Isabel Allende on feminism, anger and being fatally heterosexual (from the archive)
This is a replay of an episode from earlier this year. If I had to choose one episode as my favourite - tough call, like choosing a favourite child! - this would probably be it. If you've heard it bef...
14 Sep 202137min
Denise Mina gets frank about HRT, sex and ageing (from the archive)
This is a replay of an episode first broadcast last autumn. I'm replaying it now to coincide with the publication of Denise's new novella, Rizzio, a gripping contemporary reimagining of the 1566 murde...
7 Sep 202150min
Jess Phillips on why we need to talk about menopause in parliament
My guest today has been MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. Jess Phillips still lives in Birmingham, with her husband and two sons, not far from where she grew up with her activist parents, going to...
31 Aug 202146min
Lucy Kellaway on fear, freedom and starting a whole new life in her 50s
Ever wanted to chuck it all in? I mean ALL of it? My guest today did just that - baby, bathwater AND bath. For 30 years, journalist Lucy Kellaway was a columnist on the Financial Times. Then, in the s...
23 Aug 202141min
Elif Shafak on the power of older women and why menopause can be the end of shame
My guest today is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful people I’ve ever interviewed - and I’ve interviewed A LOT. Writer and academic, Elif Shafak has written 19 books and 12 novels and been shortl...
17 Aug 202146min
Paula Hawkins on midlife success and the importance of financial independence
My guest today is a woman who I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of, but you may not think you have. Her name is Paula Hawkins, but you probably know her as the author of the global bestseller The Girl On T...
10 Aug 202135min
Laura Friedman Williams on sex and the newly single 40something mum
How does it feel to have your life turned upside down in your mid 40s? That’s what happened to Laura Friedman Williams when, after 27 years with her husband, she discovered he was having an affair. It...
3 Aug 202152min
Torrey Peters on finding a roadmap for ageing as a trans woman
My guest this week has spent a fair part of this year at the eye of a storm. Torrey Peters’ novel Detransition, Baby - a gloriously gossipy comedy of manners - was rapturously received when it was pub...
27 Jul 202141min
