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...
20 Loka 57min
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...
13 Loka 54min
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,...
6 Loka 1h 1min
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...
29 Syys 43min
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....
22 Syys 51min
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...
19 Syys 1h 2min
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...
15 Syys 49min
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...
8 Syys 56min
