How To Hold A Grudge

Is it grudgeworthy or crass to bring up the subject of someone's funeral plans/post-death wishes? Or is it fine? What about asking a loved one to consider changing their funeral requests, if there's something about them that you know you'll find difficult to go along with? Sophie and Nic discuss these knotty issues and more!You can follow Nic on Twitter @NicAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Sophie starts out thinking she's identified a new kind of grudge. She has, but it's not what she thinks. In fact, the true subject of this episode is the Boundary Mockery Grudge. Luckily, Nic is on hand to help clarify things, and some exciting new discoveries are made in the field of Grudge Studies.You can follow Nic on Twitter @NicAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Sophie and Nic discuss The Double Best Method, Sophie's recently-invented decision-making tool, how to avoid regret, and how most people were trained to think in the wrong way about making choices. Also featuring brilliant poems by Robert Frost and Nic about decision-making. You can follow Nic on Twitter @NicAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Sophie and Nic discuss 'Grudge Sentencing', the perfect enhancement both to good grudge-holding and to the ditching of no-longer-wanted grudges. Also in this episode: white lies. When is it grudgeworthy to tell them?You can follow Nic on Twitter @NicAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Sophie and Nic discuss six possible barriers to discarding a grudge, and two crucial questions we can ask ourselves. Also on this episode: seating plans! Are they inherently grudgeworthy, and if not, what differentiates a grudgeworthy seating plan from one that's fine?You can follow Nic on Twitter @NicAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Is it possible, or desirable, to cancel a grudge when the benefits of doing so would be considerable, in a situation where you would definitely not annul the grudge in exchange for no upside? Sophie and Nic discuss whether this is the best route, how one might pursue it, and whether it might be more possible and desirable to find a different sort of upside while keeping the grudge. You can follow Nic on Twitter @NicAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

In this episode, Sophie and Nic discuss the recent controversy, apropos the Lucy Letby case, about whether or not convicted criminals should be compelled to come to court for sentencing.You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Sophie and Nic discuss some frivolous grudges including: portmanteau words (like grudge-fest), conversational interruptors and the concept and practice of 'managing expectations'.You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Sophie and Nic discuss the complex theological issue of whether or not animals have souls and are eligible for Heaven.You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Is loyalty ever grudgeworthy? And can disloyalty be entirely non-grudgeworthy? Join Sophie and Nic to discuss these knotty problems!You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

What is an enemy? What is enmity? Does it need to be active, or reciprocated? Can we be someone's enemy without our own consent to the definition? What is the difference between strong dislike and enmity? And most importantly of all, does grudge-holding create enmity, or prevent it?You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

Sophie and Nic discuss the common social-conscience-driven practice of acknowledging disadvantage (as defined by the person doing the acknowledging) and whether it's more of a help or a hindrance.You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

In this special bonus episode of the HOW TO HOLD A GRUDGE podcast, Sophie speaks to life coach Natalie Roush about reckoning with your inner critic. Natalie's website is website is natalieroushcoaching.com, and her podcast is here: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/hows-the-view-natalie-roush-z18ue2nMk6b/

Sophie and Nic Aubury announce the winners of the podcast's first competition, and also discuss grudgeworthy hotels among other things.

This week Sophie and Nic debate the use of the term 'Karen' and also turn their attention to grudgeworthy song titles. This is you last chance to enter Sophie's very special competition. All you have to do is buy Nic Auburey's new collection of poetry 'Ignore It All And Hope It Goes Away' now! Full details of the competition at the end of the episode. Entries close on 7th November 2022. https://smarturl.it/GrudgeCastComp

Don't forget that you can still enter Sophie's very special competition. All you have to do is buy Nic Auburey's new collection of poetry 'Ignore It All And Hope It Goes Away' now! Full details of the competition at the end of the episode. https://smarturl.it/GrudgeCastComp

This week Sophie welcomes special guest Kemper Donovan from the excellent ALL ABOUT AGATHA podcast to discuss the grudgeworthiness of using real life facts for the purposes of fiction. One for the crime fiction fans!Don't forget that you can still enter Sophie's very special competition. Al you have to do is pre-order Nic Auburey's new collection of poetry 'Ignore It All And Hope It Goes Away' now! https://smarturl.it/GrudgeCastComp

This week Sophie and podcast regular Nic Aubury dive into more grudge acronym goodness. Introducing GUBRIF! Can't guess what it is? Press play to find out!Also in this episode, some all-new exclusive poetry from Nic!Don't forget that you can still enter Sophie's very special competition. Al you ave to do is pre-order Nic's new collection of poetry 'Ignore It All And Hope It Goes Away' now! https://smarturl.it/GrudgeCastComp

HOW TO HOLD A GRUDGE returns after quite a sudden end to season 7 last summer. Sophie and regular guest Nic Aubury pick up where they left off, delving into more fascinating (and tongue-twisting) acronyms and they grudges they represent. Also in this episode, Sophie and Nic launch a VERY SPECIAL COMPETITION.Pre-order Nic's new collection of poetry 'Ignore It All And Hope It Goes Away' now! https://smarturl.it/GrudgeCastComp

This week Sophie and Nic Aubury look back on some of Sophie's recent grudges to make sure they pass muster and tackle important questions such as 'is it ever okay to put your dog poo in someone else's wheelie bin without asking?' For more information on Sophie's books please visit www.sophiehannah.com

This week Sophie is joined by a special guest, food writer and journalist Bee Wilson, to discuss a hot topic. Resturants across the UK are now including calorie content alongside the dishes on their menu. Is this a positive step towards tackling a major public health crisis, or a grudgeworthy development?You can find Bee on Twitter @KitchenBeeFor morre information about Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannh.com

This week Sophie and Nic Aubury discuss the subject of marketing. Can it ever be grudgeworthy for a company to try and sell you something? Can the way things are advertised be grounds for a grudge? And what about the products themselves? Are certain products so grudgeworthy that they should not be marketed? Let the grudge experts guide you through this complex and ever-developing issue.You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

In this instalment Sophie and Nic Aubury take a look at the thorny issue of online anonymity and its associated grudges. You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

This week sees the return of How to Hold a Grudge podcast stalwart and Grudge Poet Laureate Nic Aubury. Sophie and Nic dive into the at times complex subject of intelletual property, in particular 'merch'. When is it grudgeworthy to make your own merch using someone else's IP? Can it be grudgeworthy to crack down on such endeavours? Look no further for the answers to these questions and more!You can follow Nic on Twitter @NucAubury or visit his website www.nicaubury.com. For more info about Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

How to Hold a Grudge returns with a whole new set of additions to the grudge cabinet. Sophie is joined by podcast regular and bestselling author Naomi Alderman. Sophie and Naomi dig into a new and hard to define grudge - the Too Much Information Grudge? Intrigued? Press play to find out more!For more information about Sophie's books and other projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com.

In the final episode of season 6, Sophie and podcast regular Nic Aubury dive into what might be one of the biggest issues present in online discourse, the engine that drives many a Twitter argument and shouty Facebook post, perhaps the reason why we can't all just get along: Disagreemaphobia. Never heard of it? Press play to find out more!For more information on Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you're enjoying the podcast please consider leaving a rating or review, or tell a friend about us.

In a change to the episode trailed last week, Sophie speaks to Matt Williams, author of The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it.The Science of Hate is published by Faber & Faber and is available now in paperback, eBook and audio. For more information about Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.comIf you're enjoying How to Hold a Grudge please leave a rating or review, or tell a friend.

This week Sophie is once again joined by Miranda Jewess, editorial director at Viper Books to discuss a very specific kind of book-related grudge. Sometimes celebrities publish books, and some people consider this to be HIGHLY grudgeworthy. Confused? Listen on...For more info on Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannah.comIf you're enjoying this podcast please leave a rating or review or tell a friend.

Sophie is once more joined by bestselling author and game writer/designer Naomi Alderman to dicuss the phenomenon of the Covid Mitigation - do we more easily dismiss or forgive bad behaviour due to extreme mitigating circumstances and if so, should we be more careful about how dar we stretch the limits of acceptablity?For info about Naomi and her writing please visit www.naomialderman.com.If you're enjoying this podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell a friend!

This week Sophie interviews lifecoach and podcaster Sarah Bond who specialises in forgiveness. Sarah is the host of the Forgive Everyone For Everything Every Day Right Away podcast. you can listen and subscribe here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/forgive-everyone-for-every-thing-every-day-right-away/id1530737246For more information on Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannah,com. If you're enjoying this podcast please leave a rating or review and tell your friends!

Sophie is once again joined by Nic Aubury to discuss the fascinating and divisive issue of punching up and punching down. Punching down is wrong, but is punching up really okay?For more information about Sopie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you're enjoying the podcast please leave a rating or review, and tell your friends!

This week Sophie and podcast regular Nic Aubury discuss the subject of The Onus. What is the Onus, where did it come from, and most improtantly, can it ever be grudgeworth to have the Onus placed on you? for more information about Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you're enjoying the podcast please leave a rating or review, and tell a friend!

This week Sophie welcomes back Professor Nicholas Shackel for another philosophical deep-dive.Sophie and Prof. Shackel turn their attention to the concept of The Neutrality of Circumstances and whether or not some things can in fact be inherently grudgeworthy. For more info on Sophie and her books visit www.sophiehannah.com, and if you're enjjoying the podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell a friend!

This week Sophie welcomes writer, psychologist and critic Dr Terry Apter to dicuss the subjects of being judgemental and passing judgement. Dr Terry Apter is the author of Passing Judgement: The Power of Praise & Blame in Everyday Life. For more infomation about her books and other work visit www.terriapter.com.For more information on Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com and if you enjoy the podcast please leave a rating or review, or better yet tell a friend!

Sophie welcomes a new guest to the podcast this week to delve deeper into the world of grudges than ever before. Professor Nicholas Shackel is a lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He and Sophie tackle philosophical approaches to knowledge - how we know what we know and what 'knowing' really is. Plus of course how these philosophical perspectives interact with Sophie's philosophy of grudges!for more information about Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you've enjoyed this podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell a friend!

This week on HOW TO HOLD A GRUDGE Sophie and podcast regular Nic Aubury discuss a story from within Paul Zindel's classic novel THE PIGMAN which also acts as a personality test of sorts. What can your opinions on the story tell you about your personality, and perhaps more importantly, is the test grudgeworthy?For more information about Sophie please visit www.sophiehannah.com and if you enjoy this podcast please leave a rating or review.

How to Hold A Grudge returns for a brand new season! In this episode Sophie and Grudge Poet Laureate Nic Aubury discuss the phenomenon of 'Whataboutery' and how grudgeworthy it is. Is it a single grudgeworthy behaviour? Are there different types of Whataboutery? Press play dear listener and find out!For more info on Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com, and if you like the podcast please leave a rating or review.

HOW TO HOLD GRUDGE returns for a brand new season. Featuring podcast regulars, fresh faces (voices?) and all-new grudges for your Grudge Cabinet, it's going to be the bigest and best season yet! Look out for episode 1 coming 15th April 2021.

In this special end-of-season bonus episode Sophie is once more calls on bestselling author Naomi Alderman to help delve into a new Presidential inauguration-inspired grudge classification type - the We Go High/We Go Low grudge. For more information on Naomi and her work visit www.naomialderman.comYou can find out more about Sophie and her books at www.sophiehannah.com

This week Sophie and bestselling author Naomi Alderman turn their attention to self-help author ans speaker Byron Katie, and her method of self-inquiry known as "The Work". For more information on Naomi and her work visit www.naomialderman.comYou can find out more about Sophie and her books at www.sophiehannah.com

This week Sophie welcomes back podcast regular Nic Aubury to address the subject of coplicity, and to what extent being involved with questionable people can be considered grudgeworth. Follow Nic on Twitter @NicAubury or visit www.nicaubury.com for more information. You can find more information about Sophie and her writing at www.sophiehannah.com

This week Sophie welcomes Dr Mark Aldridge to the podcast to discuss their shared love - the writing of Agatha Christie, specifically the books she wrote under the pen name of Mary Westmacott.For more information on Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you enjoy the podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell your friends!

This week Sophie goes it alone to address the annus horriblis that has been 2020, but is it right to hold a grudge against an entire year?For more information on Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you enjoy the podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell your friends!

This week, Sophie talks to bestselling author Naomi Alderman about the rules around apologising in Judaism, and how to apologise sincerely. For more information on Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you enjoy the podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell your friends!

This week Sophie is joined by Miranda Jewess, commissioning editor at Viper Books, the crime/gothic/thriller imprint of Serpent's Tail. Sophie and Miranda delve into the world of literary grudges, specifically literary prizes and whether or not the recent phenomenon of 'prize sharing' can be considered grudgeworthy. For more information on Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you enjoy the podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell your friends!

This episode, Sophie talks to life coach Felicity Morse about coaching others through their grudges, and how to mine what you can from grudgeworthy experiences. You can visit Felicity at www.felicitymorse.com. Please rate and review the podcast or better yet, share it with your friends!For more info on Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

This week Sophie and Grudge poet lauretate Nic Aubury discuss whether or not the truth can ever be grudgeworthy, or if it's never grudgeowrthy to tell the truth however painful or unwanted it might be. Please rate and review the podcast or better yet, share it with your friends!For more info on Sophie and her projects please visit www.sophiehannah.com

This week Sophie welcomes back bestselling novelist and games writer Naomi Alderman to talk about differing views on the value of forgiveness.For more info on Naomi and her writing visit www.naomialderman.com or follow her on Twitter @naomiallthenewsPlease rate, review and share the podcast, and visit www.sophiehannah.com for more info.

Many people have political grudges around the US Election - but that's not what we're discussing in this episode. Instead, we're talking about some intriguing behaviour that some people produced while being spectators to the election...intriguing for sure, but grudgeworthy? Nic and Sophie put some of these peculiar incidents in the hot seat and do some grudge-judging! For more information about Sophie's books please visit www.sophiehannah.com

How to Hold a Grudge returns for a much-requested 5th season! In this episode Sophie and regular grudge analyst Nic Aubury take a tour of the online grudge-scape to see what other grudge outlets are on offer. If you enjoy the podcast please leave us a rating or review, or just tell your friends!For more info on Sophie and her projects visit her official website www.sophiehannah.com

This episode, Sophie and Nic Aubury discuss the controversy surrounding Dominic Cummings's recent trip to Durham. Where does the grudge lie? Don't forget to rate and review the podcast, or share with a friend if you like what you hear. Sophie's latest novel HAVEN'T THEY GROWN is out now in hardback, eBook and audiobook. the Daily Mail calls it 'fiendishly clever' and the Sunday Express dubbed Sophie 'a literary high-wire artist'.