Sabrina Pace-Humphreys: how running saved me from workaholism and alcoholism THE SHIFT REVISITED
This episode first aired June 2022... This week’s guest will make you wonder what you do with your time! Sabrina Pace-Humphreys is an award-winning business woman, a social justice activist, an ult...
30 Jun 58min
Dawn O'Porter - on ageing, Botox, self-worth & kaftans! THE SHIFT REVISITED
This episode first aired in autumn 2022. I'm replaying it now because Dawn's new memoir, Hungry Eyes, borne of her love of food (and her Celebrity Masterchef almost triumph!) is out now... My guest...
23 Jun 56min
Lyse Doucet: What I learnt from 40 years on the frontline THE SHIFT REVISITED
This episode first aired last autumn, but I'm replaying it now because last week Lyse won The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction for her remarkable people's history of Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabu...
16 Jun 1h 7min
Liz Earle: 'Much of what we've been told about ageing as women is wrong'
My guest today is the woman who put Cleanse & Polish cleanser and muslin cloths in bathroom cabinets all over the country, Liz Earle. Back in the 1980s, Liz started her career as a beauty editor, b...
9 Jun 1h 1min
Dr Kate Lister: Most women could benefit from 'pleasure education'
My guest this week is a historian columnist television presenter and vocal advocate for better sex for women! I first encountered Dr Kate Lister when I stumbled across her brilliant instagram accou...
2 Jun 1h 2min
Maria Semple knows all the dirty little secrets of midlife!
My guest this week is Maria Semple the author of one of my favourite books of all time, Where’d you go bernadette,. Once encountered, Bernadette Fox is never forgotten. I wasn’t alone, Bernadette w...
26 Mai 1h 9min
Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the 90s and her big midlife resurrection
Today’s episode will take you ricocheting back to the 90s - in all the ways. Canadian singer, songwriter, photographer and producer Melissa Auf der Maur is best known as the bassist of Hole through...
19 Mai 58min
Katriona O'Sullivan on women's bodies, hunger & why women shrink
My guest today is Dr Katriona O’Sullivan. Katriona grew up in Coventry and her early life was marked by poverty, addiction and abuse. She became pregnant and subsequently homeless at 15, let down ...
12 Mai 1h 10min
