SIM Ep 749 Chops 257: Escape From North Korea
Jihyun Park's new book, The Hard Road Out, details how she escaped, not once, but twice, from one of the world's most repressive and secretive regimes: North Korea. She talks to Hannah about why, with...
17 Jul 202228min
SIM Ep 748 Flicking #27: Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Clearly, a franchise revival-cum-nostalgia fest of one of Mick’s all-time favourite movies was going to be Noonan catnip, so she’s been in giddy bliss the four times she’s watched Ghostbusters: Afterl...
16 Jul 202225min
SIM Ep 747 Pod 211: West End shows, queens of crime, and a shaken pug
There’s a wealth of cracking shows at the West End this summer, so Hannah got on the Zoom with Ruth Bratt – actress, comedian, and star of Showstoppers – to get the lowdown on where to spend your cash...
13 Jul 20221h 32min
SIM Ep 746 Chops 256: Louise Perry’s case against the sexual revolution
What if the sexual revolution was the biggest lie ever sold to women? With her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century, journalist and campaigner again...
10 Jul 202235min
SIM Ep 745 Pod 210: Balls, balls, balls, balls...
How do you keep calm during an LBC call-in? This week, Mick finds out from writer, broadcaster and mental health champion, Natasha Devon, as they chat about privilege one-upmanship, toxic friendships ...
5 Jul 20221h 26min
SIM Ep 744 Chops 255: Groomed. Gaslighted. Ghosted.
Earlier this year saw the publication of Deep Deception, a non-fiction book about the Spycops scandal by five of the many women targeted by undercover police officers in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and in...
3 Jul 202242min
SIM Ep 743 Pod 209: Satire, netball, and the continued rolling back of women’s rights
It’s definitely a podcast of two halves this week. In BT, Mick chats the US Supreme Court’s barbaric striking down of Roe V Wade and what that means for women and people who can get pregnant, and Jen ...
29 Jun 20221h 3min
SIM Ep 742 Chops 254: Marianne Shine on fashion's darkest secret
Following a 2020 investigation by Guardian journalist Lucy Osborne that exposed an historic culture of control, coercion and abuse within some of the world's leading modelling agencies, the fashion in...
26 Jun 202238min
