Looking for a clever woman? Well, lucky you, we've four of them for you and that doesn't even include us. This week, Mick catches up with photographic artist Mandy Barker to talk about her exhibition Our Plastic Ocean, a retrospective of her work addressing the global crisis of marine plastic pollution. Jen talks to science journalist Ziya Tong about her book The Reality Bubble and society's blindspots. And Hannah's chatting to Dr Suzi Gage about her new book Say Why To Drugs and what the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special can teach us about attitudes to recreational drug taking. In Jenny Off the Blocks, Jen's speaking to Kait Borsay, one of the hosts of The Offside Rule, about how the podcast's new sponsor has saved the day, and in Dunleavy Does Disaster we watch Independence Day. America! Fuck yeah!

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