SIM Ep 697 Chops 236: Desire, duty, defiance and Anna Karenina
Sheffield Theatres is 50 and is opening its anniversary season with a big one: Anna Karenina. Often acclaimed as the best novel ever written, Leo Tolstoy’s epic narrative is an immense canvas of desir...
6 Feb 202228min
SIM Ep 696 Pod 789: Diagnosis, Partygate and hurtling headfirst downhill at speed
On the bus home from her diagnosis of degenerative hearing condition otosclerosis, journalist and broadcaster Helena Merriman got thinking about the experiences of others on the receiving end of life-...
2 Feb 20221h 20min
SIM Ep 695 Chops 235: Danielle Friedman gets physical
Ever wondered where the weird and wonderful workouts of the women’s fitness industry originated? Danielle Friedman did, which is why the journalist and author decided to research and write a book abou...
30 Jan 202236min
SIM Ep 694 Pod 188: Ann Dowd, the hostile environment, and a deadbeat dad
Ann Dowd – sorry… ANN DOWD! – joins Hannah on this week’s podcast to talk about her new film Mass, the Oscar buzz surrounding her performance, Aunt Lydia, The Leftovers, feral nuns and making it over ...
26 Jan 20221h 31min
SIM Ep 693 Chops 234: We [Still] Can’t Consent to This
“Random angry woman” Fiona Mackenzie was appalled when she saw the ‘rough sex’ defence being used in the horrific killing of Natalie Connolly in 2016 – a defence which, in December 2018, saw her kille...
23 Jan 202236min
SIM Ep 692 Outside The Box #41
It's the first Outside The Box of 2022 and we're talking about a whole load of telly, including Anne, Rules of The Game, Four Lives, The Girl Before, The Green Planet and Yellowjackets. We also find o...
21 Jan 202242min
SIM Ep 691 Pod 187: Cassandras, unreliable narrators and a foot-high fringe
Would you want to predict the future, if you could? This week, Hannah is chatting to actor writer and disability activist Athena Stevens, about her play The Diagnosis, in which another Cassandra is do...
19 Jan 20221h 19min
SIM Ep 690 Chops 237: Queens, cousins, rivals, opposites?
Most people think they've got a grasp on history when it comes to the Tudors, but how much of that knowledge comes from pop culture or male historians? This week, Hannah chats to Dr Andrea Clarke, cur...
16 Jan 202224min
