SIM Ep 960 Outside The Box #64
Having a busy April? Why not have a nice sit down and turn on the telly? This month, Hannah and Jen are talking about Passenger, Manhunt, The Gone, The Dry, Masters of the Air, Mary & George, The Regi...
12 Apr 202439min
SIM Ep 959 Pod 300: Glass cliffs, tragic magic and TOP THAT!
We’ve all heard of the glass ceiling, right? But what about the phenomenon befalling the high-flying women who have dared to smash through it? It’s known as the glass cliff, and Sophie Williams has wr...
10 Apr 20241h 19min
SIM Ep 958 Chops 294: Hadley Freeman and the Good Girls
According to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, hospital admissions for eating disorders have increased by 84% over the past five years. And yet, for so many of us, anorexia remains very hard to unde...
6 Apr 202434min
SIM Ep 957 Pod 299: All aboard the flying bath mat!
Experts - we should listen to them, right? RIGHT? Well, maybe not all of them. That's what Hannah learned while talking to Dr Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist and the host of new Radio 4 show Exper...
2 Apr 202454min
SIM Ep 956 Chops 293: Courtney Moorehead Balaker on The Coddling of the American Mind
If you've not read the Atlantic article The Coddling of the American Mind, or the book that followed it, you've likely heard us recommend it. And now, it's a documentary, so Hannah got straight on the...
31 Mar 202438min
SIM Ep 955 Pod 298: Love letters to Scotland
Playwright Stef Smith is best known for her, well, plays. But her award-winning BBC Scotland drama, Float – a tender tangle of love, life and identity in small-town Scotland – is also well worth your ...
28 Mar 20241h
SIM Ep 954 Chops 292: Suzie Miller on Prima Facie and criminal justice
Playwright Suzie Miller is best known for her award-sweeping masterpiece, Prima Facie, a searing critique of the criminal justice system and, specifically, how it deals with survivors of sexual assaul...
24 Mar 202432min
SIM Ep 953 Flicking #47: Oppenheimer
They don’t come much bigger than Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour Oscar-nabbing historical drama, and Hannah’s pick for this month’s Flicking. It’s quite rightly made Cillian Murphy the man...
23 Mar 202429min
