Episodes

  • Rated or Dated: Save the Last Dance (2001)

    Rated or Dated: Save the Last Dance (2001)
    Jan 14 2026
    Thomas Carter’s teen dance film helped launch the career of Julia Stiles, but has she been wronged by public perceptions of her dance skills in the years that followed? How many tropes are too many tropes? And can it hold a torch to 1983's Flashdance? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
  • The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Elizabeth Hyman

    The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Elizabeth Hyman
    Jan 13 2026
    Holocaust Memorial Day is coming up later this month (Tuesday 27 January), so Hannah's been on the Zoom with historian Elizabeth Hyman to talk about her non-fiction book The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto. They talk about five very different women who lived there, the work they did for their people and the tough choices they made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 mins
  • Why Laura Hall lay her head in water

    Why Laura Hall lay her head in water
    Jan 12 2026
    Feeling bogged down by meetings and out of her depth at work, travel writer Laura Hall quit her job and embarked on a fresh challenge to get her life back on track. Her new book, The Year I Lay My Head in Water: Swimming Scandinavia in Search of a Better Life, documents the year that followed, spent cold-water swimming around Scandinavia. Jen chats to Laura about the book, the appeal of the sea, the insanity of cold-water swimming, and the absolute joy of taking on a daft challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • Rated or Dated: Sexy Beast (2001)

    Rated or Dated: Sexy Beast (2001)
    Jan 7 2026
    Our weekly look at a film from the past is back for the New Year like a boulder about to smash into your swimming pool, as we watch Jonathan Glazer's debut: a one-last-job tale with a gangster who won't take no for an answer. No matter how many times he hears it. But does Sexy Beast still pass muster? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 mins
  • Salima Saxton is a bad patient

    Salima Saxton is a bad patient
    Jan 6 2026
    Last year, actor, author, life coach and professional mad woman (she co-hosts the Women Are Mad podcast with psychotherapist Jennifer Cox) Salima Saxton got ill. Obviously she started a Substack about it and Bad Patient – in which she writes about being ill with raw honesty, humour, insight and on her own terms – was born. Salima chats to our Mick about illness: how we perceive it, how we talk about it, how we don’t have to meet other people’s expectations when dealing with it and how it can change our perspective on, well, everything. Also, bonus chat: tricky dads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 mins
  • Wendy Welpton wants you on the floor

    Wendy Welpton wants you on the floor
    Jan 5 2026
    An injury in her early 40s, and a long period of chronic pain that followed, made Wendy Welpton think about how she was moving. Now a movement coach, founder of Reclaim Movement, and a podcast host, she’s also written a book – Move Well For Life: Unlock The Life-Changing Power of Everyday Movement – aimed at getting others to do the same. Jen chats to Wendy about why movement should trump exercise, why it’s so important for people in midlife to move more and move better, and why she really really wants you to get on the floor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • Review of the Year 2025

    Review of the Year 2025
    Dec 31 2025
    What's the best book we read this year? Or the best play we saw? We're talking about that, plus our favorite TV, events, sport, music, comedy and interviews of 2025, as we wave goodbye to a year that's been, well, how would we describe it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • Rated or Dated: The Railway Children (1970)

    Rated or Dated: The Railway Children (1970)
    Dec 24 2025
    Adventure, nostalgia, trains, Cribbens and three elderly children posher than a lobster in a cravat: HOW JOLLY! Lionel Jeffries’ period piece based on E Nesbit’s 1906 book is a wholesome slice of classic British cinema, but what will filthy commoners Mick, Hannah and Jen make of it? And how will it go down with our resident five year old? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 mins