Deborah Frances-White on feminism, guilt-exfoliation and being diagnosed with ADHD in her 40s
Hello and welcome to this special bonus episode of The Shift with Sam Baker. Consider it a taster for season 10, which starts next Tuesday. If you’re in your 40s or 50s (or even 30s or 60s) and feelin...
4 Loka 202237min
Dr Jen Gunter has things she wants you to know about the menopause - THE SHIFT REVISITED
One of my favourite things about making The Shift podcast is all the fascinating women I get to interview - and learn a little bit from. So I’m revisiting a few of my favourite episodes while I finish...
27 Syys 202247min
Nana-Ama Danquah on the triple burden of mental health, menopause and being Black - THE SHIFT REVISITED
One of my favourite things about making The Shift podcast is all the fascinating women I get to interview - and learn a little bit from. So I’m revisiting a few of my favourite episodes while I finish...
20 Syys 202247min
Anita Rani on why her 40s are her power decade - THE SHIFT REVISITED
One of my favourite things about making The Shift podcast is all the fascinating women I get to interview - and learn a little bit from. So I’m revisiting a few of my favourite episodes while I finish...
13 Syys 202245min
Lisa Jewell on hitting a golden seam of success in her 50s
Today’s guest is one of Britain’s best loved novelists, Lisa Jewell. Her career started with a smash hit debut novel Ralph’s Party - which she started writing as a bet at the age of 27 while she was u...
6 Syys 20221h 1min
Hilma Wolitzer: 80 years of writing, and not done yet
My guest today is the writer Hilma Wolitzer. Born in 1930, Hilma had her first poem published at the age of 9. She then shelved that ambition in favour of marriage and children, as women were expected...
30 Elo 202253min
Clare Grogan on the superpower that helped her survive her most difficult decade
I can’t remember the first time I met my friend Clare Grogan. But like many Gen-Xers, I remember the first time I saw her in the cult movie Gregory’s Girl, and then, later the same year, on Top of the...
23 Elo 202255min
Emma Forrest on sex, celibacy and solitude
Who hasn’t looked at those things you should have done by the time you’re 30/40/50/whatever lists and rolled their eyes? And yet consciously or not many of us still live our lives according to those t...
16 Elo 202250min
