Rated or Dated: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Margaret Atwood via Harold Pinter? Volker Schlöndorff’s 1990 adaptation of what’s become a feminist classic promises “a haunting tale of sexuality in a country gone wrong”. So there’s that for starter...
5 Mars 202529min
Son of a bitch, it's Anna Morris!
Imagine losing it in public, a video going viral and the whole world calling you a bad mother. That's what happens in playwright and actor Anna Morris's new play Son of A Bitch, now at Southwark Playh...
4 Mars 202525min
Emily Callaci wants Wages for Housework
Like many new parents, Emily Callaci - writer and professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison - was amazed by the amount of housework that came with looking after small children. Her n...
3 Mars 202528min
Is the public about to catch on to the Spycops scandal?
The women tricked into relationships with undercover police officers have spent a lot of years investigating and campaigning, largely unnoticed. Might a new ITV documentary about their stories finally...
28 Feb 202527min
The Bush Telegraph: A boob buffet
Hannah and Mick are ingesting and spitting out the news this week, and you’ll perhaps be unsurprised to hear that Trump needs to do better, the BBC needs to do better, the Church of England needs to d...
27 Feb 202523min
Rated or Dated: The Stepford Wives (1975)
Bryan Forbes’ 1975 satirical horror, based on the 1972 novel by Ira Levin, is so well known it's entered the lexicon. Is it a dystopian nightmare or does it have something to say about life right now?...
26 Feb 202529min
Eowyn Ivey and Alaska’s dark fairy tales
Eowyn Ivey, the million copy-selling author of The Snow Child, has been wanting to tell the story of her childhood her whole adult life. In her new novel, Black Woods, Blue Sky, she draws upon her exp...
25 Feb 202527min
Victoria Smith on Hags and "unkind" women
‘Seasoned feminist hag’ Victoria Smith is sick to the back teeth of women being told to ‘just be kind’. This was catnip to our Mickey, who you’ll already have heard wanging on about Victoria’s 2023 bo...
24 Feb 202526min
