All Episodes

Episode 121 FREE: a chat with Joan Burda about the Anne Lister birthday weekend.

Episode 119 FREE: Oxford catch up, Queer Eye, Bridgerton.

Episode 117 FREE: chat with journalist Claire Berry; Desert Hearts at 40; I Kissed A Girl cancelled; how to seat lesbians at a dinner party.

Episode 115 FREE: new book Kindred in Chaos; Merseyside lesbians look back; Jo Purvis on film; the ties that bind

Episode 113 FREE: a chat with author Linda Rosewood!; plus lesbians and guns, and remembering Jo Purvis.

Episode 112 FREE: Rafiki; Sidney Mardi Gras; Lesbians in the Winter Olympics.

Episode 110 FREE: LGB mortality rates; a sapphic literary hoax; Mondrian and Marlow Moss; the queer history of Norwich; are enbies scared of AI?

Episode 108 FREE: Sylvia Townsend Warner; the end of rainbow-washing?; Labour party members disappointed with gay children.

Episode 105 FREE: Christmas food, Christmas novels, Christmas parties, the Meghan Christmas special!

Episode 103 FREE: The Beast in Me, the Prix Gouincourt, lesbian drama in space (allegedly), oil wrestling gets queered.

Episode 101 FREE: the television episode! The state of the BBC, Celebrity Traitors, Riot Women, another Aileen Wuornos documentary.

Episode 97 FREE: interview with Katie Herzog about her new book! Plus checked shirts are back; and another dilezza.

Episode 96 FREE: interview with Professor Ronan McCrae – are we facing the end of gay liberation? Plus: divorce, and another dilezza.

Episode 95 FREE: Indian lesbian romance novels; the virtues of civility; rainbow families; larks on Lesbos; another dilezza.

Episode 93 FREE: interview with Professor Kathleen Richardson on her book, Sex Robots: The End of Love. Plus: lesbian drama of the week

Episode 91 FREE: remembering Ann McManus; hot stolen moments in the garden centre; lesbian Hedda Gabler; queer signature scent.

Episode 89 FREE: same-sex divorce rates, mullets in Berlin, lesbian cutlery.

Episode 88 PREMIUM: chat with Sarah Tanburn and Dee McCullough of LGB Alliance Cymru; plus the Lionesses and a lez archbishop.

Episode 87 FREE: Amy Bradley is Missing; surf champ statue; are lesbian parents stricter?

Episode 87 PREMIUM: a chat with film-maker Melanie Chait, director of Breaking the Silence. no Pride for Northumbria police, heteronormativity in Jane Austen, and a dilezza.

Episode 85 FREE: the LP does Glyndebourne; Desexing Society pod; was Margot Leadbeatter a lesbian?; are you a doppelbanger? and other vital questions.

Episode 84 PREMIUM: Eve Adams, The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, sapphic Tudor romps, another dilezza.

Episode 83 FREE: Sarah McBride interview; queer food book; Jillian Michaels on Pride; another dilezza.

Episode 82 PREMIUM: wives who look like sisters; vegetarian lesbian cookbook; are you doing femme fashion right?; celebrating lesbian lineage through photos; Kathleen has a rant.

Episode 81 FREE: limerence, a romcom, Jeanette Winterson, L word memoir, lesbians mean business.

Episode 80 PREMIUM: Dublin conference, Italian birth certificates, learning from gay marriage, Pride.

Episode 79 FREE: an interview with Yehudis Fletcher, author of Chutzpah; plus queering research methods and sex ed in schools.

Episode 78 FREE: Virgin Island, Blue Jean, lesbian architecture, dilezza of the week.

Episode 77 PREMIUM: I Kissed A Boy; pride flags banned from Eurovision; slogan T-shirts; lesbian wedding aesthetics; double dilezza of the week.

Episode 76 FREE: recipes, late bloomers, the "lesbian voice", sounding posh when you're angry, Subarus, dilezza of the week.

Episode 75 PREMIUM: first ever lesbian mag; fashion's love affair with the lez; Jojo Siwa on CBB; boy bands and first crushes; a sexual health dilemma.

Episode 74 FREE: Supreme Court judgment and what it means for UK lesbians; new report on lesbian erasure; Black Mirror; more good news; two new dilezzas!

Episode 73 FREE: Julie's book is out!; Julie on Woman's Hour; the lavender scare; new stats on LGB self-harm; Murder in the Valleys; asexuals for the last time, we promise.

Episode 72 PREMIUM: the morning shed trend; international asexuals; gay exorcisms; more barking academics (quite literally).

Episode 71 FREE: lesbians take over the UN; Gen Z need to drink more; sporting power couples; epigenetic sperm editing for same-sex procreation.

Episode 69 PREMIUM: lesbian holidays, covid conscious meet ups, mermaiding as a career, lesbian feminist cyborg robotic dog intimacies

Episode 68 FREE: Julie discovers packing, Jackie Forster's plaque, drag kings, the "new ex-gay", dating apps again.

Episode 66 FREE: Thai GirlsLove shows, Amandaland, Lesbian Space Princess, wedding cakes, and a polyamory dilemma.

Episode 65 PREMIUM: Valentine's day heaven or hell; an ice hockey love story; The Watermelon Woman; Lucy Dacus's new vid; the future of nonbinary; and a new dilemma.

Episode 64 FREE: we talk to superstar trailblazing lawyer and world-renowned disco queen, the one, the only HARRIET WISTRICH!!

Episode 63 PREMIUM: Thank you for calling the lesbian loveline; soulless Soho; the Black Lesbian archive; Emilia Perez; dumped-for-a-bloke heartache.

Episode 62 FREE: Australian court ruling, Lesbian Shakespeare, Erin Doherty, another dilemma for the agony aunts.

Episode 61 PREMIUM: Carla and Lisa on Corrie, lesbian firefighters, composer Ethel Smyth, Tom Daley knitting with wool from gay rams.

Episode 60 FREE: Maria Callas, lesbian pulp fiction, Alice Weidel, safe spaces for aromantics, "lesbian boyfriends".

Episode 59 PREMIUM: a chat with Alison Ellis! Plus: a wedding on Eastenders; family court tragedies; going off the pill turns you gay, apparently; and we tackle another lesbian dilemma.

Episode 58: special FREE New Year episode - Julie and Kathleen solve all your lezza dilemmas!

Episode 57 PREMIUM (15 min free preview available): Pink News woes, Italian villa chat, queering babies, gold star lesbians, new agony aunt feature.

Episode 56 FREE: an interview with Joanna Cherry! Political beginnings, life in the SNP, identity politics, Nicola Sturgeon; plus the daftness of 100 Top Woman lists and lesbian pantos.

Episode 55 PREMIUM: a chat with Susan Hawthorne about her new book Lesbian: Politics, Culture, Existence

Episode 54 PREMIUM: Ellen and Portia come to Blighty; Japanese lesbian escort agencies; nude artworks are boring; Julie gets harsh about young dyke fashion choices; Queer Messiah.

Episode 53 FREE: is the trans train running out of steam?; lesbian James Bond; Trump and gay marriage; queer animality.

Episode 52 PREMIUM: The hell of Hebden Bridge; Gone South; Lesbian Connection magazine; a "lesbian feminist haunted house"; queer gardening.

Episode 51 FREE: What is the existing state of research about lesbian lives? A chat with Matilda Gosling and Diane Stoianov

Episode 50 FREE: Tegan and Sara and catfishing, Celia Kitzinger's lesbian psychology; a Gentleman Jack ballet; the inherent queerness of cheese.

Episode 49 PREMIUM: KD Lang interview, blood-drenched nuns on rollerskates, adultery revealed through perfume, evil lesbians in Vermont, coming out as sober and queer.

Episode 48 FREE: visible representation and does the asexual community need more of it?; Agatha All Along; Who Killed Emma?; queer family picnics for indigenous Britons.

Episode 47 PREMIUM: national coming out day, dyke drama on Radio 4, birth order and homosexuality, Alison Bechdel, queer men and smartphones.

Episode 46 FREE: baby hippos with chaotic lesbian energy; music for healing gay religious trauma; Sophie Lewis takes on the TERFs; the queerness of succulent food.

Episode 45 PREMIUM: a chat with Dr Holly Lawford-Smith! Plus lez fashion, Gluck, and gender fluid dachsunds

Episode 44 FREE: remembering Margot Heuman; But I'm A Cheerleader; Joan of Arc and scissoring at the VMA; queer chocolatiers.

Episode 43 PREMIUM: queer farmers, sapphic suffering, abrosexuality, and an academic witch-hunt that targeted the wrong witches, says its victims.

Episode 42 FREE: Deadloch, pomegranates, bullying at work, and mad studies

Episode 41 PREMIUM - a chat about donor conception and lesbian pregnancy with Dr Susan Bewley.

Episode 40 FREE: incredibly posh lesbians in an old film;the world's oldest lesbian; a tribute to Julie Burchill; and breaking news (geddit) -we read Raygun as an alternative to watching her.

Episode 39 PREMIUM: Aussie and NZ court cases; straight appropriation of "girlfriend"; GLAAD CEO's overspending habit; Nicola Adams on boxingate; "social sterilisation" and other wild exaggerations

Episode 38 FREE: Sha'carri Richardson versus Shericka Jackson in Sprint; Oprah isn't gay; school bullying or otherwise; queering pharmacy education.

Episode 37 PREMIUM: Lesbian Olympic preview and in-depth analysis; men on lesbian dating apps is bad now apparently; queer music therapy.

Episode 36 FREE: Cameroon president's daughter comes out; and Julie and Kathleen argue quite a lot, but are brought back together by the allosexualisation of Ireland

Episode 35 PREMIUM: Election chat, man with 1000 kids, "late blooming" lesbians, a notorious colouring book, auditory gaydar.

Episode 34 FREE: Asexual leads Pride; real problems for lesbians in Senegal; Linda Riley's new documentary; that Brookie snog; Gender GP's in-house philosopher sanctions puberty blockers shocker.

Episode 33 PREMIUM: Lesbian space witches in Star Wars; the Ladies of Llangollen; gay animals again; universities are full of LGB people.

Episode 32 FREE: Bridgerton; dykes who hike; lesbian fashion (again); the joys of queer travel.

Episode 31 PREMIUM: more I Kissed A Girl; the wonderful world of Dyke TV; facial recognition in dating apps; amazonian symbolism and lesbian nation-building.

Episode 30 FREE - I Kissed A Girl catch up, lesbians in the housing market, 2nd Wave Zines, more academic nonsense

Episode 29 PREMIUM: Jillian Michaels vs Fran Leibowitz; lesbian fashion; the Old Lesbian Project; queer ethnobotany.

Episode 27 PREMIUM: lesbians are everywhere; gruesome entries in visitor books; DIY is cheaper than IUI; queering quant methods.

Episode 26 FREE: Love Lies Bleeding; lesbian non-bed death; a military memorial for LGBT people; "assigned female at birth queer joy" and other ridiculous euphemisms for normal experiences.

Episode 25: PREMIUM - aftermath of Lesbian Visibility Week; Auto(gynephilia)straddle; don't sleep with your sperm donor; the intersectionality of lesbian death on television (or something).

Episode 24 FREE: Interview with the our beloved patron - the one, the only MARTINA NAVRATILOVA!

Episode 23 PREMIUM: Reliving the 80s Lesbian Sex Wars! with Linda Semple; plus multiple orgasms and Liz Hurley's new film.

Episode 22 FREE - Julie and Kathleen react to the Cass Review; plus queer pheasants, Isla's Way (film), and the ancestral wisdom of our queer elders.

Episode 21 PREMIUM: trans day of resurrection; lesbian festivals for men; TV drama Float; the lesbian new wave in cinema; Meg Jones; wearing T-shirts and calling it politics.

Episode 20 FREE: Canada update, Can-SG conference update, Drive Away Dolls, ridiculous NHS surveys, queering the fruit fly.

Episode 19 PREMIUM - Kathleen globetrotting, lesbian parents on birth certificates, rising LGBTQ+ identification, pomodorosexuals (or something).

Episode 18 FREE - We talk to television industry icon Caroline Spry! Plus: taxpayer-funded Highland orgies and orchidsexuals.

Episode 17 PREMIUM: lesbian sperm whales and our queer seas; the Gateways Club; prison dramas and Bad Girls; aporagender.

Episode 16 FREE - Class sneak behaviour on trains; lesbian phone lines remembered; marriage and divorce; identifying as gender apathetic

Episode 15 PREMIUM: Julie swanning about; Kristen Stewart's Rolling Stone cover; straight women watching same-sex porn; lesbian bed death

Episode 14 FREE: life as a lesbian in Montenegro and Canada; Albanian sworn virgins; opera and trouser roles; lesbian bars and Valentine's horrors; with special guest Lydia Perović

Episode 13 PREMIUM: 20th anniversary of Julie being cancelled; hot Spanish chefs; mean books about lesbians by lesbians; football club lunacy; sapiosexuals.

Episode 12 FREE: being a young gender-critical feminist; remembering Magdalen Berns; Nyad; phallic pride columns; and why lesbians cannot have their own things - with very special guest Nicole Jones.

Episode 11 PREMIUM: The L-word anniversary, YA same-sex romances, the ethics of surrogacy, the Mean Girls reboot, jokes about lesbians, fraysexuals, and Fray Bentos pies.

Episode 10 FREE: guilt-by-association, queering Taylor Swift, Sandi Toksvig at Cambridge, sperm donors, lesbians in Gaelic, and demisexuals

Episode 9: PREMIUM The wonderful world of lesbians in the 80s - with special guest Maria Esposito

Episode 8: FREE Festive recap, Christmas films, abrosexuality, Skirt Club.

Episode 7: PREMIUM Christmas humbug, forgiveness, Enid Blyton lesbian shenanigans

Episode 6: FREE - coming out, dating, surviving the Admiral Duncan bomb, and having Stonewall contact your employers - with special guest Lucy Masoud.

Episode 5: PREMIUM Erin Pizzey and female domestic violence; nonbinary hunger striking; Lavender Jane album anniversary

4. Julie's adventures in Toronto, holiday planning, "lesbian nan", male directors ruining Sarah Waters novels.

3. Cancellation, direct action, and lesbian chefs - with guest Katie Herzog.

2. Stone butches, sugar mummies, & twin flames

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