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 Maj 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 Maj 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
Lindsey Hilsum on Marie Colvin, menopause in a warzone and why going grey is NOT brave
You know when people say you’re “brave” because you’ve got a few grey hairs?! Well, my guest this week is the living proof - as if it were needed - that that is a right old load of BS. Channel 4 Inter...
23 Mars 202140min
Sadie Frost and Frances Ruffelle on 40 years of friendship - and why it's more important than love
My guests this week have both lived fascinating lives. Both have experienced ups and downs. Both are now 55 and have found themselves in this place in life that has brought them a surprising new power...
16 Mars 202142min
Nana-Ama Danquah on the triple burden of mental health, menopause and being black
My guest today is the Ghanaian American writer Nana-Ama Danquah. Nana-Ama found herself in the public eye when, in the late 90s, she published her memoir Willow Weep For Me about suffering from clinic...
9 Mars 202147min
