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Back to SearchSIM Ep 894 Pod 272: A mysterious past, an uncertain future, and a leap off a spillway
Who wants to live forever? That's the question Hannah puts to Dr Aleks Krotoski, tech journalist and podcaster, whose latest series, The Immortals, l…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 893 Chops 272: The voice of Doon
Actor, comedian and writer Doon Mackichan has written an incredibly to-the-point memoir, My Lady Parts, and so, OBVIOUSLY, Hannah leapt at the chance…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 892 Flicking #41: Raising Arizona
Episode 892
Raising Arizona, The Coen Brothers’ second film, is a screwball comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter, as a loved-up couple who can’t have ki…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 891 Pod 271: Dating, TikTok and see-thru knickers
Dating: it’s weird, isn’t it? Two strangers having contrived chat in a lost-forever pocket of time. Which all makes it excellent fodder for playwrigh…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 890 Chops 271: A good Samaritan and some excellent company
Preventable deaths by suicide remain the biggest killer of young people under the age of 35 in the UK and continue to rise across the population. Tho…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 889 Pod 270: Policing, poetry, and pooh-poohing
ITV crime drama The Tower is back on our screens for a second series, presenting our Hannah with an excellent opportunity to jump on the Zoom with Ge…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 888 Chops 270: Wifedom
Episode 888
Anna Funder’s Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life is, ostensibly, a biography of Eileen Blair, nee Eileen O’Shaughnessy, aka the first Mrs George Or…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 887 Pod 269: To mickle or muckle, that is the question
Episode 887
Nina Sosanya has been a regular presence on TV screens since the nineties, quite often portraying hard-working and so seen as “difficult” women, incl…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 886 Chops 269: Shelina Janmohamed’s Story of Now
The British Empire has been a hot topic for centuries, but debates around its impact have reignited in recent years. In trying to explain these debat…
2 years, 9 months ago
SIM Ep 885 Pod 268: Names, games and flames
How much can a person's name tell us about them? Almost everything, says journalist Sheela Banerjee and in this week's podcast, she's chatting to Mic…
2 years, 10 months ago