An Author Special on Being The Other Mother with Comedian Jen Brister

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🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Dolly's found an emotional support horse called Flirty; Pandora is in love with a Twitter thread about what it was really like to work in HMV. And - gird your loins - Thatcher Wine has done his FIRST INTERVIEW. It's predictably surreal.

Today we host comedian Jen Brister, the author of The Other Mother, published by Square Peg at Penguin Random House, about same sex relationships and being not the biological mother to her twin boys, but "the other one". We talk parenthood, partnership and the pressure of having to come out all over again, as a gay mother.

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Links

The Other Mother, by Jen Brister https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1116917/the-other-mother/9781910931967

The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-testaments/9781784742324

Thatcher Wine interview by Hilary Reid for The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/thatcher-wine-juniper-books.html

Anthony Ekundayo Lennon interview on being accused of 'passing' as a black man, by Simon Hattenstone for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/07/anthony-lennon-theatre-director-accused-of-passing-as-black-interview-simon-hattenstone

Three Vicars Talking https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007qb0

Donna Schaper on Here’s The Thing https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/heres-the-thing-with-alec-baldwin/id472939437?i=1000447319326

MUNA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGkMQc308wY

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highlo, the weekly current affairs and pop culture podcast brought to you by
0:19.2	Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. Hi Dolly, hello. Let's start with the debate how long can
0:25.6	we hold off tights for November 1st. So Dolly today is wearing espadrilles and linen jackets and has bought the
0:32.4	sun on a string. I just can't bear to let go of the old flimsy flimsy's yet. I quite like
0:40.0	bare legs in winter. I do sock singular and a heavy boot. I do. I actually think October dressing is my
0:48.0	favorite like a roll neck with a mini skirt and bare legs. Yeah that's very
0:52.9	nice isn't it? It's like one month that you get it. It's nice. When you just pull the tights up
0:58.4	I'm gonna try and hold off till November but it does mean you have to keep legs, moisturized and
1:04.6	lightly tanned. Yeah maternity tights are a trick. It's so comfy though. Are they? Yeah.
1:10.9	Do they just have a very sort of yeah a dolly loing, a stumma carrier. Yeah they just have a
1:19.6	billowing stumma carrier. Yeah and I actually held on to them when I wasn't pregnant as well
1:25.6	because then it's just like it's such a treat. Where bread? Where bread is the tights? I love you.
1:31.9	My ex-flatmate, Belle, one of my favourite images of living with her that I hold in my head in my heart
1:39.0	forever is when I came home and she'd come back from a bad date early and she was eating like the most
1:46.4	enormous pyrex bowl of penne. Like you're almost like a mixing bowl of penne on the sofa
1:52.3	way. Her mum's maternity jeans from the 80s. I don't know they've even made maternity jeans in the 80s.
1:59.3	Yeah. Yeah I think every woman should have a pair of maternity jeans but when she just needs a
2:02.9	little bit of a hug. Yeah exactly exactly. That's a good business idea Pounder. In the news this week
2:08.8	Boris Johnson rapidly clearing out the cabinet of anyone who isn't a hardcore brexitier lost his
2:13.5	own brother Joe Johnson from the cabinet after his wife said it's me or Boris.
2:18.5	Former Zimbabwe Indictator Robert McGarby has died age 95 and dual faces a huge fine for
2:24.7	illegally advertising their vaping devices as healthier than cigarettes. Your beloved friend,
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