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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 32 days 18 hours 39 minutes
episode 429: SIM Ep 429 Gig 57: Parris and Wix
Katy Wix AND Rachel Parris? Yep, this is a stone-cold doozie of a Zoomcast. Chat includes choosing one word to describe 2020, jigsaw aggression, unusual funeral behaviour, a needs-must ‘rethink reskill reboot’, the joy of geeking out, Tracey Emin, Tori...
SIM Ep 428 Chops 183: Megan Phelps Roper has Unfollowed
Our world is more divided than we can ever remember it, but what can we do to change hearts and minds? In this Chops, Hannah chats to Megan Phelps-Roper, author of Unfollow, a memoir about growing up in - and leaving - the notorious W...
SIM Ep 427 Pod 128: Protest, progress and some classic Bette Davis
We've not one, but two, great chats about fascinating books in this week's podcast. Mickey talks to Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose latest novel, This Mournable Body, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an...
SIM Ep 426 Chops 182: Baby Loss Awareness Week
It's Baby Loss Awareness Week, so in this Chops Hannah chats to Karen Burgess, CEO of baby loss counselling charity Petals, and Lia Shimada, one of the bereaved mothers helped by the service. They talk about the shame and blame around the loss of ...
SIM Ep 425 Outside The Box #27
It's too rainy, right? Let's all spend the weekend in front of the telly catching up on some excellent documentaries. We chat The Social Dilemma, A Perfect Crime and Challenger: The Final Flight in...
episode 424: SIM Ep 424 Pod 127: Klopping, birthing and “hit it with a hammer!”
Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and comedian Laura Lexx is the romance we all need right now. Yeah yeah, it’s not real, but it is joyous. You can and should read all about it in Laura’s book, Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life With Footb...
SIM Ep 423 Chops 181: Laura Bates goes manospheric
Incels, pick-up artists, men's rights activists; the internet is literally crawling with angry men and as Laura Bates found out, they are more than happy to indoctrinate youngsters too. The writer and creator of the Everyday Sexism project tells u...
SIM Ep 422 Flicking #6: Ghostbusters
It's that time of the month where Hannah, Mick and our resident film buff Yosra Osman chat about their favourite films. This time Mick's picked 1984's supernatural comedy classic, Ghostbusters. But what about underused Winston? ...
SIM Ep 421 Pod 126: Studies, steel and a shameful waste of whiskey
Wondering what lockdown did to the nation's physical and mental health? Then wonder no longer, because this week Hannah's been on the phone to Dr Daisy Fancourt, one of the team behind the Covid Social Study, to find out how things l...
episode 420: SIM Ep 420 Chops 180: International Safe Abortion Day 2020
Monday 28 September is International Safe Abortion Day and our hard-working, very tired friends at Alliance 4 Choice got in touch to let us know that while the usual March For Choice can’t happen this year because pandemic, they’ve got some activities ...