SIM Ep 139, Pod 46: Feminist fringes, twitching twinkles & train journeys from hell

In our fifth episode of our International Women's Day 2019 series, we caught up with Jennifer Rees, former police officer and author of Voices From The Blue, celebrating 100 years of women in the Metr...

8 Mar 201928min

British Science Week is about to kick off, so to celebrate, the fourth in our IWD2019 series is a round table about women in science. We got together with the Royal Society of Chemistry to talk hidden...

7 Mar 201941min

In the third episode of our International Women's Day 2019 series, Jen catches up with two sporting legends: Manchester City and England midfielder, Jill Scott, and Loughborough Lightning and England ...

6 Mar 201932min

In the second episode of our International Women's Day 2019 series, Hannah and Jen caught up with writer and producer Karla Williams, co-founder of Ms Mono, a production company focused on female-cent...

5 Mar 201926min

In the first of our series celebrating International Women's Day 2019, Hannah went to meet writer Lisa Holdsworth to talk about her new play Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, based on the life of wor...

4 Mar 201929min

In this week's Chops, we're talking new musical Come From Away. Set on September 11, 2001, and the days afterwards, it tells the tale of what happened in the town of Gander, Canada, where 38 inbound p...

3 Mar 201917min

Laura Bates, Felicity Ward and Suzi Ruffell joined us back in December for an In Conversation event and here's the result. We talked feminism (natch), meeting a young Ed Sheeran and lizard ownership. ...

27 Feb 20191h 8min

In this week's Sunday Chops, Jen chats to British writer and activist Mariam Khan, editor of new book It's Not About The Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race. They chat about why...

24 Feb 201931min