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Standard issue for all women. Hello, hello, Mickey here welcoming you to the Friday podcast,

which, you know, as always,

you are free to listen to whenever you please. There has already been some cracking stuff,

because of course there has. Jen chatted to theatre maker Jess Andrews about misconceptions

around polyammery, why no one's having a great time on dating apps are all preach and how we might fix some of the

problems within it. Hannah caught up with playwright Imman Qureshi and director Hannah Howard

King to chat about their play at the Ministry of Lesbian Affairs and for rated or dated we

watch 1995's Tank Girl insert uncomfortable sexualisation comment here. In this episode, I was delighted

to chat with author Esther Freud, who first shot to fame with her debut novel, Hiddy's Kinky,

back in 1992. How? Her 10th novel, My Sister and Other Lovers, out now, reunites us with sisters

Lucy and B, and astutely captures the realities of being a sister and having a sister. Spoiler!

As much as pop culture would like us to think it, a sister is not a built-in BFF. Esther and I chat about siblings, about parents,

about the slippery nature of memory and love in its many forms.

As ever, our £5 plus patrons get a bit extra interview,

including what I found, a fascinating insight into Esther's writing process,

and some very happy dog chats.

If you're not already, please do get

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