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Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

Sentimental Garbage is a podcast hosted by Caroline O'Donoghue about the culture we love that society can sometimes make us feel ashamed of. Formerly a chick-lit podcast, sometimes a Sex and the City podcast. We don't know the most, we feel the most.

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  • 226 episodes
  • Updated Dec 19, 2025
  • Explicit

Episodes226

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  • Dec 20, 2018 · 42 min

    Bridget Jones's Diary with Ayisha Malik

    Bridget Jones drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney and dresses like her mother - and somehow became a global multi-million dollar franchise in the process. This week, we talk to Bridget super-fan and writer of the Sofia Khan series Ayisha Malik. A...

  • Dec 14, 2018 · 19 min

    BONUS: Marian Keyes on Watermelon

    After talking all things Watermelon with Lucy Vine, we grabbed Marian Keyes on Skype to tell us more about her debut novel. We discuss feminism in the 1990s, growing up in a big family, and how she became the indisputable queen of chick-lit.Music by...

  • Dec 13, 2018 · 43 min

    Watermelon with Lucy Vine

    This week is full of firsts: we're discussing Marian Keyes' first book, Watermelon, which also happens to be the first chick-lit that our guest Lucy Vine ever read. We get into the Walsh sisters, emotional abuse and why all debut novels are e...

  • Dec 7, 2018 · 37 min

    BONUS: Eva Rice on The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

    After speaking to Lauren Bravo about The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, we tracked down the author of the book, Eva Rice, to talk Take That, Julian the Loaf and why the 1950s are such an intriguing time period to set a novel in.Music by Harry Harris, ...

  • Dec 6, 2018 · 51 min

    The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets with Lauren Bravo

    Writer and author of "What Would the Spice Girls Do?" Lauren Bravo talks about Eva Rice's 2008 smash-hit The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, a book that's part Nancy Mitford, part Dodie Smith, and entirely delightful. The book is set i...

  • Nov 27, 2018 · 1 min

    Sentimental Garbage: The Trailer

    Welcome to Sentimental Garbage, a podcast celebrating chick-lit and the so-called guilty pleasures you’re done feeling guilty about.In series 1, author and journalist Caroline O'Donoghue talks to writers Lauren Bravo, Lucy Vine, Ayisha Malik, E...