SIM Ep 731 Chops 250: Emma Kennedy: Her mum, the letters, and love
Standard Issue Podcast
Standard Issue
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Emma Kennedy, yep, that glorious multi-hyphenate of screen, page and Celebrity Masterchef kitchen, has written another heart-breaking, heart-swelling and funny (of course) book, which was all the excuse our Mick needed to set up a Zoom chat.
Letters From Brenda came about when Emma found two suitcases of lost letters from her late mum, Brenda. Brenda was a complex, charismatic and troubled woman, and Emma and Mick chat mother-daughter relationships, undiagnosed mental illness, loving unpredictable people, whether it’s possible to ever really understand someone, and the journey Emma went on to try to do just that. Oh, and the lost joys(?) of Chatroulette.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:11.0 | Standard issue for all women. |
| 0:13.6 | Oi oi and welcome to this week's Sunday Chops. |
| 0:17.0 | Mickey here. |
| 0:18.0 | Absolutely bloody delighted to say up in on the Zoom with Emma Kennedy. |
| 0:23.0 | She have screened book and radio fame and who shared some told doosies of an anecdote. |
| 0:30.0 | Anyway brilliant stories. |
| 0:32.0 | On a couple of our old gig cats. |
| 0:34.0 | You should seek them out. |
| 0:35.0 | They're great. |
| 0:36.0 | I like her. |
| 0:37.0 | I like her a lot. |
| 0:38.0 | Emma's most recent book is Letters from Brenda. |
| 0:41.0 | A heart-swelling heart-breaking and obviously funny book that came about when she found two suitcases of lost letters from her late mum Brenda. |
| 0:49.0 | Brenda was to put it very mildly. |
| 0:52.0 | A complicated woman. |
| 0:54.0 | When Emma and I chat mother-daughter relationships, undiagnosed mental illness, loving unpredictable people, |
| 1:00.0 | whether we can ever really understand someone and the journey Emma went on to try to do just that. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh almost like off Boris Johnson. |
| 1:08.0 | Obviously. |
| 1:09.0 | Letters from Brenda is out now and is properly lovely. |
| 1:12.0 | As is Emma. |
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