Two women, two decades apart, two completely different Friday nights.

😅 In this episode, Annie (23, drama-school grad, proud non-clubber) spends the evening watching the Downton Abbey film with her parents and a cinema full of delighted OAPs, while Anji (53, osteopath, ex-banker, secret raver) is out at Annie Mac’s “Before Midnight” - dancing hard and still home by 10.30pm.

From 90s nights out with no mobiles, night buses and hoping a random minicab was legit, to today’s WhatsApp group-chat pre-drinks, Uber safety features and drink-spiking worries, they compare what’s easier now, what’s scarier, and what never changes: going out is really about connection.

In this episode:

• pre-drinks vs “we just met you at the pub”
• how on earth people arranged dates before phones
• getting home in London: then and now
• why spiking has changed the vibe for Gen Z
• dancing in your 50s (and loving it)
• why it’s fine to be 23 and prefer a cosy pub to a club

🎧 Too Young For This, Too Old For That — friendship across generations, with plenty of eye-rolling at each other’s references.

Annie (23, actor, just out of drama school) and Anji (53, osteopath and ex-banker) get honest about one of the messiest adult questions: do you pick the secure, sensible path… or the thing that actually lights you up?

They swap origin stories - Annie ditching the uni conveyor belt to audition for drama school while all her friends headed to Exeter and Durham, and Anji leaving a well-paid, high-status banking career to retrain in her late 30s - and compare what it really feels like to work in an uncertain industry (acting) vs to walk away from a very certain one (banking).

In this episode:

• what it was like to graduate straight into touring Jane Eyre in China
• why Anji’s 1994 Barclays grad scheme felt like “a job for life”
• side hustles that actually feed your creative work
• parents, privilege and permission to take a risk
• passion vs security (and why you might be able to have both)
• “do your best, forget the rest” - their shared motto

Perfect listen if you’re 23 and panicking you don’t have it all sorted, or 53 and wondering if you’re “too old” to start again. (Spoiler: you’re not.)