SIM Ep 799 Flicking #32: The Death of Stalin
It’ll come as no surprise that our Hannah is a huge Armando Iannucci fan. And The Death of Stalin, his 2017 satire on the brutality and absurdity of tyranny and what happens in the aftermath of, in th...
10 Dec 202227min
SIM Ep 798 Pod 233: Who am I, why have I never heard of that person, and why is that guy always shouting?
Everyone does a lot of talking about being "their authentic self" but is that a performance that means they are not really "authentic" at all? This week, Jen poses that question - and many more beside...
7 Dec 20221h 26min
SIM Ep 797 Chops 234: Miki Berenyi talks some not-so lush times
Miki Berenyi, probably best known as one of the founding members of late 80s and early 90s alt-rockers Lush, has written a superb, painfully honest, no-holds-barred memoir about her tricky (to put it ...
4 Dec 202235min
SIM Ep 796 BONUS POD: Love Actually gets Rated or Dated
A while ago, Mick made the team watch Love Actually for Rated or Dated and, well, regular – and even irregular – listeners can probably figure out how that went. Given that Richard Curtis’s celluloid ...
1 Dec 202221min
SIM Ep 795 Pod 232: Neurodiversity, charity, and deffo not a Nazi
Theatre might be making big strides in some areas of inclusion, but how does it look for neurodiverse performers or audience members? Hannah spoke to Liselle Terret*, associate professor of performanc...
30 Nov 20221h 29min
SIM Ep 794 Chops 233: Kate Nash is Positively Purple
With the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities coming up on December 3, Jen jumped on the Zoom with Kate Nash OBE, the woman behind Purple Space, the world’s only networking and profession...
27 Nov 202227min
SIM Ep 793 Pod 231: Brexit fallout, lung power, fast women, and cats
Are we still talking about Brexit? You bet your badgers, we are, because it’s still causing – euphemism warning – mischief all over the political, trade and, well, everything shop. So Mick got on the ...
23 Nov 20221h 11min
SIM Ep 792 IMD22: Jim Howick & Ben Willbond on the Ghosts of Christmas yet to come
After an eventful series four of everyone's favourite haunted house sitcom, Hannah catches up with two of its stars and co-writers, Jim Howick and Ben Willbond, to talk about sucking off Mary, dealing...
20 Nov 202243min
