Tomorrow Never Knows

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FOOTNOTES Foreign Policy Part I is episode #24 - listen to that here ; Sarah Crook & Charlie Jeffries' book, in which Charlotte has a chapter, is called Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s . It was published by SUNY Press in 2022. Charlotte's chapter is called "Spiritualists, ideologues, pragmatists, feminists, and women of al...

The end of the four-year hiatus: Charlotte and Emma discuss covid, childcare and careers, plus how to handle great historical moments, and possibly record them too. Visit www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com for a full list of episodes and our epic footnotes. EPISODE #26 FOOTNOTES Our last pre-hiatius episode was this one, #25: Mothers, Part II – presence and representation ; Emma went on parental leave...

Charlotte and Emma discuss a new generation of mothers in literature, why you can’t hack your way out of parenthood, and how to shove the pram out of the hallway. Visit www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com for full footnotes - including links and further reading!

It’s diplomacy versus invasion as Charlotte and Emma discuss empire, negotiations, violence and ‘meddling’ supranational structures. Will a feminist foreign policy ever be enough, and why should Britain be taken seriously? Visit www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com for full footnotes - including links and further reading.

Episode footnotes – Rebecca Traister’s article on fathers in the presidential election, and seven things not to do in the workplace - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an...

When the health of the nation is more important than the individual: Emma and Charlotte discuss the 19th-century pseudo-scientific invention that continues to feed racist thought, ideology and action. Episode footnotes - including raw eggs in pregnancy recommendations, all about the Fabians and eugenics and how the British working class became white - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com...

Emma and Charlotte get festive by watching The Crown before discussing the problematic humanisation of the royal family, racism and modernisation, dramatic licence and what honour and obedience is really about. Plus: our favourite Reese Witherspoon films. Episode footnotes - including what Clarie Foy thinks of corsets, all you need to know about the Profumo Affair, Prince Philip's racism, the plan...

Consent, power relationships and career-ending moments: Charlotte and Emma discuss the #MeToo movement, testifying as punishment, and how to keep the anger alive. Episode footnotes - including Tarana Burke's founding of the 'me too' movement, the original Harvey Weinstein investigations by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Ronan Farrow, the idea of perfect victimhood and much more - are available at w...

Emma and Charlotte discuss populism and polarisation, how economic precarity and racism aren’t mutually exclusive, and what is happening in Sweden right now. Plus: Charlotte’s guide to the ‘no-go zone’ of Tower Hamlets… Episode footnotes - including updates on the Swedish election, Charlotte's review of Douglas Carswell's book, links to the works of Lynsey Hanley and Dominic Hinde and much more -...

Charlotte and Emma discuss glass cliffs, ticking the wrong box and how proportional representation is a lot like a bag of pick and mix. Plus: why losing an election could be a good thing. Episode footnotes - including all you might want to know about the Great Offices of State, the most gender-equal government in the world, what Tony Blair might smell like, and Paddy Pantsdown - are available at w...

It’s Germany-Sweden all over again as Charlotte and Emma discuss women’s place in football, the question of expertise and why Neymar could pay the salaries of 1,693 female players in the top leagues. Plus: What we owe Nettie Honeyball... Episode footnotes - including everything you could possibly want to know about the history of women's football in the UK, Sweden's miraculous bronze in 1994, Char...

Charlotte and Emma discuss national identity, belonging and how the inhumane ‘hostile environment’ created by the British Home Office over the past decade fits into a much longer history of British immigration policy. Plus: British aspirations versus historical realities, and how to lose people on purpose. Episode footnotes - including things links to the Life in the UK test, the Coming Home to Ja...

Charlotte and Emma discuss fiction as a source for political history, comfort reads, classics bound up in class and the problem with Elena Ferrante’s book covers. Plus: join the TNK book club. Episode footnotes - including things about the Mitfords, Charlotte's least favourite book, Swedish proletariat literature and links to every single work of fiction that we mention - are available at www.tomo...

“Say something clever here.” How to condense 40 years of history into three paragraphs, coping with first lines and deadlines, the tyranny of the blank page and playing procrastination chicken. Plus: Charlotte’s most embarrassing writing story and our best books. Episode footnotes - including all you need to know about Pomodoro, links to things we have written, Nick Laird's take on thinking time a...

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” Charlotte Lydia Riley and Emma Lundin discuss Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s anger, the politics of household budgets, militant motherhood and much more. Episode footnotes - including June Jordan's poem, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela obituaries, research on militant motherhood, sugar boycotts and much, much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com...

Demonstrations, placards and secret deals: what so significant about women’s activism? Charlotte and Emma discuss second-wave feminists, Greenham Common and Mary Whitehouse. Episode footnotes - including links to Audre Lorde's poem, Valerie Amos' article, research on Greenham Common and much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lott...

What happens to Labour and labour history when we focus on the women? Charlotte Lydia Riley and Emma Lundin discuss women's place in workplace politics, why the precariat needs to be unionised, and how we are all labourers. Episode footnotes - including Marge Piercy's poem, our favourite books by Cynthia Enloe and much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we're on Tw...

Charlotte and Emma celebrate the 100th anniversary of some British women getting the vote by discussing the threat of violence, Victorian values and why suffrage might not be enough. Plus: why do centenaries turn historians into killjoys? Episode footnotes - including links to Kim Moore's poem, news stories about suffragettes' attack on prime ministers and artwork, and much more - are available at...

Charlotte and Emma discuss the sugarcoating of violence, national myths and the relentless echoes of empire. Plus: why your favourite TV show will have been filmed in South Africa. Episode footnotes - including links to Merle Collins' poem, the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, THAT episode of Call the Midwife and much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch:...

Who makes money from your New Year’s resolutions and what’s the difference between self-care and self-improvement? Charlotte and Emma start 2018 by discussing Instagram shop empowerment, how to be a better feminist, and why bath bombs can be political. Episode footnotes - including links to Naomi Shihab Nye's poem, feminist resolutions, and Ann Friedman's work on hobbies as side-hustles - are avai...

In which Charlotte and Emma discuss pregnancies, population control and protective men, and what it means to have a naked approach to life. Plus: why ‘super’ doesn’t always equal better. Full shownotes - including Marge Piercy's poem, Beyoncé and Demi Moore's photographic pregnancies, and all you could possibly want to know about abortion legislation - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.co...

Mad Men and Winning Women: the Christmas special in which we talk about tap-dancing in the office, channel our inner Roger Stirling and fight over who’s the most Peggy. Plus: our favourite episodes and a Mad Men poem. Full shownotes - including the best Mad Men GIFs, Dr Mona Rautelin's work on cryptic pregnancies and Leah Umansky's poem - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch...

What happens when you bring your body to work? Emma and Charlotte discuss messy bodies, the gendering of illnesses and poor health, and how the personal continues to be political. Full shownotes - including links to Rachel E. Moss' excellent writing on health, Maya Goodfellow's work on the impact of austerity on women of colour and Selina Todd's post on work-life balances - are available at www.to...

The difference between emotional and domestic labour, and how doing rather than asking is the solution to women’s second shift. Plus: why sausages forced Emma to the kitchen, and our favourite feminist books. Full shownotes - including the cartoon by [the other] Emma, the interview with Lisa Wade and Margaret Atwood's The Female Body - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: w...