SIM Ep 924 Pod 285: Bold women, busy women, and a couple of camels

SIM Ep 924 Pod 285: Bold women, busy women, and a couple of camels

The wonderful Lisa Palfrey is back on our screens over the festive period, alongside all of Wales (almost), in BBC One comedy drama, Men Up*, about a 1994 trial for the then-new drug, Viagra. Hannah jumped at the opportunity to get on the Zoom with Lisa to talk about the show, as well as Welsh talent, Christopher Guest, and one of Hannah’s faves, the 2014 film Pride. Mick’s chatting to the legend that is Robyn Davidson, solo adventurer and author, whose wonderful new memoir, Unfinished Woman, explores unexpected fame, the slipperiness of memory and the impact of her mum’s suicide. In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen’s talking about history-maker Rebecca Welch, who is set to become the first ever woman to referee a Premier League match. And did our hearts love, or indeed loathe till now? We find out by watching 1998’s Shakespeare In Love, in Rated or Dated. Meanwhile, given it's nearly Christmas, it's quiz time in BT! Head scratchers pertain to current cabinet ministers and a woman's missing identity. BIG CASH PRIZES! * Men Up is on BBC1 on Friday, December 29 at 9pm. It will also be available on the iPlayer. 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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Ila Colley on the trouble-making Elizabeth Allen

Ila Colley on the trouble-making Elizabeth Allen

The fascinating story of Elizabeth Allen takes us from East London to a remote woodland cabin, to Hollywood and back, before settling in Coventry, where Compton Verney is exhibiting the artist’s absur...

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Beneath the Waves

Beneath the Waves

A new adaptation of Virginia Woolf's The Waves opens at London's Jermyn Street Theatre next week. Hannah chats to playwright Flora Wilson Brown about the appeal of Woolf to young people, the issues wi...

10 Apr 23min

Helen Thorn has faced big change and come back stronger

Helen Thorn has faced big change and come back stronger

It’s fair to say author, Scummy Mummy and self-proclaimed running nerd Helen Thorn has dealt with some pretty hefty shit in the last few years. Her new book, How to face big change and come back stron...

7 Apr 26min

The Cost of Trust

The Cost of Trust

Surgeon Ian Paterson was jailed in 2017 for conducting botched and often unnecessary operations on his patients, who were predominantly women. Hannah chats to Deborah Douglas and Tracy King about thei...

3 Apr 31min

The Bush Telegraph: Is that a really long scroll, or are you just pleased to see us?

The Bush Telegraph: Is that a really long scroll, or are you just pleased to see us?

What could go wrong in an unregulated fertility clinic, asks our Jen while discussing a BBC report on families seeking fertility treatment in Northern Cyprus. Mick has better news about guidance aimed...

2 Apr 31min

Rated or Dated: Chariots of Fire (1981)

Rated or Dated: Chariots of Fire (1981)

Is it the Devil's work to run on a Sunday? Who's even heard of Cambridge University? And who will win a mini-break with Nigel Havers? Find out the answers to these and many more questions as we watch ...

1 Apr 34min

Samira Ahmed’s inside the box

Samira Ahmed’s inside the box

Journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed is a busy woman. Through the Square Window, her new(ish) podcast with Graham Kibble-White guides listeners through UK TV of decades gone by. It’s nostal...

31 Mar 28min

Elinor Cleghorn on the radical history of mothering

Elinor Cleghorn on the radical history of mothering

The work of mothering has been undervalued for centuries, relegated to the sidelines thanks to patriarchal control of history. In her new book, A Women’s Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mother...

30 Mar 27min

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