SIM Ep 957 Pod 299: All aboard the flying bath mat!
Experts - we should listen to them, right? RIGHT? Well, maybe not all of them. That's what Hannah learned while talking to Dr Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist and the host of new Radio 4 show Exper...
2 Apr 202454min
SIM Ep 956 Chops 293: Courtney Moorehead Balaker on The Coddling of the American Mind
If you've not read the Atlantic article The Coddling of the American Mind, or the book that followed it, you've likely heard us recommend it. And now, it's a documentary, so Hannah got straight on the...
31 Mar 202438min
SIM Ep 955 Pod 298: Love letters to Scotland
Playwright Stef Smith is best known for her, well, plays. But her award-winning BBC Scotland drama, Float – a tender tangle of love, life and identity in small-town Scotland – is also well worth your ...
28 Mar 20241h
SIM Ep 954 Chops 292: Suzie Miller on Prima Facie and criminal justice
Playwright Suzie Miller is best known for her award-sweeping masterpiece, Prima Facie, a searing critique of the criminal justice system and, specifically, how it deals with survivors of sexual assaul...
24 Mar 202432min
SIM Ep 953 Flicking #47: Oppenheimer
They don’t come much bigger than Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour Oscar-nabbing historical drama, and Hannah’s pick for this month’s Flicking. It’s quite rightly made Cillian Murphy the man...
23 Mar 202429min
SIM Ep 952 Pod 297: Finding joy, female pleasure, and just the one Jack Nicholson
Hollie McNish - Standard Issue fave, award-winning poet, and all-round smasher - is back with Lobster, a brand-new collection of poems and prose. Naturally, Mick was delighted to jump on the Zoom to t...
20 Mar 20241h 20min
SIM Ep 951 Chops 291: Jenny Kleeman knows The Price of Life
Journalist, broadcaster, documentary-maker, author and Mickey mind-blower is back on the podcast to chat about her incredible new book, The Price of Life: In Search of What We’re Worth and Who Decides...
17 Mar 202440min
SIM Ep 950 Pod 296 The '70s, the late '90s and right now
If you find watching sport in public a bit intimidating, Set Piece Social will be for you. This week, Jen chats to Naomi Fitzgibbons and Kate Hetherington about their pioneering new project to get wom...
13 Mar 20241h 9min
