SIM Ep 516 Pod 159: Computers, rights, and a rusty spoon.
If you’re baffled by computers and the like, you’re absolutely not on your own – but there's hope! This week, Mick catches up with Dr Sue Black to chat about computer science, why it’s a good idea to ...
23 Jun 20211h 22min
SIM Ep 515 Chops 211: Amelia Dimeldonberg on caring, content and chicken
At 27 years old, queen of chicken shop chat Amelia Dimeldonberg has been dominating content creation for the best part of a decade. As she launches Who Cares?, her new series for UKTV and Dave, she ch...
20 Jun 202127min
SIM Ep 514 Outside The Box #34
There's loads of meaty drama to get your teeth into this month, as we chat about the last episodes of Mare of Easttown, as well as Time, The Underground Railroad, The Beast Must Die and Fargo 4. But t...
18 Jun 202143min
SIM Ep 513 Pod 158: Yarl's Wood, the Euros and David Bowie's wang (walk into a podcast)
It's Refugee Week, so Mickey has been on the Zoom with Agnes Tanoh and Sam Hudson from Women For Refugee Women about how Yarl’s Wood is a prison not sanctuary, the plight of refugee women in the UK, a...
16 Jun 20211h 1min
SIM 512 Chops 210: charting Mary Wollstonecraft's love and fury
Mary Wollstonecraft is the subject of Samantha Silva’s latest book, Love And Fury, an historical fiction reanimating the life and legacy of arguably the world’s first feminist. And what a life. Samant...
13 Jun 202138min
SIM Ep 511 Pod 157: Unwell women, Hill without Bill, and RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest novel, Rodham, imagines an alternative history for Hillary Clinton – one in which she never married Bill – and she chats to Hannah about how exactly you go about blending fa...
9 Jun 20211h 22min
SIM Ep 510 Chops 209: Jane Thynne is in Widowland
Best-selling author Jane Thynne's upcoming novel, Widowland, was inspired by reactions to Jane herself, after the death of her husband, fellow best-selling scribe Philip Kerr. She chats to Hannah abou...
6 Jun 202134min
SIM Ep 508 Pod 157: Isolation, celebration and parents who need to stay divorced
Ever read a book and thought, "I'd love it if (child I know) could read it, but it's still a bit old for them?" Well, Victoria Hislop has solved that problem with at least one of those books, rewritin...
2 Jun 20211h 17min
