SIM Ep 433 Pod 130: Ushers, refugees and Rebecca, I tell you!
Welcome to Lockdown II: Electric Boogaloo or whatever we’re calling these latest Unprecedented Times. It’s already having an effect and has put My Red Stripes – disability and inclusion campaigner Jo ...
4 Nov 20201h 15min
SIM Ep 432 IMD20#1: Andrew Cotter has two very good dogs
We can all agree that lockdown wasn't especially joyful, but what many of us also agree on, is that the absolute highlight were the antics of Olive and Mabel, two very good dogs belonging to Andrew Co...
1 Nov 202037min
SIM Ep 431 Pod 129: Studying homelessness, robbing banks and please God let Joe Biden win
Homelessness is a topic that, sadly, never goes away, so in this week's podcast Mick chats to Maeve McClenaghan, investigative journalist and host of brilliant podcast The Tip Off, about what she disc...
28 Okt 20201h 24min
SIM Ep 430 Chops 184: Unfinished Business at the British Library with Dr Polly Russell
Dr Polly Russell is the curator of the British Library’s cracking and important new exhibition Unfinished Business: The Fight For Women’s Rights. Bang up our alley? Yes siree. She chats to Mickey abo...
25 Okt 202033min
SIM Ep 429 Gig 57: Parris and Wix
Katy Wix AND Rachel Parris? Yep, this is a stone-cold doozie of a Zoomcast. Chat includes choosing one word to describe 2020, jigsaw aggression, unusual funeral behaviour, a needs-must ‘rethink reskil...
21 Okt 20201h 5min
SIM Ep 428 Chops 183: Megan Phelps Roper has Unfollowed
Our world is more divided than we can ever remember it, but what can we do to change hearts and minds? In this Chops, Hannah chats to Megan Phelps-Roper, author of Unfollow, a memoir about growing up ...
18 Okt 202034min
SIM Ep 427 Pod 128: Protest, progress and some classic Bette Davis
We've not one, but two, great chats about fascinating books in this week's podcast. Mickey talks to Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose latest novel, This Mournable Body, has been shortlisted ...
14 Okt 20201h 8min
SIM Ep 426 Chops 182: Baby Loss Awareness Week
It's Baby Loss Awareness Week, so in this Chops Hannah chats to Karen Burgess, CEO of baby loss counselling charity Petals, and Lia Shimada, one of the bereaved mothers helped by the service. They tal...
11 Okt 202041min
