Podcast Episodes

Mary Portas on losing it all and putting yourself together again

Season 23 Episode 317

My guest today is back by popular demand. 

Mary Portas, businesswoman, author, activist and retail expert, was my guest this time last year in a liv…

5 hours ago

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Gillian Slovo on family legacy, sisterhood and learning to forgive

Season 23 Episode 316

My guest today is the South African-born author, journalist and playwright Gillian Slovo.

Now 74, Gillian has written thirteen novels, including Red…

1 week ago

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Rose Ferguson: 'You don't have to settle for feeling worse just because you're getting older'

Season 23 Episode 315

My guest today is the former model turned leading nutritionist Rose Ferguson.

At the age of 15, Rose was discovered in McDonalds on Oxford Street b…

2 weeks ago

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Denise Brown on the loss of her sister Nicole Brown Simpson and her lifelong fight against domestic abuse

Season 23 Episode 314

Hello and welcome to season 23 (!) of The Shift podcast, and this first episode is very close to my heart. Domestic abuse is something I have spent a…

3 weeks ago

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Jackie Kay on rediscovering yourself in your 50s - REPLAY

Episode 313

My guest today has blazed a trail through the British poetry scene ever since her work was first published in 1991. Born in Edinburgh, Jackie Kay MBE…

4 weeks ago

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Marina Benjamin on the unseen, unsung, undone work of women - REPLAY

Episode 312

I first encountered today’s guest, Marina Benjamin, when I was researching The Shift book and stumbled across her memoir, The Middlepause. An insight…

1 month ago

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Zandra Rhodes: how a 'boring little girl' made a big bold life - REPLAY

Episode 311

I can’t be cool about today’s guest, so I’m not even going to try. Ever since I started The Shift I have had a Wishlist and high up on it from day on…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Louise O'Neill on her midlife dating odyssey - BONUS EPISODE

Season 22 Episode 310

You can be swimming along nicely and then all of a sudden everything you thought you had is gone.

That’s what happened to today’s guest, the best-sel…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing - REPLAY

Episode 309

It's two and a half years since I first interviewed Miranda July for this podcast and wow, what a change! Her novel All Fours became a must-read, got…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Rachel Eliza Griffiths shares two great loves and two great griefs

Season 22 Episode 308

My guest today is the writer and award-winning poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Eliza is a woman who has been through A LOT in a short space of time. In…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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