😍😍 OMG, wonderful episode & crying out to be dramatised in the style of Sally Wainwright’s #RiotWomen @k8lister.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Really very highly recommend you listen this episode of @k8lister.bsky.social's show that covers the origin of Frankestein, or rather some of the ways in which Percy Bysshe Shelley was a rotten little nepo bitch.

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the incomparable Cathryn Kemp about her work on the Italian, mass husband poisoner, Giulia Tofana 💀☠️🍾🪦

You should absolutely go find this if you, like me and all right-thinking people, enjoy telling Percy Bysshe Shelley to fuck off into the sun.

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Frankentastic Fiona Sampson about the life and loves of #MaryShelley

The Tilberi were the pets of #Icelandic witches and you can see them in the #Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and #Witchcraft, where I visited as part of the new film on History Hit, Witchmen: the Icelandic age of ice and fire.

I love people who know how to get stains out of clothes. Not dry cleaners, that’s their job, I mean the woman who tears across the street and kicks the door in to tell you that you need to soak an ink stain with hand sanitiser before washing it on a low heat. Those people have seen some shit.

When some tailgating jerk aggressively overtakes, only to have to cut in front of you because it wasn’t safe to overtake - and then you get to sit right behind him for miles with both of you knowing his prick move was completely pointless? 10/10

Anything under 20% off should not be allowed to call itself a “sale.” Don’t be sending me excited emails about your “flash sale” to only knock 5% off your jumpers.

As a single woman without kids, I am always caught out when trick or treaters knock on my door. “No, I don’t have any sweets to give you. Can I interest you in some Brie?”

Everyone forgets the male witches.

My latest documentary with History Hit looks at the witch hunts in 17th century Iceland, where 93% of those condemned as witches were men. Now available at historyhit.com (free trial period available.)

Buying this instead of turning the heating on this winter. Checkmate, energy companies

“& what does this incredible product do to “alleviate symptoms associated with perimenopause & menopause”? It heats up. Because that’s what any woman dealing with hot flushes that could be measured on the Scoville scale needs, right? A hot vibrator up her chuff? Genius.” inews.co.uk/opinion/meno...

We need some kind of warning system to let people without kids know it’s half term. I wasn’t ready for Leeds central train station this morning.

Automated admin systems that charge an “admin fee” to make changes can suck all the dicks in hell. Why the hell are you charging me? I’m the one who made the changes!!! I AM THE ADMIN!

I think I could run for election on the single issue of removing the calories from the menus of restaurants. Sir, I am hungover. I do not want to know this delivery could feed an adult puma for a week.

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fabulous Julia Martins about the history of virginity and how they faked it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Have you ever spent three hours trying to teach your parents how to fill out an online pdf form, or are you not currently looking at 15 to life?

Friends have asked me to meet them for dinner at 8pm. 8PM!!! What in the Sodom and Gomorrah bullshit is this?

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to Robert Sommer about his research on the brothels within the nazi concentration camp system. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Every time people go esoteric with religion, it always ends up with someone suggesting swinging.

Last week on #BetwixtTheSheets I spoke to the wonderful Rachel Morris about her new book on John Dee, the wife swapping wizard of the Tudor court.

What happened to fat builders?? I’ve had several in lately and brought loads of cake and treats and they’re all counting macros and doing paleo! They’re all jacked to shit. I’ve had to eat an obscene amount of Jaffa cakes by myself!

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the rootin, tootin terrific @holliem.bsky.social about her research into sex work on the American frontier. Listen whenever you get your podcasts.

Update on my Basis birthday fundraiser! Thank you so much, everyone. You’ve smashed it. Here is the link if anyone else fancied purchasing some supplies for supporting women dealing with poverty, homelessness, and abuse. www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/...

Awwwww. The My fitness pal app I forgot about just messaged to ask me how my diet is going while I was eating a second Portuguese custard tart.

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the one and only Philippa Gregory about her new novel on #JaneBoleyn - the treacherous Lady Rochford, and asking if she really deserves that reputation. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

I’m not a violent woman but Evri’s automated customer service is enough to radicalise anyone.

Opinion | You can tag as much faux spirituality on this as you like, but these are traditional (read patriarchal) gender roles, repackaged for the modern dating scene – and it needs to be consigned to the dustbin 🖋 @k8lister.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/434HYEs

Awwwww! You guys! Basis are already having parcels delivered from their gift list! Their Amazon gift list is in my bio if you wanted to send them something to support women who access their services. You can also donate to the Big Give push, where all donations will be doubled. Thank u! You all rock

For my #Birthday this year, I’m asking folk to kindly donate to the amazing charity, Basis Yorkshire through their wish list. www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/... donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Today on the (award winning) #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fabulous Elizabeth Lublin about her work on the history of selling sex in Tokugawa Japan. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

#DamePatriciaRoutledge - what an absolute powerhouse she was. Although she was best known as the indomitable Hyacinth Bucket, I absolutely adored her as Victoria Wood’s Kitty. Rest in peace, wonderful woman

OMG!! We only went and did it!!! #BetwixtTheSheets won the Listener’s Choice Award at this year’s British podcast awards !!! Thank you so so much to everyone who voted!!! YOU LEGENDS! Thank you to the entire Betwixt team. I am properly blown away!!

“I can tell you which friends have had chlamydia, but I have no idea which tax bracket they are in.” Is money that last taboo? Do you talk openly about your finances with friends and family and if not, why not? inews.co.uk/opinion/know...

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the awesomely awesome Sian Rees about her book “The Floating Brothel, which tells the story of the Lady Julian, the all female convict ship that transported women to Australia in the 18th century.

So I have a passport, a drivers licence, a national security number, a government gateway ID, a birth certificate, bank statements, mortgage statements, utility statements, tax records, and a p60 - but I will now need a digital ID card on my phone to prove who I am?? Fuck off, Starmer.

#Rasputin and his magic wand. Listen now on #BetwixtTheSheets

I can’t believe I shaved my legs to the knee only for the rapture to be a no show.

Historic ‘causes’ of #Autism

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the marvellous Caroline Young about her new book #SingleAndPsycho How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman

Well, I hope they didn’t use Yodel because I once ordered some socks from La Redoute and they never arrived.

In case you missed it, last week on #BetwixtTheSheets I was talking to the marvellous Alexander Meddings about the emperor Nero and asking the question, was Nero a fuckboy???

Go vote for Kate. I don’t even like podcasts, and this one has helped me maintain a shred of sanity in these terrible times.

Opinion | I truly believe that if women could believe in themselves – even fractionally – in the way men do, we could go a long way towards kicking the patriarchy in the tits, once and for all 🖋 @k8lister.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/FMfu5UQ

If you haven’t voted for #BetwixtTheSheets for the Listener’s Choice Award at the British Podcast Awards, for God sake do it now!! It’s the last day you can vote & we’re in the top 6. Me nerves are hanging out. I’ll be swigging gin & Valium until all this is over www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting

Tomorrow is the last day you can vote!

So far, 2025 has felt like living inside a Hieronymus Bosch painting

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the utterly marvellous Anthony Delaney about his BRAND NEW book #QueerGeorgians, in particular his reappraisal of the Chevalière d’Éon. Apologies to all speakers of French for my butchery of the language. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.