SIM Ep 828 Pod 244: A superstar artist, soapstar queens, and a toe for everyone!
Politics, power and sex play important parts in both of this week’s interviews. Ahead of new BBC documentary, Becoming Frida Kahlo, Hannah’s been on the Zoom with filmmakers Louise Lockwood and Nancy ...
8 Mar 20231h 31min
SIM Ep 827 Chops 245: Nell Frizzell’s tracksuit years
Why do we have hundreds of terms for the different stages of childhood and adolescence, but just one for the parents navigating their way through them all? This is just one of the questions asked in j...
5 Mar 202348min
SIM Ep 826 Pod 243: Perfectly reasonable, historically sinkable, and dramatically flappable
One woman’s “reasonable” is another woman’s eating cheesy crisps on the Tube. With our own concept of what it is to be reasonable, and indeed unreasonable, so entrenched in personal experience, Mick w...
1 Mar 20231h 25min
SIM Ep 825 Chops 244: Dr Marieke Bigg on how medicine fails women
In sociologist Dr Marieke Bigg’s new book, This Won’t Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women, she explores the huge gaps in women’s health, the sexism inherent in medicine and the lingering gender bias which ...
26 Feb 202326min
SIM Ep 824 Outside The Box #52
The Last of Us is breaking hearts, inspiring nightmares and repopularising Linda Ronstadt. Is there a more versatile show on TV? In this month's Outside the Box, we find out as we watch Nolly, Lockwoo...
24 Feb 202344min
SIM Ep 823 Pod 242; Big Women, brilliant Bukky and back to 6am - again
Where can you find a new exhibition featuring the work of more than 20 female artists, curated by another - Sarah Lucas? Essex, that's where. This week, Jen's chatting to Sally Shaw, director of First...
22 Feb 20231h 11min
SIM Ep 822 Chops 243: The White Rose and Sophie Scholl
Yesterday (18 February 2023) was the 80th anniversary of the arrest of two youngsters, brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of The White Rose, a non-violent group pledged to resisting th...
19 Feb 202334min
SIM Ep 821 Flicking #34: Everything Everywhere All At Once
It's got Oscar nominations coming out of its ears, and now our Yosra Osman has given Daniels Kwan and Scheinert's dizzying multiverse adventure the nod, by picking it for this month's Flicking. But w...
18 Feb 202323min
