Delia Ephron on getting a second chance at life and love in your 70s
My final guest of the season is the acclaimed screenwriter and bestselling author, Delia Ephron. Unfailingly wise, warm and witty, Delia is perhaps best known as co-writer of the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks sm...
29 Mars 202246min
Kat Farmer has the answer to all your "my wardrobe hates me" dilemmas
Totally lost sight of your personal style? Feel like your clothes hate you? Whether it’s the result of two years in and out of lockdown, emerging from the motherhood tunnel or the advent of menopause,...
22 Mars 202252min
Dana Spiotta on putting paid to menopause shame
When was the last time you read a book where the central character was not just perimenopausal but also talked and thought about menopause and its impact on her life. And she wasn’t a laughing stock? ...
15 Mars 202246min
Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex and sisterhood
It takes courage to lay yourself bare on the page the way today’s guest does. Journalist Clover Stroud has written three memoirs - The Wild Other, My Wild and Sleepless Nights and, now, The Red of My ...
8 Mars 202255min
Barbara Blake Hannah on feeling new at 80 and why she believes in miracles
My guest today is the Jamaican author, journalist, film maker and (no exaggeration) living legend Barbara Blake Hannah. Already an experienced journalist when she arrived in London in 1964, Barbara wa...
1 Mars 202248min
Christina Patterson on how to deal with the blows life throws at you
By the time we hit our 50s, most of us have… let’s just say… lived a little. But few have been through the mill to quite the extent that Christina Patterson has. Christina was 49 and recovering from b...
22 Feb 202239min
Marian Keyes is BACK!
This week’s guest needs zero introduction - and not just because she’s been here before. Marian Keyes was one of the first guests on The Shift and her episode [episode 2 if you’re interested!] is stil...
15 Feb 202245min
Jami Attenberg on the joy of starting over and finding a place of your own
We all tackle ageing in different ways but very few of us do it the way this week’s guest did - by packing up her entire life and moving thousands of miles to a new city and a new life. Until her mid...
8 Feb 202238min
