SIM Ep 668 Pod 179: Get Off, get empowered and get watching
Comedians Kiri Pritchard McLean and Nina Gilligan have launched Get Off! Live Comedy, an independent and confidential HR support service that deals with sexual harassment in live comedy. Hannah got on...
17 Nov 20211h 12min
SIM Ep 667 IMD21 #2: Being a pro-feminist ally with Chris Green
Pro-feminist activist Chris Green founded the UK arm of the excellent White Ribbon campaign and, as he tells our Mick, has a lot more up his sleeve when it comes to being an excellent ally to women – ...
14 Nov 202140min
SIM Ep 666 Outside The Box #39
How are we going to fill these long evenings? Suggestion one: telly. This month, we're talking Succession, What We Do In The Shadows, Close To Me, Stath Lets Flats, Squid Game, Dexter: New Blood, The ...
12 Nov 202134min
SIM Ep 665 Pod 178: A bawdy woman, a murderous bunch and a big old bum toot
Zadie Smith taking on Chaucer? Big yes please. This week, Mickey is chatting to actor Clare Perkins about Smith's new play The Wife of Willesden, playing a woman with five husbands and meeting Christo...
10 Nov 20211h 15min
SIM Ep 664 IMD21 #1: Beating eating disorders
It's that time of year where we let some dudes talk, for a change. In the first part of our 2021 International Men's Day series, Jen chats to comedian and author Dave Chawner about his experience of h...
7 Nov 202143min
SIM Ep 663 Flicking #19: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? HE'S HERE, PAL! Jen, Yosra and Mick recall teenage loins being aflame as, courtesy of Jen's pick, they watch Baz Lurhmann's 1996 take on the 424-year-old roma...
6 Nov 202127min
SIM Ep 662 Pod 177: Extraordinary women, surprising sports, and bring back Buddy's Song, actually
Pakistani-American artist and author Maliha Abidi is passionate about feminism and diversity, both of which come to the fore in her new book Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World. ...
3 Nov 20211h 17min
SIM Ep 661 Chops 231: The many "a-ha!" moments of Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern has written a lot of books, and now she's busying herself with producing and screenwriting, too. Fresh from publication of Freckles, her 18th novel, Cecelia joined Jen on the Zoom to cha...
31 Okt 202130min
