Author: Susan Flory

  • Poet Donna Ashworth

    It’s as if she’s got a hotline to your head. She gets inside your mind, rummages round all those piles of messy-feely thoughts, even the ones in the darkest corners, […]

  • Bruce Hiland + Ted Kaufman on how not to fail at retirement

      They call themselves retirement recidivists. My guests Bruce Hiland and Ted Kaufman tried but failed several times to call time on busy, high-status careers. They’re the authors of the […]

  • Deb Gale + Rich Eisenberg on UNretirement

    I’ve always given the notion of retirement shortest shrift on The Big Middle. What does it even mean in 2022? We don’t retire these days, we shift gears, we make […]

  • Dr Andy Cope 2

    We’re recording this episode of The Big Middle 35 days after Russian President Vladimir Putin started his savagery in Ukraine, compounding our state of psychic trauma just as we learn […]

  • Dr Jeff Foster

    Women in the demon grip of menopause – those of us who don’t sail through it with nary a care – might well scoff at men who clamour for attention […]

  • Sam Evans

    She’s been called Queen of Orgasms and The Lube Queen. On the socials, she goes by SamTalksSex. Sam Evans is a  sexual health and pleasure expert who’s exasperated that frank […]

  • Jeremy King [REPLAY+]

    The pandemic has hammered the job prospects of older workers. We got a measure of how hard in the latest from the UK’s official recordkeeper, the Office for National Statistics. Vacancies […]

  • Bradley Schurman

    We in The Big Middle years could easily drown in the ocean of information and advice sloshing around about how we should be – how we should reflect, recalibrate, repackage […]

  • Demographic inflection point? The Big Middle’s core theme explored anew

    Still croaky from apparently not COVID but a beast of a cold/flu combo I picked up in France; where better huh? We’re all in virus-avoidance mode, still, so I can […]

  • Perspectives on resilience + finding joy from three postmenopausal widows

    I had to scale back my intentions with this one. I wanted to bring you the testimonies of at least a  dozen post-60s women. But I wasn’t prepared for the […]

  • Dr Jay Wrigley

    I’ve got just the right learned guest for you to spill all the tea on the interaction between hormones and food and feeling your healthy best when all is in […]

  • Dr Zoe Hodson

    It’s me, Susan Flory, serving up another slice of need-to-know information about the messy glorious stage of life I call The Big Middle. I’ve been exploring the black hole of […]

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