SIM Ep 204 Chops 87: Come From Away
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
SIM Ep 203 Gig 40: Bates, Ward and Ruffell
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
SIM Ep 202 Chops 86: Not about the Burqa with Mariam Khan
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
SIM Ep 201 Pod 66: Prizes, hidden histories and an inexplicable Elvis
This week, Jen meets comedy legend Helen Lederer to learn about the Comedy Women in Print Prize. Author Hallie Rubenhold dispels some myths about the victims of Jack the Ripper. Jen's talking some goo...
20 Feb 201959min
SIM Ep 199 Chops 85: social media is NOT ruining your life with Sara Tasker
Social media doesn't have to be a harbinger of mental health issues and FOMO, as Instagram guru Sara Tasker tells Mickey in this Chops. Sara's debut book, Hashtag Authentic, looks at how women can use...
17 Feb 201933min
SIM Ep 200 LGBT History Month #3: Rosie Jones
In Part III of our LGBT History Month series, comedian Rosie Jones comes into the studio to talk LGBT voices in comedy, dating as a disabled person and what it was like to actually have a good year in...
17 Feb 201928min
SIM Ep 198 Outside The Box #9
What you going to be watching on the telly this month? We talk True Detective, Russian Doll, Fyre and The Ted Bundy Tapes in February's Outside The Box. And also, oddly, Diagnosis Murder. Tuck in! Sup...
15 Feb 201932min
SIM Ep 197 Pod 65: Media, melons & making evil
This week, we catch up with Alice-May Purkiss, author of new book Life, Lemons and Melons, about being diagnosed with breast cancer at 26 and why we all need to CoppaFeel! Dr Julia Shaw swings by to t...
13 Feb 20191h
