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SIM Ep 834 Outside The Box #53
Only a few sleeps until Succession, so in the meanwhile we've been gorging on a lot of documentaries, including We Need to Talk About Cosby, Wild Isl…
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 833 Pod 246: Does this taste like metal?
We're full of life advice in this week’s podzine. First up, Mick chats to Helen Wills, mum of teenagers and host of the Teenage Kicks podcast, about …
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 832 Chops 247: Leah Hazard on the womb
Episode 832
Considering that we all start life in one, and that roughly half of the global population has one, the womb remains one of the most under-researched,…
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 831 Flicking #36: God’s Own Country
Episode 831
If you want to make our Hannah angry, simply refer to God’s Own Country, Francis Lee’s 2017 film about love between an isolated young sheep farmer (J…
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 830 Pod 245: Embalming, boxing and SO MUCH SHOUTING
Embalming and rape might not sound like the makings of a great conversation, but Mickey proves that theory wrong when she gets on the Zoom with Alexa…
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 829 Chops 246: Anna Motz and violent women
"But women are violent, too" is a phrase often designed to shut down conversations about male violence. But, the inconvenient truth is, women can be …
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 828 Pod 244: A superstar artist, soapstar queens, and a toe for everyone!
Episode 828
Politics, power and sex play important parts in both of this week’s interviews. Ahead of new BBC documentary, Becoming Frida Kahlo, Hannah’s been on …
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 827 Chops 245: Nell Frizzell’s tracksuit years
Why do we have hundreds of terms for the different stages of childhood and adolescence, but just one for the parents navigating their way through the…
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 826 Pod 243: Perfectly reasonable, historically sinkable, and dramatically flappable
One woman’s “reasonable” is another woman’s eating cheesy crisps on the Tube. With our own concept of what it is to be reasonable, and indeed unreaso…
3 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 825 Chops 244: Dr Marieke Bigg on how medicine fails women
Episode 825
In sociologist Dr Marieke Bigg’s new book, This Won’t Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women, she explores the huge gaps in women’s health, the sexism inhere…
3 years, 4 months ago