Podcast appearances and mentions of sophie heawood

In a special programme exploring 'mistakes' and our relationship with the word Nuala McGovern speaks to clinical psychologist and best-selling author of Open When, Dr Julie Smith, and hears why we dislike making mistakes in our personal and professional lives.Journalist Nicole Mowbray tells Nuala how she felt when her mistake at The Observer caused an 'international incident'.Are women judged more harshly for the mistakes they make in the workplace? Sarah Ellis, co-founder of Amazing If and the co-host of the Squiggly Careers podcast, and marketing specialist and co-host of the Working On It podcast, Lauren Spearman, discuss how to deal with errors that occur at work.What impact does it have on you growing up if you were told you were conceived by ‘mistake'? Nuala speaks to journalist Sophie Heawood, who says she got pregnant by ‘mistake' and journalist Bethan Ryder who was the baby of a ‘mistake', they discuss what the word means to them.And maths teacher, Gloria Dalafu tells Nuala how her love of mistakes inspires her pupils to make their own mishaps.Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Sophie Powling

Andy Biersack, sometimes known as Andy Black, is the founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Black Veil Brides, from Hollywood, California. The group released their sixth album, The Phantom Tomorrow, in 2021.BVB recently toured the USA with Falling In Reverse and on Wednesday, October 30th, co-headline London's OVO Arena, Wembley, with Creeper.Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin. Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Alison Moira Clarkson - aka Betty Boo - is a British singer, songwriter and rapper.Originally active in the early 90's, whereupon she released the Platinum selling debut, Boomania, in 1990. She returned after a long hiatus with her third album, Boomerang, in 2022.Her fourth album, Rip Up the Rule Book, was released in August this year.Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin. Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Sløtface, formerly known - and still pronounced - as Slutface, are a Norwegian indie rock band from Stavanger.Since 2022, singer Haley Shea is the group's sole remaining founding member. Their new album, Film Buff, is out now. They tour the UK this month and next.Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin. Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Midway Still are an indie rock band formed in the early nineties in Kent, England. Originally active between 1991 and 1994, the group reformed in 2000 and have been performing, and occasionally recording, ever since. The band's drummer is Dec Kelly.Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin. Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Michael Batt, LVO, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, director, and conductor. He was formerly the Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.Amongst Batt's many notable contributions to music, are the creation of The Wombles pop act, the writing of era defining songs like 'Bright Eyes', and introducing and mentoring Katie Melua and Vanessa Mae.His memoir, The Closest Thing to Crazy: My Life of Musical Adventures, is released on September 26th, via Nine Eight Books. Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin.Side One/Side B with Dave and SteveA punk and a metalhead with ADHD ambush each other with their favorite albums, hilarityListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Twin Atlantic are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. Formed in 2007, their singer and rhythm guitarist is Sam McTrusty, who I speak to on this episode.Their seventh album, Meltdown, was released last month.Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin.Side One/Side B with Dave and SteveA punk and a metalhead with ADHD ambush each other with their favorite albums, hilarityListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Tyronne Buddy-Lee Ike Hill - aka Kid Bookie - is an English rock singer and rapper from South East London.His third album, Songs For The Living // Songs For The Dead, is released via Marshall Records on Friday, September 13th. Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin. Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Ted Leo is an American singer and musician. Chisel, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, and The Both - a collaboration with Aimee Mann - are just some of the many bands he's written songs for and performed in. Now primarily a solo artist, Leo also performs in the group The Foreign Correspondents, which features members of Fugazi, Fake Names, and Obits.GET TICKETS TO MY CONVERSATION ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT WITH AUTHOR CAROLINE SULLIVAN ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH.Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin. Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Kathy Sledge is an American singer–songwriter and producer. She is best known as the youngest and founding member of disco soul legends Sister Sledge. Kathy headlines Uptown Festival, at Bute Park, Cardiff, on Sunday, September 15th. Click here for more information and tickets.GET TICKETS TO MY CONVERSATION ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT WITH AUTHOR CAROLINE SULLIVAN ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH.Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jY33R9cXAThankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley.Wilfreda Beehive.Joe Frost.Conor McNicholas.John Earls.Laura Norton.Mike Clewley.Ricky Murray.Danielle Walker.Claire Harris.Dana Landman. Laura Kelly Dunlop. Michael Woods.Billy Reeves.Eric Meredith.Caitlin Moran.Eve Barlow.Nige Tassell. Vicky Granger. Marc Oliver.Daniel Fahey.Sophie Heawood.Black Daniels.Peter Robinson.Imran Ahmed.Matt Lockett.Matthew Rayner.Chip Chop.Aaron Tunney.Damian Gormley.Elizabeth Black.Ruairí Ryan.Sophia.Rob Hadfield.Deborah Coughlin. Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Sophie Heawood is a journalist and writer, and author of The Hungover Games. We talk everything from single parenthood to women's martyrdom. By the end of the conversation, we wanted Sophie as our best friend. We suspect you will too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is the brilliant Sophie Heawood. I've followed Sophie's work for years, I've loved her columns and celebrity interviews in the Guardian, VICE and her brilliant newsletter The Sophist. In this episode, we discuss her first book The Hungover Games, a beautiful funny open-hearted memoir about single motherhood and what to expect when you weren't expecting to be expecting. I read it in a day and I think you will also love it. Hope your enjoy!Read Sophie Heawood's book: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781784707644My Substack page, come and say hi: https://thehyphen.substack.com/My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannonBooks mentioned on Ctrl Alt Delete podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcastTwitter: Twitter.com/emmagannonInstagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marina Hyde discusses the latest revelations on justice secretary Dominic Raab (1m30s), Amelia Tait gets to the bottom of Made.com's dramatic downfall (10m16s), and Sophie Heawood talks to director, actor and writer Kathy Burke about making it through her darkest period (29m56s)

In this episode we welcome the wonderful Norman Jopling to join us in RBP's sleek Hammersmith recording suite (yeah, right) and reminisce about his days as a budding "pop reporter" on Record Mirror.As a rhythm 'n' blues obsessive in early '60s London, Norman was the first music journalist to write about the "Rollin' Stones" — in May 1963 — and he tells Mark, Barney & Jasper about the Sunday night in Richmond when he first saw and heard Mick, Keith, Brian, Bill & "Charles Watts" blow the roof of the town's Station Hotel. He also talks about his Record Mirror colleagues Peter Jones, Ian Dove & the legendary Guy Stevens; about giving the 19-year-old Eric Clapton a lift on his scooter; and about the interviews he later did with Aretha Franklin and Jimi Hendrix.From there we return to the episode's broadly Stonesy theme, hearing audio clips from Robin Eggar's 1997 audio interview with the late Charlie Watts and discussing the man's unique drumming style and endearingly unpretentious personality. Also sadly lost to us this year — this week, to be precise — are reggae icon Robbie Shakespeare and "freaky deke" critic Greg "Ironman" Tate; we pay tribute to both these giants.With Norman pitching in, Mark talks us out with his thoughts on newly-added library pieces about Phil Spector and Burt Bacharach (both Maureen Cleave interviews from 1964) and Columbia's Clive Davis (a Loraine Alterman interview from 1974). Jasper rounds things off with remarks on Sophie Heawood's 2009 Snoop Dogg interview and Michael Gonzales' retrospective piece on Common's Electric Circus album.Many thanks to special guest Norman Jopling; keep an eye out for his book Shake It Up Baby.Please note that this episode was recorded before the death of Mike Nesmith, so we'll be paying tribute to him in the next episode.Pieces discussed: Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, London R&B, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Watts audio, Sly and Robbie, Greg Tate, Phil Spector, Union Gap, Carol Grimes, Clive Davis, Gary Numan, Burt Bacharach, Keith Richards, The Smiths, Lisa Roxanne, Snoop Dogg, Common and John Miles.

In this episode we welcome the wonderful Norman Jopling to join us in RBP's sleek Hammersmith recording suite (yeah, right) and reminisce about his days as a budding "pop reporter" on Record Mirror. As a rhythm 'n' blues obsessive in early '60s London, Norman was the first music journalist to write about the "Rollin' Stones" — in May 1963 — and he tells Mark, Barney & Jasper about the Sunday night in Richmond when he first saw and heard Mick, Keith, Brian, Bill & "Charles Watts" blow the roof of the town's Station Hotel. He also talks about his Record Mirror colleagues Peter Jones, Ian Dove & the legendary Guy Stevens; about giving the 19-year-old Eric Clapton a lift on his scooter; and about the interviews he later did with Aretha Franklin and Jimi Hendrix. From there we return to the episode's broadly Stonesy theme, hearing audio clips from Robin Eggar's 1997 audio interview with the late Charlie Watts and discussing the man's unique drumming style and endearingly unpretentious personality. Also sadly lost to us this year — this week, to be precise — are reggae icon Robbie Shakespeare and "freaky deke" critic Greg "Ironman" Tate; we pay tribute to both these giants. With Norman pitching in, Mark talks us out with his thoughts on newly-added library pieces about Phil Spector and Burt Bacharach (both Maureen Cleave interviews from 1964) and Columbia's Clive Davis (a Loraine Alterman interview from 1974). Jasper rounds things off with remarks on Sophie Heawood's 2009 Snoop Dogg interview and Michael Gonzales' retrospective piece on Common's Electric Circus album. Many thanks to special guest Norman Jopling; keep an eye out for his book Shake It Up Baby. Please note that this episode was recorded before the death of Mike Nesmith, so we'll be paying tribute to him in the next episode. Pieces discussed: Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, London R&B, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Watts audio, Sly and Robbie, Greg Tate, Phil Spector, Union Gap, Carol Grimes, Clive Davis, Gary Numan, Burt Bacharach, Keith Richards, The Smiths, Lisa Roxanne, Snoop Dogg, Common and John Miles.

Writers Musa Okwonga (One of Them, Striking Out) and Sophie Heawood (The Hungover Games) share their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Musa chooses The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross, a crime novel set in the Caribbean. Sophie picks Lunch Poems, a collection by Frank O'Hara written on the streets of New York and Harriett introduces them to An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel, written before her Booker-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol, Eliza Lomas. comment on instagram at @agoodreadbbc

Welcome to the 4th episode of Where Love Lives! We're 4 episodes in already and I'm really enjoying this first season, I hope you are too! So far, we have had musical guests, Jazzie B, Colleen ‘Cosmo' Murphy and most recently Smokin' Jo, but I really want to make the guests on the podcast as varied as possible, so for this episode I'm delighted to have as my guest author and journalist Sophie Heawood, who popped into the podcast studios at Soho Radio for a chinwag about the things she loves, outside of the traditional romantic narrative. I wanted to have Sophie on as my guest as I was really interested in her book, The Hungover Games, which is a memoir about how she was jolted into adulthood as a single mother by accidentally falling pregnant in LA after a one night stand, and how she has coped with being situated outside of family norms by "having some of the pages missing." There is so much negative representation of single motherhood, so I wanted to celebrate Sophie and her book, and also make those women listening to this show – and all people – who also feel like they sit outside the dominant narrative to feel heard and seen. Where Love Lives is basically a middle finger to societal expectations of femininity and normative notions of how we can find happiness and joy in our lives. So join me and Sophie, middle fingers firmly up, to chat about her loves which include the constantly sunny LA and the strong bonds she has with her teddy bears… If you like this podcast please do review, subscribe, like and share the love with your friends! Follow me and do say hello!

Welcome to the 4th episode of Where Love Lives! We're 4 episodes in already and I'm really enjoying this first season, I hope you are too! So far, we have had musical guests, Jazzie B, Colleen ‘Cosmo' Murphy and most recently Smokin' Jo, but I really want to make the guests on the podcast as varied as possible, so for this episode I'm delighted to have as my guest author and journalist Sophie Heawood, who popped into the podcast studios at Soho Radio for a chinwag about the things she loves, outside of the traditional romantic narrative. I wanted to have Sophie on as my guest as I was really interested in her book, The Hungover Games, which is a memoir about how she was jolted into adulthood as a single mother by accidentally falling pregnant in LA after a one night stand, and how she has coped with being situated outside of family norms by "having some of the pages missing." There is so much negative representation of single motherhood, so I wanted to celebrate Sophie and her book, and also make those women listening to this show – and all people – who also feel like they sit outside the dominant narrative to feel heard and seen. Where Love Lives is basically a middle finger to societal expectations of femininity and normative notions of how we can find happiness and joy in our lives. So join me and Sophie, middle fingers firmly up, to chat about her loves which include the constantly sunny LA and the strong bonds she has with her teddy bears… If you like this podcast please do review, subscribe, like and share the love with your friends! Follow me and do say hello!

For the fifteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author and journalist Sophie Heawood, who's debut memoir, The Hungover Games is one of my all-time favourite books.   You can read about Sophie's Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:   Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara A Journey Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre The Rules Do Not Apply by Andrea Levy My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud Freaky Dancin' by Bez Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Christmas in Exeter Street   Other books we spoke about included Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne, The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy, I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud and The Wild Other by Clover Stroud.   If you'd like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you're based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country. To contact me, email lucy@thelitedit.com   Facebook The Literary Edit   Instagram: @the_litedit @heawood   Twitter: @thelitedit @heawood    

It's an epic challenge for our resident music expert Liz Buckley in this week podzine, as Mick asks her to cram as much info about the incredible Billie Holiday's jam-packed short life into a 15-minute chat. Start your clocks now...Meanwhile, Jen's been on the Zoom with journalist and writer Sophie Heawood about her excellent book The Hungover Games, and the trials and tribulations of getting accidentally knocked up. And in Jenny Off The Blocks, she is, as ever, rounding up the latest news in women's sport.We won't beat around the Bush Telegraph, it's a particularly bleak news week – but you probably already knew that. Hopefully some interesting chat and very angry vaginas will cheer you up, as the team give 1986's Aliens the Rated or Dated treatment. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the second part of the Mother Mother Mini-Series, Annie speaks to journalist, and now best-selling author, Sophie Heawood about her memoir, The Hungover Games. It's an outrageously funny book about something that didn't feel particularly funny at the time: Sophie was in her mid-30s, living in LA, covering showbiz for the UK press, and quite happily swerving most of the responsibilities that come with adulthood. Then, a doctor told her she'd never conceive a child – at which point she immediately, unexpectedly, did exactly that, with a man who had no interest in being a father. Like Mother Mother, this is a story that hinges on the seismic shock of an unplanned pregnancy, and both books explore all the ways that motherhood recalibrates your perspective. This is a conversation about all the things that people get wrong about single motherhood. It's about finding the courage to tell a story you've been sizing up for years and years. It's about taking ownership of your own narrative, your own body, and your own future – and kindly requesting all those who have a problem with that to jog on.You can buy The Hungover Games here: https://www.foyles.co.uk/all?term=9781787330511 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For the second episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by co-owner of Bondi bookshop Gertrude + Alice, blogger at Mr Turner and one of my all-time favourite bookish peeps, the brilliant Jordan Turner. You can read about Jordan's original list of Desert Island Books here (https://thelitedit.com/jordan-from-mr-turner/), and the ones we discuss in this episode are: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara Places I Stopped on the Way Home by Meg Fee Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kid Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Betty by Tiffany McDaniel Other books we spoke about included Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood, Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Ulysees by James Joyce. If you'd like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org (https://bookshop.org/lists/the-literary-edit-podcast-picks-jordan-turner), an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. To contact me, email lucy@thelitedit.com Website: https://www.thelitedit.com/ https://www.mrturner.com.au/ Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/theliteraryedit https://www.facebook.com/mrturnerblog Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_litedit/ https://www.instagram.com/mrturner/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelitedit

Our enthusiasm knows no bounds - even when it comes to naming genitals apparently. Another week brings another batch of legitimate and brilliant recommendations (The Hungover Games, Pobby and Dingan) and a slightly larger batch of the absurd/nauseating (Gallagher and Albarn literotica, childhood names for genitals etc), in what genuinely may be our most ridiculous episode yet. You'll love it. Our guest this week is the brilliant author, former lawyer and expert on love, Laura Mucha. Her book We Need To Talk About Love (Bloomsbury) is an international journey through the lived lives of love, based on scrupulous research and extraordinary personal accounts, not least from Laura herself. Would you have expected someone with these accolades to be into flying trapeze? Nope, us neither. She's a wonder. As always, we'd love to hear what you think of the episode, and what you've been particularly enthusiastic about this week - you can get in touch at the following: Instagram: @calmdowndearpodcastTwitter: @calmdowndearpodWebsite: calmdowndearpodcast.comEmail: calmdowndearpodcast@gmail.comOh, and remember to subscribe and check out our Patreon below!ShownotesDamon Albarn/Liam Gallagher Literotica - https://archiveofourown.org/works/24198127?view_adult=true My Immortal by Tara Gillesbie - https://myimmortal.fandom.com/wiki/My_Immortal/Chapters_1-11The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/09/the-hungover-games-by-sophie-heawood-review-an-acerbic-must-readAlice Vincent (Noughticulture) - https://www.instagram.com/noughticulture/?hl=enPobby and Dingan by Ben Rice- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321578.Pobby_and_DinganSeven Samurai/A Bug's Life - https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-origins-of-a-bugs-life/#:~:text=Seven%20Samurai%2C%20if%20you've,come%20and%20steal%20their%20livelihoods.The Science of Love for Unicef - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt4KHvR39YcPatreon - http://patreon.com/calmdowndear See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to The Island Library podcast, where your hosts put a fun twist on the get-to-know-you-question by asking one another if the book they've read will take up a spot in their library if they were stranded on a desert island. Each week your hosts Laura and Jo answer that very question but, there are only ten spaces. Listen to them as they answer the dreaded question: 'Will this book make it on to your Island Library?' On this week's The Island Library Podcast, Laura discusses Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson and Jo discusses The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood.Please let us know your comments on these books at theislandlibrary@gmail.com, and any book recommendations, we'd love to hear them. If you would like to support us, and The Island Library, please consider looking at our Patreon. We also have a swanky new website, check us out here.You can also find us at the @theislandlibpod or on Instagram @theislandlibrary Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theislandlibpod)

In today's episode, Connie and Jaleh discuss Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer (the latest addition to the Twilight saga) as well as the new memoir 'The Hungover Games' by Sophie Heawood, the ecological novel 'The Hungry Tide' by Amitav Ghosh, and the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Tate Modern. They also cover two articles about surgical procedures: Rob Delaney writing about his vasectomy in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/aug/12/could-i-feel-what-they-were-doing-yes-rob-delaney-on-the-pain-and-pleasure-of-his-vasectomy) and Sali Hughes' article about getting a breast reduction in British Vogue (https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/article/what-is-breast-reduction-surgery). They chat about uplifting articles in the 'Nice Nuggets of News' segment, talk about Miley Cyrus' frank sexual discussion on the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast, and rewatch an episode of Sex and the City (S3, episode 4) to see how it stands up in 2020 - is it whack or woke? A special prize to anyone who notices which word Jaleh mispronounces this week!

Sophie Heawood is every bit as funny, raw, and honest as her memoir. She talks to Zibby about trading a rock-and-roll lifestyle for unexpected single motherhood and her story of growing up with her daughter. 

My guest today is the brilliant Sophie Heawood. I've followed Sophie's work for years, I've loved her columns in the Guardian, VICE and her brilliant newsletter.Sophie has written for many publications including The Times, Guardian, Observer and Vogue and writes the most incredible profiles of A-Listers — she doesn't just interview celebrities she tells incredibly stories while doing so, and crafts features in such a compelling interesting way that makes you feel like you are in LA or in the fancy hotel lobby with her. Her first book The Hungover Games is out now, it is a beautiful memoir about single motherhood and what to expect when you weren't expecting to be expecting. I read it in a day, and I think you will also love it. If you enjoyed this conversation, please do leave a rating or a review! :) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What a time to be alive. It feels like we've all aged a decade since our last episode under 4 months ago.Today we discuss lockdown life - what we're wearing; eating; meme-ing - and recommend a plethora of articles, books and podcasts. There will be another episode on Sat.*Please do note that because we are recording remotely via a trilogy of new tech, there may be some occasional audio issues.*This year 100% of profits for The High Low's merchandise (thehighlowshop.com) will be going to charity - 10% to Women's Aid and 90% to the NHS Charities COVID-19 Urgent Appeal. You can donate directly here: https://bit.ly/2xc17HxE-mail thehighlowshow@gmail.com or tweet @thehighlowshow ReadingDavid Nicholls #twitterbooklaunch on Twitter @DavidNWriterFatima Bhutto and Sanam Maher's Stay Home, Stay Reading initiative, via @fbhutto and @topbastard on Instagram Florence Welch's book club @betweentwobooks on InstagramThe Love Letters of Dylan Thomas https://amzn.to/3e6Io0vJoin Me In My Obsession With Desert Island Discs, by Hua Hzu for The New Yorker https://bit.ly/3aTdjeXThe Discomfort You're Feeling is Grief, by Scott Berinato https://bit.ly/2y2h9DKLanguages of Loss, A Psychotherapist's Journey, by Sasha Bates https://amzn.to/2URT3ETThe Luxury of Awkwardness, by Hugo Rifkind for The Times LUXX https://bit.ly/2wt2hOEWhat Brits need to learn about being Danish, by Sofie Hagen for The Guardian https://bit.ly/2wkyTd8The Panic Years, by Nell Frizzell https://bit.ly/2JLyaF2The Hungover Games, by Sophie Heawood https://bit.ly/2JLybc4Listening & WatchingDawn O'Porter on The Adam Buxton podcast https://adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/ep109-dawn-oporterIan Wright's Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fdxwFeel Good, by Mae Martin https://www.channel4.com/programmes/feel-goodSorry You're Sick, by Ted Hawkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeuLTL8pQRQ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on Tea & Tattle Podcast, I’m joined by the author, Katherine May, to discuss Katherine’s latest book, Wintering, which is a fascinating blend of memoir, self-help guide and glorious nature writing. In Wintering, Katherine describes the frozen, desolate state that can occur in the mind and body after a period of stress, trauma or illness. By drawing parallels to the natural world and the incredible transformations that nature undergoes to survive the cold, Katherine shows how to both accept and withstand your own periods of wintering. In her book, Katherine interviews a range of people who have weathered extreme cold as well as times of extreme hardship. Katherine draws lessons from their experiences and blends these shared tales with her own poetic prose as she describes her adventures in swimming in the sea in freezing temperatures, travelling to witness the Northern Lights and battling her own demons of insomnia and anxiety. I found Wintering a deeply comforting, hopeful and beautiful book that I’m sure will become an annual read for me. But much as Wintering is a fabulous choice for a winter read, it’s also an excellent book to curl up with as the thaws of March expose and sustain the first signs of spring and new life, which have been gathering strength and waiting for their moment of renewal and growth all through the darker months of winter. Episode Links Wintering by Katherine May. The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May. The Best Most Awful Job edited by Katherine May. Inferno by Catherine Cho. The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood. Katherine May’s website. Find Katherine May on Instagram and Twitter. Find Tea & Tattle on Instagram at @teaandtattlepodcast. Read my blog, Miranda’s Notebook. Read the show notes: teaandtattlepodcast.com/home/129 Get in touch! Email: teaandtattlepodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @teaandtattlepodcast If you enjoy Tea & Tattle, please do rate and leave a review of the show on Apple Podcasts, as good reviews help other people to find and enjoy the show. Thank you!

Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, authors of the best-selling book I’m Absolutely Fine!, are now here weekly. This week we are on the frontline of solo parenting with writer Sophie Heawood. talking about what it feels like to exist outside the nuclear narrative…

A conversation with Lily Allen, Sophie Wilkinson, Sophie Heawood and George LambThe Media The internet used to allow us to have conversations, with like minds and from different angles. It was a place to learn and it was a place to laugh. Something went wrong. Within our world we face many challenges from many different angles. With this in mind, we took the conversations offline. Recorded live at Kings Place in London on November 24thWatch here https://youtu.be/vq0Pf52uQ_AKindly supported by www.podbiblemag.comwww.acast.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The chicken nugget Reddit scandal and our favourite polls from the week including what is no longer selling in shops (drones and suspenders) and what not to say on a date.And of course, it's the Wagatha Christie scandal. Coleen Rooney masked as Poirot outed fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy as the person she believed to be leaking false stories about her to the tabloids. Coleen social's media post went viral and soon Netflix were wondering if they should launch a series about it, Keira Knightley offered to play Coleen, and Paul Rudd just looked baffled. How and why did this story gather such extraordinary reach? Is it anything to do with feminism? What does it say about the way celebrities now use social media? And our perception of WAGs? And DID SHE DO IT?The High Low is now on tour - thank you to everyone who came to the Barbican on the 12th, see some more of you in Dublin on the 20th!E-mail thehighlowshow@gmail.comTweet@thehighlowshowLinksRonan Farrow interview, by Emma Brockes for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/15/ronan-farrow-book-harvey-weinstein-measures-bury-alleged-crimesPaloma Faith interview, by Helena de Bertadano for The Sunday Times magazine https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/paloma-faith-interview-gender-parenting-zwdslqq8pAbbey Clancy interview, by Sophie Heawood for YOU magazine https://www.you.co.uk/abbey-clancy-interview-2019/Peter Crouch extract from his book, I, Robot, How To Be A Footballer 2 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-crouch-extract-from-i-robot-how-to-be-a-footballer-2-w0h7xvjlzMim Skinner on being an orphan by the age of 30, for The Sunday Times Style https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/style/how-being-orphaned-before-30-brought-me-closer-to-my-sisters-and-led-us-to-form-a-new-normal-3jfjwrbj5The Capture, on BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00085sx/the-capture See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

British painter Jenny Saville, the most expensive living female artist in the world, discusses her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt's masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles. Cellist Laura van der Heijden, who won the BBC Young Musician competition when she was 15, plays live and discusses her debut album of Russian music called 1948, which last night won the BBC Music Magazine's Newcomer of the Year Award. Plus the art of working to a deadline, with authors Robert McCrum and Sophie Heawood and Teresa Amabile from Harvard Business School. Presenter Stig Abell Producer Jack Soper

Andrew's on holiday, so Michael Hann, former music editor of The Guardian is in the chair. He's joined by music writer Sophie Heawood and SFA costume inhabiter Robin Turner. We talk new LP's from the Nationaland Susanne Sundfor, Nick Broomfield's Whitney Houston doc, and Sky Arts' music series Rock N Roll. Subscribe po.st/BGM // iTunes po.st/BGMitunes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's a new episode of The High Low and we've got a bunch of things to recommend watching, listening to and reading covering everything from Indian Partition to an online black drugs market to male privilege to Vanessa Feltz. In The Top Line, we discover the bizarre tale of the British dad-of-five on holiday who became an accidental Turkish treasure smuggler. Oh and did you know that 1 in 5 UK pets has its own Instagram profile? Jesus weeps. In the wake of Zadie Smith's comments on the time-wasting practice of contouring, we talk about the role of makeup in a young woman's life and how time-consuming beauty regimes might negate productivity, but never morality. As the McCanns continue to search for their missing daughter as well as put an end to the horrific abuse they receive online - we talk trolling, public campaigning for missing children and our collective attention span in the wake of a disaster. Plus, a heart-breaking listener question on deportation and a few words from your hosts on the accidental role of Agony Aunting. Follow us on Good Reads > thehighlowshow Tweet @thehighlowshow E-mail thehighlowshow@gmail.com Don't forget to rate/subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-high-low/id1211338187?mt=2 RECOMMENDED: Silk Road Storyville: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b092s5vv/storyville-silk-road-drugs-death-and-the-dark-web# My Family, Partition and Me with Anita Rani: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0916qmx Guilty Feminist on male privilege: http://guiltyfeminist.com/episodes/ Sophie Heawood's brilliant piece on hormones: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2017/aug/21/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-listen-to-my-hormones Vanessa Feltz interview by Simon Hattenstone for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/13/vanessa-feltz-interview-bbc-pay-prurient-voyeuristic-gross Nasty Women - a collection of essays and accounts of what it means to be a woman in the C21st, published by 404 http://www.404ink.com/shop/nasty-women Proposal for a Bill to ensure free access to sanitary products, including in schools, colleges and universities in Scotland. Scottish residents sign here: http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EndingPeriodPoverty/ Don't forget to use the HILOW code on narscosmetics.co.uk when you check out to receive a *free* mini Audacious mascara and Dolce Vita lip pencil. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There was this kind of depressing survey last month that revealed that 75% of women aged 17-21 felt powerless. In this episode, we spoke to young women about why that was, and heard stories of cat calls, dodgy sex ed and playground bitching. We also spoke with writer Sophie Heawood talks about how gender politics is changing in the UK, sort of. Plus: weird conspiracy theories and the confusing success of Mrs. Brown's Boys. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.