The Shift with Sam Baker
The Shift is a podcast that aims to tell the truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by writer and broadcaster, Sam Baker. Did you ever wonder why you stop hearing so many women's voices once they pass 40? That's where The Shift comes in - a frank, funny, sometimes heartbreaking, always honest look at what it means to be a woman in midlife and beyond. Work, life, love, health, sex, money, identity, body image... What does it all mean when everything around you (and inside you...) i...
Episodes (587)
Tracy-Ann Oberman on the strong women who've shaped her
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The Shift LIVE: Trinny Woodall on how she learnt to fear less in her 50s
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Dr Louise Newson: I was "told off" for prescribing HRT
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Agony Aunt Philippa Perry is back!
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Grace Dent on balancing a Gen X body image with eating for a living
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Stacey Duguid on coming back from midlife collapse
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Sara Pascoe: what happens when a weirdo grows up!
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Natasha Walter on being a middle-aged activist
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Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act
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Helen Rebanks is flying the flag for invisible women
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Dawn Butler is living proof that well-behaved women seldom make history
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Miki Berenyi on freeing yourself from the anxiety of youth
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Leila Slimani: It's time women started telling each other the truth
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Andi Osho: I'm 50, get used to it!
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Annie Macmanus: why middle aged women are a force to be reckoned with - THE SHIF...
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Emma Freud on mothering millennials and refusing to lie about her age - THE SHIF...
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Alison Bechdel on her search for inner and outer strength - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Barbara Blake Hannah on feeling new at 80 - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Tracey Thorn has got it all going on at 60 - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Jo Whiley on menopause, finding your fashion mojo and... gardening - THE SHIFT R...
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BONUS EPISODE: Barbara Kingsolver on why life gets better with every passing dec...
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Lennie Goodings on ageism, bringing your A-game and the women who've shaped her
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Aasmah Mir on how she finally dislodged the pebble in her throat
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Tanya Sarne on losing Ghost, surviving rehab and living life to the full
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Josie Long on why she hopes she'll still be doing standup at 80 (old lady arms a...
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Joanna Cannon on why it took her 50 years to learn it's OK to be her
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Ruby Wax on building an emotional toolkit for the second half of your life
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Melanie Sykes on her autism diagnosis at 51 and being her own person
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Natasha Carthew on class, poverty and refusing to stay in her lane
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Marina Benjamin on emotional labour & the caring conundrum
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Curtis Sittenfeld rejects the idea that ageing is somehow bad or shameful
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Sarah Knight on finding the courage to make change and why selfish isn't a four...
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Anita B on why the beauty industry wants us to fear ageing
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Anna Murphy shares her take-no-prisoners approach to growing older
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Dani Shapiro on family secrets and coming into your full potential at 60
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Katherine May on burnout and why we all need a little more wonder in our lives
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Martha Wainwright on music, motherhood and finding love in your 40s
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Carolyn Hays on parenting a transgender child
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Charlene White on fighting the bias that still exists against older women
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Jojo Moyes on the total liberation of being in your 50s
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Cariad Lloyd on what she's learnt from 25 years in The Grief Club
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Clover Stroud on sex, sisterhood & looking forward to menopause - THE SHIFT REVI...
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Kit de Waal on race, class – and her exceedingly cool hair! - THE SHIFT REVISITE...
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Kat Farmer has the answer to all your "my wardrobe hates me" dilemmas - THE SHIF...
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Poorna Bell on the unexpected power in being 40 - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Sheila Hancock on the class ceiling and the "strong woman" problem - THE SHIFT R...
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Abi Morgan on rebuilding just about everything in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITE...
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The Shift LIVE: Ruth Jones on daughterhood, menopause and being Nanny Ruth
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The Shift LIVE: Elif Shafak on intersectionality, identity and finding the coura...
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Nadiya Hussain on becoming the independent woman her nan was afraid of
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