SIM Ep 955 Pod 298: Love letters to Scotland
Playwright Stef Smith is best known for her, well, plays. But her award-winning BBC Scotland drama, Float – a tender tangle of love, life and identity in small-town Scotland – is also well worth your ...
28 Mar 20241h
SIM Ep 954 Chops 292: Suzie Miller on Prima Facie and criminal justice
Playwright Suzie Miller is best known for her award-sweeping masterpiece, Prima Facie, a searing critique of the criminal justice system and, specifically, how it deals with survivors of sexual assaul...
24 Mar 202432min
SIM Ep 953 Flicking #47: Oppenheimer
They don’t come much bigger than Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour Oscar-nabbing historical drama, and Hannah’s pick for this month’s Flicking. It’s quite rightly made Cillian Murphy the man...
23 Mar 202429min
SIM Ep 952 Pod 297: Finding joy, female pleasure, and just the one Jack Nicholson
Hollie McNish - Standard Issue fave, award-winning poet, and all-round smasher - is back with Lobster, a brand-new collection of poems and prose. Naturally, Mick was delighted to jump on the Zoom to t...
20 Mar 20241h 20min
SIM Ep 951 Chops 291: Jenny Kleeman knows The Price of Life
Journalist, broadcaster, documentary-maker, author and Mickey mind-blower is back on the podcast to chat about her incredible new book, The Price of Life: In Search of What We’re Worth and Who Decides...
17 Mar 202440min
SIM Ep 950 Pod 296 The '70s, the late '90s and right now
If you find watching sport in public a bit intimidating, Set Piece Social will be for you. This week, Jen chats to Naomi Fitzgibbons and Kate Hetherington about their pioneering new project to get wom...
13 Mar 20241h 9min
SIM Ep 949 Chops 290: Liz Jensen’s Wild and Precious Life
Liz Jensen is better known for her fiction writing, but the author and activist has just published a memoir, Your Wild and Precious Life: On Grief, Hope and Rebellion. Her new book documents her grief...
10 Mar 202432min
SIM Ep 948 Outside The Box 63
This month's Outside The Box is here and this time we're talking about True Detective: Night Country, Masters of the Air, Mr & Mrs Smith, Trigger Point and Breathtaking, plus a load of stuff Hannah di...
8 Mar 202432min
