SIM Ep 691 Pod 187: Cassandras, unreliable narrators and a foot-high fringe
Would you want to predict the future, if you could? This week, Hannah is chatting to actor writer and disability activist Athena Stevens, about her play The Diagnosis, in which another Cassandra is do...
19 Jan 20221h 19min
SIM Ep 690 Chops 237: Queens, cousins, rivals, opposites?
Most people think they've got a grasp on history when it comes to the Tudors, but how much of that knowledge comes from pop culture or male historians? This week, Hannah chats to Dr Andrea Clarke, cur...
16 Jan 202224min
SIM Ep 689 Flicking #21: Pan’s Labyrinth
Fauns and fascism ahoy, as Hannah gets Yosra and Mick to watch Guillermo Del Toro’s 2006 dark fantasy, Pan’s Labyrinth, set in post-civil war Spain. It throws up a lot of questions: Just how good is I...
15 Jan 202227min
SIM Ep 688 Pod 186: Resolutions, life in the fast lane, and two very broken legs
Some of us made plans to “better ourselves” to mark the advent of 2022, so Mick got on the Zoom with our resident psychotherapist Jane Watson, to talk about why we make new year’s resolutions, why we ...
12 Jan 20221h 15min
SIM Ep 687 Chops 236: The 4th Country, the North country
Northern Ireland is so often absent from our media and from the arts in the UK, so Hannah has been on the Zoom with Kate Reid, the writer of new play The 4th Country, and one of its stars, Rachael Roo...
9 Jan 202224min
SIM Ep 686 Pod 185: Business and boulders
In the first podzine of 2022, Mickey asks ‘new year, new business?’ as she catches up with Karen Campbell: marketing consultant, small business enthusiast, owner of Hotsy Totsy – a supper club and com...
5 Jan 202249min
SIM Ep 685 Blast from the gigcast past #3: Omielan, Millican, Garofalo and Pollard
Since it’s Christmas and it’s been a while since we could all enjoy regular live shows, Hannah, Mick and Jen have each chosen a favourite gigcast from, dare we say, better times, and they’re all corke...
29 Dec 20211h 1min
SIM Ep 684 Blast from the gigcast past #2: Colman, Godliman, Millican and Eclair
Picture this: September 2017, Leicester Square Theatre, Sarah Millican, Kerry Godliman, Jenny Eclair and Olivia Colman onstage. And Mickey. Yeah, Mick could barely believe it either. So imagine her de...
29 Dec 20211h
