Kirstie McLeod is telling stories in stitches
Artist Kirstie McLeod founded the Red Dress project in 2009, as a platform for women in marginalised groups to share their stories. Sixteen years later, the collective embroidery project represents 38...
9 Juni 202525min
Anoushka Lucas is a theatre animal
Fresh from her run in The Almeida's Rhinoceros, singer, composer, writer and actor Anoushka Lucas is back on stage in a revival of her one-way play Elephant. She chats to Hannah about why going back t...
6 Juni 202525min
The Bush Telegraph: Dire straits in the status quo
Inclusion, exclusion, cervical wands, disallowed ads, sunk rescue deals, and three whole women: Jen and Mick cover the lot in this week’s look at the news. Sexism of the Week uncovers a not so brave n...
5 Juni 202530min
Rated or Dated: The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
What happens to characters when writers lose interest? They get a terrible film. Which is what The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse is all about. Very meta. But does it avoid becoming a bad film itsel...
4 Juni 202533min
Kate Muir’s magnificent midlife crisis
Kate Muir’s name might not ring any immediate bells, but her documentaries with Davina McCall about the perimenopause, menopause and HRT made quite the stir. And rightly so, given they busted myths ar...
3 Juni 202527min
Jess Davies does not want to see your dick
Former model Jess Davies started campaigning around image-based sexual abuse after her own experience of it, and the realisation that so many other women she knew had been through the same. Off the ba...
2 Juni 202529min
Flicking #62: Civil War (2024)
The most terrifying dystopias are within touching distance of now. And so it is with Alex Garland's Civil War, in which he uses imagined journalists chasing a story in an imagined civil war in an imag...
30 Maj 202531min
The Bush Telegraph: What *is* this, Mary?
How many kids is too many kids? Well, Boris Johnson and the UK Government are pretty divided on the issue. As well as covering the news of possible changes to the current two-child benefit cap, Hannah...
29 Maj 202530min
