Laura Marling’s Wild Second Home Birth: "My Daughter Was Downstairs Watching Paddington!"
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week Giovanna welcomes legendary singer-songwriter Laura Marling to the studio!
Laura tells Gi about her early fears that becoming a mother might stifle her creativity, and shares her experiences of having two home births.
She also discusses her mission to create children's music that parents can genuinely enjoy, and introduces her new venture, 'Laura Sings Raffi,' a 17-track cover album of beloved children's songs. Each song is brought to life with videos illustrated by Laura and animated by Rob Shuttleworth. Out now at Laurasings.co
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum. |
| 0:09.7 | Today's guest is Laura Marling. |
| 0:12.3 | Yes, the Laura Marling. |
| 0:14.1 | When this went into my diary, I actually had to check with the team and go, |
| 0:19.1 | the Laura Marling. Turns out there is only one. And I was very, very, |
| 0:24.0 | very chuffed to know that she was going to be joining me in the studio. I'm more chuffed since |
| 0:29.8 | learning that she actually listens to this podcast and is a fan. We love you, Laura. Yes, we do. |
| 0:35.3 | Laura is an amazing singer-songwriter. She was part of the new folk scene. |
| 0:41.5 | Oh gosh, when was that? When was the new folk scene? Are we saying naughtys? What I absolutely |
| 0:47.7 | adore during this chat and in my research is the fact that that that hesitation of becoming a mum |
| 0:53.8 | because not knowing what that's |
| 0:55.3 | going to mean for your creativity and you know this life that you've set up for yourself and how |
| 1:00.3 | sometimes in life it takes one conversation for all of that which is essentially probably |
| 1:06.4 | coated in fear to just evaporate and to just become something you don't even think about anymore. |
| 1:15.2 | There's something so grounding about having her here and chatting. |
| 1:19.5 | She's very funny. |
| 1:20.9 | I think you're going to enjoy it. |
| 1:22.4 | So here we go. |
| 1:23.4 | Here's me and Laura Marling. |
| 1:28.8 | I once bought an electric drum kit so that Buzz could have his drums in his room. |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.8 | So that if he wanted to practice for lessons and stuff, so Buzz does loads of different. |
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