Hello, this is Everything Else, the FT Culture Podcast. I'm Gris.

And I'm Al. First up, we'll be discussing parenthood and arts. Is it possible to be a writer and a good parent.

Or do you have to go down the route of Enid Blyton and write 10,000 best-selling words a day,

but lock your children in the nursery?

And later, I'll be speaking to the comedian Deborah Francis White, who is the host of the hit

podcast, The Guilty Feminist.

We spoke about self-confidence, about her time as a Jehovah's Witness, and about

the issue of privilege.

So, Grace, you were saying the other day how, since you've announced your engagement,

lots of people are asking you about, you know, when's the baby due?

A few, yeah, and I find it annoying, actually.

I think it's a...

We should be clear that you're not pregnant.

No, and it's a sort of strange thing

where no one would ever ask you that personal question

if you weren't about to get married, but suddenly, I mean,

I think it's a bit like being pregnant. Some, you know, as soon as you're pregnant, according

to friends of mine who have been, people feel that your bump is at a public property and

they can all touch it. In the same way, when you get married, people want to ask you when

you're about to have a baby. It's been a strange time

because at the same time that people have been asking me this, some people anyway, there have

been lots of books published about parenting and, or parenthood and motherhood particularly,

...