SIM Ep 837 Chops 249: Anita Bhagwandas wants our beauty standards back
Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards, the new book from award-winning journalist, beauty editor and broadcaster Anita Bhagwandas, explores how (and, crucially, why) the Eurocentric beauty ideal t...
2 Apr 202324min
SIM Ep 836 Pod 247: Clean spaces, dazzling talent, and how close is the airport?
Beaches are nice, eh? Green spaces are nice, eh? Looking at places generally not covered in shit is nice, eh? They are, and in this week’s podzine, Jen’s chatting to Nicky Green, CEO of the Two Minute...
29 Mar 20231h 24min
SIM Ep 835 Chops 248: Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and The Gender Bias
Chief fire officer, Big Issue ambassador, psychologist, author, champion of dogs – there are legion reasons Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is one of our favourite guests. And now she’s gone and penned a book...
26 Mar 202331min
SIM Ep 834 Outside The Box #53
Only a few sleeps until Succession, so in the meanwhile we've been gorging on a lot of documentaries, including We Need to Talk About Cosby, Wild Isles, Paula, Kathy Burke: Growing Up and Finding Mich...
24 Mar 202354min
SIM Ep 833 Pod 246: Does this taste like metal?
We're full of life advice in this week’s podzine. First up, Mick chats to Helen Wills, mum of teenagers and host of the Teenage Kicks podcast, about navigating the teenage years as a parent, letting g...
22 Mar 20231h 34min
SIM Ep 832 Chops 247: Leah Hazard on the womb
Considering that we all start life in one, and that roughly half of the global population has one, the womb remains one of the most under-researched, misunderstood, and controversial organs in the hum...
19 Mar 202327min
SIM Ep 831 Flicking #36: God’s Own Country
If you want to make our Hannah angry, simply refer to God’s Own Country, Francis Lee’s 2017 film about love between an isolated young sheep farmer (Josh O’Connor) and a Romanian migrant worker (Alex S...
18 Mar 202327min
SIM Ep 830 Pod 245: Embalming, boxing and SO MUCH SHOUTING
Embalming and rape might not sound like the makings of a great conversation, but Mickey proves that theory wrong when she gets on the Zoom with Alexandra Donnachie, whose play When We Died covers both...
15 Mar 20231h 13min
