A wartime saga series about the lives and escapades of the first women to work in the post office depot in Regent's Park in WW1. 

With the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going? 

1915. On Beth Healey's 18th birthday, she hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate. But that evening, her twin brother, Ned, announces that he has signed up to fight. 

No longer able to stand working in her parents' village shop while others are doing their bit, Beth applies to join the Army Post Office's new Home Depot on the Regent's Park and is astounded to be accepted. She will be responsible for making sure that letters and parcels get through to the troops on the front line. 

Beth is thrilled to be a crucial part of the war effort and soon makes friends with fellow post girls Milly and Nora, and meets the handsome James. But just as she begins to feel that her life has finally begun, everything starts falling apart, with devastating consequences for Beth and perhaps even the outcome of the war itself. Can Beth and her new friends keep it all together and find happiness at last?

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THE POST OFFICE GIRLS by Poppy Copper, read by Jess Nesling - audiobook extract

What do you do when the wedding of your dreams turns into a nightmare?

When Lizzie calls off her wedding in the south of France only a week before the big day, not even her closest friends know why. But since the chateau is already paid for, they figure it's the perfect place to take Lizzie's her mind off her suddenly single state.

But when the group arrives, the wedding is waiting for them - food, flowers and all.

The next day, Lizzie wakes to find her friends have drunkenly revelled in the wedding-that-wasn't - but not all their antics were benign. Someone is set on tormenting Lizzie and she can't think who.

The more the friends try to piece together exactly what happened that night, the more secrets start to come out....

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THE WEDDING NIGHT by Harriet Walker, read by Sofia Zervudachi - audiobook extract

Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer.

The two women's eventful lives are intertwined. In the years before the First World War, the girls lose touch when Jeanie runs away from home and joins a dance company, while Lily attends The Mack, Glasgow's famous school of art designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A chance meeting reunites them and together they discover a Glasgow at the height of its wealth and power as the Second City of the Empire - and a city of poverty and overcrowding. Separated once again after the war, Lily and Jeanie find themselves on opposite sides of the world. Lily follows her husband to Shanghai while Jeanie's dance career brings her international fame. But the glamour and dissolution of 1920s Shanghai finally lead Lily into peril. Her only hope of survival lies with her old friend Jeanie, as the two women turn to desperate measures to free Lily from danger. 

Inspired by the eventful and colourful lives of the pioneering women artists The Glasgow Girls, particularly that of Eleanor Allen Moore, Daisy Chain is a story of independence, women's art, resilience and female friendship, set against the turbulent background of the early years of the 20th century.

DAISY CHAIN by Maggie Ritchie, read by Cathleen Carron - audiobook extract

This week on the podcast we talk about the amazingness of FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS. We talk about my opinion and personal aspects about female friendship. We go over a few articles and more. Share your feedback on social media and I will be sure to respond!

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Watch the show the Bold Type for all your female friendship loving pleasure! 

 NERD ALERT (don't worry that's me)

Here are the articles and studies I mentioned and didn't get to mention in the episode. 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2959954  

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236755253_College_Women's_Female_Friendships_A_Longitudinal_View  

http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/gender/tendfend.html

 https://www.bhg.com.au/female-friendships  

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/books/the-friendship-cure-kate-leaver-importance-of-female-friendship-a3795786.html 

https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/benefits-of-a-girlsquad-and-female-friendships#Is-there-a-science-behind-female-friendships? 

Thank me later haha

36 : Female Friendships

Andrew and Vieves consider the depiction of female friendship in commercials that are selling everything from beer to baseball tickets, posing the question: if two women never talk to each other, do they pass the Bechdel test?  Plus, they get outsmarted by a pizza commercial, and an SNL parody addresses an uncomfortable truth about fast food.

#370 Friends in Buy Places

In 2023, Americans are spending more time alone than we ever have before. The lack of connection with friends and feeling of isolation has been dubbed the “friendship recession.” 

With our friendships and how we connect with others changing, we dive deep into the friendship recession topic. We discuss why this is happening, the feelings of isolation, how this creates more consumerism, divisiveness in friendships and online, perfectionism and the labels and identities that take over our lives.

Exploring the Friendship Recession

אפשר להאזין לכל התוכנית, שבודקת את אפס ביחסי אנוש מהיבטים שונים, כאן:
 http://glz.co.il/1363-63142-HE/Galatz.aspx

על פמיניזם בסרט ״אפס ביחסי אנוש״ בשיחה של ד״ר יופי תירוש עם דנה גוטר בגל״צ

In this episode we talk about the brilliant friendship movie "For a Good Time Call"! We fawn over the way this movie maps a romantic comedy onto a female friendship and discuss how our culture doesn't always show or promote the kind of intimacy in female friendships that this movie portrays.

17: Nosh Movie Night // For A Good Time Call

Hosts Andrew and Vieves talk TV commercials with their listeners, the Ad Council, in this weekly podcast. As the slogan says, they've got "hot takes on commercial breaks." Find them at afterthesemessagesshow@gmail.com

We're Sarah Samuel, Natasha Milner, Chelsea Hogan, three friends who live in LA and love to talk. Each season of our podcast is different, depending on what we want to talk about! In the past we've joined our friends Brian & Phil to talk about Reality TV, but this season it's just the three of us and we're exploring the topic of friendship!

Late night conversation are always so enriching whether they’re light-hearted or deep they hit an emotion that leaves us fulfilled for the most part. Every Thursday, join in on those nighttime  conversations with your host Nagham. A mix of chats on feminism, relationships, navigating life while overthinking (something I’m notorious at) everything that might pop up in between.

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Former Dean of the Sapir College School of Law and Law professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and an antidiscrimination expert and activist.
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