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Miranda Sawyer presents our monthly podcast looking at all aspects of family life

The Guardian


    • Dec 17, 2010 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 30m AVG DURATION
    • 13 EPISODES


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    The Family Podcast: Older mums

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2010 35:11


    Dr Luisa Dillner and India Knight join Miranda Sawyer to discuss mums in their 40s, unusual Christmas celebrations and author Lemn Sissay's playlist

    Audio | The Family Podcast: Lesbian mothers

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2010 37:35


    Miranda Sawyer is joined this month by the Guardian's Jon Henley and writer and performer Rachel Mars to discuss gay parents, James Ellroy's memoirs and the technology gap between parents and kids

    The Family Podcast: Childhood freedom

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2010 32:49


    Miranda Sawyer is joined this month by the prize-winning author and former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo, veteran agony aunt Anna Raeburn and actor Simon Pegg

    The Family podcast: Working with kids

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2010 29:41


    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

    Audio: The Family Podcast - the evil stepmother myth

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2010 27:43


    Debunking the myth of the evil stepmother, inside a household helped by a male au pair, and Nitin Sawhney's family playlist

    The Family Podcast - mixed-faith marriages

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2010 31:03


    How to make a mixed-faith marriage work, surviving a roadtrip with the kids, and comedian Angie Le Mar's family playlist

    The Family Podcast: Families of killers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2010 35:41


    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

    Audio: The Family Podcast: Sibling rivalry, poet John Hegley and the secrets of the playground

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2010 32:14


    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

    The Family Podcast: Leaders' wives, pecking orders and teenage love

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2010 35:45


    Why have the leaders' wives been silent subordinates during the election campaign? How does your place in the family pecking order affect your life? And how do teenagers feel about their boyfriends or girlfriends meeting their parents? Miranda Sawyer finds out in this month's edition of the Family Podcast

    The Family Podcast: Competing with high-achieving parents

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2010 33:18


    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?

    The Family Podcast: Living without grandchildren

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2010 30:43


    Tim Dowling joins Miranda Sawyer to discuss the grandchildless, teenage DIY, and Mumsnet in the second instalment of the Family Podcast

    The Family Podcast: Ed Balls on family policy, plus the madness of 8.25am

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2010 33:39


    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

    The Family Podcast: a preview

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2010 1:40


    Miranda Sawyer presents a preview of the new Family Podcast from the Guardian

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