The Family Podcast
By guardian.co.uk
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Podcast Description
Miranda Sawyer presents our new monthly podcast looking at all aspects of family life.
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The Family Podcast: Older mums | Dr Luisa Dillner and India Knight join Miranda Sawyer to discuss mums in their 40s, unusual Christmas celebrations and author Lemn Sissay's playlist | 17 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: Lesbian mothers | Miranda Sawyer is joined by Jon Henley and Rachel Mars to discuss gay parents, James Ellroy's memoirs and the technology gap between parents and kids | 26 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: Childhood freedom | Miranda Sawyer is joined this month by author Michael Morpurgo, veteran agony aunt Anna Raeburn and actor Simon Pegg | 29 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Working with kids | Karen Mattison, the co-founder of Women Like Us, a company specialising in part-time recruitment for working mothers joins Miranda Sawyer in the studio | 1 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: The evil stepmother myth | Debunking the myth of the evil stepmother, inside a household helped by a male au pair, and Nitin Sawhney's family playlist | 27 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: Mixed-faith marriages | How to make a mixed-faith marriage work, surviving a roadtrip with the kids, and comedian Angie Le Mar's family playlist | 30 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: Families of killers | Miranda Sawyer explores what effect atrocities like the Cumbria killings have on the family of the killer. Plus: she chats to Tony Parsons and Lauren Laverne | 25 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sibling rivalry, poet John Hegley and the secrets of the playground | In the light of Ed and David Miliband's head-to-head for the Labour leadership, Miranda Sawyer dicusses sibling rivalry with guests Will Hodgkinson and Sarah Tucker and delves into the secret evils of the playground | 29 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: Leaders' wives, pecking orders and teenage love | Why have the leaders' wives been silent subordinates during the election campaign? Miranda Sawyer finds out in this month's edition of the Family Podcast | 30 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: Competing with high-achieving parents | Comedian Josh Howie talks about living in the shadow of his mother, PR guru Lynne Franks. Plus, is it ever right to dress your children in designer clothes? | 26 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: Living without grandchildren | Tim Dowling joins Miranda Sawyer to discuss the grandchildless, teenage DIY, and Mumsnet in the second instalment of the Family Podcast | 26 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ed Balls on family policy, plus the madness of 8.25am | In the first edition of our new podcast, Miranda Sawyer talks about family life with Ed Balls, Alan Davies gives us his family music playlist, and we discuss why 8.25am is the most stressful time of the day | 29 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Family Podcast: a preview | Miranda Sawyer presents a preview of the new Family Podcast from the Guardian | 26 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 13 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Excellent Stuff
The always excellent Miss Sawyer strikes again, taking the potentially humdrum subject of family and makes it funny and interesting. Not only easy on the eye but now on the ear, more please! Well done
Wish it was weekly...
I thoroughly enjoyed this podcast - the first one I've ever listened to. It was entertaining, reassuring and interesting - just like the Family section in the Saturday Guardian, which I love.
Family podcast
Great start. found it very reassuring to hear same level of hysteria as our house in the morning.
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