Sam Baker
@theothersambaker
One of the millions of journalists who’s defected to Substack and started a podcast.
Prue Leith is not holding back on the assisted dying debate. (CW: suicide) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
A wise woman once told me terror was the flip side of exhilaration. She’s not wrong!
Lots of love for my conversation with Nicola Sturgeon rhis week. Catch up here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
“The ironic benefit of having so few narratives around this time of life is you don’t feel punished by them either” - talking midlife lies with @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social on this week’s podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
I think this is one of my most favourite episodes of The Shift podcast ever. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @canongate.co.uk @melissafebos.bsky.social
How do you walk through fire and come out the other side? @jeaninecummins.bsky.social talking exclusively to The Shift podcast about the American Dirt controversy, confidence, identity and her new book Speak To Me of Home podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @headlinebooks.bsky.social
Who benefits when women shrink shrink shrink to invisibility? 🤔Chatting to @jenniferweiner.bsky.social on this week’s episode of The Shift pod. open.spotify.com/episode/10Uh... @hqstories.bsky.social
#metabookthieves #SoA Date: Thursday, 3 April 2025, 1.30pm Location: Meta’s London offices (11-22 Canal Reach, London N1C 4BE, King’s Cross). Meet: Granary Square at 1.30pm. Once we have a critical mass, we will move to Meta’s offices.
Toxic men on the telly, misogyny, menopause, and why she doesn’t want to look like a boiled egg! That’s just the tip of the conversational iceberg with Lorraine Kelly off the telly on The Shift podcast this week @orionbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The debate about assisted dying in the UK made me think about an astonishing conversation I had with Amy Bloom about her husband’s decision to die when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. What she has to say about living through that with him took my breath away. open.substack.com/pub/theshift...
All I can say is that this is an episode you will never forget. Listen and then get yourself a boot of Jenni Fagan’s incredible memoir, Ootlin, @womensprize.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Fascinating chat with Ione Skye about how it felt to revisit her youth on this week’s episode of The Shift pod. Feat Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Beastie Boys, feminism, ageing and taking a lesson from your daughters podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Blown away by @lizoriordan.bsky.social on today’s episode of The Shift pod. So much candour. And so much useful info. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Are you anxious? I’m anxious! (I mean even more than usual…) Martha Beck is here to help on this week’s episode of The Shift podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Love this photo of Judi Dench. This is what I want to look like when I’m pushing 90: lived in.
The shift podcast is back! First up Kate Fagan (former basketball player, ESPN journalist, @reesesbookclub.bsky.social pick) abt ageing, grief, TODs (?!), the L word & her EXTREMELY conflicted relationship with ambition & success. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
I promised you an extra special Christmas treat and here it is: a bonus episode with the one and only Neneh Cherry talking grief, loss, breakdown, creativity, pickling (not a typo) and why being expected to stop just bc she’s 6-0 makes her want to start a riot. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
I do this thing for The Shift podcast called buymeacoffee.com where ppl show their appreciation by buying a coffee or 2 and honestly the joy of waking up to discover someone bought you 5 and left a message like this takes a lot of beating.
Wonderful @chitgrrl.bsky.social talking about her relationship with Henry Wuga, whose story she tells in Homelands, with Chitra’s dad and one of Henry’s daughters in the audience. Thank you @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social for making this happen. Happy St Andrews Day.
Look what happens when women make TV! This started out as an essay sbout the representation of older women on our screens and ended up as a love letter to #BadSisters open.substack.com/pub/theshift...
What an inspiring woman Baroness Lola Young is. Loved talking to her for #theshiftpodcast about discovering the truth about her childhood in her 50s, what its really like in the House of Lords, plus ageism, sexism, racism, the works… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Feels weird posting work content here but here goes. @debharkness.bsky.social gas a lot to say about women’s pain, cancer, sharp pointy edges and dark academia (yes really) on the new ep of The Shift podcast. podfollow.com/the-shift-on...
Interviewing star interviewers is bloody terrifying but @taffyakner.bsky.social makes it easy. She talks money, middle age (joy! Freedom!), how youth isn’t for everyone and the unlikely reason she’s not gone grey on the new ep of The Shift podcast fleishman podfollow.com/the-shift-on...
This woman. Helen Garner I salute you! This and SO much more on The Shift pod now podfollow.com/the-shift-on...