Category: podcast

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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Kate’s off sunning herself in Spain, so this week Gemma’s joined by Laurie from the Female Childfree Collective for a one-topic special. We’re talking about a very modern pressure: the idea that if you’re childfree, you should be visibly, impressively productive about it. Five businesses, six holidays a year, a new hobby every fortnight. When…

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This week we ask why new research has named UK women the angriest, saddest and most worried in Europe, and whether medical misogyny, the pay gap and invisible labour might have something to do with it. Then we get into romantasy and the moral panic over Bad Girl Books, Britain’s first romantasy bookshop. Why is…

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This week, the Hannah Spencer “Gucci” shirt that wasn’t. A patterned blouse in Parliament got branded a £2,000 designer piece online, when it was really a £15 charity-shop find, so we get into why women’s clothes draw scrutiny men’s never do, and how one post hardens into “fact”. Then to China’s so-called “leftover women”, the…

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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 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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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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