SIM Ep 201 Pod 66: Prizes, hidden histories and an inexplicable Elvis
This week, Jen meets comedy legend Helen Lederer to learn about the Comedy Women in Print Prize. Author Hallie Rubenhold dispels some myths about the victims of Jack the Ripper. Jen's talking some goo...
20 Feb 201959min
SIM Ep 199 Chops 85: social media is NOT ruining your life with Sara Tasker
Social media doesn't have to be a harbinger of mental health issues and FOMO, as Instagram guru Sara Tasker tells Mickey in this Chops. Sara's debut book, Hashtag Authentic, looks at how women can use...
17 Feb 201933min
SIM Ep 200 LGBT History Month #3: Rosie Jones
In Part III of our LGBT History Month series, comedian Rosie Jones comes into the studio to talk LGBT voices in comedy, dating as a disabled person and what it was like to actually have a good year in...
17 Feb 201928min
SIM Ep 198 Outside The Box #9
What you going to be watching on the telly this month? We talk True Detective, Russian Doll, Fyre and The Ted Bundy Tapes in February's Outside The Box. And also, oddly, Diagnosis Murder. Tuck in! Sup...
15 Feb 201932min
SIM Ep 197 Pod 65: Media, melons & making evil
This week, we catch up with Alice-May Purkiss, author of new book Life, Lemons and Melons, about being diagnosed with breast cancer at 26 and why we all need to CoppaFeel! Dr Julia Shaw swings by to t...
13 Feb 20191h
SIM Ep 195 LGBT History Month #2: The fight for marriage equality in Northern Ireland
In the second of our bonus podcasts for LGBT History Month, we talk to NUS-USI President Olivia Potter-Hughes about the campaign for marriage equality in Northern Ireland, what comes next and how the ...
10 Feb 201921min
SIM Ep 196 Chops 82: The real East End women
Author Kate Thompson's brilliant new book The Stepney Doorstep Society tells us about an East End was run by matriarchs during the Second World War. Hannah went to meet Kate, along with Marie, one of ...
10 Feb 201929min
SIM Ep 194 Pod 64: The city, the suburbs and the Sorcerer's Apprentice
We've a fascinating chunk of social history coming for you this week as we talk to musician and writer Tracey Thorn about hew book on her childhood in suburbia - Another Planet. Hannah meets author Ka...
6 Feb 201953min
