Marian Keyes is BACK!
This week’s guest needs zero introduction - and not just because she’s been here before. Marian Keyes was one of the first guests on The Shift and her episode [episode 2 if you’re interested!] is stil...
15 Feb 202245min
Jami Attenberg on the joy of starting over and finding a place of your own
We all tackle ageing in different ways but very few of us do it the way this week’s guest did - by packing up her entire life and moving thousands of miles to a new city and a new life. Until her mid...
8 Feb 202238min
Dorothy Koomson on how she learnt to be enough
My guest today is the international bestseller Dorothy Koomson. She started young - she had her first stab at writing a book at 13 - and, like me, worked on Just Seventeen, amongst many other magazine...
1 Feb 202239min
Nicola Sturgeon on power and the fiftysomething woman
I’m really thrilled to launch this season with one of my long time fantasy guests. Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland since 2015, has been dubbed one of the most powerful women in British pol...
25 Jan 202240min
Pepsi and Shirlie on miscarriage, mental health and 40 years of friendship
It's season finale time. And have I got a festive special for you! There is no child of the 80s who won’t remember today’s guests. For a decade, Pepsi Demacque-Crockett and Shirlie Kemp - better known...
14 Dec 202151min
Lynda La Plante on breaking boundaries and why there STILL aren't enough good roles for women
My guest this week is a woman who - to coin a bit of 1980s jargon - punched through the glass ceiling for women in TV, creating not just one but a series of female lead characters who broke the mould....
7 Dec 202153min
Liz Fraser on living with and loving an alcoholic
What do you do if the person you love turns out to hold the seeds to your own destruction? My guest this week has lived through it and discovered the answer to that question the hard way. Writer and b...
30 Nov 202147min
Mariella Frostrup on fearlessness, menopause and knowing your worth
My guest this week was known for her willingness for say it like it is even before she made a TV show about the menopause. No, not THAT one. The one BEFORE. Broadcaster Mariella Frostrup was banging t...
23 Nov 202147min
