99: How Do You Know When It’s Time to Quit?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Moya asks Ash how to trust your gut when it comes to leaving or staying in a job, friendship or romance.
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98: Are We Obsessed With Having Our Feelings Validated?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Ash and Moya offer their own strategies for worrying less about what other people think. Plus: an ex who’s found God and turned rightwing.
97: When Will I Start Feeling Like a Grown-up?
Moya Lothian-McLean and Ash Sarkar
Ash has a big theory about what makes someone into a proper adult. Plus: can you make a casual hook-up turn serious?
96: Why Are Women Choosing Looks Instead of Books?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Ash and Moya start the year with a tough conversation about the beauty regime that rules over us all.
95: Does British Culture Need Saving? W/ Lanre Bakare
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Culture writer Lanre Bakare talks to Ash and Moya about the precarious state of culture in post-Covid Britain, live in Manchester.
94: Resentment, Hostility, Scarcity… Is This Modern Dating? W/ Jordan Stephens
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Ash and Moya are joined by Rizzle Kicks star Jordan Stephens to talk about changing attitudes to gender and relationships.
Who Are the ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, the Labour Party’s New Faction?
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn & Jeremy Gilbert
An ACFM update on the inner workings of your favourite political party.
93: I’m Addicted to Guilt. What’s Wrong With Me?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Ash and Moya debate the pros and cons of feeling shame and advise a listener whose best friend has a mean streak.
92: Should We Say Something About Women’s Shrinking Bodies?
Ash Sarkar and Moya Lothian-McLean
Moya wonders if politeness is stopping us from seriously addressing women’s shrinking bodies and changing faces.
Is There Anything Left of the Mainstream?
Jeremy Gilbert, Keir Milburn & Nadia Idle
Is Stranger Things the last remnant of the ‘mainstream’? The gang explore the political meanings of a multifaceted term.
91: If There’s No ‘Ethical Consumption’, Can I Just Buy What I Want?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Ash and Moya talk about the urge to beautify and shopping as a numbing mechanism.
90: Are Rightwing Politics Affecting My Sex Life? W/ Dr Annabel Sowemimo
Moya Lothian-McLean and Ash Sarkar
Moya and Ash talk to Dr Annabel Sowemimo about STI stigma, period trackers and how to afford another baby.
89: Am I Doomed to Get More Conservative As I Get Older?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
A mystery question leads Ash and Moya into conversation about whether their politics are changing as they age.
88: What Are the Ethics of Oversharing?
Moya Lothian-McLean and Ash Sarkar
After listening to the new album by Lily Allen – the patron saint of oversharing – Moya and Ash debate the ethics of spilling your guts in public.
87: I’m Losing Interest in My Fiancée. Should She Make More Effort?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Moya and Ash tackle a quiz about the culture that shaped them, and offer advice to a fiance who’s losing interest in his partner.
What’s Going on Inside Your Party?
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
Is this Corbynism 2.0 or something else? The ACFM crew analyse the predicament facing the new leftwing party.
86: Why Do We Lap up Other People’s Horror Stories?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Moya and Ash offer a thought for spooky season and solve a dilemma about a mentoring relationship.
85: Has Pop Culture Turned to Slop?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Has pop turned to slop? Or should we take responsibility for our algorithmic intake?