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Narratives around race and ethnicity continue to be reductive and damaging, says journalist Natalie Morris, who chatted to Jen about her new book Mix…
5 years, 2 months ago
SIM Ep 491 Chops 201: On This Day She
Women are often missing from history, their roles downplayed, their achievements diminished. In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to three women on a m…
5 years, 2 months ago
SIM Ep 490 Pod 149: Motherhood, history, and thank fuck for Hugh Grant
Episode 490
This weekend is the British Library's HistoryFest, so Hannah's been on the Zoom with one of this year's speakers, Dr Peggy Brunache, to find out more…
5 years, 2 months ago
SIM Ep 489 Chops 200: Shaking hands with Ella Al-Shamahi
Covid 19 has given the handshake a bad rap, reckons explorer and paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, who set out to explore the origins and signific…
5 years, 2 months ago
SIM Ep 488 Flicking #12: Pride
Episode 489
Brace yourself for Hannah's naming of the genre of film that British filmmakers have absolutely mastered and of which 2014's Pride – the (based on a …
5 years, 2 months ago
SIM Ep 487 Pod 148: Gloss, hormones and Julia Roberts's tits
We're not always singing from the same hymn sheet as other women's magazines, but that doesn't mean we don't find the whole industry fascinating. So …
5 years, 2 months ago
SIM Ep 486 Chops 199: Places Molly McCully Brown has taken her body
Episode 486
American poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown’s latest book, Places I’ve Taken My Body, is a collection of personal essays that travel the physical,…
5 years, 2 months ago
SIM Ep 485 Pod 147: Fighting, forgetting, and the sex life of pandas
Episode 485
At just 20 years old, Ameena Hamid is Britain’s youngest theatre producer and a champion of those whose stories don't get told. She chats to Hannah a…
5 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 484 Chops 198: Delphine Minoui, Syria, and the secret library of Daraya
Episode 484
When Delphine Minoui, journalist and Middle East correspondent for Le Figaro, discovered a photo of an underground library amid the rubble and battle…
5 years, 3 months ago
SIM Ep 483 Outside The Box #31
We're sooo close to being allowed to do anything else other than watch TV, but with a few weeks still to go, here's what we've been enjoying and not …
5 years, 3 months ago