Podcast where each episode is my wife interviewing me about a book, my writing process, and more. Check out previous episodes below, submit a question of your own, and see the order of the upcoming episodes.
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A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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A lesbian fantasy adventure! Join us as we play an all-lesbian game of Dungeons and Dragons!
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This is a sapphic fiction story-telling podcast. The hosts, Nikki & Monte, read stories they have written but the other has not read. They email the stories after they begin recording so the other does not have a chance to read ahead. There are no rehearsals. Each episode is minimally edited for the listeners enjoyment. Episodes are posted on the 1st and 15th of each month. If you’re enjoying the podcast please follow, rate and share.
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A lesbian fiction anthology podcast highlighting writers of fan fiction and genre stories. Find the Podcast on Twitter @thesapphiccast or mail thesapphiccast@gmail.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sapphic-cast/support
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Art, Love, & Black Queer Life in mid-90’s Philadelphia & NYC. Kai, a gay freelance writer/multimedia artist and sometimes activist, looks for love in the lonely city. Lizzie, a beautiful debutante, turns her back on the bourgeois life her upper crust family had planned for her to become a tattoo artist/piercer & jewelry designer. Jordan, a shy, young bookstore manager trying to keep her riot grrrl band together, struggles to navigate the awkward dating scene as a gender nonconforming lesbian ...
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Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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The Lesbian Talkshow is a podcast channel by and for queer women but all listeners are welcome. We have different shows which we have separated as if they are each a different series. Series 11: Les Talk About It, Series 9: Ask A, Series 8: Les Do Books, Series 7: Radio Dramas and original full fiction, Series 6: Coming Out Stories, Series 4: Writing as a business related shows, Series 3: Book Clips (author readings), Series 1: Unusual Hobbies. Find Lesbians on Screen and The Lesbian Review ...
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Here you can find the adult oriented Senpai's Playlist Podcast where me and my co-host Claire talk about everything from food to pokemon while listening to anime musis. Or you can listen to the all new VGM Origins Podcast where I invite a guess on each episode to talk about a topic and some of their own origin stories.
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When Angels Visit Armadillo uncovers a mystery shrouded in conspiracy, tucked away behind the moss in the rural town of Armadillo, Florida. Through interview recordings and phone calls, WAVA delves into the story of Magnolia Waters-- an unapologetic southern lesbian woman who witnesses a strange disappearance back in 1988. A Southern mystery with a touch of Sci-Fi, WAVA is a limited-series audio drama brought to life in eight chapters.
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Adventures in New America is the first sci-fi, political satire, Afrofuturistic buddy comedy, serialized for New Americans in a new and desperate time. Set a few years in the future, Adventures in New America follows the escapades of two mismatched African-New-American best friends — fat, lonely, curmudgeon IA and lesbian sneak-thief Simon Carr — who take on a series of increasingly wild heists to get quick cash to pay for IA’s medical treatment while attempting to survive the wilds of New N ...
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It's about time you followed us down the rabbit hole. You want anime reviews? We got it! Want that dank hentai content you can't find anywhere else? We got that too! Want to know if your Waifu is really your true love to be? Find a therapist! At the Wasaum Anime Podcast, we make dreams come true! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wasasum/support
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What will we eat in 2050? It's no question that food is our greatest connector—but even with new technologies and changing eating habits our food system is in crisis. Hosted by Ludwig Hurtado and Mold Magazine's editors, Food Futures invites experts across the worlds of technology, agriculture, science and design to separate fact from fiction, inspiring each of us to become creative collaborators in shaping the future of food. Learn more at thisismold.com.
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When A Guy Has A Really F***ed Gender: the lovechild of Magnus Hirschfield and Joe Rogan. Each week, Jolene (she) talks to a guest about their gender, using their personal experience and interests as a springboard for further conversations about gender, sex, and sexuality.
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One grown daughter is a flagrant San Francisco lesbian who has won and lost an international journalism award only to reinvent herself as a glitter spray salesgirl. The other daughter strayed away from her secular family and right through the sliding glass doors of a church housed in a nearby mini-mall. This family has a few issues to work out: meet the Sorens. Gloria Soren, the “glitter girl” in the novel, is picking up the pieces of her spectacularly failed career, falling in love, and won ...
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Author interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer writers of mystery, suspense, and thriller novels. We also give crime genre LGBTQ book recommendations. Brad Shreve chats with authors to learn who they are as well as touching on their craft. This is the source to add to your list of must read LGBTQ books. Rated by Buzzfeed as one of the 20 Best Queer Podcasts in 2022. No new episodes are being made for this show but check out Brad's new show Queer We Are where he intervie ...
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History is Gay is a podcast that examines the underappreciated and overlooked queer ladies, gents, and gentle-enbies that have always been there in the unexplored corners of history. Because history has never been as straight as you think. Follow us on social media! @historyisgaypod on Twitter and Instagram, historyisgaypodcast on Tumblr, and subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts!
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Atheist and agnostic Ex-Christians share their stories of deconversion.
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Nicki Chapman, Los Bitchos, Post Office Scandal
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Nicki Chapman is well-known for presenting shows like Escape to the Country and Wanted Down Under and also a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She started out as a record plugger in the music industry – and now she’s written her memoir, So Tell Me What You Want, which lifts the lid on what it was like managing and touring with the likes of David Bo…
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It's Philadelphia, June 1995. Meet Kai, Lizzie, and Jordan--three recent college graduates settling into adult life. Kai struggles to get over the breakup with his college boyfriend while establishing himself as a writer/filmmaker. Lizzie distances herself from her upper-class family and turns down Jabulani's marriage proposal. And, Jabulani (Jabo)…
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Kaos with Janet McTeer, India protests, author Clare Chambers
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Protests have been happening across India after a 31-year-old junior doctor was raped and murdered in a hospital in Kolkata earlier this month. Her death prompted marches and strikes nationwide over safety issues for female doctors and this soon developed into a talking point for women’s safety in general. BBC Delhi Correspondent Kirti Dubey joins …
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Bel Powley and Susan Wokoma, Genre fiction: Spy novels and thrillers, Jenny Ryan
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The Real Thing is a play within a play currently on stage at the Old Vic in London. It encourages the audience to question why we fall in love, what is fact and what is fiction. And can we can ever really know if the love we are experiencing is the real thing? Actors Susan Wokoma and Bel Powley star in the production and join Nuala in the Woman’s H…
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Paralympics preview, Master of King's Music Errollyn Wallen, Shifters
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The Paris Paralympic Games begin tomorrow. Nuala is joined by Paralympian turned broadcaster Rachael Latham to talk us through the women we should be looking out for over the next 12 days. Composer and singer-songwriter Errollyn Wallen joins Nuala after being appointed the new Master of the King's Music. The position has existed since the 17th cent…
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Whether you have a sister or not, it’s a relationship that has long fascinated us. In this special edition of Woman’s Hour, Nuala McGovern explores what makes the female sibling dynamic so compelling. If you were watching the Paris Olympics, you might have spotted identical twins Lina and Laviai Nielsen taking to the track. The Olympic duo join Nua…
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Can’t Hardly Wait - Yearbook Quotes, Heart Breasts & a Frosted Pot Brownie
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Y’all, it’s finally time…Paul and Erika are watching Can’t Hardly Wait, a film about a high school graduation released the very same year that your hosts graduated high school! We like to think that the hosts have aged beautifully, but how about this movie? The jury is out, the opinions are flying, and your hosts are headed out on vacation after th…
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Weekend Woman's Hour Listener Week: Van Life, Risky sports, Widows Fire, Pets as therapy, Tummies
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Listener Week is when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU! We hear from listener Siobhan Daniels. She wrote to us on Instagram: 'I would love you to talk about van life and an alternative way of living.' Siobhan is 65 years old and after selling her home and possessions has lived in her motorhome for five years. She joins N…
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Listener Week: Sex in your 70s, Risky sports, Cost of men and women's haircuts
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Listener Week is when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU! Woman's Hour listener Elaine asked the programme to discuss the issue of having sex in later life. Elaine is in her seventies and her partner would like to resume a sexual relationship. They are both negotiating medical conditions and she feels reluctant. Elaine wou…
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Listener Week: Leaving a legacy, Periods through history, Belly dancing
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Listener Week is when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU! What is it like to parent a neurodivergent child when you are neurodivergent yourself? Anita Rani speaks to listener Rachel, who discovered she had ADHD after her daughter was diagnosed, and Jo, whose children have dyslexia. How one moment or person can change your …
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Listener Week: Widow's Fire, DNA discoveries, Decluttering backlash
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Listener Week is when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU! As part of Listener Week we have been asked by widows to discuss one side effect of bereavement – hyper-arousal, and the term ‘Widow’s Fire’. Nuala McGovern explores these ideas with listener Lizzie, Stacey Heale, who has written a book – Now is Not the Time for Flo…
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Listener Week: Tummies, Later in life lesbians, Long Covid
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Listener Week is when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU! Why do so many of us feel bad about our tummies and why are the rounded or wobbly ones never celebrated? That’s what listener Carole wants to know. Content creator Lottie Drynan created the IBS blog The Tummy Diaries and #mybloatedwardrobe and has learned to love he…
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Jolene is joined by François·e Charmaille for a jaunt through the history of European sciences and sexes, for a discussion that begins with Hildegard of Bingen's analysis of humouric imbalances, and ends with François·e's proposal for a new understanding of the medieval concept of sodomy. Check out more of François·e's academic work here: https://w…
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Listener Week: Van life, Surrogacy, Women and stonemasonary
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Welcome to Woman's Hour's Listener Week, when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU! On today's programme, we hear from listener Siobhan Daniels. She wrote to us on Instagram: 'I would love you to talk about van life and an alternative way of living.' Siobhan is 65 years old and after selling her home and possessions has live…
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Senpai's Playlist 8x04 Anime Wildcard or F*** Rachel
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Sorry for the delay people. Once again life got in the way but we are back (more me then we) to give you a brand new episode. I talk about my gripes with IGN, my new found love of Dubbed anime, and how I can't stand a certain blonde character. Also Miyazaki (the creator of Elden Ring) is a sick f***..... 1. Changemaker- Hinano (Chilling In My 30s A…
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Stand By Me - Scrot Leeches, Blueberry Pie & a Working Definition of “Fun”
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The year is 1986, the film is Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me, and the hosts are crying (again). Seriously, are Erika and Paul crying a lot more lately? Do they both need to toughen up, or should they be celebrated for letting their emotions run so freely? In any case, enjoy this episode on the movie that gave us Jerry O’Connell, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheato…
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Olympian Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Science fiction, Paralympian Jodie Grinham
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Fresh from the Paris Olympic Games, the Team GB weightlifter Emily Campbell joins Jessica Creighton on the programme. Best known for her no-nonsense attitude, fabulous hair and of course, lifting extremely heavy weights, she joins Jessica to discuss adding bronze to her silver medal from Tokyo. In 2020, Jade Blue McCrossen-Nethercott had the case a…
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Welcome to another episode of Wife on Wife: The podcast where my editor wife and I talk about my books, characters, my writing process, and we get the tough questions you submitted answered. In this episode, we are talking about Crashing into Love, Book 7 in the Sports Series. In each episode of the show, we’ll take reader questions submitted on ni…
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Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14a: Actresses and the Stage - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 293
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Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14a: Actresses and the StageThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 293 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Historic romance tropes on stage Plays that include or suggest f/f desire Contexts for women playing romantic roles opposite women Breeches Roles and f/f desire Bibliography Boehringer, Sandr…
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Kyla Harris, Mania and perimenopause, Daughters documentary, Maternity clothes
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A new study just published says that perimenopausal women are more likely to experience bipolar and major depressive disorder. Cardiff University academics worked with charity Bipolar UK and the UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database, to look at nearly 130,000 UK women and focused on the four years around the last menstrual period. Dr Clare …
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Olympic medallist Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Beryl Cook play
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Fresh from the Paris Olympic Games, the Team GB weightlifter Emily Campbell joins Jessica Creighton on the programme. Best known for her no-nonsense attitude, fabulous hair and of course, lifting extremely heavy weights, she joins Jessica to discuss adding bronze to her silver medal from Tokyo. A Glasgow parents group is taking legal action against…
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43. Hush Hush (Part 5) and Les Sapphire (Chapter 5)
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Episode 43 is action packed! Starting with Hush Hush, Monte gets these detectives deep undercover. Marlowe struggles with leaving her modesty in the backseat but Holiday has no trouble playing the role of the sugar daddy. This story has more than one HOT pursuit. Next, Nikki has Dr. Lingus putting her life on the line to get Valvu but Valvu holds a…
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Throughout the summer we’ve been taking a look into the world of 'genre fiction' – the women who read it and the women who write it. In the latest of this series, we’re going to discuss science fiction. Seen by some as 'a genre for men,' there are lots of women authors and readers who think otherwise. Bafta-nominated screenwriter and playwright, Mo…
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Actor Romola Garai, AI research and breast cancer, Rebecca Watson
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Annie Ernaux’s Booker-nominated book, Les Années, traces her journey from childhood in post-war France to old age in the post-9/11 era. Now adapted for the stage, Gina Mckee, Deborah Findlay and Romola Garai, alongside Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner, are the five actors portraying different stages in the life of an ‘unnamed’ French woman. …
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Paralympian Jodie Grinham, The Wicker Man, Singer Mary Bridget Davies
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For the first time in history, the Paris 2024 Olympics saw an equal number of men and women competing. But that's not always been the case - in fact, back in 1912, the father of the Olympic games Pierre de Coubertin said that having women compete in the games would be 'impractical, uninteresting, ungainly and, I do not hesitate to add, improper'. L…
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Summer School - Stoner Alcoholics, Wondermutt & a Damned Good Heterosexual
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We asked for summer vacation movies, and y’all answered, and y’all agreed on one film and one film only. Paul and Erika are nothing if not eager to please their listeners, so they are diving into the Carl-Reiner-directed, Mark-Harmon-starring, reality-defying production that is 1987’s Summer School! You can follow That Aged Well on Twitter (@ThatAg…
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Lottie Tomlinson, Madwomen of the West, Infants and domestic abuse, Elles Bailey
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Lottie Tomlinson rose to fame as the younger sister of One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson. At 16, she went on tour with the band as a makeup artist and a decade on, has become an entrepreneur. Lottie’s mother and sister died within a few years of each other, when she was just 20-years-old. She joins Anita to talk about her experience of grief, which s…
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Olympics boxing controversy, Lottie Tomlinson, Losing friends after a break-up, Golda Schultz
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This evening at the Olympics, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif will fight for a gold medal in the women’s welterweight event. Tomorrow, Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting will compete for gold in the final of the women’s featherweight boxing. Both boxers have faced serious controversy over their eligibility to compete. To take us through what’s going on, Anita Rani s…
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Blues singer Elles Bailey, Author Abi Daré, Infants and domestic abuse
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First to the news that thousands of anti-racism protesters gathered in cities and towns across England last night. They were rallying in response to a week of anti-immigration rioting and racist violence, sparked by misinformation over the deadly stabbings in Southport on 29 July.Thousands of extra police officers had been deployed last night but t…
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Army racism, Gardens and the Bloomsbury Group, Fantastically Great Women musical
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Kerry-Ann Knight, who served in the army for over a decade, has spoken out about the years of racist and sexist abuse she received whilst serving saying that it made her life "a living hell". She joins Nuala to discuss her experience of taking the Ministry of Defence to an employment tribunal where she accepted a substantial settlement, along with …
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Keely Hodgkinson's gold, Meera Sodha, IQ levels
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Keely Hodgkinson has won gold in the women's 800 metres at the Paris Olympics. It's only Team GB's 10th ever female gold medal in athletics. Nuala McGovern is joined by five-time Olympic athlete Jo Pavey to reflect on Keely's success and what it means for the career of the 22-year-old. The Paris 2024 Olympics was set to be the first where men could…
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UK riots, Madwomen of the West, South Asian beauty, Yazidi women
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Unrest has continued in several towns and cities across the UK this weekend. Downing Street is expected to hold an emergency response meeting called COBRA today. Nuala McGovern explores how women have been involved and affected by what has happened, with BBC News Correspondent Jessica Lane, Iman Atta, Director of Tell Mama, and Dr Elizabeth Pearson…
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The Parent Trap - Isolation Cabins, Wolves & a Speedo King
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It’s August, and all August That Aged Well is taking on Summer Vacation movies! Erika and Paul kick it off with Nancy Meyers’ 1998 remake The Parent Trap, which introduced the world to Lindsay Lohan. Nay, it introduced the world to Lindsays Lohan! Both Lindsays, along with Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, and two of the best staff members in cinem…
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Amanda Abbington, VAT on private school fees, Steven van de Velde Olympics controversy, Aigul Akhmetshina
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Amanda Abbington joins Anita Rani to talk about her new role in Tawni O’Dell’s play When It Happens To You. Amanda plays Tara, a mother who is desperately trying to hold her family together after her daughter is brutally attacked. She discusses playing a mother whose own trauma is triggered by her daughter’s experiences and how a culture of shame c…
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On the Shelf for August 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 292
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On the Shelf for August 2024The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 292 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Your host’s travels in August Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Brown, Pamela Allen & Peter Parolin (eds). 2005. Wo…
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Welcome to another episode of Wife on Wife: The podcast where my editor wife and I talk about my books, characters, my writing process, and we get the tough questions you submitted answered. In this episode, we are talking about Side by Side, Book 6 in the Sports Series. In each episode of the show, we’ll take reader questions submitted on nicolepy…
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Amanda Abbington, Crime Fiction, Asbestos in Make-up and Sock Wars
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Amanda Abbington joins Anita Rani to talk about her new role in Tawni O’Dell’s play When It Happens To You. Amanda plays Tara, a mother who is desperately trying to hold her family together after her daughter is brutally attacked. She discusses playing a mother whose own trauma is triggered by her daughter’s experiences and how a culture of shame c…
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Southport attack, Simone Biles profile, Author Anne Hawk
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42. Hush Hush (Part 4) and Les Sapphire (Chapter 4)
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Episode 42. In this episode of Hush Hush, written by Nikki, Holiday and Marlowe stumble upon an undiscovered crime scene, but the chase is postponed by a little off duty dirty dancing. Are these detectives on the right trail, or are they two stepping into a trap? And then, stay listening for another chapter of Les sapphire by Monte. Here we learn t…
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VAT on private school fees, Steven van de Velde Olympics controversy, Concert pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen, Commuters with noisy
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The Labour government has confirmed that it will act on its manifesto commitment to change the way private school fees are taxed across the UK. The current exemption from VAT will be removed, in order to fund 6,500 new teachers in England, and the change is coming in January next year, sooner than previously thought. Nuala McGovern gets the latest …
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Southport attack, Sexism in Olympics coverage, Female auctioneer
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A stabbing attack in the Southport area of Merseyside has, at the time of going to air, killed a number of children and critically injured others. Nuala McGovern is joined by BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Lauren Moss to give us the latest. She also hears from the Labour and Cooperative Party Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside, Emily Spur…
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Edna O'Brien obit, SEND education, Republicans and women, Aigul Akhmetshina
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The Irish novelist Edna O'Brien has died aged 93. President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said she was "one of the outstanding writers of modern times". She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of women's lives against repressive expectations in Irish society. Her first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960 and became part of a trilogy …
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Kindergarten Cop - Children’s Games, Lowell & an Equine Amount Of Hair
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It’s the finale of Action July and we are celebrating by revisiting the oeuvre of Arnold Schwarzegger! Sure, Kindergarten Cop is a film that does not understand how literally anything works, but is that a feature or a bug? Listen and find out! You can follow That Aged Well on Twitter (@ThatAgedWellPod), Instagram (@ThatAgedWell), Threads (@ThatAged…
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Olympics preview, Holocaust documentary, Poet Zara Sehar, Sculptor Dominique White, Comedian Sashi Perera
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The Paris 2024 Olympics start this evening with the opening ceremony. It's the first time an equal number of men and women will compete in a summer Games. To discuss the sportswomen you should keep an eye out for, Anita Rani is joined by Jeanette Kwakye, a former Olympian herself and now BBC pundit, and also BBC Sport reporter Laura Scott. A new fi…
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Mercury Prize Nominees, Paris Olympic Athletes, Adoption
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The Paris 2024 Olympics start this evening with the opening ceremony. It's the first time an equal number of men and women will compete in a summer Games. To discuss the sportswomen you should keep an eye out for, Anita Rani is joined by Jeanette Kwakye, a former Olympian herself and now BBC pundit, and also BBC Sport reporter Laura Scott. Adoption…
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Kamala Harris and female votes, Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, Poet Zara Sehar
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Kamala Harris has spoken about making childcare and eldercare more affordable, securing universal paid maternity leave and signing into law a bill that would restore and protect the right to abortion. So could these policies win her female votes, and how does this fit in with her strategy to try and beat Trump in the US presidential election? Anita…
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Kamala Harris and 'brat summer', Holocaust documentary, Comedian Sashi Perera
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Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has been inspired by Charli XCX and her recent album release, brat. The link between the two is all over social media – but what does it all mean? Nuala McGovern is joined by former Editor-in-Chief of Vice and co-host of the Good Bad Billionaire podcast on BBC World Service to explain the trend, and columnist fo…
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Megan Davis, Cambridge Vice-Chancellor, Kate Lister on banning partners from social events
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What makes women become whistleblowers? And what happens after they’ve brought wrongdoing to light? Nuala McGovern talks to lawyer-turned-author Megan Davis about her experience blowing the whistle on financial crime, how it inspired writing her new thriller Bay of Thieves, and how a whistle-blower can make the perfect character for crime fiction. …
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When A Guy Writes: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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The second episode of the reading group, When A Guy Writes, on Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. August 4th, 1 PM CST: Kate Bornstein's A Queer and Pleasant Danger: https://discord.gg/D4JDKzpTPh?event=1254870250487545988 The intro and outro music is by Lynn July. You can listen to more of her music at: https://tinytach…
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Biden drops out and backs Harris, Maternal health in Gaza, Female coaches, Sculptor Dominique White
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President Biden has bowed to pressure and made the decision to drop out of the US presidential race. He’s endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the potential Democrat Party nominee to run against Donald Trump – but is America ready for another female presidential nominee? Nuala McGovern is joined by Kelly Dittmar, Director of Research at the non…
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