Lindsey Hilsum on menopause in a warzone - FROM THE ARCHIVES
One of my favourite things about making The Shift podcast is all the fascinating women I get to interview - and learn a little bit from. This is a replay of one of my all time favourites. I was in awe...
5 Apr 202240min
Delia Ephron on getting a second chance at life and love in your 70s
My final guest of the season is the acclaimed screenwriter and bestselling author, Delia Ephron. Unfailingly wise, warm and witty, Delia is perhaps best known as co-writer of the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks sm...
29 Mar 202246min
Kat Farmer has the answer to all your "my wardrobe hates me" dilemmas
Totally lost sight of your personal style? Feel like your clothes hate you? Whether it’s the result of two years in and out of lockdown, emerging from the motherhood tunnel or the advent of menopause,...
22 Mar 202252min
Dana Spiotta on putting paid to menopause shame
When was the last time you read a book where the central character was not just perimenopausal but also talked and thought about menopause and its impact on her life. And she wasn’t a laughing stock? ...
15 Mar 202246min
Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex and sisterhood
It takes courage to lay yourself bare on the page the way today’s guest does. Journalist Clover Stroud has written three memoirs - The Wild Other, My Wild and Sleepless Nights and, now, The Red of My ...
8 Mar 202255min
Barbara Blake Hannah on feeling new at 80 and why she believes in miracles
My guest today is the Jamaican author, journalist, film maker and (no exaggeration) living legend Barbara Blake Hannah. Already an experienced journalist when she arrived in London in 1964, Barbara wa...
1 Mar 202248min
Christina Patterson on how to deal with the blows life throws at you
By the time we hit our 50s, most of us have… let’s just say… lived a little. But few have been through the mill to quite the extent that Christina Patterson has. Christina was 49 and recovering from b...
22 Feb 202239min
Marian Keyes is BACK!
This week’s guest needs zero introduction - and not just because she’s been here before. Marian Keyes was one of the first guests on The Shift and her episode [episode 2 if you’re interested!] is stil...
15 Feb 202245min
