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Hosted by Lee Miller and Simon Ellis · society · EN-GB
Two friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being human.
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Signup to Generate a PitchTwo friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being human.
Midlifing is hosted by Lee Miller and Simon Ellis. The show has published 309 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "308: The Viscerality of Being Plucked Apart by Vultures" (28 October 2026, 25 minutes), "307: Saving Up Is a Good Thing to Do" (21 October 2026, 25 minutes), and "306: Saying Yes Is Not Then a Marriage" (14 October 2026, 24 minutes).
Midlifing publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 25 minutes across 309 episodes.
Booking probability for Midlifing is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Midlifing requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Midlifing's contact route on record: verified email.
Lee Miller and Simon Ellis hosts Midlifing, a society podcast with 309 episodes published.
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Send us Fan Mail A week of storms, one of which sent a tree into Bob's train, plus government advice to stockpile water, leaves Simon and Lee wondering whether embodied practice might be the last thing standing after...
Episode #307
Send us Fan Mail A review of wired headphones, sold out to nostalgic teenagers, sets Simon wondering why some objects turn his head long after he's stopped needing them. Simon and Lee compare their weaknesses – hi-fi on...
Episode #306
Send us Fan Mail Simon's secondhand iPhone and Lee's flirtation with a folding one get things going, but the episode turns on a last-minute invitation to Lisbon Fashion Week that Lee almost turned down over pizza...
Episode #305
Send us Fan Mail Lee reveals that giving a colleague a lift home exposed a further, unsuspected layer of "unfiltered Lee", which prompts Simon to suggest a set of age-rated cardboard signs to hang around his neck. Simon...
Episode #304
Send us Fan Mail Lee arrives squinting at his phone, his many pairs of reading glasses having all washed up in one place, out of reach. After a detour through Reacher and its spin-off Neagley, Lee brings in an Alabama...
Episode #303
Send us Fan Mail Simon opens with a simple question for Lee: what, exactly, is the attraction of right-wing extremism? Lee comes at it sideways, through Britpop. He admits the off-stage rudeness of Blur and Oasis in the...
Episode #300
Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee catch up after a stretch apart: Simon turns 58 in Scotland, complete with a sleeper train that quietly failed to leave London and a lakeside sauna ritual, and comes home to an accepted...
Episode #299
Send us Fan Mail Simon returns from holiday with a question rather than the usual content: should there be a limit on turning your own trauma into comedy, prompted by Amanda Knox's new Edinburgh Fringe show about her...
Episode #298
Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee start off sleepy and a little weepy, which somehow tips into a debate about the line between pornography and eroticism, sparked by the Heated Rivalry novels Bob bought Lee for his birthday...
Episode #297
Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee open with birthday banter that spirals into scientists launching an OnlyFans-style subscription service to replace cut research funding, then a viral clip of bonobos defusing a fight with...
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Send us Fan Mail Simon announces two big life events on the same Saturday morning: the first day of his new role as Director of the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, and an offer just put in on a flat...
Episode #295
Send us Fan Mail Simon opens with a difficult conversation from a trip to Italy, about care and dementia, and what it means to owe someone your future self – discomfort sparked by Lil telling him plainly and rightly...
Episode #294
Send us Fan Mail Simon is back from one week in Italy (camping, farm work, and a proper test of an air-conditioning-free apartment), while Lee has rediscovered swimming in the Dart, a habit lost somewhere around COVID...
Episode #293
Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee are joined by Maya: an AI trained on twenty-odd episodes of Midlifing and gifted to them by a listener, Dr David Corbet (@corbetron), who built her using vibe coding. What starts as a joke...
Episode #292
Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee open on the tyranny of public pianos: one played beautifully by an old friend at Euston station, another axed to pieces in Lisbon after one too many renditions of the same tune. It tips...
Episode #291
Send us Fan Mail Simon arrives buzzing with news: a professorial confirmation panel that left him pacing the line between anxiety and excitement for weeks beforehand. He and Lee dig into where exactly anxiety lives in...
Episode #290
Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee are joined by Kate Bee, founder of The Sober School, for a conversation that opens with the rock-bottom mythology of AA before sliding into personal history: Lee traces his unusual...
Episode #289
Send us Fan Mail Lee gets back from a holiday in Lisbon – computerless, app-deleted, and topped up with regular visits to a masseur who is also, confusingly, named Simon – while back home Simon is locked in a...
Episode #288
Send us Fan Mail A face full of acupuncture needles and a sourdough microbiologist on a country road in Sardinia: this week Simon and Lee cover a lot of ground. The main story is a hitchhiking adventure from an...
Episode #287
Send us Fan Mail Back from his travels and biking to work in Coventry, Simon clocks two encounters with men radiating pure confrontational energy – and wonders aloud what it must cost to move through the world that way...
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