Genius with Helen Lewis
What makes a genius a genius? Do IQ tests teach us anything? Is a belief in genius right-wing coded? Hannah chats to journalist, author, broadcaster and Standard Issue fave Helen Lewis about her new b...
13 Jun 202528min
Rated or Dated: Maybe Baby (2000)
Adapted from his own novel, Inconceivable, Ben Elton’s 2000 directorial debut is hard to track down these days. Should Jen ever have unearthed it? Has Elton written a convincing female character in Jo...
11 Jun 202529min
Ella Lambert and the sanitary pads of real change
Back in 2020, then-student Ella Lambert started The Pachamama Project, when she was just 20 herself. 500 million people worldwide experience period poverty, including 100 million girls who miss school...
10 Jun 202524min
Kirstie McLeod is telling stories in stitches
Artist Kirstie McLeod founded the Red Dress project in 2009, as a platform for women in marginalised groups to share their stories. Sixteen years later, the collective embroidery project represents 38...
9 Jun 202525min
Anoushka Lucas is a theatre animal
Fresh from her run in The Almeida's Rhinoceros, singer, composer, writer and actor Anoushka Lucas is back on stage in a revival of her one-way play Elephant. She chats to Hannah about why going back t...
6 Jun 202525min
The Bush Telegraph: Dire straits in the status quo
Inclusion, exclusion, cervical wands, disallowed ads, sunk rescue deals, and three whole women: Jen and Mick cover the lot in this week’s look at the news. Sexism of the Week uncovers a not so brave n...
5 Jun 202530min
Rated or Dated: The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
What happens to characters when writers lose interest? They get a terrible film. Which is what The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse is all about. Very meta. But does it avoid becoming a bad film itsel...
4 Jun 202533min
Kate Muir’s magnificent midlife crisis
Kate Muir’s name might not ring any immediate bells, but her documentaries with Davina McCall about the perimenopause, menopause and HRT made quite the stir. And rightly so, given they busted myths ar...
3 Jun 202527min
