Who is to blame for a lack of Blue Plaques&nbsp;for women in London? In a way, it's all of us, as English Heritage&nbsp;rely on the public&nbsp;for nominations. In this Chops, Hannah chats to&nbsp;Anna Eavis, curatorial director at...

Who is to blame for a lack of Blue Plaques&nbsp;for women in London? In a way, it's all of us, as English Heritage&nbsp;rely on the public&nbsp;for nominations. In this Chops, Hannah chats to&nbsp;Anna Eavis, curatorial director at English Heritage, about&nbsp;attempts to celebrate and commemorate more women. Ellen Craft is one of the women being honoured with a Blue Plaque this year and so her nominator, Dr Hannah-Rose Murray from the University of Edinburgh, also joins the chat to talk about Ellen's incredible life. Hopefully it will inspire you to nominate&nbsp;some fantastic women of your own.

SIM Ep 526 Chops 216: Blue Plaques for women

We're full of life advice in this week’s podzine. First up, Mick chats to Helen Wills, mum of teenagers and host of the&nbsp;Teenage Kicks&nbsp;podcast, about navigating the teenage years as a parent, letting go of control, and what we can learn from the adolescents in our lives. If you’ve ever wondered what happens if someone dies without family or money to deal with the aftermath, Evie King has written a book about exactly this,&nbsp;Ashes to Admin: Takes from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer. She chats to Hannah about the practicalities of planning a funeral and why it’s good to keep death at the back of our mind. In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen’s chatting equal prize money, stupid stories, and alpine excellence, and for god’s sake don’t say his name three times – we’re watching 1988’s Beetlejuice in Rated or Dated. Meanwhile there’s #Patygate, policing, and period pains in the Bush Telegraph – but does it taste of metal?

SIM Ep 833 Pod 246: Does this taste like metal?

Considering that we all start life in one, and that roughly half of the global population has one, the womb remains one of the most under-researched, misunderstood, and controversial organs in the human body. Midwife and best-selling author Leah Hazard wanted to highlight this absence of knowledge, as well as the incredible work being done to better understand it in the future, in her endlessly fascinating new book&nbsp;Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began.&nbsp;In this week’s Chops, Leah chats to Jen about some of that incredible work, why the womb remains profoundly political, and the challenges of getting men, and publishers, to care.

SIM Ep 832 Chops 247: Leah Hazard on the womb

If you want to make our Hannah angry, simply refer to God’s Own Country, Francis Lee’s 2017 film about love between an isolated young sheep farmer (Josh O’Connor) and a Romanian migrant worker (Alex Secareanu) set on a failing farm, as the Yorkshire Brokeback Mountain and watch her Bruce Banner it up. And right enough. It’s fair to say that love for this film, for its cast (hello also Ian Hart and Gemma Jones) and for its closing song from Patrick Wolf is in the air for Yosra and Mick, too. So please enjoy three women having a lovely chat about a wonderful bit of cinema.&nbsp;

SIM Ep 831 Flicking #36: God’s Own Country

Embalming and rape might not sound like the makings of a great conversation, but Mickey proves that theory wrong when she gets on the Zoom with Alexandra Donnachie, whose play&nbsp;When We Died&nbsp;covers both topics.&nbsp;In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen's chatting&nbsp;to boxer Caroline Dubois about the Olympics, trash&nbsp;talking, and turning professional. And in Rated or Dated, well, as you'll hear for yourself, we've thoughts on 1968's&nbsp;The Producers. And - spoiler alert - most of them aren't warm ones. Hannah's got some fun facts about the Elgin Marbles in BT and in SOTW, Mick's talking about childcare costs. Because when aren't we?

SIM Ep 830 Pod 245: Embalming, boxing and SO MUCH SHOUTING

"But women are violent, too" is a phrase often designed to shut down conversations about male violence. But, the inconvenient&nbsp;truth is, women can be and are violent. When? Why? And how does it differ from male violence? They're just some of the questions&nbsp;Hannah puts to Anna Motz, author of a fascinating new book&nbsp;A Love That Kills: Stories of Forensic Psychology and Female Violence.

SIM Ep 829 Chops 246: Anna Motz and violent women

Politics, power and sex play important parts in both of this week’s interviews. Ahead of new BBC documentary, Becoming Frida Kahlo, Hannah’s been on the Zoom with filmmakers Louise Lockwood and Nancy Bornat to talk about the superstar Mexican painter, who channelled her pain, heartache and womanhood into her art.&nbsp;Jen takes us even further back in time to revisit Tudor queens, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, who are the focus of a new exhibition at Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. Assistant curator Kate McCaffrey chats about&nbsp;Catherine and Anne: Queens, Rivals, Mothers and explains why we still find their lives so fascinating.&nbsp;In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen’s talking about athletics, and a big new deal in women’s sport. In Rated or Dated, there’s bowling, blunts and bonus Tara Reid, as we watch a bonafide cult classic: 1998’s The Big Lebowski. And in the Bush Telegraph, we’re talking boats, bellends, some really bad policies, and Mick is absolutely not wishing you a happy International Women’s Day.&nbsp;

SIM Ep 828 Pod 244: A superstar artist, soapstar queens, and a toe for everyone!

Why do we have hundreds of terms for the different stages of childhood and adolescence, but just one for the parents navigating their way through them all? This is just one of the questions asked in journalist Nell Frizzell’s excellent new book, Holding the Baby: Milk Sweat and Tears from the Frontline of Motherhood. Nell joins Jen to talk about her part-memoir, part-manifesto examining why we treat parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. They chat mental health, maternal rage, relationships, and sleep deprivation, as well as how to fix a system that isn’t working for anyone.

SIM Ep 827 Chops 245: Nell Frizzell’s tracksuit years

One woman’s “reasonable” is another woman’s eating cheesy crisps on the Tube. With our own concept of what it is to be reasonable, and indeed unreasonable, so entrenched in personal experience, Mick was fascinated to chat to cultural studies expert Kirsty Sedgman about her new book,&nbsp;On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better. Titanic Belfast is about to reopen after a major refurbishment, so Hannah got on the Zoom to Eimar Kearney from the centre to talk about the world's most famous sunken ship, why it remains fascinating, and why the capital of Northern Ireland is well worth a visit. There is no good news in Jenny Off The Blocks, but there are some excellent women hoping to change the sporting landscape for others. Meanwhile, we are all a-flap, as 1963 Hitchcock classic&nbsp;The Birds&nbsp;gets&nbsp;Rated or Dated.﻿Plus, spiralling costs, awkward admissions, and surprising progress in the Bush Telegraph.

SIM Ep 826 Pod 243: Perfectly reasonable, historically sinkable, and dramatically flappable

In sociologist Dr Marieke Bigg’s new book, This Won’t Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women, she explores the huge gaps in women’s health, the sexism inherent in medicine and the lingering gender bias which means women are mocked, misdiagnosed and dismissed. Come on now, that’s bang up our street, right? Right.And, as you’d expect from a sociologist, Marieke is interested in the role society has to play in the medical landscape, and so in this Chops, she chats to our Mick about history, research, the lie of objectivity, the win-win of sex disaggregation, Nancy Friday, Gillian Anderson and hope.&nbsp;

SIM Ep 825 Chops 244: Dr Marieke Bigg on how medicine fails women

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