Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke’s world, hormones and going statement grey

Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke’s world, hormones and going statement grey

Like many 80s kids, I grew up with today’s guest. Tracey Thorn started early, forming The Marine Girls (once described as looking like they would “break your arm before they’d let you break their hearts”), while still at school, and Everything But The Girl, with her musical and life partner Ben Watt, whilst at university. Since then she’s released three solo albums, three critically acclaimed memoirs - and had three children. Her fourth book - My Rock’n’Roll Friend - about her 37 year on-off friendship with Lindy Morrison (drummer of Australian band The Go-Betweens) is my favourite yet. Tracey talks success, power, the “constant slog” of making women’s voices heard and why equality is a numbers game. She also tells us why menopause made her feel like she’d gone mad, the painful-but-liberating process of ageing and what to do about your statement hair going grey (asking for a friend!). You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including the book that accompanies this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too by Sam Baker and My Rock'n'Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn. The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. I'd love to hear what you think - please rate and review, or let me know on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rose Ferguson: 'You don't have to settle for feeling worse just because you're getting older'

Rose Ferguson: 'You don't have to settle for feeling worse just because you're getting older'

My guest today is the former model turned leading nutritionist Rose Ferguson. At the age of 15, Rose was discovered in McDonalds on Oxford Street by the legendary 90s photographer, Corrine Day. For...

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Denise Brown on the loss of her sister Nicole Brown Simpson and her lifelong fight against domestic abuse

Denise Brown on the loss of her sister Nicole Brown Simpson and her lifelong fight against domestic abuse

Hello and welcome to season 23 (!) of The Shift podcast, and this first episode is very close to my heart. Domestic abuse is something I have spent a lot of my adult life campaigning about, so I could...

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Jackie Kay on rediscovering yourself in your 50s - REPLAY

Jackie Kay on rediscovering yourself in your 50s - REPLAY

My guest today has blazed a trail through the British poetry scene ever since her work was first published in 1991. Born in Edinburgh, Jackie Kay MBE was brought up in Glasgow by her adoptive parents,...

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Marina Benjamin on the unseen, unsung, undone work of women - REPLAY

Marina Benjamin on the unseen, unsung, undone work of women - REPLAY

I first encountered today’s guest, Marina Benjamin, when I was researching The Shift book and stumbled across her memoir, The Middlepause. An insightful look at what middle age means today, it was pro...

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Zandra Rhodes: how a 'boring little girl' made a big bold life - REPLAY

Zandra Rhodes: how a 'boring little girl' made a big bold life - REPLAY

I can’t be cool about today’s guest, so I’m not even going to try. Ever since I started The Shift I have had a Wishlist and high up on it from day one was Dame Zandra Rhodes. Yes, that Zandra Rhodes....

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Louise O'Neill on her midlife dating odyssey - BONUS EPISODE

Louise O'Neill on her midlife dating odyssey - BONUS EPISODE

You can be swimming along nicely and then all of a sudden everything you thought you had is gone. That’s what happened to today’s guest, the best-selling Irish novelist, Louise O’Neill. She was 3...

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Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing - REPLAY

Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing - REPLAY

It's two and a half years since I first interviewed Miranda July for this podcast and wow, what a change! Her novel All Fours became a must-read, got shortlisted for the Women's Prize and has been opt...

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Rachel Eliza Griffiths shares two great loves and two great griefs

Rachel Eliza Griffiths shares two great loves and two great griefs

My guest today is the writer and award-winning poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Eliza is a woman who has been through A LOT in a short space of time. In September 2020, on the day she married her secon...

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