I'm Absolutely Fine! by The Midult
Do you feel like a fully-functional human person? Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan of The Midult look at all the glamour and indignity of being a grown-up, while rummaging through the handbags, emotional knicker drawers and lives of some extraordinary people.
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Episode 54: September beauty special
We’re back! Are we though? Oh God. Everything is so crazy. So... to counter the moaning, the madness, the uncertainty, the sheer precariousness of everything, Annabel takes us for a romp around her bathroom cupboard. This week we are all about Septembe...
28 min
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Episode 53: Ada Calhoun
Are you a bit miserable? Do you feel as though you’re failing? As though you’ve missed the life you could have had. Because most grown-up women are finding themselves living in a total shit show. But – as we always say – if we’re not in it together, we...
31 min
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Episode 52: Jules von Hep
This week our guest is sunshine in man form. Jules Von Hep has worked in the tanning industry for over 10 years, bronzing up Hollywood’s finest, getting models golden backstage at fashion week, always on and off TV sets, including Strictly and The X Fa...
37 min
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Episode 51: Eve Kalinik
We all have a super weird relationship with food, don’t we? Well, this week we’ve got a rosé-drinking, no-nonsense nutritional therapist, the wonderful Eve Kalinik on the line. With her realistic approach to gut health and food fads, she talks sugar, g...
38 min
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Episode 50: The rubbish new normal with Hugo Ri...
This week we talk to the brilliant columnist, satirist and broadcaster Hugo Rifkind about the rubbish new normal - from the threat of 'space weather' to Donald Trump sex dreams, via our old friend Brexit (remember him?) and our even older friend impost...
35 min
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Episode 49: Coky Giedroyc
This week we have a real, live female film director here. The magnificent Coky Giedroyc is known as the queen of costume drama: she’s made Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, The Virgin Queen, all with Tom Hardy coughs. Also Harlots and The Hour to name b...
38 min
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Episode 48: Beauty Special with Emma Guns
This week we talk to a proper beauty expert, the delightful Emma Guns, about everything from our terrible toes to our terrible hair, via stretch marks and beards.
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Episode 47: The new abnormal
This week we talk about quicksand, office a***holes and daily malpractices - from Manifestering to adopting a Positively Mental Attitude...
24 min
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Episode 46: Are you wearing your Big Girl Pants?
From suspender belts to knee supports, this week’s episode of I’m Absolutely Fine! is all about the multiple personalities of our knicker drawers. Bravely sponsored by Stripe & Stare - who are offering all of you 20% off with the code FINE10 (until...
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Episode 45: Lockdown special 9
This week we discuss living in The Overwhelm, on The Brink, in Denial, deckchair panic and how we've forgotten how to be civilised members of society.
26 min
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Episode 44: Lockdown special 8
This week we talk about what would happen if Midults did Love Island, Locktail hour, and all the therapy we are going to need when this madness is over.
28 min
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Episode 43: Lockdown special 7 with Gavanndra H...
This week we are deranged with joy to welcome our very dear friend Gavanndra Hodge to the podcast. Her new book, The Consequences of Love, is about love, addiction, trauma, parties, grief and the eventual understanding that, if we are brave enough to l...
41 min
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Episode 42: Lockdown special 6
This week we’re back on the Corona-coaster talking about all the different flavours of panic, insomnia and some of the times we disgraced ourselves…
30 min
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Episode 41: Lockdown special 5
This week Annabel and Emilie talk about The Tiredness, micro horror stories and games you can play to keep the madness at bay. Sort of…
24 min
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Episode 40: Lockdown special 4
This week Annabel and Emilie comb through the remnants of their former lives, from past-their-sell-by-date condoms to hair balls to secret copies of The Rules...
28 min
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Episode 39: Lockdown special 3
It’s Episode 3 from reality 2020. This week we discuss the erosion of our sense of self and how our fantasy life is getting out of control - in all directions
33 min
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Episode 38: Lockdown special 2
We’re absolutely fine but… we’ve gone lockdown loco. It’s our second dispatch from the new normal. We talk about the magimix of feelings, the terrible sex dreams and how it’s possible to feel lonely and claustrophobic AT THE SAME TIME. Love A&E x
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Episode 37: Lockdown special
We’re absolutely fine but…. we’re in lockdown. This is our first episode from Reality 2.0. Join us as we share some of our wildest thoughts in these strange times…
23 min
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Episode 36: Mandy Saligari
Mandy Saligari is complete badass: an addictions therapist whose TedTalk is titled 'Handle feelings before they handle you'. She is a multi-hyphenate who has helped thousands untangle their demons in order to learn to live a fuller life. She looks at s...
39 min
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Episode 35: Kat Farmer
If you haven’t heard of @DoesMyBumLook40 then you’re about to. For years she’s been a badly-kept fashion secret: doling out tips and tricks on Instagram. She combs through the tat and shares the treasures. Now she is leaping from your iPhone screen to...
32 min
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Episode 34: Kate Silverton
This week Annabel and Emilie are dazzled by Kate Silverton. One of our most popular and versatile journalists, this woman is BRAVE. So versatile that she has been a war reporter, competed in 2018’s Strictly Come Dancing and tackled some of the UK’s mos...
42 min
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Episode 33: Julia Samuel
This week’s guest is Julia Samuel, one of Britain’s leading psychotherapists - she is also one those people who changes the temperature of the room, who makes it a kinder, safer space. Her speciality is grief - can you imagine the things she has seen a...
42 min
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Episode 32: Dr Martin Galy
Hormones. Hormones. Hormones. The horror. The magic. The conspiracy of silence. The almost institutionalised ignorance. Lady chemicals. It’s time to take back some hormonal power. This week on I’m Absolutely Fine!, Annabel and Emilie chat to Doctor Ma...
38 min
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Episode 31: Grace Woodward
This week Annabel and Emilie get naked with Grace Woodward. The former Britain’s Next Top Model judge and X-Factor stylist talks about the toxic fashion world and how it nearly broke her. But she staged a comeback to ask the question: why as women do w...
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Episode 30: Galentine's Day with A&E
Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, authors of the best-selling book I’m Absolutely Fine!, are now here weekly. Happy Galentine’s Day - this week Annabel and Emilie get romantic about friendship, tears, identity and all the different kinds of Midult po...
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