SIM Ep 54 Chops 14: Libby Liburd, Muvvahood and the shit single mums get

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Team Dunleavy, Noonan and Offord chat to excellent actor, writer and activist Libby Liburd about her one-woman play Muvvahood, which looks at being a single mum and societal attitudes towards parents having to do it on their own – for whatever reason. Spoiler: a lot of attitudes towards single mums still suck a dog's balls.

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0:35.0	Oh my word! Happy Christmas! Why do you know?
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0:41.0	I got a hair...
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1:13.0	Hi, Hannah here, welcome to another edition of Sunday Shop.
1:17.0	Just FYI, I'm recording this on Friday afternoon.
1:21.0	So if you can hear children screaming in the background it's because I live next
1:25.1	to a school and not for any other nefarious reason you might be thinking of so no need
1:29.6	to call the police it's kind of fitting though because this week we spoke to
1:33.2	actress writer and activist Libby Laibird about her play motherhood and about
1:39.9	society's attitudes to single mothers and how that might have changed or
1:44.4	sadly might not have it was really interesting so you're for a treat here but
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