SIM Ep 854 Pod 255: The great outdoors and a colossal prick

SIM Ep 854 Pod 255: The great outdoors and a colossal prick

Making babies for a chance to win cold, hard cash sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, but was something wealthy lawyer and high-level prankster/prick Charles Vance Millar planned for lols in Toronto, in the decade after his death in 1926. When our Hannah heard about Caroline Lea’s fictional retelling of the shockingly real-life Great Stork Derby in her latest novel Prize Women, she had to talk to her. They chat about Vance Millar, the women who got caught up in his dubious legacy and why the number of children women have is topical again. Award-winning and best-selling author, and long-distance runner, Dr Rachel Hewitt was interested in the erasure of women from the history of sporting pursuits in the great outdoors, when a series of family bereavements made her question loss in the wider sense. She joins Jen to chat about In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors, her new book, which examines grief, the things women lose - or rather are taken from them - just by virtue of their sex, and the women who blazed a trail in early outdoor sports. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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SIM Ep 81 Chops 25: Literary gems

SIM Ep 81 Chops 25: Literary gems

It's two for the price of one on Chops this week. This plate is a pile of delicious reading, as suggested by Anne Miller, our books expert, QI elf and all-round top bird. She brought three books into ...

18 Feb 201828min

SIM Ep 80 Pod 28: books, film, money and sport

SIM Ep 80 Pod 28: books, film, money and sport

This week, Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord find out just how loyal you should be with your cash (and how much inertia is costing us) thanks to more solid nous from our personal finance expert Vix Ley...

14 Feb 20181h 21min

SIM Ep 78 Pod 27: newsing, casting and living with MS

SIM Ep 78 Pod 27: newsing, casting and living with MS

This week, Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat to Miss L about the acting industry and @proresting, her Twitter timeline raising awareness of casting call bullshit. Comedian Angela Barnes talks News...

7 Feb 20181h 21min

SIM Ep 77 Chops 23: Alison Inman on social housing and domestic abuse

SIM Ep 77 Chops 23: Alison Inman on social housing and domestic abuse

The awesome Alison Inman, president of the Chartered Institute of Housing and all-round top bird, joined the team to chat about social housing, how the lack of it affects women (particularly those in ...

4 Feb 201829min

SIM Ep 76 Gig 24: Lindsay, Enright, Millican and Dunleavy

SIM Ep 76 Gig 24: Lindsay, Enright, Millican and Dunleavy

In this episode of In Conversation..., Hannah Dunleavy and Sarah Millican chat with Sally Lindsay and Jo Enright about the best shit daytime telly, birthday epidurals, boiling tea-bags in a kettle and...

31 Jan 20181h 23min

SIM Ep 75 Chops 22: A Woman Lived Here

SIM Ep 75 Chops 22: A Woman Lived Here

In this week's Chops, Allison Vale stuns Team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord into almost silence with fascinating tales of women's derring do and achievements. The stories are taken from Allison's new bo...

28 Jan 201839min

SIM Ep 74 Bitchin' 4: the MeToo backlash

SIM Ep 74 Bitchin' 4: the MeToo backlash

It's Saturday Bitchin' and this time our Mick needs to vent about the (inevitable) backlash to the #MeToo movement. But don't worry, she's also solved the problem of the patriarchy – as long as no one...

27 Jan 201810min

SIM Ep 73 Pod 26: Female parts, medical musicals, and historical broads

SIM Ep 73 Pod 26: Female parts, medical musicals, and historical broads

This week, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord have a good old natter with Hoxton Hall's Artistic Director Karena Johnson about the theatre's new season, Female Parts, Mickey has a chat with Bryony Kimmi...

24 Jan 20181h 26min

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