Best Jacqueline and Jane Podcasts (2025)

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The Life Scientific: Mark O'Shea 26:29

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How do you feel about snakes? What about highly venomous ones? For Mark O’Shea, close encounters with the world’s most rare and deadly snakes are not only his profession, but his passion.Mark is a Professor of Herpetology - the area of zoology focusing on reptiles and amphibians - at the University of Wolverhampton. After dropping out of college in…

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223: Mussolini's Favorite Booster Pack 51:35

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 47 to 51 I rthink i Hauve covid Come back next week for The Court of the Dead, ch. 1 to 6 Check out our Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/unwisegirls) Follow the show (https://twitter.com/unwisegirls) Join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/XnhhwzKQ8d) Hosted by Jacqueline (https://twitter.com/swampduchess) and Jane (https:/…

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Waking up with a different voice 26:28

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What’s it like to wake up with a brand new voice? For those with foreign accent syndrome, this is their reality. Patients who develop this rare speech disorder start speaking in a brand new accent that they often have no connection to. So how does losing the voice you’ve known your entire life shape, or break, your identity? Presenter Ella Hubber s…

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Hannah Miller on The Purpose Pursuit: Pivoting with Purpose using your Strengths and Values 36:48

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In this episode I chat with Hannah Miller about how a midlife pivot can become a powerful reorientation toward purpose. Hannah is the founder of Sidekick and creator of The Purpose Pursuit™ course and book. An award-winning speaker, author, podcast host, and accredited coach, she helps people and organisations uncover strengths, navigate change, an…

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The animal employment agency 26:28

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We live in a time of automation and robotics; the machines run the factories, and AI will soon take all the jobs. Yet, even today, there are certain niche jobs where only an animal will do. Comedian and biologist Simon Watt meets some of them and the people who train them, study them, and love them. He starts with a business of ferrets (yes, that i…

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222: Nyx This Whole Thing 51:19

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 41 to 46 So, we're nearing the end of The Sun and the Star. How about that? The book has had its ups and its downs, but at the end of the day, we're all just here to have fun, folks. Even if those lows are.... low. Really low. And it pisses us off a lot and we get mad and say swear words. Still! Fun fun fun. Come back next…

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Bodies 26:28

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The London Anatomy Office accepts around 350 human bodies donated for medical research and education annually. You may imagine that these bodies are presevered in chemicals for medical students to study over weeks and months. And some are. But many are used - almost fresh - to train surgeons in the procedures which may one day save your life. Journ…

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221: Nectarine 54:11

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 35 to 40 People have been saying it couldn't be done, but we did it: we did a podcast wrong. Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 41 to 46! Check out our Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/unwisegirls) Follow the show (https://twitter.com/unwisegirls) Join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/XnhhwzKQ8d) Hosted by …

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Dr Jackie Gray on the growing number of Carents and how her platform can support us 30:14

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In this episode I chat with Dr. Jackie Gray about Carents, a UK-based platform she created to give a voice and practical support to unpaid adult carers — the large, often invisible group caring for ageing parents. Jackie shares how the platform started as an information site in 2020 and has evolved into a free, comprehensive hub offering legal guid…

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The Life Scientific: Kevin Fong 26:30

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There can't be many people in the world who've saved lives in hospital emergency rooms and also helped care for the wellbeing of astronauts in space – but Kevin Fong’s career has followed a singular path: from astrophysics and trauma medicine, to working with NASA, to becoming an Air Ambulance doctor. Kevin is a consultant anaesthetist and professo…

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Nectar of the Pods: Episode 142 - We Do A Revolution 1:07:32

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Episode Notes hi everyone! with Jacqueline at Ground Control this weekend (which you should totally watch at https://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork)!, and with us coming up the final three episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena, we thought we'd put the first episode of our coverage out publicly so everyone can get a taste of the sweet sweet nectar you…

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The Life Scientific: Dame Pratibha Gai 26:28

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Chemical reactions are the backbone of modern society: the energy we use, the medicines we take, our housing materials, even the foods we eat, are created by reacting different substances together. If we zoom in, it’s the atoms within these substances that rearrange themselves to give rise to new substances with the properties we need. However, che…

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220: The Final Fujo 46:10

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 29 to 34 Happy Halloween - it's an Unwise Girls treat! In an episode that totally wasn't recorded over the course of two days, we discuss Gorgyra's final message, trying hard in your relationships and that meaning you're doing it wrong, making out with your opposite, manias, pining for Piper, the slipperiest timeline of al…

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Lou Furby on MenoTalk - how Specsavers walk the talk in menopause support 38:05

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In this episode I chat to Lou Furby, Specsavers’ UK D&I lead, who shares how Specsavers built a workplace menopause support program from the ground up. We cover the creation of MenoTalk, the importance of inclusive, cross-functional involvement, the role of top-down sponsorship and allyship, practical strategies for creating a supportive workplace …

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The Life Scientific: Catherine Heymans 26:29

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Have you ever considered the lighter side of dark matter?Comedy has proved an unexpectedly succesful way to engage people with science - as today's guest knows first-hand. Astrophysicist Catherine Heymans is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh and the current Astronomer Royal for Scotland. She’s spent her career studying dark matter and dark…

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219: Grip That Darkness 50:32

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 23 to 28 This week on Unwise Girls, we have to reckon with what might be the fundamental question of this whole book: what balance can the authors find between the typical fantasy road trip of a Riordanverse novel and the YA supernatural romance that lies at the heart of the story? It's something we'll have to contend with…

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The Life Scientific: Tim Coulson 26:28

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As a young man, traveling in Africa, Tim Coulson - now Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford - became seriously ill with malaria and was told a second bout would probably kill him. Aged only 20, this brush with his own mortality led him to promise himself he would write a complete guide to science: life, the universe and everything. His …

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The Life Scientific: Brian Schmidt 26:27

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Have you ever pondered the fact that the universe is expanding? And not only that, it's expanding at an increasing speed - meaning everything around us is getting further and further away? If that isolating thought makes you feel slightly panicked, don't worry: this programme also contains wine! Brian Schmidt is a Distinguished Professor of Astroph…

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218: Like Taking Ragebait from a Baby 46:59

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 17 to 22 This week on Unwise Girls, we are truly red and steaming! We touch on the ways Riordan and Oshiro try and have it both ways with the Trogs, the sort of reverse-Guess Who's Coming To Dinner scenarios they've set up, strangely direct allegories for homophobia and transphobia, in-universe queer icons, fujoing out so …

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The Life Scientific: Jane Goodall 26:29

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Erin Gallagher on Hype Women: Breaking Free from Mean Girls, Patriarchy, and Systems Silencing You 44:15

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217: Requiem for a Care Bear 50:43

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 11 to 16 This week on Unwise Girls, we discuss assuming pronouns, Tartarus troubles, lost chapters being recovered, Nemeses, the haunting of the narrative by Gaea, Care Bears, the civilized Trog, and more! Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 17 to 22! Check out our Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/unwisegirl…

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The Life Scientific: Jacqueline McKinley 26:28

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How much information can you extract from a burnt fragment of human bone? Quite a lot, it turns out - not only about the individual, but also their broader lives and communities; and these are the stories unearthed by Jacqueline McKinley, a Principal Osteoarchaeologist with Wessex Archaeology. During her career, Jackie has analysed thousands of anc…

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216: The Niccolò 64 Stairs 46:38

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 6 to 10 Look behind you - a new episode of Unwise Girls is out! Now you can continue on your journey and... wait a second, where's the episode? When I looked forward, it just disappeared, but I could've sworn it was in my podcatcher... did you see it, listener? No? You've never even heard of Unwise Girls? No, don't tell me…

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Nicky Denson-Elliott on Good Girl Economics, redefining our worth and unlearning internalized misogyny 32:00

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My guest this time is Nicky Denson-Elliott – serial entrepreneur, founder of the Wilder Collective and host of the Women’s Business podcast. Nicky is focused on elevating female founders and redefining success beyond conventional hustle culture. We explore the realities of building businesses as women plus the latest research behind internalized mi…

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The Life Scientific: Jonathan Shepherd 26:29

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Surgeons often have to deal with the consequences of violent attacks - becoming all too familiar with patterns of public violence, and peaks around weekends, alcohol-infused events and occasions that bring together groups with conflicting ideals. Professor Jonathan Shepherd not only recognised the link between public violence and emergency hospital…

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215: You Must Listen! (to our podcast :D) 1:08:57

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The Sun and the Star, ch. 1 to 5 Welcome back to Unwise Girls - and welcome for the first time to The Nico di Angelo Adventures! That's right, we've read every single series that had published before Unwise Girls itself started. Now, all that's left is a bunch of stuff that happened after... including this book, co-written by Rick Riordan and Mark …

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The Life Scientific: Doyne Farmer 26:28

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Doyne Farmer is something of a rebel. Back in the seventies, when he was a student, he walked into a casino in Las Vegas, sat down at a roulette table and beat the house. To anyone watching the wheel spin and the ball clatter to its final resting place, his choice of number would’ve looked like a lucky guess. But knowing the physics of the game and…

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Bonus Episode: Are You Holding Up The Sky? Then come join us... 11:20

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Welcome to this bonus episode with me, and fellow coach and burnout expert Lisa Tyler. We'd love to tell you about the new project we have just launched...Do you sometimes feel like you’re Holding up the Sky? You’re exhausted from being all things to all people. Madly juggling parenting, elder care, job, health. Maybe you’re also supporting your yo…

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214: The Blank Bead 1:11:24

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The Trials of Apollo retrospective We've had a lot of fun here, folks, but it's important to remember that the most important thing at the end of the day is to be kind to one another... or to roast the shit out of a book series that you spent nearly a year and a half reading! Well, whichever you choose, just remember to have fun. We discuss arcs, t…

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The Life Scientific: Tori Herridge 26:30

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Elephants are the largest living land mammal and today our planet is home to three species: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. But a hundred thousand years ago, in the chilly depths of the Ice Age, multiple species of elephant roamed the earth: from dog-sized dwarf elephants to towering woolly mammoths. …

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Jane Moffett on Redefining Retirement - how to find the right path for you 32:52

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In this episode, Emma welcomes Jane Moffett, a coach and author who specializes in helping women navigate the transitions in their careers and lives. Jane is the founder and director of Kangaroo Coaching, a company that works with organisations who are committed to creating progressive workplace cultures. She runs coaching programmes for new parent…

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The Life Scientific: Sir Magdi Yacoub 26:29

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What does it take to earn the nickname, ‘The Leonardo da Vinci of heart surgery’? That's the moniker given to today's guest - a man who pioneered high-profile and often controversial procedures, but also helped drive huge medical progress; carrying out around 2,000 heart transplants and 400 dual heart-lung transplants during his 60-year career. Sir…

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213: Absolute Apollo 51:07

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The Tower of Nero, ch. 36 to 39 This week on Unwise Girls, despite immense audience pressures, we decided to make some controversial statements. "This book was sometimes good and sometimes bad." "Stories' endings should resonate thematically." "Leo Valdez may not be our top oomfie blorbo anymore." I know, I know! But hold your horses, it's not all …

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The Life Scientific: Claudia de Rham 26:29

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Claudia de Rham has rather an unusual relationship with gravity. While she has spent her career exploring its fundamental nature, much of her free time has involved trying to defy it - from scuba diving in the Indian Ocean to piloting small aircraft over the Canadian waterfalls. Her ultimate ambition was to escape gravity’s clutches altogether and …

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