Paula Hawkins on midlife success and the importance of financial independence
My guest today is a woman who I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of, but you may not think you have. Her name is Paula Hawkins, but you probably know her as the author of the global bestseller The Girl On T...
10 Aug 202135min
Laura Friedman Williams on sex and the newly single 40something mum
How does it feel to have your life turned upside down in your mid 40s? That’s what happened to Laura Friedman Williams when, after 27 years with her husband, she discovered he was having an affair. It...
3 Aug 202152min
Torrey Peters on finding a roadmap for ageing as a trans woman
My guest this week has spent a fair part of this year at the eye of a storm. Torrey Peters’ novel Detransition, Baby - a gloriously gossipy comedy of manners - was rapturously received when it was pub...
27 Jul 202141min
Terri White on work, class and mental health
My guest this week has come a hell of a long way - from the Derbyshire village where she grew up, to London and the editor's seat of Empire magazine, by way of New York where she was one of Folio maga...
20 Jul 202148min
Anita Rani on ditching the baggage, owning her anger and why her 40s are her power decade
Hello, and welcome to season 5 of The Shift, and I could not be happier to kick off this season with this very special guest. What even is the “right sort of girl?” That’s a question my guest this wee...
13 Jul 202145min
Dr Jen Gunter on menopause, mental health and why we all need a meno-party
The best way I can think of to describe this week’s guest is that she’s a women’s health vigilante. (A vagina vigilante if you will!) Dubbed twitter’s resident gynaecologist, and the nemesis of snake ...
15 Jun 202147min
Esther Freud on motherhood, guilt and upending your life in your 50s
How does it feel to come from a family with a legend? If you’re today’s guest, novelist and playwright Esther Freud (daughter of painter Lucian Freud and great granddaughter of Sigmund Freud) you work...
8 Jun 202141min
Kate Mosse: why caring is a feminist issue (from the archives)
This is a replay of an episode published at the start of the year in which Kate Mosse talked about her experience of caring for both her own elderly parents, and her husband's mother. I'm replaying it...
3 Jun 202143min
