Rated or Dated: True Lies (1994)
This week it's Jen’s pick, and for reasons not even she can explain, she's chosen James Cameron's 1994 Arnie-fest, True Lies. But is Cameron telling tales of tough women, or toxic entitlement? How has...
17 Jul 202426min
Geraldine Collinge's Nature Study
Artist Louise Bourgeois became a household name late on in her seven-decade long career, and is known best by many for her iconic spider sculptures. However, her body of work explores themes such as l...
16 Jul 202427min
Marvel-lous Lisa Jewell
Best-selling crime author Lisa Jewell has written a book for Marvel. You heard us. So, our Hazel Davis got on the phone to find out more. They chat about Jessica Jones, killing off characters, a terri...
15 Jul 202422min
Rediscovering The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden was a childhood favourite of Anna Himali Howard and Holly Robinson - and our Hannah, too - so she leapt on the Zoom to talk about their new stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnet...
12 Jul 202423min
The Bush Telegraph: The crowd goes wild!
Jen and Mick are on Bush Telegraph duties this week, and boy, oh boy, are they giddy with optimism after Labour’s landslide victory in the 2024 General Election. That's rhetorical. And yet, as new PM ...
11 Jul 202424min
Rated or Dated: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Hannah's been pretty upfront about how much she loved this film as a kid, but hang on, isn't it basically a musical about the rape of the Sabine women? Yes, yes, it is. But will the sheer toe-tapping ...
9 Jul 202425min
Martha Loader on the problem of Bindweed
The statistics around domestic violence in the UK and beyond are horrifying – and have been for a long time. When playwright Martha Loader heard about schemes to rehabilitate the perpetrators of abuse...
9 Jul 202422min
Liz Buckley chats Kathleen Hanna
It’s been a while, but our resident music guru Liz Buckley is back. And she’s read Kathleen Hanna’s new autobiography, Rebel Girl. This has given her the perfect excuse to chat to our Mick about Hanna...
8 Jul 202425min
