SIM Ep 47 Chops 11: Black History Month with Rebecca Solomon

We're not always singing from the same hymn sheet as other women's magazines, but that doesn't mean we don't find the whole industry fascinating. So this week, Mickey got on the phone to Nina-Sophia M...

31 Mar 20211h 23min

American poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown’s latest book, Places I’ve Taken My Body, is a collection of personal essays that travel the physical, emotional and mental journeys of a life in all its...

28 Mar 202138min

At just 20 years old, Ameena Hamid is Britain’s youngest theatre producer and a champion of those whose stories don't get told. She chats to Hannah about supporting young graduates, putting underrepre...

24 Mar 20211h 11min

When Delphine Minoui, journalist and Middle East correspondent for Le Figaro, discovered a photo of an underground library amid the rubble and battleground of the besieged Syrian city of Daraya, she h...

21 Mar 202134min

We're sooo close to being allowed to do anything else other than watch TV, but with a few weeks still to go, here's what we've been enjoying and not enjoying over the last month. We give a big cheer a...

19 Mar 202152min

Working from home has been the bane of many people’s lives over the last 12 months, but Harriet Minter, journalist, broadcast and author of new book Working From Home, reckons there are some pretty se...

17 Mar 20211h 17min

Is there a place for seminal second-wave feminist Betty Friedan in modern feminist thinking? On what would have been the 100th anniversary of her birth, Thread has published Friedan’s classic text, Th...

13 Mar 202132min

Ideas around feminism might change over time, but the battles feminists face have alarming continuity. Dr Hannah Dawson, historian of ideas at King's College London, has charted feminist thought from ...

12 Mar 202134min