SIM Ep 905 Chops 277: Editing Alcott
Louisa May Alcott is best known for perennially popular novel Little Women, but her life, and indeed her mind, was a lot more interesting still. Hannah's been on the Zoom with writer and editor Liz Ro...
22 Okt 202327min
SIM Ep 904 Pod 276: Cosy crime, pool time, and rhythm and rhyme
With “cosy crime” making waves in the literary world right now, journalist Hazel Davis jumped on the Zoom to chat to writer Flic Everett about why we’re forgoing gritty reality, and her new series of ...
18 Okt 20231h 14min
SIM Ep 903 Chops 276: Still making space for girls
Susannah Walker and Imogen Clark are the two (very excellent) women behind Make Space For Girls, and you may remember Mick had a chat with them a couple of years ago when the charity was just nine mon...
15 Okt 202325min
SIM Ep 902 Flicking #42: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones: one of cinema’s greatest characters. It’s big talk from our Mick, who’s in charge of this month’s Flicking and has chosen her favourite (note: not the ‘best’) of the trilogy. Yes, trilo...
14 Okt 202326min
SIM Ep 901 Pod 275: Mystery, medicine and myxomatosis (unconfirmed)
Private investigation isn't like it is on TV. Take that from Caitlin Davies, journalist, author and newly-minted PI, who's been on the Zoom with Mickey to talk about the history of women in the trade ...
11 Okt 20231h 26min
SIM Ep 900 Chops 275: Zoe Desmond and Rebecca Cox are happy single parents
Through her own experience of becoming a single parent, Zoe Desmond wanted to change the often isolated picture for people in similar situations. So she set up the Frolo app, aimed at helping to foste...
8 Okt 202329min
SIM Ep 899 Pod 274: DNA, Morven Christie, and can we have some more?
What do you get the person who has everything? A home DNA testing kit seems to be the present du jour and in the UK alone, more than 4.7million of us have spit into a vial to find out more about our a...
4 Okt 20231h 30min
SIM Ep 898 Chops 274: How the transatlantic slave trade created modern Britain
When journalist Moya Lothian-McLean was asked whether she’d be interested in exploring the truth about Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and what that means to and for modern Brit...
1 Okt 202334min
