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SIM Ep 943 Pod 293: Gambling, fighting and getting your whole family in a room together
Lindsay Duncan - you heard us! - is on stage at the National Theatre in a revival of Dodie Smith's Dear Octopus, so of course Jen jumped at the chanc…
2 years, 4 months ago
Len Pennie’s Poyums
Episode 942
Performance poet Len Pennie is a big deal on the social media, particularly TikTok, where her Scots Word of the Day videos, forthright, urgent poetry…
2 years, 4 months ago
Flicking: Past Lives
Episode 942
Greta Lee and Teo Yoo star in Celine Song’s debut feature, which follows deeply connected childhood friends Nora (Lee) and Hae Sung (Yoo) over the co…
2 years, 4 months ago
Olga, Ola, Othello and okay, let’s DANCE MONTAGE
Episode 941
Imagine making a film set in a town where dancing is illegal. Imagine that bit being the true story element of said film. Imagine that not one of the…
2 years, 4 months ago
Where are we going? What does it mean? And what is this film?
Episode 940
Why won't copy show up?
Comedian, writer, podcaster, friend of Standard Issue, and glorious human being Jess Fostekew is back on tour with her new sho…
2 years, 4 months ago
SIM Ep 939 Chops 286: Broken Water, broken nights, and the highs and lows of mumming
Being a mum is great, but it can also be relentlessly challenging and impossibly difficult. Not to mention that from the day they're born, you know y…
2 years, 4 months ago
SIM Ep 938 Pod 290: Live from Antarctica and the Fountain of Destiny!
Sort of. This week, Jen's been on the satellite phone to bone fide polar adventurer Harpreet ‘Preet’ Chandi. Preet recently broke a third World Recor…
2 years, 4 months ago
SIM Ep 937 Chops 285: A Phone Fix with the Brain Doctor
Are we addicted to our phones? Are they bad for our mental health? Are they changing the way we behave? Hannah gets the answers to these and many mor…
2 years, 4 months ago
SIM Ep 936 Pod 289: Comedy, cancer, college campuses and Christ almighty, our eyes
Episode 936
Stand up Laura Smyth came to comedy later in life and with a whole load of experiences, including cancer, under her belt. People are lapping it up, a…
2 years, 5 months ago
SIM Ep 935 Chops 284: Zahra Nader on the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan
Episode 935
If ever a subject demanded a bit more of our time, it’s what’s happening to women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Zahra Nader, editor-in-…
2 years, 5 months ago