Pragya Agarwal on shame, surrogacy and the many faces of motherhood
This week’s guest is the behavioural and data scientist, Dr Pragya Agarwal. A passionate campaigner for gender and race equality, Pragya is the author of the much-praised Sway, about unravelling uncon...
1 Jun 202145min
Annie Mac on turning 40 and why middle aged women are a force to be reckoned with
My guest this week is a business woman, broadcaster, curator, tastemaker and DJ. She headlines festivals, hosts one of BBC Radio 1’s flagship shows, was Europe’s biggest female DJ and has her own hit ...
25 Mai 202142min
Mona Eltahawy on anger, ambition and ageing disgracefully
The phrase force-of-nature was created to describe this week’s guest. Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy has been fighting back and refusing to shut up for the best part of 50 years. She has b...
18 Mai 202147min
Alison Bechdel on her search for inner and outer strength. Plus tarot
My guest this week is the cartoonist Alison Bechdel. Probably best known for the Bechdel test - a tongue in cheek method she came up with in the 80s for assessing gender bias in movies. She became a h...
11 Mai 202139min
Anya Hindmarch on beating self doubt and why fashion needs to take some responsibility
Entrepreneur and fashion designer Anya Hindmarch is the queen of practicality. The bags for which her eponymous label is famous have long been adored for their pockets, compartments, zips and the fac...
4 Mai 202144min
Tamsin Calidas: the truth about the "escape to the country" dream
This week’s guest is a writer, photographer, sheep rearer (pretty sure that’s not the right word for it), crofter and expert at the dark art of being alone. Tamsin Calidas lived a relatively anonymous...
27 Apr 202139min
Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke’s world, hormones and going statement grey
Like many 80s kids, I grew up with today’s guest. Tracey Thorn started early, forming The Marine Girls (once described as looking like they would “break your arm before they’d let you break their hear...
20 Apr 202143min
Mel Giedroyc on starting a new career at 51 and being a menopause dodger
I am thrilled to kick off season four - season bloody four! - of The Shift with today’s guest, Mel Giedroyc (and yes I did practice saying that 935 times). Mel is (she reckons) the more punctual half ...
13 Apr 202148min
