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🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Sofie talks to Louise McSharry about writing her book Fat Chance, motherhood, being adopted by her aunt and uncle, the craft of radio, how cancer and fat instagramers changed her relationship with her body, sharing experiences to make other people feel less alone and not looking gift horses in the mouth.
Trigger warning – postnatal depression, bereavement, alcohol abuse, bipolar depression, traumatic childhood experiences, addiction, fatphobia, body image, mental health issues, pregnancy, cancer, shame, weight loss, chemotherapy, sex
Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering
Guests booked by Kitty Edgar
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0:00.0 | Sometimes people's |
0:01.0 | read the book on holidays and they say that at the start of the holiday, |
0:03.4 | they're reading it like in the shade, away from the pool, in a kaf-don, |
0:06.7 | with like a hat on, and then by the end they're getting their husband to take a |
0:09.6 | photograph in their bikini on the beach. |
0:11.3 | The only reason that I am where I am |
0:12.9 | is because I started reading other people stuff |
0:15.0 | or seeing other people. |
0:16.2 | And that's how I came to feel better about myself. |
0:18.6 | So to be able to kind of pay it forward is a really wonderful thing. |
0:21.9 | You are listening to Made of Human, |
0:25.0 | also known as the Mole Pard, a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, |
0:30.0 | who is a Danish comedian trying to find out how to do life |
0:38.0 | but it turns out nobody knows mopah. |
0:50.0 | Hello, I am still talking to you in quite a low voice because this intro is recorded only a few minutes after the intro from last week was recorded because I do them in bulk otherwise I would never get it |
1:03.2 | done so I'm still my Edinburgh flat at the end of the Edinburgh Festival I don't |
1:08.7 | know if people are asleep in the other rooms I'm sharing a flat this year with John Luke Roberts and his fiance and with Mark Watson and |
1:19.0 | Lianne, his girlfriend, who's also my producer, and Sir Wren who's also a producer with them they produce my tour and |
1:27.6 | Oh, that's it. There's no more people and me and it's a it's a big it's a big flat, lots of people, tiny, tiny bathroom. Tiny bathroom. |
1:36.0 | So yeah, I don't want to wake any of those people. |
1:40.0 | I mean, that's, I mean, I am exaggerating because I know the both John Luke |
1:43.4 | and Mark are doing shows right now but you never know who could be asleep in any of the |
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