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Who Hurt You?

Podcaster Michael Chakraverty - Bake Off, drag and death threats over cake

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Michael Chakraverty about Bake Off, writing, accountability culture, theatre, navigating the public eye, politics, sexuality, mental health, drag, reality TV, and kindness.

Content warning – coronavirus, mould, damp, OCD, anxiety, depression, racism, transphobia, antisemitism, JK Rowling, misogyny, panic attacks, therapy, shame, sex, surgery, genitals, fatphobia, online abuse

Artwork by Justine McNichol
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering

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0:15.4

I now think I would choose to be gay which for a very long time I wished I wasn't and I think that's a difference like I think you go from wishing you weren't gay to being okay that you are to being glad that you are and I think I've only just made that glad step in the last year. You are listening to made a human also known as the whole part a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen who is a Danish comedian

0:26.5

Mowo trying to find out how to do life

0:32.0

But it turns How to do life? How to do life.

0:33.0

But it turns out.

0:36.0

Nobody knows.

0:38.0

Mop.

0:40.0

Aren't you glad it's September? I'm sort of glad it's September, but August was also very tricky for me because of the Edinburgh Fringe festival not happening. So it's been a whole month of looking at like every time I was

0:56.6

reminded of the date my heart would drop into my stomach because it just didn't feel right to not be in Edinburgh. So I am very

1:05.0

happy that it's September. I'm also and I'm sorry this is going to be hard to hear for

1:10.9

a lot of you. I'm also very happy that it's beginning to be cold.

1:16.0

After the heat wave that we had for like approximately three days,

1:20.8

feeling cold having to put on layers. I mean it's a dream. That's also the only thing that really is a dream at the moment.

1:29.0

I found my teeny tiny moldy studio flat on one of these rent a flat websites so I had to contact my

1:40.1

landlord and be like am I I moving? And he was like, well, no, but you know, your contract is running

1:49.2

up so if you want to, you either have to do it now or wait a year, and I sort of looked around my moldy flat and the, every wall has a huge wet patch down by the panels.

2:05.7

There's like, it just turns green and brown and wet.

2:09.2

And I have a snail infestation, that's fun. I have two dehumidifiers that are on more or less 24 hours a day and it's still not

2:20.6

possible to make it less damp. The final straw was when I, for the first time this summer, tried to dry my clothes inside, and it took 10 days before it was even close to being dry.

2:35.0

So, oh yeah, and then also of course there was the whole

2:38.0

water coming from the ceiling issue.

2:40.0

And then also now the sewer is doing like a daily start by in my sink.

2:47.0

So I don't know what's happening there.

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