Barbara Kingsolver on why life gets better with every passing decade - THE SHIFT REVISITED
For this bonus episode of The Shift, I’m delighted to welcome a very special guest: the award-winning author of ten bestselling novels, Barbara Kingsolver. Every so often, a book comes along that yo...
24 Des 202454min
Katherine May: why we all need a little more wonder in our lives - THE SHIFT REVISITED
We’ve all had those moments in our lives when everything feels… darker, colder, a little (or a lot) less hopeful. Those emotional winters were perfectly encapsulated by today’s guest, Katherine May in...
17 Des 202447min
BONUS EPISODE: Neneh Cherry on love, loss & legacy
If you were a teenager in the late 80s you only have to hear the name Neneh Cherry to conjure the image of Neneh, seven months pregnant, on the Top of the Pops stage performing her hit Buffalo Stance....
10 Des 202455min
Bella Freud: "I've definitely got more daring with age"
My guest today is the fashion designer Bella Freud. Bella launched her eponymous label in 1990. Over thirty years later it remains resolutely independent, one of the very few that hasn’t been subsumed...
3 Des 20241h
Donna Ashworth on finding her calling in midlife
My guest today is a woman who is credited with putting poetry back on the map, Donna Ashworth…. Donna came to prominence in 2020, when a poem she wrote about lockdown was read in a viral video to rais...
26 Nov 202458min
Baroness Lola Young: "you can't be what you can't see, but somebody has to go first"
My guest today is one incredible woman. Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey is an actress, academic, campaigner for social justice and a cross bench peer in the House of Lords. By anyone’s standards she ha...
19 Nov 20241h 2min
Jennifer Cox: why women are furious (and getting angrier)
My guest today is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Jennifer Cox. She trained at the Tavistock and now has an extensive practice specialising in treating women with undiagnosed anger. As part of this wo...
12 Nov 202454min
Louise Doughty on the unrealised potential of older women
My guest today is Louise Doughty, the woman behind some of the knottiest thrillers to grace our bookshelves and TV screens in recent years. Her bestseller, Apple Tree Yard about a sensible middle aged...
5 Nov 202459min
