The Inoculated
Journalist and writer Lucy Ward tells Hannah how she turned a tale of family history she heard in a school playground into the cracking new non-fiction book The Empress and the English Doctor: How Cat...
3 Huhti 202236min
