Marina Hyde on gaining confidence and growing older riskily

The Shift with Sam Baker

Sam Baker Ltd

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

My guest today has been lauded as “the most lethal, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time”. Guardian columnist Marina Hyde has made her name as the master of the takedown. Through the political shit-storm of recent years (or should that be weeks?!) she has taken a scalpel laced with laughing gas to the establishment and made us weep (in a good way, usually) in the face of the coming apocalypse and earned two Political Commentator Of The Year Awards. Now those columns have been turned into a book, What Just Happened? A rampage through the heroes, villains, chancers, tossers and shysters that have made the last decade what it is. Like all of Hyde’s writing it’s howlingly funny and terrifyingly true. But how do you get to be a “lethal truth teller”? Marina joined me to talk about lucking into journalism (like me, she learnt to type and started as a temp), thriving not surviving in male-dominated environments and why the pram in the hall turned out to be her superpower. She also told me why she wishes she’d taken more risks, why white wine is her nemesis and why she’ll be forever grateful to the menopause movement. [this episode was recorded before the UK political scene got even more chaotic than normal!] * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including What Just Happened?! by Marina Hyde and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me! * And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including transcripts of the podcast, please consider joining The Shift community. Find out more at https://steadyhq.com/en/theshift/ • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.4	I have no idea what we're doing.
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0:35.0	Hello and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds about
0:39.7	being a woman post-40, created and hosted by me, writer and broadcaster, Sam Baker.
0:45.8	My guest today has been lauded as the most lethal, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.
0:52.2	Guardian columnist Marina Hyde has made her name as the master of the
0:56.1	takedown. Through the political shitstorm of recent years, she has taken a scalpel laced with
1:01.7	laughing gas to the establishment and made us weep in a good way, usually, in the face of the
1:07.5	coming apocalypse, and earned two political commentator of the year awards. Now those columns have been turned into a book. What just happened? A rampage through the heroes, villains, chancers, tossers and shysters that have made the last decade what it is. Like all of Hyde's writing, it's howlingly funny and terrifyingly true. You know, I'm an optimist. You may not get it from the writing.
1:29.3	Given my subject matter, I'm surprisingly, I'm quite an optimist, in my personal life anyway.
1:34.4	Marina joined me to talk about lucking into journalism, thriving, not surviving, in male-dominated
1:40.0	environments, and why the pram in the hall turned out to be her superpower.
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