Doing the work with Diane Samuels
Playwright Diane Samuels has been working in theatre for more than 30 years, and her back catalogue includes 1993’s Kindertransport, winner of the Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth awards. She’s back...
4 Feb 202525min
Philippa Dunne's not worried
Actor, writer and former worrier queen Philippa Dunne is back on our screens this week as reliable Anne in Motherland spin-off Amandaland. She's chatting to Hannah about the highs and lows of being Am...
3 Feb 202525min
Sarah Treleaven on The Con
The second series of the CBC/BBC podcast The Con focuses on Kaitlyn Braun, who hoodwinked many doulas into believing she was pregnant. Hannah's talking to the writer, producer and host of Kaitlyn's Ba...
31 Jan 202521min
The Bush Telegraph: What in the skibidi is going on?
Suella Braverman’s glitching like Liz Truss, millions of kids in poverty, no new label for extreme misogyny, and ‘sexism is bad, pals’: there’s a lot to unpack in this week’s Bush Telegraph, brought t...
30 Jan 202526min
Rated or Dated: Wonder Boys (2000)
There are lies, affairs, copious pot-smoking, stolen memorabilia, Michael Douglas in a dressing gown, and a dead dog this week, as we watch Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys. But what do Mickey, Hannah and ...
29 Jan 202524min
Kathy Slack's growing through a Rough Patch
Rough Patch is the name of award-winning food writer, author and veg grower Kathy Slack’s new book (out on February 6, but available for pre-order now), and it’s a warm mix of memoir, a love letter to...
28 Jan 202524min
Liz Johnson's Panathlon Challenge
Panathlon Challenge is a charity aimed at giving young people with disabilities and special educational needs the opportunity to take part in competitive sport, and is chaired by Paralympic gold medal...
27 Jan 202524min
Dawn Adams on menopause, hormones and type 1 diabetes
In her early 20s, Dawn Adams was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and told she probably wouldn't live long enough to worry about any impact the menopause might have on her condition. And so, when Dawn s...
24 Jan 202526min
