logo
episode-header-image
Jan 2022
35m 3s

Many Different Lives

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

This story is about how the unique experiences of a little girl growing up unconventionally in America in the 1970s seismically changed the face of feminism in the 90s and beyond. It's a story too about the invention of a word - one that's contributed to a ferocious schism in the British culture wars.

Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare Original music by Phil Channell

Up next
Jan 2022
A Secret Room Behind a Fake Wall
It’s 2017. Late one night after a party a Hollywood actor plays a prank on a friend. But the prank backfires terribly and the ripples are seismic - taking us inside Donald Trump’s White House and the Capitol insurrection of January 2021.Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produce ... Show More
32m 44s
Jan 2022
A Mock Slave Auction
An incident of racist bullying on Snapchat is currently tearing apart a small town on a lake in Michigan. As the ripples spread, practically every conflict we’ve encountered throughout our series rears its head.Presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare Assistant Produce ... Show More
36m 15s
Mar 2022
How Things Fell Apart with Louis Theroux
In this bonus episode of Things Fell Apart, Jon Ronson's friend and fellow documentary maker Louis Theroux asks him all about how he made the series. They take a deep dive into Culture Wars battles and explore Jon's storytelling methods, all while chatting about Jon's broken arm, ... Show More
43m 50s
Recommended Episodes
Jan 2023
The Feminism (and Fandom) of Zines
Unique, quirky and subversive, zines have a long feminist history. We flip through the pages of the past and future of zines, and discuss how people are fighting to diversify and preserve zines.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 
31m 43s
Jan 2022
The Yassification Crisis
The ladies break down the concept of gentrification, its historical legacy that explains the housing crisis today, and share your own stories about having lived through it. Digressions include Julia's candle obsessions, the redemption of West Elm Caleb, and whether or not horseba ... Show More
1h 32m
Jan 2021
Outside/In: Everybody Knows Somebody
In the mid-1980's a woman who didn't consider herself a feminist was asked to solve perhaps the biggest problem women face. How she and a small group of people seized on that rare moment and fought back in the hopes that something could finally be done.See pcm.adswizz.com for inf ... Show More
57m 55s
Feb 2022
Prologue
This is not a story about politics, or war. Instead, this is a story about what it was like to grow up as a child of immigrants who fled a country due to political instability. Yasmeen brings in a selection of voices from the Iraqi diaspora to help even out the global narrative: ... Show More
1s
May 2022
Maul Me Once
Some people change the world for the better, and others make it worse. Either way, they make for curious stories.Join our Patreon for ad-free episodes!: https://www.patreon.com/grimandmildSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 
9m 11s
Jun 2024
Emotional Girls, Angry Women: feminine rage unlocked
<p><strong>podmothers sephy &amp; wing enter the chat:</strong> spiralling on frustration and hysteria, miss havisham, the invalidation and over-simplification of little girls and their emotions, ageing, sexual harrassment, and The Schoolgirl. ✷</p><br><p>shop ✷ <a href="https:// ... Show More
47m 38s
Jan 2020
Everybody Knows Somebody
In the mid-1980's a woman who didn't consider herself a feminist was asked to solve perhaps the biggest problem women face. How she and a small group of people seized on that rare moment and fought back in the hopes that something could finally be done.See pcm.adswizz.com for inf ... Show More
57m 34s
Mar 2024
off the record: misogyny bias, maternal instincts, & the eras tour
<p><strong>podmothers sephy &amp; wing enter the chat:</strong> spiralling on the gamer girl to rotting depression pipeline, our friendship, everyday sexism, maternal instincts, empathy, taylor swift, and the dehuminisation of pop-culture spectacles. ✷</p><br><p>shop ✷ <a href="h ... Show More
29m 42s
Mar 2024
Forget Girlhood, These Are The Days Of TERFhood
<p>These are the days of girlhood - pink beer cans, bathtub breakdowns and picking up your meds. All trending topics that are highlighted in the debut track from Dylan Mulvaney, but why is the song receiving vitriol from TikTok teens, the alt right and the left? In this week's ep ... Show More
30m 9s