Sitemap - 2025 - The Shift With Sam Baker

Meet Mel Pennant, author of The Shift bookclub pick for June - LINK ENCLOSED

Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend

It's never too late to prove them wrong

'I think my sisters took a lot on the chin for me'

What's got my attention this week #104

Who benefits when we have to do everything backwards in heels?

NEW EPISODE: Molly Jong Fast on parenting your parents and losing your mother

What's got my attention this week #103

When words fail, music prevails

NEW EPISODE: Jo Hamilton – the Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life

What's got my attention this week #102

Losing my dads

Catch up with Jessica Stanley at The Shift bookclub live

Introducing our June bookclub pick

NEW EPISODE: Olia Hercules – my periods stopped the day Russia invaded Ukraine

What's got my attention this week #101

30 things women over 40 want you to know

NEW EPISODE: Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy

What's got my attention this week #100

Summer reading roundup

NEW EPISODE: Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder

What's got my attention this week #99

I wrote about my gynae hell – and whoa did you respond!

"We've turned burnout into a neat, momentary drama, but it was a slow dismantling"

NEW EPISODE: Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy

Catch up with Kit de Waal at The Shift bookclub live

What's got my attention this week #98

What does true visibility look like?

NEW EPISODE: Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing – and growing some boundaries!

Meet Kit de Waal at The Shift bookclub - LINK ENCLOSED

What's got my attention this week #97

Introducing our May bookclub pick

Can't cook, won't cook

It took over two decades to get my painful periods diagnosed

What's got my attention this week #96

How I learned to love my crazy ginger hair

ARCHIVE EPISODE: Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood

What's got my attention this week #95

It took me ten years to realise, I am my block

ARCHIVE EPISODE: Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world & going statement grey

What's got my attention this week #94

Catch up with Curtis Sittenfeld at The Shift Bookclub Live

"I thought it was a love affair, not a story"

ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, giving voice to women's stories and not being "the marrying kind"

Meet Curtis Sittenfeld at The Shift bookclub - Link enclosed

Introducing our April bookclub pick

What's got my attention this week #93

"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"

ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act

What's got my attention this week #92

Why do some marriages last, when others don't?

NEW EPISODE: Lorraine Kelly on menopause, misogyny, toxic men on the TV, Botox and grannyhood

What's got my attention this week #91

“I don't want a long goodbye”

NEW EPISODE: Jenni Fagan on making it to 46 when no-one thought she'd see 16

What's got my attention this week #90

Is this the antidote to 'quick fix' culture?

NEW EPISODE: Ione Skye on fame, ageing, divorce and coming into her own at 50

Catch up with Jojo Moyes at The Shift Bookclub Live

What's got my attention this week #89

Two old(er) women drinking coffee

NEW EPISODE: Olympian Denise Lewis on reinvention and adapting to a big life shift

Introducing Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell

What's got my attention this week #88

What to read when absolutely nothing goes in

NEW EPISODE: Dr Liz O'Riordan – when breast cancer surgeon becomes breast cancer patient

What's got my attention this week #87

Tuesday Chat

Judi Dench's Face

NEW EPISODE: Martha Beck on creativity, anxiety & finding your life's purpose

What's got my attention this week #86

"If you feel like you're blowing up your life, ask yourself if the opposite is true. Maybe you're bringing your real life into being for the first time."

NEW EPISODE: Diana Evans on ageing, expectation & turning 50 without her twin

What's got my attention this week #85

Gen X women are having all the sex!

What's got my attention this week #84

On the madness and possibility of midlife

Remembering Marianne Faithfull*, but not as she actually was

What's got my attention this week #83

On running to and from

Catch up with our January The Shift Bookclub(s) LIVE

February Bookclub reveal!

What's got my attention this week #82

Conversations with women (over 40): Lindsay Nicholson, 69

January Bookclub(s) Live - chat and links

What's got my attention this week #81

What is fear?

What's got my attention this week #80

What Demi Moore's Golden Globes win really tells us about success as an older woman