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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Alice Fraser - People pleasing, family dynamics and an unusual upbringing

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary


Sofie talks to Alice Fraser about writing a trilogy of personal comedy shows, her unusual upbringing, her mother's illness and death, people pleasing, making trouble, having a grandmother who was a holocaust survivor, buddhism, moments of kindness, epigenetics and holding her identity loosely.


Trigger warning – bereavement, death, MS, cancer, the holocaust, violence against children, bullying, suicide, trauma



Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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0:00.0

You start off growing up with your upbringing you think is normal.

0:03.0

You think everyone has a seven-fingered Chilean gardener who lives upstairs and does manic depressive

0:08.0

gardening in the middle of the night. You just think that's normal and then you go to school and you realize it's really weird.

0:12.4

You are listening to made a few. normal and then you go to school and you realize it's really weird.

0:12.6

You are listening to Made of Human also known as the Mole

0:17.2

a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen who is a Danish comedian,

0:23.4

trying to find out how to do life.

0:29.1

But it turns out nobody knows mopah

0:37.0

I sometimes we get to say this but Harriet Brain is the genius who's behind the jingle.

0:46.3

Right, she's a comedian, go check her out, watch the stuff, YouTube, live shows, hairy brain excellent recommendation from me this is the

0:58.1

Alice Fraser episode Alice Fraser is wonderful and I had a strange feeling all the way through the interview

1:04.5

chat all the way through the chat because you have recommended that I speak to

1:09.6

Alice for so long I think since the podcast began I've received messages from you, tweets, all of that,

1:18.0

saying that I should get Alice on the podcast. And I've always thought yeah of course I should but then I've just never

1:23.2

really done it you know I was just I don't know why there's no excuse because of course she's

1:27.9

she's great I just haven't done it and then throughout the chat with her just now, I was just thinking, oh, they were so right.

1:35.6

You were so right, of course I should have had her on years ago.

1:40.1

She's perfect, especially for this podcast. So you were right, great.

1:45.4

Next time, push harder if I don't listen to you.

1:47.5

That's, I don't mean that, please don't push harder.

1:51.3

But thank you for the recommendation because you were absolutely right and I enjoyed the chat very much.

1:57.0

It was very mopod. Let's not make that an adjective.

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