Mel Giedroyc on starting a new career at 51 and being a menopause dodger
I am thrilled to kick off season four - season bloody four! - of The Shift with today’s guest, Mel Giedroyc (and yes I did practice saying that 935 times). Mel is (she reckons) the more punctual half ...
13 Apr 202148min
Lindsey Hilsum on Marie Colvin, menopause in a warzone and why going grey is NOT brave
You know when people say you’re “brave” because you’ve got a few grey hairs?! Well, my guest this week is the living proof - as if it were needed - that that is a right old load of BS. Channel 4 Inter...
23 Mars 202140min
Sadie Frost and Frances Ruffelle on 40 years of friendship - and why it's more important than love
My guests this week have both lived fascinating lives. Both have experienced ups and downs. Both are now 55 and have found themselves in this place in life that has brought them a surprising new power...
16 Mars 202142min
Nana-Ama Danquah on the triple burden of mental health, menopause and being black
My guest today is the Ghanaian American writer Nana-Ama Danquah. Nana-Ama found herself in the public eye when, in the late 90s, she published her memoir Willow Weep For Me about suffering from clinic...
9 Mars 202147min
Isabel Allende on feminism, anger and being "fatally heterosexual"
The main word I can think of to describe this week’s guest is wise. (Well there are other words - fabulous and no-bull for starters - but wise is the biggie.) Bestselling author Isabel Allende has wri...
2 Mars 202137min
Rosie Green: a how to cope with mid-life crisis special
This week is a bit of a “how to cope when your life spirals out of control and goes tits up!” Special! And my guest, journalist Rosie Green, is an unwilling expert on midlife chaos. She was 44 (there’...
23 Feb 202147min
Sarah Pinborough on why women need to get comfortable talking about money
Like many women, my guest this week has lived a lot of lives in one. Married and divorced in her 20s, Sarah Pinborough left a career in teaching, became a horror writer and taught herself to script wr...
16 Feb 202137min
Alexandra Heminsley on body image, identity and building an LGBTQ+ family
Where to start with the last decade of this week's guest's life? After struggling to get pregnant, Alexandra Heminsley finally conceived at 40 after unsuccessful rounds of IVF. You might hope that was...
9 Feb 202144min
