Episodes

  • 118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark

    118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark
    Jul 13 2023
    Alice and Bethany have the huge pleasure of talking to girlie of the moment, Eliza Clark, largely about her new novel Penance but also about true crime, Tumblr, the wild success of Boy Parts and its upcoming stage adaptation!
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    35 mins
  • 117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry

    117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry
    Jul 6 2023
    Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to Heather Parry about her short story collection This Is My Body Given For You, which is a gnarly little thing full of troubling images and ideas. She also talks about the great work she does at the Society of Authors, and lots more!
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    40 mins
  • 116: The Lads Chat Unlikeable Female Characters with Anna Bogutskaya

    116: The Lads Chat Unlikeable Female Characters with Anna Bogutskaya
    Jun 8 2023
    Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to the film journalist and programmer Anna Bogutskaya about her new non-fiction book Unlikeable Female Characters! They take a dive into the world of 'unlikeable' women through film and TV from erotic thrillers to Skyler White via the Hays Code and Amy Dunne from Gone Girl.
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    42 mins
  • 115: Fat Talk with Virginia Sole-Smith

    115: Fat Talk with Virginia Sole-Smith
    May 4 2023
    Bethany has the huge pleasure of chatting to Virginia Sole-Smith about her revolutionary new book Fat Talk: Coming of Age in Diet Culture, which investigates the radical possibility of abandoning our cultural fears around 'childhood obesity' to create bodily autonomy in children and beyond.
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    57 mins
  • 114: The Lads Celebrate Death of a Bookseller

    114: The Lads Celebrate Death of a Bookseller
    Apr 27 2023
    Alice's debut novel, Death of a Bookseller, is out NOW! So obviously Bethany had to ask her all the nosy questions about it!
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    45 mins
  • 113: The lads chat to actual Katherine Heiny

    113: The lads chat to actual Katherine Heiny
    Apr 21 2023
    Alice and Bethany have a whale of a time with the funny, smart Katherine Heiny, author of the new collection Games and Rituals, as well as the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser. Games and Rituals is out now!
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    34 mins
  • 112: Q1 reading report

    112: Q1 reading report
    Apr 6 2023
    Alice and Bethany atone for not putting out an episode for the first three months of the year by telling you all about everything they've read in the first quarter of 2023.
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    41 mins
  • 111: Our books of 2022

    111: Our books of 2022
    Feb 3 2023
    Alice and Bethany are BACK from their unplanned hiatus! And they've got a long, juicy episode for you about their favourite books of 2022, which obviously they should have recorded weeks ago... but didn't. Enjoy!
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    1 hr and 7 mins