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Kat Farmer has the answer to all your "my wardrobe hates me" dilemmas
Season 7 Episode 69
Totally lost sight of your personal style? Feel like your clothes hate you? Whether it’s the result of two years in and out of lockdown, emerging fro…
4 years, 7 months ago
Dana Spiotta on putting paid to menopause shame
Season 7 Episode 68
When was the last time you read a book where the central character was not just perimenopausal but also talked and thought about menopause and its im…
4 years, 8 months ago
Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex and sisterhood
Season 7 Episode 67
It takes courage to lay yourself bare on the page the way today’s guest does. Journalist Clover Stroud has written three memoirs - The Wild Other, My…
4 years, 8 months ago
Barbara Blake Hannah on feeling new at 80 and why she believes in miracles
Season 7 Episode 66
My guest today is the Jamaican author, journalist, film maker and (no exaggeration) living legend Barbara Blake Hannah.
Already an experienced journal…
4 years, 8 months ago
Christina Patterson on how to deal with the blows life throws at you
Season 7 Episode 65
By the time we hit our 50s, most of us have… let’s just say… lived a little. But few have been through the mill to quite the extent that Christina Pa…
4 years, 8 months ago
Marian Keyes is BACK!
Season 7 Episode 64
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 he…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jami Attenberg on the joy of starting over and finding a place of your own
Season 7 Episode 63
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…
4 years, 9 months ago
Dorothy Koomson on how she learnt to be enough
Season 7 Episode 62
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, wo…
4 years, 9 months ago
Nicola Sturgeon on power and the fiftysomething woman
Season 7 Episode 61
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 d…
4 years, 9 months ago
Pepsi and Shirlie on miscarriage, mental health and 40 years of friendship
Season 6 Episode 60
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…
4 years, 11 months ago