Persistent and Nasty

This week Elaine and Louise chat with the inspirational American Actress, Director, Writer, and Filmmaker. In this momentous week with a formal apology from the Scottish Government to the thousands of people prosecuted of witchcraft during the 17th Century in Scotland. We chat with Julia about her feature film about one of those witch trials. That of The Paisley witches. The amount of research Jul...

This week Elaine and Louise celebrate the inspirations and the people who inspire us and light the fire in our souls. Send us your stories of the women you admire to persistentandnasty@gmail.com Let’s celebrate all the wonderful humans in our life. endometriosis-uk.org Acting your age campaign @MrsNickyClark Equity Women’s Committee Toolkit Launch eventbrite - equity4women-toolkit-launch LINKTREE...

This week Elaine chats with the incredible Kaite Welsh. Kaite is an author and journalist whose work and views are not to be missed. They give such brilliant insight into so many of the important discussions facing modern feminism. Elaine and Kaite cover everything to writing reviews for sex toys, to Lesbian and Bi visibility on stage and screen to history to Trans Rights and the hope we have in o...

This week Elaine chats with the incredible Amelia Donkor. A wonderful discussion on the arts industry, how we are remerging from COVID, how we create spaces full of care for artists and audience. We talk finding your confidence in your 30’s to feeling like you need to hide where you come from to make it in this industry. AMELIA DONKOR Amelia is an actor, writer and facilitator blending creative ar...

Denise Deegan Denise Deegan is an award-winning, internationally bestselling novelist and screenwriter. Denise writes for adults, teenagers and children. Her novels have been published by Penguin Random House, Hachette, Lake Union Publishing and Amazon Publishing. Writing under the pen name, Aimee Alexander, her women’s fiction novels have become international bestsellers. Denise’s historical nove...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY P&N Persistent and Nasty are celebrating their 4th anniversary today. Elaine and Louise chat about the birth of P&N, where we are now and what the future holds. It’s been a hell of a ride so far. We hope you will stay with us for the next part of the awesome rollercoaster that is Persistent and Nasty. LINKTREE P&N Linktr PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/persistentandnasty for...

A throw back to last years Halloween special. Happy Halloween everyone. Stay Nasty. PAYPAL https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/persistentandnasty for those who can donate. A million thanks and love. Resources https://www.samaritans.org/?nation=scotland http://www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/ https://rapecrisisni.org.uk/ https://rapecrisis.org.uk/ https://www.artsminds.co.uk/ https://www.bapam.org.uk/ ht...

Today Elaine chats with Scottish actor Hannah Jarrett-Scott. We discuss everything from our favourite fruit to LGBTQIA representation on screen to women in sport. A great, fun, and important episode. Hannah Jarrett-Scott Hannah is a Scottish actress who trained at Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Hannah is dedicated to creating important and meaningful art. Hannah also played football...

Today Elaine speaks with Lily O’Farrell feminist, political cartoonist. We chat everything from women feeling free to discuss their sexual experiences and sexuality to the change that needs to happen in our society. Lily O’Farell Lily is an English cartoonist who focuses on feminist and political cartoons. She started out in comedy facilitating spaces for male comedians. During 2020 Lily was furlo...

Today Elaine speaks with Scottish actor/writer Louise Stewart. We chat everything from a great cup of tea to the class divide in our industry to the side hustle to always learning new skills. Louise Stewart Louise is a Scottish actress based in London. After completing a degree in English Louise studied at Langside College in Glasgow. Since graduating she has working in theatre and telly. Mainly i...

We are back. Have you missed us? We have missed you. We are kicking off the second series of the Persistent and Nasty Podcast with not one but two incredible guests. Today Elaine speaks with Australian powerhouses: Director Gracie Otto & Producer Cody Greenwood. We chat all about their brilliant new documentary Under The Volcano, filming with an all-female team, the highs and lows of making a docu...

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In today’s episode Elaine, and Misha chat with the incredible Zinnie Harris. Award winning playwriter and director. We discuss Zinnie’s first short film A Glimpse. The inspiration for the film, how important hope is to keep going and that you do not to be the ZINNIE HARRIS Zinnie is a multi-award winning playwright and theatre director, now starting to write and direct films. Her stage plays inclu...

In today’s episode Elaine, and Misha chat with the sublime Claire Duffy, also known as C.S.Duffy. A scriptwriter and novelist. We discuss everything from periods, 90’s tv shows and finding your way no matter what path it takes. Oh, also lots of feminist rants. What more could you want. CLAIRE DUFFY/C.S. DUFFY C.S. Duffy wrote scripts for film and TV for over a decade, and when that made her so bit...

In today’s episode Elaine and Misha chat with Scottish writer Cat Hepburn. We discuss Cat’s new book, Gen Z the power of friendships and so much more. A brilliant episode with a brilliant human. CAT HEPBURN Cat is an award-winning Scottish scriptwriter, spoken word artist, educator and so much more. She is a powerful and needed voice in this world. Cat’s passion is to explore feminist issues using...

In today’s episode Elaine chats with Scottish-Palestinian actor Amira Al Shanti. We discuss her road into the industry, the power of the arts. Being the daughter of refugees and much more. Another wonderful episode with an inspiring woman. AMIRA AL SHANTI Amira Al Shanti is an emerging singer-actor represented by Infinity Artists Management. Her most recent appearances include ensemble in the Rumi...

Hold onto your butts because it’s finally here, our epsiode with the Queen of Zero Fucks and of our Hearts, Sandy Thomson. Get your gasoline ready because this one will have the patriarchy looking for the exits. Follow Sandy on Twitter @Poorboy_Stories Follow her film production company on Twitter @SquadWalkFilms Website - http://www.poorboy.co.uk/sandy Sandy Thomson is a Writer / Director based i...

In today’s episode Elaine and Misha chat with the wonderful Holly Shakara Carter. Actress, writer, artists and creator of the powerful piece Tryptic. We discuss everything from ovulation to who do we make our art for. Another fab episode with a fab human. SHAKARA CARTER Shakara Carter Shakara is an actress in training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, due to graduate in September 2021. Her f...

In today’s episode Elaine and Louise chat with the wonderful Holly Morgan. Holly hosts 2 podcasts of her own as well as creating and performing her own shows. We chat everything from this week’s news cycle, to the great woman who are labelled Divas to not taking you husband’s name. Another fab episode with a fab human. . HOLLY MORGAN Holly is a performer, comedy writer, feminist and host of Big Di...

In today’s episode the nasty gals speak with the incredible women who have stared the campaign for justice for those accused of Witchcraft in Scotland. Claire Mitchell QC and Zoe Venditozzi are so inspiring, and you can learn more about their campaign on the website below. We discuss the stories and the history of the Witchcraft trails in Scotland and the reclaiming of the word witch. Another powe...

In today’s episode the nasty gals speak with the incredible, awe inspiring, gorgeous Scottish actor Kate Dickie. We cover everything from what drew her to performing to Game of Thrones to imposter syndrome. A powerful episode with a wonderous humans who we are all even more in love with after this episode. KATE DICKIE Kate is a Scottish actor who trained at what is now known as Royal Conservatoire...

Today’s episode is with the inspiring, joyful Scottish writer Lorna King. We cover everything from writing for the first time to finding yourself to the gatekeepers. A glorious episode with a wonderful human. LORNA KING Lorna is a Ghanaian-Scottish woman with a flair for writing and storytelling but was pushed back from getting into the creative industries due to the lack of proper representation....

In today’s episode Elaine, Louise and Misha catchup on what we have all been working on. Links for everything we discuss is below. Paisley Book Festival: https://paisleybookfest.com/ Twitter: @BookFest Podcast: She's Podcasting Twitter: @shespodcasting Twitter: @cuinnessential Instagram: @marycuinnofscots Twitter: @witchesofscotland Petition: Petition Website: Persistent and Nasty Instagram: @pers...

Today is a throwback. Galentine’s style. A little selection of the 3 of us chatting away. Enjoy and tell our friends how much they mean to you. Love The Nasty Gals PAYPAL https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/persistentandnasty for those who can donate. A million thanks and love. Resources https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-women-in-film https://www.gofundme.com/f/bme-business-fund https://www.scottishtra...

In today’s episode Elaine and Louise chat with the utterly incredible Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Yassmin is a writer, social advocate and engineer from Brisbane Australia. Her latest book Listen Layla is available in Australia and New Zealand and we are eagerly awaiting the UK release date. We cover everything from dealing with lockdown to unconscious bias, to not enough to not all men. YASSMIN ABDLE-M...