SIM Ep 715 Pod 197: Hosting refugees, fierce Victorian women, and how’s that serenity?
Areej Osman is a senior placement coordinator at Refugees At Home, and this week, she’s explaining the realities of hosting a displaced person. She and Jen chat pros, cons, vulnerabilities and respons...
30 Mar 20221h 20min
SIM Ep 714 Chops 243: The Life of Lolita Chakrabarti
The stage version of The Life of Pi is currently pulling in the crowds and snaffling all the Olivier nominations, so Hannah got on the Zoom with the woman responsible for adapting the book: Lolita Cha...
27 Mar 202228min
SIM Ep 713 Pod 196: Spinning, winning and My Cousin Vinny-ing
How do you turn a book of short stories into a cohesive play? This week, Mickey finds out as she chats Angela Carter, feminism, wolves and circus skills with Mary Swan, director of Proteus Theatre’s a...
23 Mar 20221h 22min
SIM Ep 712 Chops 242: Professor Jane Monckton Smith talks coercive control
Professor Jane Monckton Smith is a criminologist specialising in domestic homicide, a former police officer, a professor of public protection at the University of Gloucestershire, and responsible for ...
20 Mar 202231min
SIM Ep 711 Pod 195: Advice from Rachel Parris, rhinestones for Dolly Parton, and more Kip please
Comedian and Standard Issue fave Rachel Parris has been soliciting advice from strangers for her new book, which is called... Advice From Strangers. She chats to Hannah, from the back of a cab, about ...
16 Mar 20221h 31min
SIM Ep 710 Chops 241: A 21st Century To Kill A Mockingbird
Aaron Sorkin's award-winning adaptation of much-loved Harper Lee novel To Kill A Mockingbird, is finally coming to London's Gielgud Theatre. In this week's Chops, Jen catches up with Pamela Nomvete an...
13 Mar 202224min
SIM Ep 709 Flicking #22: War for the Planet of the Apes
It's Hannah's Flicking pick and she chose the third film of a trilogy set in a time of pandemic AND war. So, is Matt Reeves' 2017 sci-fi, dystopian, performance capture, ape-tastic blockbuster good en...
12 Mar 202229min
SIM Ep 708 Pod 194: The invisible mam, bloody difficult women, and the joy of running and crying
Jessica Turner and Amara Karan are stars of Tim Walker’s new play Bloody Difficult Women, in which they play Theresa May and Gina Miller respectively, in a storyline that charts the events behind the ...
9 Mar 20221h 18min
