Category: podcast
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It’s Friday I’m Invisible: Women Over 60 in Film & Cosmeticorexia in Tweenagers
New research says films are more likely to star a talking animal, or a leading man called Chris, than a woman over 60. This week we get into ageism in film and TV and the midlife women who vanish from our screens around 40, only to reappear as somebody’s grandmother or a witchy old hag.…
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It’s Friday I’m Not Optimised: Trans Rights, Pride and Stephen Bartlett’s 3 Glasses of Wine
It’s Pride Month, so naturally everyone’s arguing about toilets. This week we get into the new EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces, what it actually says about the trans toilet debate, and why we don’t think this was ever the crisis it’s been sold as. We also dig out the quiet bits nobody covered: the protections…
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It’s Friday I’m Nonnamaxxing: Gemma Collins, SEND Support & Living Like an Italian Grandmother
This week on Friday I’m In Bed we get into nonnamaxxing, the TikTok trend telling twenty-somethings to live like an Italian grandmother, and ask whether it’s lost wisdom or just wellness culture with a tomato plant. We also unpack the backlash to the Department for Education’s post-16 campaign fronted by Gemma Collins, and why parents…
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It’s Friday I’m Not Here for the Drama: MAFS UK, Consent and Adult Gap Years
Content note: the first topic discusses sexual assault. There is a warning at the top of that section and chapter markers if you would like to skip ahead.Married at First Sight UK has been pulled from Channel 4 after three former brides made allegations against their on-screen husbands. We use it as a way into…
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It’s Friday I’m Still in Trauma from P.E.
At what point does commenting on women’s bodies stop being something we all just do, and start being the actual problem? This week we look at how school PE shaped a generation of women’s relationships with their own bodies — and why 4.1 million British women in their 50s and 60s are still avoiding exercise…
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It’s Friday I’m Not Growing Old Alone
This week on Friday I’m in Bed; we’re looking at two ends of the spectrum- young people who aren’t going out, and older women working out who they actually want to live the rest of their lives with. Different demographics, same quiet rewriting of the script. Kate kicks us off with the slow death of…
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It’s Friday I’m on Leftie Island
It’s Friday I’m an Angry Young Woman (Apparently) This week we’re unpacking the New Statesman‘s “Angry Young Women” cover story, the right-wing press meltdown that followed, and the very tired playbook of describing women’s politics by their hair colour. Plus: is the manosphere really equivalent to the so-called “femosphere”? Then Stella McCartney has done another…
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It’s Friday I’m Here for a Walk in the Park
This week on Friday I’m in Bed, we’re looking at the week’s most questionable advertising decisions, and asking why the people writing the copy never seem to include anyone who might actually be affected by it. We start with Nike, who put a sign outside their Boston store ahead of the city’s marathon that said…
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It’s Friday I’m Not Too Old For Coachella
Coachella just happened and TFI Friday is back on our screens, so naturally we had a lot to say about both. We’re unpacking the biggest moments from the desert festival, from Sabrina Carpenter’s full-blown Hollywood spectacular to Justin Bieber sitting at a laptop in a hoodie scrolling through YouTube videos of his younger self. The…
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It’s Friday I’m Over the Moon
This week on Friday I’m in Bed, we’ve got two stories that are both, underneath it all, about the same question: who gets celebrated, who gets forgiven, and why does the answer always seem to depend on who you are? Gem kicks us off with the Artemis II mission, because four astronauts are literally on…
Recent Posts
- It’s Friday I’m Invisible: Women Over 60 in Film & Cosmeticorexia in Tweenagers
- Wellness Culture Has Lost the Plot: Stephen Bartlett, Three Glasses of Wine and the Tyranny of Tracking
- It’s Friday I’m Not Optimised: Trans Rights, Pride and Stephen Bartlett’s 3 Glasses of Wine
- What Is Nonnamaxxing? The Italian Grandmother Trend Explained
- It’s Friday I’m Nonnamaxxing: Gemma Collins, SEND Support & Living Like an Italian Grandmother
