BOOKSHELFIE OUR PICK OF THE WEEK’S PODS

For one year, the National Union of Mineworkers were locked in a bitter and violent conflict with Margaret Thatcher’s government that changed the country.

To mark its millionth download, earlier this month, the weekly interview podcast Bookshelfie, brought to you by the Women’s Prize Trust, the charity behind the Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-fiction, re-branded with a new look.

Some of the previous guests have included Sex Education’s Gillian Anderson, Sex and the City’s Kim Cattrall, Baroness Doreen Delceita Lawrence and businesswoman and philanthropist Gina Miller.

But in this week’s episode, TV and BBC Radio 1 presenter, author and journalist Vick Hope – who has been hosting the podcast for the last two years – interviews American novelist and academic, Kiley Reid, following the success of her New York Times bestseller, Come and Get It, published earlier this year.

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EVERYBODY HATES HR

Co-hosts Lola and

Velisa describe

Everybody Hates

HR as an ‘HR pod with seasoning’ – and it lives up to that billing.

The weekly podcast sees the HR professionals chat through a range of issues relating to the world of human resources, including workplace dilemmas, news reports and social media trends.

Their goal is to make things relatable and useful while sharing their takes on things – covering the serious, the funny and the downright shocking.

In this week’s episode, the pair take a look at a recent report on sexual harassment in the financial sector and highlight some recent pay-out cases – including a council worker granted a record £4.6m, after being dismissed while on sick leave with PTSD from working with victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

They round it off with their take on the social media trend of people posting videos of themselves getting fired or slating their bosses.

Unscripted, honest, and happily jargon-free.

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STRIKE

When you think of

1984 what comes to mind? Could it be George

Orwell’s iconic book? Maybe it’s

Madonna performing Like A Virgin?

For filmmaker Jonny Owen, that year is one thing, the miners’ strike, a moment when class and political fault lines divided Britain. For one year, the National Union of Mineworkers were locked in a bitter and violent conflict with Margaret Thatcher’s government that changed the country.

Now, 40 years on, Owen goes on a personal journey – he was living in the south Wales valleys as a teen when the strike began – and tries to tell the profound story of the hundreds and thousands of people who were at the heart of this industrial dispute in his new BBC Sounds podcast, Strike.

Whatever you think you already know about the miners’ strike, this podcast, using innovative audio storytelling, takes you deeper.

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Police clash with National Union of Mineworkers pickets near Llanwern in South Wales

Margaret Thatcher in 1984