SIM Ep 559 Chops 230: Forced adoptions
Diana Defries was just 16 when, like thousands of unmarried mothers in the UK between the 1940s and 1970s, she was forced to give her baby up for adoption. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human R...
24 Okt 202139min
SIM Ep 558 Pod 176: Fear, a Ford Focus, and 50 shades of shit
Get ready to hide under your duvet as we travel deep into THE FEAR for this week’s podzine. Hannah’s been on the Zoom with our pal and psychotherapist Jane Watson to talk fear: where it comes from, ho...
20 Okt 20211h 17min
SIM Ep 557 Chops 229: The joy and importance of working-class writers
If you’ve been enjoying our working-class content recently – Hannah’s interviews with Sophie Willan and Lynsey Hanley, and our chats about the film Rocks and the documentary Harlan County USA are all ...
17 Okt 202140min
SIM 556 Pod 175: Flushed, free and on the picket line
If you've not been watching Back To Life, you're missing out, as you'll learn from our Mickey's chat with its creator and star Daisy Haggard. They chat about research, old-school romance and crisps. A...
13 Okt 20211h 11min
SIM Ep 555 Chops 228: Lynsey Hanley has class
Been listening to A Home Of Our Own, the Radio 4 series that started this week? You should be. In it, journalist and author Lynsey Hanley explores Britain's broken housing market through the stories o...
10 Okt 202138min
SIM Ep 554 Outside The Box #38
What the hell happened to evenings? If you want to fill the dark hours with some telly, we're here with some suggestions, including Help, Only Murders In the Building, Mr Mayor, Wolfe and The White Lo...
7 Okt 202139min
SIM Ep 553 Pod 174: NDAs, Antigone and – shit me! – it’s David Bowie
The use, or rather mis-use, of non-disclosure agreements is rife in all sorts of nefarious dealings. Zelda Perkins, former assistant to Harvey Weinstein and the first to break her NDA with him, and Ju...
6 Okt 20211h 22min
SIM Ep 552 Chops 227: Sarah Solemani likes good questions
Actor and writer Sarah Solemani has adapted Jo Bloom's novel Ridley Road into a four-part drama for the BBC, which starts tonight. Hannah chats to Sarah about the ups and downs of adapting someone els...
3 Okt 202124min
