SIM Ep 844 Outside The Box #54
So much telly to watch and so little time. But we've given it our best shot. What troopers! This month we're talking about Succession, Blue Lights, Swarm, The Power, Ted Lasso, Wellmania, Rain Dogs an...
21 Apr 202350min
SIM Ep 843 Pod 250: Writing crime, killing joy, and no tits please, we’re dancing
For 44 years, the third page of what was the most widely sold newspaper in the UK was dominated by a topless young woman. Depending on who you asked, Page 3 of The Sun was either a great British insti...
19 Apr 20231h 30min
SIM Ep 842 Chops 251: All the houses Kieran Yates has ever lived in
Home is the focus of this week’s Chops, in which Mick chats with Kieran Yates, journalist, broadcaster and author of new book, All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System That Fails Us...
16 Apr 202330min
SIM Ep 841 Flicking #37: Shaun of the Dead
Another Mickey Flicking pick, another comedy. But come on now, surely there’ll be no complaints when it’s Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s 2004 zom-rom-com, Shaun of the Dead? Aka Spaced with zombies? Th...
15 Apr 202328min
SIM Ep 840 Pod 249: Growing the fuck up, damning the ban, and a shit-tonne of mash
We could all do with a little refresher in adulting from time to time, says Sarah Knight, author of the multi-million selling No F*cks Given Guides. Sarah’s back on the podzine this week, to talk abou...
12 Apr 20231h 13min
SIM Ep 839 Chops 250: Dina Nayeri on Who Gets Believed
Believability underpins our political, legal, and judicial systems – it’s key to who we trust to make laws, enforce laws and administer justice to those who breach them. And yet our own individual sub...
9 Apr 202340min
SIM Ep 838 Pod 248: You can never have too much Zoe Lyons (or too many celebrity court cases)
We bloody love Zoe Lyons. She's funny, she's honest and she gives great interviews. So, in this week's podcast, Mick grabbed some time with the comedian to talk about midlife crises, jokes as a defenc...
5 Apr 20231h 28min
SIM Ep 837 Chops 249: Anita Bhagwandas wants our beauty standards back
Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards, the new book from award-winning journalist, beauty editor and broadcaster Anita Bhagwandas, explores how (and, crucially, why) the Eurocentric beauty ideal t...
2 Apr 202324min
