Oct 27, 202656 minS23
My guest today is the South African-born author, journalist and playwright Gillian Slovo. Now 74, Gillian has written thirteen novels, including Red Dust which was made into a movie starring Chewitel Ejiofor and Hilary...
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The Shift with Sam Baker
Hosted by sam baker · society · EN
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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...) is changing? Each week, award-winning author and journalist Sam Baker asks a different woman how she got here, where she's going - and how it feels to be where she is right now. Expect intimate conversation, big laughs, occasional tears and an awful lot of ripping up the rule book and stamping on it... Past guests have included Elizabeth Gilbert, Martha Beck, Siri Hustvedt, Jojo Moyes, Nicola Sturgeon, Marian Keyes, Guilty Feminist Deborah Frances-White, Minnie Driver, Phil
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What is The Shift with Sam Baker about?
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?
What has The Shift with Sam Baker covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Gillian Slovo on family legacy, sisterhood and learning to forgive" (27 October 2026, 56 minutes), "Rose Ferguson: 'You don't have to settle for feeling worse just because you're getting older'" (20 October 2026, 58 minutes), and "Denise Brown on the loss of her sister Nicole Brown Simpson and her lifelong fight against domestic abuse" (13 October 2026, 55 minutes).
How often does The Shift with Sam Baker publish?
The Shift with Sam Baker publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 57 minutes across 317 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Shift with Sam Baker?
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Episode #315
Rose Ferguson: 'You don't have to settle for feeling worse just because you're getting older'
Oct 20, 202658 minS23My guest today is the former model turned leading nutritionist Rose Ferguson. At the age of 15, Rose was discovered in McDonalds on Oxford Street by the legendary 90s photographer, Corrine Day. For a decade or more...
Episode #314
Denise Brown on the loss of her sister Nicole Brown Simpson and her lifelong fight against domestic abuse
Oct 13, 202655 minS23Hello and welcome to season 23 (!) of The Shift podcast, and this first episode is very close to my heart. Domestic abuse is something I have spent a lot of my adult life campaigning about, so I could not be more...
- Oct 6, 20261h 1m
My guest today has blazed a trail through the British poetry scene ever since her work was first published in 1991. Born in Edinburgh, Jackie Kay MBE was brought up in Glasgow by her adoptive parents, Helen and John...
- Sep 29, 202644 min
I first encountered today’s guest, Marina Benjamin, when I was researching The Shift book and stumbled across her memoir, The Middlepause. An insightful look at what middle age means today, it was prompted by Marina’s...
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- Sep 22, 202652 min
I can’t be cool about today’s guest, so I’m not even going to try. Ever since I started The Shift I have had a Wishlist and high up on it from day one was Dame Zandra Rhodes. Yes, that Zandra Rhodes. There can only be...
- Sep 19, 20261h 3mS22
You can be swimming along nicely and then all of a sudden everything you thought you had is gone. That’s what happened to today’s guest, the best-selling Irish novelist, Louise O’Neill. She was 38 and had just...
- Sep 15, 202650 min
It's two and a half years since I first interviewed Miranda July for this podcast and wow, what a change! Her novel All Fours became a must-read, got shortlisted for the Women's Prize and has been optioned for screen...
- Sep 8, 202657 minS22
My guest today is the writer and award-winning poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Eliza is a woman who has been through A LOT in a short space of time. In September 2020, on the day she married her second husband, the...
- Sep 1, 20261 hourS22
My guest this week is the actor, playwright, screenwriter, novelist and multi-award winner Dame Meera Syal. Most of us have those people we grow up alongside and it feels like Meera has always been a fixture in my life...
- Aug 25, 202652 minS22
My guest today is the fashion designer and entrepreneur turned novelist Tabitha Webb. What can I tell you about Tabitha - other than her life makes mine look extremely dull? She ran away from university, chased a...
Episode #305
Charlotte Wood: 'I don't fear ageing, but I do fear becoming a boring, annoying old person!'
Aug 18, 20261h 1mS22My guest today is the Australian writer and thinker, Charlotte Wood. Charlotte is the celebrated author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. I first encountered her with her novel, The Natural Way of Things...
- Aug 11, 20261h 3mS22
My guest today is the award-winning comedian and podcaster Helen Thorn. The co-creator of the comedy duo and hit podcast, Scummy Mummies, Helen travels the UK performing in a gold catsuit. Which might scream confidence...
- Aug 4, 20261 hourS22
My guest today is the bestselling novelist Jennie Godfrey. Jennie has experienced the kind of midlife turnaround most of us can only dream of. She started her career working in HR and rose to the top of her chosen...
- Jul 28, 202659 minS22
Where do you turn when the identity you’ve clung to for decades slips away? That’s the position today’s guest, Jane Green, found herself in at 55. Her solution? She packed a case and ran away! Anyone who was a fan of...
- Jul 21, 202648 minS22
Hello and welcome to SEASON 22(!) of The Shift with Sam Baker podcast. That's 300 fascinating conversations with women in midlife and beyond, if you're new here and fancy diving in. (To think that when I started it back...
- Jul 14, 20261h 6m
Ever since I wrote about Stacey Duguid's campaign to shine a light on women's midlife career crisis loads of you have messaged me to say, 'Get her on the podcast!' Well, I have news for you - Stacey has been on the...
- Jul 7, 202656 min
This episode first aired in the summer of 2022. I'm replaying it now because Altered Images are going back on the road this autumn, touring their iconic album, Happy Birthday, 45 years (45!!!) after its release.... I...
Episode #298
Sabrina Pace-Humphreys: how running saved me from workaholism and alcoholism THE SHIFT REVISITED
Jun 30, 202659 minS0<p>This episode first aired June 2022...</p> <p><br></p> <p>This week’s guest will make you wonder what you do with your time! Sabrina Pace-Humphreys is an award-winning business woman, a social justice activist, an...
Episode #298
Sabrina Pace-Humphreys: how running saved me from workaholism and alcoholism THE SHIFT REVISITED
Jun 30, 202659 minThis episode first aired June 2022... This week’s guest will make you wonder what you do with your time! Sabrina Pace-Humphreys is an award-winning business woman, a social justice activist, an ultra-runner, a mother of...
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