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Guest interviews
English
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116 episodes
since Nov. 25, 2021
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Send us Fan Mail We speak with writer-director Olly Ginelli his BAFTA award winning short film, The Long Spring. A film that puts you inside the hidden mechanics of human trafficking. We dig into why modern slavery stays invisible in the UK, what policing can and cannot do, and how storytelling can…

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Send us Fan Mail We talk with Professor Laura Abbott, from the university of Hertfordshire, about what pregnancy and new motherhood can look like inside UK prisons, and why shame, uncertainty, and separation can shape every part of maternity care. We also dig into what real change requires, from pr…
Send us Fan Mail Prison is often treated as the answer to women’s harm, but the numbers tell a different story. We sit down with criminologist Hannah Jane Simpson to unpack why women’s incarceration, mental health, trauma, and self-harm are so tightly linked and why “control first” institutions can…
Send us Fan Mail We’re joined by Pia Sinha, CEO of the Prison Reform Trust, whose career spans prison psychology, youth justice, and governing prisons across the UK. Her starting point is simple and hard to ignore: for many women, custody follows a life of trauma, poverty, domestic abuse, and being…
Send us Fan Mail Prison is one of the most hidden institutions in the UK, which means our opinions are often built from cinema scenes rather than social reality. We sit down with Andy West to talk about what happens when you bring big questions about freedom, identity, shame, and responsibility int…
Send us Fan Mail This episode we sit down with criminology lecturer and solicitor, Dr Bisi Akintoye, to talk about Black and Brown women within the UK criminal justice system and the importance of recognising intersectionality. We unpack how Black women and girls become invisible when policy and re…
Send us Fan Mail Jane Ryan, a dedicated human rights lawyer, discusses the failures and biases embedded in our prisons—especially for pregnant women and women of colour. This episode reveals the grim realities hidden behind closed doors—and the urgent need for systemic change. Jane discusses the im…
Send us Fan Mail The law wants clean lines and final answers, but people live in grey areas. We sit down with Susie Miller, the playwright behind Inter Alia and the writer of Prima Facie, to unpack what “binary justice” does to real human stories and why courts can struggle when truth, trauma, and …
Send us Fan Mail We went to a free women’s self-defence class run by Wing Tsun London in memory of Sarah Everard, and what stayed with us wasn’t bravado, it was clarity. Wing Tsun training makes “safety” feel less like a vague hope and more like a practical skill you can build, step by step, with y…
Send us Fan Mail Secret classrooms. A decades-long fight for a pardon. A church trying to reckon with slavery. We move through stories that show how justice is pursued when systems stall, deny, or look away and what resilience looks like when it has to be practical, not performative. We start by sh…
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