SIM Ep 949 Chops 290: Liz Jensen’s Wild and Precious Life
Liz Jensen is better known for her fiction writing, but the author and activist has just published a memoir, Your Wild and Precious Life: On Grief, Hope and Rebellion. Her new book documents her grief...
10 Mar 202432min
SIM Ep 948 Outside The Box 63
This month's Outside The Box is here and this time we're talking about True Detective: Night Country, Masters of the Air, Mr & Mrs Smith, Trigger Point and Breathtaking, plus a load of stuff Hannah di...
8 Mar 202432min
SIM Ep 947 Pod 295: Women with balls (and other objects)
Imagine having an idea so engaging that you make Anjelica Huston want to talk about Tupperware. Well, hello journalist Annabelle Hirsch, whose book, A History of Women in 101 Objects, is a fascinating...
6 Mar 20241h 7min
SIM Ep 946 Chops 289: Tracy King's been thinking
Critical thinking isn't exactly everyone's strong point and in her upcoming memoir Learning to Think, Tracy King explains how she went from born-again Christianity to pseudoscience to teaching herself...
3 Mar 202445min
SIM Ep 945 Pod 294: Good sisters, bad sisters, and some rebirth
Writer and Standard Issue fave Kerry Hudson is back with brand-new memoir, Newborn, the follow-up to her previous work, Lowborn. In this week’s podzine, Hannah jumps on the Zoom to talk with Kerry abo...
28 Feb 20241h 5min
SIM Ep 944 Chops 288: Again, With Feelings with Catherine Bohart
Comedian, podcast mogul, writer, broadcaster and professional oversharer, the glorious Catherine Bohart is this week’s Sunday Chops. She and Mick are chatting about the joy and freedom of podcasts, be...
25 Feb 202432min
SIM Ep 943 Pod 293: Gambling, fighting and getting your whole family in a room together
Lindsay Duncan - you heard us! - is on stage at the National Theatre in a revival of Dodie Smith's Dear Octopus, so of course Jen jumped at the chance to chat to her. They were joined by the play's di...
21 Feb 20241h 24min
SIM Ep 942 Chops 287: Len Pennie’s Poyums
Performance poet Len Pennie is a big deal on the social media, particularly TikTok, where her Scots Word of the Day videos, forthright, urgent poetry and wicked sense of humour have made her a bona fi...
18 Feb 202423min
