Category: podcast

This week on Friday I’m In Bed, we’re asking why everything in modern life seems to need a name. We’re starting with friendship and loneliness, and the rise in the number of young people saying they have no close friends. Are we getting worse at friendship, or have we built a society that gives us…

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What happens when women stop competing for the one seat at the table and start building their own tables? This week on Friday I’m in Bed, we’re talking feminism, female solidarity and the women who decided there was no point waiting for permission. First up, Daisy Chain Fields, the all-women music festival inspired by Lilith…

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Why has “influencer” become such a dirty word? This week on Friday I’m in Bed, we’re talking about influencer misogyny, the backlash against women making money online, and why we seem so determined to decide whether someone is “authentic” or not. We look at teenage TikTok sensation Ellie Ellis, who gained 750,000 followers in her…

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Some people watch a murder trial the way other people watch Love Island. This week we’re looking at what happens when a real criminal case becomes internet entertainment, and why the audience for all of it is overwhelmingly women. We get into forensic fandom, TikTok detectives and the postpartum psychosis story that’s being drowned out…

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Andy Burnham has been Prime Minister for about three weeks and appears to have spent most of that time on TikTok. The Guardian is calling him the UK’s first TikTok PM. We’re asking whether we actually want our politicians behaving like influencers, whether “authenticity” just means a good social media team, and whether social media…

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Why can’t women over 50 get hired? This week we’re on ageism at work, the AI CV screening filtering experienced women out before a human ever sees them, and what happened when former Elle fashion editor Stacey Duguid admitted to 16 months out of work and more than 150 applications with nothing to show for…

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Meta glasses look like an ordinary pair of Ray-Bans, which is exactly the problem. This week we’re talking about voyeurism and what happens when being filmed becomes the default. Meta pushed an update stopping people tampering with the recording light, then two days later the FT reported they’ve prototyped glasses that record constantly with no…

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No episode this week. Gem lost her pug this week, and she’s not in a place to record 45 minutes of chat and nonsense right now. Normal service resumes next Friday. Here’s Peppa’s audition for podcast co-host, demonstrating her sassiness. Back soon. Thanks for understanding. 🖤

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This week we’re asking why women who speak up always seem to end up under more scrutiny than the behaviour they’re challenging. Inspired by Love Island’s Jasmine, we unpack the idea of the “bad feminist”, why women are expected to get feminism exactly right, and whether we’ve created impossible standards for ourselves. Then we swap…

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Kate’s on holiday, so Gemma welcomes a special guest Georgie Swallow. Most women are left in the dark about the true impact of medical menopause; by the time they realise the symptoms, they’ve already experienced years of chaos. Gemma and Georgie uncover how treatment for blood cancer and other conditions can push women into early…

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