The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Elizabeth Hyman
Holocaust Memorial Day is coming up later this month (Tuesday 27 January), so Hannah's been on the Zoom with historian Elizabeth Hyman to talk about her non-fiction book The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw...
13 Jan 30min
Why Laura Hall lay her head in water
Feeling bogged down by meetings and out of her depth at work, travel writer Laura Hall quit her job and embarked on a fresh challenge to get her life back on track. Her new book, The Year I Lay My Hea...
12 Jan 26min
Rated or Dated: Sexy Beast (2001)
Our weekly look at a film from the past is back for the New Year like a boulder about to smash into your swimming pool, as we watch Jonathan Glazer's debut: a one-last-job tale with a gangster who won...
7 Jan 27min
Salima Saxton is a bad patient
Last year, actor, author, life coach and professional mad woman (she co-hosts the Women Are Mad podcast with psychotherapist Jennifer Cox) Salima Saxton got ill. Obviously she started a Substack about...
6 Jan 27min
Wendy Welpton wants you on the floor
An injury in her early 40s, and a long period of chronic pain that followed, made Wendy Welpton think about how she was moving. Now a movement coach, founder of Reclaim Movement, and a podcast host, s...
5 Jan 26min
Review of the Year 2025
What's the best book we read this year? Or the best play we saw? We're talking about that, plus our favorite TV, events, sport, music, comedy and interviews of 2025, as we wave goodbye to a year that'...
31 Dec 202549min
Rated or Dated: The Railway Children (1970)
Adventure, nostalgia, trains, Cribbens and three elderly children posher than a lobster in a cravat: HOW JOLLY! Lionel Jeffries’ period piece based on E Nesbit’s 1906 book is a wholesome slice of clas...
24 Dec 202530min
Bears, dogs and creative thinking with Jessica Swale
Jessica Swale is a busy woman, so Hannah was surprised to discover the writer and director did have the time for a chat about some of her latest projects. They cover getting the tone right for Padding...
22 Dec 202526min
