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
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Mar 25, 2021 · 2 hr 14 min
Sentimental in the City 6: Sex and the City, Season Six, Part 1
What does Charlotte do all day? We finally have the answer and it's Judaism. We go hell for leather on Jack Berger, fall in love with Smith the baby chick and discuss the Post-It heard around the world.
Mar 18, 2021 · 2 hr 13 min
Sentimental in the City 5: Sex & The City Season Five
This is the FIRST class sleeper? Put on your visor and trapeze dress, it's time for the big bag of fun that is season five. We talk about Atlantic City, big wing woman energy, how everyone must open for a dog eventually, the continued comedic geni...
Mar 11, 2021 · 2 hr 13 min
Sentimental in the City 4: Sex and The City, Season 4
Don't you bring that cardboard baby in here! This week we're coming into Season 4 with tears, and the firm knowledge that CABS ARE BULLLSSSSH*T. We discuss the comic chops of Chris Noth, the confusing friendship of Aidan and Steve, the great ...
Mar 4, 2021 · 1 hr 49 min
Sentimental in the City 3: Sex and the City, Season 3
Take your seats, turn off your phones, it's time to settle in for the National Theatre's presentation of THE MCDOUGALLS ARE COMING FOR SUPPER and there will be no intermission. This week we discuss everyone's favourite members of the Sco...
Feb 25, 2021 · 1 hr 57 min
Sentimental in the City 2: Sex and the City, Season Two
It's season two and the hair is great, the clothes are even better, and Mr Big is fundamentally depressing. We argue that season two of Sex and the City is Miranda's Season as twenty episodes of sexual humiliation threatens to break her, unti...
Feb 18, 2021 · 1 hr 41 min
Sentimental in the City 1: Sex & The City, Season One
This week, we're kicking off our Sex and the City mini-series with our discussion of the character arcs and themes (take a drink) of season one. After a round dismissal of the pilot episode (abso-f*cking-who-cares?) we get right into the meat of T...
Feb 15, 2021 · 1 min
Introducing: Sentimental in the City, with Dolly Alderton
It's the first ever Sentimental Garbage mini-series: a big basket of episodes about Sex and the City! In this mini-series, author Dolly Alderton joins me as we spend each episode discussing every season of the TV show Sex and the City for the grea...
Jan 28, 2021 · 1 hr 5 min
Unforgivable Love with Sareeta Domingo
Sophfronia Scott re-imagination of Dangerous Liaisons set in the Harlem Renaissance is sexy, surprising and so entertaining that we're willing to forgive the baseball references. Author of IF I DON'T HAVE YOU Sareeta Domingo talks us through ...
Jan 21, 2021 · 1 hr 20 min
Evening Class with Sarah Maria Griffin
Ciao bella! It's our second Maeve Binchy-cast of the season, with returning guest Sarah Maria Griffin. It’s the dawn of the Celtic Tiger in early nineties Ireland, and Nora O’Donoghue, or Signora, is returning home after over 20 years away. Having...
Jan 14, 2021 · 1 hr 6 min
Le Divorce with Fiona Zublin
Get your Kelly bag and your load-bearing beams ready, this week we're talking about Diane Johnson's Le Divorce with real-life American Girl in Paris, Fiona Zublin! Isabel Walker is a young, bored film school graduate who has decamped to Paris...
Dec 24, 2020 · 1 hr 4 min
The Children's Books Christmas Special Spectacular!
Merry Christmas everyone! Usually this time of year, you’d be in your childhood bedroom, re-reading the books that got you through primary school. This year, a lot of us can’t go home this Christmas, but there’s still every reason to revisit the books ...
Dec 17, 2020 · 56 min
The Fifteen Streets by Catherine Cookson with Milly Johnson
Best-selling romance novelist and Yorkshire lass Milly Johnson talks to us about her biggest writing inspiration, Catherine Cookson. If you haven't read Cookson's books, you've almost certainly seen one of her many, maaaaaaany costume dr...
Dec 10, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Daisy Jones & The Six with Tom McInnes
It's the best-selling fictional oral history about your favourite 70s rock band that never existed! This week, Caroline and writer/musician Tom McInnes deconstruct last year's big sun lounger surprise hit, Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Je...
Dec 3, 2020 · 1 hr 10 min
The Meaning of Mariah Carey with Okechukwu Nzelu
Don't even act like you don't know her. This week we talk about the diva of all divas, Mariah Carey with author of The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney, Okechukwu Nzelu. Stay tuned for Tommy Mottola, that TRL appearance, and Mariah's surpr...
Nov 26, 2020 · 1 hr 12 min
Lucky by Jackie Collins with Jessie Burton
We're back after a long break with our first Jackie Collins episode, with the one and only Jessie Burton! Jessie's debut novel The Miniaturist became a global bestseller and has since been followed up with the highly feted The Muse and The Co...
Sep 27, 2020 · 1 hr 14 min
Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O'Donoghue (me!!!)
Scenes of a Graphic Nature has been out for over a month, so Caroline and Ella are talking about it! We say this is an 'all spoiler' edition, but in practice there are actually very few spoilers and a lot of discussion of grief, working toget...
Aug 6, 2020 · 1 hr 7 min
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
This week we're talking about food, friendship and the cult favourite of Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin. Brian Eno once said that everyone who bought The Velvet Underground's first record went on to form a band, and the same can be said of Hom...
Jul 30, 2020 · 1 hr 14 min
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
CONTENT WARNING: frequent, graphic mentions of suicide We're back after a short break with more Covid-appropriate reading material, and what's more pandemic-y than The Virgin Suicides, a book where everyone dies and no one leaves their house...
Jun 18, 2020 · 17 min
Scenes of a Graphic Nature is out on ebook and audio!
My second book is out on audio and ebook today, here's me talking about it and doing a reading! Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O'Donoghue https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07WN4QNYN/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1Audio narrati...
Jun 5, 2020 · 12 min
Reading Recommendations
No new episode this week, but here are some fiction recommendations that you might be interested in given the current political climate:Heads Of The Coloured People - Nafissa Thompson-SpiresKindred - Octavia E ButlerSong of Solomon - Toni MorrisonN...