All Episodes

Rose Ferguson: 'You don't have to settle for feeling worse just because you're getting older'

Denise Brown on the loss of her sister Nicole Brown Simpson and her lifelong fight against domestic abuse

Jackie Kay on rediscovering yourself in your 50s - REPLAY

Marina Benjamin on the unseen, unsung, undone work of women - REPLAY

Zandra Rhodes: how a 'boring little girl' made a big bold life - REPLAY

Louise O'Neill on her midlife dating odyssey - BONUS EPISODE

Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing - REPLAY

Rachel Eliza Griffiths shares two great loves and two great griefs

Meera Syal: 'I am now a Triple Bad Bet – Old, Female and Brown!'

Tabitha Webb on being an older mum & the menopause-puberty collision

Charlotte Wood: 'I don't fear ageing, but I do fear becoming a boring, annoying old person!'

Helen Thorn on how to bounce back from life's shittiest moments

Jennie Godfrey: 'midlife is a powerful place if you lean into it'

Jane Green on being a walkaway wife & rebuilding your life in your 50s

Sarah Hiscox on self esteem, shame and overcoming addiction

Stacey Duguid on coming back from midlife collapse - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Clare Grogan: Back on the road and better than ever at 60 THE SHIFT REVISITED

Sabrina Pace-Humphreys: how running saved me from workaholism and alcoholism THE SHIFT REVISITED

Dawn O'Porter - on ageing, Botox, self-worth & kaftans! THE SHIFT REVISITED

Lyse Doucet: What I learnt from 40 years on the frontline THE SHIFT REVISITED

Liz Earle: 'Much of what we've been told about ageing as women is wrong'

Dr Kate Lister: Most women could benefit from 'pleasure education'

Maria Semple knows all the dirty little secrets of midlife!

Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the 90s and her big midlife resurrection

Katriona O'Sullivan on women's bodies, hunger & why women shrink

Siri Hustvedt on living on when the love of your life dies

Bryony Gordon is done with people pleasing

Margaret Busby: Britain's first black female publisher on the power of passing it on

Abi Morgan on rebuilding just about everything in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Emily Nagoski knows the surprising secret to long term intimacy - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Elif Shafak on the power of older women & why menopause can be the end of shame - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Christie Watson on menopause, mischief and midlife - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Martha Wainwright on music, motherhood & finding love in midlife - FROM THE ARCHIVES

Prue Leith: 'I've had HRT patches on my bum for more than 40 years!'

Poorna Bell is rewriting the rules around ageing

Elizabeth Gilbert: "It's quite radical, what happens to us as we get older"

Fatima Bhutto: surviving a coercive relationship & letting go of shame

Catherine Newman on surviving the midlife sandwich – THE SHIFT LIVE

Amy Larocca: 'the wellness industry sets women up to fail'

Gretchen Rubin on happiness, acceptance and the secrets of adulthood

Melani Sanders DOES NOT CARE - and she doesn’t care that she doesn’t care!

Dr Gladys McGarey: Life lessons from a 103 year old - FROM THE ARCHIVES

Isabel Allende on feminism, anger and being 'fatally heterosexual' - FROM THE ARCHIVES

Lynda La Plante on a lifetime of breaking boundaries - FROM THE ARCHIVES

Helen Garner on divorce, grandmothering and the erotic gaze - FROM THE ARCHIVES

Miriam Margolyes on the power of living life without secrets - FROM THE ARCHIVES

Lady Glenconner on stepping into the spotlight at 87

Karen Dobres: how menopause & football turned me into an accidental radical

Samantha Ellis on food, family and finding your identity in your 40s

Holly Dawson on facing permanent memory loss at 40

Bobbi Brown on doing it all her own way in her 60s

Hollie McNish on sex, shame and telling the truth about womanhood

Jen Hatmaker: “It’s like I woke up halfway through my life”

THE SHIFT LIVE: Mary Portas on fashion, Ab Fab & how her childhood shaped her

Lyse Doucet – my extraordinary 40 years on the frontline

India Knight on finally gaining a sense of self in her 50s - from the archives

Hilma Wolitzer: 80 years of writing – and not done yet (from the archives)

Caryn Franklin on why fashion still fails older women - from the archives

Lisa Jewell on hitting a golden seam of success in her 50s - FROM THE ARCHIVES

Thomasina Miers on the midlife Mexican escape that rebuilt her

Laura Lippmann is having a second coming at 60

Charlotte Mendelson – middle-aged women are entitled to want more

Betsy Lerner is on a mission to destigmatise mental health in her 60s

Nicola Sturgeon on life after leadership

Sarah Perry on "becoming a woman who didn't have children"

Glynnis MacNicol: everything you've been told about being a middle-aged woman is a lie

Steph McGovern on money, menopause & staying out of your lane

Alison Bechdel on tarot, ageing & why men are scared of women who can do push-ups! - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Esther Freud on upending your life in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Helen Garner on divorce, ageing and the erotic gaze - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Molly Jong Fast: confessions of a bad daughter

Jo Hamilton: The Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life

Olia Hercules: my periods vanished when the war started

Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy

Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder

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

Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing and growing some boundaries!

Naga munchetty on her 30 year battle to get her painful periods taken seriously

Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world, hormones and going "statement grey" - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, imposter syndrome and why she didn't think she's the marrying kind: THE SHIFT REVISITED

The "other" Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Lorraine Kelly on menopause, misogyny, toxic men in telly, being a granny, Botox, you name it!

Jenni Fagan: I'm 46, nobody thought I'd make it past 16

Ione Skye: I'm still working on being seen in the world – and I'm 50

Denise Lewis shares her secrets for adapting to a big life shift

Liz O'Riordan: When breast cancer surgeon becomes breast cancer patient

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

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

Kate Fagan on success, ambition and ageing alongside the L-word!

Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Ruby Wax on building an emotional toolkit for the second half of your life - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Dani Shapiro on family secrets and coming into your full potential at 60 - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Bryony Gordon on burnout, binge eating and perimenopause - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Sarah Knight: why selfish isn't a four letter word - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Dr Gladys McGarey: a 102-year-old shares her life lessons - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Barbara Kingsolver on why life gets better with every passing decade - THE SHIFT REVISITED

Katherine May: why we all need a little more wonder in our lives - THE SHIFT REVISITED

BONUS EPISODE: Neneh Cherry on love, loss & legacy

Bella Freud: "I've definitely got more daring with age"