Dr Donna Peberdy on Screening Sexual Violence
When Dr Donna Peberdy, associate professor of performance, sex and gender at Southampton Solent University, began to see a lot of representations of violence against women in work made by female filmm...
26 Jan 26min
A timely reminder from history, with Lisa Zahra and Beth Burrows
Safe Haven, which has just opened at London's Arcola theatre, tells the true story of what happened in spring 2001, when two million Kurds fleeing Saddam Hussein's forces found themselves in the freez...
23 Jan 28min
The Bush Telegraph: 17 mistakes and some unspeakably good news
If you’ve no idea what’s going on with the US and Greenland, don't worry – neither do we. Nor, apparently, does Donald Trump, so join the club. Elsewhere, we’ve identified a learning opportunity for N...
22 Jan 35min
Rated or Dated: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Does Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 grindhouse-schlock fest with a screeching plot twist put even more NO into its writer and “star” Quentin Tarantino for Mick, Hannah and Jen? Ooh, it’s a breath bater. Geor...
21 Jan 31min
In Room 706 with Ellie Levenson
Journalist, author and mother of three, Ellie Levenson used to dream of time away from the pressures of family life, a fantasy shared by many of her female friends. This became the basis for her first...
20 Jan 24min
Lucia Keskin’s nailing things she should have done
Comedian, actress and writer Lucia Keskin made her name on YouTube as Chi with a C, where she started making content at just 16. Indeed, one of her first videos to go viral was her opening her GCSE re...
19 Jan 25min
Flicking #69: A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar-winning comedy drama received an embarrassment of plaudits from the industry and critics. Now it’s time to get the ones that really matter: Mick, Hannah and Yosra watch America...
16 Jan 32min
The Bush Telegraph: 73 questions (most of which are WTAF?)
It's the first BT of 2026, so Mickey and Hannah have some catching up to do. This time, they're talking about failure: Grok user failures, women's health study failures and child benefit failures. Sti...
15 Jan 24min
